ColonelBurton

Great input as pertains to the topic. Go teach grammar at a school or something.

There is a broad discussion among German gun-nuts (yes, we still have some, too) and ex-troops. Many of the old generation believe that the move to the G36 was basically disarming the Bundeswehr. The thing is that the G36 is a more light-weight and easily handled assault rifle with a nicely accurate burst, but the initial idea was also that it was to be a more modular type of weapon where you can swap components for different combat roles, but there is hardly any doubt that the G3 was a far more powerful (and some say reliable) assault rifle. By the way, in the last few years the German ministry of defence has come under massive fire because apparently there is something not ideal with the G36 full auto fire mode. So yes, perhaps it isn't such a great gun at all. What surprises me is that people here keep saying that the G3 uses the same ammunition as the Mosin, but this is not the case at all. I'm not a gun expert but I'd be very surprised to hear that 7.62x51 NATO and 7.62x54 Rimmed are interchangeable for the G3. I have an expert in the neighboring town's military store that I'm going to ask sometime next week, he'll know for sure.

Totally agree. This "hide body" function is just stupid. I just touch the body once, a timer goes off and the body sinks into the ground after, what, 30 seconds? If I really want to hide a body I need to put work in by either burning it, burying it, or carrying it someplace else. Might as well ditch the function until it is properly developed.

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Read what I posted. Besides that the players names can be frequently changed in a heartbeat.

Banned because they don't stick to server rules or exploit glitches for example. Unfortunately, at some point player ID will have to be incorporated into the game whether you like it or not. Fact is that the age of internet anonymity is over and there have to be ways of holding people accountable for certain types of behaviour, such as sexual harassment or distributing right-wing extremist ideals. You may think that this type of anonymity is vital to the game but the people who rate it will probably have a different viewpoint about that. Besides, somebody who hosts a server should have a right to decide who plays on it or not. EDIT: And I was making a reference to the Resident Evil, not the Romero movies.. boy do some people take themselves seriously :blush:

Actually, we took a ride on one not too many years ago in the Philippines. Undeveloped countries tend to still use them as far as I know, although they really are extremely rare.

Interesting. I made some videos of zombies standing around beating into the air randomly today. They only struck me when I got within a range of about 5 meters.

What I've noticed is that you die when you log out and go unconscious. It's a bit annoying how at this point you never know what happened to your char.

Weird. Because I always get that when I get the classical chareacter wipe on experimental / regular (don't get it on hardcore) It's a three line red message at the bottom left upon entering the "Please Wait..." screen that says something in the likes of "WARNING Your character was unable to be loaded and will be replaced, please exit as soon as possible if you don't want your character to be overwritten." I've noticed, however, that when this error message shows up, my actual character remains stored. The character that I play in the rounds where I get that error message are then wiped when the server crashes or restarts.

Did you get the error message while logging in warning you of a character reset?

Maybe the devs ought to implement the occasional poll when you log into the game. After all, this is an Alpha and people's thoughts and opinions should count.

What did you think about my handcar idea? I was thinking a real slow movement (like jogging) if you're alone making it not worthwhile for single travellers. Faster than running speed if two are using it and a little bit faster when four are actively working the lever. Then again, I don't even know if they use handcars anywhere except third world countries in the Far East.

I'm guessing you play hardcore mode only, since there is a third, massive issue on regular mode: Fix the character wipes I usually like to mess around a little in third person mode because I take my hardcore char more seriously, but it's ridiculous when you just got enough gear to start being able to have a little fun and you're set back to zilch.

If any of you have seen the movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" or read the book, I wonder if you like the idea of a survivalists shelter spawning randomly on the map. Only one or two shelters per server at say 50-100 possible different locations (that should make it hard to find even for pros) The survivalists bunker or shelter would be pretty small, a ladder leading down three meters into something the size of, say, four freight containers or so. Packed with food, water, fuel, medicine and even a little bit of ammunition and maybe even a loaded gun (but correlating, not random mixed bags that don't fit) You could also make a special metallic sound that comes when you run over the camouflaged lid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn1H89gZtyw

Yes I also considered that a rifle or pistol would be stored in an armory without the magazines in them. But there is no such thing as an armory in DayZ SA as of yet. Would be cool to find one though!

What, you can't wait for diseases that kill you within a mere hour to come out? Guess I have a different idea about fun. In my opinion, these things don't need to be "fixed" they need to be programmed right from the beginning :rolleyes:

Was just force-fed burnt deer steak and got food poisoning. And I got sick within minutes....... Seriously?? Why the hell would eating burnt meat give you food poisoning? It'll give you cancer in the long run but.... WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS????? Can we please have a little bit more time in between raw and burnt as well, because this is ridiculous. Anyhow my partner got himself poisoned too (he ate first and then force-fed me because I laughed about the funny taste in his mouth) but the sick bar went away after about five minutes. It only came back (but in a red state) after I'd shot him several times, about 15 minutes after eating the steak. What a load of nonsense. I thought this game was supposed to be realistic?

Sorry for quoting myself but I need to stress the importance of this as regards gameplay, but also want to add something: It is vital for the gameplay that in future, more often than not, weapons will be found either A.) with full clips (helicopter crash, private civillian that keeps his pistol under his pillow and didn't get to use it) B.) with clips that contain some remaining ammo (soldier or civillian died in firefight / zombiefight without expending ammo) C.) with empty clips (said soldier or civillian dropped his gun because he ran out) 1.) It is simply unrealistic that you would find the rifle or pistol without a corrsponding clip 2.) If it is hard enough to find the corresponding ammo, why make it even harder by adding the additional (and unrealistic) challenge of finding the corresponding magazine, too. It should be realistic, not unnecessarily nerve-wracking.

Don't think so, since many people have reported this happening even when playing on the same server after a reset. I'm just wondering if there is a regular experimental server that is character-stable that I should stick to or if I need to accept that Hardcore is the place to test new stuff out (like fireplaces or looking for AKM) and that Regular servers are just bambiland. EDIT: The last time this happened to me (char wipe on regular) I noticed an error message while logging in that said there was difficulty loading my character. I actually had this recently when logging into hardcore, and I exited immediately while still in the loading screen. After another attempt at logging in, the error message did not show up and my character was all there except for the bottom right most content of his backpack (had a P1 pistol there, gone) I noticed this happening on non-experimental too, sometimes. The content at the bottom of my backpack disappearing.

As concerns the character wiping I've had this happen to me at each server restart on regular servers but not at all on hardcore. So annoying because I never get to try stuff out on regular. What can I do??

Alright I totally think the caliber should be exact BUT ONLY if inventory space is made more realistic. Because at this point, I can easily pack three real life contents of an ingame mountain backpack into a real-life school briefcase.

Meeting a drunk irish guy on DayZ. An encounter I have yet to run across.

Can't say I agree. Played about 10 hours on experimental and encountered one wild boar Friend of mine blasted a guy at 10m with the M4 including a headshot (ballistic helmet) but he survived. Then I hit the guy in the arm or side of chest and he died. There seems to be a little bit of luck involved, as in real-life, I suppose. My eyes are hurting from all the repetitions, talk about rubber banding experience and camping holiday diary entries. More realistic melee system = less fists. The fist melee in this game is pure nonsense. Somebody like me who did roughly nine years of diverse MA, this left jab / right cross / back and forth nonsense with zombies trying to evade by doing a pop-music-dance-move with their head makes me shudder. Well the physics definitely need some fixing , but zig-zagging while running forward is actually pretty realistic (except for when you're wearing a 50 pound backpack) My Issues Zombies: Still glitch through walls of camo nests at NWAF (barricade wall towards north) Still swim through floors of buildings Can still glitch look into Airbase prison building. Rubber banding can catapult you into police building barricaded room (?) which means an agonizing death Items that are dropped disappear quite often ATLAS Bipod does not connect to Mosin Using a badly damaged kitchen knife creates steaks with -1% or -4% left to eat, but a pristine pelt. In reality, it would create a badly damaged pelt and steaks about 30%-60% Fireplaces are not visible after roughly 100 meters in pitch black night, there is a threshhold where it goes from bright to pitch dark. You can see the fireplace again if you zoom. Loot at helicopter crash sites is forgettable in my opinion. Found a helicopter and there were two empty 1911s, two 30 round mags and two M4 attachments. *yawn how exciting* Can we please have one fully loaded gun at the heli crash sites minimum? Besides, I still think it's totally unrealistic you never find an M4 or AKM with an empty or almost empty clip. Crouching (or was it prone?) in the derelict freight ship's east side causes you to become "soaked" Somebody spawning into where you're standing causes your legs to break. I was far northwest on a DE server and somebody started telling people he's looking for friends at the Berezino church. He was talking about having ended up on a global channel. I almost had a heart attack!! Please remove this! I still totally think this "mining for stones" thing is a dumb idea. If you go looking for rocks for a fireplace you will literally find them ANYWHERE And on a more general note, can we have servers be dark BEFORE they get looted? Nothing more annoying than dying at sundown and then running through a fully looted server in the pitch dark. I say this because I noticed most servers go dark for a half hour then restart.

If you've ever packed a bug-out bag, you'd know that space is a bigger issue than weight. I do agree though that there should be a movement penalty for those that carry large backpacks that are full to the brim. Yes, the long items should definetely be turnable. But as concerns the tetris minigame, this is actually pretty true to life. In fact, in a real-life survival scenario, you're constantly unpacking and rearranging your back-pack even more so than in the game.