Jack Dant

Ah, Hemingway :) But yes, this. The rush of risking your stuff to risk someone else's stuff is what makes the kills so fun. Looting is secondary. But the ones who DC inmediately after shooting are denying themselves of 50% of the fun, the paranoia while you retreat from the position you just revealed by shooting.

Basically anything north or west of 000 000 is outside the map. Anything south and east of that is inside the map, except for a little bit of the NE coast where the ocean runs out.

Rangefinders are pretty common hunting equipment IRL, they should be more common ingame if anything. But I agree on the .50 cals, as they are too good ingame. Either introduce real drawbacks to their use (weight, bulk, really rare ammo) or remove them. That cuts the effective sniping range significantly, so thermal is not needed to spot snipers.

Well, it makes sense. The zombies themselves are nothing special compared to other games. But persistence and permadeath are the two key features of DayZ that set it apart from all the other zombie shooters. And they are also the features that make PVP in it so intense, along with the Arma2 realism.

Yes. The ATV gets all confused there. I guess it tries to follow the terrain under the bridge/pier instead of the actual surface. Happens in base arma2, too.

ATVs and bridges/piers :D Happens every time.

The enter key. Learn to use it.

Clearly, you are not familiar with actual russian cars.

I'd be happy enough if civilian clothes' colours remained consistent across logins/viewers.

I can't load up the editor on this computer, but I tried with several civilian women (civilian/russia/women/secretary, for example), next to an ammo crate. It wouldn't let me pick up a gun. I did pick up a grenade, but then it didn't let me throw it.

Female civilians in arma2 don't even have inventory space for guns. If you load as a male civilian in the inventory, you can pick up a rifle or pistol no problem. The females can't, probably for lack of animations. I think BIS is a terribly sexist company :P

[citation needed] Either there are more than that, or I'm awesome at finding them on foot.

Duping aside (and I'm sure this gun is getting duped like there's no tomorrow), the L85 is just so useful very few will be lost. If you find one at a crash, you pick it up. If you find an extra one, you pick it up for your friends. If you kill someone with one, you pick it up. If you raid someone else's tent and they have one, you pick it up. So it becomes much more common than less rare, less useful guns. They tend to accumulate. I've seen it happen in my group with the .50 cal rifles. From choppers/PVP/raids, we have more than we actually need, no matter how "rare" they are.

Long range shooting is a popular tactic because the zombie mechanics favour it. Firing a rifle near zombies can easily bring a never ending horde on you, while sniping is more or less safe. That's just emergent gameplay, and fine. What's a bit wrong is all the .50 cal rifles out there. They are far more common than they should realistically be. And the game models most of their advantages and few of their disadvantages, such as bulk or weight. That makes extreme range sniping a no brainer. On servers with crosshairs enabled, they are even usable as short range guns! In comparison, the CZ/DMR/M24 are far more balanced with their reduced damage at long range. Also, there's a stupid amount of server-hopping snipers out there, and that should be fixed somehow (along with server hopping in general). Outside of cherno/elektro, life as a single-server sniper is pretty boring, and you can easily spend an hour waiting for someone to show up. Only for them to logoff when you don't kill with the first shot.

Camo paint is in the game, but you need to edit your profile file to add it to your face. Or you could just select a black skin.

There's such an indicator. It's those white dots/spheres on the edge of the screen. They work for zombies/animals from an amazing distance, players not so much. I really prefer first person. The only time I switch to third person is running around with free view on. On first person, it's easy to forget what direction you are looking, or end up running against a tree for a bit.

The loot in them doesn't respawn, so actual farming is out of the question. It's a great mechanic to get people/cars moving around the map looking for them, tbh.

Remember only a few (old) servers have helis enabled. If you see them on a new server, someone hacked them in. AFAIK, hacked servers do no save, so they will despawn after a reboot.

"To report cheaters or appeal bans email [email protected]"

There is a mail address on the server motd, write there with your GUID and Silver should take care of you.

Pretty much. Even if you swam there without losing the jerry can, I don't think you can do the fueling animation inside the water, nor inside the boat.