Xbow

you made a lot of good points I just chose the two that kick ass the most in my book. I enjoy the hell of logging on to a server and going on food hunts. Loot a few buildings to stock up on my staples like Rice, Peaches, Tuna, sardines and then top it off with a pig or deer hunt and have a private cook out in the forest. My favorite is Rice 10 servings that takes up just two slots. Since there is plenty of chow, game and water & drinks around I keep myself perpetually stuffed to keep my hydration and energy reserves high so that I can take damage when it comes my way. The survival aspect of the game is one of the most important and desirable features of the game. And anyone that says there isn't enough chow out there for the taking has his head up his ass. here are a couple of tools I want. ..... I don't fish now because I wont sacrifice my ax for a stick.

Once again Caboose187 is correct. I either use the inventory as Caboos187 says OR stow my weapon in hand and just hit my bandage hot key so that a bandage appears in my hands. And then there is what everyone knows eat and drink until you are stuffed as often as possible and you build a reserve of strength. Being fully Energized, Hydrated and Healthy is a very good thing as it makes you more durable and better able to take damage.

I respect your comments, When I go shotgunning in RL with my 18" BBL Beretta Silver Hawk double barrel shotgun and I don't have rubber speed loaders I load loose rounds from my pockets. Operations 1)Crack open the weapon, 2) empty hulls eject, 3) Load one fresh round 4) load another fresh round, 5) close weapon ..... That seems like a good animation sequence. Its not as fast as using speed loaders but a hell of a lot faster and more representative of real life than going to your inventory and loading the weapon from there and having no ability to clear the weapon other than shooting it dry. So in my view pressing R would be the ticket. That with the caveat that it loads the type of ammo you had in it before you reloaded unless that type is exhausted and in that case it would load another type. I also have a single shot XP-100 chambered for .243 Winchester and I load that from a pocket full of loose rounds so in that case pressing R should reload the weapon without going to your inventory if you have loose rounds in your jacket, vest or trouser pockets. {Core}BlackLabel I agree about being able to craft an external ammo supply system for all shotguns and the double rifle. "Right. So...i theoraticly COULD load 2 speedloaders with normal and 2 with bucket. Arrange them in a way i KNOW the game uses them and then go....shoot stuff :) Exactly what I was thinking. Killing Zombies with a sawed off shotgun is a fine sport and a great way to conserve ammunition for your primary weapon. At present I have in my in game arsenal an M-4, a .45, FNX, a 7.62 x 51 Longhorn, and a 12 ga sawed off. Happy Hunting Guys :D

The speed loader should return to the inventory empty after reloading and the player should be able to decide what he charges the speed loader with Buck or Slugs. But if you don't have speed loaders but you have loose shotgun rounds of both types in your pockets, your jacket, trousers, or vest the game should reload or top off the weapon with the type of ammo you had in there before simply by pressing R . The only time you should have to go to your inventory to load the double is if you want to unload what you have up the pipe and replace it with a different type. I don't think that is too much to ask of our developers. As for external storage on the weapon how about this.

Read the entire entry sport..you MISSED these components either intentionally or through carelessness on your part. Xbow wrote, "The good thing for the would be cannibal is that you would have to eat a good bit of human meat before showing symptoms. Perhaps when the symptoms do arrive morphine could be a temporary fix for the shakes but then with frequent use of morphine you would suffer from withdrawal symptoms when you can't get a fix." Xbow also wrote, "cannibalism has some serious side effects for a regular Long Pork Eater." You have now been fully informed and brought up to speed. ;) I don't believe there should be any mark put on cannibals, no wannabe bandit scarfs, no visible shakes (the shakes would manifest themselves to the player when doing something that requires fine motor control like shooting). However, if you find human meat in someones gear you have wounded and rendered unconscious...finish the job with one to the scum-suckers head. By the way they say human meat tastes like PORK not CHICKEN guys. Hmmmmm...does a ham sandwich taste like a chicken sandwich?

I don't like the laughing bit but cannibalism has some serious side effects for a regular Long Pork Eater. To wit prion disease or kuru this is an almost universally accepted fact. The symptoms vary a great deal so every time a player eats a Long Pork steak there should be a 1% chance of getting a prion disease symptom and that should be a cumulative effect 10 Long pork steaks (20 full portions) should equal a permanent 10% chance of developing a nervous system disorder such as 'the shakes'. The more Long Pork you eat the higher the chance of developing Kuru symptoms. From Wikipedia, "Kuru is an incurable degenerative neurological disorder endemic to tribal regions of Papua New Guinea. It is a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, caused by a prion found in humans.The term "kuru" derives from the Fore word "kuria/guria" ("to shake"),[2] a reference to the body tremors that are a classic symptom of the disease; it is also known among the Fore as the laughing sickness due to the pathologicbursts of laughter people would display when afflicted with the disease. It is now widely accepted that Kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via funerary cannibalism." So you are not being punished for a morally wrong action you are reaping the rewards of some mindbogglingly STUPID behavior. The good thing for the would be cannibal is that you would have to eat a good bit of human meat before showing symptoms. Perhaps when the symptoms do arrive morphine could be a temporary fix for the shakes but then with frequent use of morphine you would suffer from withdrawal symptoms when you can't get fix.

I love the sawed off double barreled shotgun a great deal, I love erasing zombies with it and saving 5.56mm. I was lucky enough to find four snap loaders so reload time isn't bad but I would still have to shoot it dry before reloading. Not having the ability to top off a double after firing one barrel is absurd. And another absurdity is that the snap loader remains in the gun as if it was a magazine. I have in RL a 18" barrel Beretta Silver Hawk coach gun and I use rubber speed loaders to load it quickly. For pump guns Perhaps they should take a look at how Battlefield handles topping off the tubular magazine. None of this stuff should be a problem. And determining where a pattern lands in reference to the target presents a simple problem what are the possibilities. 1)Miss left,right, high, low. ( 0 pellets on target) 2)Partial pattern hit left, right, high, low (4-5 pellets on target) 3 Center pattern hit ( 9 pellets on target) 4)Long range Center pattern hit (6 pellets on target [dispersion]) reduced damage per pellet. ....................• .............•......•......• ....................• .............•......•......• .....................• A simulation should emulate reality as closely as possible and I am sad to say the game doesn't yet do that with the double rifle, double shotgun, pump shotgun or long Horn. And rifled slugs should be introduced. Beans sir? :beans:

I think the pattern is too loose at the moment as you do but consider that the 9 .330" 00 pellets launched from a 12 gauge shotgun have these energy values at various ranges. ...............all 9 pellets hit.............6 pellets hit............3 pellets hit............1 pellet hit.......... velocity Muzzle 2025 foot pounds........ 1215 foot pounds.......607 foot pounds.......202 foot pounds......1300fps 25 yards 1359 foot pounds........ 815 foot pounds.........407 foot pounds.......136 foot pounds.....1080fps 50 Yards 1098 foot pounds......... 659 foot pounds....... 329 foot pounds........110 foot pounds......957fps 75 yards 918 foot pounds......... 550 foot pounds........ 275 foot pounds........92 foot pounds.......874fps The shotgun is no power house of destruction at ranges beyond 25-30 yards and because of the dispersion pattern at ranges beyond that it is ridiculous to assume that you are going to catch a man sized target with all 9 pellets. what is a cylinder bore shotguns dispersion at 25 yards? for a 26" barrel its about 3/4 the width of a man facing towards you. And the pattern expands rapidly beyond that range. A shotgun pattern expands more than a simple cone would dictate. The reason is that every pellet is spinning on a different axis or not spinning at all. And normally being made of lead pellets are not perfect spheres. The end result is that its expansion diagram is not a cone but more like an elongated trumpet. If you want to check a 00 pellets ballistic performance use these values Ballistic coefficient .045 Velocity 1300 feet per second Weight 60 gains interval 25 yards max range 100 yards zero range 30 yards Ballistic Calculator http://www.hornady.com/ballistics-resource/ballistics-calculator

I'll have to claim ignorance on that one but now that you mention it, there must be a difference since Zombies don't bleed out or get crippled they just drop dead. So they must have a different and simplified set of conditions to determine death, probably just Health and Shock. And once again I agree, the same damage should be applied to both players and Zeds Be nice to hit a Zombie in the legs and create a slow belly crawling Zed. Beans? :beans:

Good point and I am not convinced that it has been nerfed. I have a sawed off that I use and just a few minutes ago I was looking for downed helicopters to the south of the NWAF and ended up scavenging in Kabanino. I killed six Zombies in and around Kabanino with the thing. 1 shot each for the civilian zombies and two shots for the one military Zombie. I was playing on a 1st person server. It seemed OK to me. Have some Beans :beans:

I agree 100%. Besides that I really don't need or want music when I am trying to get in tune with the environment and LISTEN for approaching enemies. and I too like the end of the world feel of the game.

I guess we will have to find cows that give Soy or Almond Milk ;)

Doc, You didn't read my entire post. I mentioned Brown Bears, Wolves, as well as Wild Dogs (that are in fact a plague in Russia) and after doing a little research I discovered that significant populations of Raccoons that sprang from individuals released in Germany and Western Russia and a number of other countries in the early to mid 20th century exist. In Germany for instance steps to eradicate Raccoons are being considered and being promoted by environmentalists and hunters. And then there are European Red Foxs and Rats that abound and let us not leave out European badgers that are found all across Europe and Western Russia. I think that the Bears, Wolves and Wild Dogs I mentioned should provide a significant direct threat to humans and the smaller critters are vectors for Rabies and a number of other diseases. I also want random groups of roaming Zombies to be working the forests all across Chernarus.

I hear you and I agree. One of the things I have liked about the game is that there has always been plenty of unused wild space or Wilderness and I dont want that to change. Add some randomly spawning Zeds in the forests as there are in the Black Forest in conjunction with some way of making a camp that is safe enough to check out it. Imagine logging on to a situation where a herd of Zeds is approaching your camp from out of the fog.

100% correct man and i guess it must be mentioned that a slew of people used to die as a result of an of an abscessed tooth and minor puncture wounds that abscess. those pliers that at this point are useless may have a real function as do the antibiotics

Mookie, Nothing is better than living off the fat of the land. I the and other loners once equipped have little need to venture into military bases and cities to loot because we subsist on Hog, Deer, and Cow Steaks plus, picked Apples and Berries although I do keep a small reserve of canned peaches & Kvass on hand as a restorative for when I get wounded. I haven't tried fishing because I wont sacrifice my Axe for a crappy stick. For fishing I would like a 1 slot hand line and a 2 slot E-Tool. Additionally I would like the ability to place a couple of hand lines and then depart for a spell to over-watch my fishing spot from an ambush position and kill any human pretenders to my throne :P And it has just occurred to me that we should have some of these around to make a little trouble for us Honestly someone that hasn't had his/her camp raided by these guys hasn't lived Have a good hunt Mookie and some beans? :beans:

Animals. How about instead of a Welding mask we get Animals that Aggro under certain situations. 1st Deer...there should be Bucks, Does and Fawns and the Bucks during rutting season should aggro on you if you get too close to their Does (getting impaled and trampled by a Bucks horns and feet should hurt) 2nd Hogs.. there should be Boar, Sows, and piglets when cornered or approached too closely the Bore and Sows should aggro on you and the piglets should scatter. (piglets are tasty morsels) 3rd Bows, and Guns hitting a Deer or Hog in the butt or gut should not kill it instantly. Lung Heart and Head shots should be instant kills. 4th Where in the hell are those aggressive Russian brown bears? 5th Where in the Hell are those wild dog and wolf packs? I know some of these items are planned but when will implementation be made? Screw more military style weapons how about a scope for the CZ527 and a good scoped bolt action hunting rifle in 7.62 x 54r or .308 win? The Derringer....useless! The Welding mask...useless Beans? :beans:

I just finished my half ass test and as predicted running and jogging heat you up pretty quickly but running jogging with just a T-shirt on seems to build up heat slower. However in both cases I was hot after running about a click and a half and it took water to cool me off even though I was still in the green hydration wise. Now do tell me the real Deal Irish about how to dissipate heat instantly ...links to videos or whatever. :thumbsup: Beans? :beans: PS. I was wondering when they would put the hammer down on running with a Gorka Jacket on all the time. Actually it would be like running in a plastic bag since the Gorka Jacket is waterproof (But does that have an in game effect?).

I am testing this. I will be fully hydrated at the start. 1) I will run with my Gorka jacket and balaclava on until I get hot. 2) I will recover and drink water if necessary to max out my hydration and then remove my Jacket and Balaclava put on my green T-shirt and run an equal distance and see if I get hot. The pending Results will be posted here as an EDIT. . to Chernarus!

My hydration level was GREEN hombre and Drinking water doesn't cool you off directly it simply replaces water lost through perspiration and prevents the onset of heat injuries such as heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke by restarting the perspiration process. Limiting your exertions, removing clothing, moving to the shade and in extreme cases wetting the skin with water and even getting a saline bag are the correct actions. But that's real life I use water purification tablets (That AFAIK actually do nothing at this point) to get used to purifying water from ponds and streams just as I do in RL. Sooner or later those that are unprepared will be getting the shits and intestinal dysentery from drinking contaminated water. One should assume that all water not coming from a bottle is bad or will eventually be bad.

I think the wire is for rabbit snares 1) I have checked 5 wells and none of them are working (make sure you have some water purification tabs) 2) Compasses are not working as far as I can tell its always pointing North. 2) getting hot after a bit of running works very well except that taking your jacket off and remaining motionless doesn't work too cool you off....unless you drink water...even if your hydration level is in the green. 4)Brass knuckles do add to your punching power. I killed a Zed with two punches to the head. I'm sure they are debugging as we speak.

The last thing this game needs is an automated morals NANNY

Yes I have Seen That. A knife is just about the worst weapon to use if you want an instant kill even if you attack from behind. I think someone has watched too many episodes of 'The Walking Dead and seen a few too many knives wielded by skinny armed women penetrating a human skull almost effortlessly. And as you have shown unless the knife penetrates to the Cerebellum and destroys it the kill will not be instant or quiet. The best weapons for an instant kill without a gun are the Fire Axe, the Sledge Hammer, and the Miners Pick should be there also. ... ............The Cerebllum Is The Sweet Spot..............................................................Close but No Cigar The Subject Lived. If the attacker can manage to Slice through the Subjects neck and cut both left and right common carotid arteries the kill will be quick but not instant or automatically quiet. Have some Beans arlingtine :beans: