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No offence, but this is way off. He's asking about the AK rail handguard, which I have yet to see in 0.57. He's not asking about the MP5 'stock handguard', He's asking about the stock - the buttstock, the bit that goes against your shoulder. Again, I've yet to see these in 0.57. MP5s do not spawn with stocks in 0.57. Netting is there, but very rare. Hope the OP hasn't been on a wild goose chase as a result.

I'm a British helicopter pilot who was flying a humanitarian relief chopper in from the north. On landing near Myshkino we were overrun by a zombie horde that suddenly broke out of the forest. Being pilots we had only 9mm pistols and were soon overwhelmed, but I managed to get away - with my flightsuit shredded. I managed to find some jeans and a t-shirt but eventually passed out from exhaustion after having run as far south as the coast. Now I'm just trying to stay alive until help arrives. I am slightly losing faith that it ever will though, and spend much of my time simply eliminating as many zombies as I can. I think I may be delusional, because every few weeks or months I pass out all over again and mysteriously awaken on the beach again, back in jeans and a t-shirt, with none of the valuable equipment I have spent hour upon hour collecting. Similarly, just occasionally the floor mysteriously breaks and I fall through it. I can't tell what that's all about, but it's beginning to get on my tits. >:( [will this do?]

I haven't been a teenager for a while, but was unsupervised for much of it and performed no poop smearing. :huh:

My fps is bad enough already, thanks very much.

Untrue. I've used both. I like the hitting power of the 7.62x54 round as well, but they are rare. Plus I prefer the extra range of the hunting scope and its selectable zooms, The PSO is actually pretty disappointing in that respect.

I'm not sure that all deer stands spawn them. Around my home area I've pinned down the two or three which do, but the others tend to be full of arrow quivers, etc. You might have been wasting your time on some of those 50....

Pre-0.57 plate carriers provided no protection at all. Perhaps that's changed. Does anyone have actual numbers to support any of this theorising? Or are we really just choosing our favourite blend of looks and capacity?

What you may have 'withstood' could have been desync... For what it's worth I like the Hicap best. The SMERSH with pack is better for sheer capacity, but there is a an idea (probably just a superstition) that the Hicap offers more frontal protection.

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This is a good point. The recoil on the Winchester is also a bit of a swine and puts your eye well off the target for a second or two. If there was a significant difference in dispersion between the two these might be prices worth paying, but I haven't seen the stats on that (has anyone?).

The latest instalment of my SVD search: Have: Steyr AUG (W) (P) 2x 60rnd mags (P, full) NATO suppressor (P) Spare 5.56mm rounds Seeking: SVD. Thanks

Have: AKM (P) with pristine wooden stock and guard Eastern suppressor (P) x2 Kashtan scope (P) AKM 30rnd mags (P, full) x2 NATO suppressor (P) Seeking: SVD Netting Thanks. Forget it. Put it down - disappeared.

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Slightly obvious point, but sharing and discovering our favourite places means they will no longer be 'secret'....

I get this now and then, along with not being able to find any servers, and Steam cloud mismatches. Apologies if already suggested, but uninstalling via Steam ('delete local content' I think...) and then reinstalling seems to work.

Neither the Mosin with PU, nor the AKM with PSO are sniping weapons. The former has the accuracy but lacks a sight worth much above 200m (if that), The latter has the sight, but not the accuracy IME, especially compared to a Winchester. An AK might be a better all-rounder if you can only carry one gun. But that's why we have the MP5.

Petition to devs: M4, MP5 stock, watches, for reintroduction to loot table please. Definitely in that order though please.

My theory is that still works for stuff that disappears when you deliberately put it down. But not for inventory glitches (stuff that disappears when you're swapping it out, etc).

I don't remember asking people here how to play the game when I started a year ago. It's a game. Get out there and take your chances.

Go and find them for yourself? Perhaps with the aim of one of the several online Chernarus maps? Just a thought.

SVD v. Winchester is a bit swings and roundabouts. Last night I hit a player twice with my Winchester from about 500m and he managed to crawl away and log out... >:( Had I been shooting 7.62x54 he probably would have died, but then I might not have had the ammo to spare, plus the PSO might have diminished my chances of hitting him.

There are quite a few inventory and carrying glitches in .57 that it might be helpful to list. This is not my way of having a go at anyone, appreciate WIP/alpha and how hard the devs are working. What follows might be helpful to the uninitiated though. Some of these glitches are reasonably common knowledge, but others are not. Obviously a lot of these bugs are unintended consequences of trying to improve the inventory system: 1. If you have something in your inventory (such as a pistol or SMG), take it out, put something in the space it occupied, and then try to put it back, you will drop it. 2. If you try to open a can of food and there is no spare space in your inventory for it, the can will often disappear. However, if you have things in your inventory with spare carrying spaces (spare jackets, trousers, cooking pot, etc), it may turn up there. 3. This also goes for apples, sticks and other found items if you have no spare inventory space. 4. In this way you can be carrying an item of clothing inside your own clothing, with items inside it. But if you remove that item of clothing, you will not be able to put it back where it was in your clothing without removing the items within it first. It's a kind of accidental vest-ception, except that it only really works one-way... 5. If you swap an item of clothing - especially jackets or trousers - for something on the ground, the original item and anything in it will usually vanish. So before you swap clothing, first be sure you want to do it, and, second, put items from the old clothing into the new clothing before doing the swap. 6. If you are double carrying a gun and vault over an obstacle, you will usually drop the carried gun. (You can usually find it at the obstacle though). 7. If you have an item in your hotbar and take it into your hands, it will often just disappear from its hotbar assignment. This is especially true if you log out with the item in your hands. 8. If items disappear by way of the glitches above, logging back in will not usually cause their reappearance.

11. When double carrying, if you put the gun down, or pick it up, it will replay the reload animation, in all it's noisy glory.

The other interaction that happens quite a bit (to me anyway) is the one where the other char either doesn't have a mic or pretends not to, then you circle around each other, or look at each other from a distance, and then you just back away. I never say 'friendly' or 'I'm friendly' at first - usually something a bit more engaging like asking how they're doing, anything they need, where they're running to, etc. If someone is simply not a threat to me, I won't kill them. If I think the other char feels like I'm not a threat to them, I'll try to kill them. :D But broadly my paranoia is in direct proportion to how well geared I am.

People already do....