tobias winfro

My thoughts on Dean leaving are this, I think he had a bit too much on his plate and it took a lot out of him. At the time Dayz released into alpha/early release, the mod was going strong and people were always bugging about when is standalone coming out, why is it taking so long, why are you climbing mt everest when you promised us this and on and on. Long story short, I think dean got burnt out. I also feel Bohemia wanted more progress for the money they had put into Dayz, these are my thoughts and feeling and I have no inside knowledge of what actually happened. That being said, I would love to hear from Dean. Get his thoughts on how standalone is shaping up and what he is doing with himself lately

A lot would depend on the water table for the area. What about digging irrigation channels? Or aqueducts? I know that's a bit of a stretch for aquaducts but like MrAerospace said contamination could be a factor. Right now I would be happy with a rain tarp and some empty water bottles to make a rainwater collection unit

I would love to be able to customize my gun with different attachments and such, I hope they don't throw in the whole bf4 array of attachments. I think lmgs would be a nice addition to Dayz but they should differ from the assault rifles/carbines, what I mean is recoil, bullet spread, accuracy and weight/fatigue factor.

Didn't see anyone getting rek't, just wasting a good amount of ammo trying to hit a dude that wasn't moving very much in the first clip. Second clip was just as terrible, that close to the player and you barely got the job done.

I've found jerry cans in sheds, single and multilevel barns, long white animal barns and one in the short brown barn, i suspect the one I found in the short brown barn wasnt a natural spawn due to its location in the building.

Well I've logged out in prison building due to server restart or my connection timing out and this happens to me, meaning I fall through the floor to the inaccessible room when I log back in. This may not be relevant to your story but it still does happen, more than likely someone is waiting to get gear or easy kills from people who have no way to defend against this Edit: this doesn't happen 100% of the time, maybe 2 out of 10 but I haven't researched it extensively because I try not to make a habit out of logging out in a high traffic areas

Perhaps this could be a new purpose for having pliers in the loot table

Personally I prefer private hives, cuts down on server hopping and script kiddies( not saying they don't exist on private hive). I tend to play on RP servers but if I'm playing with my crew, we jump on public hive because some friends don't like the rules some private hives use. In regards to master/slave shard private hives, yes they are connected and yes your gear transfers between those servers. I haven't tried this since .58 went to stable but I haven't heard of any changes in this policy. The thing is when they give us the ability to mod servers, it will become just like Dayz mod. You'll have a portion of the community who want to play vanilla Dayz standalone and those who want an enhanced experience. Neither choice is right or wrong, just a preference on how you want to play

Tough break, gear would've been good to get. That's how dayz is some days, 2 shots from a .22 and you're down and then some days 6 shots from a .357 and only a bit grey with ruined gear. I agree with gannon46 though, we need a better bullet damage model

The person you shot, was he a fresh spawn or did he have gear? The reason I ask isn't to give you shit for shooting freshies but if he had a jacket or a vest on with items in them, he may have been able to take a few shots to the body.

So forcing player interaction is silly but sitting in a bush on sniper hill picking people off who are unaware of you isn't? There is still plenty of PvP on RP servers, they are just trying to level the playing field and stop all the 1337 snipers from ruining their other players experience who don't play that way. It goes both ways, they paid for their private hive and white listed it, if people don't like it then they don't have to play there.

I'm not sure I can answer this completely but right now there really isn't much to do right now other than get geared up and go hunting for some action. Even when we do get more content, there will still be a large part of the community who play Dayz as a loot n shoot or whatever fps insult players want to throw out there. As far as the spawn points, I'm not sure if there is an easy "fix" for the problem. I mean who doesn't want to get back to their stuff fast or possibly even catch the guy/girl who killed you and exact your revenge and move on before your stuff or the player disappear? I get what your saying and you're not alone in your way of thinking but people will argue that locking your spawn location is a hindrance to their play style. In my opinion people stay on the coast because there is action there. Why explore inland when all of the action is in berenzino, cherno, electro and kamyshovo. I personally get bored roaming inland and seek out others on the coast, sometimes to play TDM sometimes I try my hand at trading( mainly Rasputin Kvass and ammo, cause beer and firearms go so well together). TL;DR long story short everyone payed to play the game the way they want. There are no right or wrong answers to the perceived problems of spawning and the suicide to get close to your team or body

You may be low on blood. Keep yourself hydrated and energized, you will then start to slowly regain blood and your screen won't be so blurry

Not all rural areas have AR-15s or m4s, mainly the city folk in my neck of the woods own them. Mostly hunting rifles, shotguns, black powder rifles, pistols and smaller varmint rifles in my experience. I'm sure there are some gun enthusiasts around here that possess them but price keeps people from buying them

Well we found a few boxes and loose .45 ammo last night at the chopper north of stary. We also found a few SVD mags, 2 at chopper crashes and one at a guard shack/loot-splosion. We found these on both private and public hives, maybe we just had a lucky run. Traded the SVD mags on public for mp5 mags and a red dot sight

Quick update, we found loose .45 ammo at a chopper crash site. It was right after restart on a private hive, only 3 of us on and found a few piles of it mixed in with the loot

Thanks guys, that's what I figured. I thought maybe I had missed a spot, started at Cherno all the way to kamenka and then to the NWAF, over to berezino and back to kamyshovo and all I found were 1911 mags.

Has anyone found .45 acp ammo? I've found 3 fnx pistols, with pistol flash lights, suppressors and optics. I have 1 magazine (found at a lootsplosion guard shack) but no loose bullets. I can find cr75 mags and loose 9mm bullets but .45 rounds seem to be rare for me, if anyone knows, can you throw an old trader a bone and tell me where to look

For me sewing kits are hard to find, I've seen them in the yellowish house that has the shelving in front room and the watermelon colored houses. As far as the scopes, I've seen them in various guard shack/barracks, like the one on the east end of elektro as you head toward kamishovo, over by the train tracks. Always see them on the steps along with high capacity vests, fnx 45 and cr 75, various magazines and other random guns. Also as the poster above me stated check crashed military vehicles. Still looking for a PSO 1 myself so I can't be of much help on that one

See you around then, they turned tents and backpacks off temporarily. Sorry they ruined the game for you by not allowing you to collect and sit on tons of lewts. I know its been beaten to death but we are in the "testing" phase of this game. At times they will enable and disable certain features, including tent and backpack persistence. Dont fret though....I'm sure they will turn in back on soon

I'm not sure what keeps me coming back, its a mix of player interaction (good and bad), the anticipation of a firefight, not knowing who or what is around the corner and the threat of losing my gear if I get caught slippin. I've only played a few games that kept me coming back for more, Dayz, Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies. Some games just have that appeal, sure I get burnt out but I just couldn't stay away from those 3 games. Hell I still play a SWG emulator and a UO emulator, both games are very dated( UO being the first major MMO) but the friends I've made playing those games keep me going. Its weird, I've been gaming since the late 70's/early 80's, played and beta tested most of the major MMOs but I just couldn't justify putting time into some games because they lost their luster. Maybe I'm just a sucker for punishment

Thank you Biohaze, your words of encouragement help me soldier on. I logged in last night and had a far more positive experience helping a group of newish players. Spawned in Kamishovo and found myself in the middle of a firefight between 2 groups. Armed with a sporter and a 30 round magazine, I took my chances and found 3 guys in the police station. All were in need of medical assistance and needed some food, got em all fixed up and went about my business feeling good about my day. So thank you for the positive outlook on the situation

True, so very true. I'm just waiting for the devs to reintegrate CLE, that will be the day that I call off at work, just to listen to all the pro Dayz players whine and bitch because they can't get their PvP on because they have no clue where to look for ammo or a gun. My initial response to the OP about not feeling guilty came after a rough session, was trying to be a medic/trader and armed with a ashwood stick and paramedic clothes when my character decided to take a dirt nap. Wasn't dead yet but the nice gentleman who came to relieve me of my loot ripped me from one end to the other on my selection of gear and how horrible I was at the game because I possessed no firearms or anything useful to him. Chalk it up to me being frustrated with peoples behavior and a slow growing feeling of notgiving2shitsaboutanyone. Sadly, whenever presented with a situation such as the OP had, I find it very difficult to pull the trigger. I am not a fan of KoS, its just hard to justify killing unaware or players who pose no threat but players with high end weapons, more often than not aren't interested in anything other than your demise.

I agree with you 100% Biohaze, I hope someday Dayz changes from the current loot n' shoot game it has become. I'm excited to see the changes that are instore for us and yes it rewarding to not have to kill another player. However that player was kitted out with a Steyr Aug and may not have had friendly intentions toward the OP, once again I'm not trying to argue with you but sometimes players value their gear over your life so making contact may not have turned out too well.

Don't feel bad about killing the other player, a lot of people have the kill or be killed mentality. Glad to hear you've found your groove when it comes to the surviving/scavaging but don't get to used to the invincible feeling. Dayz can be a cruel mistress, zeds and other players have a knack of throwing a monkeywrench into everyone's plans.