Leo Balzac

or maybe rob someone, take their crap then shoot them if you're that desperate?

OH MY GOD!!!! A BANDIT!!!! DOWNVOTE DOWNVOTE DOWNVOTE!!

This is a minor inconvenience. I sometimes have to server hop to find a server that suits both me (NA player) and my friends (EU/UK players). It can sometimes take us 10 different servers to find the right fit, and once we get one, we don't leave. Anyway, this will make the process longer for us, but if it stops the daily "ERMAHGERD HOPPERZ!!!!!111!1111!" threads (it won't), then it's worth it.

It's strange, I've heard many people complain of the ladder glitch, but I've never personally experienced it. I use ladders fearlessly.

I tend to sit around the NEAF waiting for people to come for loot. I don't have a kill yet as I keep falling asleep while waiting. Rocket needs to get harmonicas in-game so I can play the blues while waiting.

Yes, can I request you delete all the unstickied topics in both the General Discussion and New Player area please. ;)

$30, over 60 hours of entertainment so far. If the Devs were to say "This is all we're doing, sorry." tomorrow, I'd be disappointed but I wouldn't be angry or feel ripped off. OP must've worked for Creative Assembly, they're one of the only Dev house I know that regularly publishes Beta versions and calls them complete. I'm also quite shocked at the number of people who are on this forum and play this game who are developers, it's quite shocking. Every 5th person who posts here seems to be a developer. So you'll have to excuse me when you claim to be a dev of AAA titles while offering no evidence and ask me to believe you. tl;dr: I am entertained, if it was all to end now I still would have gotten my money's worth.

Interesting analysis Robert. I must say that I've shot a ton of different 7.62x54R in both surplus (Chinese, Czech, Russian) and newly made (mainly Sellier & Bellot, MFS or Priv Partisan) and have yet to come across actual cracked casings. In terms of dirtyness, definitely the corrosive primers make some of the ammo "dirtier" but I personally have not seen a huge discrepancy between surplus ball ammo from different nations. You're bang on with the ammo accuracy though, certain grain bullets just seem to perform better than others, especially with different firearms. My 91/30 loves 165-175 gr ammo but my SVT fill have FTF malfunctions with anything less than a 203 gr (and this is with gas regulator adjustment). I'm just not sure how bogged down into reality we need to get here though. Anyway, great input!

RL dispersion rates are affected by chokes etc. The only real way to tell would be to get your hands on one of these and fire it. I suspect they were made with a fixed cylinder or improved cylinder choke which would explain the large shot spread. You also wouldn't be able to fire any slugs though tighter chokes.

Next time buy through Steam and avoid the trouble :) goodluck!

Meh. Maybe. As a fresh spawn I sprint away from the coast regardless because I've been spawn killed too many times plus I have no gear to care about anyways.

You're pretty close, the gun you're thinking of (with the distinctive 'ping' sound) is the M1 Garand which did hold 8 rounds in the enbloc clip. The Springfield is a bolt action rifle with 5 round magazine. A minor detail, you had it mostly correct anyways.

Heh. I get a laugh out of an obvious KoSer complaining about no player interaction in game.

hah, you DO know that there are maps online that show you exactly where these two sites are right? Not exactly a secret but carry on.

lol. Kids. Who comes to a game's official forum and asks for a very elaborate, step by step breakdown on how to pirate said game. Reminds me of the folks who pirated Game Dev Tycoon then went on the forum complaining that their company was destroyed by pirates..lol. In fact, BI and Rocket should put a DayZ SA torrent out there with tons of bloatware and spawns you on the 'Pirate' servers surrounded by zombies. Every time.

I'd prefer no NATO weapons at all. That's just a collector of russian firearms talking though.

Indeed fukkit. I operate behind a firewall and so generally get better performance when I forward ports. I'm no network engineer, but it's always one of my first steps when trying to improve my playing experience. As I stated above I doubt my forwarding had much of an effect but it takes me all of 5 mins to set up, so....

I forwarded the same ports listed for ARMA 2 and experienced an extremely marginal improvement in ping and desync. So marginal that I cannot even be sure that it was the result of port forwarding or not.

well that was boring.

Only if there's a chance of hauling in a zombie. Hah

Well, some people are gonna play the way they want to play. This is the beauty of DayZ. I don't begrudge your feelings of frustration, lord knows I've had my fair share of "wtf, why did you just kill me?" moments, but they were all my fault. Not being stealthy enough, not checking corners etc. KoSing can be minimized by a few actions on your own part. Does it slow you down a bit? Yes, of course, but let us not forget the fable of the Tortoise and the Hare. Anyway, keep having fun and good luck out there!

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/154395-can-i-run-dayz-retail-post-here/#entry1545538 ^

Gizzur: I only get 1-2 hours every few nights to game and have plenty of fun with DayZ. Your first few sessions might be a bit boring with more running than anything else, but once you get somewhat geared up and start running into other players, you'll be having fun. Good Luck and beware of ladders.

I like the current system. If you can't adapt, well, bye.

Clouds ALWAYS move west to east, so that can help in navigation as well.