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Friendly advice. Play DayZ as a military simulator. I've heard Rocket say: "treat roads as rivers, cross them perpendicular." Cross them prone to avoid zombies, cross them fast to avoid shooters. Rely on cover and concealment and know the difference. Cover will stop a bullet, concealment might prevent the bullet from being fired. Whenever you move inside cities, move from cover to cover and use walls to shield you towards possible sniper positions. Keep cover close, keep on the move, change direction often and move unpredictable. Make it easier for whoever is aiming at you to miss the first shot and take off sprinting, when the first shot misses. Just because you're friendly, doesn't mean you can't be careful. If you meet an unarmed player, all you have to do is to make sure, they can't steal any weapons from your backpack. A player with a axe, keep those at a safe distance. An armed player, keep a corner, a shelf in the supermarket or something solid between you. As soon as I spot a player in a city I call out friendly, friendly as I take cover. If the player shoots at me or tries to flank me, I'll conider it a threat to my safety. Depending on the situation, I will retreat, flee, fire a warning shoot or fight. I never start a conversation without being in cover. If someone is pointing a gun barrel at your face, you're completely at their mercy and it doesn't take much paranoia for two friendly people, poinitng guns at eachother for someone to pull the trigger. If you meet someone and you both avoid eachother's line of fire, you're off to a good start. As long as noone is in danger and noone to trying to put the other in danger, there is room for a little trust. If noone is already shooting, engage in small talk. Ask what they are looking for, what they need, if they are on their own, where they are going. Trust your instincts, are they sinceer, are they mocking you? If you get the sense they are being condecending or something, prepare to escape or fight. Say good luck and good bye and watch your back, as you get as far away as fast and safe as possible. Any person armed or unarmed can change their attitude towards you as soon as they find a weapon or find good loot. Whenever I'm in Cherno/Elektro, I carry little gear that can tempt weaker souls, I'm generous with the loot we find. I ask if the other player needs it, before I take it, to minimize conflict. I'll rather run from a fight, than win it. I only fight, if another friendly is in danger or hurt.

Have the hive detect hacked weapons and kill all characters carrying them. Turn deer stands down a tier. Prevent loot farming. Fix or remove tents. Delete tent/vehicles out of bounds. Wipe hive.

Remember in arma the bullet spawns from the chamber of your weapon, not from the center of your camera or crosshair. You have to adjust for ballistics on distances and adjust for elevated sights in CQB. On extreme close ranges you might want to ignore your sights and make corrections based on bullet decals/dust clouds. Sometimes bringing up your sights is worth it, sometimes you want to spray and pray.

You might want to update your signature if you want to signal a serious change, maybe a John Lennon quote or JFK.

Pro-spammer. Don't press reply. Press report.

Anyone who forces my hand, I'll deny them the chance to recover any of the gear I leave behind. People will spawn, respawn and respawn again, to get quickly back to their corpse for revenge. "Bury corpse" is a great equalizer and I consider it my duty to enforce player persistancy as it was intended by Rocket.

You sure you're in the correct forum?

Whether you kill on sight or never shoot first, everyone dies in DayZ. There's lots of friendlies in the cities, maybe it's even on the rise because of the sexy hero skins. I never shoot first, but I also keep my distance to anyone with an axe or place shelves between me and the guy with the enfield in the supermarket. Lots of people are looking for the thrill of the insanely dangerous of trusting a stranger in Chernarus. The most dangerous about meeting strangers, is you have to venture into populated areas to actually meet somebody and since Cherno and Elektro is surounded by hacked AS50 TWS, the approach is way more dangerous, than the guy saying "Firendly, friendly!" in the supermarket. Don't enter Cherno/Elektro with gear you can't aford to lose. Don't enter Cherno/Elektro with gear that tempts weaker souls. Trust noone blindly. Keep distance to axes, avoid line of sight to firearms. Start conversations from cover/safety. Trust your instincts, but don't be too naive, trusting or paranoid. At some point you either have to trust the stranger or escape. None of the times I've actually established a group with a stranger, have I been killed by this person. I have been killed by snipers and other bandits, but never backstabbed. Don't deny yourself the thrill of playing as a friendly.

It's a survival mod. Don't die, unless you have to.

Whatever happened or didn't happen, the moment you pulled the trigger, you justified it yourself.

Always hide bodies.

I don't trust people. I trust solid cover.

Rocket can't miss something as important as PAX if he's serious about going standalone. Also there's a decent chance 1.7.3 is released this week. With new patches there's a risk of getting new bugs/exploits, but that's alpha for you. Yo.

One small can of beans for OP, One giant can of beans of the Trusted Medics of the Wasteland.

A hero is someone, who's first instinct isn't to shoot everybody in the face. Maybe it just isn't for you.

No. It's a survival mod. How you survive is up to you. Some cooperate, some steal and kill. Some survive by disconnecting from the game. How pathetic is that?

Just because there are lots of cheating little bitches exploiting the game, don't mean it's something to be proud of.

Alt-f4s. Using hacked weapons. I'd give beans if I supported cheating.

They did a follow up interview, a bit more focused and I thought they broke a little new ground in the second part.

Just noticed this video. Really loved the sound effects.

You got it all wrong. All hackers are bad. That's why they hack. Because they suck.

PAX is too important to miss imo. I don't think you should underestimate those repeatative interviews. I just saw those two segments from ign and not comming off as some Bobby Kotick CEO is pretty valuable, also even though 90% of the stuff is old for the hardcore info scavengers, the last 5-10% is still new insight into your attitude towards the current state and future development, which makes it worth combing though.

Since we're discussing cutting down on itmes delaying 1.7.3, these four whole hours of sleep you mention, are those actually necessary. If I understand sleep theory correctly, the human body really only need one hour of deep sleep to rebuild mechanically, the rest of the night is luxury of dreaming, that just prevents you from going insane eventually.

I agree with every single post in this thread.