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I'm quite happy with my repeater and there's plenty of ammo laying around for it, too :)

This video is 8 months old and OP, are you saying a zed can see you from 1.6km away?

Bend over.

LOL this thread is hilarious. 1) The first laugh comes from the victim's inventory, water bottles and canteens??? Who the hell carries these! The last guy my friend and I killed at the NW airfield had 3 in a protector case. 2) Second rule of DayZ which you should all know by now - what happens at the NWAF stays at the NWAF - it's open season up there and if you can't survive then that's just the way it goes. 3) The player was probably server hopping so we don't care - Imagine his little face when he spawned into the next server and was wondering why he was on the coast with no gear and how desperately he restarted his game 10 times thinking his gear had bugged out and how mad he got... BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA 3) Another thread highlighting to others some of the things that are unacceptable in DayZ.

Look for a guy wearing all red and a big white beard. In his sack you'll find what you're after ;) When you want an assault rifle and 300 rounds and gorka military clothing and you can't get it in an hour or less then they're going to start crying. If however you decide to bother looting places you might end up with some different clothing items and only a repeater for a main weapon and maybe a bow - If this is the way the game is changing then great but they need to start adding the zombies soon. There's more to do than just those 3 things you know :)

So we decided to take a trip up into the far north, the north west to be precise. In the mod there were countless times we'd walk the west and north edge of the map looking for camps or vehicles every time we did, we'd find something. So as you can imagine, we had a familiarity with this area and knew it pretty well. Podeba Dam was always a great spot - a huge lake in the valleys. The rest of the area was pine trees and hills, plateaus and valleys. Oh boy has it changed. Where did all the pine trees go? Where are the hills and dales? It feels entirely alien to be up there and it was a little sad as well :( to see the landscape so different and even finding that the NW corner of the map is, once again, going to be infected with yet another town. Anyone that played the mod and went "up north" will know exactly what I mean - have any of you been up there? What are your thoughts about it? Leaving on a positive note, we did notice a lot more low bushes in amongst the forests so it might be easier to hide a tent - if they weren't BLUE!! ;)

No -oh dear me did you not read the post I made? I was always exploring the entire map, on foot most of the time and the map is the same size. There isn't really any wilderness left. The thing that made the map edge interesting is that beyond that it went on forever (and had more hills). You're certainly not going to find a safe place to put your camp either because now 50% of the wilderness has been taken away, and player numbers are going to increase, the wilderness areas are going to be prime estate and even then, the places you can hide something are ridiculously few. Elektro and Cherno are easily identifiable because they were the original cities and were done better.

LOL then I found this pic looking for that one.... YES!!!

LOL this is hilarious! I want to be robbed by a group of bandits wearing these - this is going to be trolled the shit out of :lol:

For a quicker method of finding tents, a guy on youtube was showing another player how to do it. You go to the roof of one apartment and you look down into the windows of the block across from you. This way, you should be able to check a lot of rooms quickly by using this method which he said was very successful. As for which ones they spawn in, I would think the spawn locations are tied to the buildings themselves so they should spawn in all of them?

LMAO

I heard footsteps around me when I was out in the deep woods but there was nothing there.... We need to call Ghostbusters!

I want to get robbed and have the bandit ask me, "Do you have anything to declare." I'm sure my answer will get me shot lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSP3IjH2cAg#t=124s

I had this issue again yesterday and no amount of dropping the compass would set it right. This was after I swapped my working compass which was worn for a pristine one. The server then restarted and my compass was working again so maybe that's a work around for now - exit the server, close your game and try again.

You could also try filling up from the thousand or so ponds scattered across the map.

Have you set your settings to low and tried with that? My game always crashes when I exit a server. My friend will crash looking through binoculars. I'm assuming that they've added something for the new graphics engine coming next patch so set everything to low and play for an 10 minutes then start adding an extra layer of detail every 10 minutes then you should find the culprit.

so you "came out of the woods" and got "something up your ass"? Well that sounds about right ;)

Have to say, when it comes to bases it's shoot or be killed. People go to those places knowing that's what happens though sometimes the situation allows for a friendly encounter but that happens by coincidence. My friend and I are shoot first whenever we're there - it's the only way to be sure...

I've had my compass show North as east, west, south west, south LOL - sometimes dropping it and picking back up can help but it's not a trustworthy device right now. When navigating, I'd recommend choosing a point on the map you can orientate to and when you get there, make sure your compass is working before you set off for your next point, etc.

Once the game is finished I'll be trying different methods of play including the ones mentioned above - why not? They all sound challenging and fun and it's not like you're going to lose anything at all. The only issue I have with voice is not being able to speak quietly enough when you want to - ACRE or ACE had a shout/normal/whisper mode I wish they would incorporate.

I don't so much care about the pockets as tabbing then going through and dragging things probably takes about the same time. The backpack on the other hand should only be accessible when you're avatar is looking at it meaning if you want to access it - you need to drop it first. That's the cheap version - the best version would be where you hit a key and you animate taking the backpack off and dropping it and then ur inv screen opens up. This way also gives excellent opportunities to rob people of their gear without killing them. Start firing around their feet and watch them run away, leaving the backpack!

Well this is very odd... Once you gave up on the netting to look for guns, netting is what you should have found! Once you looked for the truck, guns should have been everywhere. Somebody needs to call the devs - NOW!

Aah but the bayonet takes 2 slots right? Or one, either way, it's on ur gun not in your inventory :)

I've noticed a lack of zeds too. After 4 or 5 towns I assumed something was bugged with them so I knelt by a water pump for a drink. No sooner had I started to sip the cool, clear water I hear a zombie go apeshit. So there I am, calmly scooping water into my mouth whilst a zombie attacks me, unable to do a thing because there's no "cancel action" option for some reason.

There were plenty of good mods in arma 2 that had zero'ing, MOA and windage (with wind indicator)