Crazy_Spider

That's really awesome that you didn't kill the guy and just held him up, I'm always too paranoid that they will come back and kill me so I pretty much shoot everyone now lol.

Hate it when this happens lol, sucks even more when you're with bigger groups

I was playing with my friend and we found 2 M4's and 2 AUGs at NWAF, but we didn't find them in a heli crash, we found them in hangers, is this a bug or something? I thought they only spawned in heli crash sites? http://imgur.com/3tI1f7e

Probably really late, but you need to go to Filter and uncheck passworded servers or something like that, forget what it says exactly.

Correct me if I'm wrong but don't you need 10 burlap sacks to make a ghillie? I haven't found any of those since I started playing again.

Sounds like a good idea for the full release, at the moment though they need to work on fixing the bugs in my opinion.

Does kind of the same thing for me, the footage is watchable and everything, and I can use video editing to bring the brightness up, but yeah I know what you mean.

[Edit: I'd like to point out that I only had a magnum in this story. I didn't have an M4, I didn't have a blaze or any sort of rifle. I had a magnum with around 50 bullets and 2 speedloaders for it.] Hey guys, I think I've met, and dealt with the worst DayZ players I've ever seen in my over 120 hours of playtime. Honestly, these people were so dumb. I'll start out from the very beginning (Sorry I didn't get this recorded, I didn't have my recording software open and couldn't take the time to open it). Anyway, I was looting Elektro, just getting ready to leave and head to cherno. I suddenly heard the crack of an M4 about 40-50M away from me. I judged the direction and decided to go slow and slightly to the right of where I heard it. I heard another gunshot later, and followed that. It was the same guys. I finally met them. I found them in the firestation closest to the supermarket. I didn't try to kill them in hopes of them being friendly. As soon as we met it got awkward, we just stood in silence after we agreed not to kill eachother, for now... I finally broke the silence by asking him why he was holding handcuffs. He said "Sorry dude, wrong button" I'm thinking "Yeah right, better watch this guy". His buddy is standing there with an M4, and I'm getting scared to death thinking I should book it. I decide to run to some "decent" cover. I climb the ladder to the top of the industrial building next to the fire-station. I sit there for a moment sorting my inventory. While I'm up there, I feel like I'm being watched, so I look to the top of the fire-station, and see the same dude that tried to cuff me sitting on top of the fire-station. I just start running in circles like a madman asking him "Why you aiming that gun at me bro, not a good idea, trust me.". He says "Ahh man, just gotta keep an eye on you, you DO have a gun you know." So by instinct I don't trust him and keep running around the roof, having no idea where his M4 butt-buddy went. So after running for about 10 minutes I see the first bullet smack into the ground near my feet. Then M4 bullets join it for a moment. In my moment of distress I tried to wait until he pulled his bolt back to take my shot. This was very difficult since I'd been running for so long, but I took the shot anyway, and hit him on my first try right in the good ol' heart. In real life it would have been a kill shot, but in game it just knocked him unconcious. I immediately retreat from the top of the industrial building, knowing that his M4 buddy will be around here somewhere. I sat and thought for a few moments behind the industrial building, and I decided to make my way into the firestation at the back entrance. I finally get in there, making sure it's clear, then I go to the top floor of the firestation. I see Mr. M4 on top of the industrial building, and I take 12 shots at him, hoping that it would have killed him, 4 hit, but only knocked him unconcious. I made my way to the top of the fire-station via. ladder. I of course thought that the guy on top was dead, but he wasn't. He says "You shot my friend, he was innocent!". I only have my fists out, he fails to hit me with his mosin, and I punch him and he falls off the building. I go down and loot his body, taking all his ammo and his mosin. I then go over to the M4 guy, and he says... Take a guess... He says "Revive me". I said "sure man, just let me take your ammo so you can't shoot me". I naturally just loot his food and medical supplies, then I shoot him in the face 5 times with my revolver. As I do that, a crazy man in a red shirt runs at me with a crowbar, no idea where he came from. I just shoot him twice and say I'm sorry for killing him, and that he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Overall, I just want to say this was the most exhilarating, and most intense gun fight I've had in DayZ so far, and I'm also extremely disappointed in the fact that that dude's M4 buddy couldn't hit me... Sorry that the post is so long, but I really felt I had to share this story. Cheers.

I love shotguns in DayZ, they are amazing! In real life I can use buckshot effectively for about 50 yards, but in games like COD, it seems to be point blank or completely useless!

Ok, so I decided to start playing DayZ again for the first time since October/Novemberish. I decided first to loot Balota to get myself some basic gear, clothes food etc. I found... Food. Food, food, and more food. Weapons? Nope. I thought, maybe it's just been looted, so I went on through to the military base north of Balota. I found an SKS. That's the ONLY weapon I found in the whole compound. I don't know about you guys but I remember when I played back in the .40-.41 time, there was a shitload of low-grade weapons in the barracks. I think that's realistic, in a real military compound, even after being evacuated, would still have a ton of standard-issue firearms (Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I believe?), and I should be able to take those. I then made my way to Northwest, and I found nothing on the first run of the airfield, I thought it was looted, whatever, no big problem. I server hopped to another server, and again I found nothing at the airfield worth taking (All just canned food, paper, pens, and a shitload of makarovs, found about 30 of those no joke). I kept server hopping and I started to realize, the best gun I've found after server hopping on 5-6 servers was an MP-133 Shotgun, the shortened version that holds 4 rounds. I didn't find a single AK, No Mosins, none of these new SMGs that BI added, and it really pissed me off. What I want to know is, did they remove loot spawns? And are persistent servers affecting the loot, making it worse??? tl;dr : Are persistent servers affecting loot by making it worse, and are military areas spawning less guns than they used to.

Alright, I've been at NWAF finding nothing... Any way that you can filter so it's just non-persistent servers? Or do I just have to look for it in the title? Hell Irish, I remember when you had like 700 posts on these forums! Alright, thanks for the input man!

I have 400 hours and I've seen 1 crash site, and that was because I logged into my friend's server because they're shit at PvP and they needed me to help them ;)

While you thought it was the right move to shoot this guy dead, the real good move would be to break his legs and watch him crawl, meanwhile laughing like a maniac and screaming "Welcome to DayZ bitch!"

The mask = KoS

I'd like that. I play counter strike, and I use left-handed in that. It's very strange playing right handed on DayZ...

Before you start screaming at me calling me a noob, I understand where I could probably find one (Airfields, police stations, schools), but what I really want to know, is where do you guys find them most often, and have you found a drum mag?

They have it because the captor wouldn't know if they were logging out for those 30 seconds. Since you can't sitdown while handcuffed. So the character that's handcuffed would just disappear after 30 seconds.

My question is, why would one play Arma 2 DayZ nowadays? I understand that it's a classic game, but with Breaking Point and wasteland for Arma 3, and DayZ SA, why would one play Arma 2 with it's horrible graphics and optimization? Boggles my mind :L

You may have panicked and pressed the spacebar twice or something along the lines of that. I nor my friends have never had this "bug" happen to us. Good luck in the future, though :p

I was in a firefight with my clan with another clan that we were enemies with, and I took 5 mosin shots in a span of about 30 minutes without dying. #ProtectionCases!!! All my friends that play DayZ never believe that I can survive even 2 mosin shots, obviously they don't play DayZ enough xD

For searching for animals, don't search in the woods. You'll never find an animal there. When you look for animals look for them in open fields. That's the place where they spawn. Animals literally don't spawn in the forest. Just put that out of your mind. I've never found animals in the forest, but at least 100 in open fields. That's just in 2 days.

Now THAT'S a good idea. Alcohol = Small health boost, but with slower movement + you fall down sometimes. Though, since DayZ is supposed to be realistic, doubt they'd add something like that... :p

Odd that they haven't added it yet, as it was in the trailer. It would be amazing for RP players, such as myself. I would get a bunch of zombies to follow me into a house after a long life, board it up, or just close the doors, and wait for 5-10 minutes with only a revolver. I'd dump all my bullets except for one, then I'd sit down with just the gun in my hand. And sit and wait. Then as I heard the zombie sounds getting louder (By raising my master, of course.) I'd take my life.

More than the Altis Life server ^^ And it's brand new! If Arma goes on sale I might get it.

Well, it's not scopes that are glitchy, it's just one in particular. The long range scope. When trying to shoot with it, you might as well just try to sniper with the god damn iron sights. It's useless to snipe now. No, this ISN'T scope sway, I promise you. It is a strange glitchy swing that teleports from one point to another. Just try using an LRS next chance you get and you will see what I mean, it sucks. I think it's because of the new update, because I had no problems with this until this version. I also don't have a broken arm or anything. I already tried giving myself morphine, re-logging, re-installing the game, etc. I just can't get it to work. Any feedback?