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Most of the servers I see listed as Veteran have crosshairs and 3rd person off. I thought Expert was mainly more dangerous AI (in normal Arma), so what does it actually do in DayZ?

Logging off there is the cause of my funniest (for me, at least) stupid death. I'd spent ages belly crawling through hordes of zombies at the airfield, and just couldn't be bothered crawling back out before going to bed. So I log off there, even in a place like that, what's the chance of logging in when another player's in the building? High enough, it turns out. I log in the next night, still prone with my pistol pointed at the door. I can hear footsteps in the corridor. Door opens, I can just see his head outlined against the window. I've obviously caught him by surprise (feel a bit bad about this, especially if they'd already checked it was clear before I logged in, but what can you do) and he goes down. I hear at least one more set of footsteps start running outside. I saw NVGs in the muzzle flash. I'm panicking a bit here as there's not really any cover from the windows at all. I figure my only chance is to try and grab the NVGs so I can actually see what's going on. I flick them on in time to see a guy in the window lining up a shot on me. I go down, but it's only a short unconsciousness and I still have some blood left. More footsteps, not sure if it's just the one guy out there or two. Someone comes in the door as I come round. He didn't immediately shoot me, maybe he thinks I'm dead? Can't take the chance, so I open fire on him. One more shot ends my life.

Really? What ammo does it use and how many shots to bring down a zombie? I mainly use sidearm for zombie killing and haven't seen any reason to switch from revolver/1911.

Great story, I always have the best adventures after respawning. Having nothing to lose means I'll go into town and take risks, rather than heading back into the woods as soon as I hear shooting.

A silly question. Also no women in Arma.

I do like the Winchester, but I prefer the AKM for a general purpose weapon. Ammo isn't too hard to find, it has double the magazine capacity of the Winchester and still usually drops a zombie in one hit. So 3 mags can last you a while, and if you're running out then Winchesters are everywhere. The faster rate of fire also comes in handy if you're forced to kill zombies in the open. It has zeroing and is pretty accurate with ironsights up to ~300m, it's not a sniper weapon but it can suppress and potentially kill players in a way the Winchester can't. You might be able to hit at that range with a Winchester, but it won't kill them and you'll have trouble hitting a moving target with it. And as far as the rarer military weapons go, I love the M16 ACOG if I can get one. The range markings on the scope are very easy to use, it's accurate and has low recoil combined and it's much easier to find ammo than for sniper rifles. Picking off zombies from out of their hearing range is a viable tactic, as it's quiet enough not to draw them in from long distances.

Any rusty looking wreck is not repairable. The ones you can use look like intact vehicles, though possibly missing wheels and glass, and you'll be able to get inside it. Health status in the top left works for any vehicle type, not just helicopters. Vehicles remain on the server you found them, and other players can find and steal them so hiding them well is important.

People can steal your vehicles while you're offline if you don't hide it well enough. I wonder if my shitty Lada is still there, we dumped it in the first bit of woods we came across, then I couldn't get back on the same server the day after. I'll probably find it with all its wheels removed and set on fire.

You could get someone to stay on board out to sea, then come pick you up. Doubt anyone's going to risk losing all their gear swimming out to steal it.

Pistols take up 5 backpack slots, primaries take up 10.

There are guns with torches attached, though they aren't too common they're far easier to find than NVGs.

Vest pouches are useless, though I suppose if you'd lost all your gear it's better than nothing. I also found an Assault Pack the other day which I think had 18 slots, still worse than ALICE and Coyote backpack but I hadn't seen one before.

Yeah, some sort of player names are necessary as it's so hard to distinguish players without them. If it could be limited to close range that would be great, I don't want to be able to use it to detect people 300m away.