Dingus (DayZ)

Most are hidden, hoarded. Sucks.

Me and bro find an encampment with a bunch of tents and loot and gear. We quietly take just what we could really use (new rifles, NVGs) and are about to leave. Bro says, "dude let's take a truck." I reluctantly oblige and we get in this hulk of a truck barely able to get over a hill, slow and loud. Then we're being fired upon by a guy in a ghillie and some form of silenced something. We're totally getting out shit shot up. I try to bail out and fire back, NOPE. Respawn on the beach. We had been going got like 5 days too. I knew we shouldn't have taken the truck. Also, do people really sit around 24/7 guarding a camp? What kind of boring way is that to play? We were almost convinced the guy must have teleported there. Scouted the camp for a while and there was nothing. Oh well, fair enough.

Found one in the school in Vybor last night, but while I was trying to make bag room to store it, it somehow bugged out and disappeared. I had it in my primary inventory, then dropped it to put in my bag and it disappeared. Guess I learned not to do that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxWpU2IIzXI#t=0m27s

I think it should drive you to find a more efficient weapon. It's a great starter boomstick, and I think that's all it should be for. Go to some barracks and find a 1014. Several shotties in the game.

I've seen several of these types of servers popping up.

I'm always curious/suspicious of those 2/3/4 person max servers popping up. Feels pointless to have a user limit so low, of course, pointless outside of private farming.

Buying Arma 2: CO should be a decision based on the actual game itself at this stage. Day Z is fun, but a lot of people who have bought Arma 2 specifically for Day Z have become disappointed in the state of the mod and gotten all malcontent and such, believing their purchase was a waste. Arma 2 is a fine game as it is with loads of content. Buy it for that. Regarding finding fellow survivors, there's a board for that here called Survivor HQ where some people join up. I'm fortunate to have a small group of IRL friends who play together.

If I wasn't dead first, I'd probably grab some friends, my wife, and be a 2.

Found a FAL with no scopes at a crash last night, just has iron sights. There wasn't any ammo there either. Sad panda.

i laughed

I've not been lucky enough to find one, except through binoculars watching someone else get to it before me.

I don't even know what the market for prebuilts are anymore. I've been building my own for ten years. Sorry though, good luck.

The scariest element to the game are other players and the uncertainty of their intentions. The zombies are important, but are really only there as an environmental element to me. They are restrictive. They prevent your quick and easy exit, escape, or defense if you are fired on. The zombies are the gasoline tanker driving next to you on a highway 30 feet in the air on columns, and the players are other vehicles around you, or even the driver of the tanker. What I mean to say is the zombies are a source of constant tension, not fear, and the players are a constant fear of that tension exploding. Right?

What annoys me is that sometimes I can simply vault over it and sometimes I can't.

I thought I read somewhere, maybe in an update note, I'm not sure, that it was nonspecific or hidden. From what I understand, loot and zombie spawns are tied to the player actually being nearby. Zombies/loot exist for some hidden arbitrary number of minutes after no players are present. Then when someone new comes along, a new set of loot/zombies pops.

I blame doom to be honest. http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Clip I also don't give a shit though, and don't know why anyone should. When someone says something, and you both understand what they mean by their words, what does it matter?

cool thread, i enjoyed it

Found one in a grocery store yesterday.

Went to hospital in Cherno, found 4 morphines. What's the big deal?

Exploring a high yield residential in Cherno. Friend walks into a room and gets his head blown off. Communicate in Direct Coms about how we didn't mean to startle or freak him out, just scavenging. No reason to let this go any more sour. While I'm still talking, he comes out and blows my head off. Another time, crawlin about starry sobor. Same friend is in the trees keeping an eye on the surrounding while I loot. I get a voice in coms telling me he's got his shit pointed right at me and he wants no trouble, just loot like me. My buddy is too far to hear the conversation, and clearly missed someone approaching. He tells me to finish up quickly and move a long and nothing bad will happen. I oblige and keep my skull. We then see him crawling around after I get into the wood with my spotter. We decide he was fair and go without shooting him. These two events are very different, but each time the first event happens, I feel less and less resolve to communicate with strangers with anything other than a bullet.

"These kids" What were their names? What did they look like? Don't just leave me hanging here. I need to know what to look out for!

Date/Time: 6/21/2012 22:00 GMT-5 What happened: My bud and I discovered a boat on the docks of Berezino. We got in and drove it North where we found another boat. We got out of the previous one and into the new one with more fuel and continued North. We eventually found another boat and parked on the beach to investigate. Upon leaving the boat, I noticed not only were our backpacks missing from our bodies completely, but also our primary weapons and any items immediately in our primary inventory. All inventory was wiped except secondary weapon and its ammo and bandages. Where you were: Along the coast North of Berezino What you were doing: Being on a boat *Current installed version: 1.7.1.5 *Server(s) you were on: Atlanta 40 I think *Your system specs: AMD Phenom 2 Quad @ 3.5 Ghz, ATI 6950 @ 6970 specs, 6 gigs ddr3 ram *Timeline of events before/after error: Approaching Berezino from the North. bro sports a boat in his scope. We head to boat, get in. When we leave boats, we realize were missing gear and log out to take a break, since we were both disappointed. Not the end of the world though.