Killawife

Who's arguing? I just told you where you are, just like you asked. You didn't like the answer - fine. You prefer to think thats South is West - fine. Do what you want. I don't understand why you would even argue something that everybody on this forum knows already. Just put down your faulty compass and google how to navigate the map and you will find all the info that you need. All the maps, including the Dayz ingame topographic map are place so north is up for easier navigating. You can also use this to find your way: http://dayz.gamepedia.com/Navigating Throw away your compass, its clearly broken. Also, since this a screenshot thread, looking west:

Its true that i'm a prick but the rest is pure nonsense. The coastal road runs from the west to east from Kamenka to Krutov cap then turns to run from south to north. Thast why the northwest airfield is called the NW airfield, because its in the Northwest seen from a coastal perspective. I actually don't use the compass anymore but I do believe in the maps that exist more than a random nublet on a forum.

Look at this map and tell me how you can be SOUTH of Elektro?: http://dayzdb.com/map/chernarusplus#5.101.132 P.S North is up. And you are at 129.034 west of Solnichy

Batterys arent rare on experimental, they spawn like they used to in the olden days. It also rains there, which it almost never does in 0.57. I say almost never because it rained once one me since the patch came out ten years ago.

I found a safe place to rest:

Well, where to begin, too long intro/outtro nobody wants that, too loud music that removes the dayz feeling, no sense of whats going on, none of the things shown really have any story so its just random clips of dayzeeing. Also, theres no dislike button on the forums.

Its just hit and miss basically. If the game is on your side the person you shoot will die, If its against you your shots will do no or minimal damage and you will die. Its different on every server and varies depending on server status. One thing I've noticed is that if you have the bug where your statuses aren't updating you can take a shitload of hits before you die. I've had a few funny situations happen where someone asks me to kill them and I fire at them point blank and miss because of this. Once even with a sawn-off shotgun when the guy was laying on the ground in front of me with broken legs.

The reason I play this game is for those moments when someone is nearby trying to kill you and you play cat and mouse trying to outsmart eachother. Not shooting like crazy but rather getting the drop on the other person. These moments are great fun, it doesnt matter if its in a squad or alone against one or multiple opponents and actually I dont usually care wether i live or die, its that exciting feeling you get at these moments that are the reason I play. I' ve never had this feeling while playing Battlefield or any pure Shooter. The reason I prefer the gearing up process much more than "fully geared" is that things get much more exciting when you only have a shotty and 6 bullets than when you have Ak, mp5, cr and fnx and three mags for each. The gearing up part of the game is for me much more a shaping of the character than the pure survival that some of the hardcore "Bear-gryllers" seem to want from this game. Right now its almost silly how fast you go from Bambi to fully geared and it ruins the gameplay.

Today the game annoyed the hell out of me when I lost three fights only due to it not working. First I ran a truck to kamyshovo, a guy stood by the wayside shooting at me and there were bodies everywhere, I ran him over but he took no damage, I exited and pulled out my mp5, didnt work, pulled out my ak, didnt work, pulled out my 357, didnt work. I ran and hid behind a rock while he tried to getaway in the truck. I tried everything to get at my gear but it was totally inaccessible to me. Finalöly the guy ran the truck up on a rock and got out and shot me. I almost punched my screen. I respawned and geared up a bit, met and unfriendly person who stood five metres away punching the air, I fell unconcious. I woke up a bit later and all he had taken was my trumpet. Good for him. I then found a longhorn and ammo in the house just nearby. Later I met another guy with the same character, he ran into the house I was in weidling an axe. I shot him six times with my sks before going unconcious without even taking any hits. When I ran back to my corpse only my body remained so it seemed bullets don do anything when I fire them. Fuck this shit!

Now that is a sweet ass picture.

Yesterday I made sweet sweet love to a pig:

Actually this is incorrect. The playerbase was cut in half by the "famine" patch of march where loot was ruined and nothing could be found, and since it was patched by 0.57 it has been at basically the same level after that. Nobody seems to have left waiting for 0.58 and the only reason the experimental servers are full is because there are less of them. Why claim "people want this" "people want that" when the only thing YOU know is what YOU want. It seems that there are people who want to run in the forest all day, gathering pieces of supplies here and there, foraging and living off what scraps they can find and then there are those who want pure pvp, a gun n run experience where guns and ammo are plentiful and killing and interacting with other players IS the game. Then there are those that want some of this and some of that, why can't there be both? There is a hardcore mode that isn't hardcore. Why not make it Famine and the other one An ak for all? That way everyone could get what they want except me, who wants a good balance of these things. The strange thing is that there actually was a very well-balanced game before persistance kicked in and broke everything. Thats when the Lootsplosions started and you could go on a server and there was nothing, absolutely nothing. Simply because it was laying in heaps in some house way up north. And now we wil try again.

I also believe that the insane guard buidlings spawn was a test to see if this is what the playerbase want compared to "the famine" that came before. Clearly its not. Balance is key.

If you look at the steam chart you will notice that the game started out fine, with lots of players, it has steadily dropped since. The so called "crappy pathces" is basically only one, the "Bear gryller" patch of March. That dropped the playerbase to half, not surprisingly as it was unplayable. I do fear that a lot of the people who have tried Dayz SA will not be back later as the going is to slow for them. I've seen this happen to other games and although its sad, 10-15.000 players is quite enough to still make this game fun. http://steamcharts.com/app/221100#All

Why would you leave an ump and not carry it with you?

I've found the pistols to be much better one-two shot killers than the smg's and have more kills with cr75 than any other weapon. But mostly the situation where you need the sidearm is quite hectical and its easier to just spray bullets than to actually aim. I almost always go for one long range rifle fo some sort or ak with kashtan, mp5 or ak74sy and cr or fnx. I rarely get to use all my guns before dying and have only run out of bullets in firefights twice in 1200 hours of gameplay.

I would so love it if there was a game-mode or a mod when the game is finally out that actually made you turn into a zombie over time if bitten, then forced to play as such until someone axes you. Didn't the have something like that in Left for dead multiplayer?

A guy attacked me in Berezino and we both died, I think he was in cahoots with a guy on triple yellow spotting for him. I respawned outside Solnichy so ran to Elektro. By the time I got there I was well-geared again. The server restarted so I went for one of the guard houses and got sniped :/ . I respawned on Kalisty so made my way to elektro again, listening on on some guys and a girl talking in the kamy police station. When I approached the place where I died people were shooting. i looked for them but found nobody. The guard house was unlooted but I left it and ran.

You need a good cpu to run the game well. It doesnt need to be top of the line but Intels work better than AMD's. If you have a high-end graphic card it means you can run higher resolutions, better quality on objects, longer draw distances etc but it doesn't boost fps. As of right now its actually meaningless to invest in new hardware just for Dayz. The game isn't optimized yet and theres no telling how the end result will be affected by graphic cards or cpu's. It seems like theres things in the game that practically eats frames and its just not logical. Compared to a game like battlefield4 for example, you can run it with decent non top-of-the-line hardware at 60 fps, and when theres a lot of stuff happening your frames might drop to 50. And that game looks way way better than Dayz with a lot more happening onscreen at once. In Dayz you can run along happily on a road or in the forest with a few houses dotted here and there and get 60-70 fps, then go into a moderately-sized town and it drops to 25. then add some player interaction adn you're crawling along. I think this will be tweaked later and the situation will be more like in bf4.

You don't knoiw that. Maybe he was shooting at where you were on his screen and the game decided you were somewhere else. It happens quite often. I once met two guys outside Berezino, one of them fires a shotgun at the supermarket about ten metres to my left side, I drop dead. The game is unfortunately not very reliable right now, sometimes to your advantage, sometimes not.

So, you have no idea at all what desync is, thats what you're saying?

Empty servers are no fun, either you run around alone for hours and find nobody, or you want to loot the airfield alone and get shot by the only guy on the server in a tent :( I had a very intense firefight yesterday which went well and for once, left me alive. I met a guy outside Elektro and we went to dubky together, I( was going to cherno for.....a thing. As we got to Novoselky we met a guy, We tried talking to him but he wouldnt respond, instead he tried hiding in a bush. Then he started firing at us. I didnt have any good gun so I ran around him and bashed his skull in with a hockey stick and there was much rejoicing. I took his SKS but left him alive and then someone else started shootign so I ran. I ran into one of the high apartment buidlings to get a better view and climbed the stairs. As I got up theres a guy right there! He started shooting with a sawn off mosin so i ran and we had a little standoff. I talked to him but he didnt respond so i bandaged. Meanwhile I could hear the guy I had met fighting for hsi life outside. I went to a balcony to get a better view and sawn-off mosin guy went right past me without seeing me. I couldve shot him but I didnt. I waited for a while til i couldnt hear him and tried to find him again. I saw him lay pinned behind a wall with two assailants. I needed to move. Just as i was prepping to move Saw-off mosin guy appears and goes right for me so I shoot, he shoots and he drops. I reload and shoot him dead. I bandage and set a splint then start checking his body. I try to get his name when i hear something below so i rush to the roof. From the roof I look around for a bit and see one of the guys shooting at my friend in a window of a nearby apartment. I gather my breath and as he pops up to shoot I shoot him. He drops right away. I notice another guy running away but I have no shot so I run along the roof trying to get him but he dissapears among the houses. I go down and loot the dead guys corpses then look for my friend but I cant find him. And the guy I knocked out with a hockey stick is gone too. I go on to cherno and hunker down. Waiting for 0.58

I met two guys. They said they were friendly but I could see one of the guys sneaking into a bush and drawing out a firearm. I placed myself so the other guy was between us while talking but then he moved and the other one started shooting. I shot the talker and wounded the other but he got me with a lucky shot. Good for him.

Every time anyone says Friendly, its just a matter of time before they start attacking you or trying to bash your brains in. Normal people don't do it.

That you die and have no idea why, how or when it happened. I want an explanation dammit!