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So I hear svd mags and the vss etc. spawn at crash sites. Anyone had any luck with decent loot actually respawning at said crash sites? I noticed they don't seem to change to new locations after a server restart also. I would like to hear from the devs what is exactly planned for heli crashes when they are properly configured.

Hi, I Apologize if this has already been discussed but I cannot find any threads that match the point I'm trying to make. Shock Damage, or bone damage as some might know it seems to,exist in Dayz Alpha as an invisible stat that builds up over time. When you take ballistic or melee damage from another player or zombies you take a portion of shock damage that builds up throughout the life of your character. Once you have built up enough shock damage, regardless of your characters healthy status or the condition of your cloths, It will only take a tiny portion of damage to instantly kill you. I have no idea why this has been implemented but It's happened to me on a number of occasions on characters which I have spent LOTS of hours gearing up and I end up losing all the time I have spent surviving to just one hit of a zombie. I think that this stat only makes the game unfair to players trying to do the right thing and survive for as long as possible with their characters. It is discouraging and pointless the way it is. My suggestion is that it should be completely removed from the game or at least made so that the shock damage you have built up slowly degenerates back to nothing as you continue to look after your character by eating well etc.. Thanks.

Back when I started playing the mod I was a complete noob (obviously). I was very impressed with my experience of the game and was constantly finding new and cool things to do. It took me about 1 month of playing to even realize that you could go find and fix up helicopters due to not even seeing one at all during that month of playing. I remember hearing a few random reports of helicopters and thinking it was just made up by some smug bandit that was leading fresh spawns astray. Once I began to mission it to the Helicopter locations with a buddy I found on my travels and later with friends on team speak the game started to open up beyond my expectations. I think that standalone should have the same scope as far as end game content, however, It should be a very mighty task to take control of your very own Helicopter. As far as guns on the thing go, for some reason I can't see that happening but I would be all for it. The game borrows a lot from ARMA 2 so why not leave the guns on the heli's as a tribute to the ARMA 2 play-style and the mod.