Death By Crowbar

Autorun work around. I know I've seen pics of this before, but I never thought to try it. So simple and actually works! I feel like this is a whole new game now!

Yeah, well - IRL people don't have the reflexes of a cat and can't toss around a sniper rifle as they can in game. You'd have to rebalance the guns, animations, etc if you want to rebalance the player movement. All you want is to make sniping easier, and all the people who move like they have OCD and are on LSD want is to avoid snipers like you. It's already balanced, and thus anytime people run through Berezino or Elektro they're going to do the Harlem Shake the whole way through.

When I see someone in a FULL set of military gear I get concerned. Either: They spend a lot of time on low pop servers and avoid contact, they might be ok hero or loner types. They're in a clan/group and spend a lot of time camping the airfields and such. PVP comes naturally to them and I'm suspicious. They're gear dupers/glitchers with whatever gear they want and endless ammo. There's so much abuse of this that anyone I see fully decked out, alone, I almost assume this is what I'm dealing with and that I'm going to die.

Yeah, well, I was running somewhere and had to get up to do something, so with a whimsical thought I stuck it in and it worked like magic. Yeah, it was sorta spur of the moment, I always thought it was a dumb or unnecessary idea in the past, but not so much anymore.

It's so early alpha that by the time the game is done the current source will probably be irrelevant.

I actually hate the gear dupers more than I hate the people who teleport and shoot through walls. There's some walking armories out there and 99% of the time they didn't get that way legitimately. It unbalances the game significantly.

HAHAHAHAHA... that's the funniest thing I've seen all day, LOL.

I will say that with the new spawn points there's far less people running on the roads, and also far less bandits on the main coastal road. I'm tossed on whether I like that or not.

This one is quirky and annoying, but as noted - if you move whatever (backpack, pants, etc) to the left pane so it's effectively out of inventory you should be able to move the item(s) into the slots that weren't cooperating and then put whatever (backpack, pants, etc) back on. Just be careful, if you put them fully on the ground and hit tab to close your inventory there's also a chance they'll warp somewhere, be it through a floor, to another room, etc. They may also lag and not appear at all for a few moments and then suddenly appear in front of you like magic. This known issue can be worked around, but I bite my nails every time hoping nothing goes wrong.

It's easy to get sucked into the numerous posts with random people popping in and posting things such as: I haven't played in 3 months, I log back in and... no visible development progress! WTF? I heard bad things from friends about the stability of the game, why would I buy this? Flashlights go through walls at night and it's a big effort to fix in the current engine, this is GAME BREAKING and we must abandon ship! Why are you adding more hats and jackets rather than fixing ladders and zombie pathing? Devs need more pressure. I'm not playing again until the fire ax is un-nerfed (LOL, really???)When I first purchased DayZ Standalone and knew little to nothing about it nor it's paid "early access alpha" (new concept to me) I used to chime in on these sort of posts and stoke the fire. I would do this because I honestly liked the game and concept and was completely appalled that issues as big as zombies walking through floors/walls, random zombie noises, and other just general strange quirks were in the game at all. Then a few times after painstakingly attempting to survive and not knowing the map but figuring inland remote areas were safe, got rather geared up and had enjoyed surviving only to seemingly have my character's gear wiped. Then I also dealt with a few incidents which can only be described as "hackers" somehow taking advantage somehow through speed running, teleporting, item duplication/glitching, etc. Dev blogs happening list frequently during this time (they seemed to taper off after 2013) didn't help and added to the impression that not much was happening. As someone who doesn't visit Reddit I assumed what's relevant to DayZ Standalone would be posted on the DayZ Standalone site/forums (I think most people would expect that). Then I matured and evolved as a player and member of the community. I learned where to look for information. I started talking to people in game more about the game (the ones that weren't KOS). I started searching bugs, adding info, voting, and also reporting a few that weren't already reported. I've seen reports of cool things that are happening with hiring a team to work on zombies and zombie pathing related issues alone, tweaks being made to the engine to help achieve the vision, etc. I'm starting to understand what "early access alpha" means, and even though I paid my dues to play it ($30 or whatever it was) I'm being given an opportunity to lock in that very reasonable price (which I can certainly say at 200+ hours I've gotten my money's worth) and also participate in the development processes through feedback and bug reporting. I think there's something very good here, and it's going to be interesting to have the game experience change every week as incremental fixes or tweaks are made, and as major features such as vehicles are finally introduced. My biggest dream is, out of sheer amusement, being able to handcuff and burlap sack zombies. I know that might be a lot to ask, but after having it done to me a bunch of time if I'm on a low pop server and looking for some short term amusement abusing zombies would certainly be awesome. I'm interested in other's thoughts on this. It's so easy online to get lost in negativity, because after all, people are far quicker to complain about something than to praise something - it's human nature.

Yes, and PLEASE: Search first to see if what you're experiencing has already been reported. If it has, make sure to comment on it additionally "I have this problem too!" and also vote it up so it might get priority. Read the details on reporting and provide as much information as you can. Check in every so often and vote on bugs that matter to you, it helps. It also helps to keep informed on what the known issues are so you're not banging your head against the wall.

I never have a problem with chat, I use it often at night when the wifey is sleeping. However, it's difficult to type and communicate and not make someone nervous leading them to shoot you. It's risky, lol.

That sounds uncomfortable.

You should look here to see if it's a known/reported issue, and if it's not, you should log it: http://feedback.dayzgame.com/ FYI - what you're describing doesn't happen to me.

They are incredibly awesome for scouting. Alas, a week or 2 ago they were spawning what seemed like nearly 10x the rate they do now. I ran around through 5 towns on a nearly empty server before I found a pair today. They're pretty hard to come by now. But 2 weeks ago I had 3 in my big backpack before I realized it and had to throw some away. I've been killed a few times since then, of course...

Here's what the binoculars look like, I took these for comparison.

Don't "hold" right click, "click" right click. If you hold the right click, it goes to your "eye zoom", if you click right click, it goes to your "item zoom". It the same way you zoom with a gun vs zoom bare eye while gun is equipped.

They'll stay in 3rd person though if it comes to it.

Does Battle Eye even do anything useful other than manage banned accounts? Clearly it's incapable of sniffing out poor behavior, cheating, and hacking. What a business that must be, be responsible for next to nothing.

Allow me to dress like Gwar or Juggalos, I mean, we already have masks that are very Juggalo...

My favorite sidearm is a friend by my side who is armed. Period. I rarely have time to access my actual sidearm when I need it - if I need a sidearm I'm usually already dead.

Until fixes for obvious hacks are made, I really think usernames or steam names should be somehow knowable so these assholes can be outright banned. Make them pay $30 again for the game if they want to log back in and be dicks. Seriously, that by itself will fund the headcount of a developer to solve the problem in the first place.

I will say this - if it took eating an entire box of cereal, 3 cans of beans, 3 cans of spaghetti sauce, a few cans of tactical bacon, followed by a worn zucchini and a pyramid of Pipsi cans to be full and hydrated in real life that would be awesome, I'd be friggin' Kobayashi! I mean, how much food should it really take??? Then again, it's just a game, but the game is focusing on being fairly realistic so eating Kobayashi levels of food and drink seems more "game/fake" than realistic.

Does being soaking wet actually impact anything at all?

But then you'll have to worry about the Westboro Babtist Church clans camping your house.