Poindexter

Near to where I have made a base I have stashed a couple of small bags where I keep extra food. supplies and spare clothing. Each time I return to the server there are more items of clothing. At last count i had 6 pairs of Winter pants and 4 pairs of Black cargo pants. They are all a replica of the first one, ie the Winter pants are all worn and the Black cargoes are pristine. I have an AK101 there too (cos no ammo or mag) but it hasn't duplicated.

I started playing on a UK server a day or so after .48 started and spawned near to Polana and headed South planning on hitting Electro while looting as I went. I found Nothing, absolutely nothing and was attacked by Z's as i went and ran to avoid. I reached Electro red lining starvation and got mobbed by Z's there and sought refuge on the school roof where I expired. I respawned and this time arrived in Svetlo where two Russians with nothing on their backs sought to question me. I fled and dodged through Novo looting only at the end of it. I found a scythe and a can of Peaches, so thus fortified I headed West. I decided that I didn't have enough resources to loot the NWAF so I headed due South at Gvodno and stopped at Guglovo where I found a dead player with pristine possessions which I relieved him of. He had no food and by this time I was also near to starving myself but in Mogilevka I found another can of Peaches which gave me the strength to make it to Electro. The guy whose body I found had no real possessions, but he had an Axe a can opener and assorted calibers of bullets. With this seed I was able to survive and continue looting until I now have a Shottie with ammo, a knife, fire Axe and various other items that will enable me to live in the woods. To other players and the devs I have this to say: In over 500 hours of gameplay I have never been so absorbed by the game or thrilled more by finding the little things that helped me to live. This is my idea of a survival game.

I am trying to find out if the tents were in THIS patch or are they in experimental at the moment? Just saw your BTW Doh!

That has happened to me, could not mine the rock that I was looking at, so I left it alone and tried another rock with another pickaxe in another part of the map and that worked fine! Also I have since found out that those sort of mossy rock areas you find in fields can yield rocks (though haven't tried it yet)

Has any one noticed that it is virtually impossible to light fires outside? The match always seems to be blown out. I expect this is one of those little wrinkles that the devs add in to make things interesting. But EVERY match blows out? In many years of lighting fires outdoors I have rarely needed more than 1 match regardless of the weather. So please Devs, a little moderation here, Thank you. Also, just for the record, this is a game changing patch which I have looked forward to ever since I encountered it in Experimental and i am thoroughly enjoying it. For this I thank you too.

Firstly you know nothing about me and I will be happy to keep it that way. Secondly no one is talking about the effect of running on the body and its ability to stop suddenly and then fire!. What we are talking about is the sway of the weapons when looking through the scopes. It is out of all proportion to reality REGARDLESS of whether anyone has run a distance or not! In fact aiming the rifles WITHOUT the scopes have far less sway to them. It is almost negligible in fact. I think you have not managed to test these rifles your self and are just drawn into the conversation by the prospect of making absurd and belittling comments about others.

You.re totally out of order jumping into your Primal Scream of Pansyfication of any comments people make about the new patch. This is an Alpha and it is one of our roles in this game to report the anomalies that are in the patches that they make. Its called feedback and used judiciously it leads to corrections of the mistakes that occour. Or do you think that everything that comes with each patch is deliberate and must be lived with?

I completely agree, it seems they have made the settings for the 'sway' of the weapons far too extreme at the moment. The AKM with the LRS has a sway of 40 yards at the beginning following a short jog

Tell me more about your 7 and a half year long military experience. It does provide stability, no one said that it doesn't - but the use of a bipod & a good firing position is never going to make that bullet hit your target. I don't think you understand the word bug, but you continue to ignore what's in front of you as well, why can't I? Suck it up buttercup, you want to kill someone from an 800m shot? Try a little harder and stop depending on broken game mechanics. Tell me more about your 7 and a half year long military experience. It does provide stability, no one said that it doesn't - but the use of a bipod & a good firing position is never going to make that bullet hit your target. I don't think you understand the word bug, but you continue to ignore what's in front of you as well, why can't I? Suck it up buttercup, you want to kill someone from an 800m shot? Try a little harder and stop depending on broken game mechanics. Troll much?

It has nowt to do with realism! This is another example of a developer turning the sway dial a little too far. It just needs an adjustment. By the way John Maclean, a sniper rifle at a prone position supported by a bipod has a lot of stability

No I don't thats why I waited for two minutes to pass before attempting the shot. Unfortunately the pristine scope still would not 'fix' onto the target. This was target practice, which is just as well as were the situation to be against another player my Pristine fully loaded AKM would be taken from my dead hands!

The sway with the AKM after jogging is really bad. It also takes about 2 minutes to slow down and even then will not settle on a target making it virtually useless, Trying to use the weapon in a melee scenario is also not going to work. BTW: the AKM is fully loaded with pristine parts.

What is left strafe please?

This is the closest I've come to to the topic I wanted to find out about. Namely the 'flickering' of the scope when trying to aim. I have the AKM fully upgraded with all pristine equipment and after jogging and coming to a rest then trying to aim, the sight sways from side to side in a crazy way making it impossible to aim; therefore making the weapon virtually useless in any kind of melee action. Even when at rest for 3 minutes the scope continues to move off the target. the M4 (which I have retained) doesn't suffer from any such problems and is as accurate as it always was. Any ideas or suggestions?

The question is: Should Military loot be determined by the number of people on it? Risk/Reward. If you are paying £40 or £50 a month for your own server and not many people are using it, it kinda sucks if you join it and there is nothing worthwhile to loot on it. No?