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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).

Yeah I'd go with the non steam version while it's on sale. Shouldn't matter if it's on steam or not (you can add it to your steam library anyway if you did use it) If your into combat sims you might want to get the Complete Collection while it's on sale to snag all the DLC (I've yet to really sit down and play Arma2 and OA by itself and have been told I should).

You need both Arma 2 and Operation Arrowhead (also known together as Combined Ops) to play DayZ, AFAIK Private Military Contractor (PMC) and British Armed Forces (BAF) add in more high rez textures for certain models (some guns, player models, some vehicles, ect) but are not needed to play (or enjoy) DayZ. Just did a quick look at steam and can see the confusion, Combined Ops is the Bundle of Arma2 and Op Arrowhead, and sells for about $25. Complete collection includes Arma and all DLC for around $40. So that's probably your confusion. I'd honestly wait a bit, Current guess is that Standalone will be out in a week or two if the Bug Smashing gods smile upon the Devs, that and they have Arma2 on sale almost every other week on steam (you pretty much JUST missed one such sale).

Really? The tarnished spoon speaks otherwise, grubby heathen.

It's location based from what I tell. He said the bat was worn so it wouldn't do as much damage as a good condition bat. That and he was hitting something that feels little to no pain with his fists. He also misses a lot. I find it realistic. EDIT and its a friggen blunt object, not a [spiked Mace of +5 Doom] or a sword or ax or sharp object, which would bypass the protection of the muscle and bones to damage internal organs/vitals.

Na Akua I hate that term. Just about threw a shit fit when they used it on Five-Oh instead of slippers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4zORXpo5Gc I'll just put this here for the photoshopers and giffers.

Actually that's how you're suppose to do it. This guy on the other hand should have just stayed in the reinforced steel cab, since there's a very good chance the train with the camera pushed the other train onto him. Also someone didn't obey signals.

Actually sounds like a cool 'feature', like zombies will fight over prey in certain situations. As long as it's not something like once they start fighting each other they completely ignore us till the one zombie's dead. IE I run into a house with a narrow hallway, zombie A catches up with me and smacks me, Zombie B is blocked by A, smacks him, A turns around and fights B, I keep running, Zombie A dies, Zombie B's bleeding, and I got away. More like B hit's A, A is bleeding but keeps chasing me, B keeps hitting A till the way's no longer blocked (A's dead or out of the way), A's at say 50% health but B's still chasing me at 'full health'.

When I play the game, I do care, at least when other players are around. I may not panic when I hear gunshots off in the distance, but I definitely go into an 'Oh Crap!' mode. When I hear the 'pinging' of shots hitting near me I go into an 'OH Shit' mode. When I see other players my heart starts beating faster and I feel nervous and on edge. Will they see me? Will they kill me? If they're a bandit, can I get a clean shot off? Do they have buddies waiting right there? Honestly it's kinda a thrill, even though I avoid other players as much as I can.

HCC actually, but it's the same for all UH campuses. I'd also much rather have a pair of finned gloves than fins, I'm a bit more agile that way, but more the merrier. Than again I'm not going in that water...it's friggen cold.

Steak's Bandokini (Bandoleer mankini) *edit* Pft, fins aren't gonna make a shitty swimmer look any cooler.

My UH hat that I'm wearing in my profile pic.

I propose a petition to add in Horse Head Masks, so we can properly pay homage to the Amazing Horse.