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Imo this is the single biggest issue in DayZ right now, I'd estimate between 25%-50% of players do this on a regular basis. The day this finally gets fixed you'll see a LOT less fully geared guys running around and people will be a lot less aggressive. You'll also stop hearing some dude with seemingly endless grenades blowing up Berezino.

Done, a while ago actually.

From what I've seen, somewhere between 25% and 50% of the base uses this. When i say rampant, I mean - rampant. It's not a hack, it's an exploit that anyone can do. Heck, how many times a week does someone post a funny story about it happening on accident? Most of the encounters I run into with agressives looking at their inventory it's obvious this is what's at play. The amount of Mosin/SKS amo some of these dudes have would take hours, HOURS of running around, and noone who's spent that much time scavaging would ever been that aggressive. They find one ammo pack in the back of a police car and maybe one other somewhere else and turn it into an entire backpack full. Even worse, the guys who set off grenades like it's 4th of July in the USA and they're literally endless? How do you think they're doing that? Rampant is a "polite" way to describe the issue.

... too hard to detect. This would be the worst coded game in history if that were true. Dean is a smart dude, it's not that, it must be something else. Either the scope of the problem isn't appreciated, or the foundation of the code needs weeks/months of refactor to fix, or it's a feature that we should all feel free to use. If it's a feature I want in but don't want to until I'm told otherwise because it seems shady as hell.

After a lot of frustration with this and the lack of progress of getting it fixed - is the item duping exploit simply fair game? Or is Battle Eye capable of noticing? The amount of times I've killed people while doing this or watched videos of people doing it or been killed and watched people do it right on top of my freshly warm corpse is beyond ridiculous. If it's "Christmas, game on!" that would be nice to know vs seeming like I eternally have a penalty on me vs what I know and have directly seen many others doing. I've not heard of nor seen a banwave for item duping so I'm assuming the exploit is fully supported and not at all detectable or banned yet. Is that the case or am I way off the mark? I mean, how else does a dude lay off 50+ grenades in Berezino over the course of maybe an hour? It's physically impossible, to my knowledge, without the item duping exploit. Le'ts have an honest discussion about this because nothing else is actually ruining the game at this point imo other than this. Item dupers are the scum of the scum... and there's a lot of them out there. A lot. Beyond a lot, it's undeniably the largest issue in the game at this point.

You're an admirable exception to the rule them. I've watched new spawns kill me (let's not talk about it) and then item dupe themselves up to be better geared via the escape key. It's beyond a widespread problem, there's some times I think I'm one of the only people who DOESN'T do it.

Mmmmmkay, they jump on them right away, which is why it's been in the game AS LONG AS ANYONE CAN REMEMBER. Rocket either doesn't give a flying F about the duping exploit, or doesn't understand how bad it is (unlikely), or based on the current engine and such is incapable of fixing it until infusion and other puzzle pieces are far more sorted out (most likely). It's literally been around as long as I've played the game, which is quite a few months. You are correct on their intentions but incredibly misinformed about the nature and scope of the problem.

You should take anything a guy with only 1 post says with a massive grain of salt...

Welcome to one incarnation of the item duping exploit. When you see a squad of guys all in identical gear with boxes full of ammo and everything is completely identical you now know how they accomplished that. It's a known bug, one I WISH they'd fix because so many people exploit it.

NE portion of the map is for those who don't know how to use a map and can't navigate around to find things elsewhere. It's Elektro all over again, only when the spawns used to be mostly south Elektro was far superior for many reasons imo. People who stay in the NE do so because they want a fire fight (which is ok, nothing wrong with that) or because they're too gimp to use the rest of the map.

This. Is. Pure. Gold.

I went for maybe 2 weeks once, not sure how long that was in hours played but I think it was around maybe 40 hours. I think that was during my earlier "exploring" days where I would immediately head inland. I have no idea why but when I originally started playing I would always head inland away from the coast. I wish when you hit P you could gather *something* about the general players on the server. An interesting stat list might include: Hours played. Longest period surviving.Shortest period surviving.Current survival period.Deaths by Player.Deaths by Zed.Deaths by <X> (falls, disinfectant, starvation, etc).Player Kills.Zed Kills.Kills by gun.Kills by meelee.Kills < 10 meters.Kills > 10 meters up to 100 meters.Kills > 100 meters.Kill/Death ratio.Kill/hour played.Death/hour played.Kills in current survival period.Most deaths in 24 hours.Count of people I've handcuffed.Count of times I've been handcuffed.I realize that this is a bit much for "P" player list on the server, but I really really wonder what the global ranks are and how I rate, if I'm an average Joe, if I'm above average, or if I just plain suck? I also sometimes look back and think, "What did I do for those 30 hours last week????" It would be fun/interesting to see what I've been up to and compare that to others.

I've seen people post about random body harm - such as heart attacks and other obscure things, but I always thought it nonsense. Well tonight I was in the firehouse of the little town near the new town up north and all of the sudden I have a leg fracture. What's even more strange is when I check my inventory now randomly about 1/4 of my gear is ruined. Seriously - WTF? I ended up having to crawl around and find a fire ax downstairs and chop some bushes for sticks to combine with rags for a splint. I assure you I was not shot or attacked, it's as if I randomly fractured my leg and 25% of my junk became ruined. Is that... weird or normal? It's the first time it's happened to me. I'm just gad that you can chop down bushes with an ax while lying down otherwise this would have been a much much MUCH more painful experience.

Be sure to force feed them that burnt meat!

You should handcuff her and force feed her the burnt meat. ... or you can continue doing a good job of playing the hero role, that works too. :P

Couple of thoughts here. I ran into a friendly a while back and we decided to move to a higher pop server to have some fun. I had him log first so I could actually watch what his char did during that process. It is about 30 seconds, and your char may sit down as if you'd hit one of the F keys that makes you sit. There are zeds that can keep aggro for literally miles. If you'd been running for a while before logging out, one that was chasing you that you may have not even known about may have caught up to you and killed you. It's also possible another player could have found and killed you in that short amount of time. Never ever assume you're alone (unless you hit "P" and see noone else on the server). To be safe, always try to: Camp on the 2nd floor of a building where loot is not commonly found. This will help avoid zed death. Wait a good minute or two before camping to ensure no zeds or players are around. Make sure you didn't log out in a Regular server and then log back into a Hardcore server on accident. They're different hives. The same as #3 but make sure you're on Stable vs Experimental. They're different hives. Make sure you're on the public hive and not a private hive. Understand that, even with the best precautions, there are enough people who complain about logging in naked that there may be something else at play beyond your control - the whole "Alpha" thing and the software not being anywhere near completed. You may have done nothing wrong, you may just have gotten some bad luck that's a part of playing an early access alpha product.

Hey man, at least you didn't deal with breaking a leg randomly while standing in a firestation, then after successfully making a splint and getting back on your feet maybe an hour later randomly dropping dead. I'm still rage steaking out in my mind about it.

... happened again. Only this time, "You are dead." I swear to all holy I was not shot nor attacked. I'm completely flabbergasted.

Just be normal and scurry around the ground and attack anything you see. Attempting to climb anything has risk because it's all buggy.

See this post from someone else from just a few days ago: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/202507-whatd-i-miss/

StandAlone is not finished, it's in Alpha. It basically gets patches/updates weekly. I'm having a lot of fun with it. The mod is way more polished with a plethora of more features, but the vision of StandAlone is leaps and bounds beyond Mod, even though currently Mod is leaps and bounds beyond where StandAlone is. Go StandAlone.

I've had some fun with binoculars or LRS in the past, but I'm wondering how many people have found themselves effectively "people watching" with either the LRS or binoculars? There's been a few times where, using the binoculars, I was observing some of the more active towns and I've seen some pretty ridiculous stuff. From holdups, to executions, to bambis attempting to stand toe to toe and box zombies without strafing/circling (and thus losing every time), it gets kinda hilarious. It's always funny to observe someone enter a town where you know there are already a few people and wait to see how it will play out - will they become friends? Will there be a fight? Will someone run off? One of the few times I've had an LRS with a good sniping sport on the town just south of Berezino I was amazed to see 5 people suicide off the round water tower thing in less than an hour. I guess they didn't like their spawn points? The 6th guy jumped but apparently only broke his legs - I did him the service of sniping him rather than have him crawl around looking for a zed or another mercy killer. Observing the airfields this way an also be amusing as shoddily geared folks approach well geared units defending the airstrips, and then how all hell breaks lose when server hoppers show up inside the buildings unexpectedly. Above and beyond playing a hero or a bandit, I've found myself playing an observer on multiple occasions. Anyone else get sucked into this role on occasion?

100% entirely false. Do not pass go, do not collect $100, straight to jail with you!

Don't be sorry!

This is soooo DayZ. Good share.