Xianyu

I am so freaking happy. Kinda lame bandit though. Me and a friend were in the barracks when we heard footsteps. Some guy used proximity chat to talk to us, asking if I was friendly (my friend was in the bathroom, hidden from them). I was like 'lolnope', because, seriously. Friendly? Barracks? GTFO. After that he reckons 'well leave or we'll kill you' and I was all just 'bring it'. One entrance. Can't shoot through windows. I have a M14... And, strangely enough, the guy says he's leaving, or more accurately 'okay, we're leaving'. But I play DayZ enough to smell a trap. So I sprinted for the last room in the barracks, and LO AND BEHOLD, if the little pricks friend hadn't JUST logged in to that room. He popped out a round or two (lawls, he just spawned and was stuck on 'semi' fire rate) and earned about...maybe five or six rounds to the chest from a M14 for his troubles. I have never seen one character BLEED so much. Looked like a bucket full of water with holes punched in it. And the sad thing was, he didn't even have NVG for me to steal, and he had an M4. Standard. No special attachments, or nuffink. Anyhow, after that, I logged out, moved servers. Wasn't gonna lose my shit to some little server-jump abusing morons. So, to whoever it was on US74 who tried that trick to get behind me? Get wise, mo-fo. Oh, and have fun respawning.

Yeah, the guy who had said 'okay, we're leaving' actually did leave the server. I know he was just going to server-hop to get inside the barracks. I wasn't going to lose my shiny new pair of NVG's to a group of players who use tactics like that to get an advantage. Sure, I could have stayed prone in the last room, watching the hallway, but what exactly was stopping the guy from spawning in literally on top of me? If the bandits were playing fair, then my friend, who they had no fucking CLUE about, would have killed any of them that stepped into the building. But they weren't playing fair. I have no qualms about hopping to another server to avoid people who are abusing the system. Or what, are you going to say 'just because they do it, it doesn't excuse you doing it!' Get. The. Fuck. Out. If someone server hops to gain an advantage on me and my friends, I am not going to play 'fair' out of some sense of 'morality'.

.... this is one of the most horribly throught out ideas ever. Let's put ALL LOOT, on zombies that are glitchy as fuck, attack through walls, sprint faster than you character, can kill you with a single hit after breaking your legs and knocking you unconscious, and will run to a gunshot from a mile away. Yeah, that'll work. Oh, we should totally start survivors with no weapons, too, so that eventually, the game is just 'run away from the zombies'. sorry bro. But your idea is stupid.

As the title says. I've asked around, it seems people are only finding 1886 shells when they spawn next to a winchester.

That is to say ME. I'm coming to a server near you. And I have a toolbox. And I'm removing every goddamn piece of barbed wire I can find. You have been warned. Anyone else with a toolbox gonna join in my barbed-wire abolishing crusade?

Wire in the base of the electric plant firestation has been cut. Happy looting.

So. Direct chat sucks a major donkey sick. Face it. Twenty metres? REALLY? I've heard some people say 40. A HUNDRED would be the minimum I think. You know why? I can deck someone with a .44 pistol at a hundred metres. I can do it at 200 with a rifle. And 500 with a scope. Yeah, blahblahblah 'hurrrdurrr I can do 1000' well fuck you, buddy. No one gives a shit. I'm referencing numbers for the sake of example. Twenty-forty metres of communication is NOT enough. You get within twenty metres of someone in this game, you are DEAD. Normal conversation range is twenty metres, sure. That's talking voice. That's your INSIDE voice. but you see a guy who's checking a loot spot holding a goddamn shotgun, you're not going to get within twenty metres and ask 'Hey, you friendly?' No, you're going to stand as far away as possible, catch his attention, and THEN ask them if they're friendly. From a hundred metres away. Not twenty. Not forty. It literally cripples the ability for survivors to interact seeing as direct chat is their only way to communicate. You know how many times I've let someone get within twenty metres of me without shooting them? Once. And that's because he came up on my flank and I didn't notice him. He didn't notice me either. If I had of seen him coming from a hundred metres out? I'd have dropped him without hesitation. Why ask if he's friendly if he has to get within TWENTY METRES of me to find out? I don't let ZOMBIES that close.

No. You really can't. Not if it's placed correctly. And I know some guys on Canada 1 who had to respawn who will tell you the destructive effects of trying to jump over barbed wire.

Wherever you happen to be. I haven't been south in awhile, but last time I was there it was covered in barbed wire. The elektro powerplant fire station had a damn path in it to force players into being in the open area of it where a guy was just camping under the stairs waiting. Oh >.> I maaay have hit it up earlier then. I logged in, checked the power plant fire station, and it was completely clean.

If you guys want, you could throw me a list of servers that need the special love only a toolbox can bring, and give me locations of barbed wire outposts, and I can get on em when they're low on population, and have a go at freeing up some entrances. Just post server name and location of barbed wire in this thread. If I can't get to it (High ping problems from living in Aus) then maybe someone else can?

For those doods who can't figure out how to cut wire, this video shows you how I do it. Shows you exactly where I aim. Embedding no work, link here:

I'm dead serious. I've already removed wire from three separate servers. Dumb pricks gonna have to find another way to fence off their server hops.

We found a crashed helicopter on the NW airfield. What we did, was we looked UNDER the tailsection, it's very, very hard to see, but sometimes, there's the corner of loot sticking out from under there that you can select.

So, you throw a smoke grenade. Zombies attack it. Throw a flare, they slowly amble towards it. Fire? Same thing. Tin cans? Slowly move. I propose changing the zombies reactions to stimulus. You can cause noise near a zombie, that they DO NOT CHASE. So why can I be on the other side of two walls and a zombie hears my footsteps, and he instantly agro's me? This destroys immersion. Zombies don't think. They react. I suggest, that when a zombie hears something, they first turn towards it, and THEN move towards it. But no aggro. Zombies do not instantly sprint towards a sound and try to eat the sound. But SIGHT is what zombies use to aggro. They see you, they attack you. This way, you could increase their sensitivity to sound, have them amble towards sounds, but only attack when they catch SIGHT of a survivor. It would increase immersion and make the game less BS. If I'm crouch-walking behind a zombie and I flit from one wall to another, crossing an open area of three metres, that zombie should not turn around and insta-aggro. Same with gunshots. It should attract them, but not aggro them. It'd make it easier for noobs to get through cities, to an extent, and make zombies less...bullshit? I think the word is? inb4 'carebear' or whatever related insult the masochistic assholes who man these forums can come up with.

Yeah, but lack of side chat cripples it even further. I don't let people in that close. I just don't. I shoot them first. Why? Because at that range, it takes a single round to drop you. Game over. were they friendly? We'll never know, because no one who's played this game more than a day lets people get that close.

Ahahahaha. No.

Yeah, I concur. I got a random broken leg from a zombie hit to my face. Oh, after he lunged a good five metres, too. Love it so much. but, inb4 useless pricks saying 'carebear' I think maybe they should break bones. but not this goddamn often. And bleeding every second time one of these limp wristed little bitches slaps me?

Just a rolecall here. Has anyone found any 1886 shotgun shells, either slugs or pellets, since the update that introduced the double barrel shotgun? As it stands, the ONLY place I've found these rounds is right next to a spawned winchester. EVERY single other shotgun shell spawn has been 2rnd.

I love people like you, OP. I like to walk down the coast and pick you off with my rifle. And then I take all your shit and use it the way it's supposed to be used, you know, NOT killing the guys who can't even shoot back. You are what makes this complete shit for other people. Congrats. I'm sure someone, someday, will make a shiny plaque for you in the halls of gaming greats.

Just a tent pitch bitch thread. Seriously. It's what? A metre and a half wide? Maybe three metres long? Why in the name of all f- do I need to have twenty metres of completely open, flat space before the game will even CONSIDER letting me set up a tent? It completely ruins any chance of hiding the tent.