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got bored and checked the "members" tab... I counted 20 players per page and 6497 pages. That is roughly 130 thousand "members". Which as far as i can assume doesnt account for those with multiple accounts/banned members. So, I guess that means only 10% of the Dayz mod population has even looked toward the official forums for information, leaving the rest of them to rely on facebook/reddit (?) to answer their posts about all thing dayz. Just an observation.

I began playing in late May, and consistently played on a server that had no crosshairs and no 3rd person, and did this because at the time, the server was stable, and frankly, I enjoyed the immersion it brought with creeping through the grass amongst the nearby zombies (which would only stop chasing when they were dead). The firefights seemed more intense as well, and forced a different playstyle than having 3rd person. (granted I had headbob set to 0, and have never had motion sickness despite being in 30 foot seas on the Pacific) After that, I joined up with a buddy playing on a 3rd person server and was amazed at how much easier it was with regard to spotting, and surveilling the area. In short, I would welcome 1st person only, but the fact that some unfortunate people get motion sickness from this setting, I doubt it will become a reality.

OK, I'll bite on this... In which alternate reality do you live in that led you to the conclusion that the ballistics of a 5.56 round would pierce an engine block? Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.56%C3%9745mm_NATO The only round that would come close would be the M855A1 penetrator round which was "...able to penetrate 3⁄8 inches (9.5 mm) of steel plate at 300 meters". Taking into account that THIS round would have to go through the sheet metal body of a vehicle to GET to the engine block (not to mention angle of fire and subsequent deflection of the bullet) reduces its energy, and would hold little hope for actually piercing an engine block/head to do any sort of damage to the engine whatsoever.

Map: Namalsk Location: East hill of Brensk bridge Gear: M24, Ghillie, Alice Playstyle: CQB in cities, anything goes, but generally avoid. From distance: Observer, opportunist (for gear), but not really killin for LULZ. Log in to the private server i play on, instantly see unarmed man prone on bridge and a guy with a AK on the west side. I sit and watch. They spoke of a sniper on the hill at the bridge and dont know if they are speaking of me. I remain silent and continue to watch, because I dont need anything off of their corpse. Minutes pass and I see that the guy with the AK dies and realize the sniper they are talking about is on the West side of the bridge on the opposite hill. At this point, I realize that this is an ideal situation to countersnipe, as i am completely hidden and hell bent on taking out this bandit. I scan the hill and see him, and immediately open my map to range his position. He is at ~600 meters and lying in wait to take shots at people at the railway station. Blood starts pumping. Zero my M24 to 600m, check ammo...got lots :) This is going to be my longest attempt at a kill ever, and I've been playing since May. Prone under a tree, acquire target, adjust for range and fire...MISS. a bit low, not far, but a half a mildot higher and im good to go. Problem is, he is now strafing constantly and hiding behind trees scanning for me with his sniper rifle, but I am hidden as shit. I take more shots while he is on the move, leading the target, all misses, but not by far. My visibility of him is pretty low due to the mist/fog, so i pause and adjust my gamma down a bit. and Now he is about 700m away tucked behind a big rock, and all I can see is his the top of his head. I fire and see the faintest blood mist but he isnt dead, and think that I must have seen his body instead of his head. He stays by the rock and i imagine he is bandaging, as I fire again and see that he is dead. My heart has been pumpin pretty hard now for about 10 minutes, so I cool off and head up across the valley to his corpse. As i get to the other side, with ONLY my M24 and no backup primary, I see a dude with an M14 about 30m from me (in a tree btw), blood pressure rises, zero for 100m, and try to steady my hand in a situation where I am at a serious CQB disadvantage. I fire, I hit, hes bleeding and running around. and its tough to scope in on him at such a close range. fire a few more shots and finally hit him with my shakey hands. I had to assume he was part of the squad that the sniper was in, and was going to protect/loot his body. He was yelling friendly in side and cussed me out when he died...but i couldnt trust him, sorry bud. I leave his body there for the time being and head to the dead sniper. I looted his Coyote backpack and backup m16 and hid his body. I loved the fact he had a coyote because I rarely see them. So, I head back down the hill with the m16 at the ready, and decide that I needed that M14 because its a good compliment to the M24 due to "shared" ammo. I left all the mediocre loot on the M14 guy and left it as a prize to someone that happened upon it, and walked off into the hills. Gonna continue to wait and watch for these snipers to take advantage of their situation, so I can take advantage of mine. Best of luck random snipers, I will see you on the battlefield.

Despite the technical shortcomings, I had a great time watchin' it. I was initially worried that the start was being delayed because Rocket was talking with us about all things Dayz, but i was reassured that there were other issues preventing the start of the games. I must say, it was great to interact and chat with Rocket, he seems to be very approachable and available to his community, and im sure that everyone else there enjoyed being part of it. Thanks again Rocket for creating such a great game! On a side note: would there be a way to auto-kick someone who was killed in combat, which would happen before the "death screen" popped up with the server information? In my experience, when you are in a fire fight and get killed; the adrenaline is pumping, and it may slip past your mind to kill the stream BEFORE the server info shows up. But after watching Oshi and Sacriel, and the chat that followed with Kai, they were saying that a VPN would solve the problem of possible infiltration of the survivor games server.

yes please

Okay, Im a little angry at the moment but I think that I have the right to be. So last night around 12 am EST I log into this server DE 1307 in electro and there arent that many people on. gear up, and find an ATV between cherno and elecktro, at the top of the rock cliffs in need of repair. I make the journey back to electro and get all the necessary components and extra fuel tanks. at this point it is about 2 am. I make a couple stops before stary sobor, then park the atv outside of stary to go loot. come back, take my spoils and head off to the construction site North of Dolina and West of Orlovets. I parked the atv near the brick wall to the south of the construction site and gather up some needed extra vehicle parts. After I get back to my ride I am in the process of fixing and stowing miscellaneous gear when POOF...session lost... there was no "server will restart in x minutes" in german or english. The server stays down for about 20-30 minutes. Well, you guessed it folks the ATV was gone (which I had saved as I dismounted as always, and again before I head off) and so was half my inventory. And before you chime in and say "you should have saved the vehicle", I would like to let you know that I had stopped and saved it exactly 8 times between stary sobor and the construction site north of dolina. So as to not get unjustifiably angry at something that I could have messed up myself, I decided to retrace my EXACTpath back to stary sobor just to make sure that it didn't end up parked in one of the 8 spots that I had stopped over the course of that journey. No trace of it. So I ask you, has this been a case of a seemingly "entitled" admin who feels that he/she is somehow deserving of a mode of transport that I slaved over to get up and running? If so, this is complete fucking bullshit. A couple side notes to point out: 1. As I leaving stary 20 minutes ago, I see 2 peoples death messages come up, and after another 5 minutes i see "exeelenti was killed" and not 15 seconds after I get "no message received for x seconds". This, from my experience is a case of the admin shutting down the server. Fuckin shenanigans. 2. There was a reddit post on saturday night which I will link, which in my opinion further reinforces the need for investigation into the admins actions. I will leave it to you to read, but it may have been a bit of meta-gaming to bait people into a loot trap. Basically the OP said he was banned from the server for looting a camp on the eastern edge of the map which was followed by further posts of bans. I personally had nothing to loose as a fresh spawn so I went and got killed, but obviously wasnt banned. Here is the link: http://www.reddit.co...nt_camp_and_got Please look into this...its bad enough that hacking/scripting can wipe you out...at least you can look into this and possibly affect some change in this matter if it turns out that some shady shit is being done.

I was just havin a thought, I have never had the opportunity to spawn in Novy, but I was thinking about the brilliance of the devs for choosing this as a random spawn. Imagine, whether it be a grizzled veteran to the freshly installed first-timer, just imagine if you were the latter: Just spawn: Looking around, no idea whats going on, but there's a church, grab whatever loot is there. Surroundings: little does this fresh spawn know that he is within gunshot range of one of the most deadly spots on the map. (sure he could have spawned on the coast, while interesting in its own right, Stary Sobor is nearby, and it can be home to people that like hunting humans and might just be very good at it). Survivor: ...maybe he found a gun, and maybe he didnt, but he's running willy-nilly juggling dildos trying to loot, when gunshots ring out in the distance and immediately see "PlayerA has died", ..."PlayerB has died"...etc... Possible outcome: Maybe a bullet in the head, but maybe....just maybe that after hearing an extended horrendous battle go down, the gunshots cease, and this fresh survivor, who has the just been thrust into a state of fear and exitement stumbles upon one of the unlucky casualties to find himself fully kitted out. And now this lucky fella is off to continue his story with his heart pounding at the attachment to survival he has immersed himself into. Thank you Rocket. Please forgive me, but these are just some mindless ramblings that I felt like sharing

Okay, that "quote" didnt turn out like I thought it would but I bolded/italicized my replies, and dont feel like fixing it :P

Its been a good day with some ups and downs. Started off with my 2nd account runnin around...wherever...rockin an enfield and a pistol and all the gear to cook food. -Electro : had 2 people who tried to snipe me with an as50 and an AR, they missed (terribly, I should have been dead to rights), I tried to flank, but they disappeared. made my way up to bereznino got some more meds... no action. found a bike in a forest...YOINK! 40 ppl on the server, so I roll around lookin for tents (found some up north of bereznino, searched for crashed helis etc. and BOOM found NVG's on a crashed heli, then find a ghillie in vybor...YOINK NWAF: hit the north barracks and biked down to near the fire station when I start taking silenced fire, but couldnt see due to graphical glitches...I get a few rounds off on my attacker but I end up dying, I always do dumb shit after I get rare gear. There I was ringin my bell on the bike on the airfield...I felt like I was jugglin dildo's and skipping along like an idiot, but hell it was fun. Interlude: I take a break, check dayzreddit and find that someone posted that he got banned from a server after he found a camp owned by the admins, I figure, "hell, I'll bite, it will be a fresh spawn anyway" Spawn into the server with 4 ppl on it. I'm in balota at night, grab an AKM and a G17. No compass, but its no worries, I can read the stars. I hop to kamarovo, and then kamenka and turn north to the 3 deerstands and find a DMR with 2 mags...Yoink! I make a very careful infiltration up into the hills on the western edge of the map...its dark, its raining, I'm close... All of a sudden I get opened up on by what has to be the L85 thermal and get killed...no worries. I figure, if he has a thermal, I better get on my main account with a L85 and a DMR and move towards the camps location, when I come up on a well fortified camp with sandbags and fencing with 2 tents inside. Nothing special except for 2 ghillie suits, so I grab them and figure, thats good enough for now, no sense pressing my luck for what has obviously been a trap. I get back on my second account on a low pop server with sidechat and nametags enabled, fuck it, lets loot. Everyone on the server seemed pretty cool, and I ended up meeting up with a guy that needed a blood bag in stary...I give in and head that way, he seemed cool enough. He's in the tents, I'm rollin in from the SE and spot a crashed heli and lay waste to the zeds around it, nothing really there, no NVGs on any of the pilots, so I meet up with him to provide a transfusion, but he didnt have a blood bag on him, DOH. Luckily we found a blood bag at the tents and proceeded to xfuse/loot the tents and the rest of stary. We decide to clear out stary for some more ammo and move north when we find ANOTHER heli, and oh my god, my 2nd set of NVGs looted today. My new buddy grabs the M249 and make for the deerstands when HOLY shit, another heli...more zombie clearing and we find a set of NVGs for him too. We cant believe our luck! Neither of us has a compass but it doesnt matter, I know the north pretty damn well, so we head to the NWAF in the dying light of the day and click on our newly acquired goggles. Sidenote: During this whole looting/killing process, the guy I was with didnt have a mic and had to type everything, and each time he stopped, he was aiming towards me, and I had this sneaking suspicion he was going to put one in my back or my head when i wasnt looking. So I was always strafing left/right out of his aim in case he did fire on me. As we are clearing the Airfield we find him probably 800 rounds of ammo for his belt fed behemoth and plenty of AKM mags for me. I was lookin for somethin better than the czech backpack i had and maybe a sniper rifle but nothin spawned in. So after a careful airfield run we both log off happy as pigs in shit. Thats what I call a pretty good day. Thankfully I put my trust in the hands of a pretty good dude who didnt murder me for laughs, even though I'm sure that when he aimed at me he heard a strong bandit heartbeat.

Do you honestly think that this has not been reported on...and thought you needed to make a new thread? jesus christ, use the search button... oh and maybe read this : http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/8512-please-read-this-before-creating-a-new-thread/ Its stickied at the top of page ONE for a reason /thread

...When you take your dog out at night holding a shotgun and a .45 on your hip. ...and an AR15 slung to your chest.

Search button... bug report... /shakes head

After a successful heli crash find, I claimed a L85 AWS, and have routine nighttime enfil/loot/exfil jaunts through the NWAF, I kind of want to see what would happen if I went to green mountain...again. I have been there before, but have never returned... I wonder what would happen; the previous times were very mysterious, but I need to satiate my curiousity. ...maybe I can catch a glimpse of what truth that has eluded me with my thermal sight. Can technology solve my confused questions?

Thats the wonderful thing about those beautiful spores, they can offer a brain teasing journey into wherever you want to go. Well put mate.

Side chat was good and bad. The good part was that it offered a bit of comic relief to some of the more interesting situations that happened on the server, and it had allowed me the opportunity to carefully gain trust with someone I ended up squading with, which was great fun. The bad: well, immersion...while the simple chat could break immersion, the morons that decided that side chat was a satisfactory place to use VON absolutely filled my soul with hatred.

Regardless of the glitches within the location, it has been a spawn point reported by users. What I wouldn't give to have this be my first introduction to this marvelous, yet flawed social experiment (its alpha, and I like the challenge and evolution of this mod). My first experience in mid may was at night, and I had read that cherno and electro were very dangerous, so I went inland immediately. I am well versed in land navigation, map reading and finding north using the stars. So as it turns out I experienced immersion fulfillment when I was using an old chernarus topographical map, studying contours of hillsides, referencing north, surviving! I felt a sense of pride that even at night, I could plot my way to a specific town and sneaky sneak through it while filling my pack. It has been a great experience, and this mod simply provides the best immersion and heartfelt gameplay that I have never experienced before. As Sacriel42 says "OH MY HEART!!"

you...me...we got the same mindset man. Bromance incoming hehe.

Right on man, thanks for the quick reply. and this is just an after thought, but I was wondering if you have direct chat enabled on the server? Also, if I do chat in the lobby, who will hear it...will it be others who are trying to load in at the same time, or is that fed to an admin? I'm asking simply because the last time I did that was back in May when the loading times were pretty long.

Unplayable. dead soldiers/ barbed wire whatever it is, it did not occur in such a degree that it is now (with current patch). I literally have to stare at the floor to be able to "navigate". After patching to current 2.4 cherno was terrible coming from the east, and balota airfield was just as bad from the east and west. Gotta love patch days huh? Side note: toyed with all my video settings and didnt make any difference at all.

To the william wallace face guy in the hotel in cherno. You may want to turn up your VON settings so you can actually hear someone communicating to you. Yea you killed me "buckfutter" but I heard you enter, drink a soda, and all the while, I spoke over direct chat stating that I had put away my axe and needed a blood transfusion, as well as not being able to see shit because of excessive artifacts. When you said "speak now" i did reply, i even typed in a quick "hi", and all i got was a gunshot. I dont give a shit about dying, but its kinda frustrating when I had been speaking and it had been falling on deaf ears because he couldnt hear me. And yes, immediately after i died, I rechecked to see if my mic had been operational. Not whining, just hoping that in the rare moments that when direct chat is needed, it actually works (on both ends). Edit: this will probably fall on deaf ears because I will never know if it was a member of your clan, the 1/9th or some random dude playing on this server, but I consistently play on this server because it seems to have great performance, (aside from this patch, where I couldnt hatchet a couple zombies even though my ping was ~60, and the blinding artifacts which I have to attribute to the patch)

Hello Rocket and everyone in the community. If you have any downtime and feel like checkin' out some quality squad gameplay by some excellent folks, I have to suggest watching Sacriel, Oshi7, DaSquirrelsnuts, and Axemanandy. The end up in some very interesting/exciting situations which normally take place at Stary Sobor/NW Airfield. They have their own designated roles and perform very well at it, and on top of that they (and I) are totally against D/C'ing in a fight, they fight to the death...honorably. These guys are NOT making videos of sniping noobs in Cherno/Electro for shits and giggles (which i guess can be enjoyable for some), They engage in solid combat situations and to me, is way more entertaining/exhilirating than LOLsniping. If you are interested in watching and supporting good players please check them out. Lately, I have been watching them stream more than I actually play. If there are downtimes in combat, they will frequently interact and chat with their viewers, and will even sit around and bullshit with them after the stream ends. Just good guys. Thanks all, Buckfutter Here are some links to their streams and youtube. Sacriel: http://www.twitch.tv/sacriel http://www.youtube.com/user/sacriel42 Oshi7: http://www.own3d.tv/Oshi7 http://www.youtube.com/user/OshiSeven Dasquirrelsnuts: http://www.twitch.tv/dasquirrelsnuts http://www.youtube.c...DaSquirrelsNuts Axemanandy: http://www.own3d.tv/...ndy/live/348120

As much as I loathe Destinys' existence, I agree with the effect that this dreadful place has on the psyche. I have NEVER survived that place...all i saw and heard was... /shivers ...cant, sorry

After oshi invited us to FR59, I logged in immediately and ran all the way from the hills west of Lopatino to cherno, and by the time I got there I could see one of the vans burning up. I was watching the stream on my other monitor at the same time. I didnt care if I died, and neither did anyone else, even though I had respectable gear. I was just glad to be able to get the chance to play with one of my favorite streamers of Dayz. I can confirm that there was no server message saying "server restart in X minutes", it was blatantly obvious that these pussydicks got butthurt when someone dared to take a shot at them so they shut down the server. ...Disgraceful...dishonorable... and downright douchebaggery. admins of FR59, why dont you go eat a bag of...oh nvm.

Check this link out, and see if the steps involving regedit help you out. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/32775-multiple-dayz-accounts-useful-for-shared-computers/