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Excellent post. You certainly know much more about this stuff than myself, so let me ask, do you think upcoming VR tech like the oculus rift would solve most of these problems that 1pp has?

Is english your 2nd language? He said nothing about anything being better, only that he had fun playing 1pp private shards and encourages everyone to try it.

You have no idea what youre talking about. Maybe the power gaming part is true, idk what power gaming is and dont care to know. Im assuming it involves sipping orange crush while no scoping noobs, and obviously sprinting back to your corpse 3 times in a row then crying yourself to sleep when the server restarts. Playing a sandbox game like dayz with imaginary rules is called role playing. Usually players do this to add depth to their experience, and sometimes to add challenge. Enjoy jumping off of tall structures and begging people to kill you so you can get back your server hopped gear. Power Gaming.

Im not sure exactly where that is but if you just follow the road youll eventually reach a town. Try to find yourself a compass, it will make it so much easier to navigate.

My last death i got stuck in the rocks south of novo trying to scout the town. I tried to vault out but instead ended up doing some crazy slide move over the rock and died on impact with the ground. Before that i was hunted like a dog in elektro by a murder squad, before that i was looting the dubky apartments and desynced off a balcony. Those are my only deaths in SA over about 200h. In the mod, id say at least 9/10 of my deaths were to players killing me.

If i die i avoid the general area it happened in. Running to your body to try to get the phat lewtz is extremely lame imo and i will not be part of it.

Here u go http://store.steampowered.com/app/730/

Well based on past items im pretty sure thats the last step. Should be an interesting thanksgiving weekend.

I would go with the sks, from what ive seen the mosin ammo is most common of all but the sks 7.62x39 is common enough. The biggest benefit for sks imo is that you can swap it out for an ak once you find one. They share the same ammo.

The assault vest is not very rare at all, just get a new one. Keep your important items in your backpack.

When a case spawns, it is empty. If they all contained the same exact items like you say, then it was very likely that someone was duping. Duping is not hacking, and its kind of funny that your duper was cloning survival items instead of bullets. Prob handing them out on the beach lol.

The planning and teamwork shown in that clip would be amazing to experience in any multiplayer video game imo. Just to stop 1 feral pig took those 5 fit men. I imagine setting up something like that would take at least a few days if they were all experienced hunters, not to mention their knowledge of the animal mind and the jungle paths.

I have a feeling youre going to enjoy this: http://youtu.be/lYKZfBvORG4 I couldnt find the original version, only this one where some guy edited the audio. But the video is there. Fighting against traps and infection would be alot more fun than a kid with a duped m4 and a thousand rounds.

This thread is great, it would add so much to the game world to have everything that OP has suggested. Imagine walking through a forest and noticing a poorly hidden trap. You stop. Hmm there is another trap that is better hidden, more dangerous. And the ground directly in front of you doesnt look right... OP have you seen apocalypto? The trap they use in the beginning to kill the tapir, that is something totally different or just a different way to set up a spring spear?

I usually try to find a splitting or fire axe right when i spawn, but about 2 weeks ago all i had was a crowbar and being chased by about 5. The crowbar is much more effective than previously, i remember that and the machete took about 15 hits. Now it only takes 3-5.

That spring spear looks terrifying. How can i set one of those up with an m4 as the bait XD

This is why I only play as friendly. When i team up with randoms, even if they tell me their life story I am still paranoid of them, its what makes dayz different from everything else. When the server restarts and you survive, there is nothing like wondering, another 10minutes with that guy, would i be back on the coast right now?

Wait about 5 min after the server restarts, and try to stick to a single server or small group of servers. Some servers have trouble connecting to the database, if you join one of these youll get wiped.

Because there is a new duping exploit, I'd bet a wipe is coming in the near future. What I am more worried about is item inception, when will that be taken care of? It causes noticible lag when near players who do this. I couldn't care less if some guy has thousands of rounds of 5.56 ammo. But when that ammo is spread throughout 20 protector cases and high cap vests, ban his ass imo.

Orlok, I will donate some sea men to your cause, just say the word.

Why isnt there an option in the poll something like "let me choose which gun to spawn with and give 5 mags"

Great post, the note about Vybor is great. It seems elektro has the highest chance based off your data.

Awesome.

The dev tracker linked to a reddit post about a month ago... I don't remember who said it but it was something like this.The team is working on a new AI sensor method that will be at engine level. The current AI sensors are at script level so they are both performance hungry and not very flexible. Once the new sensors are in place they expect to support a large amount of all AI types that will enable stealth gameplay in a great way. They also suggested the goal is thousands of zombies per server. So if the new sensors, vehicles, and barricading are in place for the holidays, dayz will probably hold steam #1 sales even through the steam winter sale. My most anticipated feature is zombie bears. The devs have never even confirmed it but you dont see me raging. (Yet)

What is pathetic is people that run to their previous characters dead body and get their gear back while their friends camp the body. Want to talk about realism? How about we start right here.