q.S Sachiel

that 1 bullet hole will be small on one end, and have a whole lot of hip, organs and whatever contents of your backpack it dragged through you on the other side. It should be a little larger there too. Your blood is going to ruin stuff too like your bandages, may be an issue for ammunition, and open food etc. TBH i don't have too much of a problem with this, as when i get hit, it's usually death anyway. Also need to keep a degree of difficulty and risk involved in confrontations. Attackers risk losing both their gear if hit, and the gear on the player, and also gives more reward to skill/headshots. I'll admit it's not totally realistic, but then i've never been shot while carrying half a walmart on my back.

? I'm confused. I take my shot and move in to watch the light bleed out of your eyes until they're just two wet marbles stuck in what's left of your face. But if you want a real fight, 'man to man', go stand in that field over there, I'll send someone down shortly to say hello.

*Hardcore and Regular servers on stable branch save an independant character, which you can move between at will. Moving from one to the other will not carry across your items. *Experimental branch servers are frequently reset, meaning your gear gets wiped, regularly. *While logging out, you are vulnurable until the game removes you from it (~30seconds or so). Make sure you remove yourself from danger and log out in safe places, or your empty character shell is able to be killed, even if you've exited to desktop (also includes task manager and altF4 quits). *On server restart, you sometimes miss out on stuff you may have picked up as server doesn't recognize you as having taken item prior to it shutting down. Rarely in my experience, the server can 'miss' items you may have picked up if you loot then log out within a short time frame. I tend to wait a few minutes after looting important things if i gotta log. *Alpha - sometimes you may get randomly reset or occasionally die without having known how / why. As a more general answer to your question... if you are killed, it will say "you are dead" in white text over a black screen. Can't miss it ;). You can also be "You are unconscious" which means you may wake up (or die, depending on what put you out) after a random amount of time. You can either stick with it when unconscious and hope to regain composure, or respawn (forfeiting your life and starting over). Good luck, have fun and we'll see you on the business end of our guns soon enough :)

They could have proved the same thing with an anonymous setup forum system where you create avatars of yourself and can give no/misleading/limited/asmuchasyouwant personal/bio information about yourself but.... wait... <.< >.>. Yup, did that too. Not sure particularly how it's a social experiment, but I'd wager that despite most people here saying that 'people are cowards' 'wouldn't do this etc'... if this were a real anarchic environment, most people would do it just because "had to know how it feels". @ "no we're good people" people / "they wouldn't do this because I refuse to see the beast in people" people: Had a legal studies class in Uni once where the lecturer asked who would do "X" (from petty theft to murder/rape) if the rules weren't in place. Put up your hand. no body puts up their hand. They aren't withholding their hands because they wouldn't do these things, but because they're afraid of their peers' responses around them in the current system. It's everyone else that keeps people in check, other people's expectations and moral compasses focus peer pressure upon you to behave in a given manner. If you take away that peer pressure, remove 'law', reduce the population and give power to the individual they will do as they see fit. If there were no historical/current expectation that 'X' was wrong then what moral or peer response would prevent you from doing this? Now i'm not saying that everyone's just going to go out raping and murdering, but I think you give the human race far too much credit. Ultimately I still see us as wild animals, however domesticated. We already see psycohpathic or sosociopathic behavior in our civilised countries, and developing nations have no qualms about surviving at whatever cost. How about war-time? What happened when facist governments decree one class above another? One race above another? Riots and pack mentality? Black Friday sales? (rare) circumstances where a paedophile or sexual predator is identified within a community after serving their sentence and is ostracised, targeted and berated out of town? We're animals, we're fucking nuts. Particularly in a group, give us an excuse and we'll rip a person to shreds. So yes, 1 in 10 people could fire a gun in WW1 when they were shipped over the other side of the world, but again I'd wager that if a manageable apocalyptic event happened in your own backyard, most people would not be 'cowards' or simply allow themselves to starve out. They may not be effective at managing their survival or going about destroying lives like Bandits/KOS do in DayZ, but I don't anticipate this would be for lack of trying. Dogs may be a different story, with many bred to the point of unnatural traits not condusive to survival / competition (weak teeth, genetic flaws mid-late in life, lower intelligence) but go to the poorer parts of the world and see how quickly an animal turns wild. Cats are particularly good at this, though they're pricks out and out whether raised inside a house or not, they are killers and built for it. Man is no different. Anyway, it's a moot point. Either you're right and most people are cowards (meaning the pricks and 'brave' murderous rapists are the ones who would inherit the earth, not the meek) or the 'good' and moral people turn paranoid or group up to destroy everyone and everything that poses a threat to them. Majority be damned, if anything like this ever happens i'd be expecting the 'server population' to be 40/250km^2 within a few months anyway ;)

Dear John letters are always so sweet

I always had the idea it was going to be throwing in some plugins/updates to the current build, but interested to see how it turns out. Natural Selection- as one game from birth - started out as a source development, then went to a proprietary engine but the change was well before public access* then there was also Prey and DnF, but we'll leave those right out... If it's a sizable overhaul, wondering about how the patching/changing would be done. Hope BI's taking advantage of full steam ahead, and no silly business like porting CD keys across to a 'new' product. Or even as a development stage if the code will just be ripped from current build into 'new' as development progresses then on final release the 'new' engine debuts or if we'll get a taste early (pre-beta, or even gold if they want to really lock down security). Still reckon it will be mostly like some have said, gut unnecessary or insecure parts and add functionality to taste. *preety sure, though think they had some pre-release beta.

haven't tried sg since .45 and this may only fix the symptoms but: did you try dropping the sg and picking back up then ejecting shells? Not too useful for combat if you gotta do it every time, but occasionally works for my pants etc, or when parts are bugged ie attachments on weapon.

just capped a z in a supermarket in zeleno... it popped out of the ground like a zit under pressure. marvellous.

TBH i'd rather see the complexity go into the arrows. Appropriate tools to make variable sized heads / shaped heads. (pick mines rock & shards, screw driver refines to poor, hammer & screwdriver can get a better finish / nastier/broader head etc... kill chickens for feathers to increase accuracy to arrows / fletch some screaming arrows kill animals for sinew / grease to maintain weapon ala weapon repair kit. Could also upgrade psi of string with better materials etc... Server spawned arrows (particularly bolts imo) are bread and butter / best quality for standard use, but ability to fashion niche role ammunition from scratch. if the time taken and animations is an issue, just make your bow, take a 3 hour break and use your imagination as to what your char is up to. It's a survival sim sure enough ,but this isn't second life people :(

Not sure if breaking TnC by reccomending games, but Arma 2 or 3 have offline / SP mode. Then there's all the Tom Clancy games since forever that are CT/Mil simulators.

This thread should have been a "You're not a real survivor unless ... <insert action here>" thread. personally, you're not a real survivor until you've built a raft out of players with rigamortis and sailed off to mother rasia.

don't kill hopper zombie. is unicorn of dayZ! but honestly, these guys are hillarious. Reminds me of the good old days when they used to run at you in the wierd flailing arm mode. And whatever happened to broken neck zombies that slide along on their bellies like snakes. I refuse to accept your 'final solution' for the much loved hopper. In all seriousness, they're so rare and just as broken as everything else imo, not to mention they hit like pansies... and if you're dying to zombies, dear god.

you could always try for contextual attacks such as seen in dead-island (knock down zombie, then press 1 button to kerb-stomp) or run+attack = barge attack. but i'd rather it just be dukes/fistycuffs because real men stand and fight!

yeah looks like the AA draw-in you occasionally see when tree foliage etc isn't in your FOV. Like the game isn't prioritising those pixels to be drawn. Noticed too that the body tone is identical across the 3 while the face tone is individual. Mid looks like an indian / west asian type from the looks of it. Maybe hispanic.

and people say aliens built the pyramids... But how do (did) you have the helmet and gasmask on :O

bro... people have hacked into the NSA, NASA, foreign government banks... refuse to believe all you want, but everything is vulnerable to some form of attack. It's just the time, resources and dedication of the attacker that determines whether something is 'safe'.

weapons are a tool just like cutlery. The question is just as vague as 'what utesil should i use to eat my dinner'. well, it depends on the dish, of course ;) That said, your kit is pretty apex at the moment...

fixt. like the change of threat title tho... also, one on the right's not too bad. I've been rummaging through eastern bloc women all the way here from berry... and well... beggars can't be choosers. After what I've been through, even contestant #2 is appealing. TBH i'm just looking for someone that has a pulse and lets me get within 100m of it.

sorry, i lie. GTX 670.

Did you see blood? If you don't see blood (hit splatter) then you didn't hit / game didn't register. Could have been lag/ desynch / general Dayz gnomes replacing your rifle with blanks. depends on what range you were to them, and if you'd zeroed your scope to a different range (zero to 500+m with <20m range to target shouldn't miss unless you aim at top of head or something but if you're zeroed well past real range and zoomed in you may have missed). i had a strange encounter once at NWAF when sitting in conifer trees. I didn't have the trunk in front of me, but was partially concealed by branches and leaves. I fired and did not see any smoke puff from bullet impact near / on my target, but I've heard that the hit indicator may have been removed in some previous/current patch... I was at less than 20m and they were up against a wall. with a 75 round mag I should have hit at least once with a controlled set of hip-fire bursts, but they survived that encounter. My money is on glitch, but i've not identified hidden walls or clipping issues in buildings with firearms yet. Swinging a melee weapon indoors though, and you'll just be scraping walls/ceiling the whole time.

Was playing at 2am the other night, respawned in Berry and found a baseball bat. This chick in a pink jumper was running over the place nice and glitchy and started cutting me up with a scythe. The few times my swing connected, i got a gunshot richochet sound, and saw a flash on her scythe. Bitch was parrying my blows!!! in rock paper scissors, scythe > baseball bat. Just more proof that Gommunist Rassia has the one up on the capitalist paradigm.

Nvidia for sure. anything upwards of 68x i'd recommend. got a 680GT and no issue. Bought a few years ago and it's probably going to last me further into the future on med-hi dpends on what else you've got in your box, and what your budget's looking like but if you want something just to pip you over the line i'd look no further than 6-7 series.

John Proctor, I demand your signature!

ok to recap: You came here aiming to get these people banned. This can be seen in your language. Multiple posts (first 4) request whether they can be banned for their 'offense' and where you should direct your complaint to. Is this a bannable offense and if I happened to have footage of someone who had one of these, with proof of their name, time, date, and server they were connected to, would there be any point in reporting it, who would I report it to, and would they be subject to ban? Ah I see.. so if I got this guys name and could tell you what server he was on at what date and what time, could you guys do anything about it? You were told where to take your information, or at least where not to You were told that staff/support members don't see being in posession of inf mags as an instant red-card You name and shame players with questionable evidence You suggest that players with inf mags are intentionally being used by those with them, yourself excluded, and should be punished/'problem fixed': conversation turns to discussing hacked inf mags and people's opinions on how to solve the issue. I count 2+ posters on this vein. Please, turn your information in to Battle Eye or the relevant party and report back with an update. Would be interesting to see the official response.

nope, just saying if you're gonna ban people and take away their purchased product (eula product isn't yours blablabla...) then you should be more specific and accurate in your targeting. Look, you saw your bit, but what you showed, he didn't fire jack. you tar his friend / accomplice / person you saw him with with the same brush, with even less evidence in the vid. your thread asks where you can go with evidence to punish these people, i really see no evidence. Simple. You couldn't even get a VAC ban for CS with this information you provided. I'm not going to go around witch-hunting or expecting legit players to be culled with the rest, but you can keep your point of view, however strange and contorted I find it. You build a straw man when you propose i defend hackers, and that the developer/3pp's inability to control hackers is an outcome of my point of view. Unstoppable force meets immovable object it would appear.