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What is it, on a psychological level that makes people pull out their guns when they hear a truck? Almost every time I climb into a truck to make a leisurely journey across the map I get shot or shot at. I’ve also watched lots of videos where the authors were engaged in typical DayZ activity when along comes a vehicle and almost instinctively the first thing they do is pull out a gun. WHY? The slow control response in a truck doesn’t exactly make it and ideal weapon and because front tires are venerable zombies are more dangerous than charging trucks. Sure it’s possible they could run you over but that’s high risk for the driver. It’s easily out maneuvered and the occupants cannot shoot at you. Even if they decide to get out and engage you, they are the ones with the disadvantage as they must complete the dismount animation before they can go through the arming animation. Is it jealousy, is it envy, is it annoyance? What, on a primal level, makes us drop everything we are doing at the chance to get a bullet into that cab? Even if you don’t attempt to shoot, what causes us to immediately draw weapons? I say “us” because I find myself doing the same thing even when I’m in no danger of attack or even detection my heart rate increases, I get hyper aware and my gun comes out just as it would if someone had taken a shot at me. I can’t decide if its fear or bloodlust, greed or dominance. What say you??

To whom it may concern, I am taking a hiatus from DayZ for a while and I’m offering up my gear to whoever might be interested. I live in the US and I’m on Central Standard Time zone. My character is in the Svetlojarsk area and if you want the gear you will have to make it here to claim it. PM me to work out the details. Ballistic helmet (P) Black hi cap vest (w) Black M65 Jacket (P) Black cargo pants (P) Military boots (P) w/ combat knife (P) Blue Mountain pack (D) SVD (P), PSO scope (D) and 3 Mags (P) FNX (P), Silencer (P), MRDS (W) and 3 mags (P) MP5-K (P), 30 rnd mag (P), compensator (P), Rail handguard (P) and ACOG Optics (P) AK74 (P), Eastern suppressor (P), 2-30 rnd mags (P) Steyr Aug (W), Nato suppressor (W), 3-60 rnd STANAG mags and 3-30 rnd CMAGs Model 70 (P) with hunting scope (W) Extra equipment PU scope (P) Eastern Suppressor (P) Loose rounds 40-7.62x54 185-.45 APC 120-5.56mm 20-.308 Bottom 4 rifles are tucked away nicely into flare guns Edit: This is 3PP and .57 stable 2nd EDIT: Two people have messaged me about this so I will consider this offer closed. If they are a "no show" I will re-post.

Do you ever get a response? When I'm in a truck I cant hear an atomic bomb explosion much less a guy on the side of the road speaking in direct chat. The engine noise is just too loud.

We are a fast food society. Drive thru's and microwaves and yes, even virtual suicide.

Can any of you guys on this post tell me how you were able to upload these videos? I've only been able to attach links to the videos I want to upload. I've dicked around with it a few times but haven't been able to finger it out. Thanks and sorry for not contributing to the discussion.

Drowning is back in! I just tried it and died fairly quick. Faster than running to the construction site. I dont know when it was removed but a few weeks ago I read a post that it had been taken out so I went out to give it a try on a private shard and was unable to drowned myself. But its back in now. https://youtu.be/tRJu1bbI6gw

Good point. Now that you cant drowned yourself I cringe when I get a crappy spawn that's not close to a high dive.

The other side of the coin is what about those players who wouldn't want to spawn at the prison. If you are a newbie trying to learn the game or maybe just a woodsman survivalist and spawned into a firefight, no chance no thanks. Even if you were able to escape being shot down and managed to get into the water you'd probably die from your own fatigue as you don't spawn with much health in the first place. If speed rounds are what people are looking for by spawning on the island, there are other games that specifically cater to that type of game play and do it very well. And that's my 29 dollars worth.

I’ve got a few noobie questions, which at this point in my experience I should know the answers to, but either I didn’t pay attention or learned and forgot. I was hoping some of you more helpful members could enlighten me. I know there are some sour heads out there whose default answer is “search the forums”, but fact is when you type in a search it shows results for anything which has ever had that phrase in it. Not only do you have to fumble through hundreds of posts but a lot of them reference oudated information which no longer apply to the current build, so in regards to version .55…. 1. What exactly happens when a server restarts? Besides respawning zombies, sending my truck back to where I last got out, changing the clock time, and undoing the last five minutes of my gameplay, why must all servers restart several times a day? 2. Do bear traps/land mines work on zombies? 3. Is it an option that the server admin can change the countdown login time? I know two servers who have 30 second timers while others typically have a 60 second. Ive seen videos where people have to wait 300 seconds. 4. Do civilian tents still exist? I haven't seen one since the tent splosion when 55 was released. I have seen military tents but no civilian. 5. Do M4s only spawn at heli crash sites? In all the military locations I’ve looted Ive never seen an M4 in the wild. Only the ones carried by other players. 6. Can you eat worms without getting sick? 7. Can you eat raw meat without getting sick? 8. I drove a truck into the water and flipped it. When the server restarted it was floating above where I rolled it. I swam out, got in, started it and it sank then flipped. Whenever the server restarts I go check and there it is floating on the water. When will it stop appearing on the water and start spawning in a designated truck spawn point? 9. Are helos still only spawning in the same four locations? 10. I found a building that has a noclip wall. Where a wall appears to be you can walk right through it without the use of any manipulation techniques. Its not in a populated area and has very little strategic advantage. Great place for a stash but I’m worried I may be considered a wall glitcher and be banned. Would this be grounds for banning? 11. Does anyone want to give me a fully kitted M4 (preferably butt first) Thanks all

Update: Worms are like pond water, if you eat them when your starving you will get sick but if your energized you will be fine. I ate a handful while energized and nothing happened then later ate some when I was yellow hungry and received “funny taste in mouth” message followed by sickness. I had to force myself to throw up twice before I began to see color again. BTW, worms provide very little energy almost no water so if your starving and find a shovel, leave the worms alone. Don’t make a bad situation worse. I set up a mine field and a bear trap field, round up a few zombs and funneled them through both fields several times. Nothing happened. A buddy of mine ran into the trap field and broke his leg. I ran into the mine field and nothing happened. The only way I was able to get the mines to explode was to scroll over one and activate it, then it transported me to the beach.

Hey everyone, Like most people I thought the .56 update was going to be pushed last Wednesday so I decided to try and make Schadenfreude island for shits and giggles. I've watched videos of others doing it so I I though I'd give it a shot. My first idea was to try and drive a truck out, like you can to prison island, but the ocean floor is too rough and I kept flipping it on its side. When the server restarts the truck would spawn floating above wherever it was wrecked so I just swam out, jumped in and tried again. Unfortunately you cant see very far under water so I would just end up flipping again. I decided to abandon the truck idea before running it off a cliff and killing myself so I opted for the long swim instead. I heard hypothermia was an issue in the game but with all the swimming I've done up to this point I hadn't had any issues with it. So I went to Skalisty Island built a fire and filled up on water. When I got HOT I set my direction to 106 degrees and took the plunge. about 15 minutes in I started to get cold so I activated one of my heater packs. Not sure If it did anything or not but at this point there's no harm in trying. At about 30 minutes in I'm red freezing so I activate my last heater pack. No land in site in either direction and Its clear I will not be returning to Chernarus in this body so I pushed on for science. How long can one swim before giving up the ghost? The answer is 41 minutes and 39 seconds. I don't know if the heater packs make any difference but before next Wednesday I'd like to try and collect twice as many and see if I can make it any further. I guess the fastest way to test this is try the swim without any heat packs to see if I get hypodermic before the 41 minutes. I assume hypothermia wasn't an issue in earlier versions which is how the island was accessible in the past. Does anyone know if the island is still there?

This sounds to be the most reasonable explanation because my friend and I have been trying, on multiple servers for two days, and have been unable to get more then half an hour out before a cold indication pops up on the dashboard. We then turn around, head back, get warmed up and try a different server (rinse and repeat). The day I made it to Schadenfreude I not only swam east without cold issues but just prior to that I swam the entire coastline from Svetlo to Skalisty without issues. I thought it might be server related but now I'm getting cold warnings on that same server. The only other big difference was the character had died from thirst on the return trip. Its possible that the character its self had the glitch when it was generated. I wish I could figure it out because we were trying to set up a military tent and establish the first Schadenfreude outpost before the wipe. I think I'm through with swimming for a while, I'm going to go back to getting KOS'd. BTW, you can drop stuff from your inventory in the middle of the ocean and it will appear in the vicinity screen. you can pick it back up or even swap items with another players. Neat trick but I cant think of a situation where it would be useful.

I've had this happen to me as well but it only occurs on high pop servers. If i run on a low pop sever, I don't hear it. It is very annoying.

I know nothing of forestry, I just know this tree produced a ashwood stick.

If you decide to make the swim keep an eye on your warning icons. If you get a yellow cold indication turn back. It will escalate to hypothermia. If your going to get this icon it will be within the first 15 minutes of the swim. When I made my successful swim I never got any cold indication icons, only cooling off messages.

My trip began during daylight hours but it got dark as I swam out. I just made the trip the other night and yes it was .55. No my friend wasn't wearing a vest. Are vests glitched? I am currently doing water experiments to try and figure it all out but there doesn't seem to be a set pattern. I believe its a server thing but I'll post more if I stumble upon something tangible.

The tree which produced the ashwood stick was on the east side near the ship wreck.

yes, that is correct & wellies.

Ok everyone, I've got a new update. A friend of mine set out to the island this morning and began to get hypothermic within 30 minutes and had to turn back. He was outfitted with all water resistance gear but still got the chills. I went over to the server he was on and sat in the water a while and I also got cold indications on my inventory dashboard. Im now begining to think its not the gear your wearing but the server your on (or maybe both). I did notice on his server I could see my breath as my character moved around the map but didnt have that on mine. In the morning I'm going to go for a swim on my server with normal clothing and see if I get cold indications.

I died of thirst on the swim back :( Hope I spawn close to my gear.

I'll try to upload some images but I've not been successful in doing this in the past. Here are two as I got closer. IMGUR has time limits on loading images so I have to wait until enough time elapses before I can post more. Hope this works.

Success!!! I made landfall on Schadenfreude island!!! Due to server restarts it was nightfall when I got there but I GOT THERE. I think BORORM hit the nail on the head . My last attempt I was wearing a rain coat with cargo paints, this time I have a rain coat with gorka pants and didn’t get any cold indications on my inventory dashboard. I received the typical “rapidly cooling off” messages but nothing more. I didn’t use any heating sources, just filled up on water then hit the waves. It took me 1 hour and 47 minutes. I wish I had brought some stones to build a fireplace. I feel like I should leave behind some kind of monument to say I was here. If I had a can of spray paint I would vandalize the hill, isn't that what tourist do? KILLROY WUZ HERE. Now I'm concerned I may not have enough water for the return trip. I left my mountain pack on the mainland because I thought this was going to be a one way mission and didn’t want my next character to start from scratch. That’s going to bite me in the ass. I thought you could drink while swimming but I was unable to perform that action. When I tried the message would say “you are unable to do that right now”. Ok, one item marked off my bucket list. Next item up for bid: The next farthest island. I understand there's another island 44 Kilometers out but I don’t know how it can be achieved without being able to drink while swimming. Maybe .56 will have some different options.

Deforestation isn't just a Chernarus problem its a global problem. You may be OK with it but your characters kids and your characters kids kids will have to live in that environment. Global warming is a real issue in the virtual world and we need to address it before its to late. Maybe we can activate the DayZ Greenpeace initiative to spread awareness. And how about the senseless killing of those defenseless virtual bunnies? Please, wont you help? For less than a Koruna a day you can feed a starving Chechen fighter..... Ok that's enough shtick.

Now that I've got the bug I'm also determined to make it. looks like its a race to join the barren island club. Here's to a long swim.