MarchmelloMan

Of course inventing base building and vehicles is much lesser effort and required testing time than installing a new weapon. You really got the point.

Hey guys, I have currently two scopes who seem to be the same; one is the M68 CompM2 optics, with a red dot in the middle and the RU1 RDS optics with.. tada, a red dot in the middle. Are there any particular differences except for the tooltip text? thx

Hey guys, I just shot a guy with my M4, and I recognized that "phenomenon" before: I need WAY more than 2 hits to kill him. I stood right next to him and I literally saw the blood sprinkling out of him with every shot and i unloaded at least 5-10 shots on him until he fell on the floor.. I guess he was distracted or sth, cause if he reacted quickly enough he could as well have shot me down before I got him killed even though I had all advantages on my side (and surprised him more or less). Stood ~1-3 metres next to him and shot with the white spot, not zoomed.. though I saw the blood with every shot. How is that possible? Or does the M4 really need that many hits?

Hey, I just found the ACOG optics (pristine) for the M4A1 and.. I'm quite disappointed. I tried to shoot a zombie out of a distance of ~200 metres and I needed 3-4 shots, although he was exactly in the middle of my crosshair (not exhausted) in kneeling position. Actually I have the feeling that the common M4 carryhandle optics are better. And do they have a difference in "melee" accuracy? Like ACOG = sniper and bad for low range while the carryhandle bad for sniper and good at low range? greetings

Thank you guys, I guess you are some experienced players :D one more question to combats: As you recognized I'm not that experienced and I wonder what is your strategy in close quarter combat with the M4A1: just hit with the white spot and strafe while shooting, like the last guy did who shot me down (I could barely get him into my crosshair) or, aim in (rightclick) and stand still (kneel down). Or strafe while aiming? Of course proposed you stumble on someone and have to react quickly.

Hm ok, so I have to adjust my zeroing, get magpul handguard and buttstock (not cqb) and a bipod and it gets accurate? Another question; the bipod only improves the aim in prone position right? So if I kneel it has no impact on accuracy?

Is this thread starter serious? It sounds like you are just annoyed by the zombies cause they ruin your ambush runs on other players. This game had WAY too less zombies. My friends actually asked why this is a zombie-game. Now they implemented more zombies, but people cry. People just dont know what they want. They improved it, ofc far away from perfection, but this is pre-alpha, and they made a step ahead. Point.

Hey Survivors, I'm curious which destinations you have. To be more concrete: where do you go after you spawn, which place do you try to reach the most often? And as for the second question: There are heros, there are bandits, and some guys who are even worse, or more passive. How is the community divided up? For my part, I try to equip myself, then try to get into as many encounters as possible, but I try to start them. And if I I got surprised by someone and he has a gun in his hands pointing at me, I shoot. I only hunt down players who are fully equipped, and I don't cripple anybody. Greetings!

Hey Survivors, just cause I'm curious I started a poll about what your preferences are concerning the guns. My personal favourite is.. yeah, I know, boring, but still M4A1. Since some new weapons got out, perhaps lots of people prefer even sidearms over primaries? In close quarter combats? I'm curious what most of you will take ;) Greetings! Edit: Aaaaaaah sorry guys, forgot to include the SKS in the first poll. Argh. Well now its in :/

Interesting, the people actually really prefer the SKS more than the M4A1. If they understood the poll and the given answers right. And by much less surprise, the Mosin is the most favoured weapon by you guys ;) Though I ask myself, this would make sense if it kills with one shot and I read sometimes it doesn't (talking of bodyhits). So without attachments and not killed with one shot, why is it prefered by so many people o.o And the SKS, I also think it's a pretty fine gun.

Hey Survivors, once again on my screen are no servers displayed. I watched the videos and read the threads about what to click on (Internet, not LAN), unfiltered everything 0-50 players, ping <500, Steam is running fine for me, Internet is there but still no servers are displayed. I'm already waiting a quarter hour, but the only thing I can do is join back into my "old" server when I hit "play". But no new servers shown. Is that a known problem? Seems very weird to me.. Greetings

Hey Survivors, I have read through some threads about unconsciousness but im still not that sure if I can wake up again after a gunfight which took me lots of hits, when gone unconscious? I was just ambushed by a bandit and took him with me, so we both shot each other. Now I am in the known state of unconsciousness.. is there a possibility to wake up? I guess I have lost lots of blood and I aient fell unconscious cause I had a shock, took lots of hits. greetings

Hey, very kind of you, but I restarted now. Feel a little bad sad about that lost M4A1 on which I could get my hands on again after I haven't seen a long period. :( Thank you though!

Hey Survivors, I guess we can confirm, that most of us are using a map (like the one from DayZDB) and most of us have some spots in their mind where they know, they have a very high chance to get sth, especially concerning weapons and their scopes. This is not for posting general looting routes, but for posting your real hot spots where you found your best weapons. For me it is: - Tech buildings at the airfields - In Elektro: In the 3. floor of the school I have ALWAYS found a primary weapon when zombies were around/server was fresh (about 6 times), so I guess there is a 100% chance that a primary spawns - The big building with 3 floors on the southwestern side of Elektro, very high chance for primary weapons, I think almost 100% when it is not looted yet That are my hotspots. Buildings where I have found also a primary weapon, but not by a really high chance are factories Especially the scopes I think are very hard to find, I never found that sniper scope for mosin, but mosin itself several times. Greetings!

Hey guys! Im pretty new to DayZ, played it for about 10 hours now or so and yesterday I had my second death. The first one was because I starved (cause i couldnt open that damn cans) and the second time cause I ate a rotten apple and got sick (nobody told me that ;(( ). In summary, I have no plan on how to effectively gather my stuff to survive. I watched some streams and what I could hear, motivated me to post here; they mentioned that it took them 1-3 hours to get their basic stuff, which means, enough to eat, drink and a weapon. Seriously? My goal is to claim my hands on at least two of that things before I die. So my question is: what do the pros do, what the beginners dont? Especially in the beginning? Do they have the whole map in their mind? Do they exactly know, where their stuff spawns, always? Do they have special houses they go in? I work with the chernarus+ map on a website to locate myself and try to reach cities, but there has to be more concrete stuff the pros know and do, what the baby survivers just dont. Hope anybody out there is kind enough to help this little noob here :)

Hey guys, I just had a little fight and wanted to draw back from it to heal up again, but I couldnt get my status to healing again though I was light green energized and hydrated. Is it not possible to heal up again after a fight? Another question is; how much HP do I have anyway? And if I am not bleeding, am I almost at full HP? greetings

Hey Guys, a quick question: what does that mean, when the server gives no message (for 1..2..3..4..and so on seconds). It comes right after that red sign of a chain. Does it mean that I lost my connection or the server restarts or just general server issues? Thx ;) ed: And when it restarts, can I just stay in game and wait so that I will be respawned after the server restarted or do I have to logout when that message comes?

Ok, thx for the answers. When it restarts, do I have to logout then or can I just wait until it restarted (I spawn after the restart normally on that server again)?

Hey, I just wanted to log into a server after I logged myself out yesterday with full hp, everything ok and I was already wondering why it took so long and said half an hour "Please wait". I logged out again, tried another server and there I stood, at the coast with no gear, freshly respawned ?! Seriously, what is that?? I really had lots of gear after days of gathering and now they just deleted my char when I logged in ?! How can that be? I wasn't even at airstrip or sth, it was a harmless little village where I logged out. Is that a bug?

Hey guys, I have always asked myself, what the "spots" and their size on the map exactly mean, and espacially: what do you do with it?? I am sure not every (good) player loots every single house. So, he looks on the map and sees which house is worth to be looted. You have the small spots, the square spots and the fat round spots. Which spots do you grind? e.g. do you only grind the fat circles? Plus, the color don't seem to mean that much, cause I found supplies and clothes on red dots and weapons on yellow and blue spots. But I guess more experienced players know which spots to look at and which to avoid to get some gear. Would really appreciate it if some experienced survivors could share their experience here ;)

Hey Survivors! Is there a possibility on how to see whether I join a new server or an old one? In the videos I have seen, they said that they saw, that this is a new server and headed directly e.g. the airstrip for the new spawned loot. How did they know, they joined a new server? Greetings!

Greetings Survivors, somehow I thought (or did I read it somewhere?) that it is possible to chop wood and make a fireplace for cooking meat (e.g. from hunted animals). After some time of googling I found sth but only for the DayZ Mod and it doesn't work for the standalone. I have an axe, a matchbox with matches and firewood, but I can't combine any of these. Or did they remove it in the standalone version? Also I can't chop wood with my axe. Thx for responses!

Errm, build? Where can I check that? Edit: ah ok, thx Is the wood and the matchbox are useful then? I guess I can throw them away then.

Greetings Survivors! I'm pretty new here and got a little question: Since I just almost starved to death until I finally found a hot spot for food (at least it is marked as such on the database map) and gave me some cans of food, I asked myself, if it is possible to log out and log on another server in at the exact same big building which I can then search for food again (to finally get out of that hunger status)? The place is marked with 3 big blue circles (for food, as the database says), so it would be a high chance to find sth there on a new (other) server?

Ok, thx for the answers.. Dont worry, I wasn't going to use it as my standard strategy, it just sucked that I had a very desperate time finding food while I was actually quite well equipped. So in this case, I did it once to ensure I can finally just "stray on" through the land without too much worries about food since I'm now finally green there