q.S Sachiel

i had reservations originally about the suicide. I find it more tasteful that the arm is cocked to the point of do i / don't i and then fade to black.

yeah i remember the suicide 'teaser' release vid (for lack of better term) showed pistols also. If only you could lie down and pull it with your toe. Oh so morbid ;( There's always grenades or 2m falls if you lack a weapon. I'm still surprised at how easy it is to die, falling off the first floor of the barns.

you can drown now? Do you run out of energy and sink? I've only ever been able to float/swim :S

Just wait until youre in the middle of bumf nowhere with a broken leg, with a whole inventory full of rags and sticks but your character refuses to craft a splint... It suddenly becomes a little more useful then ;)

did it a month or so ago with a machete. Apparently the curved blades are easier to ram through your neck than the sharp ones, kind of like Cod:WaW ending with

The mentality is that anything new that is introduced carries the probability that it will conflict with current balances/fixes meaning that the time spent fixing now is redundant and not cost effective. as an aside, i'd wager 7.62/.556 would bounce off the occasional brainbucket. Saved plenty of people from the Kar98 in ww2.

Yeah, that's what i was alluding to :)

This was touched on by eugene and Boneboys about 6-9 months ago. People holding duped gear aren't in immediate danger, but people duping gear will be shot on sight. If you see people doing it, you can report them via the regular methods in sticky etc (alongside hacking) but you'll need proof and information regarding player, time, server etc... This shouldn't be a witchhunt, but if you want to name people do it professionally as there's a chance that the person isn't a duper (though most people should know that an item with 10e1231251242321 rounds in it is outside normal item graphic descriptions. TBH i haven't played much recently only just got back in, but i don't think i've ever seen a duper and have had difficulty defining hackers in the AUS servers I play in. To flog the old horse, this is Alpha, so if you do find methods to dupe please report them as i'm sure the devs will be quite eager to stamp it out. I'd wager they're not after a guy who may have picked up 1x longhorn that he accidently dropped and duped somehow accidentally, but if you're spreading them among groups and doing it constantly, becoming the 'big fish' authorities like to talk about you may draw the eye of sauron.

Shouldn't you still hear the gunshot after death if killed outside 'audible range'? Pretty sure you still hear the shot, just the bullet hits you first. I haven't died to longshots for some time now, but i know you can still hear people talking when you're dead, not sure about sound effects tho?.. I wouldn't mind a log accessable only after / during death. Immersion is OK when you're alive. When you're dead you're dead, what's the harm in checking your history. You could always choose not to check too... but this is going OT.

Berezino 5 months after alpha release. I've seen things man.... fucking things a man should never see...

you should drink 1-2L / hour for 40-50degC without high intensity activity. This game will have you starving in 30minutes flat sitting on your ass after eating 10 cans of high-carb diet beans and bacon. Many many things should be tweaked, though i haven't had the luxury of wearing a ghilli in any capacity yet.

obviously never used diazapan when shooting snipers before... ;)

yeah well fun and games aside, you can see the body language of the two (again, you didn't see the guy crouching behind a wall aiming at me with no introduction, later to come out in the open to be introduced as their friend) males, who towards the end spread out and start locking off escape points, forcing me either down/up the road or into the Kamenka hills. There's tonnes of tells in this one, but i didn't care, nor really notice at the time. She may have even been told to stop in the middle of the road (when i took advantage and handcuffed) to encourage me to do the same... who knows, if i let her handcuff me maybe i'd have lived but better to die on one's feet than on their knees like a dog, huh? :P People will complain and whinge about how Lone Wolves are this and that, but fact is, unless you have a real friend you can play with, 99.9% of the population is not to be trusted in my opinion, but if I had shot these two on sight, i'd either have died just the same, or got a quick kick and then spent the next 2.5 hours wandering alone only to be offed by some other lone wolf or another gang probably (assuming the game didn't powbitch me into oblivion). I'm glad I was suckered, but this is the Dayzlyf. I won't lie though, I smoothe suckered her, and were it just me and her, well things may have gone differently... lets just say my welding mask would have come in handy... Funny thing is though, pretty sure DayZ locks in your bloodtype, and I'm O- last time i checked. Your loss suckas ;)

I was dressed to impress for valentines day in pink woolen dress, pink balaclava and a welders helmet and I drew the ire of a woman's friend. He either put me down to take my pretty in pink costume, or because he saw I was the alpha male and was making a move on 'his girl'. I'll link the godawful shadowplay video when it's done uploading in 214minutes ;) Too bad the context of the encounter is missing, it didn't capture me going to the 'friend' of the two who i caught aiming at me from cover behind a wall all sneaky like. He was intent on killing me but i was down to party and didn't GAF. Maybe i should have given her my blood love after all :'( I'm pretty sure it was a bait from the beginning, but I think the girl enjoyed the experience at least. I don't mind being the patsy from time to time where there's a little fun to be had ;). All in all though, these people couldn't GAF either, they'll just keep on doing what they do. When people are 'waiting for a mate' or ask you to hang around, they're most probably going to kill you. Dont' trust anyone not on your steamlist (that you haven't just added from in-game) unless you enjoy the taste of lead. This guy profusedly repeated that he was sorry and his friend only shot me because i handcuffed her, but when i said "you young baiters should come to x server and we can hangout, i'm freshspawn" he wanted nothing to do with me ;). Thems the beats.

i don't think people really care what FOV you run at, that's your perogative. The issue lies in the ability to change it on the fly to gain leverage over people when you should really just be playing the damn game and not fiddling with your settings every time you see motion.

boo this man

Fools, you don't keep all your inflammable materials in the one spot! What, do you want to see your crotch go up in smoke? 86 best i've had no pic for you!

Lol is this for real? Not sure if they've fixed phantom breaks, but sometimes your arm's broken too and your body doesn't express this issue. Applying splint/morphine helps.

"I've taken all the food, there's no point being here, move on or starve, scum" There was a quote in batman somewhere, but i can't remember

though the average life of a DayZ player character is less than that, sounds like a pretty good expectancy given it's probably close to the average for the time anyway... ITT: realism junkies. If you want realism, play black screen simulator. That's what you'd be seeing if you were in DayZ. You'd all be dead. I'll give an aside though, despite the OPs jaded view of Lone wolves due to his assumed preference to group play and his taking stock in his supreme numbers of two, and his laughable straw man arguments... Lol 600 pound behemoth cave dwellers as an equivalent for apocalypse survivor? The humor is strong. this is a sandbox game. There is an implicit freedom that other games and even this in certain respects tout but drive a wedge through. All options should be viable and as others have said on p1, you as a lone wolf accept the lack of support and embrace the risk. You acknowledge your weaknesses but seeing as this environment is so unbelievable hospitable compared to what i'd imagine a real Eastern bloc nation/landscape to provide over the long term, well... Sure build up other features which are not immediately or co-useful with lone wolf play (Lone wolves aren't actually allowed on the crew gun, they get an error message and a picture of Dean waving his finger. Parking your vehicle on the hill then changing spots will actually cause self destruct)... Sure, amass the difficulty against me because of my lack of number, and the strength of other groups because of above features But don't penalise the loners just because you want to encourage teamwork. Provide the opportunity and incentive, allow for the incentive of challenge on the alternative and let the damn game be. Sandbox 101. Also OP, you usually don't write multiple paragraphs and then contract whatever ungodly pop culture reference you have into such an ugly acronym without giving some kind of explanation as to what it is. Too many journalists just throw these things around without ever explaining it to their audiences.

i hear it's quite warm inside fresh corpses...

"hallo ich haben groBer kopf. Bitte mich schiessen." Hello, I am friendly. Lets explore together. phon: Hal-low ee-gch hah-ben gross-err kh-uh-pff. bit-teh mee-gch shh-ee-sen. "Hey dummkopf, dein mutter sei ein schlampe." Hey. That's some cool kit you got on. phon: Hey duu-m-kh-opf dine moo-ter z-eye eye-n sh-lamp-a "Fick Dich!" Hey handsome phon: Fick dish Ich will dich zerstoeren I'm friendly phon: ee-gh vill dee-gh zer-stoh-ren "Ich woll ausmelden. Bitte toete ich mich nicht." I just logged in, lets work together phon: eech voll ow-ss-meld-en. Bit-teh ter-te eegh mee-gh nee-ght these simple german phrases with phonetic pronunciation will assit you in your travels, young ones. I take no responsibility for the A-class german hospitality you may endure during your discourse using these phrases. This is basically spanish in a nutshell. Just don't say embarrasado instead of embarrased, because guys think you're pregnant...

Why carry the built fire kit when you can just carry a bunch of sticks and a stack of rags or a book. I'd reccomend the rags. that gets you at least 4x splint/fireplacekits. and it only takes up 3 slots rather than the 4/2 for fire/splint.

Hi. Welcome to capitalism. Don't like it? Don't fucking pay for it. Vote with your feet people. I haven't logged on in a fortnight or so, have enough fun to keep it real in DayZ, but if you're experiencing issues that are going unresolved and are particularly frustrating to you, then you should cease your support for said product or service. The Terms and Conditions are concrete. You are RENTING a PUBLIC server. There is no way around these TnC. You do not own the IP. You own nothing. You are paying for a privelage. If you feel the privelage is not worth the cost, or that you are unsatistfied with said privelage dear god stop paying money. It's like people that buy BF3 + all Xpac + BF4 + all expac and cry the whole way through about it being trash. What is the problem here? TBH, if it's as bad as you say, and people DO vote with their feet, then it's bad for everyone as servers will die and the community will stagnate, but that is just proof of a failed product. No point subsidising uncompetitive or poor products in the long run. All said and done, i agree with Mos1ey. No real proof that you've got a hacker. That said, it doesn't appear you have any real control should one appear in the future, or if your issue is legitimate in this instance.

I believe there are multiple spawn locations at the NWAF, which means you're at a greater chance of finding one or more at that location.