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What's up STALKER? Love that screenshot mate!

They should just change the "You are dead" screen by "Game Over". Remember the NES? The SNES? Sega? Back in the days, game over meant starting again. Not much has changed since, except the mentality of the players... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsx2vdn7gpY

Thanks for sharing this!!

^^ These are pretty much spot on! I consider my play style to be like the DayZ mod hero, and dresses like it as much as possible too. But honestly I'm not the "crazy evangelistic Christian type". I hunt down bandits, and kills whoever engages me. To each his own.

Yes you can. Split the ammo till you get 1 round, and load it up the gun.

Found 3 in total. Tested it out yesterday. It's like the 556 suppressor, it's not functional right now. (there's no SD ammo type with proper grain in the game yet) Little visual bug/glitch, the suppressor "clips out" in the inventory if attached to the FNX.

Wrong. You really think when you'll be able to "craft" or build your base the "KoS" will stop? :D You'll just shoot anyone who comes near your base.... Killing other players is either because you can't think of other ways to play a game that gives you other possibilities, or it's just because it's the only think you like to do in video games. Let's just be honest here. "due to its alpha state" - The main purpose of the build right now is to test it's features and help out shape the game. I tested hundreds of games for the past 15 years, closed and open, and since "Minecraft" came to be, the vision of an alpha and a full game has been blurred sadly...

There are hundreds of games out there that are made just for players to shoot players. Most of them have no tool what so ever for any of the players to talk and interact in any other way. (except using third party software to talk to someone playing with you) DAYZ wasn't made for the only purpose of killing players. There is an almost infinite possibilities to interact with other players. Which is great, because not everyone has the same tastes or like the same things. I often read things like "killing players is the only really reason to play the game". If you like killing players, then it's your own reason to like playing the game and having fun. But if you say it's the only reason to it's pretty much because you are simple minded and can't think much honestly. There needs to be players that like killing others, but DAYZ is so much more. Since the mod, many players have come up with ideas and ways to play the game. It shaped many mods, maps, and variations of the original mod. With the Stand Alone, we are giving tools that are different from the mod. I love bandits who take hostage players, steal what they can from them, and then make those players die in interesting ways. (falling to their death from a crane, fist fighting zombies one after the other till he dies, eating rotting food, and many more...) I don't play that way, but it makes the game interesting. Some like to just run around and make friends with everyone possible. That's ok too if they enjoy that and have fun. I like to test out how players would react. I try to help out as much as I can and give tips to new players, and often hunt down bandits. To each is own. I understand the "kill on sight" phenomenon. It can happen for many reason. Feeling threatened by someone, falls identification of the bandit you were hunting, getting surprised by a player who comes into the same room as you without knowing first that you were there. It's a possibility and it has it's place in the game. It shouldn't be only that though, since there's so much more to it even in it's early alpha stage. Anyway, in the end, we should just show a little more respect and be open minded. To each his own. Remember, it's only a game. A means of entertainment. When it stops being fun, it means you should stop playing because the sole purpose of this creation has failed.

Sunrise on the North West Airfield. Colors fading in as the sun rises higher. Main piece of the puzzle. I had a mag, the red dot and suppressor but not the FNX itself. Only the torch left. Testing it out. Works great! ( although like the 556 suppressor, it's not functional and only esthetic right now. ) Taking a break. Are you hostile? It's not always easy to keep our humanity in the zombie apocalypse.

Punching gun? Long shadows. Hey guys! Sup? Sunrise over Svetloyarsk square.

3 days ago I played on the server and boy the encounters. In all my DayZ time it only happened a few times that most people I meet have some personality and good manners. It was certainly a very enjoyable evening. For some reasons I couldn't take screenshots at first, nor could I type. Had to rebind keys to the ones that "worked". Since the server was made hardcore, I was a fresh spawn. But a lucky one, since I got the Berezino spawn. I made my way into town and grabbed a few essential supplies. As I was on the second floor of the "main" pub, I heard a shot, a leg broke, and a guy saying "Hello?" in voip. I replied back and went out to the street to greet him and ask if he needed anything. I met with him in the town square and we exchange a few words when suddenly, a Doctor and a Lumberjack came out to the square to ask if we needed anything. We all shared some supplies and talked for about 15 mins. This light RP is amazing. We waved goodbye to each other, as I wanted to go back to Svetloyarsk to see what they had done to my hometown. I deiced to stop at Refy and check out the cursed wrecked ship for a possible gun. I tried to be cautious, and made my way inside of it's belly. Then I heard a voice asking if I was hostile and if I was willing to spare some food in exchange for a mosin scope. I gladly accepted even though I didn't have the gun, and I was willing to give the food for free, as I try to help out fellow survivors as much as I can. Meet Nathan. He asked me if he could tag along and I gladly accepted. We talked a bit while making our way to Svetloyarsk. When we got there, the city seemed completely empty and all the doors were open. Some other survivors had already looted most goods in town. We kept an eye open, and as we were going to find a safe place to spend the night (log out cause it was getting late irl) someone close asked us if we could help him. It surprised us at first, but the chap didn't have a gun, and sounded sincere. He said he didn't have much health left and needed a transfusion. Again, I accepted to help him. After helping Austen, we shared food and supplies, and went all in different directions. This was a great evening in the zombie apocalypse. Thanks guys for making such an enjoyable experience. Well, see you, in the next chapter!

Making the zombie apocalypse a "better" place, one survivor at a time. There's still hope out there, and you're spreading it! Thanks for sharing!

Quiet night under the stars. Can't wait to start building fires. Found some wood logs, sticks, rocks, paper and matches, but couldn't combine them to make the fire. This was my alternative. Experimental servers had just restarted and at least half of the server spawned near Berezino. Fist fights in the dark started in less than 2 minutes. People running in every direction... Watching over Berezino. Getting rid of zombies, and keeping an eye on bandits. Sunrise on Refy. (sadly my character had enough of life and walked over a ledge to his death... funny stuff! :D ) Started fresh and made my way up to Guba. (new and improved!) Love the new police station. Can't wait till the add loot in it! Try to aim a bit more left with the sawed-off. It can be a bit inaccurate. The new medical clinic looks great! Again, they still need to add loot spawns in it. And it would be awesome to have more signs of the zombie infection everywhere. Parts of bodies and rotting flesh here and there. The decay is there, but not so much for the signs of struggle when the apocalypse happened.

Started fresh after some misadventure.

Military loot spawns. Either the airfields or any military buildings. They come in blue, black, green and dark blue colors. (maybe more, but haven't seen others yet)

Back again for some more. Beautiful sunrise at Refy. Had a bit of an accident while there so this is the last screenshot of my character with that specific gear. (While walking up the stair case my character had an urge to walk off the ledge, casually falling to his death. I burst into laughter! Mind you everything I had was in pristine condition prior to dying, but that's DayZ so I honestly don't mind.) Started fresh again. Took about 2 hours to gear up with a rather similar look. Of course I still want to somewhat look like the hero skin from the mod.

I'll take a hero one! Thanks! :D

I love the new Guba! The addition of the Police station building and medical clinic is great. It's pretty sad right now nothing spawns in them, but that'll be done eventually. Those buildings are sweet!!

Just join a daytime server. Or use a torch? You start with one right?!? I've been playing DayZ mod since it came out and this never been an issue. It's your choice. It's just a game. People need to find something to whine about don't they... I love the nights. To each his own. I positively impacts the fun for me. There are day servers and night servers. Now you can see the time of the server you're joining. It's a video game. It supposed to be fun. But some aspects might not be fun for you, and fun for others. There should be all those features so that everyone finds something it likes. Please stop whining, enjoy what you have while you have it. IRL, when you die, it's over...

There's no end game in DayZ. It ends when you die. But on to the topic. Keep in mind that you have to stay in the same hive. I played today, yesterday, tried the experimental servers, and I still hame my 15 days old character. Even switching between the experimental servers and back, kept both characters on the 2 seperate hives.

You paid for an unfinished product in it's aplha stage. You're here knowing this and should have known this before you bought the game. You know you can go to daytime servers? Why am I trying to help this helpless guy anyway... :|

You know where I stand Kata! Nice to see the server back on!

:D Funny stuff mate! Thanks for sharing!

Can't wait to watch it!! B)

500M + shot. Crouched. Pristine MAG PUL and ACOG. You can see the dirt rise where the bullet hit. Slight recoil to the right. Semi-auto fire. (you need to test your gun first, there's no way of telling right now, default key is "T" I think, I rebind my keys... ) This was just a shot to test the drop. Didn't take a screen of the actual zombie dying, which was the second shot. At that distance, there was no animation, it just disappeared. The bullet drop is wrong imo, bullets travel way too far. I left it at 200, and the bullet traveled 500m + easily... Edit: Also, when you aim with scopes or sights, while you aim you can hold the right mouse button to hold your breath. More accurate that way. With the long range scope it zooms, but with the others or the iron sights, it seems to not be doing anything, but tap right mouse once to go into sights or scope mode and try shooting while holding your right mouse button and you'll see...