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Just found my saw on a crashed heli.. With three ammo boxes :) should be set for a while.. Honestly with 200 rounds in each box one could do you for a long time. This damn gun fucking MOWS down zombies. Not as loud as I thought it might be either

I actually think what's happening (at least part of the time) is that the fly noise isn't actually where the dead player is. I died in a town and rushed back to find my body.. And my body was there but there were no fly noises.. Then when I walked across the town a little ways I heard fly noises. I had died by zombies and was pretty sure no one else had come through.. So I figured that's what's been happening

There are ways you can draw them out then lose them even if you don't have a gun.. It's tough if thats the only building around though. I've lost zombies by running through trees and dropping to prone at the right moment but it's still kinda hard to do (till they make zombies a little less hyper-aware of you, which it sounds like they're working on). But yeah it's frustrating.

So I just came across a heli crash and there was 10 clips of svd dragunov ammo in it. After searching fervently for an svd on the ground (just a lousy fal) I decided to hoard the ammo away in the one millionth of a percent chance I come across one. So now I'm just wondering if someone's gotten one and what they thought of it. I think I heard they were the absolute rarest gun in the game..?

I kinda feel like if I managed to find one it would ruin the game for me. I'm not really skilled enough to use it (well), so I'd probably just hide in the bushes in the middle of nowhere all paranoid

Maybe post in the troubleshooting forum..? I'm curious about this too

I lolld The picture the op painted of the "crowbar bandit" gleefully bludgeoning newbies in Cherno was priceless. In all seriousness though.. I remember how hard it was getting the hang of things back when I started wi a gun and lots of gear.. I couldn't imagine starting for the first time on the latest patch. If I could give some advice to the op; just as in a game like battlefield or cod, yeah you're going to have a rough time starting out. But if you're willing to put in the effort to get some good gear you'll find it to be one of the most rewarding gaming experiences you can have

Yeah any kid can pull the trigger.. I think the real fun (or more likely the most rewarding gameplay) starts when you are able to handle dying by a betrayal of trust and keep on playing as "friendly." your instinct after a betrayal is to resort to those tactics yourself.. And that's fine. But I'd argue that just as bandits are a role some choose (a very easy and common role), there's also the role of the true "friendly" who will play that role in spite of inevitable betrayals. To be clear I kind of aspire to that role but I'm not actually there yet. I'm inclined to be helpful if there's little risk to me.. I.e. sniping zombies chasing a survivor from afar. But helping someone when there's a high threat to your person takes WAY more courage than shooting at everyone you see. That's what I think is so brilliant about this game. As in life, you're perfectly free to screw over everyone you come across (to a degree), but the real rewards come when you take chances to trust and help other people in spite of yourself. People who's only concern is themselves aren't REALLY living.. Just like people who never deviate from the bandit role aren't REALLY experiencing the full potential of the game. Just my opinion

Craziness

Pfft I do 360 no scopes on bandits in Cherno all day... With my cz550! Bitches.

Ah yeah I forgot it had that.. And can you zero it too? Just curious, how much noise does it make?

Yeah camping is the way you stay alive in a game like dayz. If you're not doing it (at least most of the time) you're using bad tactics. It's about patience really

Ahh the infection thing makes sense now.. I got hit by a zed at around 6000 blood and had broken a bone.. I was crawling around in a building looking for morphine and noticed I was bleeding again randomly.. So I bandaged and then a few minutes later noticed I was bleeding yet again. I thought something stupid happened like I bumped myself in a doorway or something.. Fun stuff

You can crawl into buildings when prone.. Just have to sometimes adjust your alignment with some entrances an such. And even with a broken leg you can vault over fences and stuff (totally realistic I know). Just crawl to a fence or high doorstep, stand up, hit v and you're over it.. Then it will make you go back to prone but you can crouch or stand in place indefinitely with a broken bone. Getting broken bones from doorways is totally stupid and needs to be fixed. And I think just one morphine in your inv would be good.. It really is hell if you break a bone early after you spawn now. I would argue pain killers aren't really necessary.. It's weird to me that they give you that to start but not morphine.

If the barbed wire could block zombies I could see it being useful

Yeah it's a little better now but still seems a lot harder to find food.. And I love going into a building and finding 5 axes

Yeah I think the optics are bugged a bit for the night vision fal. I managed to turn it back on after it had somehow turned off, but I could never make it go off and on again with the n key. I suspect it's such a rare gun that not many people complain about it. I know with the flashlight sometimes it won't turn on for me, but when I switch servers its fine. I didn't really get a chance to test different servers though with my fal.

One thought.. Wouldn't it be good to have extra firepower from the traders if we were attacked? Guess it all depends on the situation.. But I know for myself it would be mighty difficult to sit and do nothing if I was attacked randomly. I know the confusion factor would probably be high and it's probably safer to have that as the general rule.. But I suppose if a big enough group attacked or something we could tell people to attack. And sorry if this was mentioned but are we doing a team speak thing the whole time? Or mostly direct chat?* *i meant for the actual trading operation

"don't get attached to your stuff." I just lost my fal with night vision scope (the second one i've lost but the first one i didn't actually get to use). and yeah it sucks; it was a pretty damn nice gun. but after dying and starting over, i realized how little fun i was actually having while doing everything i possibly could to keep from losing my precious gun.. most of my dayz time lately has been spent logging in for about an hour or so at a time checking random deer stands and never really taking any risks. but after i died today i became utterly engrossed in the game again. putting aside the craziness of the new update (yes i managed to power through the ridiculous lack of anything you start with now; by running into cherno recklessly and procuring some pretty decent loot and tearing out and away from the coast).. it's interesting how glad i was to find an akm now as opposed to a few days ago. having so little makes finding anything a lot more satisfying. anyways, just thought i'd share :)

also "the stuff you own ends up owning you"

Yeah, getting a broken leg just after spawning is seriously not fun. Luckily I was in Cherno when it happened so I managed to crawl to the hospital.. Funny thing is it probably saved my life because by crawling I didn't have to worry about zeds really.

I'd also add at night they shouldn't be able to see really at all unless there is some other light source. If its pitch black for us and we can't see anything, it should be the same for them. If they hear you at night, they shouldn't be able to immediately lock onto your position (unless you're very close) but instead would come over to investigate. I think you should also potentially be able to lose them in the darkness.. It's kind of unrealistic how they can track you so precisely by only your footsteps. Think of trying to chase another player in pitch blackness. You might be able to hear his general direction but it would be pretty hard to chase him down if he's running around through trees and stuff.. Or if he sprints and stops, etc.

Yeah the axe is totally different now (thanks for making mine disappear, rocket :P what if you could make it so you can put it in either the utility slot or main weapon slot? Then you would still have a way to harvest wood.. Which it doesn't seem like there is a way to do now). Before, you had to be in an actual forest (not just some random trees) and you had to get your face right into a tree.. Then when you right clicked on the axe it would dump the wood into your inventory. Ive never seen them die this way but I suspect what might be happening is that while climbing the hill they may randomly run backwards or something, which would make them fall down the slope and die. They hardly have to fall any distance to die from what I've seen. As far as I know there's no way to easily see how many rounds is in a clip. I actually did an experiment where I dumped out all my clips except for one and went through picking each clip up and dropping the rest until I could find the not-full clips and discard them. It doesn't seem that this is associated with the clips themselves but what you have in your inventory. It's weird.. I'm having weird fps issues too.. I do know that there was a period where for like a weekend my fps was total crap and I suspected it was because the servers were overloaded from lots of people joining and playing. I know the updates can have an impact on fps too.. Sorry I wasn't able to answer your questions well.. Hopefully someone who knows will come along because I'm curious about most of those things too.

Yeah, I don't see why you can't hold a flashlight in one hand and a gun in the other.. Not very realistic how it is now. But I suspect it has more to do with the technical aspects of having both hands up and stuff (might require overhauling player models and such).

Is it just me or has the newest update (the one with 4 on the end) made it so you can't do this trick anymore? Or at least it seems a lot harder now.. It would have been good to keep being able to do this too since its a lot easier to aggro zeds now it seems :/