cav_guy

Is it me, or have bandages become rare? Since .47 started (~8 hours played) I've only found 2 of them. By contrast, I've found 5 morphine injectors. I've also only found completely empty med kits. I probably wouldn't have noticed if melee movement hadn't changed. It's taken some time to re-learn how to fight zombies.

Thanks for the vid. You looked fairly close yourself. Did you see any effects when it went off?

Oops. Damn auto correct! It was supposed to be zeds, not Zeus. Oh well, Zeus sounds better. I'll take a look at your post in the feedback tracker. The movement in .47 is definitely annoying.

Totally agree. It's my hope that the devs are paying attention to the movement of the "hotspot" every time they make a change and use that knowledge when they get to game balance. In the meantime, it's nice that the hot spot does move.

I've been hit a lot more in .47 which is due to moving slower with my mellee weapon raised. It's annoying, but it's forced me to aim better. I do hope they fix player movement. The only time I was spammed by Zeus was when I was running around cherno like an idiot.

Good guide. I've been away for awhile and missed when they added hunting. Thanks for the info.

If you're looking to have some fun with rag doll, kill a zombie when it's stuck in the floor. They pop up out of the floor and then flop down onto the ground. Scared the crap out of me the first time I saw it. Now it's comic relief :)

That made me laugh as well. The zombies rag doll quite nicely but it looks like the ground is a sheet of ice to the physics engine. I really do like the rag doll effects though. I saw some cool zombie deaths. Hats off the dev team.

Been playing for about a week and having a blast. No game has ever got my heart racing like this one. I saw some reference to this in another thread and wanted to ask the specific question: Is there any etiquette for wearing helmets/masks in DayZ? It seems that a lot of people will KOS if you're wearing a mask and/or ballistic helmet because they assume you're a bandit. The fact that I'm running around with a gas mask and ballistic helmet right now may explain why people are avoiding me or just randomly shooting at me. I don't want to drop the helmet, as I know it has saved my skin several times from both zombies and other players but I'd gladly drop the gas mask if it offers no protective benefit. Is there any reason to wear the gas mask other than to say "I'm a bandit"?

It's not just you. They don't work in crouch and prone right now. Still pretty cool.

Only played the new build for a couple of hours, but maps do seem MUCH more common. Found two in one town. I'm n the northwest and found a south and a northeast map. Just my luck.

lol. I had the exact same thing happen to me. I now double check them to make sure they're down. There's nothing worse then a zed getting back up while you're in the middle of the bandaging animation :)

You need to stand when you use the binoculars right now. I see what you posted when I'm crouching. I can't even look through them when I'm prone. I'm sure it's a bug.

I think the zombies are much better now. They still glitch through floors in buildings that are slightly above ground level, but I'm not losing sleep over that. I do think the pendulum has swung too far the other way on the damage the fire axe does. Five or six hits to kill a zombie with an axe puts me in mind of the black knight in Monty Python and the quest for the holy grail: "'tis but a scratch" as arms and legs are getting chopped off. For what it's worth, I think that two or three hits with a fire axe is probably the right balance. Either that, or I need to get better at using it so I just hit them in the head ;)

Is this what you're seeing? They work fine standing, you can look through them, but clearly something is wrong when crouched (see below), and can't look through them at all when crouched. Standing: Crouch: Overall, I think they're awesome. They make scouting at a town much easier. They just need a little work.

Based on Barnabas' post I don't think it's only military, that's just where I happened to be when I found one. I assume we'll start seeing more of them as the dev's try and balance the crossbow out. I tried to stack them unsuccessfully as well. I'd like to think that we could at least stack 2 or 3 of them. Hopefully we're just doing it wrong or it hasn't been implemented yet. If not, inventory Tetris is going to become even more fun :)

Found this in a tent in the NWAF. Now I just need to find a crossbow to go with it to test it out.

If he spawned into the tower and went straight to guns when you tried to talk to him, he was most likely a server hopper. I wouldn't feel bad about it, as it was completely justified by his actions. Sounds like you are at the Krasnostav airfield, more commonly referred to as the Northeast Airfield (NEAF).

"I'll tell you what else is good, ..." - I lol'd. Awesome.

DayZ summed up in 7 minutes or less. Great vid! "You're the one carrying a pitch fork" - Classic.

Great pics. I've been spending some time doing the same thing and have finally spotted a few soccer fields. The other day I was running east just north of Berezino and told my buddy that I was right by the soccer field and his reaction was "there's a soccer field in Berezino?" It's easy to miss a lot of things if you're running all over the place.

This, except I'm running it on a Retina MBP. The frame rates aren't bad if you tweak the settings that some of the guides on here mention. Don't listen to the Mac haters - I used to be one of them, and then I got assimilated ;)

I don't know about the one hit zombie thing, as I've never experienced it myself. However, I'm unaware of any "hidden" sick or injured status that would make you weaker without noticing it. It sounds like you were doing everything right to keep a healthy character and the zombie got a lucky hit. Whether or not that should be possible is another question (I don't think so). You may want to post this in the Zombie feedback thread above.

I certainly hope so, although as others have said, I doubt it will happen right away - alpha and all. This plus persistent loot will help increase the "stickiness" of servers.

Sorry, I lol'd. That's DayZ in a nutshell. Hope you had fun doing it.