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For some reason that makes me more sad than Standalone not being out...

Is that photoshop or can I actually buy one of thous from you? Might not match my République de la Lémurie freelance layout I have in mind but I want one anyway.

Kamenka doesn't have a supermarket unless it's a custom server. The only 'ghost town' I know of is somewhere in the north, no screaming other than zombies, and was mostly stone buildings that were partly torn down. Hope they still have it in Chenarus+. Someone was trolling you and/or you were on a custom server that made Kamenka into a ruins and added sounds.

I believe it's already been said, but there will be fan driven localization, somewhat like Minecraft before the 'Afrikaans Incident'.

Have you tried porn? Should you not be of legal age in your country for such things please disregard. Also, perhaps we need a soundproof room on these forums where people can scream random things and have a cry, without being covered with 6 feet of dirt (perhaps an open grave?) or fear of repercussions.

I know he won't put a limit on the keys, but he still only wants people who are serious about actually testing to buy it when it's alpha, rather than the 'dis gam suxs i wan my parens monies back' crowd. I also seriously doubt if they know if it'll be out this year or not. Hell it could release tomorrow after a quick review to see if it's good enough (doubt it) or it could take another month or two to fix one game breaking bug. I'm kinda getting antsy myself, but I've got other things to distract me with, not the least of which is trying to find a job.

No PR? Dunno about you but it had enough PR given it was pretty much a scam, and it didn't fail because of not enough PR, it failed because it was a rushed cash grab that made shittonnes of promises and hype. "BUY NOW AND GET 50000 INGAME Z DOLLARZ! FOR A EXTRA $50 BUY A DEMO COPY FOR EACH OF YOUR FRIENDS! HERE LOOK AT THESE PRETTY PICTURES, What? NO, fuck no you can't see the videos..." If anything it failed because of too much negative PR. ScamZ rant aside, Rocket doesn't want hundreds of thousands of keys being sold when it's still in Alpha, when the game is at its most (playable) shitiness. I'm not even sure if he wants to sell a thousand keys when it's in alpha. He wishes the hype train would derail and the passengers would move on to the next 'shiny object' so that the people who want to test are left. I mean lets not sell the chicken before the egg is fertilized. Let's wait till at least Beta if not Release (actual release release, where that 0.x turns into 1.x) before we start having DayZ commercials on TV. Hype can be a bad thing, so can PR, Rocket can't say a word in public (and that includes the internet) without someone reading/screaming at the top of their lungs on any message board they haven't been banned from yet: 'RELEASE DATE CONFIRMED: (insert random date here)'

If say, Rocket found whatever was blocking them from having drivebys and fixed it, I would say the Driver should not be allowed to use a weapon (except maybe a pistol, and be highly inaccurate with it). Passengers should be hindered as well when fireing from a car, with quite a bit of sway depending on how fast the car is going. If you can't easily manuiver the gun outside the window and aim, you shouldn't be able to use it in the car, IE no AS50s or large machien guns while doing 60KPH in a skoda. You shouldn't be able to just 'snap back' and have a 180 firing arc. I'd still rather see mounted weapons as opposed to drive bys. Even if it's an AKM duck tapped to a broomstick in the back of a pickup truck or UAZ with the top down.

Could be craftable, after all, your standard water bottle filled with scraps of paper would pass as a makeshift silencer (like 1-4 uses). Sure we can make alright silencers with hand tools or a small workshop (like one you'd find in a home garage, vise, handsaw, drill, ect).

How do you know they don't drink? Sure they might not be able to recognize much less open a can of soda or a bottle of water, but that doesn't mean they don't/can't drink water when they need to.

They can tweak it when it gets released, its not like the values are set in stone. A blow to the head will not instantly kill someone unless you compromise the skull (aka make the brain go squish), that's not to say they won't be having a bad day, but it won't be an instant kill. And unless you have whoever your hitting with the bat's head against a solid surface, the head is going to move to in the same direction you are hitting it from. As we said before the melee weapons are location based hits now, and not cursor based. So just because your aiming at the head and swinging does not mean your hitting the head, your hitting the arm, or the shoulder, or whatever the weapon runs into first. Also most ballistics vests can only stop 1-2 rounds of non AP ammo before it's compromised (especially a civilian vest which is what most media/press types would be considered/able to afford). It's not an EOD suit that can take a point blank impact from a grenade. Again this can all be tweeked or retextured later on for balance.

Norris, as mentioned before the M4 was turned up for demo/playing purposes. They probably did the M4 first because it can easily do so many attachments and that's the 'base'. Most of the weapons we'll have will probably only take a bayonet and a scope, and possibly duck tapeing on some other things light flash lights. The M4's barrel shroud can be removed/replaced, the stock can be replaced, possibily the rear grips at one point. A typical M4 would have the front lug (bayonet/suppressor) the hand guard with up to 4 rails (grip, flashlight, laser, possibly a front sight or backup iron sights), the sight rail, and the butt stock. Most AKs are not that easily customizeable. EDIT If he is, you'll also have to picture same eloquent hillbilly with a cutie mark tattoo.

...Ninja's didn't use Katana. They would use straight edge short swords normally. And a quote I like to use 'You pretty much need to be a Samurai to properly use a Katana. Can't just pick one up and start chopping heads off.'

Well it's easier for vehicles with mounted guns on them, they have a fixed point to fire from, and for the most part a fixed damage for that vehicle. IE a .30 or .50 cal machine gun, a tank barrel, ect. It would more than likely be cumbersome to program a sokda to have 3-4 turrets that take the damage and RPMs of whatever weapon the player has equipped. Not to mention the 'turret' would probably make an invisible bulletproof wall, protecting the player from a headshot. They'ed probably be able to find a way to do it eventually, but it'd take time away from bug smashing they need to do for Alpha.

Yeah, Say if you spawn at Kamenka, hit all the towns along the coast till you get 'enough' gear to start heading north. I've been quite lucky a few times in getting what I need before even getting to Cherno and having to deal with anyone in the city. After you leave the coast I would avoid going back if at all possible, except for maybe a hospital run (and even then you might be better off looking elsewhere). I generally keep 2-4 Bandages on me as well as 2 morphine pens, 2 painkillers, and a bloodbag in my pack. Canteens are the way to go int he mod for water, but make sure you boil it before drinking (an empty tin/soda can and a fire is all you need). If I have a hunting knife, matches, and an Ax I'm pretty much set to survive off in the woods.

True. They kinda fell out of fashion after WW2. Although most Rifle Grenades were really just normal infantry grenades propelled by a blank cartridge fitted on a front of barrel launcher/holder, something that could be jury rigged (though very dangerous, IE chambering a normal round instead of a blank). EDIT Did a quick wiki search and found out that cup style grenade launchers normally attached to shotguns are used by riot police and such to launch tear gas and the like, I'm sure a few could have found their way into CPD's armories before Z Day.

Get used to it, your gonna die a lot. But there's two approaches to doing it, sneaking around, or running around like a jackass looking for gear and not giving a fuck about zombies. I would recommend looking for a melee weapon first, more than likely you come across a gun in the process, either a pistol or a civilian weapon (shotgun, lee enfield, winchester, crossbow). Crossbow takes some getting used to (iron sights suck) and shotguns/the Lee are pretty much dinnerbells for zombies, you'll run out of ammo before you run out of zombies, so melee's the way to go for silently taking out zombies. You'll find Axes in industrial spawn buildings as well as farm spawns (sheds, warehouses, barns, factories, ect) machetes in farm/hunting spawns (deer stands and occasionally in barns) and crowbars in civilian buildings (homes and the like). Stores are the 'top pick' for loot like matches, flashlights, canteens, ect. Though you should never turn down any building to find loot, there's been times I've found nothing but empty tin cans and waiting bandits/KOSers in Stores, and found everything I needed in surrounding buildings (maps, matches, compasses, canteens, weapons, ammo, ect ect ect). After a while you'll learn what spawns in what types of buildings, and start searching thous for what you need. Just takes time.

Think that kinda stuff should be more rare, but not completely taken out of the picture. I haven't played much COD but one of the last ones I played had a rifle with a RedDot/Holo Sight combined with a medium/long range scope that flips to the side to get out of the way. Thought it was 'neat' and would like to get one (if they exist in real life) on any 'tacticool' rifle I get. EDIT I like the ducktape masterkey, brings me to mind the first under rifle grenade launchers which were pretty much just a M72 clipped to an M14 (sometimes the stock was sawn off, often not so it could still be used standalone) I dunno if the Russians/soviets ever used Rifle Grenades but If they did I'd like to see a few or even a make shift rifle grenade system that's realistic.

I think that was one of the original ideas they had, but have heard no word otherwise, where you have to figure out what disease you have and get the proper cure/treatment going.

Not really possible to shoot from or even inside the car with the DayZ engine last I heard. At least not yet, or not in a satisfactory way anyway. They would probably have to make the player a 'turret' in order to shoot from cars, and that would just complicate things when you think about how many weapons there are, it'd be a headache to program.

I must gather more wheat for the Motherland, and snipe Germans at the same time.

That's how it's going to work in Standalone, not sure if it's possible in the mod but if it is would bring the mod closer to SA.

Red Dot Sight, Bayonet, Silencer, flashlight, and I'm good. Anything else is gravy.

I would not do the torrent, if anything just for the safety of your CD key in case that torrent is really a key stealer. I don't have Windows 8 so I can't really help you there though. My only recommendation would be Google or someone here to help you. One thing that might work is doing it through Steam (far as I know you can add a game just by using the CD key if you have it, and possibly download the game through steam), then again I don't really know how far/close you are with the download or getting the Key.

That's why he's bitching, because it's no longer an easy one shot kill 5m range pistol. There's now two things I'm looking forward to, Tropico 5, and DayZ, I've only seen pre alpha of both and I'm at the 'take my money I don't have yet' stage. I'm buying Standalone because even it's 'crap graphics' look alright/good to me, I WANT to help with testing (until now I've only done Beta testing and even that's usually stress testing with very few bugs).