muddyraccoon

If you're content with a Mosin and a Handgun, I like the East Coast run I call "Running Upstream," which is simply get to Berezino, the Khelm - Krasnostav - NEAF. If you make it our of Berezino and Krasnostav without a Mosin, I'd be surprised. And who knows, you may find an M4 at NEAF, and it's always abandoned, save the occasional server hopper. But thats how you train on the Mosin!

Actually, it's more like Rocket put a pie on the counter and says to those starving children "You can eat this now, but it may burn your mouth. Or you can wait until it cools and is completely ready to eat." One million people ate hot pie, and yet still so many complained about their burnt mouths.

Please rename to "How To KoS potentially any player." Or maybe add the note: Observe. It's everyone's goal to get a gun. Heros, Bandits, even medics and care bears. The only way to tell Bandits is observe. "But what if they have a gas mask?" Observe. "But what if they have a clown mask?" Observe. Or just KoS just to keep people on their toes.

Server Hopping is not the highest priority. Not even top 10. Server Hoppers are all predictable and careless. They sprint to the good snipe/overwatch spots and act as if patience is a meaningless word. As Hero of Suburbia said, they are the reason I have gear. I play on different servers all the time. Sometimes low pop just to run around to new places and get my screenshot addiction satisfied, then to High Pop servers to find the guy in the 6-slot jacket, hunter pack, gas mask, ballistic helmet, M4 with pristine third-party attachments and 2 ammo-boxes, 7.62 in one for the mosin strapped to his back, and 5.56 in the other one for the M4 in his hands. I keep my white-check shirt for the looks, and take everything else. Ok, maybe it is top 10, but I still like lootin' them when they are all pristine. You know you got one when you get a pristine ACOG.

Either way, BOO! I don't care about server hoppers, since I've wtinessed too many people combat log (worse offense imo) for their to be so many innocents. Everyone is so quick to denounce publicly anyone for hopping, ghosting, whatever, but in the heat of the situation, if you get sniped and they make you bleed, but you hide, I'd be willing to bet (not swear) that the majority would log, and bandage in peace in a low pop. As for server hoppers, they are here. You don't have to deal with it, you don't have to like it, you don't have to participate, but it's here. I don't care much for it since I generally play on mid pop servers that get spikes close to 40 players, then drops again, then all military areas are suddenly stripped clean. So ambush them, its fun. Or don't, but keep it off the forums because you're boring. But again, for this video, BOO! I wish you would have cuffed him and been mean to him. Even if he wasn't a hopper. It's DayZ. You learn to live with death. (for all seriousness, I do the same thing at NEAF to practice sniping on mid-pop servers. I get there by server hopping. I still call it that when it's once and I don't do it for loot, right?) EDIT: I admit my hasty assumption was made purely out of bitterness for recently failing to kill a ghoster, and, in fact, falling victim to him. And to clarify, I was being sarcastic about server hopping. I change servers to find my clan, and thats it.

Actually I know where you are since I got lost there when I tried to find NWAF using the stars as navigation. It didn't really work and I ended up by a watertower. Then I saw the barns in the distance, a large dirt pit off a different direction, and the most flat land Chenarus has to offer. If you go North of that any more, there will be no road signs or towns, but lots of intersections and areas where it looks like the foundations of buildings, but no buildings.

I guess I didn't pay attention in COD enough to see clams and bananas. But just have a long list of premade ones. But since a tattoo machine would be slightly unlikely to find, maybe we could craft them using a hammer, one of the many pens, and maybe the kitchen knife? Maybe just add in branding and supply a few branding irons as loot, then you could just have text. So, uh, I guess you would read the words Penis and Pu**y and what not. That might be worse. Either way, the way they look in game should be nasty and messy, since the odds that our toons have a background of "tattoo artist" it seems like it would be realistic. The patches to me seems even less likely, since they are patches that would have to be made somehow, and at the end of days, I don't think too many seamstresses will be around. But maybe custom details, like finding paint and painting the symbol on the back of a jacket (When did the devs say they are adding denim vests? And Harleys?), or on the side of a helmet, or on the front of a TShirt like Affliction or Ed Hardy? Maybe even just a customized bandana that you can either wear like they are already, tie around head like Rambo, or tie around arm. The Bandana could have the insignia painted on it too. Although I still stand by my earlier thoughts on the patches, I guess a simple patch, like intials or a smilie face could work, as long as we had to choose from premade options. If not, yeah, lots of swastickas. Swastikas? I'm proud to admit I don't know the proper spelling of that word.

I can also atest to people spawning East of Elektro, or Elektro itself. I've been patrolling Hell's Highway, banditing any fresh spawns with loot better than or equal to a pristine battery. I'll let them both live, but force them into a bare knuckle boxing match, where I give the winner a bag inside a bag, with a pistol, bullets, and an empty mag as I run away laughing, because the bullets are for the magnum. Tee hee. But I'll keep my eye out for you BadAsh, and more like you.

I decided to read the story and the first 2 pages of this forum. I would say "people don't get it" but we already knew that would happen. I don't even raise one of my always furrowed eyebrows to the 20 pages of what I can only guess are woefully unappreciative and envious zombies. I refer to other players as Zombies as encounters with them are boring, predictable, much like the NPC. Groups in cities, is the only way to feel a gentle rush of blood through my brain. Every morning before I go to work I slap my neighbor and ask him why he isn't more like me yet. Every night before I play DayZ I oil my pecs continuously for 25 minutes (no more, no less) while staring at myself in the mirror. At the end, I say "They Wish." Then I log on and conquer a coast. I play on my computer generally while I'm on my phone solving most of the world's problems. Remember the Cold War? That was easy, I'm 29 and getting younger. I intimidated my body's cells to reverse their aging and we have gotten along amicably ever since they complied. I have, using the power of thought alone, proven that space-time can be traversed as easily as doing a one-handed push up, of which I do 30,000 of each day. Per Arm. One day, when I decide I would like to die, and only then, I will appear on top of a boulder in the middle of a wide field surrounded by the already departed souls of the billions that have lived before me. They will turn to look at me as I ask "Is this where people go when they die?" A small shaky voice will come out of the crowd "We don't know, we just decided to wait for you." then I'll repy "I know." Your story interests me Mooky. May we never meet. Reality wouldn't survive the battle.

First off, Weak Argument is Weak is perfect for this situation. Saying that DayZ SA should allow open modding because it started out as a mod is like saying if a revolution pops up in the USA the government should support it since the country started out as revolution. MMO Mods need to be regulated. WoW had mods but you couldn't make anything easier. You couldn't have unlimited mana, you couldn't unlock all spells, all you could do is improve graphics, and statistical meters, change UI, and all that was fine since it had nothing to do with the core gameplay. In DayZ SA the game is a survival immersion MMO. It would defeat the purpose of having maps be loot if everyone installs a MOD that has an opaque map overlay that shows your position. Imagine the amount of snipers you'd have with a Range Finder mod. Well, it'd probably be the same amount (too many!) but they'd be better than terrible which all snipers are (Bring it! Server MO 2-14! 8pm central time! Elektro!). I hope modding just isnt allowed. This game is so community centric that if we want changes, it is literally as easy as asking for them. But that is one man's opinion. I do love modding, since never knew what it really was until I played Skyrim and made it something awesome (it's also where I learned about immersion mods, and the forums led me here, and the rest is history). But I also believe modding has a time and place. And it's called single-player campaigns.

Hippies, not hipsters, ride longboards. Hipsters don't do anything active. They generally hate activity, and anything that is popular or mainstream. If a band sells more than 1000 albums, hipsters turn their back on them and say things like "I liked them before they went all pop. You should have heard their first 2 albums. That's when they were really good." But yeah, unless they change the location to Oregon's coast, you probably wouldn't find a single longboard anywhere. It's a short step to street luging or hang gliding being suggested. I actually think I saw hanggliding as a suggestion. Enjoy a brief ride off the highest tower of Devil's Castle as you can soar to a tree covered landing zone...cccccrrrrrrunch. I'm not saying they are bad ideas, as I actually would think all of those would be awesome and fun, but just not realistic

Idea 1: Once you die, and respawn, your body should become a Zombie. then you'd have to find your zombie self and kill it if you wanted to get your loot back. Idea 2: If you could pretend to be a Zombie, like have a Zombie Walk, so you could fool people from a distance (if they don't have a long range scope). These 2 together could make for some wild and zany times. I've never used Zany in a sentence before, and I'm not proud of my first time.

In real life all I've got is a Ushanka. Black, Pristine. But that's about it. Maybe a water bottle around here somewhere. And a screwdriver. that would be a boring picture.

Yeah, as soon as I posted it my friend told me that these were idiotic. Lots of coffee got me really excited about these. And ugh, that WiiU game. I didn't know it did that. Shame it blows.

Server hopping just ruins all the servers that I've tried to use. I get in my MO server, see tons of people, get ready for fun encounters, then by the time I run around a bit it's me and my friends left only. I'm still a tard at some things in this game but I didnt understand what was happening, how every major place would be empty but there would be no one on my server. I guess MO servers just blow. Is there any benefit to playing on a server thats close to home? I need to read more topics to figure this all out. And I guess this also explains why the past 3 dozen people I've chased into dead ends or open field have just disappeared. I thought they were ninjas that vanished into the scenery and I would freak out that I was being stalked. I've convinced my friends to play and I'm looking like a total prat. Stop hopping MO servers! Or do what you want. It's Alpha, and I still have a ridiculous amount of fun.

Touché. That is one of the many reasons I did not become a doctor. Or healer, for the mmo fan, medic in this case. Anywho, I had some when I used to get allergy shots, but never got to use it. Do you know how tempting it is to hold an auto injector in your hands and not use it on yourself? And now that I know it was basically artificial Adrenaline, I have so many regrets. But I stand by my earlier statement that morphine should be used on yourself. Morphine is, just, right on. (deep breath, lets out slowly) right on... Edit: But not in real life. Only in the game. There is a time and place for everything, and in rl it's college.

I have found that gates do not always follow this principle. In Zelen, all the gates on fences were open, but no doors were, and this was 530 am and nobody had set foot in any building.

Epipen or morphine? Either one is not adrenaline. Epi pen is to use to prevent yourself from passing out, and the morphine is to use when you get to a hunter's stand, have a few hours to mellow out, and enjoy one of the many good reads. Myself? I am currently balls deep in the Epic of Gilgamesh. I sure could use another morphine injection. Im sure it has other uses, but none better.

But it helps

Stop comparing the mod to the Standalone. I get they had ridiculous amounts of helicopters in certain modes. Well, the SA doesnt even have vehicles. Or completed cities if I'm not mistaken. Frankly the argument dies with "The Devs didn't attend for it to be PVE." You cant argue with that. You can go out and create your own game. We'll wait. Link it to this thread when you are done. In the meantime, you will play with the risk of dying. You will follow the rules. Or you can choose not to play. Not one person who bought the 850k copies sold will care. If you want to not die, go to Berezino rather than Elektro. It's not that hard. It takes time and patience, but you'll get the hang of it bud. But yeah, imo PvE servers sound incredibly boring. But that doesnt matter since I wont have to play on one. Because they are against the rules.

Sorry Max Planck. I shamefully admit I did it only to get a rise out of him. I usually am more respectful but sometimes I give in to immaturity. Plus he made an offensive comment about slavery or eke if never single out somebody.

I only mention this because the exploit had been removed, but a similar case of "poor log-out-spot choice." After a long day of looting mostly worthless junk and no bags in Elektro, I think of the brilliant plan of logging out in an area where, if I can log in early enough I will be in the prime spot to get geared up. Top of the prison tower? I've got to be the only person to think of that! As I soon found out, no, I wasn't the only one. When signing on I e my server's pop is oddly high for 4am. 22 people? Crap! My loot! So I hop on my server, and I come in the middle of an ongoing conversation. I'm instantly terrified. Then I hear "fine, stay in there but there are 6 of us and we'll get you both." that's when I hear the sound of feet running up the towers metal stairs. After all this, which took 10 seconds maybe, my screen loads. 3 men with gas masks are far below, but are definitely looking my way. "another guy on the top floor." the footsteps stop. All is silent and tense. One guy starts taking pot shots at me from the ground. My heart stops, then starts again in double tempo. I forget what I'm doing here in this dead end and just run in the only direction I can; down, towards others. The first four down I see the 2 that were initially in the hot seat vanish. The next floor down I hear multiple boots running a getting closer. As I stand, frozen in terror at the idea losing my one pristine can of sardines and my flashlight, I notice the arrow symbol for ladders. I click, and I'm telephoned outside, on a ladder. Then I hear a gunshot, hear some cussing about my exploitive nature (all very negative and graphic) and then one more shot to turn my screen black. You Are Dead.

First off, I read the title wrong. I thought this was going to be a post about removing the discussion of Third Person View from the forum. I chuckle softly to myself now as I realize how woefully naive I was, as I begin typing this on the 65th page (unless I take to long and it increases before I hit "Post") Second, Third Person View has too many supporters to remove. Way too many. Your asking a company to turn it's back on a good portion of a huge playerbase. Would people not buy this game without a 3rd Person View? It's a risk that isn't up to you to take. Third: 3rd Person camera angles would be nearly impossible to fix to impede views. Now phlOgistOn has some good ideas about changing zombie AI in 3PP:ON servers. I feel like loot placement should also be addressed, but from a programming point of view could be a nightmare. Basically it can either be coexist happily, or split the player base. I wonder why that is such a powerful point in these arguments. It seems like if an argument comes down to splitting the playerbase, then the argument is over. I feel that a split player base would still have large numbers of peoples. But I'd rather coexist. And cohabitate with any one of you. Fourth and finally: Arguments will never get their point across if you ruin them with your rudeness, ego, long posts (oh shit, I'm doing this now!) and more importantly your insecurities. How many posts does it take to defend your words? None. You dont have to. If someone insults you get over it. A forum is a place to put your thoughts out for a community to read and judge and ridicule. If you can't handle criticism, don't post. And opinion isn't fact. As an idiot named Tomme once pointed out, 3rd Person View is bad and therefore should be removed. And he really got pissed off when his obviously factual statement wasn't accepted by everyone.

"Wow, a direct answer without insulting or ridiculing the OP...a refreshing change for these forums " I'm fairly new to this game and to this forum community, and I have to agree that this is an incredibly refreshing and concise post.

So I met up with a guy outside the Berezino incomplete construction building. He wanted me to kill him so he could spawn in a better spot. So I took out my splitter Axe, and went to work. After a handful of blows to the head and upper body, he rplied "umm..." So I REALLY had some fun. I probably hit him 20 times. He was bleeding. The hits made sounds. His guy was moaning. So then he tried to commit suicide. He leaps off the top level, and then walks back over to me, healthy as a n ox, with multiple axe wounds with blood streaming from them. Then things get Really fun! He finds himself the axe I used to have, and then we just enter into a beautiful ballet of death. just running around, whacking eachother with the axe, bleeding everywhere, leaping off buildings, then BAM! All of a sudden he is crawling. Broken leg. After a 4 story fall? Broken Leg? Ok, so some things are kinda working. I try it out, but still walk away. Then I try to get the zombies attention, but they seemed pretty tired, and unresponsive. When I logged out and logged back in, I was a fresh spawn outside Soli. I am still new to DayZ and to what I call REAL computer gaming, but when I have experienced really bad lag, which is often since I have TWC, I cant interact with doors, see other players, pick up objects, or run to a location without rubberbanding back half a kilometer. But this felt like something else. What me and that other survivor experienced under the moonlight outside the unfinished building in Berezino was special. Or just lag doing things I never seen before. Either way, Fireman's Axe should be one hit kill to body and or head according to a website I choose to believe as fact.