Kayback

This! My hunting gear is rain proof. It isn't like wear an oil skin, but I can be out in the rain in cold winds and be quite happy. Even when I'm out in the rain IRL, even heavy rain I don't often use rain coats, or catch hypothermia. What I do do is carry a rain jacket which I throw over whatever I'm wearing for protection from the cold, or my jacket is already rain proof. My rain coat folds up smaller than the ones in DayZ seem to do, but then my 1911 isn't as big as a first aid kit or Pelican case either. I'd prefer some less rain effects. If you are running from house to house in DayZ, even if you do it a bunch of times you shouldn't end up with hypothermia. If you are out overnight in the rain in jeans and a Tshirt, then sure. KBK

Living in the ass end of Africa I only have the choice of half a dozen servers, and they aren't populated at times I get to play. Besides if I want to play a FPS I'll go play one. KBK

So I've been trolling the wrong shoreline. Great. But yeah, reality and DayZ are very inconsistent. Nets aren't the only thing to build ghillie suits out of.

I get what you are saying too, but honestly there is no challenge to the game any more if there is no one else online. While zombies have never been too much of a worry, except the underground or never ending horde of them, there still was an element. Currently if I'm on a low pop server I literally just run into town, ransack the place and leave without a care in the world.

Are they really scarce? I haven't played much since the update, mostly just getting food and water near the coast and moving to meet up with clan mates. I assumed the Zed's had been killed by other players and I'd seen one or two. Since then I've moved inland and I don't even carry a weapon any more when I go into towns. Sure I have one but it isn't deployed. Was in Novy Sobor (I think) and when I hadn't seen any zombie in ages I emptied my SMG into the air on full auto and waited for 5 minutes, nothing. No zombies, no attack. Why are they so scarce?

Because the zombie I was shooting at was at less than 100m. An MP5, heck most SMG's should be able to do that easy peasy with irons, especially easily with a magnified optic on it. 100m isn't very far in terms of ballistics. I can make man sized hits with a pistol at 75m. For snuffing out zombies a pistol caliber, suppressed carbine should work wonders. And it does. When it works. Happened again last night. About 80m, first round hit high and right, next two were center mass. I wouldn't even mind if you had to add crazy Kentucky Windage for the 9mm rounds, but at 100m everything should be low, not high. It also makes no logical sense that 1 round is off and the others are spot on. With a 400m zero on an AKM shooting 7.62x39mm M43 or equivalent you'd only be ~21" high max at ~250m. True a 5.45x39mm would only run you 15" high but it still wouldn't be 36" for the AKM

Meh. Call it easy mode if you like I just find it more useful. Because there is a lack of tactile feedback from turning I like the ability to know when I've turned a certain amount, like I would IRL. If you don't like it, don't use it. You don't NEED to pick one up, or put it in your toolbar..... KBK

I have first round accuracy issues with an MP5 and an ACOG. My first round invariably hits about 3 feet high and right of the target. Low pings, stable shooting platform, not winded after sprinting. KBK

Huh thanks for the tip. Whenever the toolbar stops working i just log off and on again.

I dunno though. IRL I can tell my way well enough for basic DF route finding. In DayZ my character could be looking anywhere and I can't tell. Hell even the sun doesn't (Didn't last time I checked) work correctly. I like the little compass in the bottom. It is only on screen when you have your mini too bar up. If you let it fade away you can pretend it isn't there. Or close the cover. KBK

Self defense is not murder, murder is murder. Killing someone to stop them murdering you is self defense. My plant to kill another human being who wants to kill me is wrong? Nice logic. My sister in law was raped in Europe (Actually the UK, but who is getting facts right, amIright?) Fun place to be. Must be nice to know you can rape people without worrying about them standing up for themselves. Oh, and I don't live in the USA either. I still know people in the UK, France and a couple in Sweden who carry multi-tools....

In sheds. Mostly beat to crap. The compass moving in your quicktool bar, is that new or did I just never notice it before? KBK

I like your dedication soldier.

Huh, look at that. Thanks for the tip. I thought you couldn't go in those so I never tried. Is it a new building?

I've seen more deer than I've seen zombies. Since .57 I've only killed about 4 zombies but have seen quite a few deer. Mostly near Mogilevka and Berezino. Haven't been equipped to skin or cook them when I've seen them so have not interacted with them.