Being able to build a large radio to broadcast all over the map is an awesome idea. There are so many cool things you could do with that. It would make things like trying to organize player-created trade areas easier, you could have clans that pretend to be friendly and broadcast over a channel as a rescue area, then capture and torture anyone who falls for the bait, or you could just play music over it until someone comes along and blows your head off for having such bad taste in music. So many endless possibilities.

It would be cool to have this. It would definitely open up more in-character play styles by allowing characters to look the part. Although I think that a player's name should remain difficult to identify.

Also, getting familiar with the map will help with knowing where you are and where you're going.

This is a cool idea. Nice work! Just some constructive criticism from my first look at the page: I had some trouble telling whether a trade in the initial window represented just a trade offer, or whether it was a list of all recent trades. Also your search function is caps sensitive right now.

Has anyone found the mp5 buttstock yet? I don't know of anyone that's found that in 0.49

Right now day z is a game where people can go around to the different towns and cities, fighting zombies and avoiding the bandits that may be lurking around the corner, for the chance to score that rare gun that they may come across in a police station, or that cool piece of military gear that they've been really hoping to find. If persistence is done in a bad way, that aspect of the game could very well be lost forever, which would ruin the experience for a lot of people. I personally don't want day z to devolve into a purely clan-based war game, or one where new players have to go on some neckbeard's private server and find his secret stash of tents in order to be able to find a cool gun. Sure, scarcity is fine, as long as it doesn't destroy the game that many of us have come to love in the process.

I have also run into the half-buried helicopters with no loot whatsoever in fairly remote locations. I dry hump the helicopters quite vigorously for a good 15 minutes hoping to glitch my way into finding something, but to no avail. In any case, whenever I do find loot it's been pretty disappointing, so I am at least a bit surprised that I don't always see the garbage lying around whenever I come across them. It's hard to imagine someone picking up a pile of soiled diapers and stuffing them in their backpack when they could be holding something more useful like a can of soda.

Once you've been around the places enough they just become really familiar. Novo, Cherno, Electro, all of them are big cities and are pretty recognizable by tell-tale landmarks and the way the roads and buildings are laid out. The buildings themselves are pretty much the same way. Once you've looted them enough, you start to become familiar with which ones drop the loot that you're looking for, so it makes life a lot easier. For example, office buildings, hospitals, police stations, fire stations are some typical buildings that you can find guns in, military barracks have all the top tier military gear, the white house with the piano will usually have a gun or a magazine, etc.

You found a pristine long range scope! Damn son, hold onto that. When you get a mosin you will be a happy camper. Some tips: make sure to eat all the food you have until you are light green on "energized" and "hydrated". Once you're light green on both, keep at most two canteens and two cans of food or rice. You really don't need more food than that. Just so you know, you were up north at novo, then headed west to severograd.

Thanks, I feel derpy, lol.

Any further confirmation on the Tisy location? I'm really glad that they'll be putting it there, if so. It'll be cool to see some action in the northwest.

I've kos'd a few times but I always feel bad when I do it, so I pretty much decided that I'm going to take the risk and be friendly. It definitely punishes you though. The thing that sucks about not killing on sight is when you catch someone clearly off their guard and are like ,"Hey dude, friendly" and they proceed to sprint out of the room, pull out their gun and start shooting at you.

smersh vest RAK and magazine mp5 buttstock

All those reasons you mention are why the amphibia is my favourite pistol. Once I've got my primary weapon, the pistol really just serves as a secondary tool, and as such, the amphibia has the most functionality. The main uses I've found are to take out zeds that manage to get in the building with you without getting hit, as well as to snipe zeds from on top of rooftops. It's pretty much the only firearm I would ever use to kill zombies.

I think there's a major communication fail happening, so I will just walk away from this one.

Who said anything about there needing to be loot everywhere? If items degrade in a sensible way, it makes it possible to find loot in a police station if you buy the game 2 years after release, instead of finding out that the only items that drop in police stations anymore are soda cans and books.

It's always when you have the mp5 too. The exact same thing has happened to me like 3 times before. Worst bug in Day Z, hands down. Edit: looking at that video again, it's weird that you didn't get any kind of "my leg is in pain" message. That always seems to accompany me with the fall damage bug.

Chisel - Can fit in your backpack to mine stones Toolbox- stores hammer, chisel, hacksaw , wrench, duct dape, etc

Hopefully the devs are learning from this. I talked about the problems that inevitably arrive when you have fixed item caps, and offered some better alternatives in this post: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/212146-managing-scarcity/?hl=%2Bmanaging+%2Bscarcity In order for an in-game economy to be healthy, you need to have continuous new supply of new items. Scarcity needs to be managed through item degradation rather than item caps, so that the trophy collectors and hoarders can do their thing without destroying the economy.

I bet it would help if they made dedicated, separate buttons for "put away current weapon" and "cancel current action". In the heat of the moment, people tend to spam, and that causes chains of "take weapon out / put weapon away / take weapon out / etc." If there was a dedicated button for "put weapon away" you could disable that ability for the hotkeys so it would just be a chain of "take weapon out".

I found one behind a train station shortly after the 0.49 update. Was pretty random. Also found an anti-stab vest on a police car yesterday. Are they supposed to be better than the UK assault vest or high capacity vest in any way? They have fewer pockets, which is kind of annoying...

One possible solution is you could tag certain rare / military items as "despawn items" that disappear within a certain proximity if someone server hops in when no one else is around. The server can already tell when a person is server hopping, it just would require an additional check of which items are in the proximity, and whether or not any other players are also in the proximity.

I play as Wolfe as well. I play stable branch on the server that calls itself "regular" server, and "day GZG" most often. I've played veteran a bit too, but stopped since last time I got on it I found myself as a fresh spawn. I don't think the two servers I play have persistence. But I don't really have any faith in persistence yet, so it suits me just fine. Died yesterday to some guy named "Administrator" who got the jump on me when we were the only 2 people on the server. I seem to die more often when there's only 1 or 2 other people on than when there are 20-30 people on. I get this crazy idea in my head that I don't have to be paranoid and avoid places like electro or SWAF when there's only 1 or 2 people on, and it always gets me killed. Does anyone else besides me have the problem that you tend to be geared up more often than not, so that it's impossible to make friends because you're always KOS? I have several hundred hours of gameplay under my belt, and there's literally only been one time where I was geared up and someone shouted "friendly". Well, I proceeded to give the person all kinds of stuff to help them gear up, and even showed them my helicopter route. I haven't ran into him since, but it was nice actually having someone to team up with that one time.

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/6794-i-give-up-this-game-is-bull-i-want-my-money-back/ I feel your pain dude. But at the same time, I laughed my ass off when I saw your pic, cause that shit is like, what the cover of Day Z should look like when they sell it to people. You just gotta take it in stride. As far as advice though, just leave your game on and let him starve.

I enjoyed watching that. Nice background music. The russians made me laugh. "Hey man how do I access this shit?" lol