KnightFall1856

I was having this discussion with my brother and our good friend..we all LOVE DayZ and have played the SA for quite some hours. As of now we're all pretty geared and usually hunt people or try to add to our food stock. My friend and I are a little more experienced in Day Z and employ full military tactics. We Crouch walk in, around, and out of cities. We always walk tree lines if possible. We clear rooms one at a time, breach in and out of buildings each with our assigned corners. We watch stairs and doorways while the other loots, etc. My brother plays with us and has quickly picked up on our methods, but says we're taking it too seriously. I couldnt help but agree to an extent, as sneaking around is draining at times, but it has saved our assess more than once. Don't get me wrong, Im not writing this to let you know of SUPERBADASS we are, but im actually curious to see how many of you play this way. Do you clear buildings/watch stairs? Do you just run around and if you see someone then you turn into seal team six? Do you just haul ass and ignore other players? Post it here

I think when loot starts respawning it'll be cut down on a lot.

Ehhh Ill disagree there. Sure its a firearm, but compass, a nice backpack, can opener, med supplies...not to mention ammunition.

Put your safety on next time :D

My perfect execution of a bandit stop" 1) Make contact authoritatively, if they don't comply..shoot em. 2) Restrain subject..if they don't comply...shoot em. 3) Loot/Take blood/Remove their weapons. If they start mouthing off...shoot em. 4) Free and back away from the subject..if they don't comply..shoot em. 5) Instruct subject to leave the area, send a tail to the city edge to ensure their compliance..if they are seen coming back..shoot em.

Better to be the man to send bullets away then be the man to receive them.

So I had a revelation today. I came across two people, unarmed mind you. One fellow I saw and against my judgement I said hello. He said hi back and we exchanged food for ammo, etc. We both went about our way. The same thing happened when I came across a new player (previously target practice), and instead of raising my gun to shoot him I said hello, gave him some food and meds, he thanked me and went about his day. Does this make me not a bandit anymore?

try adding -noPause -nosplash to the launch parameters

Weird. Ive also encountered "invisible zombies" as well. I get hit, start bleeding, no one around. Spooky.

Ok hold on whoa. I didnt mean to start this argument. Was just mentioning the inner struggle of acceptance of my change of heart. Carry on :rolleyes:

Did you initiate combat? I feel like if you were attacked and it was lagging its perfectly ok, not really your fault....however if you went shooting at a chap or prepared your axe for a shiny new red coating and then combat logged...meh. Grey area. Sorry to hear about that lag

This post isn't for me, its for a friend of mine that just got the game. He's running it just fine, however he is unable to change his character from the default little woman that it spits you out as. The drop down menu's on the character creation are all blacked out, as well as the rest of the screen after clicking the button at the main menu to change it. Any ideas?

RESOLVED (Sort of) We were able to regain the drop down menus to customize his default characters by removing all launch parameters from steam. I tried initially just removing -winxp however it did not work so we just removed all of them.

Don't know why, but DayZ SA will not open while the VOIP program mumble is open. I get "Day Z has stopped working". If I close mumble and retry, it works just fine.

Yeah leave that stuff in WoW and MMOs where it belongs. Bandits and heroes aren't supposed to be differentiated. Thats the whole point of the game.

Resolved. For anyone else experiencing this issue disable Mumble overlay and it will work fine.

Thanks for your help haha

Its definitely mumble.

What exactly about the game don't you like? What is too real or you? The game is supposed to be hard. It might take you 2, 3, 4, or 10 lives to learn where to go and where not to go, what to take with you and what to leave. The running or 25+ minutes is temporary until they get vehicles up and working. Fair warning, it will take some work to get a vehicle running. Patience is a virtue in Day Z, don't expect to spawn, grab a gun and blast away right off the bat. Good luck

This happened to me today after 3 weeks of owning SA, just closed the app and reopened and they were all there. Good luck

I thought about trying this...what about the micro actions like hands up, raise weapon, inventory even? Did you mess with those at all?

Theres nothing you can do to 100% prove your friendliness. Its part of the game and doesnt appear to be going anywhere soon. As it shouldnt.