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I've found one pack of .308 ammo in days of playing. What I will say is that it's not in military locations afaict. I found my .308 ammo in a random house. It was the porch of the house with a tall pot plant in it. The box of .308 was on the floor next to the plant.

- Deer stands - Feed huts - Top of look out towers (the metal ones with metal steps and a mesh to stand on) - Tents

Certainly can do :)

Do we really need a helicopter in DayZ. I mean, it would make the map feel like postage stamp... If you're going to put in vehicles think of the pedal bike and the canoe....

Animals and Z's. Give us more to fear other than players. Fewer players? Spawn more NPCs. :thumbsup: - Hoards of wolves - Bears - Randomly mass-infected towns Idea Time! Also, how about some more significant external NPCs that are move obvious and drive content. Currently heli's just appear out of nowhere on restart. What if a massive C130 circled the map smoking and then crashed down somewhere at random, creating a huge pillar of smoke? Players would see this from 1km away or more and be drawn to it to collect loot. Perhaps only spawn it for 20 players or more on a server or increase the chance of spawning the more players are on a server. It could have weapons, ammo, perhaps stuff like jeeps coming out the back. Got to get to it quickly before other players do or before the fire from the crash ruins everything. Give us content drivers!

I've played this game on-and-off for a couple of years and fallen in and out of love with it along it's meandering path towards beta. I've not played in a while but when I saw 0.59 hit I decided to role a few lives and see what the crack was in Chernaus. My previous encounters in DayZ have all followed a similar pattern. I start as a feshie with the world at my feet and end up dying in a fire looking like a special forces unit. It's a fun life but followed a very similar pattern each time and at every step I tried to be different but always ended up with arm fulls of automatic weapons, grenades, knives, guns, and blasting anything that moves. That has changed. Now I have a place to hang my hat. A place to call home. A town on a server server to feel linked to. Because of barrels and persistence - how wonderful they both are together. So much has opened up to me in the game because I can dump off some stuff and have a place I am in some way tied to. I set myself goals and missions around the map - meet new players, find a particular item, repair a car, try and kill someone with an M4, etc etc. And it's really great. Yeah, I could have done all these things previously but the difference now is that I have a point of reference and a consistency that I did not before and a place to put things so I don't end up like a mobile storage unit. Yesterday I was at the military base near Vybor and saw another player -- he didn't see me. I ran through my mantra (deep breath *check*, scan for other players *check*, decide what to do *check*, run with it). Normally the decide-what-to-do part means kill them or try to talk to them. But yesterday was different... I decided to see where this chap was headed. If I run around the map bringing shiny stuff back to my carefully hidden stash of barrels then perhaps this dude is too. So, I began what is probably one of the most exciting things to do in the game and followed him across the map trying to avoid being spotted. We even passed near another player but they appeared not to see each other. In the end I followed him through several towns as he looted all the way towards Novo' up in the north. It was about two hours down the line and I had lost my quarry on several occasions only to see him in the distance and pick up the trail again. The light was fading and it was turning to dusk on the server - players were dropping off. My quarry made their way out of Novo and I was really struggling to follow his movements through the forest. Fearful I would lose the trail all together I move much closer - down to under 100m at least. It was cloudy and with the night closing in I could barely make out his movements in the dark but through the gloom of the pines I made out his actions chopping a tree, which he then turned into a raging fire. We were far from the town now and over a hill so I assumed we would not be disturbed. I bobbed down next to a tree and watched him throw hunks of meat onto the fire before eating them. I considered reaching out to start conversation but I couldn't help feel that this place was somehow familiar to him and held back. Ten minutes passed and he appeared to be sitting still next to the fire as it died down. The one golden glow that filled the forest was now fading and I at last saw him move again. This time I tracked him a few hundred meters toward a collection of pines grouped together. He doubled back a few times and turned on a head touch - at one point I swear he should have seen me and I began to duck behind a tree and pull the AK off my back but he seemed to be pre-occupied with a group of trees and rocks. It was here he finally revealed his stash as I caught the slightest glimpse of cylindrical shapes pushed up underneath the branches of the tree. My heart began to race and I instinctively began lining up the back of his head in my PSO sights. At this range the kill was inevitable. The automatic fire would tear his body to shreds. But right as my trigger finger readied itself to squeeze and end the story for this person I hesitated. He doesn't know I'm here. I almost said it out loud I surprised myself with the profoundness of my realisation. As he rummaged around in the barrels, unaware of his closeness to death, I marked the location on my map and slipped away back down to the edge of Novo and out to a quiet place to spend the night. I would return in the morning from the opposite approach down a ravine and under cover to scope around and inspect the barrels. My quarry appeared to be gone and I gently pried open the containers to inspect a cornucopia of treasures. However, I did not touch the contents and made special care to replace the lids and leave all as I found it. Of course, I will return to these barrels and monitor his progress. Unknowingly he is working for me, collecting my loot, filling my barrels until such time that I choose to take it.

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Not sure you can pin to one ideal because there are different play styles and preferences. I see more players on low pop servers. People seem to run around in roads and assume they will not run into anyone else. Today I ran into another player in the far NW of the map (way up from the airfield) on a server with about 5 people on. He shot around randomly in a panic whilst I slipped away and decided his shooting was out of fear not aggression and watched him run panicked down the middle of a road. But anyway, my point is that more players does not always equal better content and in my experience it is no uncommon to run into people more (ignoring the obvious coastal hot spots) on a lower pop server.

Personally, I'd run a route something like this. You should be able to see most of the sites you don't run straight through. It's also run-able in an hour* on foot if you stock up on food and drink from wells etc on the way. On my count this route covers about 43/55 sites and the chance of all three spawns being in one of the 12 sites you don't visit is about 1 in 27 -- or put another way you stand a 96% chance of finding at least one site along the route assuming no restart/respawn. Edit: * make the most of being able to run forever and do this kind of thing - my prediction is that sprint fatigue will come before too long.

That .308 is like gold dust. Luckily I have some. I've found a lot of .22 - more than I needed. Shotgun ammo, yeah seen as little of that as .308.

IIRC it's 3 heli's per server. http://www.dayztv.com/standalone/dayz-chernarus-plus-map/

FYI Winchester ammo is super rare at the moment in my experience. Since 0.59 went stable I've found just one pack of 40 rounds .308 and one snap loader.

Just thought I'd follow up with another snipe/assault combo that's a bit left-field; Sporter .22 (hunting scope, 30rnd mags) and AKS. Thanks to it's low sound and recoil, you can unload the entire 30 rounds from the sporter scoped whilst staying on target and your enemy stands much less chance of locating you compared to an AKM. This video is a great example of how you can "plink" away with the .22:

Like a couple of others have said, I'm not sure you need two assault rifles. When do you ever see yourself choosing the AKS74U over the AKM? If you absolutely feel you must have two assault weapons I'd consider the MP5 as a secondary but only then because of it's crazy rate of fire.

I think OP is referring to when you join a random public server and they kill you / reset your char. So you just lost your public hive character. Normally this happens if you server-hop into a publicly listed server run by someone who likes to kill/reset you when you log in. It has happened to me before - I log in, someone kills me and then I am instantly kicked. But, you soon learn the servers to avoid by name and stick to the common public hives and it seems to no longer be an issue for me.