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M4s, as far as we can work out, are not currently in the game. Bear traps are really easy to find btw...

The 225 square kilometres around my house... Seriously, a chunk of London, a chunk of suburbs and some rural Surrey/Sussex countryside. I'm just trying to not suggest something north American...

I really like SP as an option. Mind you, there sort-of already is an SP option - it's called a zero pop server...

Excellent, thank you. Many beans to you.

This started a few patches ago. The servers default to track your domestic time; aids immersion, can see why. I don't think I'm alone in pointing out that this is a disservice to those of us in full time work and/or have families, however.. It does tend to get better though, as a patch gets on, and server owners become more discriminating.

I can't really see the point of putting an ACOG on an MP5. The gun's accuracy just doesn't justify it....

Certainly in mating season, at least here in the UK, foxes have an eerie habit of sounding like babies in pain. I, for one, welcome this brave new world of sounds.

The hotbar has become slower and slower over the past three days. Now it has simply ceased to function, over five four different servers, all separate providers. This game... :huh:

I would post my gear (which I'm pretty happy with), but my character screen just shows me wielding a canteen in an aggressive fashion. What's up with that?

Last night I was practising against a Z at around 700m with my scoped Winchester. I visibly hit him three times (saw blood), but he stayed up. Not sure if a problem with the Winchester, or a problem with distant Zs. I've had this before though - with both Mosin at long range and M4/MP/ACOG. You can visibly hit them over and over again, but they stay up. Which perhaps is stinkenheim's point about animation triggers.

Are foxes...edible? Volunteers please form an orderly queue...

Is it the number of animals? Or their settings (which I think were changed a couple of patches ago)? I've seen a boar and a deer, but they also see me from a helluva long way away, and run away very fast... Pre 0.54 or so, they would just hang around grazing until you hit them with an axe, which did seem a trifle unrealistic.

Yes. Especially on long journeys. Get out and have a pee/stretch your legs, etc. When you say "the server was about to restart" do you mean you already had "no message received for..."? In which case it was already restarting and you were doomed to go back to square one... If I'm in a truck and the hour is about to strike, I get out just to be safe.

There is a band of purists who refuse to use the out of game maps. In which case just follow a road, railway or power lines. Oh, and there's always the old thing about the clouds moving west to east... I know the western half of the map off by heart now, and can have a good go at knowing where I am in the east. You get used to landmarks (Green Mountain Tower, Veresnik Hill, the Orsha radio mast, that big stony hill near Cherno, etc), and to your routes. I can get from almost any spawn to home base in the far northwest without a map or compass now, usually via Dolina, Nadezhdino or NEAF/northern highway.

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The Winchester with a scope is a monster of a gun. I've yet to have the opportunity to try an SVD, but the scoped Winchester is at least the equal of a scoped Mosin (and perhaps slightly more accurate at ranges over 500m). Plus the sound of the thing is really good. It has bass.

Loved that story. I wouldn't put it beyond the Gods of DayZ that the CR75 duped itself when you tossed it, he picked up the one that hit the ground, and it worked.... At least you were relatively fresh and didn't have much to lose.

This seems really bad at the moment. If you can get back into the same server (check about 3/4 of the way down your .cfg file for its name and IP), look around where you were. Sometimes it's there but has magically appeared a few feet away, or on the other side of a wall, building, etc. Sometimes just logging in and out will work, but I've tried that recently and it doesn't :(

Definitely this. Or if anything worse. I've not had a good day in 0.57. The inventory system seems a real mess now. For example, if I select items by inventory numbers, they disappear from the number slot, don't go back when I put them away, and I just have to reassign them every time (which is a bit of a chore). Selecting things from inventory numbers in the first place, which seemed smoother when 0.57 was first released, now seems much slower - a good 5 seconds or so. Things have always vanished now and then when I put them on the ground, but it now seems worse than ever. Opening tins will often just see them disappear. Many servers, not just Vilayer ones, seem to have become entirely loot-free. Not a sausage. And I'm in the far north west, not on the coast, looking in unfamiliar places. Don't try repairing anything back to pristine status - like it was two or three patches ago, you can only get to worn (which is fair enough). Firearms do not seem to degrade (or if so, at a much slower rate. Just as well really, because I've only seen a single repair kit). However, the silver lining is that on one of the only servers I've found today that did have any loot, I finally found a hunting scope for my Winchester, which is a beast of a gun. :D

The DayzDB map is out of date (and probably being updated...). It does not show loot locations for new items, for instance. There are currently three, fixed crash site locations in 0.57, just as there were in 0.55.

I really do like the way the Zs are more evenly distributed around the map now. A couple of patches ago, the NW bus garage and the far northwest towns never had zombies. Pre 0.57 nor did the Myshkino tents. Sometimes there are none, but I prefer to be kept on my toes...

That's completely right IME - very, very server dependent. I only escaped death by a narrow margin this evening when I attracted a horde in Zeleno, only to have the server completely fritz out on me.

I'm pretty sure you're right. If I want AK attachments, for example (not that I need them), I know exactly where to go. Have: ACOG (P) Kashtan scope (P) Seeking: Hunting scope (P/W) MP5 stock (P/W) Thanks.

I think I'm going to be a fan of the Winchester too. Ammo's not that hard to find. Just need a scope now...

If you're on stable (?) the locations are the same as they were in .55 - Lopatino, Stary, Veresnik Hill. Perhaps on some definitions that's "just outside" NWAF ^_^