Matteh

1. He did state there was nobody else on the server at the time, so no. 2. Even when a body is hidden, you would still hear flies. My guess is it just despawned over time!

In the almost year I've been playing DayZ, I have only experienced hackers twice, 3 times at most and only 1 of those times they killed everyone on the server, the other gave everyone a debug menu and the other just kept spawning vehicles in Elektro. But yes, what everyone else has said, join a private hive.

I used to play like you but then I got a bandit skin defending myself in a firefight near NWA. Perhaps this time last week I had a hero skin but lost it when I logged out, now with a bandit skin I find myself having to defend myself in firefights time and time again with no idea how it is affecting my humanity level.

I just bought an i5 3570k @ 3.5ghz and it runs the game smooth as you'd like!

You mean why do they do it? They advertise a fake website that sells hacks or something but is actually a CD key stealer I've heard people say. I have only luckily experienced this once, and logged out straight away thinking I was about to get banned or something because a debug monitor appeared with 'TK Hacks' in the corner.

I recently just upgraded my PC and formatted my hard drive to start from scratch, my character still had all his stuff when I reinstalled DayZ so yes you should still have your items after you upgrade your OS.

I like the thrill of having to regather items to then head further up the map to rendevouz with my friends, meaning having to go back into Cherno or Elektro to get some good loot ready to venture always brings a few face to face encounters, if you were just able to spawn into safety with your friends holding most of your gear, it would ruin that fun risky part of having to travel!

I was approaching my camp and I passed a small red shed in the middle of a field, which I thought I saw a UAZ parked behind, I ran back to discover there was nothing there, I turned around and in doing so saw another player prone on the floor and take aim at me from about 20-30m away, I proned as well hidden amongst the grass, I was switching my chat to direct to ask if he was friendly but then he opened fire on me, missing every shot with his MP5, So I popped him in the chest/head twice and killed him, his name was Bob, poor Bob.

Sounds like my classic Friday night out on the town!

To be fair I once had an 'accidental bandit' skin, it was long ago I was at the medic tents by Balota with 3 guys I met up with, suddenly we get ambushed 3 of my companions die as I run for cover with my AK. I got to the coast fine as bullets continued to whizz past me, I took cover behind some rocks as one fella appeared just below me on the slope with a lee Enfield, I spray him In the face and killed him, second guy tried to flank but I heard him running so put some lead in his chest, then all went quiet andi thought I was safe to move but then I spot the other guy prone in the grass as he opens fire on me, a few well placed shots to his head put him to sleep, all 3 were survivors, no bandit skins and yet from that firefight I managed to get a bandit skin for defending myself. Mind you this was in the early days of DayZ.

I think he was taking the piss out of Gollum from LOTR, at least that is how I read the title.

Wow have nothing to add to the thread, don't post, simple. Back to the thread, I've never been KOS but lately I've began to notice its kill or be killed nowadays. I generally try to communicate with other survivors over direct communication to group up, it has worked quite a few times but majority of time they will pop a shot at me so i have to put them down.

My best karma story would be when I was killed by hackers teleing everyone into the air, I had a lot of useful items at the time so to die like that got me pretty pissed. Anyway I log out then respawn on the coast on a different server, immediately cut across the forest to get to the power plant north of Elektro, I hear flies and begin looking for the source of the noise, laying there I see a guy in a ghillie suit, I loot his body, a coyote backpack,GPS, a m4a3 with plenty of ammo and more!

Fantastic video enjoyed it immensely! Subbed :)

I kind of like the idea of getting some sort of infection from drinking the water in the lake, maybe they could add an option to boil the water to sterilise(sp?) or something?

When you're no longer a bandit, you're bandit skin should disappear, however if you're on a server that does not allow 3rd person, ask someone, if you have a ghillie suit on, you're pretty much screwed unless you by some chance come across some civilian clothing.

I think so as long as there is not a server restart, but not sure on how long a body will stay there.

Mine was back in the day when you would spawn with a Makarov, I think I was just a fresh spawn after dying, the sky was a dark purple colour as night fell, I look up from the shore to see 3 flare alight in a triangular pattern, then I hear shots ring out, I crouch down as I approach the crown of the hill, there I see a bandit crouched shooting at someone or something. I bring up my iron sights and pop him straight in the head, instantly killing him. Not sure if I had saved someone there, but if I did. You're Welcome.

Got a group of 5/6 people always looking for more people, PM me your Skype name and we'll arrange to meet you :)

I found one in the military tents in stary 2 days ago too

The loss of our truck full of weapons due to the teleing hacker :'(

Hello all, this is my first story telling thread so please go easy :) I have been playing DayZ for a long time now, nothing gives me the same rush which I get from DayZ, but today has been one of the more fun gaming sessions I have ever had. I have recently made 2 of my friends buy the game as I was bored of wandering the wastelands alone. With them both being new, I had to go find them both and brought them back to Elektro to get suited up. We approached from the west and headed along the coast, coming across the ports and into the fire station near the church, we found an AK and a Makarov, with me being the more experienced I took the rifle. As we were on the ground floor waiting for a zombie to cross the street in front of us 2 shots from a DMR were fired which put me right on edge but thought that the shots were not aimed at us, until one whistled over my head, hitting the wall behind me. With haste we then made way to the church where we found a Winchester, which one of my friends took. We heard a zombie nearby get aggro'd and at first thought it was a glitch and one had seen us through a wall or something, but my friend saw someone in a ghillie suit stood there with a sniper rifle which he took a shot at with his winchester, tagging him on the leg, the guy ran off but we sat in the church prepared for an attack. 5 Minutes rolled past and there was no sign of movement or any sign of an attack so we rushed out the door ensuring we weren't going to be ambused by anyone and ran into a nearby house, quickly dispatching any zed's that had foolishly chased us, here we found a crossbow and some bolts, so with the 3 of us armed we were ready to move out of Elektro. My next destination in mind was Mogilevka (if that is what it is called) so we pushed north through Elektro through the back alleys checking for any signs of our escaped sniper or anyone else that we thought would be trouble, sniper shots rang off again but these did not seem to be aimed at us so we continued on our way. We were approaching the supermarket, and I was well aware that the hills on the left and right of the power station are popular spots for snipers so we ran inside the supermarket hoping for the best, I advised my friends to stay away from any of the open doors in the back because I felt we were being watched. We managed to get 2 Alice packs (I already had one previously) so both my friends had one, we also found a map, compass and 2 hunting knives, stocked up on food and drink then began planning our escape. By mistake one of my friends opened one of the back doors which must have attracted a sniper on the outskirts as immediately sniper fire began pinning my friend to the wall, he managed to run out of the room and we regrouped in the main entrance room of the market then quickly ran towards the coast, leading any following walkers into a house, killing them off as they bottlenecked through the door. Once all was calm we flanked round past the docks once more on the west side of Elektro, heading up one of the sniper hills carefully to not get spotted. We were finally free of the troubles of the major cities and headed for Mogilevka. After a good 20 minute run we finally arrived, quickly looting 3 buildings, gathering mainly food and more ammo, we pushed North-West to Stary Sobor. We looted the military tents finding an M4, DMR and AK-47 Kobra. I took the Kobra and put the DMR and 2 mags in my pack for later use, we then decided to head out to the NE airfield, upon leaving Stary Sobor, we found a crashed heli which we couldn't believe, we killed off any zombies nearby finally going in to claim our reward, unfortunately it seemed someone else had spotted it before us and beat us to it. Pushing East for roughly 10 minutes, we came across ANOTHER crashed heli and this we could not believe, mainly because of how close the 2 were together and how lucky we were to find them both! Hoping for better loot than the last one, we again took out all the nearby zombies and moved in, nothing exciting found just alot of medical supplies, which of course are useful so we packed up the blood bags, morphine and painkillers and moved on. We continued NE for a good while until I managed to get us lost, we pushed through many a random forest keeping an eye out for any tents we could loot, but we spotted a break in the trees with what looked to be a main road, heading in that direction we could not believe our eyes once we approached the crown of the hill, a Truck hidden amongst the trees, with ammo, medical supplies, food and some parts for vehicles all in the back. I jumped into the driver seat just to find out the Truck was running on empty, luckily the previous owners were nice enough to leave us 2 full jerry cans in the truck which we put to use. The truck itself was in pretty bad shape but the parts we needed were not in the back of the vehicle so we carried on as we were. After a while I finally found out where we were and we were back on track to the NE airfield. Not knowing whether any players were there, we parked up not too far away with 1 of my friends guarding the truck, the other 2 of us grabbed the 7 empty fuel cans in the back of the truck and made our way up to the airfield on foot. We scouted the area to find it was clear, so filled up the cans, checked the area for loot, but nothing exciting was found so we scurried back to the truck to fill her up. We moved the truck up to the airfield to fill up the cans we had used to fill the truck to the brim. It was then getting dark on the server so we decided to hide the truck and call it a day. Tomorrows mission is to travel to berezino and look for the parts we need. May not sound much, but it is certainly the best amount of luck I have ever had in one sitting of DayZ. Thankyou if you read this all, if not, meh. Matteh

I have a ghillie suit, message me an offer and we shall negotiate :)

Thankyou for the feedback. 1. I have been friends with both people since my school days, I bought one of them Arma 2 CO as a christmas present because he told me he wanted to play DayZ, the other just went ahead and bought it once we told him how much fun we were having and that he should join. As for the DMR, I only took it because I play ARMA 2 and have experience using the sniper in game and thought it would be best for me to take because I understand the bullet drop and other mechanics with the sniper, once they understand the game a bit more then yes they can also use it, DMR mags are quite hard to come by so I wouldn't want them using it and wasting the ammo. 2. Aye, they are incapable of thought but they just ran into the wrong end of my gun, so to me, they were foolish. 3.By that I meant, the position my friend was stood, had he moved any part of his body and it would have been instant chop suey, the bullets were narrowly skimming him as it was and I watched the bullets hit the wall, inches from his head. 4. Well I'm not sure about many other people, but I look at the map very often, I don't go anywhere until I have a route layed out for myself to get maximum looting in the safest path possible, so noting down the names of the towns can be very handy as you know which ones are safe and which can have other players trying to kill you in. 5. The romance happened when we found the truck, we are all majorly in love with her, causing a love triangle. 6A. Ambushes shall happen, I just want to get my friends used to the game mechanics first and get some combat training under their belt before we set up ambushes. 6B. We already do that ;) Again, thanks for the feedback. I hate when a good run of survival comes to an end, my longest so far was 72 days, then kiddie scripters got me :(. Nice going killing the 2 players first though! Sure, we could probably use an extra hand so I will add you now :) Thanks, good luck getting some more gear together!

I was playing on this server, and I play on this server alot, guiding a bambi into Stary Sobor to the military tents, when all of a sudden it was like a cutscene began playing with a GPS appearing in the bottom right of the screen and it gave a dialogue something along the following lines "Plant the device and get the hell out of there" and also popped up with a banner at the bottom of the screen saying "AAZ News" or something. It has also given me a debug monitor back but its titled "DayZ free hacks" and underneath that is has "[Website URL Removed-smashT]" or something, I can provide a screen shot, after this all happened, everyone was kicked from the server and when reconnected alot of the players said they experienced the same thing, even the bambi I was showing around, I am now scared to join any other server in case it picks up I have somehow installed a hack? I can provide a screenshot if need be.