Nicko2580

Here's a better shot of my dude. Just need to find some camo pants to match and I'll be happy.

I can tell from this statement that you really must be a true master. Such an utterly Magnificent Bastard that no system could ever keep you down. Well done Sir. Well done.

You have to set it to the x2 setting for it to work. Confirmed this the other day. Default is press T once. Change it to 2x and it will work. When you fire, you also have to hold the mouse button down for a second, I don't think it fires as fast as you can click, for some reason (bugged probably).

You're missing the rotten fruit for 'committing suicide'. :p

I'll go against the grain and say I prefer the SKS. Accurate out to decent ranges and when fired from the hip. 10 round mag is plenty for DayZ. Anything at <25m I'll be using a sidearm/shotgun anyway. 1. Go into your keyboard bindings and find the select fire mode feature. 2. Set it to <button of choice>x2 (double press quickly) 3. ??? 4. Profit.

Yeah you guys are just picking for pickings sake. Since when has handcuffs + rotten fruit + sack + full gear + clown mask ever equalled a friendly. Shit, I give every fucker a chance and even I would have shot that guy on sight.

Once again, not everyone has the option of logging into a HC server. And even if that is the case, why should the advantage exist at all, regardless of server type? For what reasons should 3pp be allowed to retain it's large information gathering advantage over 1pp, hardcore aside. People argue that they like 3pp because they like to see their character, or 1pp gives them a headache. If that's the case then surely no one would have an issue with evening up the score when it comes to being able to see things that effect gameplay.

I don't even know what I am voting for here. Also, who's asking for Lions???

So far, every fully geared person I've walked up to I've just said - "Hey man, how's things?" Even with my weapon drawn (pointed at the ground) I haven't received a hostile reaction yet. Even in the middle of the NWAF I walked right up to a pair of guys and started talking. They were fine, no probs, traded them a few full M4 mags for some Mosin and shotgun ammo and was on my way. I'm sure at one point I'll run across a bandit and he'll shoot me as soon as I say anything, but so far so good.

I'm gonna go with a macro. I can set my keyboard to repeat a command thousands of times very quickly. Just set it to toggle a repeat of 'space' and I imagine it would break the cuffs pretty quick. They'll have to change the way that works if they want to stop that from happening.

Useless? You obviously haven't come across a squeaker yet.

Posting links to your blog to get more traffic, rather than posting here is bad etiquette. Post the story here, then link your blog at the end and say something like "I have some more cool stories on my blog." Also everyone instantly thinks it's a virus, simply because you said the word virus. My first reaction was no fucking way I am clicking that link.

The problem is people gaining information that they shouldn't have access to. You cannot argue that if we're both crouched behind the same wall and you can see over that wall, but I cannot, that you automatically have an information advantage over me. It may not be enough for you to win the coming battle, but it definitely gives you a massive edge over me. Making players and items invisible when not in the avatars FOV is a good (not perfect) solution to this and creates a fair playing field between 1pp and 3pp players on a regular server. 3pp should be used for people who enjoy playing from that perspective and like to look at their characters, but it should not give them an advantage over people who don't want to play that way. I've mentioned this before, but I don't have the luxury of lots of populated Hardcore servers to play on. Usually it's only one or two in my region with 5 or 6 players on them, unless I get lucky or it's late night on a weekend.

Why not? They already plan to have more than 1000 zombies on the map. Hordes of 500 might be a bit much, but hordes of 20, 30 shouldn't be a problem and would be a major, major obstacle for both solo and small groups of players. Especially if they buff the zombies somewhat.

Edit: Double post - please delete this one.

English and Mandarin are, I believe, rated as the two hardest languages to learn. But back to the main point - I agree that the map should read the same as the signs. I hate using the browser, it ruins immersion so I don't do it unless I am seriously lost. I'd much prefer to use the in game map but as I can't translate the letters back to Cyrillic I have no fucking idea what towns I'm in.

OP has post processing turned off. The effect disappears completely after opening and closing the video settings, according to the OP. It doesn't just disappear while the options are open. He has to open and close them to continue playing normally. A) If that's the case why don't we all experience this problem every time we get into combat as stated by the OP? I certainly don't get shock sized screen blur after every single encounter. And yes, I know how the shock mechanic works, thanks. B ) Why does the effect disappear completely after opening and closing the video options?

Because the OP has clearly said that he is HEALTHY when this is happening. Sometimes it happens without him even getting hit by anything. You don't get serious screen blur and greyscale from one or two hits from a zombie - especially if you're even semi-geared. Couple that with the fact that the effect disappears completely as soon as he opens his video options and you have what is clearly a bug, not a noob with no health.

People need to read this actual thread before making comments like this.

All survivors are immune to the virus, so it doesn't matter if it's in the water - we can't get infected. I think making water scarcer is fine, as long as it fits the game - hence my suggestion of broken down pumps. If you can't pump the water up from the well, you can't drink it! :p

That's golden. 10/10

Yes to all except the water. In reality you're going to find plenty of potable water. Any water that's coming up from underground and being filtered through rock or sediment is likely to be drinkable. Stagnant water obviously would be a very high risk. Clear, fast running streams with rocky bottoms would generally be okay to drink from as would wells (we're immune to the virus and there's no reason that wells would carry much in the way of risks otherwise. They're dug in places where water is drinkable for a reason). Perhaps instead of poisoned wells, many of them could be completely dried up instead, or the pumps themselves could be stuffed, forcing you to move to a new area to find water. In regular though, I have routinely drank from pools and stagnant ponds without getting sick - the chances of getting sick should be much much higher from certain types of water source. I'd love to see rain gathering introduced.

It's their server. They pay for it. You're on it by their consent. As far as I am concerned they can be as bigoted, racist and outright rude as they like. It's a free world. I don't agree with anyone who is racist or homophobic or bigoted and I will simply log off their server if I am seeing that type of bullshit but 'hate speech' itself is a notoriously bullshit piece of terminology anyway. You cannot punish people for speaking their views, even if their views are despicable. Down that path dictatorship and thought crime lie. No one is seriously going to be incited to riot or form the Fourth Reich while playing DayZ. If you're offended, that's actually a choice you've made. You could simply ignore it, or move to a server where the admin isn't a dick. If you're offended by the way an admin acts on his own server that he is paying good money for, don't play there. It's pretty much that simple. I don't think we need some sort of Code of Conduct to avoid racists and homophobes. Admins who are abusing the actual game mechanics and griefing other players by using server resets or other things you've described however - yes, I agree there needs to be a better way to report them and have their servers blacklisted. Enough reports should remove their server from the search function for a period of time.

Even if it doesn't say healthy, the serious blur and colour drain don't happen until you're pretty hurt. You can get smacked around a fair bit before the screen stays grey and blurry. I get smacked by zombies and the screen goes grey and blurry for like, half a second and then it's back to normal. I would speculate that it's getting stuck at that 'hit' marker and not resetting to normal regardless of your current health status. Bug report it if you haven't. Not much to do otherwise, except perhaps try a reinstall.

Racist jokes against a black avatar... How original. <_< I'd have marched you to a forest, given you a 20 second head start and then hunted you like human game. :p