Death By Crowbar

I'm carrying a Mosin with long range scope in hands, SKS on back, and magnum as side arm in bag currently. I'm sure I'll die before I work through all 3 of them but hey - it leaves me options. The M4 reload/magazine options make it perhaps superior to the SKS.

There's also this bug which has quite a few votes (it's in the top 10), looks like those two might be related? http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view.php?id=153

The random zombie noises may have recently been fixed: http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view.php?id=161 The random food/drink are often reported as bugs along with the random zombie noises. It's unclear from the ticket whether those were recently resolved too or not. Looks like Accolyte last updated the ticket, perhaps he or someone else can clarify?

... the mine. Someone MUST make a video jumping off this or of someone jumping off it!

How did you survive that, the trees broke your fall? Awesome!

Keep in mind they're modifying the engine itself for a number of reasons. Thus although there's some truth in what you say, it's more as I said - by the time DayZ SA is in full release the leaked source will likely be irrelevant.

All I can say is that people are pretty messed up. I've witnessed some pretty crazy stuff. Here's a short list: Dude jumps off water tower onto zed (maybe he thought it would die?). Breaks legs, zed proceeds to kill him.3 guys run into town all together, 2 gang up on one of them, then the other back stabs his friend. 1 guy walks out of town alive.2 guys hold up a fresh spawn in the middle of the street. Another fresh spawn sneaks in behind the buildings and watches/listens, and lays down prone so as not to be detected. The 2 bandits finally blow their captive away and proceed south on the road. The hidden guy gets up and proceeds north unscathed. (big reminder that whenever you think you're alone you're probably NOT)4 assorted guys (look like a random lot) meet up in the middle of a town and look to be talking and being silly. I fire one shot and they literally scatter like bees. I observe them zigging and zagging trying to find out where the shooter is. Finally one of them starts killing the others, and gets one of them before I lose sight of the rest.1 guy climbs one of those round water towers. He's got just a construction helmet and ax, and is standing there looking around. I hear a shot and he's down, dead. I never see the shooter.1 guy seems to have another held up, and cuffed. He runs off and leaves the cuffed guy. The cuffed guy is on his knees struggling and a zed comes along and kills him.2 man team and 3 man team meet for an epic showdown. It ends with 1 survivor, but he's got broken legs. Apparently none of his friends have morphine nor a stick, I watch him crawl around for a while and finally he starts crawling down the highway and I lose interest because it took him nearly 15 minutes to make it that far.1 guys is looting and another armed with what looks like a SKS runs into town. The SKS guy blows the looter away, and begins searching his body, then SKS guy starts going house to house himself. I hear a shot, and SKS guy goes down. A shooter comes out of the woods, well geared, and loots SKS guy and disappears back into the woods. I took that as a sign I should move further away the opposite direction through the woods.I literally see a guy spawn on the coast, he runs to the road and immediately encounters a zed. He goes bare boxing, standing completely still and going toe to toe with the zed. He eventually loses and dies, I see him bleeding out and the zed derp walks away down the street like a triumphant champion. This might have been the saddest one I saw, if only he knew to strafe and move his feet a little, he would have survived.Seriously, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Get some good optics - binoculars, a long range scope, or something, and go "survivor watching" someday, it gets pretty interesting. You've got to find a good high concealed spot though!

Put simply another way, unless you hit "P" and see noone on the server assume you're not alone...

I was on a server with 1 other person, so I assumed it was safe to trek to Balota airfield. Got there, noone around, started looting. Omw out of the control tower I see the ONLY other guy on the server trotting up to the door. Just dumb luck (even for a hot place).

That was amusing... trolling the dude with broken legs who actually HAD friends and wasn't lying made for a good watch.

Compatible games? You can't find any servers to log into or?

THAT one is known and you can find it if you search the bug tracker. There's a way to duplicate items by exploiting high ping servers and spamming escape as you log in. That's one of my main pet peeves, there are snipers with essentially endless ammo out there. But there are also "bugged' ammo/items that are unlimited, I'm not sure how that happens, but you see it on the youtube videos sometimes - Frankie's have had some and it shows him looting them off scumbags and dumping them in the woods so other people don't pick them up and use them.

Has there been any official statement on known hacking capabilities and what to watch out for? One of the things I struggle with is there's a lot of reports of near super powers type abilities and it's unclear how many or which of those are completely true or not. By volume I'm guessing there's more truth than myth, but it would be nice to know what "known" hacker capabilities are so the average player at least knows what they're up against.

Am I the only person who, as I'm scanning the landscape for movement, out of the corner of my eye think I see someone only to look and see that stupid bird flying around? That bird throws me off or spooks me all the time. I wish I could shoot that bird!

Oh and two more: 4. Just the tip, just for a minute, just to see how it feels. 5. Avoid the "worn" zuccini.

Tips I have: 1. Keep up the good work! 2. Take a day or two and randomly explore, then use online maps or in-game maps you've found and systematically plan to explore a few places, including Elektro and Berezino, as well as all 3 airfields. Something else fun - try to find a castle or some of the other neat things out there. 3. Carry spare can openers and screw drivers - those are solid gold to fresh spawns, ultimate good guy gifts.

LOL, SWEET!!! The mod looks amazing... is that building destruction too? Maybe I should be playing that instead!

You're inside a building, and you hear someone say, "Hello?" You're melee weapon only geared. What do you do? Hide inside and don't give away your position? Run out the nearest exit and zig zag for your life? Come out and say / chat "Hello!" with one hand up (a friendly sign)?I'd say I'm 50/50, well lately maybe 75/25 chances that the "Hello?" is not from someone interested in letting me live. Lately I've been running for my life.

Always channel your inner Kobayashi. Being full goes away!

@echo offsetlocalset FileName=%HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%\Documents\DayZ\%USERNAME%.DayZProfileset FileTime="-"set LogFile=E:\Scripts\DayZSessionHistory.txt:loopfor %%X in (%FileName%) do ( if %FileTime% NEQ "%%~tX" ( echo "%%~tX" >> %LogFile% type %FileName% | find "lastMPServer" >> %LogFile% ) set FileTime="%%~tX")rem wait 2 minutes (120) seconds before checking againTIMEOUT /T 120 >nul 2>nulgoto :loopYou know, this has been really really helpful. I took it a step further and store that information to a log file I can go back and check. The output in the log file looks like this: "05/22/2014 09:34 PM" lastMPServer="108.174.57.17:2802";lastMPServerName="|g4| Look at the Flowers... | Chicago | 24/7 Day | 2hr Restarts";

So paid customers are idiots, huh? The reason there's idiocy here and a lot of the same questions over and over again is because 50% or more of the DayZ SA community doesn't go to Reddit nor do they care about it, they're expecting everything to be on the official forums. You go to the DayZ Standalone website (http://dayzgame.com/) and where does it send you? Not at all to Reddit, it sends you here. That's a significant MAJOR community and information management problem.

As it stands now - try for head shots, you're less likely to deal with ruined gear. If you pray and spray (especially pumping extra bullets into him, it's tough/impossible to immediately tell if someone is dead, the animations and such are too slow) you're going to end up with a lot of ruined items. Unfortunately the latter is often the way it goes and that's probably ok for now - if you pump 5 bullets into someone everything is going to have holes in it and be covered in blood anyway, likely something not lootable. Under the current system I'd like to see items likely to survive (bullets, etc) be less likely to be ruined, but that's probably wishful thinking. I'm sure that will be re-worked and improved eventually, but for now it's a deturrent against blatant KOS which is ok with me and I actually fully support.

Actually - this is a kudos moment. Great recovery to a misunderstanding!

I want to be able to set hostages a flame. Burn this place to the ground...

If his face looked like this would it be more realistic?