Etherimp

Sawed off version is only good in extremely close quarters, like inside of buildings.

I like the part where the OP suggested airfields are where you get weapons... Guarantee he's one of those players who runs to Elektro, checks the Firehouses, School, and Pub, then gives up. News flash: All weapons, even M4's, can spawn in unlikely places. Yesterday a friend and I found an M4 sitting on top of one of the News Stands in Zelenogorsk. Mosins, Shotguns and Revolvers spawn all over the place, including in the Block Apartments, 2 level white barns, etc. If you're running to airfields just to get shot by combat logging server hopping KOS fags, you're doing it wrong and probably deserve to die. TLDR? GET ON MY LEVEL.

No music please. No point in it. Hearing/Sound is one of the most important things in games.. If you're sneaking around elektro as a fresh spawn the last thing you need is some music track in the background distracting you from your potential demise.. you need to hear footsteps, distant gunshots, zombies, etc.. Music just distracts and detracts from that experience.

Uhm.. You guys who ARE finding loot in cars.. are you playing on Hardcore servers?

Steam name: Etherimp 223 hours of in-game time.

My friend and I tested it this morning... to answer your question in short: No. When you have a sack in your hands, you can scroll wheel and it will say "Place on head".. when someone is infront of you, that same text will appear two times, like so Place on Head Place on Head It doesn't indicate which one is which, so you have to guess... And no matter whether you placed it on someone elses head or they placed it on their own, and whether they are handcuffed or not, they can still see in both 3rd and 1st person.

Update: Nobody gives any more fucks now than the did the last time you posted. Too Long, didn't read? More like "Too Stupid, Couldn't Read."

Read it. 9/10. Would read again. One thing I'd like to add: All of the tools that provide a "DayZ experience" are already in play.. DayZ is less about shooting or zombies or surviving even, and more about player interactions, exploration, discovery, tension, fear, and bravery. If you're bored with this game or annoyed at the shooting mechanics (like I am), remember that there's a much deeper experience in DayZ than just shooting or gathering gear.. Some of the best experiences I've had in the game have come from being under-geared and having to survive on my wits in a situation where people WERE shooting me on sight.. OR, where I used player interaction to defuse a situation or make a friend.. or taunt an enemy. Anyway.. Just remember there's more to this game than meets the eye.

The "Healthy" status is SO Mythical, that I achieve it on every character that survives more than an hour... here's how 1. Find Rice 2. Find water pump 3. Eat the entire bag of rice 4. Drink from the water pump until "stuffed" status appears. 5. Go about your business for about 20 minutes, then eat whatever you've collected and drink again.. Healthy status should appear. You WILL be healthy if you follow these 5 easy steps.

I have, but only on an experimental server that hadn't been restarted in SEVERAL hours and was full for a good majority of that time.. But even then I managed to find a few cans of food here and there and there's always water pumps, so dying of thirst is simply unacceptable.. Once they add animals, maintaining high calories should be pretty easy... Not sure if you played the Mod, but in DayZ Mod vs 1.7.7.1, the infection rate of being hit by zombies was incredibly high, and antibiotics were incredibly rare.. Created an extremely tense environment for everyone.. People would kill others just HOPING that they had antibiotics, and finding someones tent that had 3 anti's stashed in it was a jackpot.

It could be argued that the current health/food system is actually pretty easy-mode.. they're in the process (as far as I understand) of making it much harder.. As soon as water purification tablets are necessary and infection is implemented, expect a large % of this community to go back to Battlefield and CoD.

1. Blood system is not complex. It's very simple: O- can donate to everyone. AB+ can receive from everyone. Play with friends. Hoard O- blood... Keep yourself healthy so none of this ever becomes an issue. There are dozens of guides all over the internet to help you understand the blood system. Just remember that O can donate to O, A or B, A and B can only donate to themselves, and - can donate to + but + cannot donate to -. That's what, 3 variables? SO COMPLEX! 2. You never have to eat every 5 minutes unless you don't understand how the system works and you're absolutely out of food. 1 bag of rice and 1 trip to a water pump = Healthy status. I often go over an hour without eating/drinking, because I load up on calories and hydrate myself as soon as possible, get healthy status, and then just maintain it by eating/drinking whenever the opportunity presents itself...which is often. There are water pumps ALL over the place and plenty of food spawns in just about every type of building. 3. Pro Tip: Find a player with O- Blood type, get them healthy by feeding them a lot and keeping them hydrated.. Now take 3 blood bags off that person. Each bloodbag is 1000 blood, and a fully healthy player carries 5000 blood total.. It will take them about 15-25 minutes to fully regenerate their blood. Meanwhile you have an entire Medi-kit stocked with enough blood to bring 3 people out of unconscious status.

These are the exact 3 buildings I am referring to.. Actually, there's 2 different "types" of buildings, but only 3 "loot locations" at either airfield.. I did take a cursory look around some of the other "locations" at the airfields, such as the tables, broken down Urals, porta-potties, and the "wood floor tents", and didn't manage to find anything else.. but it's possible I missed stuff.

There are only 3 buildings at either airfield tent city (balota/nwaf) that spawn ANYTHING now, and hangers now spawn less. They used to reliably spawn 3 things... now it seems like they spawn between 1-3. I've noticed this in other buildings too.. It seemed like the spawn rate for every building was set to 100% guarantee of "X" items spawning in a variety of different placeholders.. Now, it seems the likelihood of those spawn points actually spawning an item has been moderately reduced.. It's possible that tents still spawn SOMETHING, but that the odds are very slim, although more testing/looting will have to be done to know for sure whether this is the case or not. Either way, I'd say the tents have gone from "high" priority to "extremely low" priority for loading up on rare goodies (like Pristine M4 parts.) Just to give you an idea... I looted NWAF, Veresnik, Zelenogorsk, and Kamenka military base, and didn't find a single M4.. I did find 2 on the previous server restart, both in Pristine condition.. I also didn't find a single Magpul Buttstock, Long Range Scope, or Magpul HandGrip. In related news, I found 3 (yes, 3!) FNX45 Red Dot sights and 2 FNX Silencers and 2 FNX flashlights! (Just for info: I work nights, so my "home" server tends to die off as I play.. started full, at 40/40, and by the time I logged off tonight it was just me and 1 other person.. so it's not like I am loot whoring.. just playing on my normal server and normal schedule.. just happens to be busy when I get home and slowly die off through the night.)

Tents aren't spawning things any more, but certain other structures in the tent areas are .. they're just severely reduced. Probably a way to combat server hoppers.. What was happening before the patch is that a server hopper would log in around the tent area, check it for people moving in and out of the tents, and if they didn't see anyone they would run through all the tents, pick up all the cloths/ammo/guns/attachments they needed, then hop to the next server and repeat the process... Having the loot more spread out across the airfields means they actually have to expose themselves a little more, which increases they odds they're going to get caught and killed.

I like how you didn't actually know what half the shit was

Getting my predictions in early on this one..

Seems like the majority of the people on these forums are very vocally AGAINST server hopping and combat logging..and yet, every time I log into a server, I find someone running through balota full sprint with no care in the world for who shoots at them, because as soon as they hear a shot (or even someone try to communicate with them), they just log out.. Then there's the guys who sit on the rocks outside of Kamyshovo and pick off Fresh Spawns... and when someone shows up with a gun to kill them, they combat log and shut down the server and reboot it so they don't lose all of their shit and you can't loot their bodies. TLDR: This game is filled with children who have no sportsmanship or sense of fair play, and until Rocket and the Dev team come up with solutions to these problems, these kids will continue to ruin the fun for everyone. To answer the question: "What's wrong with server hopping?" I fresh spawn in Kamy, I run to Berezino, I run to NEAF, I run to Devils Castle, I run to NWAF, by the time I get there, everything has already been looted by 4 different server hoppers, and I am denied gear that I traveled a great distance to obtain.. If the person who looted NWAF was NOT server hopping, he would be able to be tracked.. I could check Veresnik Military Base and I could check Vybor and other near-by areas to see if they were there.. or I could be concerned that maybe the people who looted the airfield were still there and scoping me out ,possibly getting ready to kill me... ..But no.. They just come, loot ,and leave.. little to no risk on low/med pop servers.. Which is why part of my in-game mission is camping high-value spawns and putting a bullet in the head of every lazy mother-fucker that logs in just to loot 1 area then log out.

Follow me along on this journey... Started out as a fresh spawn, traveled west through Elektro, killed a bandit there with an axe, took his gun, headed west, looted Balota, scared off some server hoppers with my Mosin, travelled north through Zelenogorsk, up to NWAF, met a new player up there and gave him my Mosin and a .45, and taught him a lot 'bout the game.. Made a new friend, essentially.. Got a lot of extra gear, including an extra gun, and headed back down south fully geared.. Ran thru Balota again, scared off 2 more server hoppers by trying to talk to them. Traveled through Cherno, through Elektro, and to Kamyshovo.. Spawned in on an active server, and saw a fresh spawn down in Kamy, decided to try to go help him.. Slid off the rocks to my death.. Respawned, but it wouldn't respawn, so disconnected and reconnected, ran all the way from Solnichny back to Kamy, and heard 2 snipers up on the rock by where I slid off firing Mosins into Kamy.. Ran up to my body, picked up all of my gear, and killed both bandits from about 75 Meters with my M4.. ...then the server goes down.. "Message not recieved for X seconds".. I reconnect, and I'm back on the far side of Kamy with no gear.. didn't even get to loot the guys bodies. 1 of them combat logged, and had "Ur on Youtube :))))" in his name.. Now I'm a fresh spawn in Kamy again.. Didn't even get to give away the gear of the bandits i killed, or the extra .45, or water, or food I had.. sigh.. I hate this game sometimes.

No need for currency.

Someones E-peen is huge.. I'm not sure if you're trolling or really that impressed with yourself.

I think my record in SA so far is 6-7, maybe a week ago. 1. Guy on top of the fire-station in elektro, killed with Mosin. 2. There were 2 guys camping the top room of the building across from the West firestation in Elektro, and I agreed to help another guy move in and take them out.. He said his "friend" was stuck in the building and needed help.. So I went with him. The "bandits" let him into the room, and then shot him.. and tried shooting me.. They closed the door, so I spammed 7.62 rounds thru the door. The "friend" the guy talked about before was some girl (yes, an actual girl), who was stuck under the stairs inside a glitch-room.. She started talking shit, saying my aim sucked (apparently she didn't realize I was firing THRU A DOOR, and couldn't see my targets.).. I went to back out of the engagement and back down the stairs because it was getting too hairy.. I actually fell thru the stairs, and landed in the same room this girl was in.. She tried punching me in the face, and I shot her twice, killing her, and asking "How's my aim now?" 3 and 4. After I killed the girl, I had to glitch back out of the room I was stuck in, and made my way back around to the entrance of the building. .the 2 bandits upstairs were still talking, and it had calmed down a lot so they got bored, and decided to start looting bodies.. I snuck back up the stairs, quietly, and watched as the door swung open.. first bandits upper body came up over the staircase, BLAM.. 1 down.. the 2nd guy said "Oh shit!", then walked right into my crosshair.. BLAM.. 2 down.. Looted their gear, including a Long Range scope for a Mosin. 5. Made my way to the west of town, and kept hearing gunshots behind me.. I climbed up on to the roof of the White college/hospital building, and scanned the city thru my long range scope.. came across a sniper on top of the big flat industrial building, sniped him... 1 shot, down. 6. Looped back around north of town and set up on the hill just north of the Firestation, about 500m out.. Sniped a fully geared guy who was camping the tower. 7. ?? I forget tbh... I may have made my way up to NWAF and killed a few guys there.. can't remember for sure if it was the same life or not.

Wrong? I never said in my post that you need a $3k Machine to play DayZ.. Mine cost me about 1k also. I took the "HIGH END MACHINES!" argument to it's logical conclusion.. The "best" PC's out there generally cost between 2500-5k, depending on how over-the top you go with all the accessories. This should not be the target audience of most gaming developers. 1000 should get you playable games for the next 2-5 years.. 2500 should get you playable games for the next 4-8 years, and slightly better performance. THAT isn't pay to win.. but when a game developer releases a game which is clearly unable to be played on anything OTHER than top tier machines, they are shooting themselves in the foot.

If your game has shitty optimization and the only way people can play it is by having $2500-3000 dollar rigs, then it's P2W.. Games should be made for the commercial "standard", not the "top tier gaming PC's only".. And if you can't see the dozens of reasons why this is (and should be) the case, then I am certainly not going to explain it to you.