leviaxxan

Updated the first post, thanks for the *really* useful response :rolleyes:

The video describes it, but we were in a gunfight so retreated to a building to bandage and recover. After being there a couple of minutes someone starting glitching through the walls and shooting at us, our guns were put away so we ran. The hacker then sped to us and shot us, we both tried to get our guns out when we were on the beach but they were put away again.

The last one was, that's why I shot his back through the wall!

Only ones I've seen are after killing someone that had one.

What exploit? My FoV is always sat at the same value, I don't change it to try and gain an advantage, I play with it on a setting that feels comfortable and gives me a good range of vision.

Exactly this.

You need to be the one in control of the situation and be aware of your surroundings. You've already picked up on the main error you made which was backing yourself in to a corner, especially with a slow fire rate weapon such as a Mosin. The game closing and glitching unfortunately happens, alpha etc etc, so not much you can do there. I was being chased by a few bandits a couple of weeks back, rather than turning and firing regularly at them I kept running until I got far enough away to be able to pick them off, video link below:

The weapon sway isn't too bad considering how far/fast people normally run in this game. You try running a decent distance carrying a weapon and then see if you can aim accurately.

There are plenty of servers using hardcore rules, I think I've got 7 or 8 in my favourites list with plenty more active in the main server list, so really don't know what you're moaning about.

Couple of different ones. Back when Elektro was the place to be in DayZ, I went on to sniper hill as we'd seen people shooting from the firestation nearby. I lay down behind my friends when one of them turned around and shot me in the face. Turned out they weren't my friends as they were actually in a completely different place looking at the other fire station. and then: 2 of us were on the coast near Kamy, my friend had a mosin and an M4 on him running around near the road, I was looting the houses. A bambi ran up and started talking to my friend, so my friend tried to handcuff him. Obviously as he had 2 primary weapons he dropped the M4 in front of the bambi, who took advantage, grabbed it and ran off. I managed to kill him with my pistol but not before he'd ruined my backpack.

We tend to take the ammo, then hide the body and then dump the ammo randomly in places that people won't look for it.

It's the petrol station. If you blow it up, there are explosions every few minutes.

Funniest moment for me was when myself and a friend were messing around as new spawns on the construction site near Berezinho. Someone started shooting at us, so we tracked him down and ran after him for 25 minutes whilst stripped off. Here's a video of it, sped up 6 times just so it's not a ridiculous length:

We found around 4 billion M4 rounds. So we just split them down and dumped them across various backpacks/bodies as we come across them and let the server reboot remove them from the game.

Dean did say fireplaces would be in by end of April, however that wasn't a promise date, it was an hopeful date. Unfortunately the more people want new things faster, the more likely things are to break.

That graphics card isn't going to be helping you at all. I've got a 7950HD and still only get 30-40 FPS in some of the cities.

The *game* hasn't been released. Simple as that.

That was in the previous patch, think it was in the notes for that.

I understand that. You understand that. Reading through the posts from others in here, not many of the other posters seem to understand it. They take the word 'stable' to mean fully working, no bugs. That's not going to be the case in an Alpha, so clarification can't be a bad things really can it?

I think naming the servers 'stable' is a it of a misnomer and confusing people. The word 'stable' leads people to thinking that it's a completed version of that build, when we know that some of the mechanics and changes are temporary solutions or test versions of a final idea.. Better names for these would be 'Live Testing' (previously experimental) and 'Alpha Release' (Stable). Obviously this is just my opinion.

We're a small group of friends that play DayZ in various styles, some like to be friendly, some like to be bandits. All styles are welcome. Come join in and don't forget to BARK if you're friendly

Hey, yeah I recognise your name from in-game. Unfortunately we're likely to be getting rid of our server in a few weeks, it's too expensive for 2 people to keep going really.

Couple of new items? Complete change of mouse controls. Rewrite of the server messaging. And the last update was a month ago, not 2.

Just to back up my previous post, DayZ is at this moment the 9th most played game today on Steam http://store.steampowered.com/stats/?snr=1_steam_4__110

Really it's not dead at all, there are plenty of full servers out there still and lots of players. The silent majority understand that development takes time and that they can't just suddenly release everything that people want.