CJFlint

That tower! Crazy things happen in there I tells ya! Every newb in the game heads there like its a beacon of hope! I always run into ass hats around there.

It really is coming through the walls. Last month I really worked hard to keep my avatar alive through this patch. One of the reasons is in .49 its was just hard to get geared up, and took a long time. I began settling for stuff. But in .50 everything I was missing in .49 I found rather quickly. When .49 went to .50 stable, I was at novo. Bored with sourthern areas. I decided to move west to the new base, its a really good add. There's allot there and it has a much different feel to it. I explored it abit, but had to leave when I noticed a group running through. Serously a really good loot spawn found the new back pack, and some other items really quickly. I quickly swaped out my badly damaged hunters. Then I proceeded west. I hit up the tent city, in .49 there was vary little military gear there, now just about every tent had something in it. Good I most have saw 20 peices of military clothing and allot of other items. Rifles just lay n around. .50 I think is probably the best patch I have seen hit stable. Really well done on the part of the devs! Even the rain effects are really good. I'm still leary of hot fixs so I'll keep an eye out for bad changes or changes that toughen it up. Knowing DayZ the party will be over vary soon :o Have you guys been to any of the caves yet? There pretty asome

Some frown on this but I use the dayz TV map, becuase there overly nit picky. Its updated all the time with every new patch. http://www.dayztv.com/map/. Prob the best map I have seen for this game by far. I use a program called over wolf which allows you to use a browser while playing, I simply click the browser and theres them map. You can select it to be clearer too so you can see through it with the over wolf browser. This program sometimes is glitchy like if you using TS with it, it has caused some issues with controls and the mouse pointer going away. So I turn it off when I'm in team speak. Just stuff to be aware of.

Oh man, it was bad. Much worse. Then it really was an issue really worth complaining about. Now its not really that big of an issue compare to how it was.

You know what is dicked up, is the military boots ware much faster then jungle boots. I kicked my miltary boots to the curb after having them ware out really quickly. Jungle boots are really good. I'm still yet to find a combat knife, or hunting too....So I just figured I'll go with jungle. Heres my question......were the hell are the range finders at? I want one!

The cooking pot is used with the gas stove, which I think still burns meat. Its not really good for that purpose YET. So its really just an item to carry meat in. It takes up 4 slots but can carry 5 peices of meat. Using it to cook does not require water.....It would be cool when water from ponds becomes tainted, we can boil it using a pot. Fires do not require a pot to cook. You simply place the peices of meat in the fire slots and wait a few minutes then when they become cooked remove them quickly.

I would say check out the military bases. Check out the 2 new military spawns too. Tent city is now spawning much more military loot, then in .49 stable. I was just there last night and quickly ran through it. I just was looking for odds and ends, I noticed most of the tents now have really good loot.

DayZ has a some bad dynamics or issues, that I have not seen in to many games. Issues like hopping and ghosting ect. Its a game with 40 person server and hunderds, were thousands of players on them. Its really not an MMO, its just multiplayer. Its not the only game in the world thats like this, but with a limited amount of loot and hives, it creates issues not seen before. Same with the fact players can just spawn in anywhere creates they "ghosting issue". So its almost by design inviting some of the "server hopping" and "ghosting" explioting. All they can do now is combat it now. Some who beleive its a huge issue will go private hives, I may consider it my self down the road. Its a thin balance between trying to correct it, or making it suck even worse....for those of us that want to make it a huge issue anyways. Currently I view these issues as an exceptable level of "shit". I have learned to adapt to it. Ghosting for expample. I simply never stay in one place long enough to make it in issue. I see dayz as a moving battlefield always. Once the shooting starts and I recieve fire I move. Ever since I started doing that I have not had players just spawn in at my location in quite a while. Hopers, well Its there but, its not as bad as people make it out to be, and if know about loot count and presist servers sometimes have nothing, you will know its not that bad.

I think timers should simply get greater everytime you log into a server. And have a cap on how many servers you can log into per day. Do you really need to log into 20 servers a day or even 10? Or do even need to go that far. Because thats whats next. Server hoping gets bad when you run across the map, and to go to a military spawn, then there simply nothing there. Not a thing. Either a group looted the crap out of it, or hopers came in and cleaned it out. This is BS, and typical dickish behavor that it seems many dayz players have for some reason. Abuse of stuff like this screws it up for everyone. Becuase the devs will come in and combat it, its screws everyone over. When I 1st started playing dayz this was a big problem. BUT honestly its not nearly as bad as it once was. The reality is server hoping has calmed down abit since timers were added. Before the combat logging feature and timer were added, its not as bad as it once was. I honestly don't have problems finding stuff ever, and more often then not most places I visit do have loot. I notice a much bigger issue regarding loot count, between being on a persist server and not being on one. SO lets not get these issues mixed up, which I think people here on the forums are.

I can see dupping, using 3rd party software (mal ware) to gain cheats, and serous stuff like as clear cheating. Look through walls is an expliot. Abusing unfinished mechanics...stuff like that. Server hoping......this is something I consider to be a touchy subject. If you are clearly abusing it logging into mulitple servers, not like just switching but were talking like 5 to 10 times, just to loot the crap out of something, wrecking it for everyone else. Then you are explioting the game. But if you simply change servers becuase there is just simply nothing there, and you just want greener pastures. Then I see nothing wrong with that. Honestly timers and load in times, should cut down on it.

Well gee thanks pal. Nice dog pick though....very hipster If you read what I said there are other reasons why it is not a good option. Like for example you greatly increase your chances of running into other players, wait times and the like. So when I wrote what I wrote I did posts there is quite a few cons of doing it. Infact I do not do it much of the time because it simply not ideal. Do I believe it it is expliot, not really though. They really have put things inplace like timers anyways. So I think your just picking things out of what up saying, with out reading through it.

The 1st day I played the new patch I was up on the northern border of the map. Went all the way across NE to NW side. Theres the new base, but other then that nothing but forest. The places I know they really worked on were blank fields...not forests. I think some of the new towns filled some of the gaps. Theres still tons of forest guys.

No no no...on the removal of the new towns. What the hell guys? There was so much vast feilds with slabs and empty spaces, like in the NW above NWAF....Not forests, feilds of nothing!..Did any of you go up there above nwaf before this patch?..Good dam we will find anything to complain about with these new patches serously. Theres still tons of wilderness and if there isn't expand the map if its posible. .50 is probably the best patch I have seen them put out in a while.....even the weather is better. Really cool new items, and mechanics. Not that many bugs. Everthing starting to shape up! Prob the best patch they put out in quite along time. Be happy while you can mofos, it X-Mas in dayz I tells ya.

Well heres the thing, playing the "hero" play style is probably one of the hardest things to pull off in this game. I mean to make contact, before firing, is at times just sucicide alone. Doing it solo, I think with the current mechanics, is just not worth it unless you just don't mind being shot all the time. I mean that with respect too, its just the truth. So what they have is numbers, when they do an "operation" as they call it. I seen up to 10 or sometimes even 15 players from clan on one server. Let me tell you something, you may think the bandits and ass hats are scared, there not, they will try to derail it every time LOL which makes for some crazy pvp. Probably some of the biggest shoot outs I was ever in this game was in that clan. Good stuff if you like action too. They get into some pretty nasty scraps with that clan. They also have a ton of members which makes gearing up fairly easy, someone is always looting and you can join them. They have a pretty strick rules of engagements though, which draws the enemy in along with people your trying to help. So its really pretty risky, but they do it about is good as anyone can with the game the way it is now and they do help players thats for sure. To me it sounds like you would like it.

Oh ok, so it sounds like they may have adjusted the spawns then. There were a couple inland back in the .49 stable. Then there was thee ole broken Vybor spawn...never got that one but I new others who did. So your a freindly player, well thats why you have to respawn allot. Most the players in this game are just mean dicks to each other. They really are just a bunch of jerks. <_< Probably the worst I have seen in any multiplayer game honestly. Its built right into the mechanics of this game. There are some freindlys that play and "hero" playstyles. I think if you enjoy that play style your better off at least in a group, in the SA anyways. Its just too easy to get shot, and there sooo many KOSers out there. Beck Privateers is a pretty large clan, that is pretty serous about playing the hero play style and pull it off. I used to be in it, but that play style wasn't quite my cup of tea. But I have allot of respect for them, there like the UN of dayz. There a pretty good bunch of guys and gals, really cool helpful players. You should check them out if you havn't already, if you really enjoy that group.

My most voilent, strangest encounters are norm when I'm solo and caught off guard or by suprise. I tend to just start shooting and not even thinking about much else. I'm not even sure this story is really realated to this thread but I'll tell it anyways. A really strange thing happened to me early last patch. I was up in the tall gov tower in novo, I was freshly spawned from the recent wipe. I was just looting enough to move onto the better areas of the map. I started hearing foot steps.....wait just a minute here. Zombies cant get up here, thats a player! A split second after that he then ran into the room and hit me right in the head with an axe....all grey instantly.....I then backed up pulled out this 45 acp I just found. Unloaded the whole thing on him. He fell over. I went unconscious then like maybe 10 seconds later, then a minute later dead. I said in direct, "Dam dude you fucked us both over hahahaha." It was pretty dam funny honestly, it was def a weird one. That fight was a draw :huh: I sware I have run into more players in that building then just about anywhere. I would not say this was my most voilent encounter, but it was a weird encounter, that def I will not forget for a while. It really was funny how it all happened. I wish I could have recorded it. Honestly in pvp, encounters they all start seeming the same after a while. There are quite a few times that I pvped and it just turns into a big blood bath or even a train wreck. But there are some really funny things that happen or really strange encounters that stick out to me more then others, that is for sure. I sware those type encounters stick out more in my mind then others. There is some really funny, strange and just plan bazare shit that happens in DayZ.

Very interesting. So from the sounds of it they switched the spawn points back to to the coast again, for stable? Is that the case? Is it anywhere on the coast or does it just gravitate toward the south or east? Last patch there was few spawns inland I remember. I prefer spawn points be spread out all over the map, or it could be anywhere random on the south or east coast. What I don't like is when everyone spawns in an kind of the same area. For example a few patches ago everyone would spawn in up at NE, and thats really were everyone would stay, never venturing to the other parts of the map. There were times even on hi pops were NW areas were empty of players. Most players I would talk would say they have everything they need on the NE and there was no point in getting the mil gear on the NW, or SW. It was great for looting mil gear though lol I never worried about other players as much, but in the big picture I don't think was good for the game. I could really pick and chose whether I felt like pvping or running around finding stuff... What I found out for my self is there are many players that never venture that far from were they spawned. I go everywhere on the map. Just on my current life I spent much of my time hanging around the southern half of the map last patch, there were pvp groups and I was close to good mil spawns and loot. But then moved to novo area and I am now slowly making my way back down again. The one thing I liked about last patch is I would run into people just about every where, thats cool. It keeps me on my toes. I had more close surprise close encounters then I have had in a while. I really hope it stays that way. I really like it much better were people don't just gravitate in one area on the map. What ends up happening is areas either are just dead with no players and then just a small area becomes a complete death trap. Its not all bad though, like I said looting for the high end stuff becomes easier, but the game it self becomes much more predictable. So its kind of a double edged sword, and there is a part of me that likes a shake up every once an a while to keep things fresh.

I have noticed on this thread and on others were people some how think because they play 1st person mode they are some how better then people who play 3rd person. I'm going to go ahead say your vary wrong. I have played 1st person and 3rd person many times, and will tell there is no more skilled needed to play either or. I had the same exp playing either way for the most part. Your vis is just limited in 1st person, THATS IT....Lets just make that clear right now. So lets please stop with 1st person 3rd person crap, to someone who has played this a great deal it just seems like such stupid none issue. Just stop it for god sakes. I sware out of any other game I have played, there is more false claims, hype and mis guided scuddlebutt then anywhere else I have seen, in any game I have seen in my life time of gaming lol. I'm not kidding. I play this game allot, and I come to the forums sometimes and really wonder if some of the people on here are playing the same game as me. I'm really not sure what causes it. It really amazes the hell out of me sometimes. Also I tend to think because this game is so hard on new players, they tend to get overly impressed with stuff that happens....well all the time in dayz. There barely able to even survive 5 minutes let alone shot other players. I say to the new players, these are not god like players, and in month you will be there too. There simply vet pvpers or instant grad players that are at electro or cherno or were ever on a packed server, who have a stream. Have some of you ever pvped before? Or group pvp? I mean this in a respectful way...but have you? Man there are times were the streets are littered with players dead avatars. This video really was just on instance of many. There has been several times were on groups or pvp sessions there were multiple players avatars were shot dead. I have seen players shot dead then come back and try to loot there body and get shot again by the same person even. Come on lol It happens every single day in this game. All kinds of crazy freak things happen.

This reminds me. I cant wait for real winter weather and effects like snow to be added. Cool!

You are a good shot, I will give that, and you have allot of followers. So hats off to you. But your def not the only person in this game who has done that. Infact I played in a couple of groups were other players have taken out a number of players in one session. Infact I have done it my self. I do not even want credit for it. Its really just comes down trying to survive a pvp encounter, so I remain modest about. Because I know good and well, the next time I log in I can be taken out by, other players, hackers, bugs, falling off of things and the like. It can happen at anytime. It keeps me grounded and modest in regards to this game. What really impress's me about players is when they are able to survive certain death and have longevity. The guys that log in the high pops pvp and survive countless times. They keep there avatars alive for days weeks, even months. I know that most players who really play dayz log into the high pops, last maybe a few hours to a couple of days tops. Most end up getting shot then having to respawn. I have seen it before, they were haveing an outstanding night, but the next day they get hit and have to respawn. This is a perma death survival game with no leaderboard. So shooting other players in my eyes is just something you have to do when someone is getting in the way of you surviving. When I set out set out to pvp, I do it as thoughtfully as I can, and limit danger to my self, and cause as much damage to the other players as I can. Even If I don't shot a single player I view as a success if I walked away. I think I have a different idea of success in dayz then many people, or maybe not. I guess really at the end of the day its all about game play freedom and people play how ever they want too, and had fun. So its all good! But regardless hats off to you, you lived and took out the other ass hats getting in your way that time, and it isn't your 1st time. You can handle your self and good with the mosin, which is my fav rifle in the game right now. So in that I say great work and good luck with your streaming.

You never played with me, please don't judge me LOL There is no leaderboard for dayz Sometimes when I take breaks from playing I check out some of the live streams. There are some that are really skilled players, but many of them are not really that great. I think many of them do it just for the attention, not really even to play. The video that was posted here, I honestly thought he was a skilled pvper or just having a good night and was on it. Thats were it ends. Just based on how he was geared, maybe the night before wasn't so good. I call players like that instant grad players. They get just enough to pvp with and go out looking for trouble, they don't care if they die or anything else. Hell I have done it before, thats how I know :o But to me its missing the point of the game. This is vary much a survival game, its not all about pvp. Pvp just an aspect. So tend not to get impressed by it. Rhino is one funny dude..what a crazy 4 eyed troll he is. I watch his videos for the same reason I watch morgan freeman. I don't think he takes him self that serous much of the time. The reason I watch is purely for comic relief.

He's good, but not super impressed at all. He really poorly geared, which shows hes an instant grad pvp player that dies allot. I can totally tell. He's total COD player, that was having a good night. So I call BS So what if he gets a few kills? You want to be a instant grad COD player or a DayZ player? Try taking a shot at 800 meters. Or even 500. Sorry...most streamers I don't respect as far as being decent dayz players. I have seen a few on DayZ TV and think they have no biz streaming as far teaching anyways, there only spreading there bad habits. Also reality is you tubers like frankie and morgan freeman are funny, but stage most of there videos, or they trim out a few minutes of hours game play. Sorry kids santa isn't real. Most streamers I have seen I was not impressed at all......but.....but There is one who I like, Rino Crunch. Its not becuase hes good or bad, its becuase hes god dam funny, and he trolls the crap out of people, who I think deserve it.

Honestly I like .50 beter then .49. I have seen no bugs although I dont want to speak too soon. It comes with allot of positive changes, mosin rap is darkened, footware becomes worn, new items ect ect. Even a new military base. This is the 1st patch that has helped me and I enjoyed in I don't now how long. Even the weather is better! All the stuff I needed from last patch I got in a matter of an hour! God dam theres even a PD at NW that spawns everything! Even dumb asses who only survive for a couple hours are getting geared up! :beans: So how about that? Honestly the wells not working I can give 2 shits about <_< I think they should be random wether they work or not anyways. So enjoy this shit while it lasts bitches, before they screw it up again with a hot fix. I don't wanna hear any complaining...not one bit! Hey we don't have to lite a god dam fire every hour right? It's X-Mas is DayZ I tells ya.

Why does this shit happen when I already have everything, why can't this happen when I'm a freshy. To me it looks like its spawning ever random config all at once. Wonder if it does that every time...Crazy. Ya know they will hot fix that, so hurry up and loot while you can.

...............and were is this on the map?