Death By Crowbar

I wouldn't say it's about stealing, I'd say it's about surviving. PvP, PvE, trying not to starve, etc. Survival in DayZ includes: Have fun. Avoid zombies... F Zeds. Searching high and low for food and gear. Using stealth to not draw attention or be seen. Working with others to stay safe and trade needed items. Holding up or disabling someone up to get gear you need (you're not out to kill anyone, right?) Eliminating threats and competition by killing people (whether for gear or not)... and I would say ideally it would work in that order. But even though PvP plays a significant role in DayZ it's not and shouldn't be the primary focus. That's what people mean when they say "This isn't COD, don't KOS". It's a significant part of the game, but not the purpose of the game, and those who view it as the only point of the game ruin or miss out on opportunities for more meaningful and fun interactions.

Make it run, then make it run fast. A famous saying is, "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil" In alpha, and this is early access alpha, there's a LOT to be done. Also keep in mind that they are working on the engine redo, code named "Infusion". So technically that's in progress.

Zeds should be like people. If I sneak up behind a zed, I should be able to handcuff it and burlap sack it's ass, then force feed it whatever I want. Then I might shoot it in the head, I dunno, but zeds should be like people, because they are people, just diseased.

This. If OP proposed it as a drinking game I'd be even more excited... but I love creativity and this certainly adds that plus some challenge. Half the time I can't find ammo for whatever gun I've currently got.

Hahahaha... I've thrown my gun at 2 people so far on accident. Neither occasion worked out in my favor. :lol:

That I'm aware of, Zeds cannot kill in a single hit. So, one of the following is likely: A glitch death. Either the game's perception of gravity was off (happens around steep stairs) or something went awry. There are several known bugs that can cause this. Were you on the 1st floor or? A known Zed bug where there are invisible Zeds and other things going on. Possible but maybe unlikely - you thought you were alone but you really weren't, the second you stopped to confront the Zed someone outside who had been stalking you saw you steady and aim through a window and head shot you.Your best bet is to log it in the Bug Tracker, because it seems rather impossible (but obviously happened). You likely did nothing wrong and the Devs may have something helpful additional to look into. Give all the information you have, and if possible, try to put yourself in the same exact situation in the same building and see what happens (this is early access alpha, if you can reproduce it you'll know it's a bug and can provide better more helpful data).

I agree with jubeidok that the gear there and the amount of it is questionable (duping likely unless it was the staging ground for a clan). There's no infinite M4 mags or any of that, but without severe server hopping and likely duping since tents came out that would have taken a single person nearly every waking moment to come by solo. So it's not exactly solid proof of a problem, but the unlikelihood of legitimacy is in OP's favor on this one. You at least need to give him credit/kudos for wrecking the guys camp, it's honorable yet hilarious. "Here, let's lob all of the crap off this cliff, and oh, look at the bugged throwing animations of all of the items!" No matter how many times I think about this or watch it I laugh because it's awesome and silly.

That's the type of thought that had me sitting here at work cracking up, it's so silly and hilarious. Mr Moon should make a skit about this or something!

This is brilliant. Matches - you should be able to set yourself on fire (and others, especially people who have burlap sacks on their heads).Camp Fires - if you run over them (or if zeds do) they should catch on fire.Portable Stoves - same thing, you should catch on fire.Gas Stations blowing up - should leave some fire and possibly catch people/zeds/animals too close on fire.Corpses - hide seems to game like. You should have to burn them to make them go away permanently.... but maybe that's going too far? What's the target ESRB rating on this game again anyway?

What if it just belong to some homeless guy, and you just came in and ransacked and destroyed the place? LOL. I still think it's hilarious you're throwing crap off a mountain ledge yet you're barefoot (with boots in your bag!?!?!). There's something hilarious and silly about the whole thing, especially with the irony of the other guy who made a post about how his camp went missing. HAHAHA, the more I think about this story the more I love it.

Find the gas station and shoot it until it blows up. People will come. You may think you're alone, but trust me, you are not. There's probably at least 2 people within a few hundred meters of you being quiet and trying not to be noticed while looking for loot. On a 39/40 server there's always someone in Berezino, but they may not be KOS and might be minding their business hiding/looting.

I find this interesting. jubeidok posts here about finding a nice camp full of problems.Exodor posts here his nice camp is missing.Probably unrelated but ironic!

Was this post about your tents? http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/208318-too-much-work-for-one-man/

Even Jubei Kibagami didn't go barefoot. There's a lot of broken glass, needles, nails, and sticks in Chernarus bro, don't become a statistic!

That's a good point. There's worse stuff than duping. However, even though I know how to dupe - I've seen the Youtube videos and I (as many others have) accidentally had it happen and been surprised to find my double - I don't dupe, because I know it's an exploit and a form of cheating. I'm not comfortable with cheating, any type of cheating. Even though duping is about as common and well known as out to 3PP look in ways that are questionable and not legit, I don't use the 3PP look exploits either (even though I don't play on Hardcore). It all boils down to what type of person you are - yes this is a game but have some pride in your play.

At the 17 second mark I notice you're barefoot. See if they have some shoes for you! :lol:

Corpse piles and corpse art will become a thing, pile them up in the middle of Berezino. Bring out your dead!

I make a run up that way maybe once per week for grins... but the last 2 times I went into the control tower and ended up with broken legs and/or dying due to the stair bug or whatever it is. Sorta deflating after making that long of a run from where I started. I know there's plenty more than the control tower to loot but it broke my spirit about heading in that direction. There's that one spawn point that's close and an easy run - if I ever get that one I'll head to NWAF in a heartbeat. It's high risk, high reward and although remote I've found there's nearly always someone there. Are you camping it on high pop servers or?

hothtimeblues you need to fix your nomenclature. Again, as accolyte has said, scripting isn't possible at this point in DayZ. The hacks or exploits that allow teleporting are something other than scripts. Don't confuse people by talking about something inaccurately. Also - yeah, the wipe is going to cleanse the world of all of the hacked and duped items, everyone is paying for the sins of the few, but we'll start off in a better place. I don't have to approach Novo only to hear a dude fire off 200+ M4 rounds (which was nice to hear only in that I knew to immediately turn around because I wasn't going to waste time risking dealing with a cheater with infinite ammo).

It's a known issue. As Robert Neville said, go there, put in your details, and vote it up! http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view.php?id=12755

Yeah. Learn the map: http://dayzdb.com/map/chernarusplus Learn to read signs on the road (they tell you what town it is and have arrows and distances to towns coming up) Learn how to find North, East, South, and West. In most cases the sun over your shoulder means you're facing roughly south. Finding a compass can help. Berezino, Novo, and NWAF are PVP hotspots.

I'm not sure such a list exists. There's a list of what's coming up (either planned or actively being worked on). Here's a swag at some of the stuff over the past few months: Fishing & Hunting More crafting (make backpacks from pelts) Camp fires Chem lights and flares Zed movements / pathing more reliable now via navmesh, far less likely to go through fences and walls (but doors still need work). Hopper zeds now in game (the ones that crouch and jump like a frog at you) More animals (and you can kill them). If you find chickens let everyone know because there's a lot of people who seem to be interested in that. If you find a pig leave it alone or Shrub Rocketeer ™ will come at you like a spider monkey. More weapon variety, new meelee and rifles. Crossbows and crafted bows. New towns on the map in the north. NEAF has been redone. Grenades! (although I'm yet to find one) Persistence (if I write a note and leave it in the street and the server reboots, it will still be there for someone to find when the server comes back up). Tents have been added.I dunno, that's a list of stuff that sticks out in my mind.

Oh yeah, today is patch day isn't it. Is this on Stable?

Some of those videos are by people who're very popular on Twitch or Youtube. Mr Moon, Frankie, Sacriel, etc. People will gravitate to where they are sometimes. I will say that ever since the spawns were moved North, and then since the spawns were made more disperse in the North I don't see as many people. I always find someone in Novo or Berezino, especially if I run down the street yelling or set a building a light with chem lights and flares and stuff. NWAF is a good place to find friends (and to die). When the spawns were in the south and everyone hung out in Elektro and Balota I always saw people, lots of people, and had a lot of good interactions... but for the past 2 months at least I do see less people, things are a lot more sparse. GIven how big the map is now and the spawn locations time is drawing near to raise the max server population up from 40.

According to accolyte scripting is impossible.