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?

I've got the 660 and the i5-3330 and have rarely had a problem that bothered me, top settings too. The Experimental has messed me up a few times but thats about pa for Experimental at the moment

The progression of cooked meats goes from Raw to Ready to Burnt in too short a time frame at the moment. Perhaps it should go from Raw to Rare - Medium Rare - Medium - Medium Well - Well Done - Burnt - Hockey Puck. Duration of each temperature perhaps 30 seconds or a minute? But each temperature gradation will reduce the energy value of the steak as more of the juices are cooked out of the meat. So: Rare = 100% - 90% - 80% - 70% - 60% - 25% Zero. Perhaps this is too pedantic but as it stands at the moment it is absurd! Just recently I killed a dear and extracted 4 steaks from the animal. Each steak was about 80+% of the quarter of the carcass. So when I ate one, I had to eat it in 2 bites and it did not impact my health bar at all! Now a dear is a large animal, to eat 1/4 of an animal that size is a significant amount, so I would like to know how much nutrition I received from it? Are there tables where this information is shown?

Yes it does and yes you can, but be sure to dodge their return fire from the AKM which they have probably looted from the last guy they met (especially if you miss :)

They were there at Balota too tonight. Lot of shooting!

Negative, do not eat the raw meat! I killed a character a couple of days ago by doing it. Cooking is very easy but you have to watch it. Seriously, the window between cooked and burnt is very short, perhaps 15 seconds?

I have 2 of them and I haven't thought to add a battery, it just doesn't seem neccesary

This is a 30 person server no? The first day I was using these 30 pop servers and was reset about 5 times, but just thought that this was planned to enable more people to have a go. Trouble was I never had a chance to do any of the new things because by the time I was set up to look for animals to kill the hour was up. Today i tried a 40 person server and made a note of its number. Come the reset, i logged back in and there I was. Been on the same server now for a while and finally hooked up with the new gun but still looking for mags, got some fish hooks too and a machete, rope an axe, still need to find a Spade or Hoe then identify the tree to chop down to get the rod.... So much stuff to do! Anyway, i hope this helps, good luck

In-game name: Poindexter (Dex is good) Age: 45 Location and Time Zone: London UK How long have you played ArmA?: Just bought 2 and 3 but haven't played them yet How long have you played DayZ?: About 6 months and put in around 450+ hours What skills do you possess that may help the group?: Strategic knowledge, familiarity with the whole map and what spawns where and also I am comfortable with gaming in groups. Do you have the time to spend with the group (minimum 2 days a week): Or more, you name it. Is there anything interesting about you?: Sure, plenty. Anything you want us to know?: I'm not into Bambi killing, unless they are sniffing around a fire fight, then its 1 warning and execution!

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The rubber banding is caused by the server marking your spot at the roof or on the top floor of a building, then when you run out the server cannot keep up with your pace so flips you back to where it last recognized you. The way to avoid this is try to move more slowly when leaving a building and stay away from the walls and rails on either side of your path (thats when the server 'spots' you). The other methods mentioned earlier also help with the addition of removing your trousers just before exiting. Basically you are doing something that forces the server to recognize where you are. Hope this helps (and works)