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I said that in the quote you quoted.. And how can i not come to that conclusion when you write: Personally I think sniping is a very low level of gameplay, chosen by those unable to play the game any other way,

Of course not. Bad behavior as a human being is not ok, and kids like you describe should get one warning and then banned for life. That's my personal opinion on that kind of behavior. But this kind of behavior has of course nothing to do with the play style. Play style is one thing. Behavior as a person is something else. I guess most of this kids play as sniper, but even so there is snipers out there who are respectful, play by the rules and just like to be a sniper. These sniper is of course not a "low level" like the dude i was replying said. And they belong in Chernarus just as much as any committed survivor/hero or regular Bandit. Even we like them or not.

Personally i think its pathetic to look down on other players because they play the game differently then you. There is no right and wrong when it comes down to how to play the game. I don't like snipers either because they kill me with a blink of a eye, but i respect the rules of the game. They belong in chernarus just as much as the friendly medics who saves people with broken legs.

It depends on where you are playing. Stable? No problem at all. 0,51 Experimental? Can definitely be a challenge to survive as a fresh spawn. I starved to death yesterday. There was no loot at all where i spawned. I mean nothing. Not even hats. I search for apples but found nothing. I ran towards a village nearby, and stopped in every dark red'ish bush i came across, but only found one berries in each bush. I could not hunt, grow tomato or fish because i had no gear. It also seems like you use more energy then before while running.. So when i came to the village i was red on hungry. First house i search i find a tomato, and i got full of hope. But i did not find anymore food loot. I did however find 7-8 apples but it did take at least 5 minutes to gather them, so the energy i got from them was all ready spent when i was finish eating them. My hunger was still red, but i had not choice. I had to start running again towards the next village. I ran through the forrest, found a few more berries and came to the next town. Here i finally found a can of beans. I opened the can with the only tool i had. A cattle prod. For some reason it was only 1% remaining after i got it open. 1% ????!!? #@¤% I guess the cattle prod was magical because i bet i could open a can of beans with TNT and still find more then 1% of the content. Shortly after that i died of hunger. So it is possible to die of hunger:)

I would give you my beans, but i see you have enough food:P

There is one aspects of DayZ (and most games) that never can be realistic. And that is time. And thank god the developers know that and made a unrealistic game. In real life it takes weeks to die from starvation, but in DayZ we talk minutes, and a few hours at best. Realistic? Oh, hell no. And it can't be realistic either. If it took weeks to die from starvation in the game, the survival part of the game would fall apart. So when it come to sprinting and stamina it can't be realistic, but it has to be balanced with the time it takes to die from starvation and the time it take to get to the next village. If not you will never get going, because you would die of starvation as a fresh spawn searching for loot in a empty starter village, or die of starvation before you get to the next village. You could of course turn up the time it take to die from starvation, but that will only eliminate the survival aspect of the game once you have geared up and eaten a few cans of beans because it would take hours before you would have to eat again. So the game cannot be 100% realistic, but it has to be balanced between realism and to be playable. And so far it looks like they are on the right track.

Nice. Thanks for the info. I thought boats only had shoes, raincoats and hats..:)

This is nothing to worry about. The overheating problem is gone on 0,51 patch. This patch will most likely come out tomorrow on stable. And while you wait. Overheating is not so bad. I did run around for a long time with overheating, and i was fine. Only problem was that i had to drink insane amount of water. So i had to plan my route to make sure i came across rivers and pound very often.

I like it too, but have not found netting yet. So i have not been able to make one. But when 0,51 go to stable, and i can make myself a base where i can store items again, i will surly make a full kit and camp at NWAF or NEAF with my long range mosin.

People still die of dehydration? I have only died of dehydration once. This was on my very first character when i decided to just run straight ahead into the woods to see where i end up. Now that i know the map i always make sure i get to a pound, river or a well and i always drink even if my hydration is light green. I never carry a water bottle or a canteen because water is everywhere and are easy to find. Especially now that the wells are working again.

Of course. It tactical bacon. The stay together because that their best tactic to not be found.

Oh, what a joy. I finally found the V3S, and i took it out for a spin. But my first ride did not go as planed. A very deadly glitch occurred after the bridge by the factory. Big thanks to fresh spawn "Super-Dan" who came along and tried to help. Its always nice to meet friendly people in Chernrus. Sorry for the low quality. The recording was more then one hour, and i had wrong settings turned on. My output file was originally 38GB, so i had to render and compress the final video a lot to get it down to normal size. Hope you enjoyed the video. See you in Chernarus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99SgXxTYO8A&list=UU2V8012NXC833uYL90WHdMw

Found out that SuperDan also made a video of this. So here is his point of view:  BTW: If someone can learn me how to put up the video in this forum, and not just the link, i would be very happy:) My technical knowledge could be a bit better..haha

I actually like the big blue tent. It should be a great risk that someone can find your tent. This force you to find a good spot where you minimize the possibility for someone to find it. I had my tent up from last Wednesday till yesterday on a very popular 50 player server and no one found it. Even it was placed between Cherno and NEAF. I spent one hour to find the perfect spot and it was only visiblefrom one side in a distance for about 10-15 meters. The vegetation was my camo and thats how it should be. You must have been very lucky to find it. With smaller tents in camo color you could most likely get away with putting it up under a random three just outside a city, and that's not so fun.

It can also take weeks to die from hunger in real life, but the time frame for starving can not be realistic in the game. Then most people never need to feed their character at all. It would be the same with this suggestion. I really like the idea, and i hope it would come. Should not be so difficult to make this happen.

Hi, everyone! Have anyone got experience with storing items i backpacks over a longer period of time? I recently found my first tent, but it only had 63 slots. So it become full very quickly. So i was thinking to hide some backpacks in the nearby area to store items as well. But will this backpacks disappear on server restarts or over time? I guess what i'm asking is if backpacks are just as good as tent to store items? I do some testing right now and i have left a backpack in the woods for a few hours, and its still there with all of its items. I have also switched servers to see if that had anything to say, but it didn't. I wounder how long it will be there:) So if you have any knowledge about this topic, i would be very happy if you share. In the meanwhile i'm gonna try pick up my second tent;)

I have a mag, but no gun.. Maybe we should team up..lol

That might be the case. But it seems like weapons who are just thrown into the tent will stay there even after server restarts. Other item who are just thrown in there seems to disappear, so perhaps you can hoard guns anyway. Only difference seems to be that you can't organize your weapons into slots. At least my loose weapons have survived at least two server restarts. So in that case its just stupid that the tents have so little space. I have twelve big weapons like mosins, shotguns and SKS in the tent now, and most of the slots are filled with ammo and scopes. So gun hoarding is possible, and it will be even more possible when the servers can be trusted and vehicles are available. I would have a tent and backpacks in every corner of the map..lol.

Maybe i do. Sounds fun. But my English is terrible;) I found out one thing with my tent and backpack storage project: Regular items that i put directly inside the tent can disappear after a server restart. But weapon seems to survive. All items stored in the tent and in the backpacks where still there. So it looking promising so far.

Where is the house and on what server? :P The lock are useless. Everyone have an axe, so people are just one hit away to open the house. How can you sleep at night knowing that your stuff is at a loot location?

I'm also disappointed about the storage space in the tents. In real life you could stack hundreds of weapons in a tent that size. I guess you can just put things on the ground inside the tents, but then the whole point of slots are just gone. I have put up a tent and have a few backpacks in the same area. This is out in the woods. Gonna be fun to see how long they will be there..

Thanks for answer. But to be honest that did not give me much. Might be because i'm stupid, so please do not take my honesty as an attack on you because its not:) Anyway, i found a tutorial on youtube on how to efficiently find tents, so hopefully i get my tent soon enough. And perhaps i will come back to this thread to offer a tent in trade against "rare stuff found on heli crash or police cars" .. haha:)

Sure, but you can also spend hours without finding more then one or two of the items in my complete package. It could also be interesting for me to hear what you think is a fair prize for a tent. I don't know the dayZ "economy", so it would be very helpful:) And thank you for wishing me luck:)

Long range scope is not that common? Or have i just been unlucky only finding a handful of them in over 100hrs of playtime? I also just recently found a range finder and a PU scope, so i will put that in to sweeten the deal.This items put together can be very time consuming to gather. You might be right about that this items are not gonna bring me a tent, but at least i got nothing to loose to put my offer out there. If someone have a extra tent and are interested in a complete sniper kit in prestine, i'm sure they also will contact me and ask for more items if they think my offer isn't good enough. That's basic negotiation right there:)

EDIT: I got my tent:)