Wernsley (DayZ)

SAW is exactly that...a SAW - Squad Automatic Weapon

I for one do care about how i look. You will never see me dressed in full mil gear with mask and ballistic helmet

Currently my character has been alive for about 5 to 6 weeks with over 250 hours under my belt and I do frequent high traffic areas and dangerous glitch spots, but i wouldn't call myself a pro though. I guess the trick is to see other people first and dont provoke a fight unless engaged by the opposing party, keep to cover at all times, know your surroundings and dont go looking for trouble: if you dont need to be in ELektro or Cherno or any of the airfields, dont go there. Also when your about to enter a town , first check the spots you would go to to check a town from a distance as other people might be having the same idea as you and are currently checking the town for movement. Example: On monday i was in/near Elektro and my buddies where near/in Dolina, so i went to them only to come to the town of mishta (directly south of Dolina, i saw movement about 500 mtrs away and immediatly took cover: the guy running , ran into the woods , stopped at the treeline and turned around to watch the town, not checking left or right from him , but just the town. I could have shot him without him ever seeing me, BUT i didn't for a couple of reasons: why was he checking the town? was there somebody else around he was giving overwatch for? Did he get shot and is he now looking for his attacker?Do i need any of his stuff? Normally when i leave a town i dont go and watch it for 10 minutes: i take the way with the most cover, turn around once to do one small check and then disappear into the woods, he ran straight through open field to the treeline. Hide/take cover above the tree line, the tree line is what people check first Gasmasks make you stand out like a sore thumb. Get iether the courier bag or the improvised backpack, i have been using it since stable and even with food with me i have enough room for all the other stuff. You dont need several hundred bullets: i have seen people carrying around allmost a 1000 5.56 only to be killed with 1 shot of my mosin in a medium range fight which they instigated. If your using a mosin , take both a pu and LRS along: PU for close and medium range engagements and the LRS for Medium plus to Longe range engagements. If you 1st spawn, dont head inland directly...everybody else is allready doing that Get a compass. Get a sewing kit to repair damaged clothing that you might find and like, finding another might take sme time Oh and 1 more thing: Lean

What most likely happened is that a player with 2 rifles logged out there. The weapon that your holding will be dropped on the ground in front of you when logging out to be picked up by someone else or left where it was placed till server restart. This is a bug which i allready reported.

I just searched the forum and couldn't find a clear answer to this. I noticed Dwarden stating in one thread that DayZ/Arma2/ToH uses UDP, but to my knowledge a lot of MMO's, online games and the likes use both. TCP for server info requests and UDP for game traffic. I have no knowledge of how the game is set up server/client wise , but if people are noticing a difference is there some form of TCP traffic? I'm having huge desync issues since yesterday for no real apparent reason other then a new virus scanner that was installed on another PC within the house and i'm trying to find out what the issue is and if its fixable

A small warning to one and all when dabbling with the improvised backpack: You have 2 forms: the courier one and the bigger improvised backpack one You create the bigger one from the courier bag by adding 1 more item, MAKE SURE YOU EMPTY THE COURIER BACKPACK FIRST, otherwise you'll lose all items left inside the courier bag

12 slot and 20 slot look exactly the same

Or maybe remove all attachments and ammo and then spray painting it. Remember that when you load a magn um for example and then drag the ammo away from the pistol again it only gives you 1 bullet

I'm normally very against killing on sight, but yesterday was fun. A friend and i were playing and another friend came online , but alas, unequiped as a new spawn, so we decided to head to him and he to us. While on team speak and heading his way he mentions he got shot and had to respawn, this went on for 3 or 4 more times and then we told him to lay low somewhere in a house, this was near elektro. When we came up to the city limits we saw a litteral bloodbath , dozens of dead new spawns lying around bleeding or dead , so we decided to have some fun ourselves. I went around the woods and told our new spawn friend to come out and be a bit in the open , while the other would get to a point where he can oversee several respawn points. We had to wait for about a minute when a mosin shot rang out and our newspawn friend was dead... and this was enough to pinpoint the dumbass. ! shot from my mosin lying down and he was dead. I ran to his corpse and sat in bushes about 10 mtrs away and waited, pistol out. My friend reported that the guy was heading out again to where his corpse was and took him out , the guy respawned and got taken out again, giving him a piece of his own medicine. by the 3rd time i told my friend on teamspeak he should let him walk , this was 6 minutes after i shot him. the guy arrived at his corpse i let him litteraly look at it , said "i see dead people" in a whispering voice and headshot him with my pistol 10 seconds later. Now the fun thing: he spawned right next to my newspawn buddy at a pier near solnitchy or something and started to cry and whine that he lost all his stuff and "those stupid KOSíng" assholes killed him, while he was crying there we led a few newspawns we picked up a bit south of solnitchy who had been shot by the guy in elektro , we burlapped them just before we got there and told them we had a suprise waiting for them, my buddy had found a few bats in surrounding houses and left them in the hanger like building. When we got there we removed the burlaps and told them to head into the warehouse to get the bats and told them the guy who shot them was on the pier. Newspawn buddy ran away and we watched through our scopes as the guy was beaten to unconsciousness a few times and then got axed by a guy who found a splitting axe in a nearby building. Moral of the story: what comes around , goes around

Sorry , i dont record my games for posterity. We had 2 burlaps to be used as new backpacks ...offcourse no rope to be found no where. That last part indeed is :) I must admit it took some planning to get everything to work near flawelessly , but we had some time to plan as we had to walk from the new town to where needed to be. I dropped my axe and so did my buddy to pick up the baseball bats and put them in the warehouse at the pier (the one with the containers around it). One lovely server reset or a hostile player encounter would have screwed our plan , so we were kinda lucky

This post is mostly directed @Rocket and @hicks and the rest of the dev team and also to gauge the opinion of the rest of the community. Imagine that you just had a new patch applied and you start up the game again, you walk around for a bit and suddenly find an AK, while in the release notes there was nothing mentioned of this. Overly happy that you found this you start looking around and find a russian made scope other then the PU one and drag it over the AK...presto What i'm trying to say is that i think that it would be one hell of a lot more fun to try and find things out on our own and maybe get the precise released new detailed features with a next patch. For example state that a few new crafting recipes have been added : 2 for weapons and 5 for clothing...but dont mention what, this will also get people to try out stuff and maybe give suggestions on what else could be possible. Same goes for the weapons: 3 new weapons added including 2 new mods per weapon. Let the users themselves find what they are and where to find them. To me this sounds a lot more fun and a lot more like a real sandbox game where you really have find out yourself what everything is for and what there is to find and then showing it off to the rest of the forum users. Your opinions? ++edited because title was somewhat misleading/incorrect++

No its not , that should be gorka or something

Nah i'm not mad :)

Ehm no , why would i? For that matter i would much rather preffer that users running experimental branch release get an NDA to accept which runs until a few days after stable release so people cant release whats in the patch and let other find out for themselves in those few days. +edit+ And if your response is going to be "dont read those posts on the board", well thats would be possible if people didn't post what they found in the topic Thread title.

or after 1 or 2 weeks of play/testing

Let me rephrase it then, because the point is pretty clear: main testing is ussually done before experimental and stable releases , what your testing is what features do when under load (at least thats what the best practises state for testing software) if i combine that with what Dean has said on monthly updates, i guess there is enough time to test the features Making it "harder"? i'd say making it more "fun" to test (and play a game) What do you do when playing? Do you try to combine stuff? try to use items on items? walk past the known map? See what accuracy a LRS has when badly damaged vs pristine? Or do you go ahead and try and find the best gear you can find and "hunt" "bambi's"? What i'm trying to say is that you can still test things and see how they work, maybe also turning this game a bit from a KoS fest that it sometimes is, to a sandbox survival game.

In essence your still testing, and the main testing phase has allready been done before you get your hands on it in the experimental branch release.

Does anybody know or can the devs ellaborate whats going to be in this next update? Seeing it in the server list sparked my curriousity

What i currently can make from the version number that is beein tested on the internal server is that is a somewhat major release (from 0.30 to 0.31) and from what i know from certain ways of numberring versions the highest amount of fixes/ bug/features resolved (4008 to 4160) Can any Mod/admin/dev please confirm?

Possibly...or the other 76% of the respondents get to be pushed into a position they werent in before. Today i tried it: I got shot at and the guy shooting me missed, i remove myself somewhat from the area and where i would normally have logged, i turned around and flanked , eventually shooting the guy while he was looking for me, including his 2 friends. The same happened in dubkovny or something: get shot at, get hit, bandage and desinfect, (normally i would log by this point or remove myself further from the area and then log) , i flank , find 1 guy covering the city, axe him and snipe the guy inside the town when i see him exiting a building.

Do you have some sort of ETA for it though? as in week, weeks , dayz? (hours?) :)

I must add that i allways escape first, heal,desinfect, eat, drink and then log. So in a way it indeed does not apply to me , because in that timeframe the other user still has the chance to kill me. I feel that when the game has been ironed out and has left alpha and beta, that there is no excuse to combat log, but right now i sometimes dont even get to test certain things or try to reproduce a bug or a glitch to be able to accurately report it , because i get shot and have to run from the coast again. Logging then helps me to remove myself from the situation to continue what i was doing on another server. If i am out and about during a normal evening, not trying out stuff, i wont combat log: if i get shot i get shot , if i die I die.

I havent missed what DayZ standalone is about. DayZ is about interaction with other players, if the game was PvP only there would be no degradation of items when beeing shot at. CoD is PvP, Battlefield is PVP, MOHAA is PvP, DayZ is something greater, but due to a lot of peoples though proccess it has become largely a PvP fest. This is also due to the state that the game is currently at. If you see people moving in position, engage them by all means, if i would , i would do the same, but i would fire a warning shot first, Thats my play style. If i get shot at and i'm not in the mood to kill the guy shooting at me , then i combat log Please tell me what EXACTLY DayZ is about according to you?

Sorry but thats a non argument and also the excact problem currently with the game in its current state. "There is nothing more to do, lets go kill other people, trying to ruin there day" , I encountered the exact same thing at the start of online gaming in a game called UO: players who had nothing to do started to annoy and grief the roleplayers, because they where having fun doing what they do. But to answer your question: i was trying out stuff, to see if Dean had added other things to combine other then the butane tank and the lamp/gasstove. I was also trying to hone my skills with the mosin at range at zombies.

Yep i combat log on occassions. and why... This game is about interaction with other players , not PvE, not PVP , but interactions with other players. I ussually try to communicate with people who i meet, if they then decide to fight me , i'll fight back, if they decide to rob me no problem iether. If i am minding my own business, rifle lowered or no weapon equipped and someone from somewhere suddenly empties his m4 in my general direction, i go around a corner and i indeed combat log, because that person is trying to ruin my experience and gains nothing from my death , because he most likely has every item at pristine. Thats not PvPing , thats griefing. I did it today to be precise , i was scavenging for items , no weapon drawn (not even melee) and suddenly someone fires at me and hitting me, i escape and combat log.