nillie

Nice to see the leather stuff !

So its been a while since my last post here. Lost plenty of gear in the wipe, but i didnt care too much about it since i was playing private hives anyway. But today i had some extra time and decided to have another go on a public. I spawned near Berezino on an average pop server, and made my way inland without much problems. Found a V3S and decided to head south to my favorite area, to try and get some nice gear. I made a wrong turn somewhere, and ended up somewhere above the Northeastern airfield, i think at the outskirts of Svetlojarks. I cant remember the last time i got lost on the map, but it was nice to experience it again. So, i headed back south, and southwest cross country in the V3S, but by the time i got to Kabanino next to the other airfield, the server went offline and didnt come back up. So i had to relog to a different server, and got rolled back all the way to Grishino. So i made a trip to the airfield, without much success. I headed back south on foot...and after what seemed like an entire day, i was finaly back in my hometown of Chapaevsk. I had picked up the basics along the way : an SKS, a Magnum with a bunch of speedloaders, a raincoat and a backup gorka set. So i decided to do a quick check of the prison. Nothing there... Then i got a call from a friend, and i ran into a random appartment building. While distracted on the phone, i ran upstairs to the roof. The call ended, and i wanted to head back down, when i spot something in the corner of my eye on the balcony of the building accross the street : Its a tent. its only the second time i find a tent, so i am feeling pretty happy. I decide to head back inland towards zelenogorsk with a little detour. I am just running along in the middle of nowhere, with my magnum in hand because it somehow feels like i am running faster with it. Anyway, out of the blue, a loud crack: i just got hit by something....It sounded like a .22 sporter, but i am not sure. I am bleeding thats for sure. Another shot : this time its clear that its a Mosin, and its not verry far away. I try to zigzag my way out of trouble, but i get hit again and fall unconscious. I am already sobbing over my lost tent.... when i wake up again with the shooter standing over what he thinks is my lifeless body... He is definatly not prepared for this.... I get up immediatly and fire a barage of magnum shots at him. I can see blood flying out of him while he is running around like a madman. He tries to aim his Mosin, but its not working out for him. The speedloader comes to work again and i can instantly unleash another barage of .357 at him. He takes 2 more hits and drops dead on the spot... All his stuff is ruined, but to my suprize everything in my backpack is still good. Weird because i was sure i got hit from behind. Anyway, i bandaged up, took his axe (thanks buddy) and head for cover with my tent still instact. If the guy who tried to Mosin me happens to read this : next time, make sure..... Im loving this.

Sounds like a bugged character. I had a character that got burned once, and i kept getting hot all the time. I tried to fix it with morphine, didnt help. Then by getting soaked and freezing. I took off all my clothes, ran into a pond, and then stood in a storm for half an hour. I finally changed to freezing, then lit up a fire to dry up again. Logged out, logged back in, ran for about 10 yards in my t-shirt and undies : I got hot again. For me it wasnt really a problem because i never got hyperthermic, even after running a long while. But i guess these things still happen.

Id verry much like to try one out. Do you have a mag for it? And what would you like in return?

Anybody got an AKM to spare? I can give you an ak101 with a full clip

I was unable to "find a target", but my buddy got insta killed by a double shot last evening. Shot from across the street. It was a regular double barrel, not a sawed-off tho. Ill try again this evening.

Its been an interesting time for my public character these last few days. I know there is wipe coming soon, so I've been trying to enjoy my gathered gear now i still can, while avoiding hackers like the one mentioned in the story above. Anyway i logged in public where i left off : a high pop server near Pavlova military base, and decided to head back there in search for more action. I spotted a guy looting one of the solitary barracks. As he ran to the next room, i can see he is wearing military gear, a ballistic helmet and SKS. I figure this would make for a fair enough fight, and i plan to set up some kind of epic shootout. I want to walk up to him from the outside of the barracks, as he is looting the last barrack, but then i spot what i believe to be an AKM lying on the bunk bed. Ive been searching for one of these for days, and greed just takes over. I fire 2 bursts from the AK 101 trough the window, and the guy just drops instantly. He never even knew i was there. When i enter the room, it turns out its an AKS-47u, and i suddenly feel verry bad again. Nothing worse than getting blackscreened out of the blue while looting a weapon... anyway, the guys gear is all ruined, and he is definitely dead as a dodo. So i decide to pick up the mini-ak47 anyway and go look for a mag and have some fun with it. After looting the other solitary barrack, i go to the hospital barracks. As i am sitting in the bush staking out the place before i make my move, all hell breaks loose again. Gunfire inside the hospital. 2 guys come running out, surrounded by zombies. I move in for a closer look, and one guy has a mosin, while the other seems to be unarmed. They manage to kill the zombies and instead of looting the barracks, they just leave and head into the woods. I figure id let these guys slide, since they dont seem to be verry geared, and are moving around like freshies. No AK mag to be found in Pavlova, so i head to Zeleno. Nothing there either. So i head back inland. I am standing in the bushes having a drink from my canteen, when out of the blue music starts playing. Its the music from the movie "psycho" from the shower scene, im sure you all know it. I look around, and there is nobody there, but i know exactly what is going on. A hacker teleported on me and he will now try to kill with my own guns. And then i see him, naked standing right next to me. I run away but he keeps popping up next to me. Next thing i know, my guy starts twitching and i am losing control. In a reflex, i just exit the game. I logged in to my regular public server, and my gear is all there. It seems i am way too attached to this character. I try one more time to find an AKM and than i will definatly go and get killed somewhere or donate my stuff to a freshy. I guess the new patch will be here any day now anyway. After that interesting encounter, i decided to make a freshy on a new high pop private server. A buddy i met ingame quickly joins me. I spawn in elektro, and my friend in Kamyshovo, so thats a good sign. Then it starts to storm and i get soaked. I know the area from the back of my hand by now, so i quickly gather everything i need, but i cant find matches. Even tough i found a raincoat, i am still soaked and cold, so i head over the nearby small hangar in the northeastern outskirts of elektro, as there are usually people there with fires. And i get lucky. There is a bunch of people sitting there getting warmed up. I join and we start some friendly chats. There is a lot of gunfire in town. My buddy arrives, and our group decides to team up and loot the fire stations and police station. We loot the rest of elektro and by now, the group has grown to about 10 people, with only 3 of us having firearms. I decide to go for a bow, and head towards an Ashwood tree, when my buddy gets fired on. As usual, nobody is to blame and our fine group quickly disperses into every direction. Anyway, i manage to patch him up and the server goes down for a restart. I log back in and head straight to the fire station in hopes of finding some good stuff. I find only a 1911, but also some gorka gear and 2 assault vests ! I meet up with my buddy again who had found a Mosin by now. We head to the hospital and find a hypothermic guy. I got a fireplace kit in my backpack, but none of us have matches. We run around trying to find some, but by the time my buddy has found them, our hypothermic friend has dissipated into thin air. We help some other fresh spawns with food, and i drop an extra fire axe i had found for a guy who gave me some .45 ACP rounds. We head back into the woods and call it a day. I am still thinking about that hacker tho...that background music was a very nice touch !

I have : - 2x AK 101 (one full pristine plastic, one pristine plastic with a damaged stock) - 1x AKS-47u - 2x ballistic helmet (P) (black + green) - 1x RDG 5 grenade (W) I would love to try an AKM before the wipe.

You make a good point. Anyway as it stands, the problems i personally have with the performance drops are frustrating, but in no way are they stopping me from enjoying the game at the moment. In most areas of the map, i get a decent performance, and i am just having too much fun to let that ruin my gaming experience. So anything they decide to add, fix or remove at the moment is a bonus. Im just saying ill be happy like a kid in a candy store when i will be able to record some of my in game adventures without having to worry about fps drops constantly. And the sooner i can do that the better. No pressure tho.

Improving optimization for me. I bought an early access game, and i accept cheaters, glitches and constant game tweaks. The only thing i cant stand at the moment is the performance drops. I pay top dollar for a high end pc that should be able to run 6 instances of DayZ at a time, and the game uses a tried and tested engine. I really thing they should focus on performance before adding or fixing content. I dont even mind the cheaters for now tbh.

I havent been able to test my sawed off on people as the AK101 works good enough in close quarters as well, but i havent had any problems with zombies or wildlife. The double shot seems to work as well. I havent tested if it resets or not, i can test it when i get home from work tho. Kinda hard to test its spread without a real target to shoot at. Mind you i have only tried at really close range, which is the only way i would use it against other humans anyway.

In my experience, green mountain actually has above average traffic for a military location. Reasons for this are : - The close proximity to other nearby military facilities at Zelenogorsk, Vybor and the tent camp near Myshkino. People are more likely to stop there when doing a military run of multiple locations, since it isnt really "out of the way". - Its a vissible landmark, so people tend get attracted to it by default. Also, people like to take pictures in the tower. - The fields around are known to spawn V3 trucks regulary. So people who wanna drive a truck also go there - Its next to the route for one of the more popular helicopter crash site runs, and a lot of people pass by it, who might be tempted to go and have look in the prison as wel. Altough the crash site runs are not as common at the moment i guess, since there are some problems with the events. - Its surrounded by thick forest, so people are less likely to get sniped on approach and you can usually get to the actual prison quite easy without beeing spotted. In my experience : i always keep my guard up when i go there and check out the prison from all sides before entering. More than once i have backed away from it after spotting multiple people hiding inside. Also, i find the loot in most jails to be not worth risking your life, and if you are gonna risk your life for high grade military loot, its better to go for barracks anyway. But you should definatly go there at least once. Just be on your guard at all times. I would also not pick it as a meeting spot tho, for reasons listed above. Better to meet up somewhere in the shadow of green mountain.

Ive only been playing for 2 or 3 months, but ive never come across the following items...ever : - Anything that spawns in helicopter crash sites, or the sites themselves (M4 and attachments, PM73, skull balaclava, AUG etc...) - Pistol suppressor - Amphibia S (the pistol, i have found a couple of mags tho) - Cleaver and chainsaw (never seen one, altough i doubt they are ingame). Ive never seen a sword either but havent really looked for it. - the CR527 magazine : 0 seen ever... - anti stab vest : 0 seen - AK rail handguard : 0 seen - MP5 and AKS-74U : found plenty of clips for both, but never the actual weapons - MP5 compensator or any of the MP5 attachments. I guess i should be looking for these at crash sites as wel? items i have only found once or twice : - FNX 45 and its mag - Press vest + smersh vest (only found 1 press vest so far, 0 smersh). - flashbangs : found only 1. Have found multiple grenades tho - Pristine PSO-1 scope (only found damaged ones so far) - East and NATO suppressor : i was able to loot a bunch of these easy from the temporary christmass trees, but havent found one anywhere else everything else ive been able to find multiple times i think.

Well seeing as its almost time for 0.53, i guess its time for a final pic of my 0.52 main public char. We had some good times. I hope i can find some time to go out with a bang with this one.

Killed a guy with broken legs and arms... he wanted a fresh spawn.

I completely agree with this. If you play the game like you really had only one chance, you will stay alive for as long as you want, even on high pop servers, or untill you run into a hacker. Playing like that takes up a lot more time tho, as you have to actually think, observe and plan things and move a lot slower, instead of just dashing in and out of houses and crossing streets and just praying there is nobody watching you. Also, some people find that the game gets boring if they simply keep surviving. They dont know what they want really. If they survive, the game has no point, untill they get shot in the face at the airfield, and suddenly they are angry because KoS !! If i wanna KoS or risk getting KoS, i just make a freshie and get any gun. And then we see what happens. Sometimes i get into firefights, sometimes i meet friendlies, and sometimes crazy stuff happens. On my public tho i like to take my time and play super realistic. If i get bored, i can always make a new freshie on a private.

I am stuck underneath a wooden green house that has stairs leading up to the entrance. The house is standing on a mountain flank. I logged out yesterday after having a rest here, and now my character keeps spawning underneath the house and i cant get out. I have tried jumping or vaulting out using V against all walls, but it does nothing. I can not go prone and roll out or crawl out. I have tried placing myself against a wall which faces open ground, and tried "running out" as the server is loading my character. I start pressing W right after i connect to the server, and basicly i hold it down untill my character spawns. Some people seem to claim that you can run out of buildings this way because your character spawns first. Well, this doesnt work for me either because i always spawn standing still.....inside the damn floor of the house. Am i doing something wrong or is there another way to get out? Please tell me the exact procedure to follow? If there is only suicide for me, can my gear be looted by a friend trough the walls, or will it be lost also? I finaly got a decent character with lots or rare loot and if i lose it like this i will definatly be too pissed for a while. I know everyone says not to get attached to your items, but to lose them in a way like this? Thats just painfull. The outside world is just 2 feet away and i am stuck behind an invisible wall....

I see more and more reports of these hackers everyday. And i ran into one myself as wel 2 days ago. Fortunatly i was a fresh spawn and he could only steal my damn flashlight and knock me out once, before heading off to bother somebody else... Better enjoy my gear while it lasts ! Speaking of which, i really hit the jackpott last night. I decided to do another run of Pavlovo military base with my public character. I havent been on a military loot run in weeks due to playing on private servers. I arrive at the northern most barracks, and its crawling with Z's around the place, which is a good sign. So i go inside and immediatly find 2 assault vests. Mine needed replacemet anyway, and having an extra pristine one couldnt hurt, altough my huntsman backpack was starting to fill up. I find a mountain backpack in the next room, and decide to go for the old backpack inside a backpack routine, you never know what i might come across. The southern barracks are empty, so i start to get paranoid and figure im not alone here. I decide to take a chance and head to the barracks at the hospital anyway... Nothing to see there, so i loot both barracks. I manage to find a handgrenade in the first one, which is a nice thing to try out for fun. The last barracks contain another AK101, and im too greedy to leave it behind. My regular public buddy might enjoy an assault rifle for a change. So i put the new AK on my back and my regular AK in my hands and get the hell out. As i am running away in the woods, the server suddenly begins the reset, and i have a golden opportunity to hit the barracks again for fresh loot. So i relog as fast as the server lets me, drop the mountain backpack and the AK101 in the woods, and head back out to the barracks. In the first one i find multiple AK101 magazines and various clothing goodies. In the next one, i pick up PSO-1 scope and a 75 rnd drum mag. I dont wanna risk heading out to the last 2 barracks because by now the server has filled up again and i can hear activity in the distance. I rush out and go search for the bag i dropped. It takes some time to sort out my gear and in order to carry everything i want, i need to to leave some stuff behind. By now my character is verry thirsty and hungry, and i head back to the town of "BoP" to restock on food and water. Inside the first house i enter, what do i see lying around on the floor? : A pristine balaklava.... I decide that i have had just too much luck for one day, and log off for the night. If anybody trustworthy wants to trade an AKM for an AK101, send me a PM. I would love to try this gun out.

SKS... I stumbled across a guy lying near Riffy with broken legs, and he asked me to kill him, so i shot him in the face at point blank...not sure if this counts tho. Shot a guy at NWA the same day with the same SKS as he exited the control tower. Took me about 8 bullets to drop him tho. I remember the panic i felt when after 3 hits he was still standing and got out his mosin (which was on his back untill then). LOL.... The moment between spotting him and opening fire only took like 3 or 4 seconds, but it seemed to last like a minute. I was torn between all these choices !!! Anyway, i decided to go for the shot. It was the first time i ever shot at somebody without having been shot at first. I felt really guilty about it, but i just had to find out how that SKS really shoots, and zombies and deers just dont do ! I got killed 5 minutes later at the tent camp, when some fully decked out guy came running at me from the bushes with an AKM and a drum mag.

Does the East Supproser effect zombies tho? I dont usually use my AK101 to take down zombies, as i normally use the amphibia or an axe. But the times i have used my AK101 around zombies, they seem to agro to it just the same :s. Maybe i was just unlucky.

Hey ! I got a 1911 engraved + a mag that i am not using at the moment. Public 1/3rd person I wish i had some more mags but dont have any atm. I can throw in a ghillie hood and gun wrap for the PSO-1 ?

Interesting 2 days for me. I returned to a long forgotten private server where i apparently had a character in Cherno. Ran into somebody friendly after getting shot at 7 or 8 times by Mosins all around Cherno...such bad aim... Anyway, i proceded to loot chapaevsk, balota airfield and balote village with my new friend. It was nice. Then server went down. Logged my other private character, and moved down to kamyshovo for some bandit play. Had good fun pvping there. Logged out at the fire station in elektro after a nice gunfight there. I ended up almost dying and most of my gear was ruined. Next day logged back in inside the fire station, i immediatly hear footsteps. I wait for the door to open and have my magnum out. We immediatly start shooting at eachother, but my ruined clothes didnt really help. I dont know what happened to the other guy, but i guess he lived in the end. It was kind of a relief to get killed, as i didnt really have a plan for this character anymore and i knew that i was gonna get it sooner or later. So i logged my public char, and chased some bandits that where killing fresh spawns north of elektro. Managed to get most of them, finaly found a CR75 clip, and logged out again. I then created a new character on the private server where i got killed earlier, as some buddies still have chars there and we where gonna meet up later this week. I got a Novo Spawn...I hate spawning in Novo tbh. I already got knocked out during a lag spike at the car garage. But i managed to escape an early death. Then i spent half an hour dodging bullets insinde Novo. Got lucky and managed to loot a corpse of some poor guy, but my gear got instantly ruined by some jerk with a .22 sporter who tried to trick me into an ambush. Anyway, i was glad to survive Novo and headed south so i could meet up with a buddy there later. I logged in my other private character and finaly got that 30 round sporter clip i was looking for. I never really tried this gun before, so it was nice to give it a go. I also made a bow and tried archery for the first time...i need some more practice tho. So a bit of a mixed bag really. Made some new friends, and some enemies. Got killed but took plenty of folks with me. Some deserved it, others didnt... I think i will try out the sporter .22 some more and after that, i will try to find some sort of closure for my public character. Its been alive for too long now.

Cutting down trees is a sure way to ruin your axe super fast. Which is kind of wierd, because thats exactly what splitting axes are for. Firefighter axes especially get ruined way to fast, while they are in fact almost indestrucatble. Even if they are not sharp anymore, its should still be possible to cut down smaller trees trough blunt force. It should just take longer. Anyway, the only thing i use an axe for these days is cutting down zombies.As guy pointed out, better to search for kindling on the ground. Works like a charm for me. Note on repairing axes and blades : U can only use a stone to repair it from "badly damaged" to "damaged" as far as i know. For an axe this is maybe acceptable, but if your knife is not pristine, its really not helpfull for you. A pristine knife is a must have for skinning and quartering animals and various other stuff. Can openers are quite common in bigger towns, so u can pick one of those op to open your canned foods. Using an axe can result in large spills, and will destroy the axe really fast. If you dont find a can opener, pick up a screwdriver instead. If that gets ruined, you can just drop it on the ground and pick up a new one, as they are verry common just about everywhere.

And here is my private hive char, alive for a week or so. Since its private, i use the blaze to kill Z's. Its too much fun with this gun. I have a bunch of snap loaders so its not a burden at all, and the noise it makes usually attracts some adventure.I try to balance between good and evil. Tomorrow i will try to go down the coast and drop some weapons for freshies. See how that goes :).

Its not my intention to give you a hard time, i even agree with you in a way. But let me put it differently : If you do this run and keep doing over and over again, like you have been doing since the mod, then yes, it will end up rewarding you and even feel easy. But we are talking about new players here, guys who start playing today. Guys who often cant even navigate this route properly and end up getting lost in the woods and could die of starvation if they make a single wrong turn. If you want to condition a new player to the principle of doing loot runs, then why not have them start at something simple. Berezino is a common spawn location. If they practice a run where they hit (from the top my head) Gorka, Dubrovka, Krasnostav, NE airfield and back down to Berezino via Khelm, they learn the same basic principles like stealth, navigation and movement, while getting plenty of loot suited for new players. There is also far less of a risk of the run beeing ended short because less people frequent this area (aside from maybe Berezine and NEA), and more importantly : You stay alive longer to learn more, in a shorter time period. After the basics are learned like that, they will be able to perform the run you speak of, with a much higher success rate... But i also agree that dying in DayZ is a good way to learn stuff. And on a side node : Again : i think military gear is highly overrated. Speaking from my experience, once you have good weapons and gear, EVERYONE wants a piece of it. Fresh spawns will come at you relentlessly because they got nothing to lose, geared players see you as a threat and will go out of their way to hunt you down. And the game becomes lonely because you dont wanna risk losing your gear and tend to play super stealthy and paranoid. At least thats how i feel, im not generalizing this. If you got a whole bunch of people with gear together, i am sure the experience is totally different. I dont have many friends that play DayZ tho. Also, as time goes on, i think we will see military loot become more diverse, but less common. I guess im just preparing a bit for the time when assault rifles are going to be super rare, where as now you find one in every long barrack after a restart. On my private shard characters, i just go for a sawed-off and magnum. Plenty of ammo to be found, easely conceiled, not as threathening as an AK with a drum in hand. And you dont feel so pissed off when you finaly get killed... Altough taking out snipers is a lot more frustrating with a setup like that i admit.