ericdude88

Read whole thing. Not sure what to think of the rest, but I definitely agree on lowering the amount of mlitary spawns and making firestations civilian loot buildings, as well as making spawn spots more spread out rather than concentrated. It's kind of stupid that every player's biggest fear right now is a .50 cal bullet to the chest from a bored anti-material rifle wielding guy 2 km away who has a spotter using thermal vision, rather than zombies themselves or fear of starving/dehydration. The survival aspect of this game is too easy once you know all the loot spawns, and the map gets dull fast as well because you're just constantly going to the same places to get geared. The vast majority of towns on DayZ right now serve ZERO PURPOSE. Right now all I do is run through the forest north of Cherno, hit apartments to get backpack/navigation/cooking gear, go right across street to hospital for meds, get back out into forest run west until near grocery then go south back into cherno again, hit grocery store for the samething and maybe a winchester/pistol, hit church for the lols, then firestaion for AR. Usually takes me 20 minutes in total to do this if i spawn close (And I can do so by using respawn button), especially since the grocery/firestation/church are all lin like the same spot. Then, fully geared with an Alice Pack, all the cooking tools for unlimited survival, and an AR, I head north to Stary/NW until I get sniped. Sometimes I'll find a sniper and BE the hunter, but eventually I die in this long deathmatch just to do the samething i described above over again. For god's sake, this is a post apocalyptic survival game, not a Green Berets vs Spetsnaz CoD style Spec Ops mode game with a bigger map. All the nutsos running around with 50 cals, night vision, thermals, and silenced M4s to kill people for fun is just STUPID.

I used to think this... But I just tried it. It takes 3 shots per zed in the body unless it's a headshot.

Just got sniped on LU115 after taking down 2 people at mid/close range with my DMR. Lost a coyote BP, DMR, and M4A3. However, right after taking 2 guys down I went straight into a bush, so deep into it that I could'nt even see myself in third person. 15 minutes later I was sniped with 1 shot. Now I know thermal vision could've been the reason I died, but if the clan that I was fighting had thermal vision, couldn't they have just immediately scanned the area and caught me rather than take over 15 minutes to snipe me? Also, I never head the gun shot, just the bullet, so the sniper must've been faraway. And I simply just don't see how he could've spotted me.. The server was veteran with no nametags. Just wanted to make sure that the kill was fair, as I've heard on the forums that there are exploits that you can use to make bushes disappear, like turning down graphics to low...sometimes people won't even see bushes at long range. If my intuitions are correct, then i'll never hide inside bushes ever again...

Wow, so much for realism..........................................................."bushes not rendering"...

I am a US player, but as I hate playing in the night due to the fact that it is damn near impossible to do so without NVG, I try playing Russian servers during the night. Notice that I play US servers most of the time, yet I haven't seen a single hacker there. Today, I encountered hackers twice, both on Russian servers. The first time was when my nooby friends were spawned in the middle of Stary Sobor and given NVGs + AS50 (He just got the game 2 days ago and can't even find a makarov on his own, let alone find his way North). This hacker didn't kill anyone (not that I know of at least) and was helping my friends, but I got the hell off nonetheless because it wasn't worth the rist. Then, joining RU 17, the entire server gets teleported to the far far far far far far north west corner of the map(Basically the middle of nowhere. Just empty terrain). Luckily I D/C'd fast enough to not get killed, but Iended up running a distance worth the size of another entire Chernarus just to get back within borders, nearly dying because of thirst and hunger... Wasted a friggin' hour and a half just to get back onto the map at Skalka... Looks like the bad repuations of Russians and online gaming has carried over to DayZ now.. Oh, and anyone else find it funny how Rocket is still sticking with the obviously incompetent and useless BattleEye anti-cheat? I mean these server wide hacks, where the hacker can literally spawn things onto people, turn them into animals, and teleport them anywhere should be so fucking detectable it's not even funny.

Well I've only got a DMR, but i'd imagine that it's the best...I've seen AS50/M107 gameplay and it seems that they have massive recoil, which means if you miss your follow up shots are gonna be slow. Whereas the DMR, with its high semi auto rate of fire, low recoil when scoped and 20 round mag allows you to easily spray the target. It's like a friggin FN FAL with an awesome scope and 800m effective range. PS No i'm not a newb, I'm a good shot in general and I"ve done quite well with CZ550 in the past, but i don't care how good u are if a guy notices sniper fire he's gonna run serpentine, and it's basically impossible to hit serpentine runners at 800m without spraying.

Not. Even. Funny.

You either bsed or it was hacked. The barn cannot spawn 7 weapons at once.

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I think I'll major in Neuroscience now (or maybe study to be a veterinarian with a specialty in reptile behavior).

Racist? I just said to stay away from certain servers because from my observations they have a higher rate of hackers..i've joined 5 so far and 2 had hackers. I'm 100% chill with Russians in real life and I love Russian military/music/people. I'm just saying though, my experience with Russian servers on DayZ is horrible and I'm just giving people a heads up. Also, before calling someone a moron maybe you want to learn how to spell the damn word right. Pure irony here.

Yeah I never come across hackers when I play valve games like TF2 and L4D...But I'm not an expert in the specific technological area, but for christ's sakes I don't think BattleEye even does shit.

Hmmm..does anyone know where to find a changelog?

LOL maybe your lowlife ass should go troll elsewhere? First off I had 2 encounters within 45 minutes of RU servers, and NO SHIT I'M GONNA D/C AFTER BEING TELEPORTED TO THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE IN A CLUSTERFUCK WITH OTHER PLAYERS. The sheer stupidity of some people in this community is astounding. You sir, have seriously broken the stupidity record. This kind of mental retardation...It's new... Maybe any neurologists here(if any are here) would care to explain the amazing pheonomon in the post above me? I seriously think this is a scientific breakthrough in the science of retardation. EDIT: I just saw his profile avatar. I guess that explains his abnormally low IQ. Should've noticed that he is a gigantic lizard on a laptop making these dumbass posts. Of course reptiles have low IQ! Oh stupid me..should've noticed his picture earlier.

Well Mr.BitBurner, I just experienced my first hacker today on a Russian server (AFTER the post I made on your thread). It was pretty scary alright, though I d/c'd just in time. However, I (along with the rest of the server) was teleported to the FAAAAAAAR NorthWest corner of nowhere (where there isn't even any terrains, a green land of endless nothing), and had to run an hour and a half just to get back into Chernarus's borders. Nearly dying of starvation/thirst as I hadn't stocked up on food after making room to carry tons of ammo for both my M4A3 and DMR, I was reminded of your thread... Really makes you ponder why Rocket is still sticking with BattleEye when it's so incompetent that it can't even detect these serverwide hacks where hackers can teleport/kill/transform an entire 50 player server's population.

Lol just read the wiki. This weapon would be so deadly and OP in Dayz. For god's sake, I didn't know they could silence Lee Enfields to the point where it's more silent than a silent pistol/ noise from working the bolt. LOL.

It has always been 1 shot: 1 kill for me, even at very long ranges.. You must've missed your shot..

Now I'm even more paranoid...I just found my first DMR ever, as well as my first Coyote Backpack after HOURS of tireless scavenging and near-death instances... If I get teleported and killed I swear to god..Do most of these hackers stick to populated servers (seeing as how it's griefing more people)? Because If so then I'll just stick to low pop ones..

Yeah I see no servers right now

It's RARE AS HELL. What servers are you farming? Everytime I enter NW Airfield whether the server is empty or full the barracks are always ravaged before I even get there. It's rare for most because its spawn points are so highly contested.

This following is from old post under old topic: is private server hopping the only way to get good loot? So far, in all my experiences the so called "good" loot (things like NVG, M107, M240, M24, M4A1 CCO SD) are all near impossible to find without having a private server to farm on. I've tried many times to loot NW Airfield on a 50 player server, and it has either been death after killing a few people or successful infiltration, but the loot I find inside is shit. I often find Lee Enfields in there because so many players have already gone through it. So then I decided to do a test, and try the much defamed server hopping tactic (Don't flame me for this, 99% of you who have the aforementioned items got them through server hopping/farming) and it's still near impossible due to the SHEER VOLUME of server hoppers. It's near impossible to find 0/50 servers that actually work, while even If i do find one, within 2 seconds like 3 players would join and I would hear their gunfire at NW... Once I did find a 0/50 player server that stayed empty for 20 minutes, but all of the barracks doors were open and they had no guns except for an AK-74, implying that someone had already ravaged the place. For servers with 1-3 players that I join, 99% of the time I'll spot them at NW farming/killing each other. And empty servers seem to get populated fast, with all of the population seemingly spawning at NW, once again because of sheer number of server hoppers. So then I tried doing mid range population servers..10-25 players. Still suicide. I find that these servers tend to house groups/clans of players farming at NW..even more lethal to a lone survivor like me. This leads me to the assumption that most people on these forums who have all the good weapons probably are part of a clan and farm regularly on their own passworded servers (or have a clanleader-admin who kicks everyone that joins) so that others don't come in and ruin it. As for a suggestion? I suggest that Rocket makes good military weapon spawns rarer in general so that we won't have such a high volume of private server farming clan people sniping at each other with anti-material rifles combined with thermal vision dominating fair players(This is post-apocalyptic survival for christ's sake, not a WWIII Spetsnaz vs Green Berets game), as well as distributing good loot spawn to other areas. As of right now its concentrated in NW airfield and to an extent Stary Sobor, and the fact that action/loot concentrates around there makes the game dull fast as you're basically just going to the same places over and over again. UPDATE(END RESULT OF MY NW EXPERIMENT): Well, this 25 minutes ago I was on a 6 player server looking towards the 6 hangars of NW Airfield. I saw a helicopter crash site. Knowing that it's dangerous but my eyes burning for the possible loot, I made a dash for it. Midway in my sprint while turning my head around to check I saw a sniper in the Air Control Tower. I crouch behind a bush in the middle of the field. His name was Lofes, (the server had no tags but I knew because everytime the guy disappeared Lofes disconnects in the player list). Supposedly he spotted me but when he disconnected I proceeded towards the crashed chopper on the runway. I take care of the zombies around it while in one of the hangars. Next thing you know, I check the player list and Lofes is back. However, I decide that if I run serpentine I could dodge his sniper shots. So I ran for the chopper. Next thing you know there are 2 guys directly in the hanger I was in. One firing a sniper and the other a SAW. I disconnected in fury, because they basically just ghosted me. I was left drooling at the M249SAW and L82AWS at the chopper in my screen after i disconnected into the lobby... Soon, I joined a 2 player server. I saw one guy's death message in the beginning, so he was no longer a threat. However, as I was happily approaching the NE barracks of the NW airfield, I hear AKM shots ringing out. I immediately look for an ambush position, but realize there isn't any ideal positions. I could've just went to the hangers to see which ones were the zombies running towards and kill him, but paranoid for my life, I decide to make a break for the barracks. The barrack building was a fresh spawn, with no one having touched it since the last server respawn (as all the doors were shut). Immediately at the doorway I found a DMR with 3 clips. Ecstatic, I dropped my empty ANPV FNFAL and check the rest of the rooms which had no loot of interest. Then, I got the hell out of there. This was my most successful NW adventure so far, and to people who I know will hate me for having server hopped, remember this: ITS FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE TO LOOT IT SOLO WITHOUT HOPPING. PERIOD. NW airfield holds the largest collection of douchebags within the DayZ community who hop and farm and camp and ghost the place 24/7. I barely survived even while using exploits. In my opinion, people will keep exploiting as long as it benefits them, and it'll lead to fair players who visit the airfield to start to use exploits as well as they suddenly realize they don't stand a chance without disconnecting/hopping. The only way to stop players from doing things like this is a hardfix in a patch, because as of right now the NW Airfield is a war of exploits. Who can use the exploits better wins. Whether or not the server has 2 players or 50 players. Conclusion: NW Airfield is hell. I think I'll just try and find chopper crash sites now, or join a group finally.

New story is up. One thing I've learned from NW airfield is sure... Never go there without a group of at least 4 experienced players... Took me a good 5 hours and like 25 servers to get that DMR..Time to enter the stage of paranoia lol.

Actually I've come across "public" servers where there are 5 people of the same clan and the admin kicks ANYONE that joins. I think it's obvious what they're doing.

Low pop servers have a higher chance of people at NW Airfield-FACT. Tried and proven in my experiences.

How am I bad? I always kill many people every life (fully armed AR /sniper survivors inland) and I outwit entire clans sometimes. I've killed an entire clan at NW 1v3 with only an assault rifle (YES they were spread out and had one sniper overwatching). And I can gear up with all the basic gear + an AR within 35 minutes of spawning with 1 run in Cherno. I'd say I'm pretty good at this game. And I ALWAYS get to successfully run through the barracks at NW, and most of the time I win against the server hoppers in firefights. It's just that whenever I go through it I get shit loot, and it takes forever to go through any because I'm scared about server hoppers so I check around so much. That has nothing to do with my skill.