hogscraper

I found a Czech chest pack and it had 16 and the coyote still has 24, not sure of others though.

Fraggle has it absolutely right. This mod is a zombie infested choose your own adventure. Just because the choices YOU make return you through the same few pages, doesn't mean there aren't a ton of things you could be doing. I always laugh when I talk about wishing they would remove snipers and someone says, 'stop running through fields!'. I do run through fields like a noob, but its because I don't care at all about my gear. I have only been playing a month or so and know where to go, how to find the best gear I want and how to avoid any and all trouble if I wanted to. I purposefully do not do these things once geared because I actually enjoying hunting down loot and look forward to the adrenalin rush of each and every fight in between. I hunt gear, not because of what I can do with it, but for the same reasons people play scratch off lottery tickets, (which I don't). I am also always ready to come to the aid of someone else. Don't care if its a bandit or a hero or a guy with a hatchet wanting a ride to NWAF even though I know he will be dead in minutes. The risks and rewards are mine to make as I see fit.

You mean as opposed to being able to even start a huey much less fly it, shoot a sniper rifle like an expert, open tin cans with your teeth and run infinitely long distances? Personally I wish they would just allow vault while running as I just don't like the animation of the roll.

I never said bandits are psychotic. I said people that decide to snipe fresh spawns are sociopathic people. Some in this very forum have come out and said they only do it because they know it pisses people off. I also said what you choose to do in a video game definitely reflects who you are in real life if you were given the choice to do not do that thing. Playing a game with guns is all about killing something and it doesn't make you psychotic or anything else if you use them, you're playing the game as intended. I have shot plenty of other players. I do it rather than die. Choosing to harass someone that just spawned, from a full km out because you can is pointless in game other than letting that part of you that real cops with real guns keeps you from expressing in real life.

mine is always light pink or flashing light pink or maybe flashing white when I ride in a boat or am out in the rain at night for too long.

From what I've seen, zombies don't run over ground that is also over water.

The way you play a game given nearly uncountable options says everything about you. I know a few people with a morbid fascination with seeing just how far a game will let them go in doing messed up stuff. The first time you delete all the exits in a Sim's house to see what will happen might just be curiosity. Every time after that and you're just exposing sociopathic tendencies you just don't want to admit to. You have been given the choice to snipe a guy who just spawned with nothing more than a hatchet or head north and find harder to kill targets that might offer an upgrade to your gear. When you choose the easy and pointless route because you can, that realizes no end but satisfaction in hurting other people, you can't say that implies nothing about you as a person. Even if you say, 'I'm just playing a certain character in way I think he would act', you still made the choice of what character to play. I never came on here to argue that you shouldn't be allowed to kill other people, but rather to campaign for the makers of this game to at least limit the ability of people to completely ruin the game for people just starting out or at least have consequences beyond a skin that can be covered up with a ghillie suit.

That video was both amazing and hilarious at thinking how many people would just give up or crash after five minutes of flipping switches. Like trying to teach a monkey to play a concerto by just handing them a violin. I wish most things in this game took a lot more thinking and skill than just point and click. Almost like an adventure game where exploring an object or technique would yield far better results than just trying the default thing and moving on.

They're only unreliable if you completely lack the ability to think for yourself. I am somehow at a loss as to how you think someone who feels strongly about something is incapable of seeing motivations or reasons why someone would take an opposing opinion. I could be motivated to lie or misconstrue evidence or things I see but so can someone who has nothing to gain and is completely neutral. Being a liar is a trait that happens to both people with opinions and those without an opinion on a particular subject. But that's where a rational human being has to at least be smart enough to take things in and make their own opinion.

I am absolutely biased and make no claims to the contrary. Not against bandits being bandits, though, but against people being able to use the cheapest methods possible to grief other players. I even said "The game absolutely needs bandits". I love PVP and do not play any multiplayer games that lack some form of PVP. I have killed people before but I refuse to pick up a sniper rifle other than to take them to the nearest bush and throw them on the ground. Giving the worst type of trolls the ability to kill without consequence or risk just drives most people away. As to the comment 'bandits are at greater risk' I call bull. I know the names of most of the bandits on the servers I play on and its definitely NOT their names taking up the majority of those scrolling up the side of the screen in death chat. I don't mind people making it their sole purpose in the game to kill as many people as possible. I like facing that kind of threat. Not being able to see, hear or even know that a threat is there makes it pointless to play this game as a social game and the numbers I posted last night back that up. Oh, and a couple definitions of what I think this word means in this context. Asshole: Someone driving a vehicle up and down the coast with the sole intent and purpose of running down people who have just spawned and doing so for no other reason than the negative emotions it inflicts on the victim. Asshole: Someone hiding along the ridges north of the beach knowing for a fact that the vast majority of the people they are about to kill have no weapons, no gear and no way to fight back and doing so for no other reason than they feel good about causing duress in their fellow players. Those things drive away noobs and the money they have to spend on SA. Look at how many people complained and then asked for their money back in Warz after trying to spawn into the game a couple times. There are a lot of other reasons why Warz is shit, but doesn't this sound familiar? Player spawns with little to no gear in a small area. Just outside that area are people with high powered weapons who spend all day killing people with little risk to themselves and for no other reasons than they can and they like pissing people off by being a troll. They've talked about making changes to SA to limit these things somewhat, but every game that allows it in the slightest sees more and more people utilizing them until most people just leave and the trolls are the only ones left when the last server shuts down.

BE is third party and can be used in any game that the devs want to license for. Also, go into direct chat, #beclient players that shows everyone's guid that is currently playing on a server. Its also not a security risk as your guid cannot be reverse hacked to find your cd key unless they also have the hash originally used to derive it.

I think most people question the killing because too many people never see the person that killed them and have no way to retaliate. They've lived most of their gaming lives having a chance to at least defend themselves in games where death from another player is possible. Think of every game you've ever played. What would be the point of continuing play if randomly, without warning, without any way to avoid it, you simply die. You start over from scratch and at some point later, you randomly die again. No warning, no visual cues, no auditory cues, no way to avoid a repeat of that situation other than to avoid that area all together. You can't just respawn and come back as you are even less able to defend yourself at that point than you were when you died. Eventually you would no longer be playing the game the way it was intended. You would be hiding as far from everything else that makes the game fun. Look at the server browser and try to tell me this hasn't already happened in Dayz. Check out how many people are playing the game on a server by themselves or with a minimum of other players. There are around 1200 people playing on servers with 50-45 other people, 3000 people on servers with 45-20 players, 3000 people on servers with 10-20 players, 4800 people on servers with 3-10 people and around 1600 playing on a server with 1-2 players. I haven't really ever played a game that I can remember that made it so lopsided in favor of people wanting to be asshats. I get that its a different kind of game, but when you purposefully design your game to make it so that any loser can be a troll, you pretty much guarantee a very large percentage of people, that would otherwise play your game, won't. The people making this game have to understand that the way it stands, the assholes are winning as its just too easy to asshole it up in Dayz. The numbers don't lie. Losers looking to be a bully because its the easiest path do. The game absolutely needs bandits. Without them there is no reason to play this game after you get geared. What most people who complain about bandits get mad about is how easy it is to die to one and how little there is you can do to counter a sniper on a hill 1,000 meters away who can kill you with one bullet. When you have more players in a multiplayer game choosing to go it alone or with one other person than you do choosing to play on a nearly full server the game is broken.

Like if you were playing a game based in New York, but you yourself are Japanese playing in Japan, you would want the city names and signs translated to your language? Why would Russians have signs with any other language on them? As for the three line popup, I wish they would remove that completely and let the player figure out where they are. As for the signs, I actually like that I have had to learn the cyrillic alphabet in order to know what city I am in just by looking at the signs. I'm kinda disappointed in your logic.

I like the idea, but the solution should be an expansion to what we already have. Forget making motors one giant thing that I can magically place three of in a coyote pack. Make the engine problems even more specific like bad distributor cap, battery or any other thing. Then allow players to not only add these things but also take them off. Same principle as shooting out one of the tires when you log out with one in your pack but much more involved. Add in car alarms that can drain the battery completely if not turned off or disabled and that just adds another reason to be out scavenging once you get geared up. As for your theory that your escape was unbelievable watch cops sometime. They shoot tons of bullets at people at point blank range and still miss. I also see reports on the news here and there of some crafty criminal dodging a cop and stealing their cars.

I wanted to just add that you need to get a mouse or change your settings if your trackpad is touchy. Don't know if its a specific brand or if it was only isolated to the few people I ran into, but everyone I've met that uses a track pad ends up accidentally firing their weapons trying to use the menu system. Sometimes it results in me losing some blood, sometimes it ends with every zombie in ear shot coming our way. Unless you're out in the middle of the forest, firing even one bullet in this game can have consequences. Also, anyone that ever asks what a certain key might be needs to just go into the options and look. The cool thing is, you can use the menu to just see vehicle controls, on foot controls etc. I did it right after I started playing and saw quite a few things I would have never even known about had I had done this.

Been looking for a cool place to add to my sever list as a couple of the ones I frequent have dwindling player bases. If there are a decent amount of players here I would definite be interested in checking it out.

I died near Zelen after a zombie broke my leg by hitting me through a wall of the house I was looting. I was fully geared and after I respawned in Electro I took off for my corpse. Found a Ural stashed in the woods and made it about half way there when I realized I hadn't yet looked at a map.

I kind of feel where you're coming from. Every day that passes I see more people that I enjoyed playing with just get bored of team deathmatch with slightly bothersome npcs running around. If you don't enjoy being a dick, there's not much to do after you gear up. I'm hoping they are putting things in the SA that actually have a point or a goal other than find shit and try not to lose it.

First thing to remember is never bother with voice chat unless you are in a vehicle with someone or using direct chat with someone you trust. Oh, and don't trust anyone. People rage on side chat because it kills immersion and people abuse it. I enjoy scavenging and avoiding zombies, then out of nowhere some guy, who I can mute but can't turn down, starts asking questions or talking about random stuff. Then the nerd rage ensues and I end up having to mute half the people playing. It gets annoying quick. When I first joined, a bunch of guys did the same thing to me so I just left and found another server where I didn't break the golden rule. That's the thing with dayz, it has a lot of things you just have to pick up by playing. Like never giving out your coordinates to anyone, even a friend, over side chat. Sure it makes it easier for a buddy to find you, but it also makes it easier for every bandit to know where an easy kill is. You will find a few really cool people out there, but with so many military grade weapons floating around, its just too easy for most people to justify killing you no matter what the situation is for just about any reason they can come up with and they carry that brutal mentality through every aspect of the game. Those beans you spawn with is reason enough for a lot of people. I just remembered seeing a post you might like, though. Some guy on these forums put up a post saying he ran a server where coop was encouraged and there was no pvp allowed outside of some small areas. It seems like the perfect place to learn a few things about the game before jumping into a full public server.

lol I love the commitment of the guy sitting in the car with his hands still on the wheel while it burned. good stuff

I don't know if this is the same on every server, (private versus public), but I have died a few times, ran back to the scene and the body was already gone. I used to think someone just took my gear and hid the body, but one time I had a similar accident walking off a second story roof and no one else was on. Took me 25 minutes to run back to the corpse and I could hear flies at the exact location, but no body.

I went to a Halloween metal show a long ass time ago that had a band called Hogscraper. They played some weird hillbilly death rock with banjos. The lead singer started off the show by saying he knew they sucked so they hired strippers to walk around the crowd doing lap dances. Free strippers who don't have a no touch policy to be exact. Been using their name since that show:) A lot of games/servers auto-kick because scraper has rape in it and the computer isn't smart enough to know the difference so I usually go by hogs now.

I put tractors on the same level. Had one randomly explode on flat road with no obstructions. Riding along then boom. Some vehicles only exist to piss you off I think.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/49592-dayz-for-mac/

Scenario. You spawn. A guy is hiding up on a hill or just outside of cherno or electro sniping everything that moves because he knows you will spawn on the beach. Killed. How are these two scenarios different? In the first you have an extremely small chance of someone finding you at your most vulnerable, in the second the chance is near 100% on a highly populated server. I've had to blacklist a couple servers where every time I spawned a few guys in cars would be there to run me down before I ever had a chance to leave the beach. If they're going to leave spawns on the beach, they need to make Chernarus an actual island and put the spawns randomly around it.