Maia (DayZ)

Servers arent up, read through maybe the last page? lol

Yeah, there are people on the dev experimental servers and there are 3 of their servers up now as opposed to 1 I was seeing up last night.

People who are afraid of fresh spawns need to A. Stop camping them and B. Wear a motorcycle helmet. Typically if I'm a fresh spawn being threatened by someone with a gun, the only reasons I managed to punch them out are because of the lack of motorcycle helmet (keep one in your backpack and switch to it for interaction, its not hard) and the fact that they are looking for trouble (or batteries) in a place they shouldn't be hanging around (after about 10 fresh spawn hold ups Id be surprised if you're not knocked out). Also if you're going to coast camp, be more aware of your surroundings so fresh spawns can't sneak up on you and take some target practice. I can't tell you how many times I've punched out m4 campers that fire at least 40 (out of a 60 round clip) and not hit me once.

I love the ability to do this, and I have taken full advantage of a well placed swing. I hope they don't change it. You run the risk of being punched out or worse if you hang around fresh spawn locations, if you want to help them you know already that you run this risk.

This. Very much this. I have tested and confirmed several times. I have punched out hostile geared folks and taken their stuff but as im strolling through the town someone will loot the body and gear up and try to kill me, so I have to punch them out too. (then I hid the body and didnt have the problem again on that server). Typically if I get a good kill and want a lot of the loot, I take what I want and change servers Provided that I'm in a rural area or safe location (not a military base) and that I am not in the middle of a firefight or missing an ally (otherwise how would I cover them while we regroup D:). After changing servers you will not lose the loot, chances are the body will become unlootable no matter how often you try... or perhaps you can gain infinite loot from it. I usually hide them when I leave too to be safe but not always since they are supposed to poof after 10 min anyway.

I really dont know how this isn't already in the game.

I found two on the same server the other day. One was in a barracks in balota, on one of those bunk beds. The other I found was sitting on a table in the control tower on the top floor. They still spawn, finding one is like winning the lottery almost though. IMO this is about how rare guns should be lol

The town itself is pretty good for loot (lot of orange and tall buildings), however as previously stated the new buildings don't have loot yet though they are interesting and I like the ideas. Hopefully fire stations will stop spawning firearms and focus more on support gear when police stations start spawning firearms/stab vests/anti-riot gear anyone? I'd also like to see these new buildings spread throughout the towns of dayz. It seems like most larger towns would have a police station and the hospital building seems like it would be good for the smaller towns

Didn't know cars still spawned loot. Haven't found a single item in a car since the update. Schools, tech, and office buildings as well as just about any orange building are where I usually find mine.

DayZ pretty much

Hopefully it'll be mega rare to compensate lol

Yeah green ammo is definitely more rare. I haven't found any yet since the update. Seems like maybe the shotgun should have a higher knockout rate or something if it's going to be so weak lol At least then it might be some sort of nonleathal ranged weapon (or they could just give us those bean bag guns that police use)

Some of the new stuff wasn't mentioned. You just drag the rope over the burlap sack and it gives you the option to craft the pack. Then grab sticks over your improvised courier bag and it'll give you the option to craft the improvised backpack. The scavenger backpack isn't in the game to my knowledge. And yes, rope+burlap sack = 12 slot then add sticks to the courier backpack (12 slot one) to make the 20 slot improvised backpack.

It's very flat which is nice if you like to snipe (or even just lurk laying down at places or from places). You can keep your items without a bulky backpack sticking up through a window. It's also beige which makes it kind of blend in with certain terrains that most other backpacks (besides hunting) wouldn't blend in with. Generally I don't wear a backpack, but if I do decide to wear one it'll be an improvised one most likely.

They do need to make ammo more rare, guns are slowly getting to the right rarity but could be a little more rare as well. The common situation people need to be in after a bit of gameplay (days, or a week) is having a gun with very limited shots so that people really have to decide if it's worth engaging someone as hostile, friendly, or avoiding them. I'm sure it'll get to this point, but there will be a lot of complaints along the way. I also can't wait for military grade weapons to be less common, m4's and such should be really extremely rare. Pistols should definitely be the most common, but more rare than they are right now (or at least a lot less common in certain places like military bases and fire stations). People who want a fast paced action, first person shooting kind of game might want to find another game..

I hope they make more craftable items like this (like clothes and suchwhat), in my opinion the best items should be craftable ones (maybe in terms of inv space items). Good tip though, I've confirmed this as well.

When I first saw the walkie talkie I thought all I had to do was turn it on and talk and it would go through the selected channel. When that didn't work I thought you had to put it in your hand, which you can't. I thought it was broken until I read somewhere that you need to hit a random key to change your chat settings. I wouldn't have thought I'd need to change chat settings unless I read it somewhere (IE: in the description)

Its too bad there isn't instructions on the description, most people will avoid using these items because of the fact you have to "figure out how to use them" or have it explained to you (either way its going to take 2 people or research). Can anyone confirm if you can set a radio on the ground turned on and still hear whoever might be talking on it? (IE: drop it in a bush, wait for someone to pass by, and scream into the 2nd radio you have from the saftey of a treeline)

lol friends and I (4 of us in total) all have burlap sack hats, half of us have burlap sack backpacks. We are the bag head united heroes :D... most people just run from us though :(

Friend and I tested them, couldnt get them to work.Batteries, same channel, etc. Has anyone else actually tried? Maybe our battery was dead or something

I've had a few good fights, but really any fight wherein which the numbers are pretty even and neither side is instantly assassinated is a good fight whether my side wins or loses. Had a good 5 vs 4 fight yesterday where everyone involved ended up dying, even about three fresh spawns that happened to run in the middle of the fire fight. I like the thrill of a good fight, I mean I enjoy wiping the floor of an armed enemy team too but I think I prefer a good challenge.

So silly that they removed it. Better remove type chat, voice chat, and killing from the game. It's a zombie apocalypse game wherein which you can kill other humans if you're bored. It's clearly not a kids game, if you get offended by a piece of paper you find on this game you need to find another game lol

Might as well make it pretty easy to loot stuff right now while everyones killing each other and random resets. It can be hard later when things are rarer and staying alive from zombies/starvation/bears? is tougher.

My group and I (total of 4 people today) went on trying to help fresh spawns and travelers today as well. We hung out at the factory north of Solnichniy. We mostly dressed in relatively basic gear and taloon backpacks except for 1 camo'd out spotter. To keep it pretty short, because there was a lot of encounters, we actually ran into more hostiles than friendlies it seemed. We ran into about three or four separate individuals who stopped and interacted with us, then after giving them melee weapons/food/clothes(from unfriendly people we stripped) they tried flanking us and trying to kill one of us for a gun. Each time, we had to put them down. We ran across maybe 4 people that flat out attacked us on sight, another 3 that were maybe downright friendly. We had three fresh spawns come in at once from different directions and actually manage to take one of us down, however I put the hurt on him shortly after, then the server reset. The last guy we came across came in playing music, we gave him a few requests which he played, then two fresh spawns came in and tried killing him/us and almost immediately after taking them down the server reset so we called it a night. Yeah, if I ever go hero (which is more often than not) I always have at least 1 spotter that keeps an eye on the situation (preferably a good shot sniper with a mosin or camo'd person with an m4). I usually try to wear like a blue plaid shirt with a press vest so it all blends together, black or grey cargo pants which seem pretty basic, and I try not to have a mosin or m4 (stick to fnx if I can)

Pretty hard to make credits when the dev team isn't (likely) complete yet. Maybe when we hit beta or something they'll have a more complete list.