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Had recently spawned in near krasnostav, went to loot in there managed to get a blaze and about 5 bullets not much else. Went to one of those little brown houses with the porch and an upstairs that doesn't go anywhere and there was a bag in the middle of the dining room. I walk towards it, pick it up and *bang* sniper shot whistles just last my head. I quickly go to run out the building before deciding ill actually have a better chance going upstairs and hiding. I run up and wait for maybe 2 minutes and I hear footsteps in the building. The player comes in the way I had looks at where I has been stood and goes to leave the house so I sneak down the stairs and blast him in the back of his head whilst yelling 'surprise mutha fucka!!!'. And suddenly I'm fully geared with everything I could ever need to be a camper.

I got bored a while ago, gave all my gear to a random guy in the berezino arpartnwbts near the supermarket and ran down near the police station to set up a shop. Took every single item from the lower town that I could find and put it into one building and then lit flares outside and waited. A few people came near but didn't trust that it wasn't an ambush, then one guy joined me so we could go further away to get supplies. Another bloke then turned up and looked at us for a while before offering his devices as a security guard. He went into a building opposite and waited to see if there was any trouble. We ran the should for about 45 minutes before a server restart ended my short career as a shop keeper. Didn't meet any bandits and didn't get shot at. Was great fun. So yeah, it's doable all though I'm under no delusions that that was the 'normal' outcome for someone in that situation lol

My housemate had a glitched can of drink that never disappeared after drinking for a week or so, I've had it happen to me but I must have dropped it whilst looting other items. Just because you haven't encountered a glitch don't be so quick to assume everyone is hacking.

Look towards the very top of this sub forum, in amongst the stickies threads is one called 'I GIVE UP/ THIS GAME IS BULL****/ I WANT MY MONEY BACK' that I do believe this post would fit in perfectly, considering among other things, you have used almost the exact same topic title. On topic, the players you describe are bandits. They make the game exciting because you have to gauge other player's motives when engaging them rather than know everyone is friendly and you can run about in complete safety. They will never, never, be banned as they are not breaking any rules within the game. The only people who are subject to ban are hackers because they are breaking the game rules you agree to when purchasing the game.

There was one early on (before I started playing) which got rid of things like the old grey tactical vest. There's another wipe due soon, which should coincide with the release of .49 on stable, and it is aiming to remove duping exploits and hacked ammo. Sorry if I came across as a bit of a 'know it all', wasn't my intention, I just didn't want people to assume it was a hack/exploit like everyone assumed the only people who had m4s in the previous patch were hackers.

There hasn't been a character wipe since the bipod was removed from the mosins accessories so not sure how they could have 'elduded' it as Chompster said. Either way, it's likely the hasn't died since they were removed either through inactivity or good play or he looted it from someone who had survived

It will take a while after you have the hydrated and energised bars before you get healthy as you need to regen blood or health first (not sure which, think it's blood) and then you will get 'healing'. Once you've healed it'll change to healthy.

Might be there but it's going to be 1 am over here so depends on how I feel

Different people will always play the game in different ways. I enjoy not knowing what another player is going to do, that feeling of excitement/nerves when you go into a town and the doors are open or you hear a distant gunshot. I don't aim to kill every player I meet, I'm generally friendly and will help people if I want to, but I would be bored if everyone played the way I do because there would be no risk.

Yeah it's highly disturbing, although I have yet to meet one. Maybe it's the servers I play on, maybe it's because I stay away from certain hot zones... I don't know. It'll hopefully get better as the game gets more developed although I hesitate to be optimistic about things like that lol +edit+ I'm sorry if the initial post sounded insulting or rude, wasn't my intention.

How did you think 'hacking a wasn't a thing in the SA', because there are topics everyday about it. I realise you might not trawl the forums daily but it's quite a common theme here, also one of the reasons they are wiping the servers soon. Actually that leads me onto the next point I was going to make, all the servers are getting wiped soon to remove duped gear and hacked ammo so you would have only had that character alive for a short while longer any way. Doesn't soften the blow I realise but it was happening sooner or later. Lastly, Berezino. It's why most players avoid it on populous servers because it's full of kos, cheating bandits.

Bodies last for 10 minutes approx., the OP however says he died 'the other day' so his body is long gone.

Could be a fracture that isn't shown in your status, try a splint or morphine and see if that helps.

Hi guys, not sure if anyone else has had this happen on the current experimental build but several times when fighting zeds my character would for some reason switch from hi weapon to bandages/rags. Obviously annoying issue, but I wasn't sure if it was a weird lag issue or a recurring bug for other players. Also I would have posted this in the bug tracker but I get this message, 'APPLICATION ERROR #12. This account is protected. You are not allowed to access this until the account protection is lifted.' Anyone have any idea how I can resolve the account issue so I can report the bug?

Cheers freethink, I was being very dumb by a) not noticing the massive red writing in the bug report thread saying to register, and b) not initially noticing a 'sign up' option on my computer... I'll be hiding in the corner pretending I'm not stupid if anyone wants me lol +edit+ Here's a link to the bug report if anyone has the same issue or wants to add details http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view.php?id=16387

I'd be happy with a mix. If someone's just boarded up a door with planks of wood then an axe or crowbar should be sufficient. If they've looted around and crafted additional things then that should be reflected by it being more difficult to force entry to. I'd actually like there to be boobytraps too so instead if your base being completely in defended while you are away. That way there is always an element of risk involved in raiding a base

My regular guy has one and a pre heli crash m4. Play more hardcore, only going to reg when playing with friends which has the bonus of them stashing my gear if I get killed.

No one has said that there should only be 40 players per server but that currently the servers are not able to manage with more than that in addition to zombies and respawning/persistent loot. Increased numbers will come in time, probably towards the end of the alpha phase when 64bit servers are sorted and the game is more optimised. Trying to put it in now would cause horrendous amounts of issues in terms of performance

On the drinking glitch, it doesn't happen if you are crouched or prone. Zeds have always been strange with their aggro, I used to get it a lot that they would aggro on me even when they weren't in a position to actually see me, just glad doors stop 90% of them now.

I second blowurselfup, I'm generally a friendly player apart from in airfields/military bases

I'm liking the look of that... don't know if it'll make me leave the blaze alone though.

As far as I know it's normally a client/server conflict. The players location can become conflicted, and the server will think you are no longer where you are, be it on a ladder, top floor of a building etc and so will apply the damage as if you had fallen before the issue is resolved. Usually by then you have the 'you are dead' screen or broken limbs. The issue is worse on laggy servers, ones with high ping or when a player's connection isn't stable. I used to have it a lot when I played on wifi, but since spending the truly enormous sum of £8 on a longer cable I've barely experienced it at all. By the way, I fully expect someone else to come along and either explain this better or point out that I am an ill informed moron who doesn't know anything ( a fact which I completely agree with) but as I say, that's what I understand to be the cause of the issue.

Rocket's evil twin. He has rocket tied up in the boot of his car, pretends to be him so he can do things like tell the art department to stop coding vehicles, fixing bugs and putting in larger servers and instead do things like work on the models and textures of new items.

No point keeping hold of it at the moment because the next update (pencilled in for the end of the month) includes a complete wipe of all characters to eliminate hacked mags and duped gear.

I'm the same, if you don't respond or go to raise your weapon you die. Some people whine once they've been shot but that's standard. I rarely shoot without speaking or at the least observing people for a while to determine if they seem to be a bandit or otherwise shady.