I used to write little bandit stories here in the day... Long long time ago. What a strange long trip it has been. After spending some time getting used to the game again. I found myself alone, no Squad anymore, no Clan, just me and a double barrel rifle with a stun baton. Fully charged battery and to make sure, a good lick to seem like I wanted to eat it was enough to let me know it had a pretty good charge. Starting in Elektro, I headed NorthWest, following the mountain and roaming with a Campass. So many new places I have never been. New Military bases had been setup, however they all fell just as quickly as those before them. Roaming with the undead and scavengers seeking treasures in the clutches of death. Maybe it was simply my turn to find something good this time? Somehow...I had found myself by the Military base close to Vybor. Looking for Downed Helicopters had proved to be fruitless... A Blue Baklava certainly did not blend in with anything and my quilted green jacket was ruined from the rain. The Military base provided a very suitable backpack...with Police Station offering more goods of ammo for my Double Barrel Rifle...I eagerly found myself chamber rounds to make sure at least had a few shots to scare off a would be bandit. Considering I just came back to DayZ... I doubt anyone who has spent weeks, or maybe even a month collecting some gear would want me to shoot them. I always find looting the barracks nerve racking... Relieved doors now made sounds I made sure to close every single one behind me and carefully looted each room. Keeping an angle with the window so firing in would not prove fatal and give me a chance to escape. ... A plate holder seems like a very interesting item... A vest would help save my life if I need to. Turning around after trying on the new vest I step outside the far end of the barracks, furthest from the door. Its open... My heart quickly jumps into my throat... I feel myself go prone, dropping down in the hallway, double barrel rifle pointing towards the door. A moment of silence I consider moving... Maybe hes in a room next to me? No... I would have heard him. I quickly push my doubt aside and wait... My patience pays off as someone pokes their head around the corner. I instantly unload two rounds into the guys neck. His head fades back behind the door... I find myself quickly breathing hard again, wondering if I had killed him. A moment of silence passes I get up and deciding to run out, stun baton in hand to see what is going on... I see nothing...Infact... I damn near trip over the corpse of the guy I killed... and man was he loaded... AK, Green Baklava... green vest, pants, everything... I was no longer a mismatch of blues and blacks like an abused stepchild released onto the world. http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/537392605679780867/CAE2CB53C8E4BEE590D1C576182499779061DC09/ I would say, after so long of coming back to DayZ. I am glad to see much of the games core remains intact... Fights are still life or death...and now decently geared on DayZ... I hope to get some more great kills...and be killed in the most brutal of ways.

Yes Steak, I did. Feel free to move it. Its good to be back!

This Guide is currently up-to-date with 1.7.2.3 This guide maybe outdated with 1.7.2.4 There is a rumor that loot now checks to see if anyone is within 30m inside of a building. This would require every individual to leave a building for loot to properly refresh and recycle. I have yet to have a post to confirm however that loot respawns without touching a loot pile. (Old loot is automatically cleared out regardless of interference from the player.) I see this as a positive change and making gathering equipment much more dangerous. It is good to see steps being taken to improve loot mechanics. I do not recommend reading this thread if you like to be immersed in Day-Z or do not like PVP. The guidelines below are an explanation of how I think loot mechanics work for 1.7.2.3. This is subject to change as new updates are released. Just as some people do not like loot maps or chopper maps, this falls under the same category. I recommend taking a peek at this thread for a Weapon Chart to see what kind of weapon you might want. Big credit to Izviral Hey everyone. I am going to be writing a guide to how to properly farm or generate loot from buildings. This guide will break down into several phases. Character Spawns, Distance, and Clearing a building. When you character spawns into an area, loot will not generate if you are within 30m of a structure. Coming into a buildings location within 200m will start to cause the building to spawn Zeds. That person whoever is closest will START to generate loot. Loot is connected to one individual. Sometimes, if you get to close to a building, before ten minutes of Zeds spawning, Loot will not generate because you got too close to the structure and the items inside are connected to you. Clearing a building (BESIDES Copter crashes) is an easy job, it is preferred you have more than one person, but one will do just fine. In order for loot to respawn properly, you will need to pick up everything in the one loot spot and drop it off somewhere else. This includes Tin Cans or Whiskey Bottles. Inside you can start your own trash pile. If you do not CLEAR a building out of EVERYTHING inside of it, that loot will NEVER despawn until the next server restart. This is important. Clear out everything from the generated loot piles in buildings. More loot piles cleared = More Loot chances. If you are alone, you will need to exit whatever building you are clearing and either go somewhere else, or camp outside of it further away than 30m. Keep in mind if you leave 200m of a building, Zed's will despawn and the loot will not generate. If you have more than two people in your group. Both individuals need to log out or be further than 200m away. The person who is covering or has the loot tied to their personal character timer, needs to sign in first or be closer to the 200m range before the second person going in to clear the building gets too close. That person then needs to inform the individual who will be CLEARING the building that zombies are now spawning. This indicates the zombies are tied to the first person. The individual should now go in or move within 200m of the building, sit in a safe spot, wait, and loot will start to spawn within ten minutes. Pick up loot, keep what you want and dump what you don't need in the trash pile you have started. This is a great effective way to farm just about anything besides Heli-copter loot. I hope you enjoyed this guide to collecting and farming loot. Cheers, Ravin. Edit - Keep in mind whenever you are farming high valued targets, (Barracks, Tents, Firestation, Vybor, Starry, NWairfield, Ect.) People will know you are there and you will /always/ be at a disadvantage. You better be ready for a firefight and put those barbed wire, tank traps, and sandbags to good use. You will need it. Edit 2

Does anyone know the distance you can set off a Satchel Charge? I plan on... blowing up 'the-place-that-shan't-be-named' and putting it up on youtube. It is 300m. Thanks Tenedris Drako.

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My post has nothing to do with information relating to this thread, but posted in other threads about other individuals BEFORE he made this thread. Its hypocritical.

So, I have been reading up on DayZ and WarZ the past couple of days... And I can't help but think Rocket might come out and just go "Yeah guys, I made WarZ. Trolololololol" As you can tell, I am very unserious about this topic and just kinda posting a 'What if' ordeal. Place your bets now.

Okay, Ill bite. Im not sure how productive it is to look at someones personal information, when you as a forum moderator, should be protecting their privacy. I think its real hypocritical to go about poking fun at people in other threads, then boast about how 'Internet security is lacking' and basically mock individuals because you are in a position to look at their personal information. Not only that, but to share it with other individuals. I am... not really sure how I feel about this community team if this is how they conduct themselves.

Take all of my beans.

Let's talk about weapon combinations, but we are going to add some basic rules. You can only have as many slots as there is to offer, limited to an alice pack. Most people have Alice Packs and they are the more common, second largest backpack. Alice backpack has 20 Slots. You have 9 Inventory Slots. You have 8 Secondary Slots. Lets talk loads, and best optimization for combat situations. Snipers included. So for example, You have one Primary slot, secondary, and enough space to carry one additional weapon in your backpack. My loadout would consist of- M4A1 Holo, Primary. L85 in the backpack (For Spotting). Both use stanag mag and stanag SD mags, making the weapon share ammo helps free up space. Carrying roughly four clips, two spare in the backpack. Secondary would be the PDW. Why PDW? It uses almost every single 9x19 mag.M9 Mag, M9 SD Mag, PDW Mag, PDW SD Mag, G17 Mag, MP5 Mag, MP5 SD Mag. This varsity is important due to the M4A1 Holo's Grenade Launcher attachments. PDW Mag and MP5 Mag's BOTH have 30 shots of ammo in it... Making one clip of either have nearly five times the ammo of most pistol clips. To boot, the MP5 Mags takes up a main inventory slot. Freeing up space for your M203 HE Grenades and M203 Smokes. M203's also go roughly 600m to 800m~. So once you get good with judging its distance and aim... Its a pretty nice mortar type weapon to flush people out of buildings or cover. The backpack would then most likely have one epi-pen, blood bag, pain killer, morphine, two bandages and various food/drinks. (two of each) and the last few slots backed up with HE M203's. What Loadout would you guys use and why? Try to be as detailed as possible.

I run with smokes sometimes too-- In main or M203. I like it personally. I am not sure if its intended or not, but from where you launch the M203 smoke to where it lands, it drags all the zombies from around you, to where it lands plus the distance traveled. I also have never hit a player with a M203 smoke- I wonder if the direct impact does damage. I also use smokes to bring down buildings without the explosions of grenades. 2-3 smokes will level a building with the current glitch with smoke grenades.

Friendship is Magical. Come now.

Bison is terrible... It does as much damage as a pistol does- Its ammo is extremely rare. Its not worth carrying around. It also lacks a scope, range is a meek 100m, and at night it has a BRIGHT muzzle flash that is not hard to miss in a firefight. Making you stick out like a sore thumb, even if it is silenced.

You can't even restart the server if a hacking takes place and you lose your vehicles. This was recently added to server rules somewhere. Your reasons for restarting the server is very, very small. 11. As a server admin you must not: You are not permitted to ban players for killing yourself or clan members. You are not permitted to shutdown your server when your killed. You are not permitted to shutdown your server when you lose a vehicle. You are not permitted to kick or ban for smacktalk. You are not permitted to ban for suspected cheats or exploits of a non-server-disruptive nature, including but not limited to ghosting, unverified cheating, duping and similar, UNLESS you have solid evidence, IE logs.

I think a big part of this has to do with the respawn button removal and when you are offline it still counts your time. Less Respawns = Longer Life expectancy. Counter while Offline = Higher Averages.

Oh god... that video needs to be linked on the DayZ Twitter...

I think if you could remove the tips of the HE (which most of the weight comes from the casing and powder to launch the grenade) it might be very possible. Rocket seems to be really considering crafting, I hopes he adds a dismantling feature also to make ANYTHING worth picking up to use it. Like tin cans be ripped down to scrap metal. Rocket needs to add a flare gun, which can use Road Flares and M203's. I am finding these in residential buildings all the time now. Not sure if this is intended or not.

Can we have an update on what DayZ Staff is doing to the website? The HIVE has been going nuts for the last couple of days. There are a few changes I am noticing going around, that are not limited too: Signatures seem to have all their limitations lifted. (Lolwat? I don't think this is intentional...) Beans now have a Cap and Limit per day. Bottom of the Pageview to see what members/guests are viewing the threads have been disabled. What are the other changes we are to be expecting? It would be nice to have some kind of communicate/update. Also requesting/suggesting a 'Website' section under 'Support'. Any questions or comments about the Website itself seem to fall into a black hole.

Reported for Scripting.

Damn Hipsters. Get off my Lawn!

Never noticed- you can't really hide any information about yourself on DayZ... Their Private Policy is also very generic and cookie cutter... Now that I think about it, it has me concerned.

Rocket said you can't be banned for using hacked equipment, only finding it. It is frowned upon to use hacked equipment, but not bannable.

Bump.

Dude, holy fuck. Rest that hand and stop playing games. Let it heal. I assume by almost means you sustained some damage.

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