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Hacks are becoming less prevalent now, it seems the detection methods are improving gradually, albeit not quickly enough to mitigate the already numerous deaths caused by their douchebaggery. There will always be loopholes available to adept script kiddies, but the novelty will eventually wear off and the community will reach some form of stability.

At one time my friends and I had a relatively large base consisting of about a dozen tents with barbed wire fortifications, and even a barbed wire parking lot for our vehicles. Due to fighting within the group camp was eventually disbanded, but while it was at its peak 'twas a sight to behold.... Assault rifles and mountain dew as far as the eye could see....

I love the radio tower suggestion, it would implement hours and hours of extra content into the game by simply providing another objective to players besides survival: communication. Groups scattered across Chernarus could rely on radio towers instead of 3rd party applications like teamspeak and ventrilo, causing the conquering and holding of radio towers to be a very big deal. I can imagine warfare being held over a radio tower being purposefully held offline by a rogue bandit group seeking to fuck with survivors. These towers could also tie into the entrance of generators, requiring their power in order to function. Simply brilliant! Perhaps radios could be a medium grade loot spawn instead of everyone spawning with one, seeing as broadcast capable radios in real life are relatively expensive (for decent to good ones anyway). Grab a radio, send a quick "R u in churno?" to your buddy and pray that some douche isn't screwing with the radio towers. I love it.

I have one in my alice pack, it's my lucky charm. Someone shot me dead right after looting a Mt. Dew and I respawned with all my gear right behind him. Chernarus justice baby

People that are truly upset about the alpha's ups and downs fail to realize breaking the game's code and trying out new, and sometimes ultimately failed additions are part of the formula in creating an all-around polished game. They seem to forget they are testers of an unfinished product, and are meant to provide constructive feedback, whether it be negative or positive, so the community and the game can benefit as a whole. Baseless and unfocused slander like this topic encompass the attitudes of the ungrateful and the unjustifiably impatient. If having your pixels and hours taken from you is too great a cost for a free game, leave and come back in a year when things have stabilized, or better yet, readjust your attitude to a more proactive paradigm and rejoin the community in trying to bring this game to life.

I think people are over exaggerating the distance at which zombies can aggro. I ran into cherno and started to test how many meters it took for me to be spotted by a zombie in prone, crouched and standing positions. It seems that the vision tracker on the bottom of the debug monitor roughly translates to the meters at which you can be spotted, as I found myself frequently being spotted at 50m while the vision ticker showed 49.5. Also, the new line of sight feature makes evasion really easy, as I was dead on sprinting passed a few zombies who had merely turned their heads for an instant, allowing me within 70 meters while in full motion. Those who are drying their tears with their keyboards as they slather the forums with BAWWWWW just need to be a little less gung-ho about barrel assing into towns and take a little time to observe zed movement and cones of vision.

I've had the M9sd a number of times, and the ammo's rarity really doesn't justify it's use. Plus, it's a god awful weapon for player killing and for some reason really inaccurate (I've head shotted Zs with a makaroni more times than I can count and the M9 just never wants to cooperate). The 1911 is by far the best pistol, shoots quickly and has monstrous stopping power.

I think the mountain dew I just acquired has magic powers. I was waiting outside Cherno because I saw a group of two running around like idiots near the apartments and heard them firing a 1911 (which I wanted badly). After a few minutes of recon I saw them pop their heads out and proceeded to cap one while the other ALT-F4d. I only managed to get his mountain dew into my back before his buddy relogged into higher ground and popped me in the noggin. BUT WAIT! After respawning, I had all my old gear about 30 meters back from where I died.... what the fuck? And the ultimate justice, the dude who capped me was looting my dead body, and I greeted him with a burst of 5.56 to the dome. Was I in the twilight zone? Who knows, but Chernarus has spared me this time...

If you're camping up on the factory on my server you will get sniped. I hunt Cherno campers who kill noobies

M4a1 ccos =/= MK48 no matter how much ammo lolol, maybe if you gave him the FAL and the M4 with no ammo it would come closer

I've been a bandit for about a week now, murdering senselessly and generally being a douchebag. But, as I was overlooking kamenka, bored and watching the noobies run throughout the town attempting to find some form of weapon, I saw a poor soul run through town with a congo line of zomboids chasing him in the interest of getting a free meal. I was about to cripple him and let the zombies eat him for entertainment, but instead I hesitated, and then decided to shoot his zombie fan club. He stood with a dumbfounded look in his face looking at the pool of zombies around him, and I decided a little meet-and-greet was in order. Walked down and offered him a trade: my compass for his bandage. Of course it wasnt exactly fair but hey, I felt like talking to the guy and it was fun. All in all, if you're anywhere in between balota and kamenka with zombies on your tail, and they all start dying, it might be me saving your ass.

I just donned a ghillie suit not half an hour ago and it worked perfectly. Logged off after about 20 minutes and I was A-OK

The angel of death, good stuff man. Nice to see some murders with a purpose instead of mindless banditry.

I've used pretty much every gun in the game, but one has proved trustworthy time and time again. My old friend the CZ 550 has given me more kills than any other weapon, and has reliably killed in 1 or two shots over and over again. I know the military sniper rifles are more powerful and accurate, but that baby got me through the early days of DayZ

DayZ is all about playing however you'd like, exactly the kind of freedom inherent in such a large sandbox game; however, the true atmosphere of the game was rendered inert by this video. I love having a good time in DayZ and doing foolish things like lighting up elektro with flares and scaring people in direct chat with my ghost voice at night, but these guys are on par with some family guy retard shit that would make any serious player cringe. Kids are going to flock to this game thinking they're going to spawn with a bunch of guns and supplies (thank you private server+cheats!) and begin the waterworks when a bandit griefs them for their bandage and painkillers. I'm all for free enterprise and publicity, but more tears on the forums and our rather abrasive community (I'm sure you're all familiar with the pervasiveness of the terms NOOB and FAGGOT PUSSY and LEAVE THE GAME YOU FUCKING CAREBEAR) aren't exactly the things we need.

I roll a black guy because he blends in better with the scenery. Does that make me a racist? I don't know, but when rolling with camo (thank you helicopter crash!) I don't stick out because of a pasty Eastern European face peeking from a bush.

OP I agree with you so damn hard. Maybe it's because DayZ is what everyone here has been waiting for, for what seems like a lifetime. Everyone loves this game so much that it's driven them insane and anyone who attempts change or disagrees with them becomes worse than any sniper rifle wielding cherno griefer.

I've been up there at least 20 times providing overwatch for my buddy as he loots the elektro powerstation, but yesterday... We log into a server and immediately hear flies. Since they aren't fresh we think nothing of it and he goes down to loot. About 3 minutes later a dude spawns in behind me with a lee enfield and tries his best to blow my brains out, but my other friend watching my back filled with him some silenced M4 justice before he could finish the job. BUT ITS NOT OVER! Enfield's buddy runs up with a mp5 and stitches up my silenced m4 friend with 9mm bullets before I could swivel and drop him with my DMR. So we heal up and all is well, the loot mission was a bust but screw it. As we're laughing at how close we came to death YET ANOTHER PERSON ROLLS UP ON THE HILL WITH A DMR and blows my friend into the next dimension, and shoots my legs off at the knee. As I'm dropping I get a lucky shot off and blow his heart out on the hill. I'm at 1,200 blood, my buddy is freaking out, and silenced m4 guy is hiding in a bush jumping at rabbits running by. We set up camp and wait for our buddy to run back to get his gear. So we see a guy with an mp5 on the hill and we ask "HEY IS THAT YOU WITH THE MP5" and he absentmindedly replies "yeah yeah yeah," but then, for the second time today, my poor friend gets a stomach full of MP5 ammo before I could pump half my DMR clip into him like some scene out of rambo. We were all yelling "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH." Somehow my lucky fuck friend didn't die, and we got all the dead guy's gear, hauled ass to a safe distance to log and laugh/cry. Total kill count: 4, all banditos. Thoroughly enjoyed playing king of the hill over elektro, but holy shit, everyone and their mother is trying to snipe up there now

I love this idea, there are no real cons besides the possibility of flare gun spawn in cherno making the coast light up like christmas, but that would be hilarious/fun. I could totally see my group and I stalking through the woods, pausing because of movement (and a lack of NVGs) and firing a flare up in the air for illumination. Also, the different colored flares idea would be beautiful, seeing as we could split up into fire teams and shoot up a green or blue flare in the event of trouble appearing.

Certainly would make banditry a whole lot more difficult, not a terrible idea... As for scouting out places, that's what binoculars are for. Plus, combat would be mainly mid to close range and would be a lot more intimate, either accelerating murders or causing people to hesitate before shooting (at close range its difficult to avoid being shot)

"Surprise!" My friend and I were screwing around in our previous smaller camp trying to plot some diabolical NWAF raid when all of a sudden wild AK fire cuts through the trees and peppers the ground around us. We had been found! I sprinted into the trees and waited for my assailant to pop his head out, but my friend saw him first and loaded him with a full stanag clip. We ran away with great speed and laughed the whole way.

Today my squad and I were screwing around at night around cherno when we saw a ghillie douche meet up with his survivor buddy in a field. We run up to them and yell "HEY TAKE OFF YOUR GHILLIE SUIT OR WE'LL SHOOT" and their reaction was an immediate alt F4. About a minute later a sniper shot rings out and takes my buddy's head off. Turns out ghillie guy decided to flank us in another server and hop back onto the one we were playing in. Then when we got into position to shoot him and began firing, he logged again. Such is life in DayZ, but with everyone shooting on sight and logging in a losing battle... Feels cheap and dirty like a Thai hooker

I'm not bawwwing at losing the chance to get a ghillie suit because of a DCer, this is just an anecdote for a larger problem. If we had shot on sight, and say we don't kill him immediately, what's to stop him from logging as soon as he sees a flash of red? Guess everyone who plans on shooting will just have to be expert marksmen, which after like three blunts and a long day isn't the easiest thing to be That's nice, cuz the only way the ghillie or camo comes off is if THEY take it off, and the ONLY way to do that is if they still have their civilian clothes or yet another set of camo or ghillie................... Personally, I always throw away my civvies when I find camo or ghillie. So...welcome to the game, noob. You're missing the point, and I'm starting to think paint chips were your favorite food at a young age. If you don't have anything constructive to say kindly spit on your fist and shove it up your ass. Noob.

Good work man! Another lesson you should add up there is the value of a fortified position. You took those dummies out and they had no clue where you were nor could they shoot at you easily. Keep up the banditry, hope you loot lasts you a while