The_Monk

In that situation I'd rather roll a mosin than an M4. The mosin only needs one bullet, so long as you aren't shit and can actually hit them.

After another army dude hunt, around 13 kills to our 2 deaths, another gear up session and I am some kind of cowboy man.

Player interaction not PVP is the point of DayZ. PVE only servers, your entire player interaction will be saying "Hey" as you walk past them. Normal, non pussy servers, player interaction can be a heavily geared guy begging a fresh spawn for a blood transfusion, a gunfight in elektro, a trade deal, giving a gun to fresh spawn and not knowing if they are going to shoot you in the back, killing a group of bandits harassing people, or being that group of bandits. I'm all for zombies being retardedly hard, one punch killing machines that run for days. Won't stop me planting a high calibre rifle round in someones chest when I need to exfil, or kneecapping someone so that the zombies eat them and not me.

Zombies add a lot to the game, but if I just want to fight zombies with a bunch of people to back me up that I am not meant to shoot at, I'll play left 4 dead.

I didn't suggest that, you're grasping at straws there.

That is the point, they will never be the bigger threat. An AI will always act the same way, you figure out its patterns and you work out how to neutralise that threat the easiest way. You can almost never predict how a player or group of player will react to a certain scenario. Run when they should fight, fight when they should run. That unpredictability creates tension.

AI will never give you the same tension as humans. AI is predictable, humans are not.

Not talking about mil grade, they are adding LMGs so why limit the ability to attach them to things. Cut the back half of the roof off that vehicle, basic rollover hoop, pintle mount and PKM. Gives you around 45 deg fire arc to lay down hate but leaves gunner very exposed.

Lizardman. He lives at green mountain.

It takes around half an hour in game to find enough food and water to survive for quite a while. Are you suggesting we just go play something else after that? Mission accomplished? Also more scrap machines.

It that a fucking rocket mule?

They were terrible bandits. I feel you taught them a valuable lesson. Though I did like old mate's "Look over there at that barn" before trying to axe you.

Bulldozer APC.

The fences/trees were always destructible in the mod. Makes sense that they are in standalone. Pretty much the only thing you can't blow up in the mod is the green mountain tower.

After 160 hours, got hit by my first hacker today. We hit him with 2 mosin rounds, suddenly he teleports away, we begin to bleed and our rifles won't fire anymore.

But the CTS-V isn't a 911 model.

Run like mad bastard mixed with melee like a mad bastard.

Good place to make bambi hunters pay.

It essentially gives you double the bullets to suppress someone. Half the bullets I fire are to make someone keep their head down while a friend flanks.

Whenever there is a lag spike, when everything catches up you hear a close angry zombie. It is entirely possible that during the lag spike you were somewhere else on other peoples screens.

Keen. Technicals are a powerful and vulnerable thing. You're in a fixed point, a single rifle round removes you but you can lay down some serious pain.

I don't know if you can read it, but I get this successful update initialising message in the bottom corner. I get about 15 minutes and then the same "Failed to Update" kick. I've tried to good ol battle eye reinstall and that bumped it up to about 25 minutes.

Well, I'm in a different time zone to you so I may have to donate in an overlap or pull an all nighter :P

Let me know when you do this, I'm keen to start again on HC and am willing to donate gear. Character has been alive for 2 months and that bothers me.

I think you need to update your location then.