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Using the bow needs to be made more appealing. At the moment it is far easier to get a weapon and ammunition, not to mention a thousand times more useful, seeing as how 40 rounds of pistol ammo, or 20 rounds of rifle ammo, takes up one slot, while 5 arrows take up two slots in your inventory. I suggest letting players craft their own arrows from sticks. For the arrow heads you can use flint which you could scavange for in the sand near the coast, sort of like how you pick apples or berries. Fletching them with chicken feathers you could scavenge for in barns, again, same way you do with berries and apples. This would give people a reliable way of getting arrows, and would make the bow a valid weapon to use. Because right now, getting a mosin and a couple of hundred rounds of ammo, is a hundred times easier than getting everything needed for a bow, and a hundred times more useful as well. As for bowstrings. Traditionally you would use chewed animal sinew. So if you haven't found rope, tendons could be harvested from dead animals and fashioned into string. Of course you would need a way to kill the animal first, which brings me to my last suggestion. Sharpened sticks. At first you could just get an ash wood stick and sharpen it with a knife, but once you got rope or animal tendons, you could attach flint pieces to it to make a primitive spear.

Headshots on zombies should always be a one hit kill, even with a screwdriver. Destroy the brain and all that jazz.

I hope so. Although I wish they wouldn't implement stuff that makes it harder to fight zombies, before fixing zombie behaviour. They still spot you through walls, and they still run straight through solid objects.

Anyone else getting consistent crashing when changing servers? I can join a server fine, but when it restarts, or I quit to play with someone on a different server, whenever I join a different server, it crashes. Every single time. It's getting really annoying. Never happened before this patch.

Agreed. I'm not going to go around picking up every piece of paper in the hopes that it MIGHT have something written on it. If it says "paper with scribbles" however, I'm going to read it.

Agreed.

'Mon then, you chubby coon! I'll set yer beard on fire!

Yes, I forgot about that intrical part of submarine warfare where you get out of the submarine and hide amongst the waves, pouncing on unsuspecting enemy uboats like some sort of aquatic panther.

That OREL camo sure looks ridiculous.

Speaking of chinese knockoffs, I would really like some chinese camo gear. Specifically Type 07 camo.

Did they add a gorka jacket, or is it just the pants for now?

You must be new around here. Most of this isn't going to happen. Ever. There will be no health bars, there will be no respawn options, there will be no name tags. Learn to tell your friends apart by looking at them. Make everyone wear bright red caps if that's what it takes. This isn't an MMO, you're going to have to work for things around here. If you're going to tell your friends apart from anyone else, it's because you made the effort to memorize what type of clothes they're wearing, and because they let you know whenever they change their gear.

People aren't really complaining about balance or inequalities. They're complaining about being a master sniper in DayZ being child's play. Being a sniper is hard. I know a couple, and it's pretty much all maths. They don't just shoot on instinct, they have cheat sheets to help them range their scopes and compensate for wind, altitude, air density, atmospheric pressure, humidity, you name it. In the game though, it's point and click at the moment. If you give sniper rifles all of the advantages of being able to stay at long distances, picking people off, without any of the drawbacks, it's going to make for a not so fun game for anyone who doesn't have a sniper rifle. Why do you think scopes have all of those nice squiggles and stuff? That's not just for show, those are tools to help you do maths. Here, read the first segment of this article: http://www.cracked.com/article_20052_5-weapon-myths-you-probably-believe-thanks-to-movies.html This part in particular: "Snipers aren't deadly because they carry the biggest guns; they're deadly because they've learned how to weaponize math." Truer fucking words were never said.

Finding rope is too difficult at the moment. Burlap sacks and rope make for a great newbie backpack, but the way it works now, finding a real backpack is ten times easier. These items need to be more common. Especially in industrial places and on farms.

Haven't you been paying attention? Yes, pretty much. If getting handcuffed, having your pants stolen, and being force-fed rotten fruits and disinfectant bothers you, clearly you're in the wrong place. Because that's pretty much this game in a nutshell. Either you get manhandled by sexual deviants, or you get shot on sight, more often than not by someone who though you were the sexual deviant, and were merely protecting themselves.

First of all, you mean S&M. And secondly, if you're not into that, why did you even buy DayZ in the first place?

Maybe we should add a radar will blips showing anyone running or shooting a weapon for you, too? I mean since you don't want to be blind. We should probably add name tags above everyone's heads too, just so you know who killed you. And a kill cam. And messages when you try to drink disinfectant, telling you "this is dangerous, please reconsider". DayZ is a "thing" and that "thing" is very a specific type of game. One that doesn't give you a lot of information. It forces a lot of things on the players. Either like it or fuck off.

Disintegrating a body is not a viable tactic. If you don't want people to get the gear. Sit there and guard it.

I play a lot of 3rd person, but I can't even argue that it's easy mode. You can stand behind a wall and look over it with your magic floating invisible camera of cheatingness. It gives KOS noobs a huge advantage when stalking unsuspecting players.

It's belgian though.

"To seek and eat, to hide and die." Inspiring words. Puts Churchill to shame, he does. Their Finest Hour is garbage compared to this.

OP is a brilliant orator, I'm going to put that shit in my sig.

.22 LR can kill someone. It's not effective at it, but it can certainly happen. Shooting someone in the head is supposedly super effective, since the round doesn't have enough power to go through the skull twice, it just bounces around inside the brain. Pretty brutal.

You went to Balota... Might as well go to Electro on a full server, with pants on. Here's a tip: Every single airfield in the game has at least 2 guys waiting to shoot anyone that comes close to it. Even if you're on a server with only 3 people, you and 2 others, they're both going to be camping the airfield that YOU are walking towards. Just stop going to airfields if you don't want to die.