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Ive never used one nor found one yet.. do you have to find an LRS also or does it come with one? And can you genuinely snipe with it? Range and reliability... if anyone can elaborate that would be appreciated. I'd like to know if it works as well as I imagine because it could make pistols actually useful other than a cqc oh shit moment back-up for me. ;)

The tower houses a Nuclear device capable of taking out all of Chernarus. This is their "fail safe" in case everything goes wrong. If you played the mod you've probably experienced the "end game" at some unfortunate point..

Improvised Holster is a great idea. Its right up there with a leg holster. I'd love to see the option to sling things over our shoulder and around our necks.. like a binoculars strap so you can hang it around your neck. All coming with an additional noise factor that makes it a choice of carrying things inside to keep quite or outside to carry more items.

Suicide. ;) On to the topic.. Add Alcohol tincture to rags to improve them to worn status. This currently does nothing, but later there will be infections to some degree you can count on that. Blood bags, and saline bags are great tools for medics but can only be used on others. You can even "steal" blood from live players. If you ever see a geared player, and your looting him and see he had a saline or blood bag IV on him.. good chance he was a good guy ;) Splints, morphine are necessities in DayZ. Same with rags. Medicine is there and for the most part fleshed out, but things will be added like infection that will use the full range of medicinal tools available.

For me the moment I have found all of that "end gear" I was seeking.. I suddenly, and I mean like a light bulb, become paranoid and fear dying. Im not sure why I dont feel like this along the way, but its that moment when I finish looting that I instantly become afraid of dying and never before. Its a very odd side effect. The adrenaline rush though is just priceless and worth it in every way. Like yesterday I was in a full server and rather boldly looting the NWAF. I sort of wanted to be shot at and engaged.. I was running out in the open looting the hangers when I finally got shot at. Only problem was I had just found my PSO scope that completed my AKM and everything I was seeking to gain while at the NWAF. So I went from calm, cool and collected.. wanting to be engaged to instantly fearing for my life doing the "zig-zag for your life to cover dance". It was awesome! I flanked, hunted them down and in the end never saw a soul. The pop dropped drastically, and I really think what it was is this.. most of the players must have been at the NWAF. Probably watching me, and waiting.. then 1 of them opened up scaring the hell out of the rest of them and when I did my hard flank around the entire base most of them logged out. Because honestly it dropped like 15 players in 5 mins and the sun was bright as hell.. around 15:45 server time. LOL... this game is a fucking blast.

Ok, some lessons are to be learned here: 1. mag, not clip 2. if you do not have a mag, do not use it yet unless its one shot-one kill 3. if you face an axe, and you have a pistol that is now empty.. use your fists or melee. 4. do not ever attempt to go into a fight of any sort without a proper tool or idea of what to do when things go wrong. 5. there are limitless other places to obtain a pistol mag besides the NWAF.

Its funny to me that right now, there are a ton of places in the DayZ SA map that remind of the prevalent housing tracts and many that are left unfinished in the US.. like this one here:

This. Its been around so long, those of you that called it fake should be facepalming right about now. :P

That used to be my sig. ;) And DayZ is essentially about hunting other players. It has a marked separation between those that think they can just "survive" and those that hunt everything that moves.

I'd have to guess its the town in the NW that was there, then removed and needed further work. Seems like the most plausible place since it already had a ton of work done as it was.

You know map design is a very important thing in video games.. I hope they are not taking that too lightly. I really liked that in the mod, there were specific places you went when you needed an item. You knew the chances of others looking for the same item would be high if the server had a good pop because the locations were limited. It took risks to find a particular more rare item, or to go military base looting. Now, I can choose just about any town to find any item I need. If I want military base loot I have, quite literally, 7-8 different locations that can offer me what I need. (When you take distance into account, some milbase locations are too large to cover the entire area with 1-2 players so this makes it in my mind work like as if its 2 locations rather than just one. Like take the NWAF spanning from Bashnya all the way to its Southern Fence line. Too large for even a 4 man team to cover the whole thing effectively.) I just like how it was before when you had less mil bases, less places to find certain items.. people had to travel to specific places and there was almost always action at those spots due to the limited number of them. Players have far too many choices now if they want to find something specific.. But its still really early so no need to get too concerned with it at this point.. EDIT/UPDATE: After some more thought I realized a very good reason why they would be adding in so many villages and towns across the map, in turn sort of shrinking the wilderness.. Barricading and base building. It seems to me that they are focusing more on boarding up and barricading buildings than they are on giving us building supplies and set pieces to make our own custom bases. This is of course just my guess based on some statements and things that would be required for custom base building. They spoke about spawning in to "protected areas" in regards to barricading and if you think about it, what better way to give us the option of making a place called home than to barricade up an existing building? I mean would you really set out and build a cabin in an apocalypse if you did not have too? Another interesting point. Not long ago they stated that earlier on barricading and persistent objects were actually finished but pulled back after a "few bugs were found" and left on the shelf due to "other priorities".. Im paraphrasing but thats the gist of it. Now that would mean these things may arrive very soon. ;) Hopefully.

Ive said it a thousand times, Ill say it a thousand more.. WE NEED TO HAVE A CHANGE OF CLOTHES. Stack a shirt/jacket and pants together to craft a "Change of Clothes" that take up a 2x2 slot (4 squares) so we can feasibly change our clothing between night/day and for weather. Thank you.

You must be really fun at parties. :/

No, please do NOT continue to restrict our experience through the systematic throttling of game mechanics and completely changing the map around because you made a perceived design flaw. Give players freedom. That is the only part that made dayz what it truly is.. freedom to do what you want to do. If they want a central spawn point, so be it.. but stop changing the map to try to corral players into and out of certain areas.

You had me at "9 raging boners.." :)

It is somewhat unbelievable, but there is beginning to be evidence that this whole thing is a cover up.. Chernarus may be ground Zero for the Alien Invasion, and the Zombie infection is just a clever way of clearing the area first to create a "Green Zone" for them to land at. Its looking like the Russians and the Nazis were both secretly working with Alien leadership at one point.. ..no one knows what happened, because the last thing the did happen was a meeting held at Green Mtn. among all of the top leaders. No one came back, and the next day patient Zero was already infecting Zelenogorsk. Wow. I still cannot believe it. I am never going near Green Mtn. again. Ever.

A fine example is my work today on the coast in Experimental Servers.. I am the keeper of the light house. If not for the 15 min. flare timer I would have them all lit at once. :) So my question and topic of thread is what new and different roles have you found to play out in the DayZ world to keep you entertained? Another example of mine is guide. Ive lately helped several people find their way through the map to specific destinations. Yesterday I made a new friend that wanted to get to Devils Castle from Novo to meet up with a streamer that was going to grenade some unsuspecting soul.. and the results video is on youtube and its hilarious.

The NWAF is coming back to life.. I love it. I actually got shot at tonight! Its been like at least a year since Ive had someone shoot at me within its walls. He missed something glorious and since I had seen several clans on I had no idea how many I may be up against.. I was hunting and flanking and then "Server Session Lost" LOL Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. But my favorite town currently is Zelenogorsk. It treats me really well everytime.

I mean.. its sort of hard to argue against hard numbers (programming code) that states the M4 is the most accurate weapon in game if you have it set-up properly. FYI.

There is a literal way to still be on target with no problems. @OP: Take aim, it will be swaying.. ignore the sway and focus. Now prior to this you need to have been informed enough to rebind your "hold breath" key to begin with.. so now, hold your breath. Only dont hold it as much as tap it the moment your cross hairs are on target. While you have it held for a second you can take your shot. If you miss, simply let go quickly of the hold breath button, and again quickly press it. You will notice your crosshairs will go right back on target giving you a quick second shot. Never hold your breath for any longer than 1 second or so.. just quick taps. Now if you use a weapon with heavy recoil that is a different story to deal with it. If your arms's is brokened, that is another. If you need to slow your breathing because you were just sprinting.. well you may be getting it now. ;) Pistols have almost ZERO sway.. you could use those?

So in 1 barracks at Balota I found a highcap vest, akm, 75 rd. drum and full matching Gorka Summer Camo.. ROFL. What luck!

I've found a bug that is collision related I believe, that will kill the player instantly while also removing his body from the server in the same instant. What I am wondering is has anyone else encountered this to some degree? Have you ever died while on a staircase, touching a ladder, walking into a desk, etc. and were fairly certain you were not shot, or perhaps even absolutely certain because a friend saw it happen, etc.? Im not looking for arguments or trying to shoot down the idea that this bug exists because it does. What I want is more info to help the devs as I know this will be a bugger to duplicate and fix... unless of course they are already onto that fix as this is a pretty old bug. So have you ever died mysteriously, but while interacting with the environment in particular ways? Discuss.

Im not so sure the Dude abides.. or even understands what that means

Love that server.. Maika'i

You're cute. I'd love to let you play with my beard sometime. As for interaction.. and bare with me because I am somewhat confused with what you said: I have died I think.. let me count now, its tough to remember. Twice to other players in well over 150 hours of play in the SA. Twice. And I interact with people all the time.. did you even read the post before playing with your keyboard?