Grimey Rick

Yeah, agreed. A lot of the people complaining around here seem like they might be newer to the game. My friends and I will actually server hop looking for other people doing the same, and attack them. Find a server that's just reset with a handful of people on it and scout it out. We'll wait for a few minutes and move on if no one is around. I feel like we're doing a public service as we rarely take any of the loot unless one of us gets hit and needs a new shirt or pair of pants. (; This is probably why we see so many people cheating as we literally JUST PVP at airfields. We love the game and will go back to "surviving" the apocalypse when it becomes actually difficult or until they add in some fun new features. :3

@OP: I agree with you. My friends and I follow a code that's very similar. When you play this game, you must expect to die. It doesn't matter how good at ARMA or any other FPS game you are, you're eventually going to get yourself into a shitty situation and pay the price for it. The crossroads you come to when this happens only provides you with two options: Accept your fate, learn from your mistakes, become a better player for it Run back to the location you died yelling obscenities at your assailant or make a post on the forums ranting about how much you hate those who "kill on sight"If you don't want to die and lose all of your gear, this game isn't for you. This game is about enjoying the rush that those moments of peril bring. Don't be mad because most people you run into don't want to be your friend.

I don't notice much cheating when I'm not around an airfield or in Elektrozavodsk/Berezino. It's when you go to these places that you start getting shot through brick walls without having even exposed yourself. I've tested every single wall in the ATC and jail/detention buildings on airfields with an M4A1 and Mosin while shooting at a friend inside. You 100% cannot shoot through these walls legitimately. I've died at least six times since the weekend (literally) while PVPing in NEAF by being shot through the walls of the ATC and jail/detention buildings. The best example of which was when I got hit by one M4 round while under the stairs of the jail/detention building eating. It ruined my shirt, so I crawled to the corner of the building underneath the stairs. A few seconds later, another shot, and I was dead. My friends told me the shots came from sniper hill. They later verified that's where the shots were coming from as a guy crossed the runway in a half dozen teleports and ran inside the ATC where he proceeded to shoot them. He killed two of my friends as they were crouched in the upstairs hallway. My third buddy combat logged. We commended his bravery. (; I guess one could advise others to just stay away from these contested areas, but that's currently where the most fun takes place. I want to see another ban wave pretty soon as this is getting a little out of control.

If they're already known then why don't you fix them? We're long due for a ban wave.

I feel that people should play however they want.

I'd love to be able to paint them. I'd also love to be able to paint the Hunting Backpack. I really like the whole "28 Days Later" look. I usually try to get a Wool Coat, Hunting Backpack, Bandana and Gask Mask. The chick at the first of the movie who saved the main character is my hero. <3 It does look kind of like an Assault Vest, but the Tactical Vest has definitely always looked like that. Aye! It's the reason they indefinitely removed it. It interferes with certain backpacks and clothing. It floats too high on your character. UPDATE: I am now dead and the vest is now gone, as was expected. All I do on Regular is get into mindless battles at airfields, so it was bound to happen. I've passed on the legacy to a group of six guys from the [GHOST] clan who thought it would be cool to ghost inside the wall/floor of the NEAF jail in order to kill me. I was deflecting bullets from the walls downstairs and hitting them, so they started taunting me and telling me I'd be dead in a few minutes "when their friend got there". Tactical Vest, until next we meet! /salute

There are TACTICAL Vests and ASSAULT Vests. Totally different. Then there are PRESS Vests and ANTI-STAB Vests. Tactical Vests currently DO NOT spawn.

A player in NEAF. I was looting the bottom floor and I heard someone log in. I ran upstairs and got the drop on him before his gun was out. I told him straight away to drop the vest or I'd pop him. He refused, and it sounded like he was almost in tears. I did what I had to do. (; Stable. Yes, but it was removed a long time ago as it didn't quite fit the character right and was causing graphical errors. They're extremely rare now. Yes? Gas masks look awesome. I don't know how you'd "hack it in" but this was from a guy I killed. Pristine, too.

Yup, it definitely looks like shit. There seems to be an extremely low resolution version of every building that's applied after a couple hundred metres, but as far as being able to view players it hasn't affected me. It looks like you're playing Minecraft when you're on sniper hill looking at the airfield.

Strange, because I've played with all of my settings on minimum for a few days not too long ago and was able to spot people from sniper hill in NEAF all the way to the jail closest to Krasnostav. They just appeared like little smudges of black. It made sniping so much easier.

I read somewhere that is was just meant as a joke and they'll be changed back eventually.

Unfortunately the best way of winning a gunfight in a forest is by turning all of your settings to Very Low and being aggressive. This is how people are seeing you in most cases, by having their Terrain and Object Detail set to the lowest setting. Other than that, there's not a whole lot else you can do. Being passive will most often get you killed, as when you're sitting in a bush waiting for someone, you lose the edge as trees don't actually provide any cover and your vision is impaired. Most importantly, be aggressive.

...I decided to turn my back on a guy after playing with him for about three hours. We literally ran 3/4 of the map from NWAF, to SWAF, to Elektro, to Berezino, and finally to NEAF. After getting to NEAF and finding it already looted, I had to go take a piss. I let him know and hadn't even stood up from my chair when I saw, "You are dead". I normally help new spawns (even though nobody is truly new at this point of the game) but I don't usually hang around them long enough to even consider turning my back on them. This guy seemed pretty cool; he told me about his family and job, where he was from, etc. I used to KOS everyone I came across, but never would I do something so low. It makes me wonder what makes people tick. To see someone and shoot them on sight is one thing, but to roll with them for a few hours partaking in conversation for the entirety of the trip only to finally kill them when he is going AFK has to be the pinnacle of sleaze. I think I may go on another KOS rip. Has this ever happened to you?

You never could see in pitch black when the moon isn't out. The gamma "exploit" only works when there is already a source of light that you can exaggerate by maximizing your settings. You can still peek through walls in Hardcore too, sometimes more easily than when in 3PP. I'm glad to hear it's still an active issue with development, though. As far as third-party VoIP programs, deal with it. This has been beaten to death and they're not going anywhere. If they disabled VoIP programs from being run while in DayZ, my wife and I would still be able to communicate with one another as we're in the same room. What's next, forcing me to renovate my house and provide pictures of said renovation before I can accept DayZ's EULA? Let's not forget that Steam also has a built-in VoIP program that is arguably just as good as Skype.

It doesn't matter whether or not it's behind a monitor, you can still figure out what kind of a person someone is by the way they act in an environment with no consequences. If someone cheats in a card game, you can tell pretty quickly what kind of a person they are as well.

You run slower with an axe equipped than without a weapon equipped.

This has been discussed here before at some length. My favorite idea would be "stripping" a gun and putting it into your backpack. This action would take ten or so seconds during which time you'd be completely vulnerable. I think that would be fair. I don't like the idea of swapping the axe for another gun as that would be fairly overpowered. I think that if you're going to reap the benefit of carrying two main weapons, there needs to be some sort of sacrifice to that which the ten seconds of vulnerability covers nicely.

It is, I read somewhere that when the server has a lot of people on it, you hear these noises because the server can't squelch them fast enough or something. That's what I've always gone with. Maybe it's an optimization thing? You always seems to hear half of whatever noise it is you're hearing. That's how I tell them apart. I don't know how many times I've been playing with my beautiful wife only to reassure her every ten seconds there are no zombies around us. "But I heard one!" "It's just a glitch, dear." "OMG SOMEONE JUST RELOADED!!!" "Yes dear, but they're nowhere near us. We're in the middle of the forest." "But I heard it! You're a jackass." "Yes, dear."

This, and the people.

I've tested it while using a Mosin. It's actually surprisingly accurate once you get used to the fact that the reticle isn't 100% centered. It's a ghetto PU Scope.

Because I was laying prone in the upstairs room of the jail closest to Krasnostav. A sniper can't hit you there; I went prone for that very reason. Also, I heard him call me a "faggot" and laugh. See above. I don't follow. EDIT: Do you mean the Berezino thread? Yeah, that wasn't me. We were playing on stable and I died in NEAF.

Lol. :beans:

Yeah, I know what you mean. This guy was chill the entire time. He even took several breaks where I covered him during our trip.

THANK YOU. Who the fuck wants to sit around and watch Sacriel stream, let alone some random kid? All Sacriel does is run around with his friends hoping to run into some random group of travelers and then treating the situation like he's up against some sort of elite tactical squad, when they're usually garbed in purple backpacks and orange raincoats. It's seriously fucking funny. *clueless player walks into barracks in NWAF, gets shot through window* Sacriel: "CONFIRMED KILL IN BARRACKS AT TETRIS: HEADSHOT. Man, my hands are sweating I'm so nervous." ...