Solopopo

Yeah, that's the kind of thing I'm talking about. Mysterious threats lurking in the wilderness of Chenarus.

Are you setting the range of your weapon? Use pageup and pagedown to set the distance of your target in meters. Also, bullets drop after traveling a certain distance. Mosin bullets drop to the left. Don't aim for the head all the time, just try to land any shot at all. Chances are it will kill them. Crouch when you fire. If you can prone that's even better. Also, make sure you aren't breathing too heavy. You can't whip out your gun after sprinting a mile and expect to hit your target. Make sure the attachments on your gun are in good condition. Scopes increase range. Also, make sure you are healthy. All of this affects accuracy. One slow careful shot is all it takes. Take your time, and do everything you can to improve your accuracy before you fire. Your second shot won't be easier.

Hive, mode and time columns in server browser http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/165709-pending-changelog-experimental-branch-031114343/ Items will probably still wipe every once in a while, but we will be able to see what hive we are joining, so we won't be doing it to ourselves anymore.

No

Ten minutes is too short imo. 15-20 sounds about right

No one but hackers should be getting banned at this point. With that said, I think server hopping/ghosting is ruining the game. The game was not meant to be played as if we are magical teleporting people jumping through alternate dimensions, trying to get into a good position to kill another jumper, or trying to get that loot before any other jumper does. DayZ is not supposed to be the movie Jumper

There we go. I was waiting for someone to jump in that knows what he's talking about, haha :thumbsup:

A lot of people on the boards advise having a list of servers you know are safe in your favorites. I've been doing it and I haven't been wiped in a week.

My understanding is that your items get reset if you join the wrong server/hive. Maybe I'm wrong.

I kill players who are threats, or players who I think have items I want. I don't kill if I stand nothing to gain from it.

Those items are gone because they are taken by server hoppers. Hopping is the problem, not the solution. Hey, I just ran a mile to this new town, but all it's shit is gone because people are intermittently signing into the building where the Mosin spawns. What am I to do? Run to the next town and hope that a server hopper hasn't taken all the good stuff there? Nah, I think I'll just server hop. It really is ruining the game.

For the moment I'm okay with this. I don't want people with better rigs having an advantage just because their computer enables them to see farther.

I won't miss the m4 spawns unless they make the m4 better. Mosin all the way. You'd think that the m4 would be better at close range, but that isn't really the case. The Mosin is just better all around at all ranges. Actually, at the moment, every other gun sucks in comparison. I don't even bother with sidearms anymore.

Camping respawns? You don't deserve to call yourself a bandit. Worst thing I ever did was server hop at the top of the military base in the woods north of NWAF looking for unsuspecting players looting. I had never killed anyone at this point and I was fully geared. Didn't find anyone so I gave up. I signed back on an hour later and lo and behold there was a player prone looking for me on the lower platform (he heard me log in). He was so unlucky. I logged on with a perfect shot on him from above. I learned how inaccurate the m4 was that day. He was geared with a pistol, some ammo, a shovel, and a small green backpack. He must have ran straight to the base after spawning (this was before the spawns were changed.) What a waste of time LOL

What's wrong with windows?

I'll give you some and you can figure it out for yourself. :D

It's pretty obvious if someone is a bandit. If they are patrolling around with their gun raised, they're bandits, it's that easy. Masks of any kind are also usually a dead giveaway. People in SA already dress accordingly.

I'd like to see zombies without the ability to go through walls. Same goes for flashlights. I'd also like to see the return of day/night and weather. I'd also like for the items in the game that don't work yet (suppressor, bayonet, duct tape, etc.) to work. I'd really like to see hunting implemented as well. edit: I remembered while playing just now that I'd also like to see an option in the inventory to eat all of something with one button, instead of left and right clicking over and over again. I'd like to see swapping and picking up items work without stalls or glitches. Waiting for a dropped item to reappear on the ground (if it ever does), or waiting too long for your weapon to raise at critical moment, can be frustrating. I've noticed that gates can be difficult to open and close too. I gave up on closing one behind me yesterday and it resulted in my position being given away and the death of my survivor :(

Is there a reason you can't just swim back? Am I missing something?

This. The game world is huge and there are no loading screnes. It doesn't seem like much but that's hard to pull off. Just think, at any point in time there could be a firefight a mile away from your location. You don't see it, you dont hear it, but your computer is still processing that information. You'll find the aftermath laying on the ground when you get there. If you had a scope you might have even been able to witness it. It's pretty crazy when you really think about it.

It sounds to me that you're just bad.You need to be careful and patient in DayZ. Because it's an alpha you need to be even more careful and patient. Based on that wall of text, it doesn't seem that you possess either of those qualities. Maybe CoD is more your style.

Have fun starving.

They always show up at the most bizarre times. If I just ran a mile to try and get loot from my corpse back, there's a bunny next to my body. If i'm in the middle of a firefight there's a bunny at my feet, etc. I can't wait until you can kill them. They're creeping me out.

I heard somewhere that your voice can be broadcast over the server if you're speaking when you log on.

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