Rags!

7.62x39mm rounds are found in... - Residential buildings, though rarely. - Deer Stands, almost always in boxes of twenty. - Military Spawns, in the form of AK magazines, SKS stripper clips, and piles and boxes. .308 rounds are found in... - Residential buildings, almost always in piles - Deer Stands in loose piles and in snaploaders As for Balota, if you want military loot then you'll have to focus more on military buildings and tents. Your best bet is the NWAF, Veresnik, the Forest Base to the North, the Myshkino tent city, and the tents at Stary Sobor. Oh, and helicopter crashes if you come across them. ALL LOOT LOCATIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITH UPDATES! This information may not be completely correct when 0.60 rolls out secretly in the next week...pffft. I wish.

It's the only fun thing to do these days anyway. Survival is laughably easy...guns and ammunition are so prevalent all over the place that people are just begging to catch some serious doses of lead poisoning. Hopefully guns and ammo and food and survival in general will get much tougher soon so that deathmatch and target practice won't be literally the only things in this game that I find any semblance of challenge of thrill from.

Wrong. Fifty is woefully underpopulated. Chernarus is approximately 19 Kilometers from the Northwest corner to the Southeast island. From Kamenka to Novodmitrovsk is 16 Kilometers. The walk from spawning in at Kammywobo to the NWAF is 10.5 Kilometers as the crow flies. That is an immense amount of real estate. At fifty players, most of the map is a snorefest. It's a playerless expanse of nothing but podcasts playing in the background of an occasional wanderer. The problem is not that we have too many players, the problem is that those players are spawned in a condensed area at the coast and not spread out across the map, they are not incentivized enough to move inland which creates a clusterfuck in spawning areas and relatively little else apart from maybe the NWAF and Veresnik. The threat/apprehension of encountering potentially hostile players should always be a possibility wherever you go. You should not be able to make extremely accurate guesses that people will not be where you are. I shouldn't be able to, in a survival game, predict where players are. Your guard should always have to be up and you should always have to watch your back. If I can travel for literally hours from town to town and not see another player in a fully populated server, then there are some serious questions that need to arise from spawn locations and total populations and mobility encouragement.

I think one of the best options would be to simply make the forests and wooded areas more "wooded" looking and realistic. This are some screenshots from Miscreated: These forest areas look much more dense and real and lines of sight are far shorter than they are in DayZ's very simple wooded areas. Significantly breaking these long lines of sight would go a long way to making forest more interesting and easier places to hide stashes of goodies.

Probably just the wonky elk hitbox. You were zeroed to 100m and were higher than the target, so I think that the hitbox just extended a little bit higher than the elk really was.

Oh. That kind of camping.

Server human populations are pretty crap right now. It doesn't help that they are all condensed around the coast. The coast is a clusterfuck and the rest of the map is a snorefest. Give us 80 players minimum and spread the spawn points all over Chernarus.

I check deer stands religiously. I can confirm that boxes of 7.62x39mm rounds do indeed spawn in them, though it is quite uncommon.

Looking for super rare weapons seems like it's far too troublesome and time consuming for me. People die in one shot anyway. I think that like many people probably know, the ubiquitous Red 9's and Mosin Nagants are more than capable of taking down even the most highly geared player.

I wish that Steam would give us the option to leave a "Mixed" or "Neutral" review, not just a thumbs up or down.

I don't think those cows are real. I think they're just pixels.

If you are willing to put up with mountains of infuriating bullshit in order to have some very excellent fights and hand trembling tense experiences, then you should be fine.

I'm trying to get back into DayZ these last few days, thus my casual return to the forums. The last few days have seen me burn through three survivors, each of them dying to gunfire that, in my opinion, simply should not have happened. Let us examine my most recent death today, but moments ago...I was shot in the leg and damaged, exited the tent in which I stood to face my aggressors in combat. In my hands? A shotgun. An MP-113 with a pistol grip. Truly a potent weapon for close range encounters, right? http://imgur.com/G2UBoD8 Wrong. I made this gif fairly high quality for your viewing pleasure, slowed it down so you can see the 12 gauge shotgun shell impact this player at near point blank range. The player not only survives the shot, but continues to run towards me in Call of Duty fashion, raising their gun and firing at me with their friend. This gif is perhaps a perfect example of the perfect shot made in third person. The target was lined up so perfectly on the curve of the reticle, height was perfect... I was certain they would be dead, and you even see me move my reticule to the next enemy player. I'm ready for a fight, I have my gun up, and a fleshy target foolishly rounds the corner sprinting into my line of fire. There is no logical reason why this human being should not be incapacitated either by death or sheer trauma from a point blank shotgun shell. Exhibit B... http://imgur.com/R76FDcK Player eats a 12 gauge shotgun shell at point blank range, it ruins his shirt, but leaves him both alive and conscious. This one from a double barreled sawn off shotgun. And yet...if those shells don't kill players, then how does this one do just that? http://imgur.com/994KtwM Hip firing a sawn off shotgun kills a guy with one shell at that range. But perhaps the most egregious offender of all of them is this... http://imgur.com/uoEqqkY ...and moments later... http://imgur.com/cY6mwXf After the target was blasted at point blank with this sawn off shotgun, rocks and debris come out of his body mysteriously. Perhaps the pellets all hit his Derringer pistol in his hand and missed him? Then he is hit at point blank range while stationary in the side of the body, and still is able to walk away seemingly unscathed. The body squirts blood but the player still survives. I am sure that everybody who has used shotguns has questioned their reliable effectiveness. I understand the nature of a scattergun is random at times, but these examples are ridiculously unpredictable. Players show a resilience to damage that rivals a Halo Spartan in what is supposed to be a realistic game. Shotguns are deadly. Shotguns are not close range only killers. They are weapons of awesome destruction that can kill easily a target forty meters away. Unshielded fleshy humans wearing cotton and polyester should not be able to survive shotgun blasts at point blank, and Chernarus is a large enough playing field that the damage of shotguns can be afforded to reach out to sizable distances. There is no reason why I should tell myself "Don't use a shotgun in close quarter combat because it's not lethal enough". I understand that hitboxes and desync are big issues in DayZ at the moment, but when these problems are resolved...it is important that 12 gauge buckshot is not relegated to a "niche" role in firepower capabilities. A shotgun should be consider a high risk/high reward weapon, punishing misses with reload times and rewarding hits with massive damage. Shotguns will FUCK UP YOUR DAY. The low capacity of the shotguns in this game should be balanced by longer reload times but a very high damage output and spread matching the barrel lengths of the weapon. Yes, I understand that balance is not a priority at the moment, but the existence of threads like this will keep such notions in the minds of players and Devs so that it is never forgotten or relegated to a secondary priority when the Beta arrives in 2016.

Approximately everywhere.

They respawno in residential buildings.

The Beast by Milt Buckner

I just copied it from Google images and made it a little smaller. Took, like...a minute.

First post. Wants an M4. Love it.

- Nine second intro. - Twenty five second item view. - Fifteen second outro. - 24 seconds of this 49 second video is an ad for your own channel.

The groindah is my favorite.

Known bug. Also, this is a thing... https://feedback.dayz.com/

Asking for subscribers isn't allowed here, I don't think. "Don't post topics just to advertise your Youtube channel or ask for subscribers." Coming here to the forums for one post and telling us to "get back to me with some advice" is kinda not cool. How about you come back here to the forum thread that you started about this instead of making people go somewhere else? You're just expecting people to go to Youtube and get back to you because you don't ever want to come back here? Just dump a forum thread and leave?

You're a busy man. You don't have time to waste. Here you go.