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whats more effective than a dev team trying to find a solution to a very difficult problem? Its us, all of us. Instead of complaining that more needs to be done, if YOU find a mag with infinate ammo, throw it into a bush. it'll wipe during server restart. If everyone did this there wouldn't be a problem. But we live in the real world and there will always be people that decide to keep them. I mean yeah it doesnt solve the problem as a whole and it wont stop people spawning them in but when hackers that use them are constantly reminded that having an infinate M4 doesn't make you invincible and anyone can still kill you, they may not decide to keep using them

absolutely. I find restarts always happen at some of the worst oppertune moments ever

we probably wouldnt have stripped him down if he answered us or wrote back on direct chat, but he just seemed to kneel down and stop dead as if he logged out. Plus we didn't intend to kill him, we were just going to leave him cuffed so he could wriggle out of them, but Mike pressed the mouse to raise his weapon, but he didn't realize it was already raised and he blew his head off by accident. I have to admit i have done that before when i thought my gun was down when it wasn't and made myself jump when i fire a shot

well tents will be coming shortly

its not the one in cherno

I am ashame to admit but I am the guy that runs away from a fight unless I got my mates to back me up. Cowardly you may say, yes this is true, but cowards live longer

no I found quite a few bits myself, I thought i got to the top but no it keeps going. You get quite a bit of vertigo up there too, not a lot of room to move about

you seemed to have quoted yourself in that post there. But yes you can't have everything, true, however if this were a true survival game, you would want to max out on survival tools and any food you can find, however dayz whether you like it or not is a deathmatch game because this is how it has turned out, due to fear and panic shooting on sight, so weapons are the more important items to carry than anything else unless you are in a team and allow everyone to carry something each so you dont end up as the donkey

this thread made me chuckle. It reminded me of when I was on a mafia 2 forum and some guy came on ranting about how his game was broken & how he was so annoyed that they released such a shoddy product, only to be told that the problems he was having was due to the games copy protection activating only when a pirate version of the game is used. And the whole forum came down on him big time & i even think one of the admins (who worked for the developer of mafia) got his ip details and took legal action. because he unknowlingly went onto the official mafia website and admitted his game suffered from a copy protection code he would not of got if he bought the game

and as you are by a fire, you are standing out like a sore thumb

I always find that the main goal of Dayz is to get armed up as quickly as possible to defend yourself against other players that are doing the exact same thing you are. The only problem is that by the time you manage to be capable of defending yourself, you look like a bandit. You come into contact with another player, and you panic, they panic too and you end up dying in a hail of bullets out of fear when both parties were probably not intending to kill other players, but the fact that you spent 3 days trawling the land to find gear you don't want to get killed. There are a large number of players that say friendly then kill you when you arent looking, this is what has damaged the game in the sense that most of the time you kill out of fear of being killed rather than teaming up and working together. The best way (alough still never 100% effective) is to never run around with your gun drawn, don't cover your face with masks because this shows you are covering your identity (just as if you walked into a store wearing a balaclava, you wont get a warm reception) If possible try to survive with only a pistol holstered and no axe. So when another player sees you, all they see is a bambi and not someone tooled up as an immediate threat. This way if they suddenly decide to start swinging an axe at you or try to airm their gun at you, you can draw your pistol and fight back. But shooting bambis is pointless and wastes ammo. True they can knock you out with a punch if you are not wearing a helmet, but dont put yourself in a position where they break you own personal space, until you are confident they can be trusted

another point to add that a backup is REALLY handy was when me and a few friends captured a guy and was trying to get him to join us, Then as i walked round the corner his buddy knocked me out ith a single punch and stole my m4. He then went on to kill one of my mates, what He didnt do was take anything else, mainly because he was a fresh spawn and didnt have room. So when i woke up I drew my pistol and shot him in the back of the head as he was about to kill my other remaining friend. I got my m4 back and i wouldnt have done that without my pistol as a backup. Seriously dude, in this game and this world, sometimes having weapons in your slots is more important than other things. its better to have it and not need it rather than need it and not have it

The random stop/start weather system of Dayz can be annoying, but not nearly annoying as seeing the text "i'm so wet" which is quite funny to read when you play as a girl, but my point is you see an icon in the inventory saying you are soaked and it comes up in big red letters saying you are soaked through. What impact does this cause ingame? does it ruin items? does it slow you down or degrade clothing?

Here is a debrief written by my buddy explaining a night we had on Dayz Epoch. Its long, but its funny. If you don't at least raise a smile reading this, you are devoid of any sense of humor, so without furth ado, here is the story.... Roadtrip Right from the opening, when we decided to take the spare chopper to the safe house we knew it was going to be perfect. The way you flew above me giving directions while I trundled along in that heavy-as-hell truck. Looking up at you off over the sea and occasionaly passing over me felt like we were really working together, but also ominously exposed. Like watching Dawn of the dead 1978 when they are moving the trucks. No dramas though - all worked out fine, with me parking up as you landed. Such a simple thing, but that felt like an achievement. All was set and we were going to go out for our usual scavenger hunt. Then... things changed. Incident 1. When I heard the chopper I wasn't worried. I knew your neighbour had one, and the server had become like a little suburb now. Lots of bases, high end kit, etc. I was stood out on the platform (dressed as a priest), GPMG over my shoulder and smoking as fag watching it get closer. I saw him coming in slow, but decided to take out the binoculars (fag still in my mouth of course). You said "don't fire at him unless he fires at you" and I cast you a look that said "I'm not a retard you know", knowing that you were downstairs packing the safe and couldn't see it. As he got closer I took the ciggie out of my mouth, put down the binoculars and saw he was getting curious. Maybe it was my recent conversion to the Russian faith, but something felt 'off'. The way he went into a hover and turned his side to me just felt like I should switch on. Fag back in my mouth, I took a step back into the doorway and hovered over the switch to SAW option. Then I saw the tracers coming. Fuck. In an instant, I'm huddled behind the wall and the whole room and platform is filled with rounds. I've got the GPMG out, but I can't move because he's literally hosing down the place. EVERYTHING is getting hit except for one guy dressed as a priest cuddling a light machine gun with a slowly burning fag in his mouth. I hear him moving position and realise that I'm not "leaking like a fucked fridge" yet, so I decide to take the moment to go out and give him the good news. Father Dogmeat leaps round the door, takes aim and pumps about 40 rounds up at him. I see him back off a bit and think "yeah, you fucker! Didn't expect that did you? Cunt! How'd you like - " <sounds of gunfire> Ok, NOW I'm leaking like a fucked fridge. The last thing I see is your concerned face coming up the ladder and hear the pathetic hiss of a cigarette extinguishing in the puddle that used to be my head. I see you slam the door shut and lock it and I can't help thinking "who's gonna give ME my last rites?". I loved that he was mocking the base, saying "what is this Minecraft shit?". And Robyn, bless her (Dave's Wife) - "can you go and help James?". Seriously? The only thing Dave can do now is get a hosepipe and wash me off his helipad before it rusts... Incident 2. So, "TomClancy" is off terrorising other players and causing a stir. Personally I think it's awesome, because people are now remembering that this is Day Z, not Sim City. Suck it up, princess - time to defend all those pretty buildings, cars, jeeps and toys. By now you've washed the remains of a priest outfit full of tomato soup and kibble off your deck and now you're on your way to pick me up. I've got a tin of beans, some sodas and I'm keeping a low profile. Yay! We're together again and off back to the safe house to pick up my stuff that you folded away neatly in a safe for me. Then we see the chopper. Like a yellow barrel popping up in Jaws, it's an "Oh Shit" moment. And straight away, that motherfucker is on us. Now I wasn't as worried, but that's because I haven't spent weeks building up a base, scraping toether the funds and resources to get all of the gear you have. Also, you're in an armoured truck, but he's got a gun designed to take you out. There we are, driving through a storm of bullets and I wish I had my priest outfit to truly give thanks for the wonders of Russian workmanship as the armoured hull stands up to what sounds like a large bucket of nails being thrown on a tin roof. I know you're intention was to say "armour holding... hull slightly damaged... wheels at 80%... engine taken a hit..." - but what you actually said (screamed) was "FUCK FUCK FUUUUUCK OOOOFF NO, NO, PISS OFF YOU CUNT FUUUUCK!!". But while I'm calmly saying things like "5 o'clock high, coming in to left side, watch the hill" (Ok, so I'm actually screaming "DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE!!") I notice how he moves. He's always flying to keep us on his left, then going into a hover before firing. I realise he's operating the chopper alone and switching seats. I test the theory by saying "wait..wait...". Then I see him go into a hover and I say "BREAK RIGHT NOW! GO GO GO!" and you swerve. And sure enough, we go through a quick spray, but it ends suddenly. The fucker can't keep us lined up. Now you've got us to the factories and we're trying to find somewhere to hide the truck as it's starting to feel the damage. I keep screaming for you to let me out so I can open a door, but you know that to stop means we get wiped out. Then we hit the huge barn and realise the truck won't fit adn now he's hovering behind us - so I decide to go decoy and leap out. Now I'm running 10 meters to the barn and he's spraying the truck as a "fuck you". But that's when YOU realise that he thinks I'm the driver and you stop dead. And sure enough, he's ignoring the truck and he's now hunting round the barn trying to get an angle on me. I realise it's like that scene in HalfLife, only instead of a power suit and weapons I have a machete and a tin of beans. I'm so fucked. Like, Palestinian throwing a rock at a tank fucked. But again, you're thinking ahead and you know that while he's watching me he's not watching you and you sneak out the truck, lock it and come into the hangar. We don't have the GPMG, but he's only looking for me - if I can distract him you MIGHT just pull off the sniper shot of the year. So I run like a bald prisoner on a space prison being chased by a pissed off alien. Sadly, it's not enough and I'm splashed up the side of a wooden shack like a sock full of meat and sauce being thrown up a window. Shit! Still, when the cunt lands to loot the truck, you'll be there to fuck him up. But he doesn't land... he flies away, leaving you in a barn with all your kit and the damaged remains of your truck and your wing man coating a cheap shed. Fuck! Dave the Mechanic and James gets PTSD James respawns - naturally I'm as far away as goddam possible, but hey. It's not like you're going anywhere. You're already planning how to fix the truck. While I'm scaping for tins of beans and fighting my way across the map, you're scavenging wheels, engine parts, scrap metal and somehow fixing the truck. I'm having a Rick Grimes adventure and every now and again I'll hear progress on how you're doing. However, my journey was... not without incident. My navigation was going fine, but I'm now being chased by about 5 runners and I have nothing but a machete and I can't find a single building to hide behind or lead them into. So as I run I have a moment of "fuck it" and slow to a jog...then a walk... than I turn around with the machete like I just realised I'd left the gas on and I'm pissed of about it. Robyn is saying "oh no, what are you doing? There's loads of them, they're going to catch you". It's ok... I'm about to go Zatoichi on these guys. I am Rutger Fucking Hauer. I am Blind motherfucking Fury. I am motherfucking Conan the Barbarian. One of you cunts will have something useful on you, so I'm going to kill every last motherfucking one of you to get it. <"...ok, I've found a windscreen, got it back to 100%..."> I'm getting bitch slapped and bitten, but I keep dropping these walkers and I seem to just find enough bandages and water as I go to stay alive. I didn't intend to survive, but I'm now knee deep in corpses shouting random things like "Form an orderly queue, I'm going to get you all eventually!" and hacking away. <"...ooh, I found a wheel! I've got the truck back up. Just need to fix the engine..."> Another swarm coming, but I'm running TOWARDS them shouting "I'M RICK GRIMES, BITCH! I'M COMING FOR YOOOOUUU!" (Robyn finds this hillarious for some reason). They look a little startled as I plough into them, screaming "really? empty cans? That's all you got you fucks?!". I'm up to about 18 kills by now. <"...I don't believe it...I've found a fucking engine! I can fix the whole thing..."> "WHY! WON'T! YOU! DIE!?!" I scream as I hit the crawling zombie for the 8th time. Even Robyn is shouting "Really?! How is he not dead?". I realise I'm bleeding, but there's more of them coming and I don't have time to put on a bandage, so I run at them. My vision is washed out, but I can still move and swing the machete, so I'm going to take as many as I can <"...YES! It's started. The truck is fixed. Just loading up my stuff..."> I'm hacking at a monkey style zombie with a blunt machete, screaming like Jake the Muss cutting down the tree that his daughter hung herself from. At this point I may actually be sobbing like him, too. Fragments of words can be heard between the sobs and screams, but they're mostly "YOU FUCKS!". There's another one, and I'm up to about 24 kills now, all in the open with a machete. <"...James, I'm about 2 minutes out. Find somewhere to hide, I'll be right there..."> Hide? Fuck you. I need another bandage. One of those 5 zombies up the road are bound to have one. I'll go and ask them. I'll just wipe the blood off my teeth first. FUUUCK YOOOOOUU!! Two minutes later, a heavy truck comes up the road and sees a lone survivor covered in blood with a zombie's T-Shirt wrapped round his leg, intestines round his head like a bandanna and about 10 bandages on, a blunt machete and the glassy stare of someone who knows he washed his jeans with the winning lottery ticket in the back pocket. The driver beeps the horn, but he takes his time to walk over. "Any problems?" Without a word, James gets into the back of the truck, places the machete on the dashboard, turns off the radio and whispers "cigarrette". The kill counter is at 35. It's easy to see because everything else is in black and white... Is...Is that guy OK? I didn't even see the human. I was too busy smiling at the sensation of morphine and hearing the wet thud of zombie killing repeat in my head to notice him running to us. Fortunately you did all the talking. Nick was like us. He had been killed by TomClancy and was walking through zombie territory to get to his kit again. We gave him a lift and we chatted about what had happened. I took a while to join in because I didn't know the key to talk, but I like to put it down to being sat in the passenger seat with PTSD. When we did talk it was cool though. Loved going to the safe house together, watching the sky for that chopper, generally shooting the shit. Then you letting him into your base (while covering him with the rife). One wrong move and he'd have had the life expectancy of Morgan Freeman's pants. Shame he glitched out later on, would have been fun to keep him. Incident 3. Off to the trader finally. We're going to sell something or buy something. I don't know. I've picked up my GPMG and axe again, but part of me misses the machete. Then we see the chopper. Seriously, this motherfucker is like Jaws. He's the terminator. He's fucking RELENTLESS. But maybe he hasn't seen us. We stay perfectly still, but the fucker changes course and we know it's on. Dave goes from "I fixed my truck for free!" to "NO YOU CUNT I JUST FIXED IT FUUUUUUCK!!" as the bullet rain starts. There's nowhere to go, nowhere to hide, so I keep watching the chopper for his tell-tale pause and hover and shout when to turn. Then we see the tree line. I'm actually calmer now, saying "treeline... go right. Right. Right to the trees. That's left. Go Right. Right. Right". You're shouting "Fuck! I know!". Robyn hasn't taken her eyes off the screen and says "Dave what are you doing?!" and Dave looks at her and calmly says "panicking". Then he (finally) swerves right and loses the fucker in the trees. But he's still there, hovering around, searching for us. But then in a moment of clarity, we hit the plan. You stop for a second and I jump out under the cover of trees and you drive on. He hasn't seen me get out. You drive down the track and he's shooting at you, but he's getting cocky. You can't shoot back. You helplessly loop around, but he can easily keep up with you and spray you at his leasuire. Only he doesn't know that I'm waiting on the side of the road with a GPMG. I hide behind the tree as you roar past and I see him coming behind you T2 style. He has no idea I'm there as I step out and unleash half a box of GPMG fire at him, raking the fucker from nose to tail, sparks and smoke everywhere. Yeah, that scared the fucker. he thinks it's your rear gun come to life and he goes up HIGH to avoid it. I notice that he's having trouble now. But that Westworld terminator motherfucker is STILL looking for you. We can hear him, but we know he has to get back to base soon because there's a server restart. There's a few more passes and I fire a few more rounds at him, but eventually he's gone. Now! Drive! Get us home! GO GO GO!! Payoff I didn't see it until you pointed it out. The burning wreckage over in a field as we drove home. The sign of a crashed helicopter. I also didn't see it before you pointed it out - but the lone survivor running through the nearby town being chased by 20 zombies. I wanted us to help this guy - but then you said "no, it's probably him" and turned the truck away from him. We drove on - both hoping it was TomClancy. "What if it was another guy he shot down? Or a burnt out vehicle?" "Fuck him. We can't risk the gear with the server shutting down in 10 minutes". So I get on the group channel. Dogmeat Who's stuck in <town name>? TomClancy You didn't see anything ;) Dogeat Engine trouble? TomClancy Something like that Dogmeat You're welcome <pause> TomClancy Nice shot. And Dave, who survived the whole thing without dying once, who fixed his truck twice and kept his gear and bases smiled - because TomClancy has no idea he even exists. Oh, and Dave has his toys and didn't lose a helicopter today... Seriously, dude. This was all ONE evening. Like... what the fuck? Different level of awesome. Glad I had a few more comments with TomClancy later, because I really thought he made it fun. Even if he pissed off a bunch of players, he didn't take their things or target inactive vehicles. He just made the threat REAL for a while. And as always, we FRAPS'd nothing. Hence the long ass email. Awesome shit, dude.

absolutely not. Its more rewarding to find the bits and pieces yourself and build your weapon. It also makes you spend more time looking around and looting. If you just opened a door and found a fully modded gun then where is the effort? Its not like there is a whole bunch of hobbies and pass times to do ingame yet unless you count fishing or hunting.

Um you do realize that the suppressors dont actually work yet, right?

I switch from my main gun to my side arm when i enter a building or small space. Its easier for the fact that you enter a close quarter combat enviornment and the last thing you need to do is open a door in the barracks to find some dude hiding in there and you have a scoped weapon

looks good to me, uusally helps if you have the resolution set to your monitors main setting. One thing that took me ages to sort out was turning off ambient occlusion, didnt realize that was what was causing the ugly shadow effect over grass and objects on the floor

What other game allows you to sneak up on someone trying to open a can of tactical bacon with an axe and then you handcuff them, only for you to strip them of their attire and force feed them disinfectant while you are blaring Justin bieber songs over direct chat as a form of torture, then teabagging them as you yourself are only wearing underwear? When you are done you force him to watch his friends (if he has any) stab each other with knives that my friends provided to them while under armed guard to see who will survive the onslaught. Then when they fail to answer your questions you can just break their leg, and leave them cuffed while you skip off on your merry way doing the happy surrender wave dance. (Trying to explain this to someone who has never played DayZ got me a raised eyebrow.)

so when did Steve Buscemi start playing Dayz?

But, but, I don't like the little things you cant notice I like the big things, i want cars, why hasn't anyone said we need cars yet. I want to build a base with a walmart on the 2nd floor, I want to laser designate a drone to attack people so if i miss they wont shoot me back, I want trucks, I want to be able to build optimus prime at a workbench I want a helicopter with miniguns and all the charracter skins from COD, They should even add the option to build a rocket to fly to the moon so we can fight zombies up there too. But no seriously dude, you are right in what you are saying, but some impatient people really just dont get that the small fixes and invisible updates are actually important, just because the devs havent included things that ONE person wants out of the 12 million players who have bought the game, then its just not going the way they want it to. Then you get the others that whinge that they want the game to be more like the mod... Well go play the mod instead, buttercup, what is the point of recreating the exact same game to something else thats already out? I like the fact that SA has a different dynamic to the mod. The game is being developed at a steady pace, and all the little bugs and invisible fixes that you don't notice in game doesn't mean the development is going slow at all, it just means its becoming more and more stable, but if its one thing i have learned from the gaming community is you can never please the impatient needy man children who want it all their way and want it now.

...You're driving down a country lane and you see an isolated farm at the back of a huge field and think "Hmm, looks like a perfect place to hold up and barricade."

You will only lose faith if you have little patience. If this game was funded on its own and kept as a development releasing only screenshots and videos you would have nothing to complain about. Whether you like it or not, you are an unpaid beta tester that paid a small fee to have the privelige. If you hav lost faith. Uninstall Dayz and come back next year to see whats new