Grimey Rick

Be careful Guppy. The servers are overflowing with "magical" players these days; much more so than before you left. These magical players infest all of the aforementioned areas. Good luck.

Heatpacks are amazing. They do work in the current patch, too. Something else that works that not everyone is aware of: when you kill a deer/boar/cow/human you can sometimes loot their guts. If you cook the guts on the fire, they'll get very hot after a few minutes. They work the same way as a heatpack, and just as effectively. The great part about them is that you can reheat them later; they never deteriorate or burn.

OP is a badass.

So I went to play DayZ this morning after droppin' the kids off at school, and it was... gone... I didn't uninstall it, and no one else uses my computer -- the wife has her own. Has this happened to anyone else?

Yeah, it was. Thanks for the tip. You learn something new every day. ♥

Yeah, the game's currently messed up like the guy above mentioned. Like he said, sit next to a fire for a while. As far as the splint bug, there's currently another bug that prevents you from completing certain actions. "Eat All", "Drink All", crafting and performing actions on others sometimes don't work in the current patch. To fix that: put the item you want to use in your hands, then press F11 to initiate the "suicide" emote. After the emote has begun, immediately perform the action you were trying to complete. It will instantly complete, but you'll still have to sit through the rest of the emote. When you get good at it, use F2 instead. It's a faster emote and achieves the same thing. Good luck.

I died this morning for the first time in months. No big deal, right? I click "Respawn" and ALT-TAB. Half a minute or so later, I TAB back into DayZ only to be met with 28 seconds remaining on my timer. What the f♥ck? Is this new, or have I just lived a very long time? Bug or "feature"? If feature: dumb.

DeatHTaX and I have died literally two dozen times in the past week to "Goku" players playing on full private shards. We keep training in hopes that we may one day attain the ability to teleport, shoot at 300% regular speed, take 2000% damage before dying, and cover dozens of miles of ground in seconds. I've got 1,500 hours under my belt, but I still haven't mastered these things... :T We could just avoid other players and live our lives in the wilderness, fellating one another and eating rabbit stew, however, at the current time we're seeking out player combat since, y'know, it's fun, right? Unfortunately for us, we're normally killed within an hour by some "Goku" player with a high-pitched voice calling us names and laughing at our inability to teleport to safety. We have, in several instances, managed to eliminate a few "Gokus", but to our dismay, we've been unable to identify the source of this strange, omnipotent power. In this scenario, we're generally snuck up on by the previously eliminated "Goku" while we're still examining his corpse for clues. We're assuming in these situations he's been reanimated by the Dragonballs.

I use the "surrender" animation. Much faster. :3 The same goes for drink all/eat all, crafting items, filling a canteen, etc. It's currently the only way to perform said actions.

I dropped a guy from ~900m last night. He was near the line of tents facing the runway in NWAF. I picked him off from the ATC. The sway is pretty terrible, though. I don't really understand why it sways side to side so drastically. It should be mostly vertical. Seems kind of half-assed.

You realize you can do what this program does without paying a dime, right? Would it work? Yeah, RAM disks work. Are they going to make a $32 difference? No.

This thread is going places.

No, this is a stupid mechanic. What you're suggesting is just silly. "I refuse to do something in a video game filled with zombies because it isn't realistic!" Lol.

I bet he also refuses to use splints to heal broken arms and legs, because principles.

inb4 "but teh map is so big and teh rend4r distints is so far away!!1!" lol

Everyone plays 3PP to peek. @OP: I did something similar the other night. I move around quite fast, and pressed "F" to grab a ladder descending a building while not giving the game enough of a chance to register that I had pressed it. I ended up careening through the air landing on my face a few stories below. 1,500 hours in and a not even bugged ladder owned me.

No one is debating whether or not the Mosin is a superior firearm. The initial comment was that sniping isn't going anywhere. I've killed many people with a chest/head shot using the CR527 using only iron sights. Coupled with a long-range scope, it'll be 75% as deadly as an equally equipped Mosin even without the magazine. As far as said magazines are concerned, they're no more uncommon than a speed/snap/pellet loader. Piano houses/taverns spawn quite a few of them.

Or if you attempt to connect to a server that has just reset before it's finished initializing. If your average player didn't read reddit or the forums, they'd have no idea what was causing their seemingly random character resets.

Call of Duty doesn't have auto-run. And how does holding W further immerse you into a game? If my keyboard didn't have an auto-run button I'd have quit after an hour. The one legitimate complaint the OP made in that sobfest was the lack of auto-run. But, if his keyboard is that "expensive", he should be able to macro a key to it.

Agreed. With the iron sights it's pretty bad; not enough stopping power and generally takes two shots while being a bolt-action. Add the ability to attach a long-range scope and it's an entirely different can of worms, though.

...and add it to another gun? Sniping isn't going anywhere.

I work ~400km from the north pole three weeks out of the month, so that helps. No internet/cell phone ftw. When I get home, DayZ is a good way to pass the time with friends, but it's just as easy to not play it at this point. I was quite addicted when it first came out, though. I have almost 1,500 legit hours logged so far, so I feel your pain. ♥

They're being revamped. They don't require fixing. Zombies are very predictable and thus very easy to dodge. Even using only fists, zombies don't last more than 20 seconds. Axes, farming hoes, and pickaxes kill them in two hits. How much easier do you want it? It's definitely not impossible to kill them without losing most of your blood. In fact, they very rarely hit you once you've become competent at dealing with them. I don't think there is anything wrong with that. The "zombies" in DayZ are actually infected people; they have a disease similar to the Rage Virus in 28 Days Later. Once they see you, they'll chase you until they kill you or their bodies fail, unless you somehow manage to give them the slip by running through buildings. Zombies are far from fine, however, they're also far from difficult. The revamped zombies are coming. Be patient. ;3 EDIT: teh splelingz

Better bring a big sack to fit over his head, Irish is an egocentric son of a bitch. He has a six pack.