Jex

So I'm sat in a house watching the steaks cook whilst my mate goes out and gather's sticks to make his arrows. I'm watching and watching (A watched steak never cooks,) and it's taking forever. So, I turn away to sharpen 3 sticks and put feathers on them and jesus in a goddamn balloon if in that time they've gone from uncooked to burnt. So we have 2 cooked and 1 burnt steak each. Can't be that bad right? I ate a half and my mate ate a whole one and almost instantly gets "I have a weird taste in my mouth" Are you shitting me? Burned food poisons you how exactly? For the charcoal they're covered in? Meaning we had to look for charcoal tabs to fix it? Doesn't anyone at BIS go to BBQ's? The very essence of a BBQ is to burn the food and then burn it again just to make sure you're not going to die from it!! LOL ;)

And someone can't grasp a joke ;) Presumably then, as it's only a game we can have us fly instead or ride magical unicorns?

How do you make the suit?

Hey my thread's way better than his thread! ;) I have no idea where the dev's thought that burnt food would poison you..... So it can give you cancer, hardly food poisoning. Reduce the nutritional value but who was it sat around the table shot his hand up and came out with this brainiac idea? Let's make burnt food poisonous!! How did this idea come about? Are we to expect cars to be fine unless you brake too hard and then you snap your ankle?

And it seems you can catch sardines if you add bait to a cut plastic bottle and fish on the coast :)

I'm pretty sure the chance to find something is a percentage and bushes or trees never "run out" of berries so you only need to search one? Anyway, not realizing this I searched a group of bushes and came away with 12 lots of berries after maybe 15 minutes of searching, if that. That was enough to get me to my destination where I started to find food.

Oh I wondered what that smell was - it's their rotting, starved-to-death corpse lol

OK so I made a fishing rod but what do I do with the fishing hook - doesn't it go on the rod? How do I dig for worms - is it a particular patch of ground I'm after? Can anyone just give me the process from start to finish? Thanks :)

LOL - I'm so stuffed right now I can't move! Who the hell is starving to death?

Yeah the dome tent was there and they used that shitty textured POS tent instead - I'm assuming that was modded and didn't come with A2. Do tents have other benefits than just storing things - like can you sleep in them or something? I think you're right though, people will use tents. I think a lot of the fun for some of us is finding a spot and seeing how long it is before people find it.

I shot a boar the other day then found some apples so we had apple sauce with our boar, potatoes and courgette (zucchini) :)

OK I was being sarcastic but what I meant was that somewhere close by, there is a pond. They're all over the place. Killing someone for water is hilarious though given it's abundance.

Don't play on 3rd person servers.

Did you know, 50m behind you there was a pond full of fresh water?

Oh so that's what you get on persistent servers? We found one yesterday and were like, wtf! I've seen the pictures on the forums here but it was hilarious. There's 100 guns in these barracks but no ammo for any of them. Even though it was like finding a treasure chest, it kind of ruined the whole experience. However, I know persistent servers are an issue so I chose one that didn't have persistence in the title but I suppose it must have it on - is there anywhere else to check it?

It says, "Beware those who have traveled to yonder mountain that is green...."

The range finder is crap. Make it so when I press the "fire" button it displays a readout on the scope, you know, like a real range finder works?

Pffft shotgun - use a bow!

One thing they don't model in video games is that I can sprint fine, I can run up a hill fine but I can't sprint. When I'd about to die however, I can sprint up/over/under any object you put in front of me ;)

The new map just exasperates the issue now, with very few places to make camps which is why we need stashes. My mate and I would often go wandering the map edge looking for camps and vehicles - we always found something and now the wilderness is pretty much gone, it's going to make it even easier. That's not to say there aren't places, but with less places, it means more people will think to put their camp there as well. If you look at a heat map of DayZ below.... That's the original DayZ map. As you can see, most of the area is traversed leaving little room for a tent. Hopefully the new rendering engine will help but probably now so now any man made objects will stand out for miles, especially for camp hunters who are experienced in finding them. What I would love are tents that at least blend into the background and we can place exactly where we want them (within Reason) but watching YT vids, it seems as though the tent will place itself. In the Mod you could put tents in amongst trees but it looks as though that has gone. There may still be a few good spots and we'll see as the game develops. The simplest way to check your tent is to walk 100m away from it and zoom your view in - if you can see it, other people will and your loot will be taken. It's great for other people when they come across a tent stacked with goodies and they ransack it it 5 minutes whereas it took you 5 hours, or more, to fill it. Having a camp is going to be an integral part of the game if you plan on playing all the features. You need somewhere to store your bows, arrows, spades, hoes, fishing rods, etc. The problem really being that in real life, you would be "in game" 24/7 so it would be easier to protect your base but we have to log off at some point. The devs need to recognise that if tents are easily found, people will simply stop using them.

It also makes it a lot harder to hit someone when they're running ridiculously fast however, I'm curious how you turn on a dime? I can't do that, I need to move my mouse a lot to do a full 360. The mod didn't have any issues at all with people moving around the map. DayZ has attracted a lot of people that just want to pvp - people that want to play a zombie apocalypse have no issues with the movement speed as they understand the game they are playing. Because of the lack of things to do in the game, it means lots of people PVP and quite frankly, this lot can go for all I care. Last night me and a friend spent 2 hours making bows, arrows, cooking a boar we killed (with bows) and practicing our archery. We had a blast as it goes because we can find fun in the small things and take the piss out of each other. The funniest times in DayZ have been when we're just goofing around and there's 8 guys on teamspeak unable to speak because we're all creasing up, "Can someone give me wood?" The movement speeds are going to be reduced and there's going to be further complications that stop people from grabbing a weapon and running off to a city. The forums will collect the tears of the butthurt and boil them whilst the rest of us enjoy the hardships of living in a zombie infested world and encounters with people we're not sure we trust, or we just want their gear. LOL bollocks u can!

Zombies are ridiculously easy right now. When you can amble around a zed, lazily swinging your axe you know something needs to be worked on, but that's what they're going to do! Personally, I want zeds to be able to grab you but then there's a case for zeds to stay as they are - we only ever encounter 1 or 2 at a time. Imagine 10 or 20 trying to get to you in their current state!

LMAO

I've lost all my gear 30 or 40 times over the life of the mod and SA - it sucks but it happens.

Cool for other people, yes lol