Elle

to each his own. if its ever implemented it will just be something else I forever pass by without a thought - I will always use lethal ammo in this game. as to banditry, bandits that have the idea of torture will have a massive advantage with non-lethal ammo because they can shoot the newspawn with it from a distance without causing bleeding and broken bones (these are things that must be addressed to keep your victim alive and cost the bandit supplies and time) saving the bandit much trouble while not allowing the newspawn much chance for escape, not that a newspawn has much chance to escape now - at least with the current setup the victim can go unconscious and simply respawn to start again. once you have been captured alive by bandits you must wait for the bandits to release you, kill you, or render you unconsciousness to resume your gameplay. if they release you with broken legs and healed your bleeding or handcuffed you with pristine handcuffs it may be hours before you can resume your gameplay depending on your overall state of health. yes, this does happen.

I am not a pvp player but I do carry the M4 and tons of ammo for it because I will not be robbed or tortured without a fight - I will kill as many as I can in the process. the handcuffs do work and non-lethal ammo will greatly empower the sadistic bandit that is hell-bent on torture. their favorite target is the newspawn. onced knocked down by non-lethal ammo, the handcuffs go on and the torture begins. what can a newspawn do in retaliation to that? while I do not agree with non-lethal ammo, there are already some items being looked at for this purpose, tasers being the first that I have heard of. I feel that non-lethal ammo will simply increase the already overabundant instances of newspawn torture from the bandit types that have no interest in your gear to begin with. currently there are threads pushing the suggestion of slavery in the game. this would be a slaver's dream come true.

except that if a person wants your gear but doesn't want it ruined they will just knock you out with the non-lethal ammo, take your gear then kill you to send you back to the coast. the other dimension of robbery/murder.

there are quite a few of these installations around the map and the gate always has the same thing on it. it's my understanding that these are abandon military installations that were being used as agricultural areas before the outbreak - now they are good places for clothes and weapons. if you are facing south in the bottom pic (green mountain tower in the background) then NWAF is north by northeast of your position approx. 3km. http://dayzdb.com/map#7.035.084 just zoom out from there. by the way this is my best estimation so if I am wrong a correction would be nice :) good luck and be careful. edited for correct directions (women drivers and all that)

so just play the hardcore servers - that's what they are there for.

people drag zeds to the woods all the time - haven't you encountered that funny little group of zeds in the woods before?? I have.

I seem to remember mention about a prob with the new NVidia driver so I never updated to the current one. I run very well most times with the version before that but I do occasionally get a black screen where I can still hear the game but its all black, the monitor goes down and comes back up so its definitely a driver crash of some kind but its not often enough to bother me. oh and a restart of my comp makes it stable for several hours ingame. personally I think the card is just getting hot but that's just me. it happens sometimes with skyrim too.

they can hear and they can see you, when you crouch make sure you are walking and the zed is looking the other way, I just learned LOS is based off of head position, not body position (which makes sense) and I usually assume 180 degrees but I'm sure its less than that. they will hear you when you run even if you are crouched but it can be hit or miss as I have run right past one and not drawn agro - I call that lucky - when you kill a zed try to use the quietest melee weapon you have such as the fire axe or splitting axe and be aware that all guns make sound that the zeds will hear, even the amphibia .22 which has an integral suppressor, this weapon is effective with two or three head shots and 5 or more body shots to a zed but it is silent enough to not attract people, it will still attract zeds. hope this helps :)

if you need more bandages send me a PM and we can work out some details, also if you need someone to tank zeds while you patch peeps I might be down for that as well but the bandages are easy

yeah.... I'm very afraid I'm headed in that direction soon ;)

hey look yer right I forgot to put the maybe in there. I did go back and edit it for clarity however. what's with you anyway - you're the most hostile person I've encountered here since January. edit: and didn't you ignore me already from a previous thread where you called me a 12 yr old??

absolutely nothing false about what I stated - its all fact - I simply suggested he may have probs with his machine or provider because I am in the same global hemisphere as he is and have had no problems what so ever. are you having problems - other than not being able to handle a few zeds?

really, that's what you come back with?? instant ignore because you can't hack in the new world, how mature. new zed behavior interfering with your banditry I guess. anyway I'm too old to be stayin up all night, I have housewife shit to do in the morning.

hahahaha I don't HAVE to run solo - thanks to peeps like you I CHOOSE to run solo. and had you been reading in GD... I have never seen so many complaints about how hard the zeds are now. buncha fuckin babies. as for the connection issues... hotfix by morning. oh and I aint crying, I'm bitchin. I'm so sick of whiners that can't seem to rise to a small challenge and come here and cry about their ineptitude - you probably have a small dick too.

been playing it pretty much non-stop since it rolled to stable, in fact I just logged on to a HC and a Reg server just to see if there was something wrong in the US with connection - dude maybe its your machine or your provider (I do have to mention that the regular server I logged on to kicked me as soon as I connected, I did connect) and all that was with servers I have never logged on to before. for reference its 8:40 pm US central time. edited for the pothead.

dude I was playing with these zeds on experimental when they were patched in - I was so excited that they were coming to stable and my stable char would have a chance at em - now she does, I'm so happy - if you can't hack it, get some friends to help you and if they can't hack it, get some fucking better friends. I run solo and carry BANDAGES and an AXE - don't be a whiny child because "mommy the zombie bit me..." the majority of zed complaints were "they are too easy..." now you assholes think they are too hard?? its the APOCALYPSE it's not supposed to be easy.

dude that's just funny and I mean whisky spillin funny ;) beans to you sir.

and in the spirit of the thread... and... edit: I forgot to mention that is the same character with a clothing change after almost a month and a half

odds are very very high you will never see me ingame - odds are pretty good I will see you however. be thankful I don't just shoot everything that moves. as the old sayin goes to avoid KOS don't be seen.

could very well be however I did pop one with the mosin at around 500 meters day before yesterday while concealed (I was crouched in an evergreen) and I watched its replacement spawn, turn my way and come runnin, I shot it too but never saw its replacement. didn't attract any others though.

that's actually not a bad idea

when you kill one, another spawns to replace it, if you use a gun to kill it the replacement has agro and you've just gotten the attention of a few more. it will go on like this until you are out of ammo, dead, or make a fast retreat. use a melee weapon instead and make sure to stay out of LOS while you are at it. the replacement spawn will not have agro if the original was killed silently and sometimes will not even be in view of the player. the amphibia .22 still attracts zeds like any other gun but does not attract players - keep that in mind.

I use the map I looted quite a lot - the detail is awesome - lately however I've noticed that I don't use the compass much at all anymore. as a qualifier: I use the looted map for the fine details as it shows buildings and such when zoomed in, I highly recommend it.

hehe - orlok, saving the forum from lunacy one ban at a time ;)

hahah I know right?? I was playing this before it went to stable, looking for some of that special gear that I just couldn't manage to find anywhere and that lil voice in my head said "you know someone near the coast has what you are looking for right?" I resisted then DB purge happened and I was wiped so my exp character is pretty fresh again - my stable character just looks for ammo and food mostly now days and that stuff is still everywhere that's not the coast.