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gg, the thrills of random pvp keep an excitement factor to this game when you're bored of doing the stary/NWA looting.

None of the items you listed are hacked in items, and aren't that hard to get in game. I've had every item you listed several times and I'm not a hacker. You say you found a bunch of dead players? The last time I was killed I had a pretty similiar loadout to the one you listed (NVG, GPS, + higher end weapons) and I was playing with 3 friends that were pretty decked out as well when we were all suddenly teleported into a forest along with a bunch of other players and killed by hackers. Maybe you ran across something like this.

Best thing to do is to check the DayZ wiki and see what the weapons default zero is set for, then you will know that anything beyond that initial zero will be where the bullet starts dropping.

Camo in house @ Zelenogorsk

It seems to have gotten a lot lot worse in the new patch for me. I really wish he would just remove barbed wire. It's only used to grief for the most part and the graphical glitches really ruin the game.

I'm a sound whore, I have these things attached to my head that let me tell where sound is coming from irl. True story.

Got a update through steam for Arma 2 last night and I believe thats where the revolver/1911 nerf came from, I don't think it is a DayZ nerf.

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I found one in a heli crash last night, played with it for a couple of hours, then server restarted. When I rejoined the server the gun was gone from my inventory.

M4A1 Acog + Silencer? gun doesn't exist in DayZ Here's a list of the weapons available in DayZ http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Weapons note that the L85A2 AWS has been removed from the game.

next time you have a weapon and supplied, head north.

You can only wear civ clothes if you are already wearing ghillie/camo. Otherwise you are already wearing civ clothes.

this worked for me.

I get that same error when I try to launch the game using Six launcher and have the "Launch through Steam (if available)" box checked.

Most of what you said I would agree are the reasons for the mechanic. It is more convenient if a new player kills a bandit/vet survivor and gets all that char has accumulated, rather than going out and having to get it for themselves. As the game is right now suspicion runs super high. I doubt there is anyone that can say they feel comfortable when they run across another player for the first time. For some people its easier to just kill the other person than to deal with the uncertainty of whether they will make it out of the encounter alive or not. Last is of course the fact that yes there are tons of items respawning all of the time, but there is a level of rarity in the game, NWA/Stary Sober weapons vs Barn weapons. There's always gonna be the group that says you can survive just fine with barn weapons blah blah blah even if its true, if you get the chance to get a silenced M4 or a DRM or something along those lines most people would ditch the enfield. Worth killing for to some people.