Mookie (original)

The point about weapons is making your mind up and sticking with it. Or you end up having to find (and lug around) too many varieties of ammo. If I was you, I'd keep the 101 and (probably) the sawn-off. Here's why. The 101 is one of the best all-round rifles in the game. It's more accurate than the AKM, even if it lacks a bit of stopping power in comparison. If you run enough barracks (Zeleno should be good for this), you will find mags. Alternatively, the MP5 should be tradeable for more than one 101 mag. And once you find or trade for a PSO, you'll have one of the best all-round weapons in the game (I prefer an M4, but it's a tough choice). Ammo for the sawn-off is very common, it has serious short range stopping power, and with the reloaders you have, the two shot capacity issue is improved. Also, with something like a 101, your need for a CQB weapon is slightly decreased. A lot of people use M4s, for example, with no sidearm because they don't really feel they need one. MP5 stuff is pretty rare, and usually involves looting police stations, which are pretty high risk areas. It's a great gun, but hard to support (and it eats ammo). The 1911 is nice, but not as good as the FNX45 IMO (which has twice the mag capacity and the same or similar damage stats). Just my view, and others will disagree.

I'm not going to talk about security issues. But to be very prosaic: 1. Can we have our bipods back? Please? Pleeeeeease? 2. Developments on persistence? Appreciate how complicated this is in terms of server management, etc, though 3. Heli crashes. Can we either take out the Mi-8s and go back to three UH60s per restart, or have proper Mi-8 loot please. 4. I'm all for the footwear "feature". But let's not go nuts please. Also, it's great that duct tape will finally have some uses, including holding your boots together. Loot duct tape now people. Thank you, that is all.

Black baseball hat. And an M4.

In my recent experience, tents fit fine in backpacks (including my Hunter one, which was a small surprise). What they don't do is survive persistent server restarts, when pitched in secluded woodland locations, thereby losing the spare M4 and other goodies that you have stashed inside them. No more tenting for me until persistence is fixed.

I won't KoS as a choice, but for the most part I start shooting if people startle me, and then either I get shot or they do. There's little or no skill involved in these encounters, and I take no pleasure in them. Either someone's wasted days or weeks of my playing life, or vice versa. For the most part I avoid player interaction, unless it's in a structured way. Trading is a particularly nice way of doing this, and I also try to help people who are desperate for a particular piece of kit (usually M4s, or M4 attachments) that I have. So I've evolved into a combination of lone wolfing, crash hunting, trading, and occasional camp building. Put my first tent up (with Grundlesmuggler's assistance) yesterday - it was nice to learn a new set of things in the game.

George, the longer you live and the better your gear, the harder the choices will become about what to drop. Also, silencers haven't spawned in 0.49 (and IIRC they didn't in 0.48) because they have no practical effect, yet. The only 'silenced' gun that actually functions as such is the Amphibia. If I find another FNX I'll be in touch.

Traded with Grundlesmuggler earlier. Nice guy, totally trustworthy. Also, Malmborg, hate to be spelling Nazi, but it's "pristine".

If the non-English speaker is of southern European origin, you just attach an 'o' to the end of every other word. If the speaker is of Russian or other Slavic origin you do the same, except with 'off' and 'ski'. Bingo, instant understanding. If the speaker is of American origin, just give up.

I quite like your musical sensibilities Weyland, but your vids are a little out of date. I think the static spawn in the first doesn't exist, while the southern spawns have been deleted as of 0.49. In addition, of the three spawns per server restart, a random number will be Mi-8 (ie Russian) spawns as opposed to UH60 (NATO) spawns. And as the Mi-8 spawns are quite badly bugged, this makes crash site finding much more difficult than it was in 0.48: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/212915-mookies-guide-to-helicopter-hunting/ To the OP, the likelihood of finding a specific item in DayZ is in directly inverse proportion to how hard you look for it. So do something else and then you'll find whatever it was you were looking for by accident.

Might be an idea to post phonetic versions of the Russian. 99% of English speakers are not only totally unfamiliar with the Cyrillic alphabet, but also with the phonetics of translated Cyrillic...

No, those are the arguments you've selected as the 'best' because you want something easy to knock down. The communications 'realism' of Standalone is already hugely compromised by third party software, and 'realism' in general has to be balanced against 'enjoyable'. Otherwise you wind up with the breathing in and out button, the pooping, etc, etc. I don't think I'm alone in liking some of the ideas pilgrim and bluesydave are discussing here.

In before the 'unrealistic, immersion-breaking' brigade arrive. I'm post-mod so never experienced it, but would love to have global text (not voice).

We feel your pain. You'll be good as new in a few days. Were you snarfing antibiotics on the off chance that they'd work for hypothermia? :D

Sorry - can't see your pics for some reason. Anyway, you get the idea...

Were you indoors? Because that's bugged and won't warm you up. You need to light it outside for that - ideally in an area hidden from prying eyes. :)

Excellent advice Grundle. Have to confess that given the stand still bug, I'm way to terrified to even consider throwing one of my many grenades.

Nope. I mean I'd just like bipods to spawn again (they haven't at all in 0.49 as far as I'm aware) so that we AK and M4 users can try to pathetically snipe with our weenie guns.

Mmm. Bit worried about how the ratios work at the long-lived end of this. But then I guess the people you're trying to incentivise are the short-lived...

Speaking of which (all 3rd person, regular): HAVE: M4, with MP stock (P), MP guard (P), carryhandle optics (P), and 40rnd mag. ALSO HAVE: M9A2 bayonets for M4 (P) x2 M68 optics (W) Magpul stock (P) x2 Magpul guard (P) WOULD LIKE: Tent. And possibly some light tutoring in how to use it... :blush:

You can always go and get your kit beaten up by Zs if you want it to be worn/damaged/badly damaged and look progressively more 'natural'. I would like more options for burlapping or camo'ing up guns though. If you can do it to a Mosin, why not to the others?

Already have one of those I'm afraid, with all the trimmings. Only thing I'm after now is a tent...

To clarify Grundle, you have the balaclava and are wanting the M4 and stock? I do now have a spare M4, with a pristine MP stock, but am not a fan of that balaclava I'm afraid :)

Just traded with pissedoff88. All went smoothly, nice guy. Speaking of which, it is possible to trade between US and EU players - you just have to be a bit patient in finding a server that works for both...

Updating.

This is not the way I play. What you're doing (which is fine by me btw) is lone looting and PvPing, although in effect you're KoSing - probably what half the people in game do. I've had no need to loot a fixed military location for the past three weeks. I do have a look at occasional crash sites, but only because I'm looking for an M4 for a friend. If/when I see players like you, I will avoid you like the plague and only engage you if I absolutely have to.