Death By Crowbar

Thankfully the game still has a feature supports item duping, errr, I mean making copies. There don't have to be only 4 left, they don't need to go extinct! However, if both you and anyone you give them to are moral and ethical that won't be an option...

That would be really neat if the devs put an "Easter egg" effect like that, even if temporarily. Where did you find the Bible? I'm wondering if they follow real world spawn likelihood of hotels and churches or if they're random.

Well, minor update - I finished out my session surviving maybe another hour with my screen getting grey and the "I feel sick" or whatever status when you hit tab going to a very dark maroon red. I am fully hydrated and energized though, so who knows? Pray for me! Perhaps tonight I'll update with whatever my fate ends up being so it's not a lost learning experience. I'm going to try to survive...

Without charcoal tabs is it sure death, even if I eat and drink a ton? I think I'm at least 3 towns away from anything medial that might have the charcoal tabs, and fading fast.

Question - with the navmesh what happens with low fences we must hit "v" to vault over, do zeds run around them, through them, or do they too jump now?

Isn't that how it looks just before the alien ships blow it up?

I've found the looking for a "reliable" sniping place is similar to trying to choose the right checkout lane in a busy supermarket or the right security line at the airport. It's entirely random on whether you'll see someone in 30 minutes. And part of that "reliable" part is a place with a great field of view and defensible (someone isn't likely to wander onto you without you seeing them coming). I won't snipe one of the common places either, such as the apt buildings, it's too cliche. I've tried the rocks before, it's got a great field of view but it's not looking at those main streets where the looters are likely to be. Also keep in mind that on the rocks, if you drop your weapon you're likely to lose it (either you won't be able to pick it up or the object will disappear)... or you'll randomly fall through the rocks and die. Rocks are so goddamn buggy.

I've been thinking a lot about this lately, and I'm tossed between definitions. In my mind, a bandit is someone who will hold you up, maybe cuff you, maybe torture you a bit, steal your gear, but might let you live. They also might still kill you. in my mind, a murderer is someone who is out to kill you with no interest in your gear, they're strictly interested in PVP and ending you for sport, grins, whatever. Does anyone else view a distinction between these two? When someone says KOS I don't think bandit, I think murderer... at least within the context of DayZ and how content, gear, and interactions work. I just think there's a vast difference between someone who's a bandit and someone who's pure intent is to kill with no interest in the target nor the target's gear.

Just wait until helicopters enter the game... your wild pig problem will be solved! In the USA they're highly problematic in some areas and with no natural predators apparently it's legal and acceptable to "cull the herd" so to speak, often from helicopter.

Case in point - I approached a bambi just now because I had extra gear and was feeling generous. He was a decoy, I got blown away by a friend with a mosin. Kill bambis. Kill them all. >:(

If I kill a bambi, it's only because they didn't avoid me. I cannot tell you how many bambis have simply run right up to me attempting to knock me out and gear up quickly. If a bambi comes remotely close to me I'm on alert, if they get within a stones throw without waving or giving any sign of being friendly I'm going to put them down quickly. I can't remember the exact date but one night it was literally like every bambi was on a mission to zerg the nearest geared player. I literally had about a dozen bambis over the course of maybe 2 hours literally bum rush me fists up trying to knock me out. What a waste of ammo, I think my ax went from worn to badly damaged during that episode. That's when I learned to be careful of bambis.

Greed. Tis' a sin!

Hopefully it means that when I hit 1 to arm my rifle it does it without me having to drag it out of inventory. Hopefully it means that when I hit v I actually jump... so I don't have to spam v. Hopefully it means in general you don't have to wait on actions. After all, aren't they directly related to server performance?

I feel like if DayZ SA were real life it would look something like this... a lot of yelling, posturing, maybe a gunless guy doing something crazy, some guys with guns shooting but game mechanics causing them to keep missing, followed by a brief chase. Pretty standard DayZ SA. No? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XfdKyWg818

Well sort of. I'm using an analogy here. It's happened to me twice and I'm going to log a ticket on it, but when you're watching TV you like to eat, right? Well when I'm observing a town from afar with binoculars I use that time to make sure I'm hydrated and energized. Well, cutting to the chase - if you're doing an "EAT ALL" on something like say a zucchini (something with multiple portions) and the second the action is finished enough to put something in your hands you pull up the binoculars again immediately, all will seem well. That is, until maybe 5-10 seconds later when you get that final "You have finished eating all the zucchini" then BAM - your binoculars will disappear from your inventory as if you'd eaten IT instead. I suppose the only good news is you'll still have that zucchini so you can eat it one more time. Beware of putting things in your hands too quickly after doing an "Eat All". You're welcome.

Reported: http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view.php?id=14332 I ran into the infamous "APPLICATION ERROR #1303" invalid product version as well. Early Access Alpha means even the bug tracker has bugs. :D

You mean like the fungus that infects ants?

It had been weeks since I'd even found a set of binoculars too. I know, don't get attached to your gear...

Well, true, because the rest of the content that makes it NOT like that is still in progress.

You should be able to craft a tactical bacon suit of armor from it.

There's nothing wrong with it - but there are some who camp Berezino and NEAF as if it's the only things in the game to do. OP and myself are pointing out that's laughable and gimp, or better said some believe Berezino/NEAF is where all the pros go where instead I'd argue it's where the newbs and bambis run first (which is bewildering seeing as how they're picked clean and camped), making those who camp there only looking for sport kill that's not very sporting and closer to CoD rather than DayZ. That's the point, it's the simple/close/easy route.

Tactical Bacon is a real thing.

I use a side arm when I don't want anyone to know I'm armed. The element of surprise is there unlike when you've got a long gun on your back.

Things I've learned in DayZ SA: Never assume you're alone. Trust nooone. Don't drink disinfectant spray. Zombies aren't your friend. Zombies must have the most boring life because they essentially stand in one spot forever, and if they do wander it's not very far. Live life to the fullest - you may die at any moment, you are in control of nothing. Your legs may also randomly break... perhaps it's from the crushing pressure of suspense and anxiety that someone is watching! Deforestation is a major problem in DayZ just as it is in the real world, but when tree huggers bring it up those in charge barely listen. Like in real life, I still don't know what use there is for a worn banana, nor how such banana got worn in the first place! The proper way to carry a flashlight is to hold it up as if you're aiming a handgun. I do this at home all the time now, and I walk very slowly while doing it. If you want peace and quiet, the last place you should go is somewhere up high such as on top of a water tower or something where somehow magically sound carries amazingly well so you can hear everyone eating, drinking, and messing with ammo. After observing and researching, I've determined that zombies may suffer from a combination of tourettes syndrome and osteoporosis, which explains why they twitch and make random noises but also die very easily while falling down hills. Knowing this perhaps we may be on the path to treating them, suppressing their urges and stopping the apocalypse? Worn or badly damaged zucchini, never pick it up. You don't know where that thing has been. If I open a can of <whatever> with an inefficient tool such as a screw driver or hack saw, the portion that falls to the ground must vaporize instantly because I cannot find it anywhere to lick up when starving. Science is still looking for an explanation for this phenomena. Log rolling is faster and quieter than crawling in a straight line. I use this in real life when I'm super intoxicated and attempting to sneak into back bed without the wife knowing.

I sorta agree with OP. Loitering around NEAF is the same as loitering around Berezino. It's the closest easiest thing, the home of gimps and CoD fans, not where you'll find true apocalypse survivors. On any server with any population those are already picked over anyway, the only reason to go to either of those places is for PVP... and when I want PVP that's where I go. When I want to explore or get more interesting/meaningful interactions (when I'm not in my skiddish or prankster lone wolf mode) I head south along the coast or inland south of the airfields. Remember - this is "DayZ", and not the following: CoDLoad up on military gearLRS scavenger huntM4 cuz I pray and spray