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You don't have 2 hours to put a computer together but you have time to play the games on one?

Press vest I guess? I dunno I've only ever found 2. Can't think of anything else I haven't seen a bunch of times besides the obvious m4's and combat knifes you can't find anywhere anymore. I find rope, fishing lures, binoculars and all that crap all the time. Was just looking for a CR527 since I had a mag and wanted to try it out. Found one withing 10 minutes and dropped that thing. Keeping my sks. I'm always on the lookout for a new high capacity vest since they always get beat up.

"We all know that one of the most unpleasant things in DayZ right now is the melee system. Problems with melee can be divided into two separate issues - collision shapes and hit detection. Until recently the melee system was prototyped in script and it introduced a nice hit detection mechanic during the swing where a trace is cast directly from the weapon, however this solution is suffering from desync and lags in the multiplayer environment. Now the melee system is being redone within the engine itself so we will expand upon it and hopefully find the most ideal solution on how to retain hit detection during swing in game but the task will take some time. Anyway don't worry as I have good news for all you lovers of short range weapons and the stealth approach. To bridge the gap until the new system is ready, we have turned off swing hit detection and put straightforward cursor detection in for the interim. Together with adjusted collision shapes it results in a usable melee system for our purposes. While you will not be able to block your firefighter axe swing on a wall, you will at least hit what you are aiming for and that is what counts." I guess if you're nitpicking what I said was incorrect. And if I hadn't read the Dev blog where would I have magically come up with what i had said? I just didn't use the best description of whats going on with melee I guess...

They've said they are reverting the melee back to hitting where the cursor is to make it a big easier than it is right now since the hit detection and path-finding aren't working right.

I don't care when cars are added. I rarely use them in the mod. Just a headache imo. I can get around just fine by foot. Wheels always breaking, running out of gas, terrible steering and everyone and their mother knows when you pull into town.

So I guess you didn't deal with the constant bleeding caused by zeds a few patches ago? 2-3 hits and you were K.O. everyone raged about it so they changed it back. Now they just ruin your clothes in 2 hits. I spend 75% of my time in game now looking for new shirts and pants. Until melee is fixed they shouldn't do anything to make zeds stronger. To hit zeds with an axe just keep moving in a circle and swinging, you'll get em. I never waste ammo on zeds. But I'd say 1 in 4 gets a hit on me and usually ruins my shirt/pants or vest.

I believe they drastically reduced the spawns at these buildings for the mountain packs a few patches ago.

While the M4s are rare (wish I didn't drop mine for a akm) I thought the real DayZ unicorns were the combat helmet/gas mask guys. Who knows if there's any left though.

Kitchen knife is what I use for skinning until I eventually find a combat knife I can throw in my military boots.

I've been looking for a combat knife as well. I have the regular kitchen knife for skinning and getting meat but I'd love to find a combat knife I could put into my boots. I had the M4 bayonet but that apparently doesn't work on animals. Wish I could stick zeds with my sks bayonet and use that as a knife.

I used to find mountain packs all over but seem to only find them at military spawns now.

I'll take a sks over any of the guns. I'd like to try the Cz out though. I do like the M4's but f that now. SKS all day imo. I don't bother with handguns. Waste of space since I never use them. I can take down someone with 2 or three shots from the sks even with a damaged scope. I'm not an offensive person so it works well for waiting and shooting if they come near me. Always have at least 3 stripper clips and 200 rounds.

North East Airfield (NEAF) is just north east of Berezino. North West AirField (NWAF) is way over in the north west corner of the map. This morning I decided to do a quick balota run on a server with 3 people. Met one at the barracks in Balota airfield, he ran and logged and then met another at the military base in the woods NW of Balota. He picked the wrong way to leave and I had to shoot him.

This. I wear whatever fits my mood at the moment. Right now fully TTSKO with black high capacity vest, black combat boots, black gloves, boonie hat with similar pattern to TTSKO, and green bandana on my face. I was wearing a brown hoodie, black radar cap and brown hunting pants prior to them being ruined by a zed.

Payday masks usually mean bandits imo. Otherwise I just don't trust anyone. People with bright clothes on usually tend to be friendly but I've also met very friendly guys in TTsKO gear as well. With the rate at which zeds destroy your clothes I don't put much stock into what someones wearing. I take their actions or tone more into account than their clothes. I shot a guy this morning without a word but he happened to choose the wrong place to try and leave the military base. I had patiently waited there for 5 minutes or so for him to leave. And of course when he does try to leave he runs right for me.

If you want shootouts Berezino NEAF or the new city in the north are the places to go. Otherwise you will see very few signs of life out in the western and southwestern areas.

I always run west as soon as I spawn. No point in staying in the East unless you want to get shot at for a hat or can of soda. I seen signs of players and heard a few shots. Ran into some dupers/hackers at NWAF shortly after the AKM came into stable. Shot both of them after they got me in the arm and grabbed their newly found ak parts. Guess they should have just let me run off into the woods like I had planned. But they shot and tried to flank me. Too bad I'm a good shot with a sks ;) Pretty sad that two guys with hacked 2000+ round stipper clips couldn't take down a lone wounded guy with 1 normal stripper clip that they had the jump on.

qft Not like anything is too hard to find. I grabbed one of those M91a bayonets the other day thinking it was a combat knife, will that work the same as a knife for skinning/gutting?

I still have never seen anything from Bohimia saying anything like this so again more than "been stated numourus times" would be nice like an actual link. As a member of DayZRP I know, they would probably like to know this info for future use once they get a SA DayZRP server doing. They're super strict on character background and such so if something like this were true for the SA and not mod.

Wondering where you got this from? It's the first time I've ever heard someone say this. I know with DayZRP's Lore, this wouldn't be true. In their lore which they work very hard to make as acurate as possible to the game and mod, there were one or two villages that resisted and were able to hold up for a little while and many forign troops coming in to help for a week or two after the outbreak. Most EU and US troops pulled back or were destoyed/stranded but US special forces stayed and russian troops stayed ready on the borders until the infection had sprad worldwide and everything went dark. "In Kozlovka, the villagers had rallied and formed an effective militia that combated the infected. Contact with them was kept up and for a long time, they were the best source of information to both media and the goverment on what was actually going on." "DAY 6 was known to many chernarussians as "the day the foreigners thought they could do better." The infection spreads like a wildfire during the night of day 5, and envelops the NWAF and entire central south Zagoria. Cases are started to be reported on the outskirts of Berezino and Chernogorsk, and the NEAF is generally regarded as the only airfield still in control by CDF forces. Air assets are lost en masse as the infected take NWAF and Balota, with huge CDF casualties in the process. Now however the international community intervenes. International forces from many countries, including France, Great Britain, USA, Russia, Germany, Poland, Italy and Canada, as well as some others, swarm the countryside of South Zagoria. The american base on Utes, being kept as a base for a local garrison ever since the 2009 incident, is used to launch air assets and an aggressive campaign against the infected. Russia also intervenes, although separatly from the international task force. They send a few dedicated special forces units over the border to help contain the outbreak, and these units participate in some of the heaviest fighting in the northern part of the province." "On the morning of day 7, only Elektrozavodsk, Msta, Kamyshovo and Solnichiy are unaffected and have no reported cases. Refugees are pouring in from all over South Zagoria both to these areas and to the west. Some try to flee north, but are met by massive russian forces guarding the border. Noone is allowed in or out, the russians even deny "allied" air assets to fly over their territory." "At the end of day 7, the amount of communication from allied forces in South Zagoria has dropped sharply, as most units has collapsed in the field. One of the last statements comes from a major Tyler of the US expeditionary force, that he's pulling his troops back to Utes. His last statement heard over radio is "God be with you all." In a Chernarussian TV channel however there are reports that there are scattered incidents where people that have been bit have not turned. Doctors and scientists are trying to figure out of a "cure" can be made from these "immune" individuals, but an official states that it could take months of work, as they do not fully understand the virus yet. Also, he says, it is important to note that even if "immune", the infected will still very much try to kill you." On day 14, there is silence across most of the broadcast waves. A few select people still have contact with others, but to most people the radio is eerie quiet. Wether that is because the communication infrastructure is broken down or offline, because of jamming or because noone is longer broadcasting is unknown. The last transmission heard on most common radio devices is a statement from a survivor in Kozlovka. "Brothers and sisters, the world may have ended, but we will not end with it! Rise and fight these foul hordes, for they are no longer our fellow humans! Throughout history humanity has always persevered the steepest challenges. We will survive this as well, but only if we fight for our survival! May god be with you! And if god isnt, for it is clear he no longer thinks much of the earth, then may luck and perseverance be with you. We will all need it to endure what comes." http://www.dayzrp.com/t-dayzrp-official-background-refined-edition

Fishing hooks and can openers are hard to find? I have 2 pristine hooks and find openers all the time :P Just need to find the damn stick for the rod.

They and Chow(BlizzHD) and Dimitri stream/record playing DayZSA and Altis Life for Arma 3. they're funny and make good videos.

I use the AKM right now but if I'm just as happy with a sks and a few stripper clips. I do carry 1 ammo can full of 7.62. I don't really carry much food just some ham steaks right now. and 1 canteen. I have 2 30rnd mags for the AK. Had a drum but I ditched it, I don't like the look of em and don't get in shoot outs that much. The rest of my space is firstaid kit, stone, fishing supplies, cooking supplies, a couple books and then random tools while I look for teh protector case to store them like can opener, compas ect. I only carry a main weapon and fireaxe to save on space. I hardly ever use a handgun anyways. For clothes I'm using a brown sweatshirt, grey jeans, green mountain pack and black high capcity vest. Also brown beanie, black gloves, grey low hiking boots and gas mask.

Considering it's in a lot of servers for the mod I'd have to say it's not a bug. I don't care I know my way around pretty well after 400 hours in mod and 300 in SA. I have a full map but barley use it. I also have a laptop right next to my monitor that I could have dayzdb map up all the time on too but, I barley use that anymore. EDIT: guess it could be a bug or setting after these above posts. Guess I should read more before posting >< I think as others have said, it will help some newer players out that may use the ingame maps. If everyones so butthurt about it I'm sure it'll be gone by the final release.

I haven't had any issues with zeds respawning on me. I think one respawned right where I killed another about 15 seconds after I had killed it. But I was insode a market and didn't arggo it.