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Holy crap. Who cares? Seriously, do you sell maglights? Do you have stocks or something? Why all this useless info? Did OP mentioned maglights used as clubs? Check. He obviously meant the big ones and not the tiny ones. Check. We've all been talking about the big ones and not the small ones, cause using a pocket flashlight as a club would be completely idiotic, right? Check. You said that these big ones are not allowed to be carried by civilians at some places, others said they can't even buy them in their countries, we all know they are used by police officers, security personel etc. Check. And now you are saying what? Talking about sizes and gangwars and screwdrivers? WTH, either try to actually say something or just drop it already.

Rofl, you're one of a kind. I thought this whole debate was about my third sentence, the one containing the "police/military gear" part. Now you have a problem with the "Don't like this." part and you are critising my syntax? Smooth move. So "any kind of police/military gear" means "the maglight" in your book. Your brain, your rules. Just don't expect others to agree. Let's quote someone. So it's civilian gear which is used all over the world by police/security officers etc. Right. Oh and btw although it's civilian equipment, civilians are not allowed to carry it or they get a fine. Fine by me, keep contradicting yourself. I can do this all night long.

Cool, let's keep on playing with words. First, let me show you exactly what I said. Don't like this. = Don't like this idea. Spawning with no weapon at all makes you really appreciate the first hatchet/crowbar/bat you find. = No starting weapon at all is good. Also spawning with any kind of police/military gear makes no sense. = ALSO, ANY KIND of police/military/tactical/professional/high end gear would make no sense being in the pockets of a castaway. Get it? No? I'm not talking exclusively about the maglight in that last sentence. That's why I'm using "any kind". You lost the whole point of the thread, you misinterpreted my last sentence, you tried being a smartass, all that for what? Lastly, anyone can buy professional grade (hinged smith&wesson) handcuffs. This means they are not police gear by your logic, right? Sweet.

Well, since you are the second person to mention that let me clear this up. Personally I know anyone can buy a maglight and it's not restricted to military/police use, but if you read the OP you'll notice he made this connection, I didn't make it up. Secondly, think for a second what items we spawn with, where we spawn and why. A bandage, a set of flares and a bright coloured flashlight (or was the flashlight removed from vanilla? anyhow doesn't matter). So we spawn with these things at the coast, being castaways. Now, in a low end life raft one would find flares (check), a medikit (check), a bright coloured flashlight (check) and a whistle. But no maglight in any case. Can you see my point now? Of course a high end life raft would also have water collecting balloons, fishing gear, a flare gun, more medical gear, mirrors, space blankets etc. But still, no maglight. Too heavy, too expensive, too bulky, too useless in such a situation.

Don't like this. Spawning with no weapon at all makes you really appreciate the first hatchet/crowbar/bat you find. Also spawning with any kind of police/military gear makes no sense.

As bludy already said, honey. It never expires (lasts thousands of years) and can also help as an antiseptic/antibacterial. Also mushrooms, both edible and poisonous.

I'll just leave this here since I think it's relevant to OP. Make sure to read the 2 posts following the linked one (mine and r4z0r's reply). In a few words, this new nutrition/hydration system will be based on calories intake. Something which is going to lead to more eating/drinking since consuming one item won't fill your hunger/thirst meters as it does now. At least that's I make out of it.

If it used to work fine and suddently you get artifacts then it could be a sign your gpu is dying. But without more info one can only speculate. Check temps, check if you get artifacts on other games too, and then post again.

I got some suggestions. Female survivor skin Female hero skin Female bandit skin.

That's how goo0gle's and KOS's child would speak.

Hey there. You mention you are having trouble playing by yourself but you don't give any info. Is it the controls? The tactics? The bugs? The inventory? You just don't know what to do once you get in game? You constantly get KOS? Overwhelmed by zeds? All of the above can be solved very easily, many people here will help you if you provide the exact reasons you are having trouble. Clans and groups are fine and all, meeting people, making online friends etc, but this feeling of hopelessness/panic you get when playing dayz for the first time is one of a kind. And then comes this rewarding feeling when you start making it on your own, surviving by yourself, learning by your mistakes. Once you get used to the game you're gonna miss these feelings. What I'd suggest is to try surviving on your own, living (or dying :p) the DayZ experience, and once you get used to the game and manage to survive/gear up on your own -and all this starts to seem kinda boring-, then join a clan/group. This way you'll get the most out of it.

None. Not even on dead bodies (I've only killed two people so far in self defence).No rangefinders too, at all.

If you go down that road then you should also implement water rationing. It's not logical having to drink a full water canteen every 5 minutes (that you already had to find, fill at a water source, get all accessories required to boil it -hatchet, matches, wood, empty tin can- and then boil it). This kinda defies the purpose of water canteens. The average soda can holds 340ml of liquid (330 in Europe and Asia, 350 in US). The standard old military/camping olive green pvc canteen holds approximately 1litre (1qt). Not to mention that water is more likely to cure your thirst than the equivalent amount of liquid out of a soda beverage. In a few words, if you are going to use an advanced -more realistic- nutrition/hydration system then you should have the water canteen providing 3-4 rations of water (if one 340ml soda can cure your thirst, then a 1000ml water canteen should do that 3 times right? And taking into consideration water is the best thing to drink when thirsty then these 3 rations could easily become 4. If you want to reduce the endless running that indeed is a problem, then a stamina system should be thought out and implemented instead of half measures like having to drink vast amounts of water (which in real life would surely cause water poisoning and death) and eat 3 cows (similar effect) per day. That's just absurd and imo it breaks immersion.

Also screen resolution in OP link is locked at 1280x1024. You have to register and log in in order to change it.

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Well, if someone is able to give a blood transfusion to another person, then he surely can do that to himself too. All it takes is hanging the bloodbag above the recipient, disinfecting the skin, getting the needle in a vein, applying some duct tape over it and waiting. If you know how to hit a vein on someone else then you can easily do it on yourself too. It's not rocket science, gravity does all the job. On the other hand, bloodbags in current system are totally unrealistic, given the fact there is no power, no medical refrigerators etc. So in such a situation the only solution would be direct transfusions, meaning drawing blood from one person and instantly transfusing it to someone else. This is the system the SA went with as we already know, and I think the mod is going down that road too in time. Personally, I would love to see two more features. 1) When power generators are added, one should be able to hook up a fridge and store bloodbags there. Refrigerated blood (1 to 6 °C) has a shelf life of 35 days. Of course, if you failed to keep feeding petrol to the generator, of maintaining both the generator and the fridge in good shape, the blood should go bad and clot. 2) The other feature I'd like to see are saline solutions. For example normal saline (rehydration) and lactated ringer's solution (fluid resuscitation after blood loss). Maybe add some dextrose in. They'd work exactly like blood transfusions but with different results once a more complex medical system is implemented. These solutions need no refrigeration, so one would find them in hospitals, pharmacies, veterinary clinics, etc. lol, bludy beat me to it.

Same here. I used to play Warband, Killing Floor and a couple of other games, but since I got into DayZ I haven't even launched another game. They all feel so linear, so predictable, so restrictive.

Well, since you are asking for opinions. I think you are just an attention whore immature lonely boy trying to fit in the cool guys dayz community by building up a graphic persona (see goo0gle, KOS, etc) somewhat failing though and having to resort to creating an endless stream of spam useless threads. In a few words, acting like a jerk for some beans. Also I find this thread kinda insulting to those with real mental issues.

Wrong. Have you ever played dayz on an older pc? Having like 10-15fps with constant graphic lag/tearing during combat? Imagine yourself in that position fighting someone who gets 60fps. You consider that fair, but you find low settings unfair? Quite hypocritical. Yes maybe the other guy can spot you easier than you can spot him, but he has multiple other disadvantages compared to you. I'm playing on a core2duo system, and have all settings cranked up to high. Only thing I got disabled are shadows because it would crash every 15-20 minutes. Dayz has some wonderful scenery, and playing on purpose on low settings just to have an advantage is not only idiotic -as you miss this scenery and the immersion- but also a very wrong approach to this game.

A solution of 50% liquid antacid (maalox) and 50% water works wonders on pepper spray and teargas. I like the idea of weapons making you unconcious instead of killing/making you bleed. A blow to the head from behind with a baseball bat for example, or a very precise headshot with a slingshot, or some chloroform on a rug. I think it should work somewhat like this. You get hit, get unconcious for like 2-3 minutes, not seeing anything, maybe hearing maybe not. In this time the other guy should be able to drag your body, loot you, handcuff/tie you, etc.

That's not what he meant by the term global "economy". He's speaking about a global instance system where lets say in 100 servers there is 1 instance of an item, as opposed to 1 on every server (pretty much how it works now). Nobody spoke of selling/buying anything or implementing such a feature.

Not everyone acts like a douche in dayz. A couple of weeks ago some stranger gave me a gps. There are still people who don't KOS and will help a fellow in need for nothing in exchange. Still though, one should always be extremely cautious when around other players.

The hatchet. Can't survive without one, gathering wood, hunting animals, killing zeds silently without having to worry about ammo. Works good against lightly armed people too. My first and only player kill was with the hatchet, he started shooting me in the back with a makarov while I was inspecting a corpse. I just love the hatchet.

R4z0r already answered your question concerning .50 cal weapons right here.If you love 'em so much go play with your daddy's ones. You probably won't be seeing them again in dayz. Useless thread is useless.

Back when I was a kid and went on vacations, we'd take our bicycles and roam the treeline/hills looking for mg nests/bunkers. It was almost full of them and we'd manage to get into every one we found, since we could get in from the front opening, and in one case when we found a door locked with a padlock, one hit with an old pocketknife broke it, it was old and rusty. There was no loot, just old crates full of lizards and spiders, mg stands, and if lucky some empty shells. I'd love it if small mg bunkers/nests were implemented with a small chance of military loot. Obviously they'd need to be really hard to spot, especially from a distance. Maybe they could function like helicrashes do, random spawn chance on restart, but not in open fields like helicrashes, in the woods, on hills and other places with elevated position.