Freise

Is respawning on the coast everytime you enter a server fixed or being looked at? Myself and two buddies usually play together, and about 2 weeks ago one of them started spawning randomly on the coast everytime he entered a server. About a week later, it began to happen to me, everytime I enter a game I spawn randomly along the coast regardless of where I last logged off. This week it has begun to happen to the last member of our squad.

Yup, the / key to switch sights is what I was referring to. Every other rifle in vanilla ArmA II CO with an ACOG has a back up sight to use, except the M16A4. I just played the armory until I had the M16A4 unlocked and verified no back up sight. =( oh well, thank you for the response

That really sucks. What do you mean for other ArmA 2 mods? Every ACOG I've used so far in Vanilla ArmA 2 CO has a backup sight... I was hoping the weapons were just ported over from the main game, but as I've said I've never used the M16A4 in the armory and haven't found another since finding out about the back up sights on ACOGs....

So this is probably a noob question, but it's been bothering me. Does the M16A4 ACOG have the back up iron site in Day Z? I have not unlocked it through the armory in ARMA II to test it, and when I did manage to find one in game I wasn't aware that you could use or even had a back up iron site. (The reason I ask is I travel with a squad and we "claim" weapons so that when we find a claimed weapon we don't have to fight over it, if it has the backup site it will become my weapon of choice). Thanks

First time: I log in at a deer stand, immediately notice there is loot underneath me. I think to myself "this is great!" As I'm looking through, I see a hand on the ladder, a guy comes up. He see's me there and we just stare at each other for a moment, until he climbs back down and hides behind a tree. I was so scared I couldn't shoot. All I had was a makarov. I just waited for death to come assuming he was going to light up the whole stand, but he just kept poking his head out. Finally I said I wouldn't shoot if he wouldn't and we went our separate ways. Second time: Buddy and I are going to do a quick raid on Stary. We had a good system, I was usually hidden nearby on over watch with an M16 ACOG. As I started sweeping, I noticed a running zombie, so I follow that to the player it's following. My buddy wants to kill him since he's a liability... but as I keep watching him... I notice movement from a second bandit... then a third. At that point I start yelling to fall back, we were going to be out gunned. We retreat over the hill and hide behind a wall. Suddenly my friend calls out "Is that you?" I see nobody and yell no... too late, he gets pumped full of AK rounds. I hit the ground, there are two on his body. I'm freaking out and fire half my magazine at the guy looting, he drops and I take a bullet from his friend. I run away bleeding, manage to bandage, and kept running as bullets flew all around me. So much adrenaline IRL I couldn't even hold the mouse still.

I thought I'd post up some [hopefully] interesting stories of the adventures of myself (Freeze) and my partner, Moose. I apologize for the long read. When I first started, I had watched many Day Z gameplay videos and roughly knew what I wanted to do from the beginning. I wanted to hit Stary Sobor followed by the NW Airfield. Unfortunate, all I managed to find before heading inland was a compass. Unfamiliar with any locations in Chernaurus I simply blundered North West. I managed to find plenty of supplies along the way, including a G17 with several mags in a deer stand. After finding that, I fell in love with deer stands, making sure I hit them whenever I found them. I trekked for days north west, looting towns as I passed through. I found a Winchester, the first primary weapon I managed to find, in a barn with several slugs. I came upon a large town not knowing that it was actually Stary Sobor. My roommate, Moose, came into the room and began watching over my shoulder when I entered the town, and as I looted I noticed some movement. There was another survivor, the first I had seen out here, up in industry building. In all the gameplay videos I watched, the player talked about killing other survivors as they are a dangerous risk simply by being present. With this mantra sharp in my mind as well as having Moose watching over my shoulder, I felt obligated to end the players life. I opened fire and the first two shots both missed, striking the guard railing around him. He started to take cover and I went to flank him. I sprinted up the stairs level with him, and opened fire. He dumped a full magazine in my direction. My shots connected, knocking him down, and a double tap to the head ensured he was dead. Unfortunately, he had managed to hit me several times, breaking bones and causing heavy bleeding. I passed out and bled out before recovering. This experience caused me to re-evaluate how I played, notably in relation to other survivors. I decided that I would simply avoid conflict and only attack another player if escape is impossible. After realizing that I was actually in Stary sobor, I decided to head back. I skipped looking for equipment on the coast and headed directly inland. Navigating by shadows I roughly headed north. Along the way I found an AKM but ended up missing Stary and hit the northern border of the map. Recognizing the edge allowed me to accurately navigate to Stary Sobor. During this time, I was still searching for a reliable server (I prefer to stay with the same server if possible), and ended up on a very low populated server. My plan was to blow through the military camp, thinking that low populated would mean nobody would be anywhere near me. The server was lowly populated due to pitch black nighttime, but I figured I'd use the cover of night to my advantage. However, I got lazy, and decided I would just throw flares all over town, which would prevent anyone who could see them from being able to pinpoint my location. I have a thing for M4's and M16's, so when I saw one in a tent I absolutely could not resist. As I switched the AKM for an M4, I decided to clean up my inventory. As I did, I heard the worst sound ever: clear steady foot steps. I jammed the esc key and spun towards the entrance of the tent right as an assault rifle began to poke through and squeezed the trigger. One M4 shot rang out before 20 AK rounds found my body, killing me instantly. I don't even know if I hit the other guy. I was so mad, mostly at myself. I felt so stupid for purposely joining a low pop server in order to avoid confrontation, and even worse that it completely backfired. I learned to stay cautious, expect the worst, and never let your guard down, as well as never spend much time when going through high traffic areas. My third character went much better. I again started immediately inland with no supplies, but through towns managed to find a map, and finally a compass. I decided to avoid towns unless necessary and hit deer stands for weapons and ammo. I basically went from deer stand to deer stand, and usually just logged out in them when I was done for the day. That was, until one incident. I logged in, and immediately noticed an AK74. I thought it was strange since normally no loot spawned where I did, but thought maybe I was just lucky. I picked it up, and suddenly noticed hands crawling up the ladder. It scared the living crap out of me! He immediately went back down after seeing me andI thought for sure I was screwed since there was no where I could go. I ducked behind the wall, and waited for death. I stuck my head up, he was behind a tree, leaning out and looking at me. For probably three minutes, I'd pop up, he'd lean out, lean back, I'd pop back down, and then repeated the process. Finally I yelled "at the deer stand, I won't shoot if you won't" He said he wouldn't and that I had scared him shitless as there was nobody in the stand when he began to climb the ladder. He asked if I needed anything, I said "no" and asked if he did, he said "no" as well, and we both went our separate ways. Maybe I shouldn't have hesitated and shot him, but that behavior hadn't gotten me very far and what I chose happened to work out. I realized I needed to pick better places to log out next time. A day later, I finally found a good "home" server, and was going through my routine of hitting deer stands. By now I had picked up an AKM and several magazines. I was searching a stand that overlooked a small town, and was reading the conversation between several guys. They were talking about loot spawns. Suddenly I noticed a survivor approaching the town I was near. I froze in the deer stand, hoping he would just hit the town and move on and stay away from me, as there was absolutely no way I could make it down the ladder and away before he'd see me. Unfortunately, he came straight for my stand. I made the decision that I had to kill him. I waited till he was about 20meters from the stand, then popped up and drove 10 AK47 rounds into his body. He was killed instantly, and identified himself with a simple =( in the chat. I realized he was one of the guys talking about the loot spawns, which made me feel awful. I hid his body without looting in order to give him a proper "burial" and continued on. Soon after, Moose gets Day Z. I dreaded trying to meet up with him, as I was in the middle of the map and he would be on the coast. In the 20 hours of gameplay I'd accumulated by now, I'd never seen any kind of vehicle. However, Moose logs on and finds a fully functioning dirt bike within 20 minutes of playing! We finally met which was easy due to the speed of traveling by dirt bike as well as luck that we ended up in the same area. We terrorized the northern part of the map, hitting deer stands, towns, etc... and drove the dirt bike into the ground. With a broken wheel and empty gas we stashed it and continued on foot. By this point I'd found a GPS, a G17, an AKS, and plenty of supplies and ammo. We decide to hit my bad luck spot: Stary Sobor. Our plan was that I would lay nearby and keep watch, he would grab the loot. As we went over the plan, we noticed movement: a survivor crawling out of the military camp. Moose wanted to fire, I wanted to let him pass. As we argued over what to do, he had crawled away. Then we saw him crawling back. We decided that we should shoot, as he probably had all the good loot and was going back for more. We waiting and he entered a perfect position. We opened fire, several AK74 rounds and winchester slugs tore apart his body. We looked around for any friends, found none, and headed down to claim our reward. Finally our first success. Except... When we found the body, we realized a huge mistake... it wasn't the player we saw crawling back to the camp... it was a zombie, which was wearing similar colored clothing. We risked doing a quick sweep of the camp while we were there, which unfortunately caught the attention of several zombies. After a gun fight in the middle of the camp, we grabbed a meager selection of ammo and supplies and ran for the hills. I knew we spent too much time there and were too noisy to call that a real success, we should only be happy we survived. We needed food and found a goat nearby to kill for food. After we left, we noticed some chatter about a "noisy group in Stary." Thinking it was us, we laughed and enjoyed out fresh goat meat. It was great, right up until a gunshot sent a rifle round right past our heads. Without saying a word we both took off running. The guy we had [thought] we killed in the camp had attempted his revenge. Luck was on our side and we managed to get away. We still have not had a good experience at Stary, although a successful run at the airfield has left us well armed. I will update with more stories (probably of failure) as they emerge.