Tonyeh

Check the hunter buildings. I found one there. Now, finding a blood mag for the Deagle is another matter indeed. Pity, cos it's now my favourite zombie popper.

Wash your hands constantly. Or wear gloves.

You have cholera and you got it from drinking with blood on your hands from killing zombies. You'll have to let the disease run it's course. Or top yourself. As mentioned above, just eat and drink really small amounts and you'll have a better chance of keeping it down. But even then, you may just puke anyway. I think the puking is sort of random too. You may not puke up all the time.

As someone has already said, up that way is a heavy traffic area for wolves. I was attacked there by, what must have been, a pack in double figures one time. Only managed to get out of it by locking myself into one of those portable hunter trailers and shooting them one by one til they buggered off. Honestly, I love the wolves in the game. One of the best improvements the devs have made.

Has anyone ever found one of these? I know they're supposed to be rare. But, frankly, it's "rareness" is absurd. In months of playing I have not found a single one. Looking for it as an attachment for my KAS 74u, which is the only bloody AK type weapon I've been able to locate so far, too. The only AK type weapon... ...in Russia! SMH. Where is it that they spawn?

A pelt back pack is a good idea. Personally, I usually run with a burlap bag on my back and that tends to be all I need from a backpack POV. Once I get some hunter trousers on and a hunter jacket (and possibly throw in a buttpack) and I'm as happy as Larry as far as space for stuff is concerned. Plus, my profile is significantly reduced. On the plus side, pelt backpacks can be water proof too.

It's one of my biggest bugbears with the game that the AK guns are as rare as hen's teeth. An AK47 being rare in an Eastern Bloc country in the 90's is like having trouble finding a pint of Guinness in Dublin. It sounds and is ridiculous. However, they DO spawn. I've sound a few baby AK's and one AK-74, which has become my main rifle. I have yet to find my beloved AKM though or a silencer to fit the AK's. The guns spawn in military barracks buildings and I've also found the baby AK in the military prison building. I have only found these weapons on Persistence Off public servers. The problem is that people find them and stash them, making them not spawn and screwing up the loot economy. The devs really need to look into this issue, because it's just plain sill at this point. They either need to up the number of AK spawns or do away with stashed items counting against number of spawning items. The hunting scope spawns regularly in the hunting lodges in those camping grounds and sometimes in the dear stands and the M70 spawns at the castle areas and also sometimes in the dear stands. You should have no trouble finding them. BTW, the SKS is a good rifle, in lieu of an AK. But if it's run and gun type play that you're after, you should stick to the SMG's.

I considered it very briefly. But having been caught in a room before with no way out and used as target practice by other players, I decided that getting out of there was the more prudent action. Considering that they just opened fire on me as I was running away, I would say that was the right call.

Fine. But I think you missed my point. I just don't see the value in wondering if it's a human firing a gun or a bot.

I don't think either myself or Kathosky are saying that DayZ will be destroyed completely by AI survivors. But, I do think that the balance as it currently stands would be severely lessened due to bot presence. Sure, if single players want a server full of bots to play with, then go ahead. But, to me, that misses the unique point of the game completely and there are numerous other single player zombie games out there that can cater for that kind of play and in the end I think it will only appeal to the run and gun crowd. Hopping onto a server that's full (whether that's human players or bots) would kill the atmosphere for me. Knowing that I would have a very high chance of running into a non-infected character really wouldn't do much for my enjoyment of the game. The best moments of DayZ are the "all of a sudden" panic stations that happen when you do run into people. For instance, a couple of nights ago I was running around the north at dusk on a server with about 4 other people on it. So, here's me letting my guard down and jogging around the place looking for that bloody AK silencer that I've been seeking for a couple of weeks now, and out of nowhere I hear talking and footsteps. I'm in a long barracks at a camping site, so I have nowhere to go if things get all bullety. So, I have to make a mad dash for the door and hope for the best. These guys are on open mics for some reason and I frighten the crap out them and can hear them startled. They, of course, start firing (what I presume to be SKS's because of the semi auto reports) and I'm running as fast as I can away from the area. I got winged, but managed to get down to some rocks on a small cliff face and bandage myself. I wait for a while and nobody comes so I try to leap back up the rocks, but can't so I have to carefully jump down the cliff face further, nearly killing myself in the process. I survived...barely. No bot encounter could rival that.

Mmmmm...I just don't see the point in wondering whether the enemy firing a gun at you is another player or a bot. I don't know what that brings to table really. Besides, in...erm...a "real life" DayZ...it could ONLY be a human as the infected don't use guns. So, when you do hear a gunshot, there shouldn't be any wondering going on. Besides, in my experience of playing computer games, which stems back to the 80's, AI shooting is either unbelievably accurate or exploitable to the point of uselessness once the human brain figures out their rhythms, which would make AI survivors a completely redundant element in a very short period of time. TBH, I'd rather modders made more efforts to enhance the infected AI instead of just creating bots to shoot at players.

I think AI will wreck the game. The beauty of DayZ is NOT knowing if you'll run into actual people, or if they'll be dicks (of course 99% of the time they're dicks 😆 ) and just start firing at you for your beans. Having AI survivors in certain places will just eliminate that feeling of always being unsure who you'll run into and kill that feeling of whether to hit that town, city or military base or not risk it. The player will eventually get the hang of the AI weak spots and exploit them just like human players exploit game AI all the time. The AI survivors will eventually just become something to farm loot off of for the human players. It's a terrible idea.

Do you have an IP address for it?

Is RUIN a server in America? Sounds like something I'd like to check out. The military stuff largely ruins DayZ to be honest. Unfortunately, If that server is in the States, my ping will be too high. 😞

I get what you mean. I just hopped a load of DE servers and every one was lashing. Found one that wasn't. Played for 10 minutes and it started raining. LOL. Ran for the nearest deer stand and chilled for a while.

TBH, the temps are fine right now for me. If things were too hot, it would quickly become a pain in the arse. If When it starts raining, I just duck indoors. If I'm soaked, a fire will sort me out pretty fast.

What kind of cooked meat? The only sickness I've got from meat was madness for eating people. Never seen any issue from chicken, wolf, cow or deer.

Yeh, I've found a ton of pistol suppressors. In fact I just found one not 5 minutes ago on an MP5. That's why I carry a UMP and an FNX (my fave zombie popper) . Both can be suppressed and the .45 is ok for taking out most things. It's rubbish for hunting game though, as I've found out to my detriment. 😄 I'll use a Winchester or Mosin for that. But those things is like a beacon telling everyone within 50 miles where you are and as I play alone, that's not a great idea. Sure, you can bottle them, but it ruins the looks, LOL. Devs really need to sort out the zeds hearing larger weapons when suppressed though. Can't believe that's even a thing these days, when it wasn't an issue 5 bloody years ago. I know suppressed weapons aren't silent, but at the moment it's a bit silly.

Wash your hands. Don't drink water from bottles you've found (empty it), wash your hands, and don't drink from streams and ponds. ...and wash your hands.

Yeh, I've had several go at checking out heli crashes. But I have only found one so far and that was picked clean. I fly solo too, so that's an absolute chore to be honest and it really is all down to sheer luck in the end. I've also been checking out some Persistence Off servers and noticed that they aren't off too. Found an absolutely obscene stash or crates, chests, tents and barrels in a barn on a German Persistence Off server. So, something wasn't right there. Strangely enough, there weren't any higher tier weapons or their accoutrements to be found, which tells me something. I think if the devs are to revisit anything in DayZ and alter it, it's the cap on certain items. Rare items are fine, but completely unobtainable items isn't and in addition, something like an AK47 shouldn't be a truly rare item in a game set in eastern Europe during the 90's. I have no issue with American guns, like the M4, being difficult to get or the VSD or VSS. But an AK? The SKS should actually be harder to find than a bog standard AK47.

Haven't found a single AK weapon in the game, except for the baby AK and that was just two since I started back playing at the end of May. The AK47, most common weapon in the world since the 50's and DayZ players have to have it as some sort of hen's teeth item.

Cheers P. By "small green towers", do you mean these things? Cos, I've been searching those too and haven't found them.

In the old days, it was up to each individual server to set the weather, IIRC. I remember clearly getting hyperthermia a few years ago and had to strip down to my undies and go for a swim. 😁 I hear Livonia has hotter weather. But I haven't bought that.

So. you have to shoot it in the arse. Got it. LOL...DayZ.

I shot a cow in the head from point blank range about four times with a pump action loaded with buckshot before it fell over a few days ago. I had to shoot a stag twice in the head with a Winchester (.308) before it fell. I took out a roebuck with a single shot to the body from my Mosin another time. I think there's definitely something weird going on with some animal's resilience to some guns/ammo. But any animal headshot should be falling over immediately. There should be no running away happening.