JCDenton (DayZ)

Figured i may as well post a list of weapons that ive encountered along with notes on them, feel free to add to this list as ive not yet found everything (Not a single NATO weapon >.>) Pistols .45 Revolver Accuracy: low Range: low Rate of Fire: Semi - medium Shots to Kill a Zombie: 1 Magazine: 6 Comments: A solid sidearm, great stopping power. Shares rounds with the m1911 Makarov Accuracy: low Range: Low Rate of fire: Semi - High Shots to kill a zombie: 3 Magazine: 8 Comments: An acceptable sidearm, but low mag size and stopping power holds it back. Ammo is everywhere though. Glock 19 Accuracy: Low Range: Low Rate of fire: Semi - High Shots to kill a zombie - 3 Magazine - 18 Comments: A pretty decent all around sidearm, its main letdown is its stopping power. The size of the magazine makes up for this however. Ammo is mostly found in military caches so its somewhat rare. Where it shines (excuse the pun) is that it has a flashlight, meaning you can see and shoot! Colt M1911 Accuracy: low Range: low Rate of Fire: Semi - Medium Shots to Kill a Zombie: 1 Magazine: 7 Comments: Shares ammo with the .45 revolver, a pretty decent all around weapon. Advantage over the revolver is it looks cooler and carries an extra round per mag. Shotguns M1014 Accuracy: ? Range: ? Rate of Fire: ? Shots to kill a zombie: ? Magazine: ? Comments: Not used this yet, found it once in a military cache and decided that an AKM was better at the time. Lever Loaded shotgun (Cant remember the name, the common one) Accuracy: Medium Range: Medium Rate of Fire: Semi - Medium Shots to Kill a Zombie - 1 Magazine - 15 Comments: A very solid longarm, using both buck and slug. Very common ammo makes it an excellent choice for anti-zombie work. it Loses out to the rifles on range and accuracy however. It is, however, quieter than the Lee Enfield, which is a plus when clearing zombies. Longarms Crossbow Accuracy: Low Range: low Rate of Fire: Low (awful) Shots to Kill a zombie: 2? Magazine: 1 Comments: Its silent, but its not deadly, this thing is pretty much a piece of trash right now. If crossbow bolts came in packs of 5 or more it would be okay, but right now it wastes inventory space and generally is not worth picking up. An utter lemon Lee-Enfield SMLE Accuracy: High Range: Very Long Rate of Fire: Bolt - Low Shots to kill a zombie - 1 Magazine - 10 Comments: An excellent medium range rifle, ammo is everywhere, but its loud and slow firing. Its really decent for zombie killing in a pinch, but it falls in the awkward point between the adaptability of the lever shotgun. Very decent for killing players, its stopping power will often kill them or at least cripple them on the first shot. CZ 550 Accuracy: very High Range: Very long - Scope Rate of fire: bolt - Low Shots to kill a zombie: 1 Magazine: 5 Comments: A very solid long range rifle, ammo is common, but 5 round magazines holds it back from being exceptional. Its rate of fire is low, so you cant really do close range work with it. its also somewhat loud, but if your worried about that, you really should be shooting from further away. Very effective against players if you zero it right. MP5A5 Accuracy: ? Range: ? Rate of fire: Auto - High Shots to Kill a zombie - 3? Magazine: 30 Comments: Picked this up a few times, but keep passing it off to my squadmates. Seems quiet though. AKM Accuracy: Medium - High Range: Medium Rate of Fire: auto - high Shots to kill a zombie - 1 Magazine - 30 Comments: For when you want to kill every Mother"!$£ zombie in the room, accept no substitutes. Great stopping power, awesome rate of fire, acceptable accuracy, this weapon is pretty great at killing the undead. Against players its lack of range is a bit of a letdown, but its still by far my favourite weapons outside of the sniper rifles. AK-74 Accuracy: Medium - High Range: Medium - Red Dot version available. Rate of Fire: Auto - High Shots to kill a zombie: 2 Magazine: 30 Comments: While this weapon seems pretty good, i assume its more accurate than the AKM. However ive yet to really use this thing against human targets so the jury's out so far. Compared to the AKM, it seems less effective to me. It probably had a better effective range however. M4A1, M4A3 CCO Accuracy: Medium - High Range: Medium Rate of Fire: auto - high Shots to kill a zombie - 2 Magazine - 30 M16A2 Accuracy: Medium - High Range: Medium Rate of Fire: Semi, Burst(3) Shots to kill a zombie - 2 Magazine - 30 M16A2 M203 Accuracy: Very low Range: Medium Rate of Fire: Semi, Burst(3) Shots to kill a zombie - 2 Magazine - 30 DMR Accuracy: High - very High Range - Very Long - Scoped Rate of fire: Semi - High Shots to kill a zombie: 1 Magazine: ? Comments: again, not used this one myself, but it seems a very solid sniper weapon, pretty much the CZ550 but semi auto. M240 Accuracy: ? Range: ? Rate of fire: Auto - High? Shots to kill a zombie: 1? Magazine: 200 Comments: DAKKAKDAKKKADAKKA... Not found this beast yet Feel free to post below to discuss the other weapons or anything youve found in Dayz that ive missed!

Something needs to be done about the barbed wire at certain locations, what is clearly happening is server hoppers are blockading the best locations (control tower, barracks etc) and pretty much annoying the hell out of everyone else. Can we please make removal of barbed wire proximity based, rather than pointing at a tiny part of the wire (which is often in a wall)

Found one crashed behind the firestation at the NW airfield and two in the fields near Gvozdno, like 50m apart from each other... No loot on any of them :(

With the lee, i'm not surprised. Fire one shot and every zombie within a click of you comes for dinner. Fire one in cherno, go on. Try it. Its hilarious. I ended up using the xbow for a bit when between rifles, liked what it represented, disliked how much space for ammo it needed.

Step 1: Find Helo Step 2: Fix Helo Step 3: Set Ride of the valkyries on loop in direct communications Step 4: Re-enact Apocalypse Now Beach assault on cherno Step 5: Crash in flames Alternatively: Run the First Chernarus Zombie rescue service, no LZ too hot, no survivor left behind!

One of the main issues right now, is that the two cities are a dragnet for both bandits and and newbie survivors. Mostly as its the fastest way to get decent equipment straight off the spawn and one of the few places to get medical supplies for those who live up north. Despite my group of bandits having 30 kills between us, we typically only head down to cherno and electro when we need medical supplies. Its just there, its shoot first dont ask questions, since suicidal newbies will slot you for the comparably good equipment you have. Change the starter area to the east coast and improve the spawns in cherno and electro to a degree. Then turn the zombie spawns to over 9000 and watch the fireworks. As it stands now, the resources available in the newbie areas is too desirable (3 firestations, convenience stores, the SW Airstrip, the base next to it) Putting basic survival loot such as maps and compasses (the con stores) and military loot in such close proximity really puts these two groups against each other. TBH, the best solution would be to have the spawn area have plentiful supplies of low grade weapons, Crossbows, Winchesters (possibly the lee too), along with survival equipment (knife, matches, wood, map etc) while not having much in the way with military supplies. While this wouldn't eliminate the issue of bandits coming to the spawns just to murder people, it does mean that most new players would be able to grab some equipment reasonably fast, then roll out. Rather than hitting up a highly contested town area where they will get gunned down/eaten/run over by a mad bandit in a bus

Pretty much as explained above, the server tends to lag out. Ran up to a bandit, unloaded two enfield rounds into his chest, he emptied a makarov into me. We both Died. Laughed about it on global. From my impression, the client decides hits or not, so expect this issue to crop up. Pro tip: Get a Lee. One or twoshots everyone. Its a monster and has great accuracy. Only thing that would improve it is a low power scope. But then again, its fine for popping people at 200 yards.

In no particular order: The lee: Excellent accuracy and unmatched stopping power. Now if only it had an ACOG M4A1 Supressed: Excellent stealthy workhorse. M16A2: General pvp work, ive seen a friend of mine drop three survivors in less than two seconds with this. He scares me...

Hey I dont normally bother with character death, but this annoyed me Joined NY server hosted by Robin/Vipex. Walked forward. Hit hourglass for 3 seconds, died. Disconnected tried other server, registered the death. spawned me at the beach with no kit Pretty certain it was not a sniper since my friend next to me saw me drop, ran over to my corpse to check me, then my corpse vanished. Happened at 22:00 ish UK time. No idea what caused it, wondering if i could have it reversed. pretty certain it was the server killing me rather than a player due to the lack of gunshots and my friend not getting slotted too. Had some decent equipment that ive been hoarding for awhile. Happened again. Dropped unconscious to -4500 blood. no cause whatsoever, no gunshots, nothing. This time on EU20 - at 22:30

I can disconnect fine, its just the server seems to kill me to negative blood all of a sudden.

No. Just No. If your having problems with snipers, learn to use cover or go around at night.

Targets, Low Targets and prone targets.

I actually like it the way it is, despite not having NVG's. Server pop drops, meaning i can get a space no problem and chemights provide all the light i need. Also enables me to sneak past zeds with ease and loot places people normally avoid :D

A second pair of barrack buildings would be appreciated, or the loot from the barracks to be nerfed and spread out to other locations. Suggesting putting one at the Stary Sabor army base, would be logical to have one there and its in an open enough area that it retains a good deal of risk.

No music, i need to hear footsteps, zombie noises and gunshots in the distance. Never relax, never rest, paranoia is your freind

Actually, putting flare bolts into the crossbow would help with this too

While going through the woods in the pitch dark with my comrades, we heard this really freaky noise, no idea what the hell it was. We all bricked ourselves and popped flares to see what was around us. Turned out nothing came to eat us, but it gave me an awesome idea. A bloodsucker like enemy (from STALKER) that hunts at night, in woods, that you cant see until its close, at it screams at you when it detects you.

Exactly, the sort of noise that makes you know your totally screwed

.:The Bandit Survey:. .: So why have you chosen to walk the path of “darkness"(was it for the beans =p?) Sick and tired of getting murdered by "friendlies". And people drop food, water and medical supplies alot. .: Lets talk about tactics, what are yours? Sniper and spotter, get range on a likely target and wait for him to hold still for a moment. .: Do you prefer to hunt alone or in a pack? 2+, spotter can suppress or call ranges .: Your preferred hunting ground(s)? Zelenogorsk .: What are your weapons of choice? Sniper with CZ550, Spotter with M16A2. .: Your greatest strength as a Bandit? Teamwork, both the sniper and spotter communicate constantly .: Now how about a weakness of yours, come on everyone has one? Organising more than two people in the dark... And the fact that one of them is slightly retarded and shot me last night thinking i was a zombie... .:Lastly, how about telling us your greatest moment(s) as a Bandit of Chernarus? Claiming cherno in the name of THE SECOND BRITISH EMPIRE! and killing anyone who came by.

Just though i'd float the idea that the crossbow could do with some changes, as in its current form, its a bit naff. 1. make it magazine fed (with a low rate of fire). This also solves the fact that a single bolt takes up one inventory space. 2. Better iron sights. The current ones suck. Means it will still be situational and useful only verses zombies, but have a bit more staying power than clogging up your inventory.

Can anyone post a quick answer to what to do when "waiting for server response" for ages? E.g. how long we should wait, should we switch servers etc?

Cheers, Can we get a dev response to this and have it as a sticky? May reduce server load if we know when to give up or not to switch.

OH GOD OH GOD! Flare Crossbow bolts. The trolling, the trolling

I would say so too, but my recognition of people is terrible >.> I keep getting "OH MY GOD JC, ITS A BOMB" on every bloody server...

Mahahah, Guess you cant lose a titan on a lowsec gate in dayz... Good Natured jibes aside, Go get em!