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I hope something like this does get implemented if for no other reason than to be able to more judiciously select targets. I would, presumably, be fully kitted, as a "Bandit", and for me and my roving band of thugs, having a distinctly visible method to identify tagets of opportunity would be a boon. Think about it- as a kitted-out bandit, you likely already have more than enough ammo and weaponry to sustain your current spawn life... but as usual, food, water, and bandages are in short supply. What better way to resupply than to have a well-marked lootable target, known to be carrying an abundance of the aforementioned supplies? Yes, please. Give them their armbands, and whatever else they want to distinguish themselves as bleeding heart purveyors of dumbassery.

So here I am, looking to do a good deed before I log off and go to work. Gonna go down to the beach, help out some freshies. Not my usual game plan, but I was feeling somewhat magnanimous today. In retrospect, I realize that the green tshirt guy is not the black tshirt guy that was with red tshirt guy... but in the heat of the moment, I assumed all was good. Never again. You are all gonna die.

Wow, so many people raging at me over this. For the record, over the past few days I have killed zero bambis, one bandit, and died 3 times fully kitted at the hands of bandits. I *did* have a fresh spawn antagonizing me while I myself was a fresh spawn, and I beat his ass til he ran away...I have not, however, felt a twinge of generosity of late. Kinda hard when I am dying regularly 3-4 hours into my character and still trying to fill out the finer details in the kit.

you choose your platform, you deal with the lack of titles. the console kiddies just need to get over the fact that some titles are/were never meant to be played on their TV. for what the new gen consoles cost, you can buy/build a budget PC to game on anyhow, if you shop smartly.

Well said.

twitch.tv/therealmeatshield is mine. Normally, I hit it by noon EST for a couple hours before work, and then after work around midnight EST. Sometimes solo, sometimes grouped, always on teamspeak.

LOL, comments across the spectrum. Backing into a corner, fail. Not subduing him first? Also fail. Not paying attention to who was who? Yet another fail in the heat of the moment. (I was actually on the hills above for quite a while prior to going down into town, and never saw another armed soul in the area...so when the mosin shot rang out it caused some panic.) Yeah, so much done wrong with good intentions. And after a long night at work, and getting goofed on by my crew (I showed em the youtube vid), Ive come to the realization that I probably wont spawnrape the bambis, but I definitely WILL be handling my approach in a far safer manner.

Sorry, saw the video thumbnail and thought it was done. Still processing :-(

This is the most retarded idea I have ever seen.

After the past couple of days of continuous fresh spawning on the beach, I logged into an (apparently old) server save, that had all of my gear from, if i recall, sunday. I had died a couple of times since this particular characters life, yet before the update... and now it reappears? what could I do but lol, and go do some wanton KOSing. But by the time I got in position overlooking cherno, the server reset... and I logged out, just being happy once again to have a mosin in hand with an M4 slung over my shoulder. who knows when Ill see that happen again...haha.

3pp makes the game look too much like games such as gears of war. ive been playing FPSes since DOOM days, and have never been a fan of 3pp shooters. That said, if im in a 3pp:on server, ive grown accustomed to using it while traveling, in addition to freelook. kinda cool to be able to keep tabs on my environment and surroundings in a lazy fashion. but whenever TSHTF, or if i feel it is impending, I switch to 1PP and get ready to throw down. Im definitely down with the separation of 1PP and 3PP servers, but ill hop in a 3PP just the same... although I am glad to have 1PP only, so I know that everyone else is playing on an even playing field with me.

Sinexxy !!!!! pub/reg, ver. 114557, 173.199.93.147:2302 See an awful lot of servers in rockets list in the 173.199.x.x range...gameservers seems to be notorious about dragging their feet fixing/updating game issues regardless of game. Maybe we should all just avoid servers hosted by gameservers til they get their shit together.

are you really that stupid? EVERY FUCKING PAGE on the forum has a green header that tells you whats going on. EVERY FUCKING PAGE.

Im guessing that by the time I get home from work, all servers will be "experimental"...aka running 114500.

good article.

IRL a speedloader loads all chambers of a revolver at the same time, instead of loading one round into each chamber at a time... hence, much faster reload time. Same concept with the double barrel, although IRL it is simple enough to take two shells in hand and slam them into both barrels at the same time without need for an additional piece of hardware.

so much hate. i stream to show my friends who cant play, and to let my nephews watch. if you think that warrants a bullet, by all means feel free to streamsnipe me.

i just want to know what the difference between regular and hardcore is? isnt the way it was pretty hardcore? or did they add a hud and shit like that to make "regular" servers easier?

best part of this thread in the gangnam style hacker vid.

"serious" is relative... but compared to BF4 or CoD, I take this shit as serious as life. In a typical FPS, you can fully expect to be shot at anywhere on the map, and know full well you will only have to wait 5 sec or so to respawn with a full kit. In DayZ, you know you can be shot anywhere, anytime...but 230+sq.km. of looking over your shoulder makes for a LOT of tense gameplay, especially knowing that respawning requires hours to gear up again.

go into Documents/DayZ/DayZ.cfg, change the last entry to Windowed=1 Restart Shadowplay via GeForce Experience (turn it off, wait a few seconds, turn Shadowplay back on) Launch game in windowed mode (depending on what resolution you run at, you may want to edit the window sizing in the .cfg as well) When game is running, alt+enter to go full screen Record as intended. You will have to do this everytime you start the game (set it to Windowed=1) but you should be able to record without issue otherwise.

It definitely is server restarts. Whether its planned that way (a lot of servers say it in their name, or tell you in the MOTD that they restart on a X hour schedule), or the admin/GSP is restarting it, its a server restart. You can almost always immediately rejoin the same server. It appears that when you see that red text in the center of your screen. the server has restarted- you can sit and wait the 90 sec to get kicked, or immediately exit and rejoin the same server. We used to wait it out hoping for the desynch to come back but later realized that you do not have to wait- exit and rejoin and *bam* fresh server with fresh loot spawns- and fresh zombie spawns as well.

as a streamer myself, i would relish the opposition. hard to get with only a handful of viewers though :) and those viewers have actually joined me in game as opposed to hunting me down. preventing it would be easy enough though...show a placeholder scene in your stream until you load in past the server browser, or play the game with a different steam name than your stream name so people have a much harder time following you. i am new to the streaming thing so maybe there are other ways people can be malicious about it, but overall being stalked in game by a streamer is the last of my worries. ESP/wallhacks are instantaneous/immediate advantages to the hacker in game. Following someones stream may show you where they were a minute ago, and unless the streamer is being verbose about his movement plans, you really never know where hes gonna go so its all a crapshoot. Wallhacks are live, right now, and give the hacker a decided unfair advantage. Two totally different situations IMO.

I was with in a group of 5 tonight, traveling the coast road from prigorodki to elektro...4 times, as the group was rolling down the tracks, we were all simultaneously teleported back to the spot where we started, and our games froze requiring ctrl-alt-del to task manager to kill the game and restart. If it was a hacker, he had to be pretty epic, because we went to a different server every time it happened. we assumed it was a bug, possibly something to do with hive congestion related to the experimental servers going up tomorrow. 110% guesswork here, but the possibility of it being a hacker never entered our minds. Its Alpha Bitches!

Clever.