BadAsh (DayZ)

Eh, he was using the "crosshairs" (the little dot). I guess you meant the ironsight.

That's not true. You can basically kill them with every melee weapon and your fists, as long as you make sure to hit them in the head, and when they KO keep hitting that head until it finally dies. For example I was recently pleasantly surprised how easy it is to take them out with a machete. It took 2 or 3 headshots and it was dead compared to earlier builds where you needed to spam hitting them in what seemed like forever. Also go to 1pp for better aim.

Indeed. They added them in 0.49 or 0.50 (don't remember which) and I still haven't encountered one in-game. So you were lucky indeed.

By far the majority of patches have been released Wednesdays. The "Wednesdays are for maintenance and Fridays for patches"-thing is ancient history and has been so for many many months. Go check yourself in the devtracker. 0.50 was implemented to stable November 5.

Gas stations blowing up has been in the game since day 1.

And grenade explosions can unfortunately go through walls. So if they know where you were hiding, they can just drop a grenade outside the building next to that room and you are a goner.

Loot cycling. Edit: Example:

Kudos for the Pixies in the background though. Such a relief from the majority of dubstep soundtracked videos posted here.

Heh, I see you are busy confirming my last post. Hats off.

Ah, so you are on the "they add new hats but doesn't fix this bug" team. You know, the team that thinks the game is developed either 1) by one person or 2) by a group of people all working on the same thing.

They did make animations for characters taking a dump including graphics of said dump as an in-game item. You can read all about it in this thread. Unfortunately the prude squad made a strike and it has yet to be implemented, however the chances for it being added after all is increasing with the recent cannibalism feature.

At least this removes the prudes last defence for not including shitting in the game.

I fell down some stairs the other day, while as a relative newspawn carrying a magnum in my cargo pants. My pants and boots was ruined, but the gun was only badly damaged. I just went into the nearest house and found the ever present weapon cleaning kit and presto one worn magnum. I am not sure whether a badly damaged gun has any negative effects other than being that much closer to ruined, though.

Ah. I did empty a 30 shot sporter mag into a player in Novod who ambushed me with his shotgun. He had probably heard me eat nearby, and stood in the doorway pointing at the stairs, when I came out from a room right next to me. We both fired simultaneously. I broke my legs, but I kept firing and I definitely broke his legs, while keeping up fire I changed the aim to his head, but I ended up dying after a couple of more shots, and am unsure whether he survived it. It would have been nice to hear that I actually killed him as well. I respawned in Berezino and the server restarted 5 mins later.

It also seems someone had done some active lootcycling, judging by the huge pile of junk loot that you run past at the beginning of the video in front of the barracks.

Town hall of Novod for longhorns. Every single time I have gone there I have found at least one longhorn, usually several. And I don't really like them, if I find a magnum I ditch the longhorn on the spot for that. But yeah, mp5s, never found one, raks neither. Nor tents, heatpacks and smersh vests.

Did that happen in the highrises on the outskirts of Novod? And did you have a shotgun?

Apparently Battleye has been doing this for quite some time, it is just that the recent EULA has made it noticeable. And apparently VAC does the same. I'm the first to criticise the "if haven't got anything to hide, you haven't got anything to fear" argument, because it is silly logic, but unfortunately this seems to be one of those cases (like with the NSA, just infinitely more benign) where average pc users just have to accept the intrusion or stop using the product in question. From a private rights point of view it is a sad state of affairs all around, this being just a minor example of the rightlessness of the internet, but I simply like the game too much to let principle stand in the way of me playing it.

From the bugtracker (October 23 2014) by Andy, Bohemia Interactive Manager: Hey everyone, we are aware of the problem, but it is a tricky one and the eventual fix might take some time to come - please be patient! We have investigated this again recently and might have identified the cause. The issue is now scheduled for a fix. Regards, Andy So it seems they're on it. Probably a coincidence, but the dev message was posted shortly after I posted this youtube video on the bugtracker, which someone else had posted on this forum earlier, showing what I believe to be the visualisation of the bug in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNqHVvjLUKQ

No, it is definitely loot spawns. It often is like this in the tower, which seems to have a lot of gun spawns, so with each item being picked up in Novod and surroundings, there is a certain chance that guns will spawn in the tower. If as a newspawn you spawn near Novod, it is a very good bet to go to the tower for basic stuff. Everything but ammo essentially, but that is to be found in the surrounding townhouses.

I'm wondering whether it provides any kind of protection against melee attacks to the head? At least from fists.

The collection isn't complete until you are wearing the police uniform pants as well.

I played the game during last Christmas, but that there was some kind of "ceasefire" going on at the time is news to me. I certainly experienced none of it.

A vehicle doesn't have to blow up in order to be destroyed. Give it a good burst of automatic fire at the engine block and there should be a very good chance that vehicle will be out of commission for good.

No thanks. It would completely undermine the concept of the game.