chasieboy317

Making a list of tips to help DayZ players excel in combat scenarios. IF you have anything to add please do. I really appreciate your feedback. 1. Never fire from the same position twice2. After firing two shots, relocate to a completely different location.3. Know your rifle system! Experience with your weapon system can change the battlefield4. Provide good intelligence, intel is a life saver at anytime.5. Take time with your shots. A panicked sniper behind a rifle doesn't end well5. If the first shot is a miss, observe the splash and make adjustments accordingly.6. Emptying a clip and hoping for the best will not work.7. If possible, multiple engagements on the enemy confuses the opposition.8. Engage the target that is the most dangerous. Eg. a light machine gunner as opposed to a rifleman.9. Conserve ammunition and time by making one shot kills10. Prior planning prevents piss poor performance. The 6 Ps. Organize your inventory, keep your rifle loaded and shouldered. Keep important stuff like ammunition easy to grab

Set your video settings to its default. There is an option in the video configuration menu.

Yeah, they should add cracking twigs too.

As long as these helmets don't become to easy to find and impossible to penetrate. I don't want to work so hard to get a headshot and then find to my disappointment that the helmet stopped the bullet.

Wait for server restart. Loot only respawns after a restart. Stay away from zombies unless you have a splitting axe or firefighter axe. If you plan on wandering around use the roads as a guide they usually lead you to more towns. Trust no one! http://dayzdb.com/ (Map) http://dayz.gamepedia.com/DayZ_Standalone_Wiki (wiki)

Thanks for the replies. Combat logging is back with a vengeance so I have to know which facial feature to engage so as not to give them the chance to log.

I've them in red brick houses, top floor and the roof of the office building. The construction site spawns them too.

Nice! Too bad for the hacker though.

The zoom feature is also in Arma 2 and there's no need to press all the buttons like that. Just double tap + and it should stay zoomed in. The real 'zoom' exploit you should be reporting is the field of view exploit. Putting your FOV on it's lowest will result in a further zoom.

If looking you're looking for good loot, don't run into cities, run around cities. For example You head to elektro with any entry level weapon (even a hatchet is alright) and check all the spots you think snipers would be, where you would snipe etc. I have once found a fully geared dead body just by running ontop of sniper hill and listening for shots or flies.

Would the experienced bandit approve of lieing. Would you tell a player that you are friendly and that you would give them gear, vehicles etc. when really you are just going to shoot them when they arrive? I have used that tactic myself but I did not say anything that was false. All I did was drive a car to a location, mark that location on the map. Tell everyone that there was a car at that location (and of course there was a car there) and then I just sniped all the people who came to that area. Do you guys approve of that. Is that alright to do. I did not lie? I ask this because I was recently misled into thinking that this bandit was giving lifts to people at a specific location. I immediately responded asking his location and he gave it to the whole server. I was initially heading to kill this guy and do everyone a favour but then a few people actually met this guy and did get lifts all over the map. I decided maybe I'd help this guy and headed to the location only to be blown up when he asked to me to get in the chopper (He had obviously rigged it with satchels) I then told everyone on side chat to stay away from him but then he gave the bread and butter response saying that I had tried to kill him. Is that what a bandit should do? I think that if you are going to be a bandit, have some honour, tell people the truth or just kill them outright instead of weasling your way into their friendship circle and then betraying them.

I love the DMR. Each mag has 20 rounds and ammo can be found in many industrial and military areas. m24 rounds can also be used in it once combined. It doesn't have zeroing but has an adjustable zoom. This weapon is great for follow up shots and provides the same damage as any of the other military sniper rifles. Don't forget its night vision capabilities making it ideal for night sniping. Once the shooter masters the DMR's scope it becomes the most deadly sniper rifle in the game in my opinion.

When I lost my svd and bizon sd to a bandit was the turning point for me. I respawned later on and headed to elektro. Hearing a DMR go off I got happy. I headed to the lone firestation and headed up the stairs hearing someone cough. I ran up to the second floorand saw my kill, sitting in a corner. I shot immediately, my .303 leaving a perfect, round hole in his head. He got a bullet into my leg, breaking it. I happily looted his body picking up a DMR, m9 sd and a coyote. I used his morphine, regaining the ability to walk and headed out of elektro, pleased with myself. While making my way too a rendezvous with my buddy on ts I looted a deer stand and luckily found a m24. I met up with my friend and gave him the m24 with lots of ammo. We drove around up north, finding a few good vehicles until we got bored. That was when my buddy said it: "I really wanna' use this thing." We picked up another car and headed to Kamenka, setting up a trap along the northern road leading out of the town. We told everyone that there was a free car north of Kamenka and marked it on the map. We took up a position overlooking the car and used a stone wall sorrounded with trees for cover. I gave my buddy some training every sniper should know before hunting their first man. He zeroed his rifle for 200m and I kept watch while he prepared himself and surveyed our rear. I was just taking out a few zombies when we saw our first target. "He's running up the road to the car!" I screamed over teamspeak and took aim, holding the crosshairs over his head and giving him a 3 mil lead. I held my breath and squeezed the trigger. The bullet missed by a mile. The first shot is always the worst. I recovered from the recoil and this time gave the target a 1 mil lead. That one hit him, right in the chest. He fell down and finished him off. My friend went down to hide the body whilst I covered him. The next guy got no warning. It was time for my apprentice to get his first kill. I spotted the guy running through a field to the car. I gave my friend his location and he got the poor guy in his scope. I waited patiently for the shot. I heard his rifle go off after the guy fell down. He got a kill with his first shot, ever. "He's a natural." I thought to myself and once again covered him while he hid the body. Karma, of course, was right around the corner which ended up with me dying and losing all my precious loot while I told my friend to get to the car and get to cover. With luck I spawned in kamenka and went back to retrieve the remains of my body. The sniper was gone and so was my DMR. We headed to the NWAF in a offroad pickup truck and on the way looted a heli crash site which seemed picked clean besides a hidden l85 holo. It turns out someone marked our position on the map and thats what lead to me being killed. I do not regret being a bandit. Everyone turns eventually. I try to be a good bandit though. I kill new spawns (not like they have anything to lose) and teach them how to survive the hardway :)

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It's good that they made zombies more of a threat but the infection rate is way too high compared to the rarity of antibiotics. As for loot spawning, I think it was done to increase fps or so I heard althoughmost private hives have fixed this problem. I have found many weapons in deer stands including a m24 (with ammo). Obviously you will not find these things all the time, you just have to be lucky. The military bases you checked were obviously looted by other players before you looted them. I don't like what they did with the hospital loot though, maybe just one good old cardboard box per hospital would be better as I can never find any medical loot these days. As for the death of your month old character, finish your character before you take a month long break. The server would obviously have made some changes or cleared their databases.