harteman

Certain new rains put a black circle around my guy with a radius of about 15 meters. IT's like the shading on my screen gets totally messed up, til it stops raining.

It isn't the tower, it is random locations all across the map. The loot is "pooling up" in spots, so to speak. I already found this happening 3 times in separate barracks. Imagine my surprise at that. Also, your pics, that is on the light end for what can actually happen. At one barracks there were over 50 weapons, mostly AK's. It isn't a server here or there, either. It is ALL persistent servers. The trick is finding the spots where it is happening. In one server it is the tents at NWAF, another it is half of Elecktro. The spots vary, and it is widespread. My advice is get your pvp on now, while you can practice with all the loot, so you know how to defend yourself come time.

I've got 2 AK74u's with clips for trade. Looking for an MP5k with clip. Edit- And a black balaclava.

Just saw the "A" icon on the accept button in DayZ when I alt+tabbed back into the game.

About a month ago I ran some experiments. I found backpacks, and even weapons on the ground, to be as good as a tent. The problem comes, however, with the fact that in all my test servers with stashes large and small they crashed after a little over a week. When they come back up, everything is gone. This was in .49, but yeah, backpacks are just as good. I found out after being disappointed with the storage space a tent provides.

Beards, razors, long hair and clippers would be kinda cool. I'd be less inclined to shoot someone who values their life.

32bit and not optimized for quad core+ processors.

I explain KOS to myself as resources being scarce, people starving, and more people simply makes things worse. I do a service to anyone not in my sights. If you are in my sights, however, you did something wrong.

Think about it. We all have an internet connection. We all use it to look at a map when we play the game. I personally use my phone. I can use it to set waypoints and accurately gauge distance. I can even join a group, then update my position, and read others positions on the map that are in my group. Every single player has this capability in some shape or form. In game however, we have to find pieces of a map. Nobody does this. This isn't about realism, this is about being real. There is absolutely no good reason to not have a map in-game that rivals what we can look at by using an alt-tab. Also, what is the point of a range finder, when everyone has the ability to set waypoints on a map between two known locations? Everyone should start with a range finder. It should be their map. A map just like the ones we see online.

Let me start off by saying I love this game, and I haven't had a gaming experience quite like what DayZ offers. With that out of the way, I want to ask this forum and those who come here to post, why all the judgement of others play? Everywhere I look in these forums, there are people arguing about how this game should be played. I don't understand this, or at least to me, it seems unreasonable. This game is a sandbox, yes? One where we can do pretty much whatever we want, right? If that is the case, all styles of play within the rules of the game are valid. If all styles of play the game allows are valid, why do people resort to calling others "bad" at the game for doing what they like to do? I myself like PVP, it is the reason I play. To me, it is my end-game. I have no problems overcoming what the game has to throw at me. I have gone hunting, I've cooked steaks over a fire, killed many zombies, and I have looted for hundreds of hours. I tend to play smart, and because of that, I don't lose to the game, unless it is due to things I have no control over, like bugs and glitches, or the occasional hacker. The only way I "lose" is by getting killed by other players. But I don't mind that. I don't mind that at all. I think it is the best part of the game. What else is there for me, really? I have been everywhere, seen everything, looted it all. There comes a point where I have fully geared my character. What do I do now? I need for nothing, not ammo, armor, weapons, food... What would you have me do now? Sit and wait until I get thirsty or hungry? Go hide in the woods, and wait? For what though, I ask you. Now, I suppose you could say something along the lines of helping fresh spawns out. But you see, I already have done that, many times. It usually goes badly for me somehow. Turns out, most players in this game want to see you dead. I have no problem with that, because it makes the game more of a challenge for me. I already said I have no issues with staying alive in the game, when no other players are involved. To me, PVP is the SOLUTION. Right now, in this moment in time within the games development, PVE is easy as can be. Now maybe for some of us, PVE IS challenging. I dig that. But I say again, it is too easy for me. I require more than just that. I find it in players who would test their mettle against mine. You would judge me for this? You look down on players like me? Why? I'm serious, answer me. Just this week, I had what I consider my finest moment in DayZ. I was so pumped after it went down, I couldn't believe how satisfying it was. I don't get this from playing other FPS games, like BF4 or COD. Never have never will. Only DayZ offers me this: My friend and I, we were in Cherno, looting it up, when we heard Mosin and AK fire from within the city. We were at the fire station. We exited and headed west. 50 meters out, my friend got shot, his leg broken and he unconscious. I kept running, looking to get behind cover and find where the fire came from. Once I reached cover, my friend regained his consciousness, and he saw where they were, they were just exiting the fire station, coming our way, looking for us. Once I saw them, I made the decision to try my hand at throwing a grenade. I pulled it out, pulled the pin, and cocked it back, ready to throw. I waited until I thought they would be within range, then I threw it. BOOM! I nailed them both. I was ecstatic! Such a thrill, such a rush! Two in one! My first nade kill. It was awesome. I've never had experiences like this in Battlefield, or Call of Duty. Only in DayZ. But I am playing wrong? I should play in a way that gives me less enjoyment? Your way? No thank you, I play my way. You can play yours. I am not trying to tell you what to do, I am telling you what I do, and why I do it. I have fun doing it. Is that so wrong?

WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. How do those wars stack up against wars from the past? Also, ""war-related deaths" at the lowest point of recorded history." is only true depending on what slice of time you use to call "ours". If you count the last 100 years, that all goes out the window. The deadliest war ever was WW2. Many still live, who fought that war. Would you claim that WW2 is so far back it doesn't count as modern? I say if people are still alive who fought it, it is pretty damn modern.

You could have said that without coming across as an asshole. Not calling you an asshole, just saying that you appear to be one.

I would play on servers with good admins, who didn't abuse their power. I wouldn't play on ones that had abusive admins. It would sort itself out real quick.

Hey, I hate to break this to you, but it is your activity of stashing items in persistent servers that is causing the crashes, I do believe. I had a dozen stash servers at one point, and they all went down within a few days of my starting to add items to those servers. Without fail, for me, as I grew my stashes, the servers containing them would disappear. After a week or so they come back, sans stashes. Disappointing, but it is being worked on. My advice is to not go wild with stashing loot just yet. I am only guessing, but I have done it enough to where I suspect I am the one crashing them, by stashing too much goodness for a single server.

Clothes, perhaps. I have been able to stash clothes. Vests however are a different story. I have tried them every way possible, in a tent, on the ground, in a backpack on the ground, with and without items inside them, and no matter what, as soon as the server restarts they are gone.

Why? Human hunting simulator, for a start. The PVP in this game is more intense than anything else I have ever tried. That makes it interesting, too. For me.

I'm a shotgun guy myself, and yeah I actually like where the shotguns are right now. Except the whole ruining of gear that likes to come with it. Once the pump action hits stable though, I am likely going to have a new fav...

Are you telling me that in the apocalypse mental illness has been cured? Not having crazy guys running around in the streets, detached from reality, now that would seem suspicious. If anything, I would think mental illness would have a higher occurrence than in real life currently.

See, I view that as foolhardy, myself. I assume people are with friends at all times. I have to prepare for that, because sometimes it is true. I'll be sniped or snuck while my hands a full with holding up someone. It happens. Hell, fresh spawns are used as LURES by the smarter groups out there. Safety first, always, where survival matters.

A lot of guys aim for the head. I try as well. Wouldn't be a good killer if everytime I killed I ruined everything on the person. It is why I still prefer an AK and a PSO-1 over a shotgun, OP as they are.

I see zero problems with it. BULLETS are lethal in this game. Guns shoot them.

I really like your take. I believe it sums things up.

You say irl. You are comparing modern society with the apocalypse, trying to transpose values. I fail to see your logic.

Laws help with stopping killing. Also, this is an apocalypse, something we can only guess about. My personal guess would be life would not be as highly valued as it is now. History can back me up on that, at least the changes in the worth of a human life throughout the years. Kill or be killed. Killing being bad is relative. It depends on circumstances, and in the apocalypse you will find your circumstances have changed drastically. Me personally? My goal is to stay alive for as long as possible. In my 700 hours I learned that if you go talking to everyone you meet, you aren't going to live long at all. A hungry man with a pitchfork will kill you for your beans. Also, war. Judging by the amount of bullets sent my way on the regular, I would say DayZ is closer to a war than a trip to Wal-Mart. Lastly, if resources become scarce, are you gonna starve rather than challenge a man for that can of beans? It isn't enough for both of you, so what do you do? Lay down and die? Not me. I'm a survivor, I'm gonna survive if I have to pick between you and I.

Your mind is amusing, your words telling.