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I'm sorry' date=' but that's just not accurate. he works for BIS and this 'free mod' is currently making them lots of money I don't care, but the idea that he's just some user doing this in his free time is false [/quote'] It don't matter how much money BI are making from this mod, The fact is that Rocket started making this mod in his free time & because hes a game designer for BI he knows the ARMA engine well. Rumor has it BI asked Rocket to work solely on this mod because of it recent great sales, Although Rocket is getting paid by BI for developing this mod the fact of the matter is this mod is still free to us. At the end of the day you didn't buy DayZ, You bought ARMA II. Some people seriously need to get a "real" life, Go outside .....

So i have a ALICE backpack, Hatchet, Matches & a hunting knife in there, I intend to go up north and "live off the land", At the minute i have a revolver & no primary weapon. Basically what i want to know is when i find a primary weapon how do i go about swapping between my hatchet & my primary weapon without loosing anything? I mean im asking because ive hear people loose items if not careful from swapping things around their inventory.

Ive seen quite afew maps over the past couple of months, This however i like the most. > http://dayzdb.com/map

Sweet. :)

Oh cool so i can chop wood without actually equipping the hatchet? ... While near a tree and my hatchet in still in my tool-belt i just harvest wood as normal?

Then you may as well uninstall the mod, I read somewhere in a interview that rocket said he had always intended that we start without a pistol/starter weapon, We only had a pistol at spawn before so it made rockets life easier in closed testing. I prefer starting without a pistol & id way the largest majority do too. Look at this image of my gear(i have a Epi-Pen in my backpack too) > http://i.imgur.com/bgy22.jpg Now i was a fresh spawn & found all of the above gear in 20 - 25 mins max all in Elektro, Now fair enough im not a noob, Ive been playing days for quite a while now, I know where to look and i kind of know the two major city's, Berezino & Balota airstrip pretty well. All im saying is stick with it, Get to learn the what buildings you can enter & loot. All i want is a compass and im heading way up north away from the chaos of the city's ... Gonna live off the land.

Yesterday i was in the outskirts of Cherno, I bumped into a guy with a shotgun, I didn't say anything at first because he didn't shoot at me & i didn't shoot at him, I just ran straight past him carrying on with my own business, I ran into a building where he followed me .... When i took the exit there was another guy waiting outside who took a shot at me but missed, I thought they just tried to ambush me. I didn't retaliate i just ran off and over direct communications i said "FRIENDLY, I'M FRIENDLY" ... One of the guys replied "Oh shit sorry we thought you where a bandit" & one said to the other "don't shoot him hes friendly". The guys caught up to me but didn't kill me, They where following so i thought they wanted to team up. We got inside a large factory building, They cornered me and over direct communications one of them said "where ARE gonna kill you" & then both instantly started to shoot at me!

Ok so im no noob to days(been playing for like 2 months)im looking for people to play with as none of my Friends currently play DayZ, Preferably people from the UK ... With the time zone, Ping & The fact that i mostly play in UK servers and so on, I have a mic, I have Skype, Ventrilo & TS3 available.(im open to other sources of voice contact too) Now im 32 years old & have a family & work so i can usually only get on after after 8pm(UK time)but after 8pm im usually playing for a good few hours most nights, I like to do all kinds in dayz, From looting large city's, Small town & villages and also just exploring the map in general looking for vehicles & deer stands etc. Now im usually a friendly person & would prefer not to shoot on site but if i bump into somebody i think maybe a thread i wouldn't hesitate to take them down. I'm from the north east of England, I'm a guy who likes to drink a few lagers on a weekend and play games(ATM its DayZ) ... I ain't gonna lie i swear quite a bit lol but im not a threatening kind of guy, Its just in general banter, I would much prefer to enjoy and have a laugh playing games than i would be serious. I would prefer you to be 18+ ... It would be great if we could get a little group going here, I would even be happy if i met just one person to group with lol. :) If anybody likes the sounds of this hit me up. Looking forward to hearing from you. ;) Oh & i also don't want people who are gonna complain about dying or moan about bugs lol.

I have a mic & im looking for people to play with > http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24142. :)

Nope, Highly doubtful, This is exactly why i ain't worrying too much about getting all the best loot or even staying alive for long periods. Im just messing about & having fun ATM.

I cant imagine your loot carrying over to be honest, Its a totally different game built on a different engine! ... It would be a massive task!

I had a little idea.(hopefully nobody has already posted a similar thing lol) How about a mutual agreement or "trust" option in game, Where as players can join a sort of team/group(they can still kill and shoot each other etc)and there are rewards for teaming/grouping up. I dunno maybe make it so that when you hover your iron-sight/crosshair over a person that is say a maximum of 10ft away(they must be within 10ft)you then scroll your mouse wheel as you normally would but there is a option to "team up" or "trust" .. Something like that, If you do that the other person gets a option to either say yes or no, If the other person accepts this you both now "trust" each other and you can work as a team(of course you could betray that trust and kill the other player at any time if you wish) You could have maybe 10 players in a group max, Don't want massive 30+ groups just raiding whole maps lol. Now if players team up we could have maybe moral or happiness that you only get from teaming up .. Something like that where if we break a bone, Bleed, Go into shock or become sick the effects maybe last half of the time & naturally wear off or stop over time without the need for morphine or pills etc, Maybe make it that you have say 20 - 30% less chance of taking critical damage from the infected & you don't have to eat or drink as much, Maybe a couple of extra slots in your backpack I dunno just some ideas. Obviously don't wanna overpower teaming with extra items or weapons etc. I dunno, What do you guys think?

"I'll say it again? Alpha yeah yeah." Enough said really but ill add this. Its gonna have bugs man, As you understand & said its a alpha! .. These bugs are gonna take time and effort to fix and not just over night or by magic. And in all honesty i get killed by survivors/bandits much more than i get killed by bugs, The only bug ive even been killed buy(twice in almost two months)is when in prone and trying to crawl through a doorway ... For some reason halfway through the doorway & BAMM! i was in shock & bleeding with a broken bone! ... Now i could have stopped the bleeding but i was way up north with no morphine .... I just left myself bleed to death!

Well personally i always remove the older files and move the new files over to the "addons" folder, Just to make sure of a clean install. As for knowing what version of days you are running .... I'm not too sure, I just know im running DayZ v1.7.1.5 because i remember downloading in & that's what servers versions i always join, I'm also running ARMA II beta patch v94364, This you can see when you first start the game in the bottom right.

Ive been prone & just a couple of feet away from zombies, Quite a few times actually, They still didn't spot me. If your careful they are still quite easy to sneak past or avoid.

Up north ive found quite a few quad bikes, Ive also found one or two push bikes but that's about it.

Also while crouching if you double tap shift(or you could hold it)it makes you walk slower= less noise, I highly recommend this while in built up areas, Alway stick close to walls/building and when crossing roads ALWAYS cross prone.

see this thread stop suggesting artificial bullcrap and calling it real How is moral or happiness artificial? Are you stupid? .... So your alone in this vast mostly infected world, Your paranoid, Scared & fear for your life. Your trying to tell me that if you finally managed to team up with somebody you would not feel A LOT safer, Happier & it wouldn't boost your moral?

Man i would love to see this patch released today or tonight so we can get into it over the weekend.

Good!

Lol, Ill always take the Winney over the Lee, Well if i find the Lee first ill take that too but like you said ... Fire the Lee and that's like ringing the infected dinner bell. They seem to come in the hundreds lol.

Why do people keep bitching about no starting pistol? ... Stop being such pussys! I'm sure i read somewhere Rocket has ALWAYS intended this anyway! Forget it, We have no pistol & never will have, You don't like it? Go play something else, Nobody is forcing you to play this FREE mod!

"u re-tards" ..... LMAO ... This is coming from somebody that spells YOU as U and puts a " - " in retards lol ... Enough said!

+1 to the NOT starting with a pistol, If i had my way we wouldn't start with anything, Not even a backpack. Well maybe start with a soda in one pocket & a tin of beans in the other .... That's it!

The problem with that is it would take away some of the excitement from the game & its not very realistic in the fact that you can know if a total stranger has murdered a lot just by looking at them, Plus im sure there is already a way in game to tell if somebody is a bandit .... The faster their heart beat the more they have killed. I know being killed sucks but i also accept it as part of the game, Its what adds the excitement. I honestly believe that if something like this was implemented into the game people would actually use it, People wouldn't shoot on sight as much & we would actually see larger groups of people in the game. Imagine if say in Berezino two groups\clans or whatever of 10 players each bumped into each other, Imagine how epic of a fire fight that would be, Both sides trying to win not only to survive but to fight for the right too loot that town, Not only trying to shoot back at other players BUT avoid/kill the infected that was attracted by this big 20 man urban battle for a village/town. You may even get clans/groups tying to occupy a town/city or village to keep as theire own then another group may think "hey we want that town" ... They may try moving in and "taking" the town form the current clan\group.