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You never run/walked while searching stuff in your trousers/jacket? Not full sprint of course but yeh, I do it quite a lot.

It´s alpha /thread On a more serious note, if server is stable 2 akm bullets to the chest will kill you. But when you come from behind aim for the head maybe?

With semi auto the M4 is easy to use up to ~700m. Without you can´t hit a barn above 100m :D Besides that the M4 is just a weak weapon compared to the AKM/SKS hell even a 1911 is more feared by me. I survived a lot of M4 engagements but SKS and especially the AKM downs me in two bullets. But hey there was something with the status of this game and someone I think he was called Dean or was it Hicks said, the M4 is a placeholder to test attachments. I don´t know maybe such things are common for an alpha build? /sarcasm Test the game and do what you should do by doing so or don´t buy and play it yet. But complaining is just mental. :)

If you are aiming for surviving outside of towns, you don´t even need a backpack. There are not enough items to verify a backpack at all. Water is everywhere, same goes for food. Matches is something you need but the rest is in the woods. One axe, one knife, bandages, alcohol to fix ruined rages(questionable) and a fishing rot if you really want to fish (best food for now) and that´s it pretty much. A winchester/mosin might be a good idea but is not really needed. Later on you need puri tablet, vitamins and maybe antis. But a backpack is never needed in the game. With the camo clothes or hunter clothes you have so much space that there is no need for a backpack. It just makes you waaay more visible => easier to kill.

Just move left while aiming and there will be no sway at all. It´s pinpoint aiming. Same goes for moving forward - stupid but works.

Just dumped mine for a mosin. There are plenty of them in the barracks never found one somewhere else but found a lot of them in barracks.

In experimental the ZEDs are really annoying. Seems the "re-spawn -> instant aggro" is back. They run around fences now - never noticed before - but the re-spawned ones aggro from miles away. What´s a bit of an annoyance when you just want to leave a town and they re-spawn in the field/woods and aggro you again and again and again.

I was walking over a large field, no one in plain sight, no town nearby when all out of a sudden I see two black dots in the distance, running from east to west. I instantly took cover behind a rock expecting some engagement. But when I took my scoped mosin out, getting better sight it was just a ZED hunting an elch down. This game is so weird sometimes. Not the first time I saw that but this time there was no town nearby so the stupid ZED must have hunted the elch for at least 1km. Can´t wait for the carnivorous class animals like bears and wolves. I guess that will spice things up a lot more.

Camping a house can be pretty funny for sure. I once played "the Butcher from Berenzino". Back when you could use the shotgun for killing I took a mask, some red pants, a woolcoat, machete, shotgun, handcuffs and some "tools" and waited in the "Pub" for some poor souls. I told them I am the barman and my name is "The Butcher from Berenzino". After that I offered them a drink, broke their legs (sometimes it killed them) and handcuffed them. Then I tried what kind of tools are working for killing them. After my 5th kill a "Bambi Protector" Squad came and told me to come out and stop that shit. I told them that I am the barman and the owner and that I would appreciate if they come in for a drink. But they were not interested. :( I gunned the first one down and got killed after since my shotgun wasn´t meant to be a successor in a real fire fight. But I had some really good fun for sure. I don´t like to hunt bambis or so but some "psycho serial killer" shit is welcomed from time to time. So yes, "camping" a house can be funny. :D I guess I will try some weird shit in the new town up in the north next. Since I heard about the "walkie talkie ghost" some nasty ideas popped up in my twisted Dayz brain.

Not really, pvp gear excludes gas masks because it makes you visible from any distance - big white dot. Glasses and green helmet is best except you want to fight close combat vs someone who might punch you, there motorbike helmets are best because they protect from punches. But they don´t protect from bullets. So best is brown skin, glasses, and green helmet on a female character. Not that I like it really but this is the best possible pvp gear right now. Vests work like kevlar vests, they eat bullets without you getting real damage. If you get shot from >100m it doesn´t even scratch you really from my experience. Same for helmets. Sometimes you get headshotted, pass out but you don´t have any damage on your char just the helmet is ruined.

Well, pristine clothes absorb a lot of damage and when you are healthy you will tank a lot of stuff. I usually go with 4-5 M4 bullets, 2 Mosin shots, 2-3 SKS shots. Helmets and glasses prevent from headshots and usually just knock you out. If you hit him chest, legs, arms/head it´s possible for that stuff to happen.

There is some discrimination so to say, female characters have a smaller hitbox and are less visible than my "welsh survivor" so I have female and male chars on my accounts. Besides that, when I see a girl I think either she is good at the game or well is something I don´t like to interact with. Since there is a possibility she is good I am careful and since I have a gaming wife who´s usually next to me I can´t be an dickhead even if I´d like to be - sometimes at least. :D After all I guess you are just a human being and human beings - not welshis and gingers - tend to remember the bad experiences more than the good ones. My wife is always raging that so many perverts and dickheads are playing in her team (not dayz) but I often see her playing with mannered/adult/welsh people as well so yeah, keep on playing.

This "wannabe robin hood" destroyed more than he archived. And his chain of logic is non existent. It´s the same - excuse me - crap/argument that crackers use to publish their shit to play games/software without a legal key. If you agree on this server architecture or not is up to you but the decision is the decision of the developers. Some people nowadays just don´t know any more about property and that source code is a property of the developers of it. If they want to keep it they can, if they want to let people mod certain thing so be it but stealing it and try to legalise the fact of stealing after is just retarded. Let me steal some of your property and tell you after that it was ok because I do something "good" with it. Maybe you are doing something good with it but that doesn´t change the fact that you robbed me in the first place and that it should be my decision if I want you do to be able to do something good with it or not.

I have to eat my words about the hacking situation. Until yesterday I never really had any problems with them. Just leave the coast and play inland and you wont see them. With the latest patch is was even better for 2 days but since yesterday I can´t say that any more. It feels like those "teleporter/loot scripters" are everywhere. Together with the weapon sway it was just enough for now. I don´t blame the devs or want to complain to harsh but for me there is no sense in testing/playing it right now. If I die to a bug I am ok with it, if I die to a player/ZED no problem but the current situation is just not what I can bear. But I guess there will be a hotfix soon else I have to wait for 5-6 weeks? Don´t want to lose my last geared char to someone "magically" appear next to me, take all my stuff and kill me before telling me, that I just got "hacked". Long story short: Current state of "hacking" is like my experience with dayzmod before I switched to private and whitelisted hives back in the days.

Well infinite mags and duped stuff got removed with the latest patch, need to dig out the source though. Besides that, as long as duping is somehow possible - lot harder now from what I read from several sources - a char reset wont get rid of these plebs. Again, a char reset doesn´t solve anything but patching it out will do and time of course. There are enough kill teams out on the HC servers who play "fair" and get rid of duped/hacked stuff by the time. As long as there is no new hacked mag everything will work out. Same goes for the duped stuff. The harder it gets the lesser we will see of that and the duped stuff will get "hidded" together with the bodies by the time. We killed 20people in the last 2 days and there was no single squad with the exact same equipment/weapons so it seems to be way better. Before the patch we run into "duped/cloned squads a lot near the coast. In the North we found them too but less often and now I haven´t heard from them any more. I don´t say they are gone but a lot less for sure regarding my experience and the experience from a lot others I play/talk with. And yes, we KOS but with rules. No bambis and no civilians. So people that run around alone and or without military equipment wont get killed except they open fire.

Because night is completely stupid right now. I like to play in dawn but night is just a big "please kill me" experience. You are forced to use torchlight/gamma. Using gamma makes it feel like cheating but using torchlights is simply stupid because it gets you killed in no time. There is no reason for night time right now. Once we have a good "night light" and just need torchlights to loot buildings or run through the woods I am fine with playing night time but right now it makes no sense at all.

Well, my post was a bit missleading. It´s not that I don´t care about cheating/abusing but it doesn´t affect my gameplay too much and it´s something the devs know about and that will get fixed sooner or later. My point was more that people with hacked/duped stuff don´t know how to play the game properly so it´s not so much of a big deal for me. It´s annoying if you run into such a pleb or even a mob without being armed by yourself but besides that it shouldn´t affect one too much. More on topic again Duping got confirmed as a "hack" so it will be punished people who dupe will get erased so I don´t see a reason to wipe characters. I don´t know on what kind of servers people play but where I play the M4 is not so much of a problem and never really was. It can be deadly for sure but as long as people use full auto all the time I am more afraid of the mosin. It´s no problem to survive 4-5 M4 hits but you barely survive 2 mosin hits and a good shooter will knock you out with the first and tag you dead with the 2nd. I for myself will get rid of my M4 and just keep my mosin with me since they nerfed the damage against ZEDs and I just needed it for solo looting and since I have everything I need there is no need to go to military bases/NWAF again so no M4 needed anymore. :)

You can also "dig" in some stony grounds for a stone. It looks like cobblestone ground and you don´t need a pickaxe for doing so.

You better hunt down "Betsy" then, she is a reanimated woman who jumps on cows from behind - no joke. Maybe it´s intentional, maybe it´s a but but those ZED women tend to jump on cows from behind and kill them. So they are food rivals and deserve to die. :D

Things that never happened to me. I run into 2 "hackers" in dayz and dayzSA combined, had one encounter with a bunch of newbies using infinity magazines and that´s it. I don´t get why some people always run into these situations. "Combat log" isn´t really possible and if you can´t see him any more and be afraid he might log, hunt him down before he can or prepare yourself. If you play HC camping a building with no one outside is another thing to avoid and on SC servers you run into a ton of "sunday players" and kiddos - no offence meant. I have ~600hours dayz SA on two different accounts and I don´t know how many hours on the mod plus the "30hours lets see how it is now after 2years" and I never had such crap happened but my common response to such things is "deal with it and learn from it, to avoid it next time." As long as we are in alpha and later beta you will lose a lot of chars "just because ..." so it happens and it should be no big deal. Post a bug report on the dev board and get over it. :)

Yeah, I am sure and I don´t know how to really identify it but since I don´t know how they coded the loot I could just guess anyway. Maybe they meant hacked mags though. I don´t really know but on the other hand I don´t care either really. In the North you barely find such people so I don´t run into them and the only encounter I had with such a "pleb mob" was near berenzino where 3-4 of them tried to spray&prey me to death from 10m away and just ruined my jacket. Infinity mags still don´t be able to hit a barn door. Since then I never run into such people again and I hope that kind of player will be ironed out soon.

As far as I am aware - following the devs on twitter and read their comments in the twitch channels - the duping stuff is gone. They wiped the hive clean from every duped item so there wont be any more duped items. If it´s still possible to do so well, we will get them back but that´s acutally not a big problem imo. People that are duping mags are usually bad at the game so they are no treat. Plus you will just find them on the coast where they "hunt" bambis. With the new patch you can avoid the coast, doing stuff inland or getting to the west of the coast where no spawnpoints are anymore. Learn the map, try to survive inland and you will have a good experience and won´t run into idiots. To me DayZ and DayZ SA always were like running from the coast into the "real game" and there you can start what you want. So all these "hacks/cheats/exploits" are something I barely experienced at all because that is the shit that happens around the spawning locations.

Just do it like I and a lot others do it. Copy the .pbo´s, rename them and work your way through it. That way you are not altering anything game related but still get the whole information thing.