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Holy shitballs on a stick, i can't even begin to imagine the amount of work you put in to create this. +Kudos

Wish i had known of this event earlier, would have dropped by with some tradeable stuff, in need of a range finder myself. Would have been able to trade some nvg's for it or perhaps a bizon (or just the clips) or a mk 48. Ill check your website for the next event which i will definitely attend. *edit Your website is http://freesidetrading.co/index.php The one linked earlier doesnt work.

Depends, i never go near Cherno or Elektro for starters. Although sometimes im in the mood for some pvp and ill go on a blood craze trough one of the towns. When i see someone without a weapon i wont shoot, when i see a group of people. Like 4 people running trough a field with 1 in full gear, 1 with just a pistol and 2 with farm weapons i wont shoot. Up north when i see people with full gear, i'll shoot on sight. Unless they are members of an anti bandit clan i know about or i know they are friendly. And by up north i mean all the way like the airfield. Im not stopping to ask questions. Cant afford to be friendly up north, costs to much. Overall im a pretty friendly guy though!

Rocket has actually tried to implement this on several patches but to date it has never worked. All it did was bug other parts of the game. I think its the number one priority right now, even the test patch you can download is about this.

As rocket stated the zeds in game are not zombies yet, they are infected. Which means they are basically still alive to some degree. They do tend to run in ways that baffle the laws of physics but its not hard to kill them, just dont agro to many at a time! Although the phase shifting is annoying, if a zed runs up to me in front, dont let him miraculously port behind me...

Unless you have a secret to share about where you are getting these easy to get DMR's then i'll say the DMR is as rare as the other snipers, i for one find more .50 cals then DMR's. Its hardly easy to use, close combat with it is a choice but you hardly have an advantage over someone with any other rifle or gun, not more then sneaking up on any other random guy. Granted it has the largest clip size and the ammo is wickedly easy to find, i personally think the loot table needs a tweak for this. No more advantage then any other gun.

No indication about when they will be back, i think the devs are tackling some larger bugs atm like the combat disconnecting and items disappearing/clothes not working properly. When the larger things are out of the way they'll start looking back at the content again.

I can understand you being bitter about those rifles but its pretty easy to avoid them, just takes practice. And well 1 shot from those weapons in RL would kill you aswell and leave a larger mess to. It's supposed to be realistic, and well.. it is! *Also Super67_ i love your signature text.

Haven't found a ghillie suit so far, still looking! Found the camo clothes on several occasions from supermarkets, deer stands and heli sites.

Not offense to the OP but these topics are getting a bit stale, the game is supposed to be tough as nails and the player base with its on sight killing (if they desire) actually ramps up the difficulty level even more. This is not a cheery game, the sun shines but that all changes after you've been eaten and shot down to 3k health and your character starts screaming and hyperventilating. Being able to player kill is part of the game, and despite what everyone says you can be as friendly as kramer but dont tell me you have never wanted to shoot someone in this game, its in the human nature to be aggressive. Controlling that is a whole different matter as the game itself shows in all its glory. Pve servers are a bad idea. What are you going to do all day? Shoot zombs, get a vehicle and drive around, arms yourself to the teeth? Then what... The whole idea about danger lurking behind every corner it being a zombie or a player is the whole drive behind this game? Don't you get that? We NEED the ability to kill otherwise this game goes stale so fast it wouldnt even be funny. Get used to starting over, get used to unfair situations, and its alpha so get used to all the annoying bugs that are still present. Most players tend not to notice but this game requires a special sort of person, someone who wants to keep playing after getting set back numerous times. Its not for everyone.

I generally shoot two or three from a distance and then crouch/crawl in, i have buddys around with fire support warning me if i agro something.

I probably shouldnt mention this as most people find this out from experience but if you start in cherno or elektro (middle ish of the map) and walk all the way north to the airfield then sooner or later you are bound to find a heli site. Happened to me on several occasions. If i really want an m107 or as50 ill hike a bit along that route. Personally though i dont have a pref, i can snipe just aswell with the CZ550 and M24 which to date is still my favorite sniper rifle. Ofcourse, if you go looking for something specific then murphys law hits you in the face and you might not find it.

Currently on any given server there will be 3 heli crash sites out there. I wouldn't mind a pretty mangled one out in the woods to stumble across.

Whoa calm down dude, i haven't seen a reply with such offensive language in a while. If you are going to post a suggestion on this bit of the forum then you will have to defend your argument against people making counter arguments. You have to agree that we are currently getting a large number of new posts about systems against killing. Well the killing is a large part of the game and probably one of the biggest highlights for people playing it so making a suggestion for a system that (even if you say it doesnt) still creates a sort of penalty for player killing, people who will respond to that in kind. Don't get yourself a warning by replying in this matter to a post you yourself started, the forum ops already get this to much and will really laude level headed people.

Im all in for even more variety of food and drinks like you are suggesting but i do not agree with them lasting longer then other foods. They've been cutting into food and drink duration since the last couple of patches and i find myself going into towns more and risking my neck to get food and drinks again. So system wise the current durations add to the game, putting in foods that have a longer duration will just keep people in safety longer.

The Arma2 engine was never designed to allow instancing afaik, its a pretty old game. I don't agree with instances but i do agree with randomly spawning underground bunkers (if at all possible) More incentive to explore, risky to go into because of zombies and only one way out. Standard military gear drops would already do the trick. This idea shouldnt be put in with the current ability to server hop at will and people disconnecting or ghosting at a whim. Not to mention the current zombie state with them wall clipping and phase shifting in confined spaces. Also firing a gun in an enclosed space like a bunker, zombie dinner anyone? Better find a silence weapon before going down.

The game itself runs nice now, i've got a pretty old pc now because of my recent study years and it works fine on 99% of the servers. Yes the zombies run weird, they even phase shift sometimes and wallhack but hey its how it is right now so might aswell just adjust to it. Reading further i don't think you grasp a 100% of what you were getting yourself into, this is a hardcore permadeath survival simulator... It's a game not everyone will like that have been holding hands to long with developers catering to much to the wills and whims of player communitys. This game is pretty damn hard with elements in it that will make you want to ragequit half a dozen times a day. But it works wonders, finally a pc game that is once again hard to play and i seriously hope it opens the eyes of all developers out there and makes them create games that are hard to play aswell because the world might have finally realised that a serious life threatening challenge is what most games are lacking these days.

I agree with the poster above, another order to chaos post. Sorry mate, its a zombie apocalypse, if it happened in real life then currency wouldnt be viable either.

This is not actually a bad idea but it might be better in a different form. Wear and tear and conditions on weapons BUT with the ability to maintain and repair your weapon with components. Would love to see the extra realism with people firing guns found in bad condition and that they have a chance to jam on them. Guns jamming in mid firefight would give people seconds thoughts about just blatantly firing them on others while giving the majority of the other people in the game something else to do for the long run. Letting weapons spawn in different conditions will also give people more reason to look for ones in better condition, or head North for that matter if all guns at the coast are in a bad state when they spawn. Pretty realistic with weapons lying in the open with the salty air for god knows how long.

Most of my deaths are pretty plain, most of those falling from ladders... My old WoW clan would have called me Ladder bane by now.. I was on a hill overlooking sniper hill in elektro doing some anti sniping, when i got fired upon. I checked and there were currently no snipers on the hill but looking into town there was someone on the hospital roof. Zooming in he had the CZ550 sniper and i put a round near his head to discourage his current way of life. Except his buddy gets startled by the sound and the impacting shot, prolly does a major OH SH... and swan dives off the roof. Oh man took a while to stop laughing.

I agree that at the moment pretty much everyone shoots on sight, and when i started this was already happening ( couple of months ago ). So it became the norm for me to shoot on sight to. But i did team up a lot still back then, and most of that was because of the chat still being active. Sure the chat doesnt make it very realistic but it did make it easier for players to band together. Although the chat was a bit of an annoyance sometimes we did lose something valuable. Even though voice direct chat still works, calling for help across side chat really showed how many helpfull people there still were. Ofcourse some devious people trapped other people but that's all in the game. All in all i think bringing the chat back would be one of the best things to do in the growing community, give people the chance to team up directly ingame instead of over the forums where most people are to shy or to lazy to create an account and start a new topic. Not to mention it creates instant communication with any admins currently online for reporting and illegal activity.

There is a bit of a bug ingame atm with zombies spawning and atleast 1 of them agroing from very far away for no reason. I have seen this happens dozens of times already with my friends group going into towns and crash sites.

I have yet to encounter a hacker in game, and i've been playing for a pretty long time now. I have to say though that i do see an awfull lot of youtube videos popping up with people killing hackers and finding hacked in stuff like satchel charges. Gotta love the irony though, hackers spawn shit to make the game easier to cope with and they get shot dead by people with lee enfields in cherno or elektro LOL!

Helicopter spawns are turned off, so unless you found it somewhere in the woods its hacked in.

This patch has brought in some major issues with losing equipment in an endless variety of ways, hope they will hotfix it soon.