blackberrygoo

Ya I must say it's easy enough to strip people of guns, even with four, you take his weapon he has on his back onto your back and the one he had In his hands in yours ... take a few steps away from his unconcious body real quick and drop one (I usually drop the one on my back so you don't have to change weapons at that time , next time you change the item In your hand the gun you had in your hands will auto stick to your back as long as you have no gun on your back) .. Go forward to his body again , knockout again if you see his body twitching. After that process which seems longer through text than it actually takes in game, drop his backpack on the floor (if You can confirm he is still unconcious) try and drag it away by : moving as far away from the object you want to drag, in the direction of your choice , then opening your inventory and literally drag the bag downwards in the vicinity window and it will "drag" closer to your character outside of the inventory menu (which should be moving away from the unconcious assailant at least giving some space between him and his two weapons in his backpack) ... It only takes about 4 seconds to pull the bag away from him without having to switch it with yours (which is another option ; just switch your backpack with no guns for his with guns, if you don't want to use the dragging backpack thing ) if you get used to opening your inventory and moving quickly and in the case of a survivor having 4 weapons , im guessing two of them are in the bag , and to initially strip him of his first 2 weapons it takes about 8 seconds with no lag so altogether less than fifteen . So as long as you knock him out with say a sledgehammer or close equivalent you should have plenty of "unconcious time" to strip him efficiently (although it's very nerve racking, especially if you have to knock him out halfway through like described above) but it can definitely be done and the throwing physics are getting better all the time so hopefully soon we can throw backpacks in general and guns more smoothly helping this cause further ! This is also another reason why we need more "less than lethal" weapons . Beanbag guns or tranquilizer darts , maybe more variants of tazers and hopefully eventually some chlorophorm or something crazy like that to spice it up and make getting kidnapped all the more real. :)

Yes , use drugs to heal ... Well at least that's what our parents did during the '60s and '70s ... Fortunately those days are over , and now we refer to that "healing" as self-medication which is waaaay different lol, but I believe cigarettes, alcohol and buds were planned to be added and i'd be all for it seeing as it would become currency ( I mean who wouldn't trade an extra sporter mag they found for a bottle of vodka or a dime of sticky in the apocalypse ?) .

I had this problem when I started playing standalone as well ... Make sure to be moving at all times , even when talking with another survivor... Don't stay if they are silent (they are most likely on teamspeak talking with their deuchbag group) and don't listen to their suggestions , spend as little time with them as possible , even less time if they are in a group and never turn your back on them unless you know them in real life .. When you finally meet a survivor and are out in the open but want to talk to him further , tell him to come inside a building with you and make sure to never take your eyes off of him and to keep at least 6-7 feet away from him to keep personal space , and make sure to think about everything he says and does: does he have ammo , is he desperate sounding , does he sound like a 12 year old troll with friends nearby, does he get too close to you with his weapon out without respecting your space ? If so I'd become incredibly suspicious and try and ditch the kid promptly,and murder him if he's tried to mess with you once , but this is the thing Use communication to your advantage ; if someone has just seen you and come to talk but he gives you a bad feeling , tell him anything to get him distracted so you can make a move outta there (killing him would be ok , but to really train hard , and become better than the KOSers, try and use communication to escape situations , not bullets) , say you have friends checking the nearby police building or say you have bullets and will shoot if they come close (when really you just have an empty gun) some will really stay away while others will continue to advance, that's why you keep space between you and them at all times and run when the going gets tough .. And finally my suggestion to you is to NOT Crave player to player interaction just yet , get to know the map , get down your accuracy and speaking skills by being a bandit for a while and start to rob people (I'm a hero now but I got my start in the mod being a dirty Bandit) or by playing a hero (which is considerably harder but much more rewarding) and by trying to talk friendlies out of making bad decisions and saving true friendly people from bandits . Believe it or not , It's a perfect way to get a feel for agressive situations (being bandit or hero , but solving problems with communication regardless), because most of the time when you hold someone up they will not comply and you will have to decide whether to shoot them and increase your accuracy (lol) or try and talk them into not making a big mistake, either way you're practicing your sense of control over conversations and situations like this and after a while of holding people up it will make conversation with friendlies easier , due to the practice you had controlling your nerves and your quick decisions during conversations . So after a few weeks of figuring out how to truly protect yourself with both your weapon and your words, one day you will just realize that there are a lot less random deaths when you meet up with someone ... Mostly our thoughts when we play a game like this is to find someone to share the awesomeness with , and If you don't have real life friends that play dayz you're naturally going to want to team up with a stranger , that's a great decision but remember to NEVER let your guard down and take these tips that I've listed above , remember the object isn't to KILL (although you should practice accuracy somehow) but the real goal is to practice your sense of self control and quick decision making , and also training yourself to keep agile at all times because most deaths by another survivor happen When you're not paying attention or standing still talking to someone you think is a hero but is actually a butt hole waiting for you to turn around ... Above all , remember , this is An apocalypse and even the good will attack out of fear , so make sure to use your communication wisely because you might just convince another fearful survivor that you're not out for blood but for friendship , and eventually it does work and you will make friends and have some of the best player to player interactions because you will 85% of the time survive !

Anti stab vest has been in the game for a Long time ! Unless they removed it and brought it back ? But regardless I've found hockey sticks , anti stab vest, a sword, but that's it for the new items .. And these "crushed cans" weren't they only on experimental .52 ? I've found close to 2 dozen crushed cans on experimental and afaik they were one of those "Unicorn items" they removed when they pushed to stable ? I wanna find a chainsaw though :/ !

Wow , so many people frustrated over alpha loot placement and the early mechanics of swordfigting! You guys have been on the forums long enough to know that placement of loot (and mechanics of melee weapons) always change (so no more "arcade-y" gameplay talk , which I don't even know how you came to that conclusion lawl, dont just say stuff cuz you're mad why herro !), and that soon all loot , besides military, will have a chance to spawn anywhere .. And come on why herro , It doesn't take a master swordsman to pick up a couple of tips with a sword in the apocalypse , and like said before , if you're fighting someone with no sword attacking them with one becomes pretty easy ... Besides all that I really think castle spawns are the best for them right now (IMO I wouldn't have minded seeing them in certain houses but if that happened you would have 20 people like why herro and Jubei trying to debunk why they shouldn't be found in houses). Also, people will server hop no matter what , but hopping for a sword that isn't so great is not happening, the server hoppers are still hopping military bases and the ones looking for swords are usually RPers who just want to play as the highlander guy , so even if they server hop they are only looking for a sword, so ya I don't see how that's "encouraging server hopping" seeing as it's a trashy item that only a very small population wants ... So for now , unless we can see these "replica" swords on plaques in peoples houses, or have a medieval gift shop added(which I'm sure the latter is planned if not the former) , then I say castle is second best for now until the loot spawning / redistribution gets a little more complex for items like this (like being held on a plaque) .. Otherwise (if they spawned everywhere instead of just castles) we would see a damn sword spawn literally in every convienance store and that's much MORE of an immersion breaker than replica swords in castles to me ( besides there are plenty of castles in real life that are used as "tours" For tourists in which the entire castle is decorated in REPLICAS to show what the castle really looked like in it's time , so although we know these castles don't necessarily look like tourist trap castles , it's not that far fetched that one of these castles in chernarus could have been one :) ! All this talk about swords , I need to get me one myself , don't even care if it's trash I ran around with the crossbow when it was crud I'll do it with the sword lol . Edit : also most "replica" weapons are treated the same as non-replicas when being made ; the weight of the handle usually isn't a big deal as it just costs more money to add heavier material but they sure do balance it correctly unless it's a cheap made in China play sword , and there are plenty of replicas that are sharp to the touch and to a point . I own multiple replicas of many short swords myself and the only one that's dull is the one meant for younger kids to play with (it was kid sized as well lol) so it would be very plausible to kill someone with a replica .

50 hours a week at work , martial arts training every day, weight lifting , family , and I still have 1,145 hours on dayz .. Ya I don't know if this is a serious thread or not lol , keep going on that game developing mate cuz by the sounds of it you just want to develop games and not play them , that's awesome and never a waste of time ... but honestly asking people questions like this seems more of an attack towards the game seeing as only "13 year olds on summer break" can play this game in your opinion, so next time I'd word it less aggressively :) ... How's the Caribbean by the way you lucky bastard ?

Definitely need to take some inspiration from places like this to spruce some of the cities in chernarus up , I love the map but damn do we need more apocalypse feel like that video just provided ... I wonder if in 100 years (If most of human kind is somehow eradicated) aliens will find Chernobyl and be all like "wow this must have been the Capitol of the world" lol simply because nobody wants to go back there and tear shit down cuz of the radiation :0!

Yea unfortunately they are still unfinished and this maintenance cycle is to clean up all the craziness around every week so you have to pick and choose what gear you wanna save .. Be careful I couldn't even repack my military tent when i had pitched it (nothing in it , and nothing was ever put into it) maybe it was just a glitch for me , anyone else care to chime in as to say if they could repack their military tent without issue ?

Mostly because the mod is crap :) .. Especially in a survival perspective , i'd take the half-built survival mechanics present in this game over the cheap "survival" feel the mod offers .. I go on the mod simply to Pwn heads like OP who think that old news is new news :O !

I would love to see some islands , and I could have sworn that the devs said they couldn't expand the landmass anymore but they could possibly create more islands , like skalitsy ... I'm All for that , but in case someone hasn't seen pictures this is the look of a "czechian" town (I think lol ) : Lots of orange rooves , and a nice little river :)

Well , the 3 sidearms either suggest a hoarder , or maybe just a generous gun auctioneer, but yu also have three melees , so I'm gonna hope generous gun and weapon auctioneer ... I'd say your'e friendly regardless of clothing , but typically yes people would stereotype you because of clothing and aggressive actions like flipping the bird lol .. But you should have left your intentions of observing stereotypes secret until a bunch of people had posted, just to keep it unbiased so to speak , I like the experiment though :) !

The only time it's ever crossed my mind is when I was hankering to play with vehicles ... I took a break about two months ago and bought arma 3 for epoch / breaking point ... Man was that a waste of money (I don't play military games so I hardly play arma 3 although it is fun). , seeing as now I've totally abandoned epoch and breakingpoint because they are nothing close to the survival experience I thought they were. I was so desperate to have vehicles and base building but I didn't realize how terribly balanced those games are and how little they have to do with survival :( ... Needless to say , i went back to dayz just a week after looking endlessly for just one car in breaking point (which is ridiculously unbalanced , not only are cars incredibly scarce for the map size, but the special car parts that one needs to maintain some of the better vehicles are all at military installations which are always being camped , even worse than NW airfield on a third person server in dayz !) , after finally finding it (my first truck) I was greatly disappointed by the game seeing as there was nothing else to do but pvp and clans just scour the map looking for cars and pvp so I was KOSed for it although they already Had a convoy including an apc :/ ... Ya I will never take another break from dayz for another "survival game" lol because I have yet to find a game that lives up to the greatness that this game is ... If I do happen to play another video game it always ends up being an old classic , I'm playing a little dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi 2 ... Lol ridiculous name I know but great game for dragonball z fans :) .

Find a stone on the shore by scroll wheeling the sand , also you can pick axe your own stone from large boulders laying around , that type of stone can be used to sharpen axes from badly damaged to damaged or worn I believe .

Zombies are by far one of the bigger parts of the game , so it makes sense for them to still not be 100% complete even after a year .. Besides the laggy aspect and hawk eyes of the zombies I think they're doing good , especially with the announcement on the new roadmap of new zombie and animal ai coming in quarter 1 2015 :) . As frustrating as they can be the only thing we can do for now is adapt, and sometimes just ignore them all together when they are being too annoying ...I usually find any weapon I can and wipe out a whole town of Zeds before looting it so I don't have to deal with as many as I carelessly loot . :O !

Can't wait for the next year to be done ,'dayz will r game of the millennium! :) the next three months should be interesting ...

This is exactly it ... It's not like we're saying "oh pvp no fun plz REMOOOVE DEVZSS!" Like some people on this discussion believe Lol , all we are saying is don't be a slime ball simply because you don't think you can take someone out from afar , or a least leave the guy for dead after robbing him to see If he can truly survive! I'm sure though you guys would rather make it easy and just shoot to kill when their back is turned to get onto the next twenty second thrill , I guess the apocalypse only changes the world and not the humans :( ... Of course the world is filled with liars and cheats , but the only reason it is , is because those who do that are afraid , afraid of being poor so they steal , afraid of being caught so they kill (unless you were just thoroughly abused as a child causing incessant rage, which would basically be a KOSer). If you're killing for no reason then you deserve to be killed for no reason , but if you rob and cheat without killing for no reason (because you're hungry or cold or sick) then the people like me will always forgive you :) ... But in my opinion why get close to somebody if you're truly worried that they are hostile and want to kill you, you're just endangering yourself to maybe save yourself from something that may not even be a threat ? By the logic of some of the self admitted KOSers above , it seems as though they lure and fake friendly because they are intimidated one way or another by someone they see (or they are assuming that everyone is like them, but they are not .. I love talking to people regardless of their intentions , it would be nice to find more sophisticated bandits out there instead of straight up meaningless KOS ! ) but I'm telling you if you're cautious you can definitely get some one close to you to at least talk without having to kill them after if you take the necessary steps and make sure to profile everything they say and do ... That's just me though I guess because I go out on a limb, seeing as this is just a game and I'm not too scared of dying , I get to see and experience a lot more unique situations than just " hey buddy come over here I'm friendly" *pew pew pew* "sorry buddy you shouldn't have trusted me " lol ... KOS will always be in our hearts as that low rung of entertainment , kind of like puppetry is to the world of art , but does that mean the higher walks of life should observe and practice it ? I think not lol ... A time and a person for everything ;) ! Note : hardcore KOSers please don't take offense , it's just my viewpoint that trust is only for the strong , and that most KOS comes from mindsets Like "it's just a game " or "I'm too suspicious of strangers to let them live" which both can be quelled by going out on a limb , lose a couple of lives trying to play hero and eventually you'll be a master at "controlling" uncontrollable situations , and those lives will start to last longer everytime you experience a near death experience as you learn from every one of them !

Yea as far as "hermit" goes , it truly is not very viable right now , but honesty i Iike to pretend by finding a persistence on server and making a house in the woods as my base =P

"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another like him." -Carl Sagan Stop it harteman lol , after all you could be killing a good friend to be made !! And : "To err is human , to forgive divine." -Alexander pope Forgive bros, if you're pretty good at fighting then you can handle deception when it comes and deliver mercy justly. Besides who will be left to kill when you've killed 'em all, besides yourself ? :0 And lastly : "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." -mahatma Ghandi I get the pvp aspect and definitely respect it , as we wouldn't have much fun without KOSers and bandits ... I just have no mercy for the types that backstab and kill on sight (or try to) for the sake of being scared of a , in my case, friendly (until rubbed the wrong way) survivor !

You can surely open your inventory while sprinting , it's been like that since day 1 , you must be experiencing some weird bug ? What button do map under controls for it to work ?

I never fake friendly, unless I know the guys been murdering people and one of those guys who only befriends other terrible murderers (pretend to be a bandit and earn his respect , then kill him as soon as possible)... Other than that I really try to stay a friendly survival hero (when I'm finally fully geared with food and survival supplies I start to play hero and save people , until then I avoid all interaction unless someone strikes me as "innocent"). This Is a good point you make , choose a role and stick to it , because you can still be a devious liar , just don't be a hero that same day or else you're a total asshole lol !

That's exactly what I was thinking , they should have a fallback seeing as a lot can happen , or nothing at all , right before the Christmas holidays lol ... Seeing as people are eager to go party til 2015, they could either have .52 rolled out promptly or just work until they gotta go Xmas party and load up dayz .23 or whatever it was !

Believe it or not Mang , but it does happen ... My friends laptop screen is broken so he uses an old LED monitor by some unknown Japanese maker (lol) and his screen is so dark you need to crank it up almost all the way to see In day time , I think it was a defected model by the way you look at it because it seems so dark it seems broken .. But anyways I go on night servers regardless if other people have their gamma up , i just make sure to not be super PVP-ey because when I do get in a night time battle , they usually shoot first as they usually have gamma up . so if I truly can't see them and am worried of dying I just crank that shit up too sad to say , but I try to leave it down ... But if I have a feeling I'm fighting another blind ass survivor I usually try and run or just keep shooting from cover and see what happens without increasing gamma lol ... I think they just need to make it so you can only change the gamma at the main menu , that way only some people will feel like exiting just to change the gamma (it's not a cure-all but it would definitely stop SOME people from using it if they had to exit the game to crank it up ).

Yes I totally agree ... Hunting and fishing should be much more viable. I mean animals should be everywhere so we don't need to hunt for canned goods (but animals take a big hit on server fps I could imagine so it's an optimization issue for now) and in my opinion the only areas that should have over 4-5 canned goods would be untouched pantrys in houses or stashes that other survivors have made ... So once in a rare while it would be great to come across some sort of "survivor stash" where the loot is delibrately over spawned to make it look like a stash but almost every other house will be close to empty . But they are getting closer to item degradation like that last guy above me was talking about , so that should definitely reduce canned goods and when they start reducing the numbers well really see the apocalypse levels of canned goods lol .

Lol I was wondering how you were going to convince us of that in a picture ... Well done sir , beans when I finally get off this damn mobile site ...

Uh oh ... This means that were not gettin another experimental this month ? :( but hey I'm down if there's no other new exp planned to be released