James Hawke

Where The Fuck Am I

This is a post-apocalyptic world and not everybody will have turned into a flesh-craving meth addict. So I would like to see dead people - Yes, actually dead dead people - sitting in cars, lying on the street, in beds, in military bases... And whatever they have on them could be looted - often items they carry would be ruined, of course, but there could be something useful. Also, given the situation, some people might have taken their own lives. I'm waiting for the day where I find bodies peacefully in their beds or others in the middle of the forest, hanging from a tree with their head in a noose, swinging with the wind. This is supposed to be a horror game right?

Yeah sure, why not ^^ Certainly, for players it would just be a way to suicide to get another spawn - and probably a rarely used one at that as they can just jump off a building or let themselves get mauled by zombies - but why not have the mechanic there? I'm sure it could also be used to hang other players - if they let anyone do that ... I kinda doubt it... I wouldn't let anyone do that with me - waste of time.

I was just sniping the spire in Novo with my friend. I do believe we killed one guy... Don't judge us, we were getting the hang of the rifle and the scope - how else are we gonna do that if not with unpredictably moving targets? Anyhow, we were shot not a minute after that. I don't know whom by, I don't know from where, but it doesn't matter much, we're dead. We were lying prone in the grass just above the church north of the spire. Recognise yourself? :D Good job anyhow. We were a bit stupid, we didn't check our surroundings thoroughly enough before getting comfy. Off to the next character concept: 8 slot survival. Let's see how that works xD

Thanks for the positive feedback :) I'm aware that this is probably pretty low on the developers' priority list, but I do hope it's there. I don't quite feel the 'horror' genre yet. I was also (perhaps a bit morbidly) thinking about being able to use dead bodies. You know, using sticks and the body to craft a decoy that you can put on the side of a road, have people reveal their location by shooting at it. Something like that.

Full military gear with M4 or similar weapons, hunting backpack or improvised backpack. More often than not those guys are bored and hunting for players. I keep the hell away if I can. Also people with Payday- or Gasmasks. It might be bias talking but prepare to have some bullets miss you - 'Cause I can't shoot to save my life.

Imma go with Applejaxc on this one. The map is not too big for 40 people. Even if you had twice that on a server you'd just find more people playing Deathmatch in Berezino and there'd still be nobody roaming the countryside except a select few.

I would swap pretty much any weapon for a Camo Mosin with an LRS and some ammo. If I can't find one, an SKS is the next best thing, preferably with a PU-Scope (as long as it's not damaged). As a sidearm I prefer the Magnum, as it doesn't require the frustrating search for magazines and .357 is more or less plentiful...Though that seems to have changed. Melee - Fireaxe of course. Why? Obviously because most anything that isn't an axe is useless junk and the Fireaxe looks more badass than the splitting axe.

My guess would be one of the smaller cars... the little blue miracle bus perhaps... It's really the most generic vehicle.

Please feel free to refer me to the respective topic or site if this is properly explained somewhere. So... let me list the information that got through to me on one way or another: - Items that you put somewhere will stay on that spot on that server even through server restarts - Server restarts will no longer trigger loot to respawn - Loot will respawn dynamically (however that works) - There will be something like global loot... uh... a certain number of a certain item across all servers? -ish? What I don't understand with this system: How do we avoid to at some point just virtually drown in tossed-away ruined items? Or will those disappear at some point? What if someone hunts for rare items just to throw them away in the middle of nowhere or outside of the map for shits and giggles? They'll stay there until someone just happens to stumble upon them? Or what?

That's good to know. xD I wasn't aware both kinds of servers violate the rules.

Well there are also plenty servers that will just kick you upon joining without further ado... For me that's just another kind of "password protected"

Are they? Because I see quite a few password protected servers every time I go through the server list... o.O Or maybe I'm thinking about another game right now... not entirely sure... uh... 70%... 75...

Are you just being superstitious or do you really think that the developers change the loot tables as soon as they see that we know where to expect what to spawn? :D

So, is there anything that would prevent people from hunting for rare loot and putting them in a tent on their own password protected server? I do hope there is, but I tend to doubt it...

Thanks for the information :)

I ran that route with my friend yesterday evening. A group of at least two people has been to every place slightly before us, and apparently been duping the shit out of everything. That there was nothing worth mentioning left for us wouldn't bother me so much if it hadn't been so obvious those guys were cheating too... Hell some of the barracks looked like a whole battalion had exploded in there...

True. It was only a few days ago, my friend was shot in a police station, I shot his killer. My buddy swore he heard multiple shots (like you'd hear from an M4 or another assault rifle), but the guy only had a Mosin. And that's what I heard.

CSGO has guns in funky liveries. No need for DayZ to have them.

Happens to me a lot. 80% of the time when my friend shoots with his Mosin or his FNX45, I can't hear anything, even if he's standing right beside me.

I remember swimming to Skalisty Island and back. I lost my backpack and I think my axe and my rifle on the way (or seemed to), but they reappeared after a couple of seconds back on land.

It's something that takes up an item slot without having any use to me. I'd just throw it out.

If it was due to swimming it will reappear after less than a minute back on land. Anyhow, why would you - in DayZ, of all games - just let your character run around afk???

I believe camo does matter. My current regular char wears full camo clothing and more often than not my friend loses sight of me in the forest although I'm right in his field of view, not even five meters away. I have to move for him to actually realise where I am.