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Two things I noticed upon starting back up with my character following the most recent patch: 1. On a private shard we didn't lose our characters, but all of the furniture on my AK101 is gone. I have the naked gun. Seems to shoot okay still, but not exactly a good situation to find myself in! 2. I killed a boar and attempted to butcher it. My character crouches and does an animation, but I can let minutes pass and nothing more occurs. If I try to use my mouse wheel, the only option is to cancel current actions. Anyone else seen these issues?

Well I am still disappointed in Incredipig. He was needed, hence the reason I ambushed him with my magnum!

An M4. I met a guy who somehow supped himself who gave me one at the factory near solichney. I didn't know he dipped himself at the time but in hindsight it's obvious. Anyway, I was in the pub north of there when the door opened. I freaked out and shot, killing the guy. This was only a week into the alpha, so early December 2013 I think?

There are millions of fire arms in Russia. It's shortly after the start of the outbreak. Melee combat is garbage. Guns are a perfectly acceptable inclusion.

No.

If you want to, the size of the map allows for most players to gear pretty quick. I have two characters with AKM right now. Mags are a premium, but if you play long enough, you can find the stuff you need. When you see the highlights, it seems more common. I don't throw a ton of stuff into looking for AKM and such since they can be gone in an instant. I like it when I find them, but only look briefly when the opportunity strikes. I find I am able to kill just as easily with the MP133 in most cases. AKM and MP133 are similarly effective at mid range, and few players can actually kill anyone at mid to long when you are running.

The number of servers with a 12 hour timer would be minute. It's not much different than the 1pp servers. There are comparatively few since server operators would actually like to have people come and play. Most people like a 3pp choice and few people would want a 12 respawn. They would swap servers and likely not come back.

I am too old to notice the difference. My wife already laughs when I lean in to try and figure out what I am looking at.

Thats great, if I polled 100 Americans, you would likely find MAYBE one who would even get close to starting a fire using anything other than a modern fire starting instrument. Sure you can try, but most people can't. Post apocalypse, people aren't going to be hunting for a fantasy book on how to make a friction plow or googling videos on it. A core pillar of the post apoc genre is the unpreparedness of society in the face of collapse. Most people aren't junior prepers finally living out their dream of social disorder. Unless the developers introduce backgrounds and sets of skills associated with them, I think the safer bet is to keep all players functioning as Every Men without specific training or skills in combat or survival. Besides, there are much more unusual things in the game right now, such as using a knife to carve perfect strip steaks or ribeyes without a saws or power tools.

The percentage of people capable of making a fire without matches is extremely low. All those survival videos people keep posting are fun, but the vast majority of people wouldn't know how to do any of those activities and most who watch them would struggle to mimic them anyway. I agree that being able to do make shift layers would be cool. Another option would simply be to reduce hypothermia rates in some way. This game shouldn't be about wilderness warriors by default. I am perfectly fine with the game representing the experiences of Joe Average as he finds himself lost in a pseudo Russian province.

Because the number of times you are going to die because you aren't immediately able to find matches or an axe are incredibly rare. If you are looking for set spawn points, I don't really agree with that. If you are looking to increase spawn rates on some items, I can see that, but I've not found matches that hard to find. I also don't think they are THAT essential to early survival.

Why shouldn't there be times when you arrive and face almost certain death? Thats the point. You drop me on the coast in Chernarus, I can tell you I am a dead man 9 out of 10 times.

Isn't this part of the point in this game? Looking for axes and matches, food and rain coats. Guns and a knife. This is what makes the game so fantastic. Also, though interesting, I do so love people posting youtube videos on how to open cans with pavement, mend clothes with cat intestines, tap trees, make fish hooks, work from home etc. Because I know if the apocalypse hit tomorrow, first thing I am doing is googling these hot tips!

I'm not even saying anyone should. I'm saying that's an additional easy option.

Food isn't an issue currently, neither packaged or found. You can easily kill enough animals to feed yourself. I grab canned food for the very short term, get a gun, set up and kill a couple animals, and from then on, food won't ever be an issue.

Is the pistol grip MP133 better than the normal one? I couldn't tell any difference.

I think the only solution is private hives. It is painless and actually sort of fun since you get multiple characters. It also fosters community since you end up operating within that given community, getting to know people, and eventually carving out a niche. Playing with friends is easy enough since they can simply join the server and go with it.

In the east Novo seems very popular. NWAF will always be popular. You were likely just unlucky!

It isn't really harder though since everyone has limited disability.

Night time is no harder. That makes no more sense than the 3pp versus 1pp argument that 1pp is harder. If everyone is playing within the same set of parameters, it is no harder or easier. What people dislike about night in many cases is that it is boring. It adds a little ambiance, but nothing in terms of real playability. It is cool in pieces, but as the main setting on a server, it is terrible. Concerning Caboose's assertion that people are playing the game for the wrong reasons, wanting limited access to vehicles isn't a wrong reason. In fact, if it is truly so close to the outbreak that fresh fruit is available, working automobiles wouldn't be all that rare.

Night time removes the visual effects. But you can't really avoid that, its night! People prefer 3pp and day time. It is what it is. I like a server that can run like a four hour cycle. 2.5 hours of day, an hour of dusk, half an hour of night. Get a nice combination of the different setting. Enough night to get the effect (and combined with dusk it would be cool) and the daytime to get the full effect of the game.

Yeah, lets run that simulation with a baseball bat. Currently it takes roughly 247 head shots with the baseball bat to kill a player, so we aren't exactly mirroring reality in DayZ yet!

Yes. You're cool.

Zombies were are far greater threat in the mod. Still lesser, but coupled with environmental effects, players should fall further down as a threat.

Like completely gone? As in no longer spawning and those in existence wiped?