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They were never going to add in sidechat, and this was the intent for Radios/walkies all along. They also plan to add in Internet Radio Stations, and there was talk about adding in headsets headphones microphones to combine with them, being able to turn on a radio, place it on the ground and either listen in (have it transmit) or broadcast on it. This may change but at one point Rocket wanted all this.

Endgame Idea: Ambergris is the cure for the zombie Virus...

With what little Lore has been released about DayZ, the zombies are living infected humans, and the players are the 1% or so of the population that is completely immune to the zombie virus (confirmed by Dean). Being Immune we cannot catch the virus, therefore even if the virus did reanimate the dead we would be the only dead bodies that say down since we're immune. As mentioned above the technical reason why we can't be zombies when we die is because zombies have 1-2 layers on them (body and clothes) where as players are multiple layers (body, pants, shirt/jacket, gloves, helmet, backpack, and an AI as such would lag the server more than (especially with the amount of 'man I spawned in Solnichny again, I better kill myself' players we have.)

Sounds like you're just lazy.

Thous light posts by all rights shouldn't be working at all, unless they're on battery backups with a small solar cell, which I highly doubt.

Not 100% on Hawaii Gun laws but pretty sure a bayonet is illegal here (doesn't mean I'm not gonna have a couple buried in an ammo can out in the yard) that and I need to get my license first. Being Hawaii the price on ANYTHING jumps up, even if I buy online the shipping'll be a pain in the ass (assuming they ship to Hawaii, many places don't just for simplicity).

Not all games on Steam get a Steam Workshop. And it's not because 'a few vocal players don't like the idea', the guy making the game doesn't like the idea. While yes there would be some muscular zombies/infected, but they wouldn't turn into the Incredible Hulk, at best they'ed be Arnold in the 80s. The Zombie Virus isn't going to develop mutations, if anything it'll hinder the infected. A fat guy isn't going to suddenly turn into a walking bomb. Zombies already sort of 'pounce' on players occasionally, but that doesn't mean we're gonna have 1/10 zombies start stalking around like wolves or move faster than a human can physically move. We use the term zombies but really these are living people that are rabid/insane/crazy and lacking in mental facilities, they're not gonna suddenly turn into superheros because a disease ate away part of their brain (or whatever the true lore is)

Never really tested it, might have to put a couple books in case, put the case in my pants and a couple books in my pack and go swimming and see if the individual items get wet/damp

...I want to buy a Mosin and bayonet now for some reason.

You'd be surprised how easily you can screw things up. While it'd be harder to sabotage tracks than with the right tools, a 45 ton switcher can be derailed by a large branch (2-3 inches in diameter). Tracks only need to be a few inches out of gauge and the loco will do the rest of the work. We had tank traps in the mod, one of thous arranged the right way in the roadbed would do a lot of damage.

'Special' zombies I think are pretty much gonna be limited to zombies wearing protective gear. IE a construction worker being slightly more resistant to a blow the head, zombie soldiers with flack jackets and helmets being able to take 1 or 2 more shots. Basically your EOD suit zombie will be about it (though I doubt they'll have EOD suits), 'Screamers' or any of your standard special zombies (spitters, tanks, climbers, boomers, ect ect) will not be in the game.

More likely to find them in 'industrial' spawns, sheds, garages, warehouses, ect.

I don't mean to sound anti-train, but we need to think about this realistically. The main reason they started with the Take On Helicopters engine (what everyone refered to as Arma2.5) before it evolved into the DayZ engine was so Helis would be much more complex to start up and fly (I got the demo, and actually bought it when it was on sale, if they make trains as realistic to start as helis I'll be happy). There are many factors working against the trains though, yet also a few factors working for them. It's very likely the trains would actually be in running condition as long as no one screwed with them during the outbreak, as compared to a car which would probably have been looted or broken into. I could definitely see Clans or groups holding the rail lines and using one of the locos and a few wagons (I believe is the proper term for European cars) to ferry supplies and people around to map. If they add 'bulk' resources to the map for base building (logs, lumber, plywood, cement, rocks, ect) locos with a wagon attached could be one of the ways of transporting that around. A clan rolls into Electro, secures the train yard and loads up building supplies into a boxcar/flatcar, picks up a tanker in Cherno and fills it with fuel at stops along the line. Get in a fight with a group of bandits/rival clan that has another train they're using, put that train on a siding (solnichny) then go to Berezino where another clan memeber is waiting with a truck to haul off the building supplies they gathered to the site of their base. Or hell, a Hero could load up a passenger car with medical supplies and roam the lines looking for people to help.

You intrigue me with your talk of Dirigibles good sir, go on.

My mind boggles at the simplicity of other minds...there's a big difference in the types of steam locos, Oil, Coal, and Wood, with wood being phased out long ago and Oil being the more common. Oil fired locos cannot burn wood or coal, and wood does not burn as efficiently as coal so you would need a shit tonne more to...you know what I need to leave this thread before I leave my sanity. /jetpack

Pretty much, the SIMPLEST Diesel locos have at least 4 important levers (not counting what you need to do to actually get it running), Engine Brake, Train Brake, Reverser, Throttle. with the brakes and throttle looking very similar. Oh, and you apply pressure to the Train Brake to release the brakes, and apply pressure to the engine brake to apply the brakes. Keep that in mind.

Good luck with that.

Not a closed circuit/circle, its a branch line with it's terminus North West of Lopatino with the transfer line somewhere west of Kamenka (where it'll probably meet up with another rail system). It's also a diesel operation (no steam facilities, IE no water towers or coaling depots. Or infrastructure for an electric line, IE no overhead gantry or third rail.) Trust me, I'm an Engineer Brakeman. That being said, the only thing stopping players from using the rail system would be on the Devs end of getting the trains working right/realistically, and actually repairing/operating the locomotives. (Seriously, who here knows how to even turn one ON, raise your hands. Hell I barely know how to turn the one I actively work with on.)

So then suddenly we'll only find said items on their respective holidays? Once more with feeling... Edit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_worldwide#Eastern_Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter#Eastern_Christianity_2

I know that, I'm just saying that overall it's not that impressive that a gun can chamber different types of 9mm rounds (It's still pretty cool and not trying to knock the gun). Now if the same gun could say chamber .22 .357 .45 .50AE without changing out barrels or cylinders that'd be impressive.

I would like to see a tomahawk, but would it really fit in Chenarus? It'd be like finding a Katana in someone's home, more than likely a shitty replica or the 1/1,000,000 that it's a real one in the hands of a collector.

Not really a bug, just a placeholder till they can get a woman into the voice actor's booth.

To be fair all thous rounds are roughly the same diameter, just different lengths. I still want a Taurus Judge/S&W Governor in game, .45acp .45LC .410 bore, .454 casul. I plan to get one eventually in real life.

Thought the SKS was 7.62x39 like the AK?

Don't think it should be rarer. Should be less damage than a wood splitting ax just because it doesn't have the heft of one.