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Leave it at least partially on land, it would make the most epic base. Especially if you can both park cars and boats inside...

Your body becoming a zombie that doesn't de-spawn would be good, high loot zombie, got to chase your gear to get it back.

Curious cows, they just sit next to the bush you're hiding in and stare at you. Cows really do this, it's annoying. Cars have battery that can be broken, but you can bump start with a red battery. Or it takes a while to start with an orange battery or engine. You'd have to risk a slow getaway vs. leaving it on using fuel.

I love Kamenka! Especially the two farms south west of Zelen.

Dive in the nearest bush!

I like to hang around elektro as a counter sniper.

M136, does more damage if you face away from the target.

Yep, that's how quads work.

I keep hearing about Balota buddies, tempted to join, but I can't find some fairly basic FAQs... Is it vanilla? What's with teamspeak, is in game chat enabled, do you have to be on teamspeak while playing? What settings do they use? I like 3rdP and I hate nameplates?

I think there's a significant bunch waiting for SA to begin playing at all, I know several that have not played the mod. I think 2 million sales will be soon very quickly.

I've picked one up and gave it a go until I lost the bolts a few times, always shot the bolts above the Zs heads.

Hide it right on top of milk mountain, I promise that nobody will ever find it up there. Ignore any other empty tents you find on the top of the hill before you set up your camp, they just move there, it's like the debug forest for tents...

Bi-polar much? You have my beans!

WASD+Mouse is a VERY LARGE advantage over a joypad for FPS style games, get used to moving this way lest you loose every fire fight ever. Edit: And turn your pointer acceleration off.

I like Kamenka for exactly the reasons the OP stated, plus there is often a Hilux at the more Western of the two farms. Don't get me started on sodding 3 valleys spawn...

Very dark out, sat in the last hanger in the south airfield I find a DMR, my first one. I can hear a zombie crawling outside for what seems like 5 minutes as I acclimatise myself to the DMR, then switch back to my Remington w/ flash-light as I have no NVGs. Low and behold it was a player crawling and he slides right in front of me into the hanger, having held up people all day I confidently flip on the light and then tell him not to turn round, but he already has, and now it's Enfield vs. Remington. Lesson: Don't surprise people with the light, probably made a good target too. I've still only been killed at airfields.

Server owner can do what they like, except make you play on their server, vote with your body.

No. Even when I have a map and GPS, I still navigate using the DayZDB map and landmarks plus some north finding techniques. It's a hard habit to get out of once you start. This is a real world skill giving me an in-game advantage, from what I've heard the dev team are only looking to expand examples of this.

Consider it a challenge, you could play the same way finding and fixing vehicles forever or you could realise it's an open world game and enjoy the hunt for them and the cars.

I've been carrying one for over 2 weeks now, I found it on a bandit I killed north of Elektro, except he turned out to be a Hero helping out a new spawn. :( I've not been to green mountain with it yet...

I have no issues with it they way it is. Stand in a tree, wait, log out... If an emergency comes up, go and attend to it, it's more important than a game, and there's still other ways to log out, though I'd rather those be penalised too in some way. I was surprised I was able to log out the other day when a hacker was shooting at me, probably his server bypass that let him be invisible was stopping the combat timer starting or something.

As for killing, I'd only kill a ghillie guy with a CZ550 if he pointed it at me, or he was about to notice me and I don't have the upper hand. The CZ 550 is a common rifle you find in barns, it cannot be used with NVGs and as there are no mil dots so you can't estimate range with it. I would trade it for any other sniper in the game, in fact I did recently, dropped it on the floor for an M24.

I've been playing on the main hive and TBH will bail from a server most days due to hacker suspicions. US servers are far far far far far far worse than European. I was pestered by some invisible guy on Sunday, just disconnected. I have been finding it hard to find a good white-listed server, there's seemingly no standard servers, the phrase "100+ vehicles" is just a huge turn off for me.

I've never found night vision on the ground anyway, I still have mine from the previous version of the mod as I've not died yet, I found these on a ghillie guy I killed. I thought he was a bandit hunting me with his friend, so I shot him with my Lee Enfield at the T junction north of Elektro, turns out he was a nice guy helping out a new spawn, who after 2 Lee Enfield shots walked forward and began looting his new friend, LOL! I feel bad about that one, sorry ghillie guy. :(

I've seen you shoot Rhino, I shall employ the tactic of walking and hear the shots whistle past where I just was. ;) Looking forward to SA though. :D