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Yes, circle strafing and spaming is indeed an effective tactic lol, I do it everytime when things go out of control. You can do a test to see how the tracer system (doesn't) work, for that you must stand in front of a pole or a tree, and then try to hit it with the very end or the begining of the animation. You will see your weapon phasing through said object. You gotta find a sweet spot in the animation where it actually deals damage, the baseball bat is great for this test since its an slash move that the survivor does. In older builds, you could even hit things behind you when the attack animation was a "overhead", the weapon clearly would hit where it touched. This pic here is a fine example of how the tracer system based melee should behave: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/209229-status-report-week-of-25-august-14/ Only thing I know, its not like that in the game at the moment. I wonder how it works, and how they plan to work with this. Its my main interest in this game lol, and its a really important part of the gameplay imo, even more if they plan to make firearms rarer in the future. Now its totally guesswork!

I still don't get the melee mechanics, are they really tracer based? Because the models still phase through objects/zeds/players if you aim with the animation. It seems like, you gotta aim with your crosshair but guess where that actually is, because its not on the crosshair. So please, are we tracer based or just some sort of fucked up hitscan?

The thrill of being a true asshole without that bringing any real consequences I guess lol Its fun for a time, you should try it!

What, freshspawn hunting is all there is to do? He could be hunting geared players in high interest areas you know, thats what I do when fully geared anyways. Imo its a pansy thing to do, to hunt fresh respawns. They can't even fight back and don't have a single interesting loot to make those bulets worth, so no challange and you get nothing as a reward. The only reason I can see someone doing it is that they want to get some kicks from pvp aspect but are too afraid to go somewhere where people can fight him back. But yeah, killing people who can't fight back is fun, I don't denny that lol, just not my thing. We saw eachother at the same time, he was going downstairs and I was going up, the fastest thing I could do to try save my life was to talk and thats what I did, but as I told ya, he raised his weapon and started to chase me around that industrial area, shit was scarry man hahahhhaha. This helmet now brings me bad memories, such a sadistic dude :(

Yes this idea will go well with canibalism! Human bacon + rice and beans!

The animation breaks completely if you strafe left and attack at the same time, this also happens with other melee weapons but on the pitchfork its glaring. Really annoying to use it imo, such artificial dificulty

I was at Chernogorsk industrial area, checking those big industrial buildings looking for a weapon, and when I was going up a stair I stumbled uppon him, you see. Dude was in a low interest area as far as I know, and when I saw him I tried to talk my way through it but the answer was an m4 to the face lol. I even managed to run down stairs and through the industrial area, but dude came after me! I coudn't lost him so then I tried to at least deal him some damage lol. I mean, if it were you there, in a industrial area all geared up, would you shot a fresh spawn with a pitchfork in hands? Well I woudn't unless he goes agressive. Thats camping and hunting fresh respawns man! Kind of guy that gets killed fast in places like the airfield so he goes the easy route and camp chernogorsk lol

Yeah I found one, it was in the face of the dude who machinegunned me with a m4. "Oh hey man how are you doing, hey, nice helm.." dude point that shit at me, I go running like crazy to scape from him and I though "ehe I'm just a fresh respawn, dude will not come after me". I look at my shouders and the fucker is behind me! Wtf do you want a pitchingfork? So I end up hiding behind a building, pitchfork in hands readdy to poke his ass. Manage to hit him twice before he unloads his m4 at me! Such is life in Chernogorsk spawns. Its a nice helment, I have to say.

At those static helicopter crashes! There is one in the Balota swamps, the other one is close to the sunken ship, and there is another in a ruined city south of Guglovo I think. Once i was at the one close to the sunken ship, and the loot there was all messed up you know, so it had 3 RAKs, like 3 sks, some helmets, boots, maps, Rak magazines... But no smersh vest. The MP5 was the same thing, the police station at komarovo (I think thats the name, its west of balota) was spamed with loot. 2 MP5s, mags...

Lol yeah I can't KoS too, I usually feel bad idk. Unless I'm in a paranoia terror caused by NWAF, there is the no mans land imo, kill anything that moves in that place otherwise you are dead. I had made some friends in Balota too, we were both armed but idk what happened, neither him or me started to shot, instead we talked and then decided it was a better choice to loot that place togheter for we would have more chances of surviving that way. Nice fella, but the server restarted and I didn't remembered what server it was!

Its the holy grail man. I have found 2 RAKs submachinegun, had like 5 magazines for it, I already had a mp-5 with 3 magazines too but I never could find the fucking smersh vest man. Its so rare its not even funny.

My body is ready, I love you devs

Oh man, what about all these crashes? Will it hit stable anyways?

I belive that would be on the beta phase, or at least it should be. B0lonce on alpha is a huge mistake imo, because they will add more shit that might unb0lonce what they had b0lonced, so better add everything and b0lonce latter. EDIT: Game just froze again. WHY DO YOU HATE ME ROCKET, what have I ever done to you man? :( lol

This build is funny. At the same time that I got a fps boost, it has being freezing like a bitch, sometimes it stays like that for 30secs and then comes back, but most of the time I have to crtl+alt+del out of it. Today it happened while I was in a ladder, yesterday someone punched me to death while I was frozen. Thanks Obama. I hope it doesn't go to stable like this. I hope people stop to rush the devs too.

Yes please Vintorez, I need a Vintorez! Beautifull weapon imo

Well you throwed some nice arguments, I will try to go with a lower FoV and see how it goes man. I'm aware that I'm nerfed at distance, so thats why I double my care on being sneaky and usually try to close with my target, I'm not really a sniper type you see, I'm more of an assault person!

This was never a problem for me. I can spot people far away easily with maximum fov but I do reduce it if I want to see something in detail, like when I suspect there might be other players activity or when sniping. It will not be a problem if, as you said, scout carefully the area you are about to go in and walk slowly. Plus, its much better for melee (3rd person is easy mode for it) since you have a lot more peripherical view and thus, easier to aim with the animations. That FoV bar is stupid, they should put the value in numbers, not that abstract bar. Fact is, this game with lower fov makes me feel sick. I have to put the maximum value or it is unplayable for me man, I cannot stand binoculars view and it makes me wanna puke/headaches. I bet I rekt you even with my fisheye fov lol :D Btw a bit oftopic but man, your videos are trully awesome! I love to watch them, you make some nice comentaries and are a trully skilled player imo.

Yeah I hope so man. I mean, zero servers at the moment.

People run to much imo, it gives away your position so bad its not even funny. This is even more present on groups, I love to slay groups of people that seems to be in a hurry. Thats why I mostly lone wolf, I can survive much longer if I take my time and go alone. Also this is good to hear people imo, I usually hear them first and then see them, since I don't like to snipe. Oh and people who shot at zeds too. Never a good idea imo.

Yeah if zombies wasn't a pain in the ass, I would only play on the night. In a RL situation I would sleep at day, and go out at night. Other survivors would be sleeping so it would be easier to avoid/kill/steal them.

Stary/Novy Sobor are the places you are looking for to do this. Today I wanted to test how bullshit zeds can be and how big my patience is, ended up in these towns and mang I got mad pretty quickly lol. Started in Novy by the piano house, killed the zed outside with my axe but some othere fucker heard it. Killed him, bandage, another zed shows up. Kill him, and another one comes up. Rinse and repeat. Tried to get inside a house to bandage but zeds just start banging their heads on the house door and hit me, even I'm being far away from said door. Go outside, kill them and another one comes up. At this point I was already so mad that I said "fuck it", got my ak101 and unloaded my rage upon them, they start to come at me non stop. 60 bullets and more then 20 zeds killed I decide to take out the axe again and go with a bit more caution but seems like axe does the same volume of sound as automatic rifles. Kill zed > they respawn in the middle of fucking nowhere but due X-ray vision and binoculars they come right at me. You can't run because they are so goddamn perseptive, you can't hide because seems like walls/doors and you are the same thing. End of the story, clothes ruined, high capacity vest ruined, my patience ruined. I declare war on the fucking zeds, I will clear stary and novy sobor no matter what it takes. Such a fucked up respawn mechanic, DayZ seems to love artificial dificulty. I hope that in final game we get a lot less bullshit. Also I heard that it was possible to clear cities? Well thats a lie. I stood there killing these bitches for hours and they aways seems to come back. + Those zeds who runs like animals, they are a nightmare fuel. 2 or more of them + this "AWESOME" melee mechanics that we have now = certain rage lol. TLDR; KILL THE ZOMBIES, KILL THEM ALL

"use button also used for reload actions as opposed to leaving this to the reload button" Man this is so fucking annoying, why the hell does this even exist, who thought it was a good idea? Its the reason nº1 to no run without weapons in hand because I don't let a single door opened.

Experimental or not, aways avoid being a easy prey!

Well, I tend not to kill any zed because of the respawn mechanics, so I usually lock them inside the houses and whatnot. The process is like, I agro the zed, bait him to chase me to a house, dodge him and lock the fucker. Sometimes after locking it he hits me from inside the house (I can be like 20m away from the house running like fucking Forest Gump and the goddamn thing still register a hit) and its aways in this situation, right after locking him he starts to attack the door or the walls of the house and it hits me! The solution for this is to simply jump (that V key), seems like this "updates" your location for the zed and he stops attacking my "ghost" that is inside the house with him. I find it very wierd that getting inside a building with the zed, running out and locking the door causes this. So if you guys try to lock a zombie, jump before you manage to lock him or he will fuck you badly. Might help with the "invisible" zed problem too, idk. Now the ones that you kill but hits you anyways... well, no way to avoid it, you just better be healthy and hope for the best. Since i've stoped trying to kill them, my clothes got all pristine and this, most of the time, is not a problem. But you can't aways avoid/lock the zeds right.