Death By Crowbar

You sure it's your card/drivers? There's multiple issues with crashing currently, although most of them happen when logging in/out of servers. You should definitely follow the instructions and log your crashing data in case it's not one of the known issues and it might help others.

I'm disappointed Dean didn't talk about riding animals. I should be able to mount and ride a cow. Or a zed. I should be able to ride a zed. Mostly because something like a horse would be too lame. I just wouldn't want my supply of cow legs and utters globally restricted. Server hopping for the lost utter would be silly.

Gift it to a bambi.

Now they just need to fix the various material file, etc pop-ups that warn you when people are approaching. The motohelmet one that they finally fixed around a month ago was one of the reasons that I stopped wearing the motorcycle helmet... I didn't want to alert others that I was coming or that someone could be nearby. So by this right a poor man's UAV is still present.

... I'll add that a single shot from the SKS didn't put it down either. Possibly tougher than normal zeds?

Confirmed. It's real.

I still run into this. Please Wait can last over a minute, or more sometimes. I watch in Task Manager and DayZ is sitting there spinning 50% CPU on my i5 doing god knows what for the whole time.

I heard my first grenade today. Some guy seemed to have dozens of them and kept setting them off. I'm assuming it was an item duper(s) because when I hit P and watched the players there were a few guys who seemed to keep popping in and out of the server over and over again.

Only criticism I have is the guy who laid down - that was a judgement call. But then again, you can't expect to find friends or mercy at the airfields. If you'd let him live he may have come back to you or you might have wasted time and then the other 2 guys might have stumbled upon you and it could have gone very differently. Thinking about it that way you probably did all the right things FTW!

0.46.124490 the latest? Mine is downloaded and installed - no servers available yet, that must still be in progress.

If a bambi approaches me there's typically one reason - they're going to try to knock me out and take my gear. I've been sucker punched or a victim of an attempted knock out too many times. Proper bambi protocol is to wave from afar and allow someone armed to approach or simply keep running - because running towards me head on I'm going to assume you're looking for a quick opportunity to knock someone out and re-gear.

When you have a weapon on back and one in hands, if you do anything else with your hands such as taking food/drink into them to eat/drink you drop the weapon in hands. You have to remember to pick your weapon back up. The caveat here is that when you drop something there's a bug where it might rubber band back somewhere you were recently. This happens to me a lot when I'm attempting to move to a bigger backpack - I sometimes have to go searching back along where I last walked to find my backpack. You'll have to do the same to look for your gun. Keep in mind there's also the bug where sometimes when you drop things they fall through the world or through floors of buildings. In short, the way it's implemented today, if you've going to carry a long gun on back and one in hands, keep the one you're more fond of on your back because the one in hands can easily get lost due to a myriad of bugs.

I've not seen binoculars in regular stable for a few weeks.

Or, to put it another way - DayZ currently goes down on you faster than a high school prom date.

Not only does it crash on me when I log out OR switch servers, but I had just made the trek to the NWAF and it crashed as I was climbing the control tower. I log back in and I'm a fresh spawn. Glorious. I don't plan to make that trek again any time soon.

It took me 5 shots from 50m or less on a Zed to kill it last night. Yeah, the guns can be... inaccurate at times. That was the worst I'd seen. Sometimes I know I completely missed and I drop my target. Until they fix it pray and spray is as good as anything.

Everything south of Berezino seems like a complete wasteland lately (noone's there). A few weeks ago I used to at least run into a few people just south of Berezino, but lately I see noone. I don't die a ton so I can't tell, but in general have the spawn points been pushed further north yet again?

Perhaps you have explosive pants?

Had a pretty good run with my latest char, did a lot of exploring, managed to gear up decently after visiting everything from Elektro to Balota to Berezino, won a few encounters, helped a few folks out. Was feeling pretty good. Then, well, I had an interesting encounter. I'm running up the coast towards Berezino and I see a guy running towards me, so I go prone behind a rock. From 1st person I can tell I shouldn't be able to be seen/sighted from over the rock. But as I check that - woah, he's got whatever that long range sniper rifle that sounds like a hollow pogo stick and he's seeing/shooting me through the rock from what must be at least 400m away! I die, not able to get a shot off. Maybe I was wrong about how tall the rock was vs how low I was lying but I was pretty sure there was no way I could be shot from there. So I hit esc to see what he's going to do with my corpse, it's dark but I can see him. I see him looting and it looks like all he has is the gun he shot me with, other than that he looks like a fresh spawn. That's strange... I see him take my backpack and I'm assuming most everything else. And then, woah, what? Now there's 2 of him, and one of them kills the other. And now there's a 3rd of them, and one of them kills the other again. I'm pretty sure I just witnessed something wrong on several levels, it looked like an item duper but the situation leading to my death seemed to be something else non-legit. Is the item duping exploit still around and is there any other exploit that allows shooting through what should be solid objects?

The backpack sticking up is part of the "hit box" so to speak? That *might* explain that part of the puzzle...

I treat DayZ more as a survival game than FPS. But I've noticed an evolution of play style, that at least for me, when something like this: Killing is bad (avoid it), stay alive. Converse whenever possible. Killing is maybe ok, I've died a half dozen times and I'm tired of being a victim. Killing is the only way, everyone is out to get me, I'm tired of dying. I WILL KILL EVERYONE I SEE REGARDLESS OF THEIR THREAT LEVEL! Dying makes me sad, I don't need to kill everyone. Let the fresh spawns live. ALL FRESH SPAWNS MUST DIE, ALL THEY DO IS ATTACK ME!!! I met some nice people the past few days, I don't need to kill anyone who doesn't appear threatening. EVERYONE MUST DIE, BECAUSE EVERY TIME I LET MY GUARD DOWN THEY KILL ME NOW!!! I'm so angry inside I'm even going to chop down and kill every tree I can find until my ax is ruined. I'm so angry because I just died because I couldn't defend myself with a ruined ax. EVERYONE MUST DIE MORE! I'm over being angry. I'm going to avoid people like the plague, and when they approach me I'll just protect myself.It's an emotional roller coaster. But I started on the passive side, the game has made me more aggressive.

I've found chopping trees across roads is an easy way to make interesting conversation (and also get yourself killed).

Flesh mounds? Was he infected or did he have elephatitis? Or was it just franks and beans? Speaking of, they should add franks to DayZ so we have something that compliments the beans.

To heck with extra calibers and extra guns - why can't I take my riffle and hit someone with it or use a bayonet? Talk about realism, that's what should be addressed. I should be able to hit someone with the butt of my riffle to knock them down and then shoot them. I should also be able to swing my riffle like a baseball bat and hit someone (this may have a high chance to ruin the gun, but so be it, if it's empty I'd rather be able to swing it rather than have it be dead weight useless!).I should be able to use my bayonet and stab someone, should work like a knife but have far greater range.Guns should be made fully usable as they would in combat before adding new ones.

Apparently on experimental you can even use the "holy hand grenade" on the rabbits. I look forward to trying that...