Steely_D89

Only thing I don't like about first person is the inability to turn your head... Not very realistic IMHO. Having the option to Alt about 45 degrees in either direction in first person would solve it for me. You'd no longer be able to look around corners really but could at least survey your surroundings without having to swivel your body around all the time.

Anybody know why Antibiotics give you a "sick" message and the constant message "my wounds look cleaner". I don't know that this character has ever taken damage of any kind yet and this kind of concerned me. Checked around and it seems to be normal and goes away after a while... Wouldn't have taken it if I knew this would happen. Pretty random.

Personally I've got 2 of the coupled mags, 1 30 round mag and then 2 piles of 30 rounds. As others have said, I don't think it's reasonable to go through a lot of rounds in a firefight. They're usually pretty short... With the 60 round mags, I feel like I'll be dead or they'll be dead before I need to load a different mag haha. I dropped an ammo box with about 150 rounds in it in favor of 2 more cans each of food and soda. EDIT: You can also typically count on pulling ammo from armed players you kill to restock after the fight.

Oddly enough I've only ever found sodas in the back of police cars... Only Mosin I ever saw was in an apartment building in one of the Northern cities. This occurred after I dropped 40 or so rounds for it, bipod and worn scope thinking I'd never find one and they were just taking up space haha.

I've seen a lot of players saying that they refuse to use maps online for those reasons and others. I personally think that when you enter an area/town it should let you know where you are. In my mind this "story" involves a character from the area that would at least know the main towns etc... Unless I just washed up on shore from a very far ways away and have no idea where the heck I am. Haven't seen too much on the "origins" of this game besides being told it's us that writes it haha. In my mind external maps are fair game.

Thanks for this by the way. Better quality map than the two I was using... This one is literally 10% bigger than those two... On the wiki map and the other I had used you can't even see anything further north than Krasnostav and Petrovka really.

Well Casey and Soupy you were correct. It must have been up there. I poked my head out of the trees and came across what I believe to be Guba. I guess I can head to the NEAF anyway. Wanted to make it to NWAF one day but that will have to wait haha.

@Applejaxc Huh? What cheating do you speak of? As I said, I'm using the map on the wiki as well as from DayZHQ. @MySoup117 On my trek up here I was good with going town to town and finding my direction via the sun. At night I've been using the North Star. Unfortunately this railway is in the midst of a forest/hilly range and I haven't even seen any buildings for the last while... @CaseyJones I'd be SUPER surprised if I was that far East... I only ended up at the train station 20-30 minutes ago and that's after I'd been heading West for a long time from Devils Castle the other day. I'll let you guys know where I was once I find something of note to find myself haha.

Hey guys, I've been playing for a while now and typically haven't had problems finding my way around using maps online. However, this is the first time I've made it North and this time I don't have a compass... I made it near Devils castle again and headed West and somehow missed the airfield. After that I wandered around awhile until I was so far North/West that there was nothing. Then I headed down and found a railway. I followed it North/East and found a train yard that had a station area and a parking lot. Now, I thought that the dotted lines I was looking at on my map were railways but it turns out after about 45 minutes of walking they're actually "dirt roads" haha. According to the maps I keep finding of Chernarus they don't show ANY rails up North anywhere and they don't show ANY rail yards either. Am I literally off the current established map or are these maps just outdated? The rails are heading East mostly now and I guess I'm just going to keep following them. I've been using the map on the wiki as well as the map on dayzHQ. Any tips on a better map and any tips on just where the hell am I?

First time playing today in 4 days. Started the game and saw the picture of my character on startup. When I joined a server I was a fresh spawn. I quit and joined a different server a few minutes later after chatting with a friend and then I was back on my original character with full gear and miles away from my fresh spawn self.

Hmm. Seems people want a long logout time... I think 10 seconds defeats combat logging. If I need to get off the computer I don't want to wait 30 seconds or more to make sure I don't die before logging out just so I can get up and let the dog out. I picked option 2 on the building vote, but I want a mix of the 2. The only thing i don't like from the first option is fortifying towns. I think the towns should be a no go zone for building anything but tank traps/barricades/wire fencing etc. I don't want to login one day and find out that the most powerful clan on that server now has fortifications in Balota and the NWA making the server a dead zone. Also, if we're going to be wanting build options like RUST I think we're going to need to wait for a lot of updates to the map to make it bigger. Last vote I don't know how to defeat hopping really... It's a bummer to be confined to 1 character per server seeing as things change on servers. I also play at really odd hours that change each day so I never play on the same server. Sometimes I specifically want a day time server so I "hop" 3-4 times before I can find one that A) is day time B) Doesn't have terrible ping and C) isn't super packed when I'm just starting out. Not sure how to defeat hopping itself though.

Ugh.. I've died falling even lower than that off those stairs. I literally make a point of not going in any castles and barns for this very reason.

I'd seen .357 ammo around but never bothered to pick any up. First day playing the new patch and I already found my first Mosin and a Magnum sitting around. No room to take them but it was cool to see. Thanks Devs!

I've never found a Mosin so I really don't know the answer you're looking for. However, I don't see anyone here talking about the "long range scope". I'm almost 100% sure I've seen 1 or 2 before... I'v never picked them up simply because the Mosin is so rare. Any info on the long range scope? EDIT: Wiki says it is "zoomed to 200m and can be set to 800m" but the article is quit incomplete.

That's a rough go... I'm super paranoid about desyncing and server refreshes when I'm anywhere near anything military... I had a server go down once when I was IN a barracks and when I logged into the server I thought I just came from there were two guys at the other end of the hall haha. I made it about 20 feet out the door and then got kicked from the game (Turns out it was a "private" server).