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In my expirence with lag hack (from World of Warcraft PvP) it worked other way around - hackers make themselves lag as hell so others could not hit them or even estimate their position. But WoW is mmorpg and DayZ is fps so there can be reverse lag-hack around.

The problem with sniper rifles was that they outdamaged assault rifles, so people used sniper rifles on distance 200-400 meters. Sniper rifles were just so much more effective at range of 200-400 meters. Basically this created paradox where players used sniper rifles as assault rifles. In my opinion to balance game they should make it so sniper rifles do their high damage while shooting from 500+ meters, and nerf damage only on 0-400 meters so sniper rifles would not be better on that range from assault rifles. ( Lee Enfield should do unnerfed damage tho while shooting at 200+m and nerfed damage on 0-200 meters).

Lee Enfiled don't deserved this nerf in my opinion.

You have flashlight.

Don't get me wrong, I like night time, I like the idea of night time. It is just Night Vision Goggles. They are so overpowered that you either have them during night or you are dead meat for people that have NVG's. To make it fair everyone must have NVG's at nigh or NVG's have to be banned completly so everybody will have to use chemlights/flashlights equally. You can take out a guy with as50 with Makarow or hatchet but at night guy with NVG's will kill you 99 times out of 100 if you do not have NVG's yourself. NVG's are just so overpowered.

I don't play on official servers cause of hackers, but on most private servers thermals are banned.

I don't play cause I don't stand a chance aganist people with Night Vision Goggles while I do not have one NVG's myself. If NVG's were a free starting item for everyone or if NVG's were removed completly from server so noone would have them, then I would LOVE to play at night.

I don't feel like being owned by people with NVG's while I don't have one, so I don't play at night.

I like the "Jaws" theme.

I don't play during night cause there can be someone with NVG's and I don't have them.

All sniper rifles and Lee enfield were nerfed, people report to survive even 6 shots from DRM. Sometimes you can even survive shot from As50 or m107 but it's rare.

I don't have screen shots but when I saw Dahlvash talking on the side chat he seemed to be wrong person to be an admin. Immature hot head. It was something like: I'm an admin, I can do whatever I want, respect me, when I will feel like talking in side chat I will do it etc.

Here is one:

My only concern during night is that players that recycle military zones will have Night Vision Goggles and will easly hunt down players that do not have NVG's.

Hilarious. Hope it wasyn't a case tho. As for DMR (sniper rifles) nerf topic. I think it would be more logical and practical to actually decrese their damage on short distance (less them 400 m) and increase on long distance (500 m + ). Cause main source or rage that I see about sniper rifles is inducted by people who got killed by people with sniper rifles while being in range of assault rifles, cause sniper rifles outdamage assault rifles. Now when they nerfed sniper rifles damage over long range it is just silly.

As a player who used to run miles back and forth in maze of Alien buildings on Mars/Phobos, whatever, in search of spared medikit or ammo for shotgun in Quake 2 or Doom 2 I see DayZ in pink tinted nostalgia goggles and I love it. But as open minded person I understand it can be annoying for someone who is used to hide behind a wall and wait for his health to regenerate and for that all ammo/weapons he need are straight on way to finnal boss. Who knows, maybe standalone DayZ will be casualized to appeal to wider audience but I hope not. For now I enjoy DayZ as it goes away from being CoD clone with 1.7.5.1 patch.

They can on private servers.

I stay away from servers where admins teleports or gieve items. In my opinion, only time when gieving items is okay, it is after hacker attack that hack-killed someone, so admind can spawn items for victim to damage control hacker actions.

I think that game Alien vs Predator 2 had *true* darkness that could not be negated no matter how you turned up gamma/brightness in game or on video card. Oh and it was possible to do so with Neverwinter Nights mission editor, so using torches/magic light was mandatory. And as for DayZ - yes - at medium/high populater server is it either to already have night vision goggles or you can log out for the night (or cheat with turning up gamma). NVG's are just so overpowered when it comes to night.

Every hero skin is a dick? Lot's of players exploit game mechanics to get hero skin.

Well most of private hives are like CoD-Z or GTA-Z but there are few pearls, you just have to find them. (just remember to don't loot admin's camp, headshot him or steal his chopper, cause you will get banned ;) )

what happened to the legit players? They've got tired of being owned by hackers or moved to whitelisted servers.

CZ 550, hunting rifle used by farmers to protect sheeps from wolfs or by rich people to hunt lions in Africa or deers and bears in North America and as such have attached hunting scope in game. This hunting scope as designed to aim at animals that are more width then tall has only horizontal mil dots. But in DayZ we want to use it to hunt players (humans), this is how to do it: First, how mil dots in CZ 550 hunting scope works. They are in shape of 9 lines with are respectively: | | | | | | | | | 0; 0.5; 1; 1.5; 2; 2.5; 3; 3.5; 4 mil dot Human model in game is about 60cm (0.6m) width in shoulders/chest area when looking from front/back. So, if you see player from front/back with CZ 550 scope and he takes 2 lines space ( 0.5 mil dot) then he is 0.6 x 1000 / 0.5 = 600 / 0.5 = 1200 meters away from you ( range of CZ 550 is said to be 800 meters btw.) If front/back of player takes space of 3 lines (1 mil dot) then he is 0.6 x 1000 / 1 = 600 / 1 = 600 meters away from you. Zero scope at 600 meters and kill him. If his front/back in space of 4 lines (1.5 mil dot) then he is 0.6 x 1000/ 1.5 = 600 / 1.5 = 400 meters away from you. Zero scope and 400 meters and kill him. And so on. Now if you see player from side, model width is about 20cm (0.2m) here. So: If he takes 2 lines (0.5 mil dot) then he is 0.2 x 1000 / 0.5 = 200 / 0.5 = 400 meters away from you. If he takes space of 3 lines (1 mil dot) then he is 0.2 x 1000 / 1 = 200 /1 = 200 meters away from you. If he takes space between first 2 lines then he is 0.2 x 1000 / 0.25 = 200 /0.25 (mil dot) = 800 meters away from you - maximal CZ 550 range. And so on. Now if you see player from an angle then you will have to assume yourself if he is 30cm (0.3m), 40cm (0.4m) or 50cm (0.5m) width in chest/shoulders area. If you see player prone in (un)lucky position you will be able to use his height (180cm/1.8m) in horizontal mil dot scope. Ofcourse I am aware that you can use map or range finder to know distance from target or use military sniper rifles with scopes designed to kill humans (that use vertical mil dots, used for target height) with is much more simplier and effective when it comes to killing humans that are more tall then width but I saw lots of people talking that you can't find distance from the target with CZ 550 scope or that CZ 550 have no mil dots, with is not true and I wanted to show that.

Why Day Z? It's the only game that actually allow me to be a sniper (kill only selected targets and win, like a bandit that cleared supermarket to get his food and water) instead of a marksman (kill everything that moves like in CoD or Battlefield).