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So I decided that know I was fully geared up I would go to Electro and kill bandits. For this procedure I had a M4, Acog, MP stock and handgaurd, numerous mags and a bipod. First bandit I killed, I waited for 5 minutes while he sat on the roof of a fire station next to a body (which he must of killed earlier), I then shot him when he went to loot it. Next 2 was where 2 people ran into a firestation (1 with a magnum) and 1 killed the other, so I shot the survivor. Then there were 3 guys, this time none really had guns but they tried to kill each other with axes so I shot above them forcing them to seperate. After about 5 minutes of them running to cover and then coming out to punch eachover they gave up and ran their seperate ways. Last of all I scared of a bandit with an SKS who had been shooting presumably at new spawns for the past hour (about 40 shots heard from him) Then as I am there watching this newspawn in a bright blue shirt loot the firestation and I watched to see if anyone else camo I heard footsteps behind me... So I didn't move hoping he would run past and then he stopped and said "hey" and so as you do I said "hey" and just at this moment he shot the ground next to me. In that moment I thought to myself: Is this him trying to kill me? (He could of missed as his character had obviously run up the mountain and was panting) Or is it just a wakeup shot? (I was a bit slow on pressing mic button) and then I though that either way im not going to end of well as what would you think if you ran to a top of a hill to find a guy in a bush, with a sniper M4, full TTKSO, gas mask, ballistic helm and pointing his gun at the firestaion... He's a bandit! And what do you do to bandits, especially if your planning on heading down to electro and obviously spent that time to climb that hill to check for snipers: Kill them, or torture them, break their legs, take their stuff and leave them to have to crawl down to electro in search of morphine which is neigh impossible. So I said "**** that" and exited. I kinda feel bad, combat logging is bad and all, but I also think I would of probably not of gotten too much out of that at all (probably nothing at all XD)

Ohhh ok, I get it now, So all I have to do is now just make sure I don't get caught, and even then just die? If so then I will continue with what I was doing before but play it safer and just well take it (literally) Yep, I saw him kill the guy on the roof and then continue to sit there for about 10 minutes watching the firestation before I shot him as he then went to loot the guy he killed earlier. And anyway it was electro, I only managed to definately kill that guy, the rest I scared into logging out themselves, or I stopped them from trying to axe each other to death so that they just ran away (Shooting above their heads or right next to them.) Edit: Well success! Made 2 bandits combat log, they were prone on the eastern hill facing down onto the firestation, shot at them and they just went poof and gone, and I am pretty well camoes as well so hopefully no mroe comba logging for me

So thanks for the replys! Taking in your feedback I will now change my playstyle to get rid of this tactic! 1. Get a olive or khaki Assault vest! Better for camo than the black one. 2. Choose a better bush! 3. get a SKS (more friendly looking!) 4. Instead of protecting people and breaking up fights, I will just kill people, that way if I get killed I won't get p***** off because I was doing something wrong so I deserved it anyway! 5. When I hear someone instead of hoping they will pass so I don't have to kill them, I will find a new position and then... 6. Shoot anyone on sight! That way I don't need to combat log as I have destroyed the threat straight away and don't feed anyone who may want to torture me anyway! PS I didn't lose my stuff :P but at least next time I won't take the risk, even if it is a nice person like that guy who didn't kill me. Edit: Well well... Today is my lucky day, in 30 minutes I have everything I need, on the way back from pavlovo I see a newspawn run into Balota airfield, I decided to see what he does, normally I would just see if there are snipers going to kill him but this time I was only interested in my survival, as per the new tactics. So he finds an M4, searches the ATC and then I see that his route out is where I am going next. Im not going to risk meeting a new spawn with an M4, so bang and he his dead and problem solved B)

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i think as long as it isn' a XP thing I will like it. The only way it should be is by you level something up by doing it often. E.G Stamina, the more you run the furhter you can go, bu you can' tell what 'level' you are, just your character won't get tired as fast.

AK 74!

Yeah go to a place like the pik kozlova or to the east of cherno and sit in the hills, and then as soon as you see a band of M4 bandits, snipe them with a Mosin

Pfffft, It will cause more trouble than needed, after all the M4 would have bullets clipping through the face, same with SKS, mosin will need totally new animations and really left handers in real life just have to shoot with their right hand in a lot of militarys

Oh... I didn't really read this, did doctor who kill you? But in all seriousness I would put it down to server lag, had it yesterday some bambi ran at me and a mate and he kept on teleporting but that meant he couldn't hit us either and I assumed we were probably doing the same.

SKS, better accuracy and damage wins any day, unless you can't shoot in which M4 for you (hence why all the bandits use M4's, they can't hit a thing!)

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo! Don't go to Balota! Go to somewhere safer if in search of military gear, camo building at chapaevsk or pavlovo. Balota on any populated server is asking for being sniped at or getting into fire fights

I think the AK-74m is coming first: http://cdn.dayzblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/IXoS0ew-Imgur.jpg But I think they will be implementing it when they implement the Grenade launchers, that way it is easier to test. Although I would prefer them to of released the AKM or normal AK-74m first

Hmm, I always find people with M4's can't hit anything. Even once in a barracks building I was at one end of the corridor a guy with an M4 as the other, he sprayed a 30 rnd mag at me. Only 1 bullet hit, meanwhile 8 of my SKS bullets connected, 4 hitting objects, 4 causing bleeding.

Well it's my 5th life in Dayz and I have nearly everything, all camos, sks, fnx, big backpack, axe, tons of medical supplies, ammo and food. I only have a few more things I really want (A non-damaged PU scope, SKS bayonet, maybe a Bullet proof vest instead of my damaged tactical vest.) I am currently sitting in the city near NW airfield, I dont want to go there due to it being a death trap, but I also want the remaining things I want, so what should I do?

Much inappropriate Such silly Wow

That's why airfields aren't worth it. Always looted, always have some camping bandit there. Don't feed the bandits go elsewhere!

Hero's should wear UN berets, shows your friendly!

Plenty of those! Had got stuck in a wall by walking through sideways in the hospital, fallen through 3 walls, even a friend fell through stairs on one of the 3 story buildings dying! Oh the random deaths in days, at least players are more predictable!

Yeah the FPS sucks, got killed today just because I had been playing all day and it slowly gone down to about 4 fps in towns due to this rendering bug, not happy :( hope gets fixed this patch.

Well in chernarus it is post soviet state, so SKS's are going to be way more common than M4's as they may still be used in second-line service by the armed forces. Also the Mosin is a better hunting rifle = more common in the poor-ish Farming/ heavily wooded country of chernarus. Also the calibre pays a big role, the M4 lacks the accuracy of the SKS and the round doesn't hit as hard against un-armoured targets, I would much prefer the 7.62 as why would I need armor peircing capabilitys against zombies? Also Ammo is easier to find and the SKS/mosin is more reliable, I don't care about attatchments when I can't use the gun because I can't clean it due to not finding a weapon cleaning kit and using bad-grade ammo, meanwhile a SKS would last a lot longer without cleaning (Piston FTW) Also M4's can make people use more ammo than they should if it isn't set to semi auto only, as people are likely to switch to full auto if there are zombies close up and just spray, semi-auto and bolt actions would make people more cautious due to not having the spray and prey power and slow down their fire rate, meaning they will try harder to make every shot count. Thats why I choose the SKS over the countless M4's I found, I didn't need to find mags which take up to much room, Ammo was easier to find, It made me use less ammo due to better power and accuracy and if Dayz had realistic weapon reliability, it would be way more reliable as well.

Well I died anyway XD I have started playing with other people and well after getting into numerous firefights me and the group got killed by two bandits who came into the house we were waiting in while we waited for a freind who had been killed earlier to come to us. We were on the bottom floor and while we were there two bandits had gone up the stairs to the top floor to shoot at new spawns going into the churche on the opposite side of the road. It was only when we heard them singing did we go up and after a 5 minute shoot out me, the friend I was with, the friend who had just spawned and the two bandits has killed each other. But yeah I didn't care about losing the stuff because it was an awesome fight, but I hate the long walk to get to electro and cherno after spawning in that same horrible always looted village by the coast :(

B95's are soooo common, just either go to a barn, or to a hospital/school in electro, cherno/ apartment towns near cherno or berezino you can often find tons.

Yeah all small towns on the coast and little in land from coast will barely ever have food as they are always looted. The best thing to do is to just go to one of the big coastal cities, yeah there is bandits but at least you'll find food and axe + clothes and maybe a gun fairly easily (I know I always found an axe and clothes and food in the cities)

I thought it was the take on helicopters engine, thats why it still looks better than arma 2 but not as good as arma 3

A4 is the most common version, A3 is just a full auto A2, and is only used bu really the US navy on ships. SO really no A3 just the A4 it is the most likely version.