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When performing any action such as skinning or crafting, hold W right before you press F to start the action, hold W through the entire action and do not press any other buttons, when the animal has vanished or your item has been crafted you are good to go. Its worked for me since .52, try it out. I even use it on drinking water bottles because for some reason they don't work on some servers.

Well now its happening to me regularly, truck or no truck. Got me killed in a berezino firefight. Gotta love alpha.

It happens to me when I drive the V3S cargo for a little bit, it has happened to my friend when he drives through any large city since the V3S was introduced. We just relog and it fixes it.

You guys realize its not instakill right? When you press F11 it takes a few seconds for him to get into the pose and then you have to actually left click to fire the shot/stick em with the pointy end

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I believe mounting scopes should be realistic, an SKS shouldn't be capable of mounting even a PU scope without being drilled and tapped for it, I think they should incorporate that into the game. Luckily I know they are removing the LRS for the mosin so thats a start. To me it seems like the Blaze is the one gun that would already have a rail for mounting an LRS.

Myself and a few friends were gonna spawn in in the spiral and see if we could have some fun with our grenades and AKs before being shot down, sounds like someone else had the same idea. Maybe next time don't go public with this sort of thing, if you don't have about 20+ guys to hold down the fort then you will be destroyed. Try adding known trustworthy traders from the trading thread and creating a network.

I've noticed that they not longer make noise until they are right up on you, like I will look around for zombies and see nothing, great, start the unnecessarily long water drinking animation at a pond and then boom, getting hit by a zombie that never made a sound.

Restarts are irrelevant if the server is persistent, which, in my experience, the vast majority of pub servers are (though some claim not to be). A persistent server with looted military bases will still have looted military bases after the restart, hell they will likely be looted forever because persistence is complete useless at the moment unless you are on a full pop server. On low pop servers all the loot seems to pile up in one place in each region of the map. A lot of the private servers I play are non persistent, I keep note of when they restart and when I am about to join a server I always go for the one that just restarted, the best fights are at the prison right after a restart, so many people frantically running around trying to gear up and get out, its a real gorefest.

There is a pretty good burn center in Atlanta Georgia if your rump is that roasted. People server hop, it is a way for people to get decently easy gear when they want to gear up quick, it has its own risks and rewards. Not everyone plays the game like you. If the devs did not intend for people to server hop then there would not be a shared hive. Personally, I play on only private hive servers, its like having multiple saves so I can hop onto one character with my AK and great gear or I can hop on another with a magnum and a truck or I have another where I just stay fresh and fight on the coast. I can play any way I want with minimum prep time and there are like 15 good private servers that stay full most of the time.

Hell lets just make it so that changing your contrast settings in the menu is hacking, its pretty much the same damn thing. People turn their contrast up at night and don't fucking claim you don't because we all do it so we can see shit without getting spotted. Strange how no one calls hax on that. Lets go one step further, altering your graphics is hacking too, I've noticed with the way my graphics have been tweaked that people at a distance render in as paper white humanoid shapes in clothing, my friends see them as their actual color whether it be black or white but I see a bright white figure because my graphics settings are so low or something, am I cheating? How about the fact that I leave shadows off, shadows can be seen through buildings because lolalpha so people who leave shadows on gain an edge over those who don't, are they cheating? I mean its one thing to delete the grass or foliage, but just tweaking the basic colors and contrast slightly is no big deal.

Not to hijack the thread but how is persistence ever even going to work? Are items going to have a time limit for how long they remain on the ground without being picked up or can we expect to see the entire ground made out of books one day? Will some items be persistent while others aren't (such as backpacks, guns, and tents)?

I extensively tested the V3S on .51 and they were very fun, a bit buggy and had no horsepower but still fun, but now? Eh. The V3S appears to have had its Speed, Acceleration, and overall horsepower completely nerfed to oblivion. I took some pictures to demonstrate this, in this picture you can see the truck is traveling up an approximately 13 degree incline, the truck was traveling at about 30kph when it hit this incline. Upon hitting the incline the truck slowed to a speed of 6kph within about 7 seconds. This was the top speed for the truck until it reached flat ground again, 6kph is about 3.7mph, .5 mph over the average human walk speed. I understand that the V3S is an old truck but this is simply unrealistic, I agree it should not be a mountain climber but a 13 degree incline is hardly a mountain, I wouldn't even call it a hill. at the moment, if your truck encounters any incline over 8 degrees the vehicle will drop below jogging speed, meaning people can easily run either to your door, open it, and kill you, or in front of your truck to shoot you, it makes the truck pretty useless unless you keep it on the coast where the roads are pretty flat and who wants that? I like to explore, I want to take this thing on the old logging roads where it belongs. According to the wikipedia article on the actual Praga V3S it has a 7.1l, 6 Cylinder engine capable of producing 98 horsepower. If you want I can calculate the weight of the truck without a bed and what speed it should be able to maintain up a given incline for realism but I will guarantee you that it will require a boost to the V3S performance in all fields. I'll delete this and repost it in suggestions with the actual math done on how the vehicle should perform if people agree with me on this.

When attempting to do any action such as drink all on canteens, skinning things, or crafting things, press W immediately before you start the task and hold W through the entire time you are doing it, once the task is complete you may release W. This has worked for me 100% of the time, crafting stone knives and skinning deer isn't such a fucking headache now.

The wipe will happen every Wednesday forever, probably. As for loot, I actually found a lot of guns but they did fuck with the loot table a bit, I guess they really wanted to show off their new melee weapons that can't be placed on your back because I swear I have found 500 brooms/ice picks. One thing I noticed was a lack of backpacks in the cities, took me forever to find a single backpack on an empty private hive server in cherno.

Well at least we finally get a bit of scripter relief, I mean damn look at this: You know your game has a cheating problem when even the cheaters are hoping the anti-cheat gets improved.

It started with the AKM, something is wrong here.. And then the AK101, are they all like this? The AK74 too? Well this is just silly.

Tents are overrated, too little space and they just get wiped every week, we just throw backpacks on the ground for mags and ammo and guns in a pile for daily use. Its nice when you get killed to either have the option of instant regear or scavenging around and regearing. There are only three of us and we just bring excess guns and ammo back to the stash, this is what its turned into by the end of the week. Its nice because its all junk, just basic guns you find in the coastal areas, even if someone finds it and takes it all, big deal, we rebuild it every week. No one has ever found it though.

It seems as if servers have been crashing like crazy since 0.52 came, half of the time the server I am on doesn't even make it to the natural restart where you get the 'No Message Received' counter, you can continue to play the game but you can't move items, open doors, or anything like that, oddly enough voice chat still works if you were close to someone when the server went down. I've also noticed that when I join servers off the front page like 3/5 times they will be stuck on Wait for Host and the time/number of players on them never changes, so why are the servers so unstable now? It wasn't like this before we jumped to .52, like when they pushed the update through really quick and the DDOS attacks started happening. Is that still ongoing maybe?

For those who aren't familiar with AK platforms, the handguards are upside down and backwards. Also, pay no attention to the stash, that is not your concern =]

No we have been moving our stashes around in various low traffic servers and noticed that they crash in this same manor. As for all of that guys other problems, they happen regularly on any server regardless of server population, its not as much about the number of people on the server as it is an unrefined network system, it will be buggy until its improved.

An incident we dubbed Black Hawk Down.. My friend and I were on a private server driving our V3S around Cherno looking for trouble when we got some tagalongs, about 5 freshies, a couple with melees chasing us around as I drove slowly around town, we also had a Mosin guy trying to line up shots but the hood was up so it was rather hard for him. We were doing doughnuts in the gravel parking lot beside the police station when my game started acting strange and my FPS dropped dramatically, the truck then de-rendered on my screen into an assortment of boxes and my client crashed. According to my friend, my body vanished from the drivers seat and I appeared standing out in front of the police station where the freshies started attacking me, he drove the truck around me in a circle to distract them and get them to follow him away from my body which worked for the most part but while driving through a bush he drove up onto a small rock and the truck was stuck. He climbed out and thats when shit went down. Here we are in Chernogorsk on a full server, in front of the police station, with a stuck truck which can be heard from pretty much anywhere in the city, a pack of freshies flooding in, and a mosin sniper getting in position. Right about that time I managed to get back in only to find I was standing beside a man with a 12ga pump who proceeded to dump into my legs in a panicked run and shoot sort of way, I pulled my 1911 and put him down with three shots to the chest, meanwhile my friend was in front of the truck firing wildly with his double barrel, he had already killed 3 and had taken a few hits. I began crawling to the truck with my shattered legs hoping it may give me some cover while he patches me up when I get shot in the back once more, I roll over and see a freshie has picked up the shotgun from the first guy who shot me but has fired the last round and is desperately trying to reload, I let loose one round from the hip and hit him square in the face, lucky shot. About the time I get to the truck another freshie is grabbing the shotgun, I put him down too, now I am out of ammo for my 1911 and am reduced to my mosin. My friend began to bandage me as the freshies loomed on the streets around us, waiting for their moment, my scoped mosin seemed to hold them back though. Just as he wrapped up the bandaging process it all went black, mosin man must have finally lined up his shot, too bad he shot the immobile guy and not my friend who proceeded to spot him and hit him with both rounds from his double barrel at about 50 yards, not sure if mosin man survived but he sure wasn't happy cause he was never seen again after that. My friend, seeing that there was no reason to stay there anymore, made his escape in a hail of gunfire, he dropped about 7 all told and wounded many more. The entire time we were fighting there, which was less than 10 minutes, I couldn't stop thinking of this scene, and thus, we call it Blackhawk Down. http://youtu.be/Qf0h24ii7XY?t=2m1s Totally worth it btw, those characters had lived for weeks, traveled to just about every town on the map save for military bases, and had lived a good long life. We went into that city looking for a fight and a fresh start, we what we wanted and so much more and some lucky vultures got a tent, gas can, vests, guns, backpacks, ammo, and a truck if they could get it off that damn rock. Side note, my friend did survive the ordeal and made it to a safe spot near the docks, he hung around for about 15 minutes and he said the gunfire never stopped over there, we started something great and it probably went on until the server reset, a place where any freshie had a chance at great gear, he just had to dodge the bullets and axes of everyone else.

You sure you aren't thinking of the PU scope? 500 hours in and I've only legitimately found one and it was in a military base on a bunk.

The water deaths are just V3S deaths probably, I know the first thing I did when I found a truck was drove it into the ocean to see what would happen, unfortunately I learned that there is a very sheer drop off just a little ways out into the ocean and its very hard to get a truck back up it, this is likely the cause of their death.

HEY! You found the wonderbox! We had four wonderboxes back before the surprise update that wiped all the tents, they were protector cases with ammo boxes in them which had protector cases and it just sort of kept going, had every type of handgun, multiple of every mag, every optic, all the M4 attachments, ammo, medical stuff. It was a bunch of fun to unpack it because it just kept going. It was cool how we got them too, we had just spawned into kamy to start up a little forced labor apple picking operation when we saw some people running along the coast, we caught up to them right at the hangers and thats where the firefight started, we pushed them into the hangers with our various AKs. One of us stormed in from the electro side firing wildly in a suicide run while the other two of us came in the solnich side and flanked them while they were distracted, we lost one out of three, they lost all four. It was a good haul. Oh, and the devs have clearly stated that being in possession of and or using hacked gear is not against the rules or ban worthy, same with duped gear, it is against the rules to hack or run scripts or knowingly abuse exploits, it is not against the rules to collect a hacker or dupers gear once you have killed them. I'd say the vast majority of my M4s have come from duper kills in the coastal areas, when they can dupe they get sloppy and generally make for an easy kill with a medium range weapon such as a blaze.