q.S Sachiel

Indeed, I do think the animosity of snipers carries over quite well into the real world, although snipers were originally more of a officer killer / area denial role. Their whole purpose and MO is to harass, frustrate and impede the progress of troops or movement through an area. People don't like being told what to do, less so if it's some faceless chap in a rubber suit watching you from half a mile out. I've had guys with M4's back in .4x miss me on the coast road, every shot bar one, from <100m. It was hillarious but exhilirating (told to stop they just wanted to give me something, knowing that gift was probably an early grave i told them to stick it and went into flash gordon mode and spammed A + D while running full pelt). Coming under 'marksman' fire is a lot more exhilirating as every shot could be your last, and it's the gaps between fire that really make me jump. If they're terrible as with the m4 heroes it can also be quite fun to storm the sniper. Just be aware that poor shots are twice as bad when cornered. This is my general move as well. Rotate positions when sniping, but if i get spooked or know i'm being stalked after/without taking a shot i'll seek to domicile myself in some corner and wait like a coiled up snake with a shotgun or something fast. If it's not the bad guy that comes through the door then my condolences.

why would you do that to yourself. Fallout 4 is only a few days away...

Red 9 looks interesting. I'll need to hop on and critique the zombies. They were taken out for stability though weren't they, not specifically for any AI upgrade or nothing, afaik

checked shirt no pants gumboots, bandanna (of any type) and splitting axe. It's obvious so people don't ask.

hating on SG and snipers, ok we get it. It's someone playing their way, i know. Horriffic isn't it? Someone discussing something on an online forum. Quick, drown them with mirth and rainbows! I can picture you, mockingly dancing around saying your post out loud in a camp voice. If you behaved like this outside no body would take you seriously. That's not even considering the illegitimacy of your post... @ OP: kit is usually quite variable to the conditions, as with any weapon. Personally I do prefer the mosin, although the SKS is a great mid-range weapon, which I would recommend over the mosin in general as the ammo is more abundant and it's a more versatile weapon. As for kit: as above, go dark. Light ususally contrasts easier on most terrane. Get a backpack that is both of similar colour to your surroundings and not a mountain if you enjoy looking over your shoulder (although i have found that orange backpacks / mountains are difficult for people to identify somehow). Hat and body should be selected on the intent of blend and conceal. I try to mask face as much as possible while keeping the colour in line with the surroundings. Good luck, and let the salty bodies hit the floor.

Adequately maintained weapons are quite capable of failure in many ways. Pristine shouldn't make a weapon completely reliable. Also consider the condition of the ammunition. Stalker weapons failed above 50% America's army 2 required you to charge the M16 at least once every round.

The only good one was R6:Ravenshield. Even then it was rather unpredictable at times, but the m3 / spas12 / usa12 were my go-to's. But yeah, in games like battlefield it's basically a waste of time.

I thought private hives have more power now. I thought the issue was just with privately hosted public hive servers not being allowed to enforce play restriction.

dodgy round fails to fire. Round is too big to eject. hillarity ensues.

FPS russia? Just one USA12 would literally keep me going for 72hours flat. If there were HE with it i'd probably not sleep ever. Alas a fully automatic shotgun wouldn't be too practical and probably cumbersome as hel.

wasn't there rumor of .59 testing 70+player servers? I hear this a lot between patch releases but outside of incentivizing travel or more distributed dwelling throughout the map, bumping up the numbers should increase your chance of interactions. That being said, you could go west, come east and then shoot the people shooting bambis :P

Ich bin hier gekommen, um lesen Sie uber ein bludbad. Ne, mann Ihren LKW ist weg. :( This happened to me in the mod once, only it was full of every known weapon under the sun. I quickly was intercepted by a man in a car, cornered and promptly shot.

7:50:00 is more accurate...

^ myth confirmed. 3pp makes you better at DayZ ;D and for those who say it's too hard to find a server, just click the align by server type in browser, until you see 1st Person at the top of the list. Then you can join the server. I play on 40player servers and rarely see anyone. Doesn't sound like much of a game changer to me if joining an empty server is keeping you guys away. As so many of the 1pp crowd look down on the PvP KoS scum and see PvE and environment interaction as some panacea, and acknowledge that 99% of the community is just out for your blood, what purpose would a populated server server provide but for you to shoot people without also being able to see your character? Also not sure how enforcing official servers to 1pp will ensure a first experience 1pp play unless they code it in that you can only join official (1pp) servers for a given period of time, because the option to join 3pp servers will still be there. Why reduce the option for 3pp players to use official servers too?

To quote the marketing handbook for all first year BSc. students, goals should be acchievable in terms of time and quality. So if you're consistantly underestimating your time frames, you're going to experience issues with client/consumer satisfaction, budget/cashflow etc... As Baker said, it's unfortunate and indeed, demoralizing, to see a failure to meet performance targets, although I have enjoyed the game from time to time in the interim. I'd like to see them knock it out of the park, but I'd also like to see (eventually) a polished and complete game. Within a reasonable time frame of course. I still feel the scope of criticism is still too small in terms of time. If these failures blow out into the long term then i may throw my hat into the complaint ring until then i'll just watch from the boundary between dark and light.

How many deer were there before the zombpocalypse?

AFAIK all damage from fire-arms is based on the calibre. I believe that the calibre / shot dictates the damage, so a SKS should do the same damage as an AKM with identical calibre ammunition. 1hitkill will depend on portion of body impacted by round, and sometimes even what clothing items the bullet travels through, and what items may be in that clothing. I was of the opinion that a headshot is pretty much game over 99% of the time (for players). Second, while I believe all melee weapons do 'shock damage' (the factor which influences knockout), there is also a factor to do with health/state. So a person who is dying from thirst, hunger, cold and sickness should be easier to knock out than a person with All-systems-green. So i don't actually know any values, try the search engine, or check some youtube videos, keeping in mind these values can change from update to update, and take my words with a pinch of salt because I don't have a real understanding of the systems, just hearsay.

Again, given the stats aren't randomly sourced, there is no information on the surveyed subjects and/or their relationship to the DayZ population as a whole, and a string of other issues, the statistical basis for these polls is weak at best, other than as a form of entertainment or a dodgy figure for people to quote as a conversation topic.

I'm running at a lower spec system than you (making assumptions from limited system spec that you've listed in screenshot) and i average maybe 20fp, with up to 50 when not looking at cities/regions of complext geometry, and around 17fps when in or looking at cities. As many other threads have pointed out, (use search function) the game is Work in Progress (WIP) and as such is not currently set up in a way to take advantage of high-end or performance parts like you may have. Anecdotal evidence of other people with much poorer spec PCs running at higher stable FPS are not uncommon, especially when they have a single core CPU which I believe the game is only able to accomodate (correctly, multithreading is not currently supported to my knowledge). Give it time, and certainly don't go upgrading your PC for DayZ at this point.

you could always reduce the price on private shards or customer rented public shards what are 1pp only to incentivise the community holding it up.

Please don't feed the trolls. He's added nothing constructive and is obviously trying to draw people into silly litlte tiffs.

I don't know, it could be a clipping issue too. In ARMA3, if you try wedging yourself between a connifer and a rock, the game makes you do a jittery dance then propels you into the sky. Strange things in games.

There are a few wierd things that happen, though i'm still not sure exactly what's going on with ur binos. I remember back when M4's were all oer the place i killed two guys at NWAF one with M4 and ACOG/equiv. Whenever I wanted to zoom in with the ACOG, i'd be looking through the mounting brackets and not the actual optic >< No matter what i tried this still happened back then, and i think it may have persisted through logoff so i ended up dropping it (and finding another SKS > :( ) The more pressing question is, how are all us exhibitionists out there going to get our jollies off without needed to get up and personal and smell your sweat?

Same here bro. Your rig is probably quite a bit more powerful than mine, although mine's not garbage, and yet we get the same performance. It's a state of (lack of) game completion and there's not really much you can do. You could try third party programs like the one that's active on General page 1 at the moment, but I'd advise caution in using third party programs by default. You could also try editing your config files, there are probably guides to this on the search engine, but again you're going to squeeze marginal gain (albeit at little cost) and the major performance enhancements can only come with time and input from BI developers.

Just in case you've forgotten your keybinds: Configure>Assignments>Infantry Weapons: Toggle raise weapon: (default space) to ready binocs once in hand Optics: (num 0 / rclick (second mouse button)) to level optic to eyes. if you are STILL experiencing issues, then you may want to risk dropping the item from inventory completely, then picking back up. If this fails then you are alone sir.