Franchi (DayZ)

Why would I be dead IRL? Do you know anything about me? How many Garands have you handled much less fired IRL? Did you know that late in WW2 a limited number of Garands were introduced with scopes? Did you know that this adaptation was widely used in Korea? Or are you talking out your ass from a place of ignorance? I was talking about in game, but I prefer the SVT IRL as well, I have handled, repaired and shot both. The SVT is a bit of a maintenance hog, but it makes up for it in long range accuracy and stopping power.

I really don't get why. Many old school guns dominate the guns that replaced them in a game like dayz. Given a choice between a M1 Garand and a M4 I will take the Garand EVERY TIME. Same goes for SVT>SKS>AK47,

"like a really old western gun?" Has the rest of the world forgotten their culture? Over and under and side by side guns in combinations of shotgun/rifle or rifle/rifle or shotgun/shotgun were at one time the guns of choice for European hunters, variations such as the drilling 3 and 4 barrel were rare but often used 3 different cartridges in the same gun. It would be cool to find them spawn with random calibers and gauges for each barrel. So one fires 556 and 12 gauge, and another fires 22LR and 12 gauge, and so on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drilling_%28firearm%29

You state that searching an airstrip that someone else has been to is incomprehensibly stupid, I point out that I have found just about every item that can spawn there, in airstrips other people have already been to. According to you if I see the doors open, or magazines with bullets removed,well, I best get to hopping, Had I done this last night, I would have one less Pristine Acog and my buddy wouldn't have 60 round mags for his gun or a ballistic helmet, or a TSTKO jacket. Yes other players left them, maybe they missed them, maybe they prefered a diffrent set up. The point is just becasue someone else has been to an airfield does not mean everything of value was taken. I have to ask who exactly is incomprehensibly stupid?

I put searched in quotes for a reason, what I mean is that I have found all those items at airstrips devoid of zombies with doors that should have been closed open, meaning another player had been there. Another great indicator is emptied magazines, as magazines can only spawn full finding empty ones means someone else has been there.

I have found every item that can drop in an airstrip at "searched" airstrips, including pristine long range scopes, just last night I was hitting up the NWAF with my buddies covering me with mosins's and LRS's, the place had been searched, I still found a pristine acog, 3 60/60 m4 mags, pristine TKOS jacket, and a pristine balistic helmet that one of the guys covering me needed as well as plenty of food and assorted ammunition. Aside from that almost no one takes the books, I've found a few Bibles and more than one copy of The Art of War. However, once I get to an airstrip I'm kinda committed to looting it, its a long walk to another, and normally a long wait for a server restart I have logged out at airstrips on occasion, but with the new 30 second timer? Not gonna happen it's not worth the risk.

nah bad idea, server hoppers would just hop inside a barracks check if the doors were open, doors open? Next server. Would look just like someone trying to check connection..

So I found the holy grail of books awhile ago, "The Origin of Species" In ENGLISH PRISTINE!! Ran around for a bit and looted the rest of the town, nothing else major, just a few boxes of 7.62x39 and 54r, pristine PU scope and a few food items. Upon logging back in just now the loot from that town is gone from my inventory, I was still in the same place I logged out after looting the town, but was missing the items looted. My latency was fine both when I logged out and when I logged in. I was on the same server, so I ran to where I had found the book, it was not there, all the doors were as I remember leaving them and all the items I had taken were missing, the other books I had passed over were also still there. The ammo and scope I don't care about but losing that book irks me as I know a fellow collector who recently lost it. So is this a clever anti server hopping feature or a bug? Has anyone else had this happen?

no you will be able to log out, but your character will sit on that server for 20 seconds after log out, and it will be 5 minutes before you cna join another, best bet is to find servers you can play on and add them to favorites so you can find them next time without having to wait out the timer.

The op has a point that has been bothering me about the timer, sure it will slow hoppers down, but in no way will it stop them, why the hell wouldn't they eat the timer? The alternative is to spend 30 minutes to an hour running to another loot spot with equal or lesser spawns, sure for most of us the looting on the way the tension and the potential fights make it worth it, but to them? All they want is to gear up as fast as possible, so they will invariably eat the timer. Best way to stop them is to pick an 0-4/40 server, go to an airfield, close all the doors and get yourself a good sniper perch, kill them loot bags dead! If enough people did this server hopping would still be around, but they would be stuck with just the inside of one building or lower profile and less rewarding hop points.

You were standing defenseless in that spot for 30 seconds AFTER you logged out, you don't get to watch.

That's just it everything was fine in game, no dysnc, instant interaction with everything. Previously I have logged out right after finding something and retained what I picked up. The only time before this patch i ran into this was server re-starts, and that I get.

I was well beyond a minute, had looted several other buildings.

Just keep server hopping, took me over an hour of being treated to 5 minute waits between servers before I found one that re-spawned me properly. Have faith fellow members of the legion of the dead, your next life could be just a five minute wait away!!!!! Or maybe its the one after that!!!

Have no fear after an hour and some of being a dirty nasty server hopper I finally found a server that re-spawned me properly!!! Thanks, thanks a ton! New fix best fix!!!!!! Have faith fellow members of the legion of the dead, your next life could be just a five minute wait away!!!!! Or maybe its the one after that!!!

I am dead too, (on the second account I bought today to play solo) just finished a run to the NWAF, found it rather striped but got a few things, red disconnect chain of doom,i start panicking as i was moving my meager belongings from my improvised pack to a hunter pack i had just found, server resets, I wait for it to come online and log back in WOOT kept my old bag and found a new hunter pack in short order, i then proceed to strip the airfield, get mostly geared, m4 with a few attachments plenty of ammo mostly military clothing, I get to the last row of hangars and am happily looting away and again red dysnc chains of death, no problem, ill just wait, well I waited, hear zombie sounds "Fuck me" and then I started bleeding, run outside and see a zombie running in place, attempted to bandage but can't because of dysnc, can't get a weapon out, can't even see wtf is killing me, can't combat log with the fix in (I consider this a legitimate time to combat log), finaly i get the "You are dead screen" well at least its over! I only had about an hour played. So my incredibly lucky toon dies an inglorious death, time to try again. Re-spawn at the beach, I'm bleeding, and can loot someone I can't see who is wearing the exact same bambi gear as me regardless of where I run to I suspect the server already knows I'm dead, Can't kill myself and can't loot anything, join another server, SAME DAMN THING! And now I get to wait 5 GDM minutes EVERY TIME I TRY TO FIND A SERVER THAT I CAN PLAY ON! Great FIX guys, this is so much better than having some pussy vanish as I'm spraying him down with my M4!!!

Just to be clear, I can get a second steam account and play either one from the same PC essentially having 2 characters for hardcore and two characters for regular just by logging in to the two different steam accounts? I will not have to mess with the Dayz files and this wont (baring a bug/glitch) mess up the saves? I have been thinking about doing this because I now play with friends on hardcore and regular and don't want to spend hours when I play alone getting back to where they logged out to log out myself or spend an hour running back to each other when we log on becasue i went somewhere alone. One account would become my solo play account, the other my group play account if that makes sense.

Buddy of mine took out two zeds from about 600m with two mosin rounds fired no scope, he used a damaged long range scope to set up the shots, then removed it and fired, this was after firing 7 shots trying to find where the scope was hitting. He was prone and using a compensator but no bipod. I've used the acog to hit targets reliably at 400-500 yards, but they were zombies and I was prone using a deployed bipod.

Piss on the POS AKs give me and SVT-40 Loads7.62x54r from stripper clips into a 10 round detachable box magazine, more accurate and deadly than an SKS slightly less so than a mosin, accepts PU scope (actually it took a slightly different scope but this is dayz). And can mount a long range scope. Let me get my hands on that smexy smexy 7.62x54r auto loader. It will change me, no longer will I be the nice book collector hiding in the woods, no with one of these I WILL KILL YOU ALLL!!!!! MUHAHAHAH!!!!

My buddy is really worried about gearing up post server hopper nerf. Whats he supposed to do now that he can't grab a mosin while running to NWAF set up ina bush in the center of the runway and shoot the first loot bag that hops in?

Will give pristine long range scope and pristine acog to whomever makes this happen (hardcore), alternatively, pimped out m4 and FNX (everything worn or better), including suppressors and a pristine acog (regular). Lets sweeten the pot a bit, will throw in a pristine can opener on either!!!!

I was fine with playing on night servers, until I realized that turning on my flashlight was a death sentence, once I figured out how to crank my gamma I started asking myself whats the point? Its just like day time but with no color.

I am curious, how well does day z model the interaction between balistic curve, and line of sight. Here is what I am talking about

The meter and all its derivatives are also a made up, arbitrary, measurements look it up. The Metric system has the advantage of being based on units of ten, or the decimal, the Imperial system has the advantage of not being French :D

I mag in the gun + two spares (always 60/60s for the M4 if I can find them) same for the FNX, and the python, one spare if Im short on bag space (and I always am) The way I see it if I ever need more than that I am dead anyway. TBH I've never emptied a full 60/60 in a single firefight.