blackberrygoo

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 !

If you have actual evidence of a hacker , try to send your evidence to a developer or moderator here on the forums using the private messaging , and by evidence I mean you should be talking to the hacker about his hacks while you record the conversation and simultaneously check his pulse to get his in game name ... Make sure the hacker doesn't know you're going to report him otherwise he'll probably change his steam name and in game name :/ ... But you only report abusive server owners to the server providers, hackers should be dealt with by the dev team considering they can have battle eye ban the said hacker if evidence is brought to their attention in a timely manner !

This , awesome . Lol I hope only Americans get this :0 .. Are there glad commercials in Europe ? Lol ..can't wait to get on later , the forums have been quiet so it leads me to believe everyone's still vacationing or playing hardcore :) .

As it will be for some time , if you have real evidence (like recorded video of getting someone's pulse while they show you their hacks , which still might not be enough but it's much better than hear say) then you have to PM it to a dev or moderator .. We all know it exists and regardless of how many updates to the anti-cheat are done there will always be at least one hacker out there , as that's just the downside of multiplayer gaming ... It Will only get better in time with people sending actual evidence to devs so they can improve the banning system.

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 !

Happy New Years everyone !!! 2015!!!! HOO HOO HOO !! Can't wait to see what it brings for my life , and my dayz life :) ! Best of luck to all forum goers in 2015!

Well I can tell you that when I play on my 32 inch I have perfect fps and smoothness except for in cities like novo.. but on the other hand when I play on my cousins 50 inch hd it lags quite a bit, even in the main menu . So in my opinion , the bigger tv the more the processor and video card need to work so until the game is fully optimized there's only so much you can do to optimize your play sesh . There's a whole page somewhere on the forums (someone help me out with a link lol) that helps people get higher fps , but in my opinon keeping around a 35'' tv (or less) on a mid -high end processor is your best bet , unless you have a super computer it's pretty rough to run dayz on a huge tv at this moment, but you can also try dropping all your graphics and texture settings in the main menu as you now have a much bigger tv .. But I'm sure it will be very smooth after following optimization guides , and smooth like butter when the game is fully optimized in another year and a Half or so ..

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 .

Afaik , you need to cut the burlap sacks into strips first by using a knife or machete on the sack , I don't know why but I only ever get 1 burlap strip from a bag ... Strange lol because physically when you cut something it becomes TWO things :P .

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 !

Home at last :) lemme unwind and I'll join you guys in waiting ;)

Nail on the head my friend lol ... So many people Trynta hate on dayz and ddos it makes me sad :( .. Here's to hoping it's up when I get outta hard labor :) !

Keep up the good work devs you've conquered these cowardly ddos-ers before and you can do it again ! It's probably smedlys team lol , am I joking ? I dunno :) ... But seriously probably just some cowardly hackers that can't dupe as easy or something and are mad :0 !

Can't wait to get home and play after work , great work devs :) we've been waiting for this day :)

Does it have a pot attached to the legs already ? My guess was Maybe we have to attach a cooking pot then place it over a fire but I haven't seen one yet to see If it does .... It's probably bugged though :( .

Lol, just barely got that ... But they are down because this patch will be on Stable in an hour or so , so they don't wanna keep up experimental servers ... My guess though is that well be able to use experimental characters if it's the same build as the exp .52 ... But on the other hand it could just be like normal and be an updated.52 and we won't be able to use our old exp characters ... Either way , it's going stable so I guess I don't mind if I gotta start again :0!

... I don't get why everyone's expectations are low for everything based around lighting ... This isn't arma , nor is it armas engine anymore (in my opinion plenty has been changed to warrant never calling the Enfusion engine an "arma engine" again) .. Have faith people there WILL be drastic changes to the lighting system as it's been mentioned a lot based around the new renderer ... Lights will no longer shine through objects , I think a better milky way was being worked on a bit ago , and there was something talked about where there's more particles or something to make it look more real ... There's no real release date or anything for these things so it seems like it's "just been forgotten" but have faith Guys realism is the ONE major theme of this game , I highly doubt the devs would make this realistic world and just keep the gamma slider and ugly nights and call it a day , they are perfectionists , so it just takes longer than usual to create things like lighting since it's so tied into everything else but it's going to look better than some of those cinematic single player games ! ;)