Xianyu

I tried one of these previously. I wasn't sure how they worked. I might have fired it too low. It didn't glow. but just now, on a night server, I have a flare to my buddy who has an M16 M203, and he fired the flare up into the night sky. I watched the flare. It did NOT ignite, it merely whizzed off in an arc and did nothing. No light. Is this a bug? Is it just me? or are M203 flares just there to tease us?

yeah, and where does that put people in countries OTHER than america? We have maybe FOUR servers here in australia that have a decent ping. And they're CONSTANTLY full. I can pick one, and sit there hitting enter for TEN MINUTES and not get in. So I try American servers, because, hey. Can't play on Aussie ones. So it's like goddamn russian roulette. Why? Because the servers have ping timeouts that are NOT stated. I join a server, it goes fine. But LOLNOPE, kicked for high ping. Try a new server. KICKED FOR HIGH PING. This can happen five times in a ROW. And you want to punish people for not living close to servers? No thank you.

I've been killed this way. It's incredibly cheap and BS. I was searching the barracks, because, you know, it's the ONLY place to find decent loot. Some dude logs in directly behind me in one of the rooms with an AS50. He was a server-hopping prick looking for loot. Kills me instantly. Five minutes later, my friends got there to retrieve my gear, but he'd HID MY BODY. I suggested five seconds of spawn invulnerability/impotence, but the crybabies here on the forums were like 'waaaah, there's so much you can do in FIVE SECONDS!' Yeah. Like run maybe fifteen metres? Shoot someone with a gun that doesn't cause any damage because you're impotent for five seconds after spawn? A spawn invulnerability/impotence thing gives you time to look around, recognize a threat, and take action before you're instantly dead. Long enough to take cover, at least. Either way, it's a lot more time than 'screen fades from black - instantly dead' or 'This play has joined server - you die instantly' But. *shrug* Crybabies don't want a fair game.

+1 Because, seriously. The crossbow is a crippled weapon already. Your capacity to carry so little ammo is the death knell.

Well it's a good thing that ALL of us have those things on hand to make the game playable. I mean, it would suck if the rest of us had to, you know, scavenge around the cities to find supplies. Sorry dude , did not explain myself properly :) We spawned as new chars, with none of the above. That is what we looted journeying from Cherno to Balota. 1.7.1.4 And I currently have an M14 with a red dot sight, an M1911, a soemthingorother backpack, food, water, supplies. The lot. But it was an absolute CHORE to get. Even being my sneakiest, it was still utterly impossible to make it through anywhere without being attacked by zombies. I ended up just sprinting and losing them in buildings. No more stealth at all. If I was in a high population server I wouldn't have even tried.

I go by the name 'NothingSus'. I use the skin 'A. Akbar' and tend to prone in the grass with a sniper rifle and ghillie suit.

As the thread title says. Add weapons with night scopes as rare loot drops for military loot. As it stands, NVG's spawn in one place, and one place only. That place is a hellhole, camped the hell out of, and server-hopped every single bloody day. Why? Because NVG's give you a massive edge over anyone at night. You become a god. Night scope weapons, I think, would be a good, tactical addition to the gameplay. Think of it like this: You have an M16. It has the night scope on it. It's completely useless during the day unless you hip-fire it. But at night, it's the difference between stumbling around in the dark with flares, or being able to walk with (relative) ease. Someone without NVG's could theoretically still play at night with a night-vision scope on an assault rifle. They'd be slower, and much less mobile than someone with fer real NVG's, but they'd still be able to play the game without flares. Not to mention that if weapons with night scopes are added, they'd use the same ammunition as common weapons; IE STANAG magazines and whatnot. So it wouldn't screw with the loot tables. Right now, NVG's are the most sought-after thing in the game because they appear in one geographic area ONLY, are super rare, and give you a massive edge. Something needs to be added to A) take away the almost invincible advantage of NVG's, and B) balance them out. Night scope weapons would add balance, and they'd only be useful at night. And completely worthless during the day.

So tell me, fair, humble, and kind (yeah, not so much on those last three points) users of this forum. Razor wire. How does it work? I've come across it once; someone was using it to corral zombies at the entrance of the Elektro church. Please explain: is there a way to clamber over said razor wire? Is there a way to remove it? Can it be placed ANYWHERE? Because from what I saw, it was an insurmountable barrier. And it was half-clipped through the walls. It made it literally impossible for anyone to get into the church. I tried using the 'step over' thing to get over it a few times. No dice. And yet, I saw in a video; someone at the airfield barracks stepped over razor wire. Is my character just a major pussy and doesn't want to risk emasculation or something?

Well it's a good thing that ALL of us have those things on hand to make the game playable. I mean, it would suck if the rest of us had to, you know, scavenge around the cities to find supplies.

Yeah, he can stop rolling out hotfixes when he, you know, stops BREAKING SHIT. 1.7.1.2, broke the food and water spawning. Game unplayable due to slow, grim death and food wars. 1.7.1.3, Game unplayable due to server restarts constantly happening because of a bug with the new melee weapons. 1.7.1.4, game unplayable due to zombies all being injected with speed, meth, and adrenaline before being turned into zombies, causing them to sprint at the sound of a twig snapping two miles away. And now, we wait to see what 1.7.1.5 broke.

I've crept through Elektro, looted the church, the firehouse, the pub, hospital, supermarket, and the second firehouse on a mostly empty server, without being seen by, or killing a single zombie. It's all about patience and planning your movements. And lining up zombies to shoot is a pretty stupid thing to do. You know who else hears those gunshots? Bandits.

Yeah. I tried being friendly the first three times I met people. I shot zombies for a guy with a DMR. I got killed. I blundered into a supermarket, saw a guy, typed 'FRIENDLY' in the chat, even dodged around the shelves trying to be non threatening, and he still hunted me down and killed me. Saw a bunch of guys with NVG's, tried being friendly. Got shot for my troubles. Now, I have one simple method for every single goddamn survivor I meet. No talking. No interaction. Just a double tap to the head. Get used to it. In a weeks time, you'll be just like me.

I'm quite sure it would be the chemlights. You have a single stack, but the stack has 10 rounds in it. You just need to 'reload' in between using the chemlights. Same for the shotgun. You have eight rounds in the stack, but you only load two of them. It makes the shotgun more attractive than before...but not by much.

This is either sheer brilliance or insanity. You decide. Everyone wants a way for bandits to be balanced, right? Well what do bandits want? They want your shiny toys. Get this: Locked items. But not any old items. Just the big stuff. And ONLY for people with high humanity. Think of it like this: You have three tiers: Bandit. Survivor. Pious preacher on a white horse. Or whatever you call that one guy who doesn't blow the heads off of people randomly. Now, when you're a pious guy, and your humanity is way the hell high, your gear is locked upon PK death. Your main-hand weapon, and some of your supplies (randomly selected) CANNOT be looted except by YOU. If you're a survivor, and you get PK'd, your mainhand weapon is saved. That's it. I you're a bandit? f- you buddy. You die, ALL your shit is fair game. So, with this system, bandits are punished AND rewarded for their style of play. They can steal other peoples stuff by killing them. But naturally, if they want the better weapons, they'll have to hunt other bandits/scavenge them. And the people who DON'T randomly kill every single bloody person they come across, are rewarded by having a small amount of their gear unable to be looted except by them. Of course, bodies would have to be unhidable during the 'locked' state. Bandits still get loot. People who play nice are rewarded.

...The double-barrel shotgun seems a much better weapon than previous, now. Praytell; how do you accomplish this feat of witchcraft? And can you only do it when you have four stacks?

Okay. So. Let me describe for you my experience in DayZ for the last twenty four hours. Last night. No food. No water. My character dying of thirst and hunger for no reason. Can't find any food and water because something screwed up the loot tables. So instead of being able to play the game, I have to wait. So I wait. Now, this morning, the last half an hour has been one long series of BS events after another. Join a server, find food, find water. Get kicked off for high ping. Join another server. Kicked off for high ping. join another server. high ping High ping HIGH PING HIGH PING HIGH PING And those are only the servers I could find that weren't A) filled completely to capacity or B) DON'T EFFING LOAD. So I find one server just now. One that actually, you know, let's me on! It's pretty frigging dark. I throw a chem light. Or at least I THINK I DID. Next thing I know, I'm dead. Broken bones. Just DEAD. Instantly -23000 blood and DEAD. So I lost the DMR that took me DAYS to find. All my supplies. MY ghillie suit. Everything. So fine. I'll go get them back. But LOLNOPE HIGH FUCKING PING. Enjoy losing everything!

and you fail to see that my problem is a culmination of both shitty coding AND server hosts. Because guess what? I died of thirst/hunger or a bug. After drinking drinks on other servers, and logging off with GREEN thirst and hunger. Oh, I'm sorry, is it my fault that my latency made my character hungry/thirsty? Or my fault for throwing a chemlight in an open area?

Wanna know something fun? There's exactly ONE NZ server running 1.7.1.2. And you know what? IT'S FULL! ....fancy that.

Oh, let me clear that up then. I'm AUSTRALIAN. IE, I get ping of 300 or so to any server that ISN'T ANZ.

I have this exact goddamn problem. Every server I log into, I'm flashing red hunger and thirst. I find food, and water (FINALLY) and then I get kicked off for high ping, because every single goddamn server in my area of the world is full. So I get to search for food and water EVERY SINGLE TIME I LOG IN. This is not acceptable.

Eeyup. So, I log in. I DID have an empty canteen. It's gone. My character is hungry. My character is literally at flashing red dehydration, which I have NEVER seen before. I use my last can of soda. I go to a different server, because FUCK playing on a night server. I am once more on red flashing dehydrated. So I server hop a little bit, looking for a SINGLE CAN OF SODA to fix this error. So that MAYBE I can play the game without losing my character to a glitch. Even wasted the last three mags of my M1911 on zombies to see if one of them would drop a drink. But lolNOPE. Sorry. Drinks and canteens don't spawn any more. So now my character who is dehydrated due to a bug, is completely, utterly buttfucked. I have a ghillie suit, and a DMR, with six spare magazines. It took me hours, upon hours, upon hours to find that bloody thing. And I'll be damned if I'm losing it because someone screwed up the loot tables and completely removed any source of hydration, which, you know, you need to LIVE. Oh, and new players don't even spawn with water any more! So I can't even turn to banditry to save my character, which is the one time I would consider actively hunting another player. Someone wake me up when the game when is playable. and before the moron comes in saying 'hurrdurr game is too hard go back to CoD'. There's a difference between 'hard', and 'hey, no food, no water! You're dehydrated already. Have fun dying!'

You realise that it's a feature of the game engine, right? If I'm prone in the grass, it's pretty frigging hard to see me. If I MOVE, I become very easy to spot. Just like real life. Hey, I'll give you a server name, and a general location. I'll be lying in the grass in a ghillie suit. You see if you can spot me before I drop you. :D