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Nice video, as always. I love you style. I've tried a few of my own with mixed results. I'd say 50% of the time I get a mostly compliant hostage, 25% they run away and 25% of the time they fight back with one of us dying. I finally decided to record an encounter and I captured it but my first time using fraps in DayZ and I forgot to bind Fraps PTT with the same key as DayZ PTT so you do not hear my voice, just the other guy. Keep it up, I love this series!

O rly... is that a bug/something they intend to change? If I am scouting for a camp, doesnt make sense it could be in the middle of a field if I was 201m away and not see it. Vehicles you can see from very far out.

Yeah I definitely tried to emulate that in my attempts. Not sure if my voice gets as intimidating. I only play 1PP which I think helps get you that surprise. I only have had one other attempt and the person just kept running away. I really didnt feel like shooting him. Other problem I have is when I play its usually during low population time on servers in the US. Something I am trying for a slightly more sinister take on catch and release is to take some blood from them. Especially if I leave them with a gun it makes them even less likely to want to come after me in a weakened but still alive state. I hope I run into you sometime! I have a fun angle on being "held up" that would be fun to explore. As for either hoping to be held up or holding up, I find a private server with a loyal fan base helps. People are a little less likely to KOS (not much, but some) and at least interact. On a regular public server, it basically is assumed if you see a non-bambi they will shoot at you or you have to shoot them. On a private server, especially a role-playing server, people are a little less willing to immediately draw guns.

As far as finding tents in the open (ie other people's bases) is there a setting I can change so I can see them further out? In the mod, I could stand on a side of a valley with binoculars and look across and sometimes spot a tent. Now, even if I could see the tent, it doesnt render on my screen until Im much closer. It does not render one second then when I get close enough, it just pops into view. I've adjusted video settings but cant get it to show up further out.

Hey Sobieski I love your videos. Glad to see that by the time I came across your channel it hadn't died like many others. Your videos were great inspiration for me to give it a try because this is the play style I've been after for a while ( but never actually knew it). I tend to be pretty timid , avoiding players rather than approach since I don't want to kill ( or be killed). I also tend to work alone so I like this style. Anyways I figured I would give it a try. Saw my first target in a city, waited for him to exit the building and approached him how you would. Worked perfectly for my first attempt! Looked through his gear, talked with him a bit, disarmed him and then sent him on his way. For my first attempt at a catch and release it was a success! Unfortunately my next two attempts were not so successful. First person I saw literally ignored me. Just kept walking (not running) even with warning shots. The second person just kept trying to run around and punch me. I guess he didn't have a gun. Tried to take his legs out with a shot but ended up killing him. Since you are still making videos I take it you are still trying catch and release when you approach other players? What is your success rate of a true catch and release? I'm playing on a private server where I hope people are a little more invested and willing to keep their player alive. Hopefully I'll get a chance to give this a try again. Keep up the great videos.

Been on that server for about a week now. I havent ran into any of the players discussed on the subredit but so far all of my interactions have been friendly. You still approach every situation that you may be killed, even KOSd, but not nearly as bad. I like that its not all-good-feels, as in you do not have any fear. It's the right balance I believe. Some of the RPers get a little...into it. Especially the religious aspect. But its an RP server so all the more power to them. I like its private hive and first person only. No 3rd person "peeking" over walls.

In my opinion only, DayZ SA is finally at the minimum point I needed. Ive played a bit through the time its been in Alpha but finally the two big things I needed to play are: WORKING persistence. What we had before did not count. Now for the most part, persistence is working the way it should. And the second thing: Vehicles. The ability to traverse the map at higher speeds (even if at great risk) was needed. Mind you, vehicles right now are too easy (basically spawn 100% minus battery and glow plug which I just carry around with me) but I finally am getting "invested" in DayZ again. Zombies would be nice though but I understand the reason. Also... I did run across 2 zombies yesterday on the road leading to the east of Novo. Scared the beans outta me.

I found one in the middle of a street. Had 1 bullet chambered but no mag. I haven't seen mags for it before so I assume they too are only at Heli crash sites?

I will be no where near my computer on Christmas to participate. If I am not working (Which I might) I will most definitely be with my family or traveling between family and meal events. But this could be a good feels for those few who follow. Maybe all 6 of them.

Third shifter's unite! I'm an airline pilot doing basically red-eyes so I often miss the high activity evenings :(

Can we assume there will be a character wipe while .50 rolls out? It sounds pretty extensive so unless anything official has been said, I am just going to assume. I ask because I lost my last character but not sure if I should spend my evening gearing up only to lose it a few hours later.

I had an interesting event happen that made me look like a hacker. I was ontop of a building watching two people almost directly below me. Suddenly a third comes in and they engage in a firefight. The third person is killed as well as one of the original two. Considering they all were pretty loaded out, I wanted their gear for myself. So I figured I'd kill the one remaining person and have all the loot to myself. I try to creep to the edge of the building to shoot down at him but -whoops! I go to far and fall "well, that failed" I think as I am falling. However, I land just find behind the guy and suffer no damage. He turns around and I shoot him. I know from his perspective it looks like I hacked somehow. To him, it looks like I just TPd directly behind him. I apologized over voice chat to him and insisted I was not a hacker. Not sure if he heard me. Edit: For what it's worth, I stole all his gear and hid the bodies because, you know, DayZ in Berizino

On the topic of misleading server names, can admins monitor the game? IE see if some one is cheating by teleporting or spawning in weapons? I've seen servers with "Active Admins" but wondered their power to help curb cheaters.

What tools do admins have available to them to help combat hackers? Back in the days of the mod, I would play on servers where the admins would actively monitor the game looking for cheaters - IE teleporters, sudden influx of weapons, or a person who made a b-line across the map to a squad and takes them all out. I was once on a server where the admin told me they saw a person run from the coast to my well hidden camp and steal everything. Does such an ability exist on SA? I personally have not ran into hackers on SA but on mod it was almost a daily occurrence to be TPd and killed.

I had the grunting issue before. I had no other status effects so I wasnt sure. I thought it might have been pain so I took pain killers, no effect. I took anti-biotics and I started to get the "my wounds are looking cleaner" message. This happened several times over the course of about 10-20 minutes until I got the "my wounds are clean." The grunting noises stopped.

I was sick based on getting hit from a zombie. My character would make pain noises every so often so I tried taking pain pills. Didnt help. Took antibiotics and I got the message "My wounds are looking cleaner." This would pop up every few minutes for about a half hour unitl I got the "My wounds are all clean" and the "Sick" indicator went away.