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Sardines is what I have in my pack for new spawns so I can drop them food without taking the time to open cans for them...safer that way.

I tried a damaged rider jacket but it somehow didn't look right. I think a brown wool jacket (damaged) might work better but haven't found one so far. I now wish we had hip holsters and could use the bandanas around our neck / face lol,

Nah, that won't blend with the surroundings :) and the blue jeans and check shirt is a more modern approach I think, I'm going more for the look like below:

My cowboy :)

Biggest mistake about the press vest is that you present five white letters to aim at...

Or...give the game some shotgun adapters so you can shoot any load out of it... :)

To get over your fear of losing gear: try playing on experimental these days, 8 out of 10 chance you will have your character wiped after a server restart ;)

That town doesn't have any zombies in it as of right now, not too many people seem to go there although I did have encounters there. Great vid and good shooting.

I don't understand what the problem for some people is with the zombies. 1: if you are a fresh spawn with no weapons: keep being fast and there is no problem, you may get hit once or twice but if you have your shirt pre-ripped into rags you should survive. 2: once you have a decent melee weapon (hoe, splitting axe, fire axe) you just face the Z that's coming at you, at about 3 meters you initiate a hit/swing, make a side step and repeat one or two more times until Z is dead. 3: with multiple Z's, just keep moving sideways and they will rarely hit you, sometimes a sidestep in the opposite direction will give you a better hitting range. 4: don't fight the Z's indoors, get out and face them in the open. If this is impossible for you to do, just keep running and they will give the chase up soon enough...

Today I was playing on experimental / regular and after a while I start hearing some dude talking to a buddy over direct communication. Of course I thought they were close so I booked out of there. The voice kept following me no matter where I went I couldn't seem to shake them but never saw them, even when I was in the middle of a large field where I should have seen them if I could still hear him. I started to think it was a hacker following me under ground or something like that but after a while he started to say things that were no way related to what I was doing so I realised it was probably just a bug where somehow my direct communications channel picked up this guys channel. Very strange, any one else ever experienced this bug?

No. lol np. I reported the issue, thanks.

No I didn't, what would be the proper way to go about that? Never filed a bug before. BTW: leaving the server and rejoining didn't fix it.

ATM all weapons have default zero that is not the lowest setting but somewhere in between their range. I would prefer to always default to the lowest setting because when I encounter a foe and have to react fast it will probably be at a close distance. If someone is further away I will have time to adjust my zero. Others feel the same way?

Ah okay, so what you are saying is that bullet drop until 300 m is negligible. My idea cam from an experience today where I was shooting at a zombie at about 75 meters with my sks zeroed to 200 m and I had a hard time hitting it, but may have been shitty skills on my end. Also, I had a psu scope but it was not rendering so saw only iron sights, maybe that was a problem too.

why?

Had so much fun back in the day with the editor of OFP. 1 squad of snipers against the max number of enemies (was it 64 or 128) rushing towards my strong point across the desert and bringing in enemy reinforcements arriving by heli or trucks. Edit: I mean, who didn't do this in OFP :) --> Sorry, no more off topic.

Is it safe to assume you actually mean the 9th of april (so tomorrow)?

Same issue here, but I only experience it when I switch to experimental, sometimes my router loses internet connection completely, but not always. BTW: it seems that closing all browser sessions seems to help a little to get connection again faster.

I like trying to track other players without them noticing me :)

@JiggaGeazY I'm pretty sure you would never be a friend of mine...child stuff.

I sometimes go to a low pop server and get to the top of a building using zombies for target practice. Or stay at street level next to a building I have already opened the door off and start shooting zombies until I feel I can't handle them no more and I flee up the stairs. You can also do this in open fields since in the end you can always outrun the zombies.

It's always a bit strange to play the "realism" card when a game is filled with zombies but...all players are essentially civilians right? What are the odds that a civilian is A: skilled enough to repair a helicopter and make it reliably flight worthy and B: in RL flying a helicopter is pretty hard to master, not a big chance you would be able to first learn by just "trial and error" without killing yourself or damaging the heli multiple times. I'd rather not see helicopters in the game, also because it would be too easy to find the permanent camps later on in the game, especially when they do a night flight to look out for fire / gas lamps. If do they do come in the game they should only be for transport / scouting and not as a weapons platform.

I have been playing today on the exp. hardcore server for about 5-6 hours, excluding some breaks, server was constantly full or near full. I went through 3 lives without ever even finding ONE soda or food can. I went along the coast, to the North and eventually from Svetlo to the west through the north planes and I was only able to take this trip because I looted a player who was apparently afk (not very smart mate to stand in the middle of a room afk). I first waited a while if he would return and help me but after a few minutes I lost patience (and was dying of hunger) and took his stuff while letting him live (probably he died from hunger himself later on). Every single house was looted, nothing to be found except badly damaged hats, books and plenty of shoes, trousers and flashlights.... I was hoping to get a restart at some time to be able to survive but either the exp. servers restart after many more hours of up time or they are broken :) If you are a fresh spawn on the hardcore server right now there is NO chance of survival.

Yes I saw 2 zombies on the map in the region of stary sobor, all other zombies seemed to have been killed by the few hundred players that had gone before me :) Yes there was loot, in the form of hats mostly, also found a shovel.

I may be interested to help as an actor but it all depends on how many evenings it will take, if you plan to do many weekends in a row it probably won't work out for me (and have a vacation planned end of may/june) Anyway, will send tou my steam ID and we will see how it works out.