Tonyeh

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.

*Forget it....

Over the last couple of days, I've lost count of how many times I've been kicked from public servers. Plus, many times I've been kicked when trying just to log on. Anyone know what's going on with that? I've already verified the cache.

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.

So, let me get this straight... I am at the moment gathering stuff to stash in my wee camp. So, I found the Varga shotgun last night and I've buried it for later use. Does that mean that I've basically "locked" that particular gun away and it will only spawn in my crate now? And not anywhere else on the map? If so, that does create a very real problem.

Sure. But it essentially kills the character for me. Running around laughing like someone who just got out of Bedlam means that that particular character is useless for my play style, which can involve a lot of stealth. I think the brain disease is a good idea. But it really should kick in over time and after prolonged consumption of human flesh. I had to eat human remains once. I found it in a police station and I was starving. Not wanting to die, I cooked it up and scoffed it. An hour later I was giggling like Jeffery Dahmer. So I ate a 12 gauge. It was fun to begin with, but after a while I got sick of it. As said, Brian prion disease is a good idea. But the mechanics need to be looked at.

Wash your hands. Then drink. Don't catch a cold. The sickness factor in DayZ is one of the better additions in recent times AFAIC. The only thing I'm not gone on is the instant loony you get from eating human meat. That should only kick in if you constantly do it.

Ummm...stay alive as long as I can. Never really played with any one group of players for any length of time. But I was running with a few lads from Eastern Europe for a wee while and then one of them went psycho and started trying to kill everyone else (he probably got bored). We ended up hunting him down in Gorka and eventually caught him. His best mate executed him, after we made him strip and divvy up all his gear. But, the vast majority of the time, I lone wolf it. At the moment, I am in the process of gathering materials for my stash (looking for a USG to replace my SG5 for example), while avoiding contact with other players. But still observing. There's a genuine thrill at simply watching others from afar and studying what they're doing. I was hitting all the camping sites the other day, from first light (on the server), when this pair rock'n'roll up to to the one I was about to check out west of Vavilovo. I heard their car and ducked down. I just watched them doing their thing through the sights of my Mosin, but I wasn't too far away. I could have taken out one of them with ease. The Mosin is a great long range gun with little drop off. But I left them alone. I had thought of nicking their car, which would have been gas. But, I haven't driven a vehicle in DayZ since the beta days. So that might have been a disaster. And if they were smart, they would have disabled it somehow, before they went on their loot grab. They ended up rifling everything they could and taking a tent that I had my eyes on. I came across them again, just as dusk was falling. They had the car lights full on and were checking out some town I was near. I just climbed up a hunter stand and watched them through the binoculars. They were geared up, so that usually means interaction is out of the question. Other than that, I've been hunting cow and stag and leaving the cooked meat along the cost for newbies, because DayZ is a massive pain in the bollocks when you're a fresh spawn. It's been funny watching bambis cautiously approach the meat and not know whether to stop and pick it up or jog on. I had to shout at one to "take the feckin meat", cos they were wondering whether to do so for ages. All I did was scare them off, cos they bolted out of there like they were running the 100 metres. I've begun leaving the cooked meat in the supermarkets too. I don't think you can poison food in DayZ 1.08, so I'm not sure what people are afraid of. Probably think it's a trap for jerk off snipers.

Yeh, I've been wondering about the effectiveness of buckshot in the game in 1.08. Took me several shots to kill a cow the other day with the pump action from point black range. Whereas in 1.07 I managed to down two with a single shot from the rapid fire shotgun (whatever it's called). Something certainly doesn't seem quite right.

I've been playing 1.08 since it was released. I have many hours pumped into that version alone and I can say that I haven't met a single one.

Look, this is simple. I KNOW I have more hours played on, for example, Napoleon Total War than the paltry 28 that Steam tells me.

LOL. That's like the feckin Twilight Zone.

Steam's stats for how many hours I've put into each game is off. WAY off.

I only play on public servers. I have NEVER seen these 200kmph players and I've been playing since 2014. I know it can exist, cos I've seen it on a YouTube vid. But, I have never, not once, seen it in the actual game and I have nearly 800 hours logged on it. And it's probably more than that, because Steam is rubbish for gathering stats. As for being "sceptical", I'm not saying that hackers aren't in DayZ. But I am wondering if it's really as widespread as some people claim.

I don't know what the player base is these days. But I do know that I'm meeting more people in DayZ than I ever did before, which is a double edged sword, cos that usually ends in Bang!

How do you know?

I can honestly say that I have never seen any of this. Is it largely an American thing? Cos living in Ireland, I usually play on EU servers and I have yet to see anything that I can qualify, for absolute certainty, as "hacking". I have never, once, seen any player running at 160KMPH on any map I've played. In fact, even with all my years with DayZ, I've only ever even saw someone doing the ghost exploit once, and I shot him dead as he logged in. So it wasn't too successful. 🤣