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The fire axe is best but rare & hard to find. - When you start, pick up the first old pipe-wrench or crowbar or spade you come across. They are the best shock-damage of the stuff you will find lying around. I like a spade (also same hit as the other two), or an entrenching tool ("field spade"), they all have the same hit & speed - also you can put a field spade in a backpack (the telescopic police baton is same again, but you're not likely to find one when you are starting up). Brass knucks hit fastest if you want to get close.

OK - you want the zombs to be 100% predictable. Me - I'm hoping for variety in zombies, so they are UN-Predictable - Maybe every so often - just occasionally - one that could run faster (than you), or one carrying a rock or a pitchfork, or maybe a zomb that can figure how to open doors?.. or one that instead of running around the house howling, would keep kicking and beating on a door until it broke in .. and some zombies stronger, a BAD mean zombie, and also some weaker, obviously. A zomb that jumps on your back and clings on? Maybe one that tries holds on the end of your weapon when you hit it? Less PREDICTABILITY means more danger and more variety in gameplay, means less "boredom". And SO: what killed the original poster? Hey - BOREDOM killed him. What he "expected" killed him. That happens a lot in real combat - right? So what's his TRUE complaint? - Here's a guy who is in a military base ARMED with an AK and "LOADS" of clips but he CAN'T take down ONE Zombie?? did he panic? Has he never fired a gun before? Is this his first time out on a live patrol? Did he try to John Wayne it from inexperience? Something happened unexpected .. ? Combat is hell. How many stories have you heard from the Trenches to Vietnam of people who died in DUMB ways? - Who's fault is that? The dude EXPECTED 100% to take out another "all-same-same" zombie with his axe.. so, just maybe, he's a FOOL ?? - he thought he was TOTALLY SAFE playing in a in a NICE SAFE GAME, in a safe SPACE were you can TELL where danger comes from, nothing is unexpected, everything is clockwork, everything is predictable... He was carrying an AK only for his FPS fun (in his mind-set). It didn't even cross his thoughts there could be other dangers in this game? Of COURSE he could have dropped that zomb with ZERO Risk, he had an AK with a full mag. <good grief> - blame the zombie, right? "must be something wrong with the zomb must be something wrong with BI must be something wrong with the game." Really - Hey folks, do you WANT these zombies to be EFFING Dangerous or NOT?

How do you know they are rose tinted if they are opaque ? - powerful the Force in this one ! A change I sense in the Gameness ! ? - one player writes: << I would be happy if the description on the steam page would be actually about the game. It's says something about fight for your life. In it's current state, and I think 0.63 will be no different, the game is giving the players zero incentive to do anything. >> Was this game ever a "special" game once? - or is this my imagination? just my light-blocking also rose-tinting wraparounds? (dude, the mirrors are on the inside). Was DayZ in any way "special" or was it another game like all the rest of them? And always has been? And has something changed // or nothing changed? If it was "extraordinary" ? .. then WHAT in your opinion was Unique about DayZ ?

It happens Life is Hell Evil exists and walks among us I'll bet you went to hit the zombie with a fire axe and the poor sick creature tried to defend itself. Headshot ! +1 for the zombs xx

It can happen Life is Hell. Evil exists. xx

True klesh - and I thought about your comment - here's an aside on Mods and why DayZ was FAMOUS. Now I have too much gear and i'm looking for barrels or places to put interesting stuff I find next - in fact stocking up on stuff -and that's what occupies my mind in the gameplay - not staying alive, but planning for staying alive in an indefinite future - (so the game has changed). Some folk like that and complain there is not more "ease" in the gameplay. So who said "You want to live forever"? - And mods will TEND to go that way. Because there is a strange tendency that as a game becomes more "ordinary" the fans want to take out the "less ordinary" and make it more predictable. As though "extraordinary" and "difficult" and "boring" are related words, we pretend they mean the same thing, and we don't like that "thing". Less difficult means less boring - nah, that can't be right? 'Unfair' and 'unexpected' mean the same as "predictable"? Do they? This searching for "permanence" and having stashes of things you will/might need, has taken over from what WAS the excitement of the game.. which was END DEATH restart from ZERO at ANY moment (sometimes for CRAZY reasons) .. And now if i'm killed I can go back to a stash and gear up again - I like to start from scratch (it's fun), but I also know where I have some ammo stashed on the map.. maybe I'll make my way towards that? .. but it seems the DayZ permadeath has in REALITY gone away forever. So persistence was the change that made DayZ into a different game.. it took ABSOLUTE DEATH out .. still a good game, but NOT the one that attracted me in the first place. "persistence" or any long-term "continuity" was NOT what drew me in and made me a fan at ALL. Exactly the opposite: you remember this? This is what got me into DayZ.. Average life expectancy: You play, and the session and your life were maybe the same length - both come 100% to an end, unexpectedly, abruptly, when you die. Black/Nothing = Then you restart <REALLY> at zero and you play again. You have no backup. I don't think that offended the PVP players a lot, either (& there were plenty of them) .. maybe they got a kick from Unique DayZ TOTAL Death, because it made the PVP more exciting? just a comment - no RSVP thanx.

Hi folks: DaRT rcon tool seems to be out of date and not supported or updated now - am I wrong? What other tool can be used by Admins on DayZ StandAlone? Seems they are using DaRT but it is vulnerable. Suggestions? There is a WELL KNOWN exploit vulnerability in DaRT which has not been addressed for a year. It seems this exploit is now WIDELY known. I am asking on behalf of a friend who has English as a second language, big difficulty with technical explanations - ie This is not my problem, but it looks like a real DAYZ COMMUNITY problem. - right ?? Any suggestions? Any good alternatives to DaRT? xxp

Well, the Brits are generally not great at French (brit tourists here) . The problem is, French tech people SWEAR they are fluent inEng ( its usually a job requirement ) but some of them are 'not really so hot'. They can explain GREAT hardcore technology in French, but if they have to write it down in English it gets hairy, but they still SWEAR they can; but 85% they Definitely Can't - Another variation of the 'nerd genius' anomaly.. I guess.. still, it's only hardware and software - it's 100% easier than translating medical terminology/ biotech, or philosophy (eek) . People who have to go-between in those fields become mad quickly. Unlike myself. :)) I read Kant in English for relaxation, to calm myself down. Did you know there is Only One Space? .. beautiful .. er.. well .. OK.. maybe some other time... * * * Thanks for the help. We are trying to sort out a new interface for Soptan - but also Baty A. has just now told him how to run with what he has (his message above) so things are looking up. xx pilgrim

https://forums.dayz.com/topic/237131-cheaters-russian-letters/#comment-2376883 https://forums.dayz.com/topic/237431-what-can-we-do/#comment-2379604 can't kick or list - this is the guy's complaint - because of special chars in the player name. DaRT no longer permits IP listing in DayZ SA.. so the player name is the only thing you can put on file, as I understand. xx

Ԫ I thought it might be down to a config file or similar,- eg perhaps the Mod opened one of his files in Notepad to change something (add a name?) and saved it again, not realizing he saved it in ANSI - A "more serious" possibility - if you look at the example I give of a "extended character" name - you see that part of this name is in Arabic, which is written right to left - so would need to be saved and read in big-endian with control characters before and after.. But for instance UTF-8 will only accept the control character at the beginning and end of a script not anywhere in the middle... If on my Win7-64 I cut and paste the above "arabic-style" char sequence into Notepad, the control chars are replaced by " | | " - but if I cut and paste THAT again from Notepad to DayZ blog, or to Word or OpenOffice - the control block characters are reproduced correctly in the blog and in Word. Then in Wordpad ONLY one of the two control chars is reproduced (wrongly but differently) - it shows me " |?| " instead of ..." | | " .. When visualized correctly it should be " Ԫ " Here on windows I can save the correct original full string as text only ANSI, open it, and it still does not show correctly but I can cut and paste it into - eg Word - and all the original chars are present. << The UCS-2 and UTF-16 encodings specify the Unicode Byte Order Mark (BOM) for use at the beginnings of text files, which may be used for byte ordering detection (or byte endianness detection). The BOM, code point U+FEFF has the important property of unambiguity on byte reorder, regardless of the Unicode encoding used; U+FFFE (the result of byte-swapping U+FEFF) does not equate to a legal character, and U+FEFF in other places, other than the beginning of text, conveys the zero-width non-break space (a character with no appearance and no effect other than preventing the formation of ligatures). >> * * * Also now we have UTF-16 and UTF-32, plus a Unix/Linux machine at one end and Widows XX at the other running the DaRT interface. Plus some unicode compression systems being employed, and - AND - (among other stuff) the Chinese getting off on GB18030 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB_18030 these are my thoughts. Perhaps I'm looking the wrong way entirely. Possibly someone somewhere is publishing a list of game names or individual chars, that 'LOOK OK' ingame, but do not give the Unicode value that they "appear" to show .. so can't be correctly filed - so not kicked, banned or listed. Hard to get clear info out of Soptan and I can't see his stuff first hand. This SEEMS to be his beef, definitely. I'm not equipped here to go further .. and jeez, I have stuff to DO, etc. I'm translating requirements & tech specifications for a EU games ( graphics & game design ) company that has its programming & platform conversions right-now done by a non-French first-language team on the far side of the EU who need their working instructions in English. Which requires about as much "careful thought" as I can put into the day, ya know? also - thanx IMT. Maybe someone will suggest an alternative to DaRT that is current and functional for SA on public hive Community rules?

Hi IMT, What Soptan is trying to say - I understand - (as far as I can tell, including X private explanations messaged between us) - is that his kick or ban file in DaRT is not picking up Unicode chars or not passing them on, so whatever non-unicode player-name he puts in his list ( eg , ԪՌט؁ ߷ࢅওઓ ) DaRT reconverts, giving the kick name " ������� " .. which doesn't work, natch. https://forums.dayz.com/topic/237131-cheaters-russian-letters/#comment-2376883 https://forums.dayz.com/topic/237431-what-can-we-do/#comment-2379604 OK, as you can see - our DayZ blog has no probs with the extended character set. The DayZTV ad for DaRT is still the original plug from 2015 In 2015 Domistile (the original coder) said DaRT was not tested with SA (stated on this DZ blog), then I think he moved off the project. Jan 2017 - NeiroN (also on our DZ blog) said he was taking over. But no info from him since : His github ref is : https://github.com/NeiroNx/DaRT I don't have DaRT that I can test here. This is a simple mistake, or a mess, or the crew has moved on. Would be nice at least to know if Soptan has the wrong end of the stick. Or if this is as widespread a problem on Community servers as he claims. xx pilgrim

Have a great life anyway. Let's move on now.

we've had this conversation before - did you ever notice the huge difference between a flat 2D screen of limited size 40cm in front of your eyes, and visual reality ? ... .. oh yeah.. we had that conversation too... if you don't get it, you just don't .. have a great life anyway xxp

i logged in punching a tree 100 times this afternoon, unable to stop - it took a while of messing with different keys to quieten myself down. Is this a known thing?

Hi folks: DaRT rcon tool seems to be out of date and not supported now - am I wrong? What up to date tool can be used by Admins on DayZ StandAlone? Seems they are using DaRT but it is vulnerable. any suggestions? There is a well known exploit vulnerability in DaRT which has not been addressed for a year. It seems this exploit is now WIDELY known. I am asking fon behalf of a friend who has English as a second language, big difficulty with technical explanations (maybe he is setting up DaRT wrongly and leaving it vulnerable to the exploit?) - ie This is not my problem, but it looks like a genuine DAYZ COMMUNITY problem. - right ?? Any suggestions? Any good alternatives to DaRT?

IRL one person can push a bus or a coach a distance on a road surface, no problem - this is standard & easy, I've done it. Trucks.. I dunno. But while we're here, word has it when i run over a tent with a 12 ton military truck it bounces off the canvas, wrecks the truck and leaves the tent pristine? - is that very realistic?

- a few different kinds - some faster some slower, some dumber some smarter, some weak, some strong.. but mainly a couple of faster ones and a couple of smarter ones turning up at random.. ? eg an occasional zomb that can beat a door down or figures out how to open it.. or a zomb that can wall climb through a second floor window or up to a roof? just one or two occasionally mixed with the average every so often? a faster zombie or one carrying a pitchfork or a stone?

So yourself you don't have "focus" in your real life Guy ? - Jeez.. sorry about that, dude! I noticed the dark glasses in your profile image but I thought it was just for show, I didn't realize you have no eye focus.. It must be hard to understand what we are talking about.

No problem, me too - have fun. Look what a fun life Cesare Borgia had and he wasn't role playing either. Imagine living it. The tale was interesting. Beans I give you. & a big hug to Emuthreat.. what is he like when he loses his cool? .. does that happen? (just wondering) xxp

?? - so you can't say - "You're acting stupid, don't do that again or me and these people are going to shoot you in the leg and beat you with bats" ?? .. Is that role playing? I'm pointing out that folk have always influenced other people, even if they do it 100% by being themselves (in this case, in front of a PC screen). Any group of people, real or virtual, has elements of indifference, fun, organization, theft, leadership, lols, friendship, violence, revenge, punishment, mistakes, generosity .. Everyone deals with that stuff the way they see fit, without any role playing. Societies in DayZ tend to be (as everyone knows and expects) - primitive/casual - or authoritarian (boss mod, or boss clan) - or small groups of 3 or 4 trustworthy friends who watch each other's backs.. These are 3 classics, what else could there be? So just clean up the town if you feel like it, without any 'role play'. That would be making a movement from a chaotic towards a more orderly society, just because you felt you wanted to do that, and maybe thought you could gain support for it.. It's one of the many things a player can do in DayZ.

say - yo get that too? Ain't life just hell !.. now someone keeps spamming me with ads for a rubber gasmask with chrome studs In fct I've had Steam acting up too today, several times.. had to log in a couple of times, then it cant find DayZ, then it redownloads without asking and sticks at 3% for 10 mins, so I decide to can it - close, open, then for once Steam loads and runs DZ ok, I stand under a pine tree for half an hour waiting for the TORRENTIAL rain to let up, but it don't, so I log out and shut down. AND.. same-same, next time I join I jump from "play Dayz" to a black screen to being in the middle of a game - I think it's maybe their Steam Server Overheating Saturday. = Its getting cold outside, & wet, & it's Saturday - lot of folk on Steam today: too many. Anyone under 20 should be banned. :)) no seriously !

To play a mod you have to BUY the original - So NEW "DayZ-mod" players who want to play a mod will have to buy DayZ. The the lifetime of DayZ game sales might augment or extend if there were some successful mods. 1 ) The 4000 players who already play DayZ will either get less keen on DayZ and give up or move to a mod, OR the promised improvements will be COHERENT enough to attract "the original" type of player (the many players who were originally keen on the game) - some for survival and hunting, some for PVP, some for 'private' hanging out with the clan, whatever .. There are changes and balancing taking place. They will be successful or not. 2 ) If you think it is critical and deadly that there are ONLY 4000 players on DayZ - meaning the game is a screwed, dead game, then why do you want to make a mod of it? If modders had waited until the original DayZ ARMA Mod was already dead, with only a couple of servers and a dozen players left, before they started alternative modding .. no one would have moved out of DayZ Mod to go play the new mods. but it was alive, lots of people did move out, the player base fragmented.. the mods were short-term fun and laffs, there were quite a few of them, pretty quickly they have all gone away & nothing is left. No original, no mods. 'Seems you are saying here, "we can do a better job of DayZ than BI did because look they have no players. WE can attract the players BI can't." I guess that must mean you are looking for new players, who are a different KIND of player.. right? (because the 'past' players who liked the game are already gone, yes?) If there are only 4000 players.. why the hell bother to mess with the game?.. you ain't going to please that tiny minority of folk, so you MUST be looking for a new audience ? Your new audience will be split between 20-30-(50?) mods, and one or two of them will swim and NOT sink.. I guess the same will happen to DayZ SA? * OK, this is not a criticism, but it is simple to understand. You want to mod for a playerbase that you say doesn't exist - is that your main point? Why should I be "scared" of this topic? Nobody in their right mind should be having issues with these facts. xxp

Agreed, you have to buy the game to Mod - And Modding fragments the player-base of a game. Nobody in their right mind should be having issues with that fact. Particularly players who tend to get blinded by the extra loot/weapons and PVP focus etc. It will be interesting seeing what OTHER things modders can do with DayZ. Do you expect to see Mods that have more 'survival' 'crafting' or 'difficulty' etc, WITHOUT extra loot/weapons and PVP focus? Would those attract players away from vanilla? What other kinds of mods do you suggest, as off-the-top-of-your-head examples? - Are Modders keen to build versions that do not increase easy/loot/bases/trade/vehicles/weapons//PVP? xxp

kind of medieval ? Isn't this what happens when society starts from scratch after an apocalypse. Law & order, and the rights and the responsibilities of each citizen are poorly understood in Western Democracy, and that's after maybe 1500+ years of clan loyalties, betrayals, banditry, rule of the strongest and Feudalism. Justice is a difficult concept. But to cut the process short, start half way, begin with Cesare Borgia and work up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Borgia ??

Leave Windows Task Manager open at the "Processes" tab while you play - the when the game jams, see if something else is using a high % of your CPU. Also check the Networking tab at the same time, see what your bandwidth use is doing. - I'm a deep cynic, sounds to me like Win 10 auto-downloading big update files in the middle of your game.. (I don't LIKE win10, heh .. ) - anyway I'd definitely check it was NOT that first. Also, for starters check you HAVE the latest drivers for your GPU. - Nvidea make that easy. And then for FUN and to be sure, run DayZ for a full session on all Medium Settings, to see if it still locks up. Just to check.. that's easy. xxp