bishopomega

I think you're all on crack. In DayZ, you are a civilian. Not a trained, experienced Sniper who has spent months and years being trained by a military weapons expert. You are a cold, hungry and afraid civilian. You can 'rp' someone else but these weapons and mechanics are designed to make combat difficult and problematic. Not every shot is square or has full body penetration. And yes this means that because you 'think' you shot true doesn't mean you did. Distance, elevation, wind, weather, movement, inexperience and though a weapon says 'Pristine' doesn't make it a weapon oiled and maintained in a military armory by men and women who do nothing else but maintain them. As I've said before: DayZ is not intended to be a Mod clone. It is a survival game in which firearms are one aspect. Not the only one. If all you're playing for is KOSing everyone you see with firearms you're probably not going to get what you want out of this game when it's all done. And quite frankly I'm kinda tired of these threads. Sometimes I can shoot pretty accurately at 800 meters and sometimes I can't hit crap within 100 meters. However whenever you fire at someone, you always give up your position and make your presence known. In a survival game these are things that I do not like to do unless I have no other choice. Once they make zombies even more difficult and pack hungry for noisy KOSers, this game will finally become what it should. And not what your run and gunners 'think' it should be. No one is a sniper, you're all just civilians with a rifle that can snipe people, animals and zeds.

When they make weapons damageable and prone to wear and zombies attuned to loud noises like gun shots, PKing will definitely become problematic. Far more will be gained from barter than killing I'll wager. That one shot to the head isn't just going to be one shot unless it is way out in the stix and lets face it, PKers will just hang out at towns and wait for prey to come by. It will be neat to see them get mobbed by zeds. I'd play along for robbers but none of that exists. Its KOS and ask questions later.

The leg still ached as he stepped through the thorny brush that littered the small clearing before him. Luckily he had a nearly full first aid kit or that small scratch alone could have festered and ended his life. Briefly he wondered if that wouldn't be better than this. A life spent hungry, thirsty and searching. His large backpack barely had any weight to it now and the last town he passed was days ago and zeds were all over it. His stomach growled violently and his chapped lips yearned for wetness, moisture, anything that would quench his perpetual thirst. He paused and took out his canteen before he remembered. It was bone dry and he had long since run out of water tabs anyway. The sun was high up over the trees but he knew it wasn't mid-day yet Carefully he scanned his surroundings and he looked across the field he was about to cross. Something caught his eyes. Casually, he held his left hand over his brow to shade them in order to get a better look. A glint of metal and the colors of rust sat between several trees in the distance just beyond the clearing. Was it a trick of the glare in his eyes or was something actually there and then his eyes trailed along it. He made out a dented hood, a door and the bed of a truck! Excitement at the find and the prospect of danger entered him quickly and he went to a knee in the long grasses that lined the clearing around him. As if by instinct he pushed the clip release on his AKM then lowered his gaze down and counted the rounds left in the clip in his hand. 3 he knew and 1 loaded in the chamber but his stomach growled again and the decision was made as he pushed the clip back in. He reached down and loosened his boot knife and checked to make sure his machete was still there then settled his scarf up around his face. :D

Making ammo and weapons commonplace only makes people more apt to PK/KOS. People who jump on, grab a gun and a clip then look for people to kill and forget about the rest. It is important to make ammo and weapons as rare as they should be in a post apocalyptic survival game. RUST and other games seem to have alot of people quickly running around with full gear PKing bambi's etc. Why is it necessary to make DayZ a PVP FPS clone? If I want that there is a host of better games with better mechanics for that. Moving around aground where packs of zombies could overcome you should be a real and dangerous threat. Not much of one if you can outrun them easily or shoot them all and have lots of ammo to spare. Hardly anyone skirts a town to scout out how many zombies are there or tries to crouch and loot silently right now. I can only hope that the game turns to that direction.

Speak for yourself, why do we want a Mod or A2 clone? It's a survival game, I'd like to feel as if each time I log in I need to be careful and quiet less I attract unwanted attention. If there is no time spent on surviving why would it be a survival game?

I have the same issue and more than half the time, the DayZ client locks up each time I exit the game. This never used to happen.

I think what is being skirted around is Snipe/Camping lying in wait for anyone to come by. Right now the survival aspect of the game is a shadow to the combat part. Some people like to be weasels lying in wait for players to come by. While I do not judge this part of the game I consider it one of the dangers and the threat keeps me more alert. Wolf packs sometimes employ a sniper as do general robbers if they are smart. The main problem though is that most people wont regard a surprise hold up as what it is. Since equipment is so easy to find, most will fight to the death to kill those robbing them instead of playing along and accepting the situation. I wish more people would hold people up besides just KOSing them outright. I for one would love to play along. Yeah it would suck to lose my good equipment but it would also just be fun. The clan im in tends to like to loot and KOS most of what they see. Mostly equipped people and Bambis if they get to close or appear hostile. I tend to be a loner going from place to place, trying to remain unseen, even to zeds and im getting pretty good at it.

if someone thinks they have an opportunity, most likely they will take it. I dont go looking for people to kill but if i cross paths with someone, i will kill them if they are armed as I know they would try the same with me.

Just did it again while running for my life to get out of Range from an attacker. Lost my last drum mag damnit.

On 3 occasions, ive lost gear in my backpack. 2x binoculars, 1x MP5. None of which I had ever had in my hands or set down anywhere near a restart. I did log a bug report. Other situations come if you set something down near a tree. The other big issue for me is the auto reload when trying to open a door while holding a weapon. On several occasions ive lost my drum mags because i dont have 4 spaces in my inventory and when the action forces a reload, it auto drops to ground. When this happens, its no where around me. I can never find them once they drop like that. a weapon should only ask for reloading when its empty, not each time you try to do something like open a door or drink water.

I have a Mosin, with Pristine LRS and alot of ammo. No compensator though. I have an AK w/folding stock already but looking for a Forearm piece, drum mag and scope(worn or Pris). Will trade for these 3 things.

I'd like to add, Presently, KOSing is NO longer the best way to gather valuables. Shooting someone destroys a great deal of their equipment. If you are shooting them at a distance, chances are you already have a long gun and do not need theirs, which is likely the only piece of equipment besides maybe a helmet, pants (if a chest shot) or boots that will be any good. KOSers, in general are people who get up at crack of dawn and run loot to gear up. (Or Dupe with a friend...you know who you are) Then move to busy locations to snipe bambi's and looters that come by. They have no interest in what they have because they have it all already. I've found that using CAPS communication and offering to trade has been by far the best way to get equipment I've needed. Parts for the guns you have and in turn, giving parts others need. I've only been attacked once by someone who thought that pulling a sidearm out in middle of trading would get them some equipment. I've shot at Bambi's that refuse to stay away from me when asked though but I hate using up ammo like that. If the game had more and more aggressive zombies, far less ammunition finds and far less serviceable weapon finds and weapon wear and damage, you'd see less KOSing and more stealth survival going on.

The game setting being in a Russian area there might be a few M4s but not many. And those not typically in good condition. SKSs, Mozins and 9mm sidearms, 22 rifles and shotguns much more common than the assault type AKs or 45 type pistols. 45s, really? Out of them all I would think an AK is much more likely to be found in Pristine condition though. Their scopes however much more rarer than a Mozin's sport type scope as that scope was not made for that weapon. I consider a Mozin an artifact. A relic that might be kept as an heirloom or on a mantle. Far fewer in Pristine condition or matched with a scope for semi-modern hunting scope. The game creators just had these available maybe. The simple absence of Nagents, Makarovs, PSMs and Tokarevs is evidence of this. Not to mention that there are 1891 Mozins but not the newer 1944 Carbine versions which I would think were much more in abundance if they had gone this route? I digress though. I enjoy this game regardless but it really needs a Zombie overhaul and far less ammunition as a matter of course.

I can tell you that duping is very much alive and well. Members of |G4| do it openly. And I'm sure others do as well. I've heard alot of people 'claim' that drum mags, and full AK options are so easy to find yet I haven't found that to be the case. I can only assume that they either breathe DayZ or are duping and just saying these things to cover themselves. I run with a group that does not kill bambi's and will speak in game that we are friendly if we hear someone about. The only way we've gotten nicely equipped is by trading with others. Killing everyone only destroys their gear. When they make equipment much harder to find, people will not want to just kill other equipped people if trading is more profitable. But for now, look for people dressed and equipped the same and you will most likely know what they did to get that way.

I agree, that respawning issue is BS. There should be ALOT more zombies. Random groups in field. Sound being a main attractor, vision as secondary. If they surround you, you should be dead and they should be able to climb steps, albeit awkwardly. Doors and fences should keep them out temporarily. If you climb up onto something to evade them they should not leave if they can still see you. Ammo should be WAY more rare than it is. WAY more by a HUGE margin. I don't know any military group who would leave good equipment behind. Once they nix the duping hack then we will see more survival, less KOSing. Burning ammo on someone with less than you have will then be a burn of valuable resources for no gain. Considering how unrealistically fast people move and the ability to knock someone out who is wearing a military helmet in one punch is also...absurd. There really needs to be a fatigue bar also, making it difficult to cross a large amount of ground than one punch someone unconscious. If someone armed catches someone unarmed out in open with intent to rob or kill them, there should be a clear advantage. I've seen heavily armed people getting knocked out by newbies running around them.