Acher0n

It makes looting boring. For me, it's this order: Fire station Police station Piano house Cars Red house Green house Everything else gets ignored.

I cant sit on a hill trying to snipe, or run through a town, without the constant bombardment of the noises of a zombie, the noise of someone munching on beans, the noise of a sprite can being broken open, and of course, the constant rattle of a chain-linked fence and snapping twigs. This annoys me so much.

So im sat in Novo, with a mosin, longhorn, mp5 and fnx45. I only keep the longhorn because its rare, the fnx for backup and the mp5 is useless because i have 90 rounds and no mags. I gave up searching for them a long time ago and now play sniper. Just spawned and saw two losers actually prone on top of the sniper tower. Managed to kill one, the second crawled inside, then mosin shots and other rounds started coming at me from all over. Note to self: Do not snipe from the rocks in novo. So, im thinking of ditching novo, but i want a high traffic place to snipe. I cant be bothered sitting for 30 minutes on a 40-man server and seeing one guy run past a house from 800m away. Any suggestions where I should check out? The coast is tempting but i cant think of anywhere good enough to snipe without the risk of someone getting too close with an axe or pistol to end my good run.

I never knew until today you could climb the novo clock tower, all the way to the top. Ive been past it a hundred times and never through to go inside. Anyway, i was stunned at the loot in there, and thought it might be a server glitch, so in order to experiment, i server hopped 4 times to see what was there. I found: 4 mosins 1 sks 1 .22 2 double actions rifles 1 shotgun 3 magnums 1 canteen 1 first aid kit 3 longhorns! 2 long range scopes 1 crossbow On top of this, I probably found 40-50 pieces of food, 40 or so mosin rounds, about 80 9mm/.45 rounds and about 60 or so pieces of clothing, amongst other junk like screwdrivers, damaged can openers, weapon cleaning kits etc. On just one table, was 7 pieces of clothing in one room!! So yeah, give it a try. Although i think its a cracking sniping spot and much better than camper sniping one of the airfields :ph34r:

I'm technically 500m outside the town if that helps. Am I still a bandit if i snipe someone and don't go for their loot/body? If you run around in lean mode, i'll know it's you and promise not to shoot....

OH BUT WE CAN SOON MAKE TENTS. Im with you. Surely the basis for an Alpha is for it to set the foundation for a working game. Constantly adding so much pointless stuff without fixing the initial problems, just makes 10x more work in the future with an Alpha, surely.

I used to be, until i realised the secret of this: Now the game is total easymode.

I spawn at NWAF, do some looting, had about 30 minutes playtime, and then ran to the military base south of the airfield. Did some more looting and logged out in the trees nearby. Realised I was going to make a thread on here, asking for screen shots of peoples character, from the frontpage and of all the stuff they were carrying in their inventory. So, i quickly log back in and just pick a random low pop, 8 player server. The game wouldnt load me back onto the previous server. So, the game loads up, I snap my screenshots, and just as im about to log out, all of a sudden, i hear the sound of eating, and the red broken chain. Frozen, i should have logged out. I stayed for a few minutes then saw a guy running into the barracks about 50yrds in front of me. I ran over and covered the entrance with my AK. I've never used the AK in combat before and wanted to try it. I got the feeling he was a server hopper.... He ran out, I unloaded about 12 rounds into him. He started moving slowly and ran away down the side of the barracks. I had to use the rest of the mag, in 3 round bursts, to finally drop him. I went over, and started looting. Imo, obvious hopper. Lots of decent, high class gear. (This made me realise looting and killing is pointless in this game, because my AK ruined it all). Like a total idiot, I spent ages trying to get the M4 off his body and swapped with my AK. It wouldnt work, and never has. I've never been able to take a weapon off a body. Maybe this is me, or the design of the game. After a good 3 or 4 minutes of pissing about with this guys loot.... bang bang bang. Some goof is now stood about 10 yardsaway popping me with a mosin. He hits me twice but doesnt kill me, doesnt even make me bleed or break a bone, but the screen goes a bit grey. He got 30 rounds in the face from the AK. I walk over to him and try and loot. He had lots too, just as im in the process of stealing his pristine scope for my damaged scope, I hear 3 or 4 shots right next to me and I die. I lost an AK, mosin with scope, fnx45, magnum, morphine, first aid kit, two canteens, 40 AK rounds, 120 mosin rounds, 80 .45 rounds, 60 9mm rounds, 50 magnum rounds, M9A1 bayonet, pristine UK assault vest and gorka camo, my damn pristine aviators and UN beret, binoculars, two protective cases, 300 round box, etc etc etc. Im so annoyed for getting sucked into the "oh look shiny things" mentality and sticking with them bodies for so long. I'm also annoyed that i was clearly killed by a gang of hoppers. Chance of 3 guys, all being at that military base on a server with just 8 players? I can only take happiness in the fact that i managed to down two of them, and hopefully they couldnt spawn and get back to their bodies easily. ;) So yeah, i've decided that combat is counter productive and literally has 0 benefits at all. Tldr : This website got me killed and lost me all my gear.

Is that my fault or the fault of the AKM? Because it felt very very weak, even with confirmed hits.

I dropped into a server yesterday and I was at NEAF. It was about 5am, but still looked pretty dark. Tbh it was just like playing in black and white but it clearly offered much more cover, I felt safer and thought I could hide easier if someone wanted to attack. Is there any real bonus in looting dangerous areas at night, or does everyone just change their brightness or whatever so i'm just in as much danger as daytime?

Can you really see lights and flares from that far away? Im tempted to find a high-pop night server, light a few lamps or flares in or around a building and use it as sniper bait for anyone who might come looking. Maybe the airfield or something like that.

Spawning in Vybor is a very good thing. Just went there today for the first time. Everything was untouched, then took a brief walk to the military base off to the south and found a reasonable amount of loot, and my first ever akm :D

So, Im looting NWAF and I do a full lap from the hangars, fire station, army camp up to the jail/barracks on the far south side. As i'm chilling in some trees near the barracks, the red chain appears. Some guy just logged in, as there was only about 5 people in the server, and straight away, his desync is at 10,000. About a minute later, I see him run into the barracks (with gun out) and start looting. I run up to the concrete wall, but I dont have a mic so I had to type some greetings but I got ignored. He then ran into the shed and I lost sight of him. I was scared he knew where I was so I hid. About 30 seconds later, I see him through the window, inside the barracks. I've a feeling he had red chain too and knew someone was close. I go to the main door, put a bit of right lean on, and he pops out of the last bedroom at the end. I loosed off 7 FNX rounds ultra fast. Im stunned how quick he went down, insta death. Anyway, looted him, he had an SKS on his back and an AKM in his hand. The AKM had no magazine, no stock, no ammo and in it's description box, it just said "..." I picked it up and couldnt aim down the sights so threw it back down and ran away. Is this a game glitch meaning I was just unlucky, or was he some kind of glitching cheater who managed to sneakily get himself an AK? I hope it was, then I wont feel so bad for killing him :D

Cheers guys, I guess i feel a bit bad for killing him now. Meh, nevermind ;)

Spawn into a server, before I even see anything at all, i hear what sounds like a shot/axe stab, then 'you are dead'. Literally, nothing had even spawned on my screen. Did someone seriously randomly happen to be stood in front of me in the 20 seconds of black screen before the shitty game even loads anything to my screen? 10 hours worth of gear, lost. Any ideas what in the fuck happened? Wow dayz, u dun alpha goofed.

Do all servers start at midday when they reset?

I've had an Mp5 but no mags. You cant even load a single round in either. I've never seen an AK, ever, or any mags. The only thing ive seen are wooden and folding buttstocks. Probably been a good 10 hours since I last saw an M4. Every weapon in this game seems to be sks or mosin.

Annoyed much. Anyway, just spawned, into a server with 5 people in. Lasted 5 minutes. Spawned in Grishino, walked out of a house, bang, shot from nowhere, crippled me. Second shot, killed me. I hope the guy who wasted the ammo was delighted with the empty mosin and pristine banana he looted from me. Screw this, im finding a Police station and will now spend my game server hopping over and over.

So, tents with wooden floors dont have loot, but im struggling to find 'balanced' loot anywhere. I've got about 10 hours or so with my current character, running an FNX45, Mosin and MP5. SKS rounds seem very rare, but I dont need them. I've never seen a single AK. Not seen a single M4 since the patch or a single magnum. This journey has taken me from the east coast to NWAF looting as much as possible. I've spent about 4 hours of searching trying to find an LRS for the mosin. I only just found a PU about 20 mins ago at NWAF. I found two mags for the FNX after about 3 hours of searching. 9mm rounds seem rarer than before. Sticks seem rarer than ever. I've given up looking for MP5 mags, however food and 'pointless' items seem seriously over-spawned. Went into one room at NWAF and found a ballistic hat and 3 berets and nothing else... I've tried to vary the servers im joining a little to ensure I'm not constantly spawning into one which has already been looted by hoppers. Anyone else found a problem with loot spawns since last patch?

Related note: Are mosin rounds still bending to the left when fired over long distance?

I wish I could talk to people in the server :( Would make games more interesting if there was a global type chat. I get lonely running around by myself with nobody else to see :(

Just done a full sweep of NWAF. Confirmed, every tent with wooden floor had 0 loot. Only 4 people in the server so unlikely it had been cleared before hand. The only tent with a wood floor that had loot, was one of the two medical tents in the middle of the camp. Only one tent had loot, and it was a box of .22 ammo <_<

Police hat Four protector cases 35 slot backpack Camo pants Glasses First aid kit 1911 P1 FNX45, supressed with RDS 200 .45 rounds. Mosin + Long range scope 160 7.62 mosin rounds. UK Assault vest. Pristine fireaxe. 6 or 7 slots worth of food/drink. All gone, because I stupidly decided to try and use a ladder in this game. "HERP HERP HERP NO YOU DONT!" says Dayz, as it smashes me into the floor in slow motion, insta-killing me. Im so mad right now. Yes I understand Alpha, but please, for fuck sake, fix basic human controls like 'moving' before you start pissing about with cows and fucking tents.

Here's a little story, it's quite long so feel free to ignore it, but something I found quite enjoyable. I've given plenty of criticism to Dayz over it's life. The annoying bugs, glitches and so forth, but i've always stuck with it because I know it can probably be good, just based off gameplay videos/channels like MrBlackout and Frankie. Today, it showed me how good it is. Now, i've only been playing (according to steam) for 50 hours. It's safe to say, i'm not very good. In that 50 hours, i've killed only one other (unarmed) player, my second kill comes later on... I've probably been killed by bandits and other general idiots in excess of 20 or 30 times, plus another 15 or 20 glitch/zombie deaths. Sometimes i've tried to say hello and got shot in the face, other times they found me and owned me without much effort. Any other engagements which i've survived have usually seen me running away with a grey screen and all my gear ruined. So, I download the update today, and i'm north of the NEAF. Decided to check it out, knowing that it had changed. In terms of weapons, i've got a crossbow with no bolts, an FNX45 with 23 rounds and no magazine, and a firefighter axe. There was only about 8 people on the server, so I assumed i'd be ok. WRONG. I run across to the control tower, which is near a car park (police vehicle present too) and also next to a hanger. I search the top and find a Mosin. Brilliant! I already have a long range scope and about 60 rounds so I was happy. Just as i'm leaving, i thought i heard some footsteps downstairs. Prepped the mosin and slowly went down. Didnt see anything on the stairs, and crept down a little further. Decided to check under the stairs and I crapped myself when I saw a guy crouching there. He had an axe on his back and me thought was that he was going to risk axing my head as i ran towards the door. I said 'hi' but he didnt respond and just looked at me. He then lay down (lol). He didnt speak and I was unsure if he had friends. Didnt want to risk letting him live so shot him in the face.... I felt a bit bad for it, but took comfort in the fact i believed he was gonna ambush me. I ran outside and to the fence line. One thing about NEAF compared to the previous version: Trees. Lots of them. So I was on the permiter fence hiding in some bushes. I caught movement on the far side of the field, coming down the hill from the north. Two guys, they looked highly geared and pretty professional. Decided to open fire with my sniper mosin. Missed them both, wasted about 7 rounds and lost sight of them. I knew I should move but decided to stay put. On a related note, mosin sniping is now amazingly easy. The scope sway, even while standing, is pretty much totally gone, you dont even need to breath hold anymore. I can see this getting nerfed in the future. About 5 minutes later, i see these same two guys on my far left. They had come from the north to the fence, been shot at by me, and gone west all the way around to the SW entrance to the base. I think they assumed I had cleared off. I fired another shot and lost them again in trees. They started spraying with M4 fire. A couple of shots came close. I assumed this was a trick to try and force me out of the trees I was in, assuming i would panic and run. Another 3 or 4 minutes passed, and out of the corner of my eye, I see movement. I was like a kid at Christmas. These two guys had come into the base and were now at the back of the warehouse. I was 90 degrees to the right of where they were looking (towards the tower) and about 100m away. I couldnt believe my luck. Bang. Hit the first guy straight in the chest. He dropped immediately and I assumed he'd died. I opened fire on his friend, I hit him but he ran out of my line of sight and went prone. About 3 or 4 minutes later, these two morons pop up in near enough the exact same place. I couldnt believe the guy i hit was still alive. Maybe his friend crawled over to help. When prone, I couldnt see them through the grass. One guy ran to the front of the hangar and the other guy stayed back. The guy at the back then ran forward and I opened fire again just as he started running. Got a chest shot. Then got a moving second chest shot and he went down (again). 3 rounds fired into him now. Was he dead? I didnt have time to check. The other guy now saw me. He opened fire with a couple of mosin shots but missed. I ran like Usain Bolt, along the tree line, heading east, in the direction of where the control tower would have been pre-patch. I ran about 250m, and up the slight incline to the side of the runway. (Btw, when my guy walks and not sprints in open ground because the elevation is like 2 degress, I want to punch my computer - this needs fixing). I spun around and saw the guy trying to flank my forest. He thought he was coming behind my position but actually I'd already ran past and im now behind him. Bang, 300m single shot kill whilst running. Kekeke ^_^ Ran to his body, looted his ammo. He had a LOT of mosin rounds. I probably took about 100 from him, with maybe 30 or so ruined. The rest of his gear was average. I was tempted to run away at this point, the server had about 15 people i now, I knew they'd all want to come to NEAF and the gunshots had been prolonged and plentiful... Still, I wanted to confirm my kill on his friend. It was dangerous to go back, not knowing if he was dead or not, but chanced it. I was delighted when I sneaked over and saw his body. I ran over to loot and was thrilled to see what I had killed. This moron is either a hopper or a professional bandit with his friend. Everything was pristine. He had a 1911, a longhorn, two 300 round boxes, an M4 with more mods than I could recognise, two pristine first aid kits, about 80 rounds of mosin ammo, SIX morphine injectors, pristine clothing including an assault vest with 8 slots, etc etc. This clearly took him a long time to acquire. Muwhahahahahaha :lol: Anyway, i'm looting his body, and trying to get his M4 into my hands. (It wouldnt work, have they fixed this?) Crack, gunfire towards me. Either M4 or AKM shot. Oh shiiiit! After this first crack, about 20 rounds must have been fired at me, probably by at least 2 guys. I sprint away from the airbase, the adrenaline is going, im panicking thinking all my hard work is for nothing, and these guys keep shooting over and over. I managed to draw the mosin and just fired a random shot in the general direction i was being attacked from. Another two or three shots rang out, and one of them actually screamed/whistled past me. Never heard this noise before but it was super loud and was obvious it had just missed my head. It made me panic even more by how loud the whistle was. This was Dayz realism at its best. Luckily, the ground ran down towards a river, so as i ran down it, they lost sight of me. Got to the river which was in a forest, panic sprinted for a good 5 or 6 minutes, hid by a rock for a minute and logged out... :P It took a good 5 minutes for me to stop shaking! Never before has a game made me feel this way. I've no idea why either? Is it because there's so much to lose if you screw up, no easy respawns etc? I dont know what it is, but it's bloody addictive, and i'll be back at that airbase later. So from total useless noob, to slightly less usless all in the space of 20 minutes. Im also delighted to have nailed those two guys, as i dont imagine they were the kind of people who would have said hello and wanted to team up with me. :ph34r: Bohemia, you're crappy Alpha state and bug filled glitchy game has redeemed itself :P