Death By Crowbar

Oh - one last thing to add (not trying to bump myself), this is a screenshot of the keyboard and pen cap that I use, the very same that got me into trouble last night. I don't know why people complain about autorun anyway, there's a perfectly reasonable way to accomplish it without wasting developer time on it.

This is a screenshot of what I do... and also what got me lost in the middle of the ocean after I dozed off.

Respawning loot and persistent loot between restarts is HUGE, HUGE!!!!! Towns with doors open can't be considered picked over anymore. Thus there's less likely places will be ghost towns. Craptastic admins and clans who run loot whore servers will be out of luck.These are good things.

I read about that on Kotaku, was that you Tatanko?

boneboys suggested I re-post my recent predicament from this thread here. Long story short, I sometimes wedge a pen cap under my "E" key to hold down my "W" key to simulate an autorun when I know I've got a long way to run (if I'm going from Berezino cross country towards Balota or something, I really only use it when I'm going a LONG way). Well, long story short last night I was running from somewhere near Polana I think and wanted to simply head south to the coast and head to Elektro. So using the map knowing where a street sign was in relation to the town I situated myself generally south and took off with my "W" key wedged down. It was late at night, and wouldn't you know it I dozed off... when I woke up I had been logged out of the server, I assume it rebooted. So I logged back in and - I was swimming in the middle of the ocean with no land in sight! No idea how long I'd been swimming for nor how far out into the ocean I was. You can read the details in the original thread but I got some suggestions and ended up generally keeping the sun to my back and managed to eventually find land again, and wouldn't you know it I landed at the western edge of Elektro where I wanted to go anyway, great success! Figured I'd share - I took some screenshots and managed to make a GIF of the final leg of my journey. Two funny notable things: I thought I was seeing flying fish, which was weird because I never saw anyone speak of them. Turned out it was that stupid bird flying relative to the ground and not relative to the water. Thus it was flying under water and popping up on occasion. After swimming for a long time both my SKS and backpack would completely disappear from my body and my inventory. Logging out and back in fixed that, and also when I landed on shore and got out of the water they magically reappeared. I'm going to log a bug on that one.

Figured I'd share - I took some screenshots and managed to make a GIF of the final leg of my journey. Two funny notable things: I thought I was seeing flying fish, which was weird because I never saw anyone speak of them. Turned out it was that stupid bird flying relative to the ground and not relative to the water. Thus it was flying under water and popping up on occasion. After swimming for a long time both my SKS and backpack would completely disappear from my body and my inventory. Logging out and back in fixed that, and also when I landed on shore and got out of the water they magically reappeared. I'm going to log a bug on that one.

An update - light at the end of the tunnel! I kept the sun generally behind me and swam for somewhere between 30-45 minutes as time allowed before work and I now see land off in the distance. It looks like the shore of Elektro from afar, either way I'm good to go. Maybe 5 more minutes or so and I should reach the shore, damp, but just fine.

I hadn't even thought of that! I'm going to try to swim it for a while before I have to leave for work, but if that yields no results I'll submit a ticket for help. Thanks !

The point is strafing and hitting, on a server where your ping is 80 or less, is completely reliable. In a rare lag event you *might* get hit, but you can essentially take on nearly limitless zeds this way (even bare fisted!) safely. Zeds are no threat to anyone so long as you know how to engage them and deal with them appropriately. Finding a small hill to run down only makes the work more simple when they fall to their deaths.

I'm declaring my intent to declare war on you and your clan. Please prepare the terms of your surrender...

I usually only play servers where my ping is 80 or less. Anything over 100 I filter out (which I think is the default), but sometimes I'll lower my filter to a max of 80.

A well known issue logged many times in bug tracker that people exploit rampantly in the game, easily repeatable. Have some pride and don't try to figure out how you did it, when it happens on accident it's forgivable, but when people do it on purpose it's a scumbag exploit move that I'd estimate upwards of 25-50% of the community uses. It's rampant, really rampant. The day this gets fixed is the day you stop seeing identically kitted squads so easily holding down positions in cities and airfields.

I've found 1, just ONE!!! fish hook in quite a lot of hours played and towns looted. So yeah, no fishing for me. Unless then plan on allowing you to spear fish, use grenades to concuss and mass kill, shoot fish, etc there won't be much fishing happening until they up the spawn rate of fish hooks. I've found more Pristine LRS's than fish hooks.

First time I got disinfectant spray I wanted to check it out, and when I right clicked it I accidentally chose drink instead of inspect. You can all guess what happened maybe 20 minutes later... and I was all excited to try to force feed it to someone. Karma at it's finest.

Procrastination at it's finest, well done!

methr1k2dop3 check this video, it best explains how to deal with them:

Stand toe to toe and duke it out and you will lose. You must bust a move and strafe, or more precisely, simply circle them and you will NEVER be hit (unless there's lag/desync). Gimps get killed by zeds, winners go home and F the prom queen (which is pretty much everyone but true bambis).

There are people you can trust... but you shouldn't really trust anyone. This was a jerk move... but I suppose it's the type of thing that happens in DayZ that makes you be ever vigilant and on guard. You are never safe. I like the story about a husband and wife playing at the airfields and the husband finds and LRS after which the wife shoots him to get and the husband is facepalming as she's laughing her ass off in the other room.

Dunno how... but if I'm reading this right it's: Sick Very Sick Critically Sick Death.... unless I find/eat charcoal tabs, is that accurate? Man, clicking too fast and ate a stupid rotten pepper. F peppers.

Also, you really need to double tap "w" to run fast. If you're jogging and not running everywhere the game is going to take a LOT longer and you'll never outrun zombies, let alone the fact that players will easily chase you down and kill you.

The water bottle part - you have to put the water bottle in your hands and then use the "f" action key to choose to fill it. A tip you can also do the same when it's raining, although it might take you 15 hits to fill it from rain water. Better than nothing in a pinch! Always hold onto water bottles or canteens.

Two nights ago I did this for grins. A squadron of guys came to the edge of the road and yelled for me to come get cover... then they executed me firing squad style. I lasted about 3 minutes and 20 seconds. So, it's not impossible, but hilariously they looked like a hero group and I thought they were actually going to help me out. Bambi is always in season...

"End Game" is a dragon with 4 heads in another dimension. I agree with other posters, in DayZ there is simply "game". Survive!!

The End Game in DayZ is different than Arma because DayZ is not, I repeat is NOT, a pure PVP FPS. DayZ is a survival game, you always have the choice to engage someone or not. It's not Quake 3 or HL2 Deathmatch itchy trigger finger every man for himself.

I've had this happen before, maybe 3x, and was never sure if it was coincidence or if I'd just nailed the admin who wanted to get his gear back. I've learned in this game there are very few coincidences...