kitthegreat

Suspect you've just got unlucky really. My advice for looting food is to head away from the spawn areas. Get a map like http://www.izurvive.com/ and head inland. Most houses will spawn food of some sort but look particularly for red brick houses with blue windows and yellow wooden houses with blue windows and blue diamonds. The later is the best food spawn in the game.

Here is my endgame, overwatch/sniper load out. I prefer the minimalist approach. And its been successful for me. The protector case contains 1 morphine, cuffs and a couple of PU scopes to dish out to my squad.

Any military building will spawn 5.56, I get most by emptying mags. Try airfields and the Western line of military bases.

Hmmm I'd recommend using a known distance and getting to know how that looks with your FOV settings. You can use the DayZDB map to measure the distance between two points (just click the map at point A and B and the distance will pop up) get to know what 100m looks like then have a go at guessing and checking. You'll get it pretty quickly.

Yep me and my squad use izurvive I much prefer the topographic map style. The ability to set markers is very useful. You can use the browser version at izurvive.com also.

Don't get me wrong I'd love to see a proper metropolis in the north. I think and hope that what we actually get is a massive military base in the north. A big pvp spot to draw players from the coast, plus epic lootz.

Check out the far north of the map, look at road lay outs. Something big is coming. That said the majority of the buildings in the WarZ cities weren't enterable if I remember right. I'd prefer smaller towns with more lootable buildings. Also fps is pretty bad in cherno, can't see massive cities working out so well.

Found 5 to date, 2 were found at the same time at nwaf. In the camo net bunkers near the tents on the nw corner. The others were found in the barracks at zelenogorsk and kamenka military bases.

The pubs and corner restaurants also seem to consistently spawn them. I have also found them in the long brown barns.

Longest was 10 hours :o But an average of 4-5 I guess.

Just me and my mates holding up a guy at NEAF. We let fate decide his destiny.

Works both ways though, I like the reload sound despite its dangers.

Here's my loot run Svetlojarsk NE Airfield Krasnostav Follow the road south to Dubrovka then follow the power lines west to Novy Sobor. Hit Novy and Stary Cross the field into Veresnik Military base Head south to Green Mountain Into Zelenogorsk South again to Kamenka/Pavlovo Military base. Then head back North to NWAF if your feeling brave or hit Balota and into Cherno to go loose all your gear ;) Takes about 90 mins to do the run but you can gear up a 4 man squad with ease. Regarding the long range scope. I've found 5 to date. 2 (at the same time) at the bunkers at North West Airfield, the ones near the tents on the NW corner. The rest were found in the barracks at Zelenogorsk and Kamenka Military base.

Yep, I can confirm this.

Yep I'd dearly love to see knives implemented properly (and I'm sure they will be). For the sake on context this is the tactical knife/Bayonet of the Czech armed forces. Can't imagine a knife I'd rather shove into an undead cranium.

You know you can carry two rifles already? Just put one on your back as normal then select the second rifle on ground choose the 'take xxx into hands' option.

I seem to remember Sacriel asking Rocket about black burlap sacks in one of his streams. Rocket said it would happen and would be easy to do, so here's hoping. I was only using the Maxpedition bags for illustration, they are pretty overpriced unless your in SAS or whatever. And I agree that military bags should only spawn at military locations, it would be interesting to know if they could implement a MOLLE/PLCE type system in DayZ. For example you start with your 15 slot MOLLE assault pack and can say make it up to a 19 slot using 2x 2 slot MOLLE pouches or similar. Even a black hiking day pack would be acceptable.

Most sessions on DayZ see me more or less circle the map, or at least cross the interior a couple of times. So I'd say quite a lot compared to the coast huggers. But still a couple of small towns I haven't been too. Only yesterday I was heading through the Old Fields and found a Stone Circle on top of a hill and a Castle I hadn't seen before. Plenty left to explore still, and I haven't even been North of the train tracks much.

True enough, but I do get bored of the G.I. Joe look and I ain't got the guts for a bright orange raincoat.

Met a german guy (in game name was Mortimer if your out there, lol). He was pretty new and we were both fresh spawns. So I showed him where to loot, got him a mosin and some ammo and showed how to do some basic inventory stuff. We went into the ship at Riffy and was explaining how it had a habit of breaking your legs... When I fell to my death. Oops. Still I like to think he had a good introduction to DayZ.

Yup, I took that decision. Plus the Wood Splitter fits in the courier bag so super low profile.

Hmmm or I could just play the game for a couple of hours?

Found a pristine one yesterday in the garages (storage units) at Svetlojarsk. Regularly spawn in any garage.

There is a great loot run you can do from Svetlojarsk (It's just where my squad tends to log out, but adapt to your needs). Svetlojarsk NE Airfield Krasnostav Follow the road south to Dubrovka then follow the power lines west to Novy Sobor. Hit Novy and Stary Cross the field into Veresnik Military base Head south to Green Mountain Into Zelenogorsk South again to Kamenka/Pavlovo Military base. Then head back North to NWAF if your feeling brave or hit Balota and into Cherno to go loose all your gear ;) Takes about 90 mins to do the run but you can gear up a 4 man squad with ease.

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