q.S Sachiel

haven't found any for some time. Got a strange error message the other day about not being able to load some garblegarble//Binoculars/ file Also krazy, you may be doing it wrong or you're just too late. Only once i've seen an m4 at crash site, at the nose at right angle to length of chopper. Every other time i've had to walk up and 'into' the chopper to see the m4 on my Tab inventory display.

As much as I agree with you, and would like to clarify i'm not advocating it nor consider myself a bigot sexist... this is a game where you kill people for no reason, treating people like dirt is the norm. Also, you may have misrepresented my post. My (unfounded) assertion that females in DayZ are a minority has nothing to do with 'I've got the numbers shut up' I was merely pointing out that female gamers are a breath of fresh air for the army of people out there to cause you grief because they should expect an experience different from most others (with male victims or silent victims). And as far as being a post apocalyptic RPG/FPS styled game then I would again say that yes, they are a target based on their sex. Not sure if you ever played counterstrike, but as soon as you hear anything close to a female voice on the VOIP just watch every mic on the server light up to ask her asl or criticise something in a nasty flirty way. Again. There are so many parts of this game that are so openly hostile that yes, they really define your good friendly experiences with a player. That said, monitoring abuse in the forums, good and easy and probably required but expecting this behavior to be removed from your gaming experience? Be realistic.

"Unknown Entity has no pulse and is warm to the touch" is what i usually end up with -_-

Vybor-Stary Military compound. In a barracks three doors down, top bunk by the window. sweet sweet victory.

AFAIK the background looping noises are not an indicator of anything. Neither are breaking twigs, bird-escape-flapping or the deep thud you can hear from main screen that sounds like a plastic bin slamming / far away gunshot. These are just ambient/glitch noises. They may be happening on the server, i'd occasionally hear parts of a person eating rice, or what sounded like someone scrunching on some beans rather close, but the sound cut out halfway, but i doubt they're within a given range. I know of no way to stop these sounds getting to you. I've learned to block them out, but that may result in me overlooking slight but real danger cues. A friend and I frequently test our ability to detect an infiltrator (the other) that is trying to blend their own noise into these sounds to creep up on a static position. I know he's coming and it's still real difficult to distinguish between him and the stutter even if i 'did' hear him. However, to eliminate some visual bugs: TAB will allow you to see on login (when you get greeted with a cream blank screen) and going into ESC>configuration>video will eliminate any blur effect on login AND from taking damage/shock while in-game. haven't actually tried but configuration>audio may work in a similar way, or may not. Test for us :D wait wait wait, is this what you've been hearing? at least you've got a great taste in music ;)

Don't want to go full geek, but I'd say it pretty well represents the response of most communities, maybe even simulates what to expect pretty well. Also like to say that if people have only just noticed a trend of sexism/disrespect on the internets then i'm guessing you're pretty new to this whole anonymous communication thing... We all know there's a few kids out there and they're mostly griefers. Half the guys (~half pop) are out there looking for a fight. I wouldn't call it sexism, just that some sorry sob has noticed you've got a nice attractive voice that he can hammer down into a shrill cry for his own sadistic pleasure. If you are a woman on this psychopath simulator, you are a minority. This means that you are an attractive alternative to the regular gruff-voiced 'basement dweller' for torture or target. It's already been alluded to here, but if you were a female out in a post-war anarchic environment I wouldn't be expecting many please and thank you's if you catch my drift... You're different plain and simple. You are the spice to their repetitive killing.

If you're really brand new i'd also suggest just forgetting the 'loot areas' and going for a good long wander. Figure out some game mechanics, fine-tune your V mashing to hop over those fences, get lost in Gorka, shoot pigs in Zeleno... I still remember my very first DayZmod play. It was just on dusk (back when zombies were littered like sand through a place) and i spent what i thought was an hour just lying flat hoping these wretching dark shapes silhouetted against the waning sun wouldn't spur into action and devour me. EDIT: http://dayzdb.com/map/chernarusplus satellite picture to a pretty high resolution even up close. Able to pick out most prominant rock features and apple groves etc. I mostly run without this map, but i've had mod practice and it's pretty well ingrained. The random spawns with lots of erratic and nonsensical roads/streets to nowhere are development towns far up north. If you're on the coast, it's easy. look to sea: left=north right=south (at the moment i think people only spawn on East coast, not the South coast). Berez - NEAF. Go pretty much due north from Berez, stick left of lakes and large rock outcrops and boom: at NEAF. Berez - Southern towns ie Balota : just follow the coast round if you don't trust cutting through SW. but yeah, just leave a sat map open in a background browser window if you can. it doesn't take too long to remember, and most cities are signed adequately (map has english + 'russian' acrylic)

most of the recourse to stop it would also hurt DC's, people that need to run and have an extended bowel release without the extra discomfort of knowing their character is simulating such a position of weakness while logged in 'alone' etc... Ghosting is cheap but i don't see too much of a resolution to it in these suggestions, although setting you as a random spawn location for new servers may be interesting, it would still annoy me if i've got to a nice place the day before then spawn in berez. Same as loot hoppers. I've done it a few times myself, and though looked down on by the hardcore players, I'd point out that there is a danger involved, like when you go from server to server, see doors opened, even on freshly restarted servers and you know that each hop brings you closer to your competition. I eventually find 2-3 people this way and throw some lead in their direction. But i can appreciate people's disdain for these actions. Also, i've not ever heard the 'reload sound' on login from people that i've heard players talk of, but playing with my friends i frequently hear a moan (female is very short and sharp and harder to hear) as they pop into existence. I'm currently on a character that broke his legs falling down some stairs (and i've splinted it) but he occasionally mumbles but this has been noticed by me and friends on relatively healthy characters frequently. So if you're in some flash apartment and start hearing throes of passion from upstairs, there's a good chance the only fluids he's after are soon to be coursing down your neck.

I've noticed rounds occasionally want to jump out to my right (not sure if i've seen tracers there) but i've only had the akm for a day or so. That said, i've been confidantly dropping pigs and Z's with it around zeleno at 200m with a pretty good accuracy (PSO installed). Really liking it myself, and haven't had your issues yet :S

yup. You're a little late to the party. Sorry bro, there's been a few warnings out there on youtube etc, and down on here :(. Back to the barracks with you ;)

I vote no, but if you do get text chat on the walkie, then it should convert your text to morse code and broadcast a tone on both sender and receiver units ;) If you want silent chat use steam/ts/vent/etc..

30 round clip was found a lot by me in Tent City/Balota or kamenka. haven't seen where the 10round mag goes though. Seen it a few times about.

I've got a complete in-game map, and use it a lot (for navigation) as well as for player lists when weighing up whether raiding tent city is a go-to. 5=binocs 6=compass 7=map of chernarus. are my hotkey combos that get the lovin.

From the Diary of a broken man. It's cold. Wet. Lonely. I've been waiting in Balota in AUS servers for a while now, making target practice on people and guessing the range. It makes me ashamed, having to use people so gratuitously, but i'm learning after every shot. I've hit one man on the ATC - black top/cap with a blue mountain backpack. He was easy prey, but I fluked the shot. I hadn't had a lot of practice with the Mosin and attached LRS before. It's still raining; cloudy and hazy, but my view of the ATC is still mostly unhindered. My spotter has the binocs out and lets me know that another guy has started running into the ATC from Cherno side. Toggle up toggle down - I confirm my range to target set out by the last poor soul to venture through my sounding board. *CRACK* The Mosin lashed out at the cold air around it, flinging a round close enough to miss this new curious Joe. The man kissed the tiles. Perhaps over-zealously, but with the stockpile to warrant it, I rang out a few more just to see if I could make him stand. My confidence waning as I ejected the two and re-loaded a magazine. Still raining. The lockers silhoutted well, so I knew i would be able to make this guy out. But how could I hit him. I was a few degrees off horizontal with the guy. His only protection : a few hundred meters of distance and a concrete lip. And so the wait began. Not sure if it was eagerness or not, but I thought I could just make out this guy's mountain backpack. silhouetted through the lowest part of the window against a hazy backdrop, it would appear to shimmy just the slightest. I waited and saw that it was indeed his pack, but not to rouse him too quick. Hope that he grows complacent, or makes a sudden but clumsy move. And then it came. A crawling figure down towards the stairs of the ATC. Two shots this time. And two more holes in the concrete to boot! Now it wasn't certain who was predator or prey. I began to double guess myself and the sight profile that I'd developed at that zero. He'd gotten away. I waited, and about three minutes passed. Then a jigging of polygons, not like a sprite pulsing, this one was different and movement could yield an opportunity. I zoomed in with a held breath, and the rain was only just letting off. Still foggy, still poor. It was a man. This cheeky little sod was poking through a wall in the mid-level stairs, of the internal ATC. I'm guessing he had a Mosin, or possibly PU/ACOG, but why so ballsy? Two more shots. and then the shadowy view disappeared. Had my luck changed? Or had I truly began to panic? My spotter grew impatient after a 10 minute gap and he investigated to find a corpse matching description. Now I'm still not sure on kill, but this was a good frustrating moment with a few learning experiences, and a glimpse how sometimes quirks can be creatively 'exploited' (in that it's 'anyone's game') keeping in mind the Alpha. Had a great time, and sorry for the bullets. :( Soon I'll have my learnin and figure out a good way to get down on the coastal bandits that I saw, with quite a hillarious outcome...

i've noticed a female character i play alongside has a moan when she spawns in, and real close... that was 1-2 days ago. just saying.