Rags!

Translation... There should be sheets in DayZ that you are able to rip up to create rags, or with a sewing kit, craft a bag or split down into threads. The threads can be used to make twine. You can then make rope out of the twine. The twine will then allow you to use it as a substitute for rope; It can be used to make a bow or an improvised backpack. Maybe we could make different kinds of bows, having some of them superior to others based on materials. Some could be made out of ashwood and twine, maybe ashwood and rope, and maybe some out of hazelwood and twine or rope. Arrows with feathers could be crafted, but some could have either metal or flint stone tips for different damage, or simply a sharpened stick could be used as well. We should also be able to make a bowdrill in order to start fires. Threads could have a sewing function that would allow you to combine the thread with sewing kits to make leather threads, an item that will require a leather sewing kit. The bow should be carried on your shoulder like a rifle. --- This free translation has been provided as a complimentary service of the Rags Advisory Grammar System.

Is that "Iam Zani" or "I am Zani"?

Just say NO to grenade launchers.

This is why I am glad I have Shadowplay. I'm always recording, and with two button presses I can capture anything that has happened to me.

While I used to consider the fear of being killed as my primary reason, I have to admit...that's changed now. I was once a newbie with little experience, naive and new to the world and its ways. Now, I'm a hunter. I'll still make friendly with players here and there, certainly. But when I have the drop on somebody and I can line them up, I'll drop them. Murder really does wonders for class mobility.

If we know about him, then he isn't truly a stealth player.

But this game isn't finished yet, and currently it's too easy to survive. I think that the addition of survival mechanics will hinder clans that have been created under the impression that this game will be easymode PvP.

The problem I have isn't where everybody wants to go, it's how they all seems to always be there. It makes me wonder how these clans and groups of players acquire this gear, since fully geared characters seem to be ubiquitous.

I think that there should indeed be more importance placed on the bow, which should be toted as the effective but difficult to use tool for sneaky players and hunters. Similarly, arrows should be retrievable if they are not already. I don't know if they are, since I haven't ever really used a bow.

Beans for The 5th Element.

But by blowing on your hands, you moisturize them. And in the cold, wetter hands are a big no-no.

Shift + Tab brings up the Steam menu, which has a web browser on it. There's extremely little wait to swap back and forth from the Steam menu to the game.There is no need to use the Alt + Tab function at all for using maps in the game.

Why do people keep insisting that survival is "hope things spawn around you"?

Humans beings were starting fires for tens of thousands of years before the invention of matches, firstly. This boggles my mind about you people, you all want to put your fate into the hands of things randomly hopefully spawning within your grasp and if they don't, you die. You people like that idea. You people are actually advocating for that system because in your minds, you think that "Hoping items spawn around you = Challenging gameplay" when that's incredibly unintuitive. I guess that's the difference between what you think the game should be and what I think it is. For me, DayZ is a survival game. For you, DayZ is a game of sheer dumb luck and hope.

That's called a "survival game". You spawn in, find materials in the world, combine them and use them to survive. The danger shouldn't come from "oh, boy...I hope cans of food happened to spawn somewhat near me". It should come from "Can I keep myself alive while constantly being threatened by zombies and other players?" You're still arguing that players should be fucked over and put into unsurvivable scenarios because sometimes "that just happens in real life", and this baffles me that you would want that. Every "realistic" game has to make concessions with realism for the sake of gameplay. That's why you do things like respawn after you die or why you have to eat many cans of peaches and drinks liters and liters of water every day to just avoid starving. It's why you can fix a broken limb with a splint. It's why you can instantly fill a magazine with bullets.

This is terrible reasoning. Plopping players down in a scenario where they cannot do anything to survive or help themselves is not good game design no matter how much you want to try and use"realism" to justify it. I don't want to play a game where I spawn in and am doomed from the start and just don't know it yet and spend the next half an hour starving and dying from hypothermia when there is literally nothing I can do to help myself. Because that's not survival. In a game where the only way to get food is to find it on the ground, if I spawn into the game and starve because there's no food to pick up, the game failed me. People need to realize that DayZ isn't a realistic game. It's a game that applies realistic elements to some of its mechanics.

Canned Peaches are your friend.

Sneaking up on another player and slaying him gives me a great feeling accomplishment. That's how most of my murders have been committed. I slink around the outskirts of town and catch people unawares. Stealth in games isn't often a viable tactic, but when your flank or patience is rewarded by moving up in the loot ladder, it's very very rewarding. I don't always KOS, but sometimes I work for it.

Be careful that the background music isn't too loud. Tense moments in DayZ are not necessarily made better by background instumentals.

Let's not be hasty.

In order... 1) Long gun 2) Sidearm 3) Melee Weapon 4) Second Sidearm (if I have one) 5) Bandages 6) Binoculars It's notable that all these numbres are reachable with my right thumb with the mouse buttons along the side of the G600.

Death to server hoppers.

Great shot, fun to watch...but there was a lot of filler in that video of you driving around with nothing happening.

Server hopping is bad. It's for cowards and lazy players who feel entitled to the best gear in the game and refuse to compete with other players for it. If you server hop, you are the scum of the community.