Mookie (original)

Mod or standalone? Also, your signature gif does not inspire confidence....

This isn't right. Yes they are still fixed, but at the same locations they were in .55, not NWAF. And they have loot now, including the SVD at Mi-8 crashes.

The scopes, sights (the carryhandle is still a sight), mags and even suppressors (hurray!) are spawning. But I've seen a lot of crashsites in .57 and no M4s or M4 stocks or handguards at all. I think someone would have found one by now given that the locations of the sites are still fixed.

I wish this patch all the best. It does seem that crash sites are working again... 3rd person, stable. Have: Steyr AUG (D) 30 rnd M4/AUG mag (full, P) Seeking: Hunting scope (anyone found one yet?) MP5 stock Thanks

One of the little luxuries of a wipe (my precious M4...sob :( ) is that, running around with nothing or very little, you have nothing to lose. Last night a bunch of us got friendly at the coast and just ran around having a good time. First time I've done that in months. And if someone had shot me, I really wouldn't have minded...

Haven't been on for a few days, so a little concerned about my encampment (which currently contains lots of nice stuff). My three mil tents still there. Must have picked quite a good spot (for once). But my truck server has simply disappeared.... So did a pretty long run to the NW bus garage and practised sniping Zs. Also poked around at the Lopatino and Vybor crash sites. The helis are now waaay off where they're supposed to be, so I tried my luck at where the original spawnpoints were. Either I was looking in the wrong place or someone had got there first. Then popped into Vybor mil base, to be greeted by an immense lootgasm - so bad that it crashed the game a couple of times. Loads of guns, but no mags. Guy started trying to shoot me through the barracks windows. No response to my saying 'it doesn't have to be this way!', so moved into the bathroom and waited him out. Sure enough, in he comes and I blapped him. Did manage to find a green tie-able bandana, and a camo head bandana, so fashion sense is flying high right now.

I'm not concerned about too many M4s... :D It keeps the trading thread and community active, after all. We don't want to end up trading damaged rags for pipe wrenches or anything.

Still time to get down to the coast, wave my M4 around and hopefully die spectacularly then.

I don't really want aircraft at all. But if we're going to have them, agree with Boney on the one per server, eight passengers, and ideally no offensive capability.

With working loot? Thanks.

Has 0.57 rolled out for stable then? Can't tell as am at work and the only update I've seen said it might be delayed for stable until later in the week...

My worst death was a couple of months ago when my three-month old, massively geared guy put 15 rounds of 5.56 into the head and back of someone coming up the stairs at the VMB jail. None of them did anything to him whatsoever. He turned, and I was insta-dead. It's always tempting to suspect a hack,but desync is the more likely culprit. That or 5.56mm :D

And they always spawn at the same three places (to the north of Stary, to the west of Veresnik Hill, and to the NW of Lopatino. Because of this they are usually insta-looted and/or heavily camped by classy snipers.

There's certainly something in this in the EU/UK. The lowest ping servers are almost always clan ones. But ping doesn't seem to affect my game that much. Even around 200ms it's perfectly playable, while some very low ping servers I've been on have horrendous lag.

OP asked about best all-round gun in the game. Not gun combination, or IRL.... Just sayin'.

What, when your tape copy of 3D Defender for the 16K ZX81 was overwritten? :P Seriously, this persistence/CLE thing is beginning to look like a bit of a mess. I get the alpha point, but it's really starting to put people off either getting into the game in the first place, or continuing with it.

We've been around this particular circle more than once. I think the conclusion, based on some relatively objective game stats, was that the M4 was best (and, yes, obviously, I am an M4 fetishist). Why? Because it's the most modular gun in the game. Put a CQB stock and a BUIS on it in town and it's like an SMG. Put a MagPul stock, a rail, bipod and an ACOG on it for open country and it works pretty well as a sniper out to about 400m. I'm so bored in game right now that I've tested this quite exhaustively. Now, in fairness, the AKs are also pretty modular, the PSO has better magnification than the ACOG, and the AKM's 7.62x39 round has better stopping power. But the two red dot sights available for the M4 are just great all-rounders - and the AKs currently lack them. Also, in fairness, in .57 the M4 may not well exist at all (just as it didn't exist for one or two patches around 0.46). Other than that, don't discount the SKS as a good all-rounder.

I usually kill squeakers automatically. I get that they can't help being 11 or whatever, but I really don't have time for them. Thing is, not to confuse a squeaker with a laaaaaydee - whom I certainly would never KoS. I spent much of last week building a sweet camp at just about the most obscure spot I could find, only to log in to the server yesterday and find that all three pristine mil tents had disappeared, as had the fireplace, etc. Nothing left on the ground at all - not even my assorted comedy hat collection. This is unlike my experience of proper raiding where people usually take the good and leave the crap. Meanwhile, about 2km away there's a tent in a much more obvious spot (which I've left alone, hey, we're neighbours) which was entirely untouched. Not the first time I've had mystery disappearances on that server, so logged into another and immediately found three pristine mil tents in a lootgasm. So have set them up somewhere different... Tent hunting is a serious pastime for some. I might get into it as an alternative to crash running, but it's a risky occupation.

I think you might be right.

These are the dog dayz. If heli crashes are actually working in .57 I'll play it. If not, maybe not. I do find myself wondering what the point of persistence is. Crashes don't work, trucks don't spawn anymore, harder and harder to survive as a newspawn. People just aren't having that much fun (as evidenced by the huge drop-off in players since April). If that means a 'game' that some of the priesthood here want to play, but no one else does, so be it I guess.

Some of those noises (the gate closing in the distance, etc) are deliberately there to keep you on your toes. Others (the loading and eating sounds) are not. The one thing I hope the devs don't change (and yes I know this is a very small thing) is the ambient birdsong. I'm a big fan of that for some reason.

Uh, I have a helmet in my jeans all the time anyway. Sorry.

Tac shirts aren't waterproof. Unless something's changed, the plate carrier itself offers little if any ballistic protection. I prefer Gorka gear (jackets def are waterproof - not that it ever actually rains in game at the moment), and hi-cap vests.

Getting this on every viable server. Could uninstall/reinstall, but wonder if anyone else having the same problem? Thanks.

Mod/Dev attention pls. Thanks.