Blackheart 5.56

I died from hypothermia for the first time in ages yesterday. Luckily had a barrel with me so stopped and filled it up, then dropped my hunter backpack and tried to make a fire, fell unconscious just as I was trying to light it. Waited to see if I would wake up but died about 5 min later. Got a good respawn and was back to my stuff in about 15 minutes. Funny thing is it was not raining before hand. Think I put on some damp clothes but was running around at the time so should have warmed up. Noticed later back at camp that it was "raining" while the sun was out (not unusual irl) but there was no sound of rain, nor visual rain falling, but if I looked closely at a truck or my backpack I could see rain sheeting off of it. Filled up a couple of canteens in this condition, figured it was a bug of some sort, and combined with not having on rain gear or a gorka earlier, was what contributed to the hypothermia.

It's been so long since I needed rags I got lazy and left them behind. Always have at least one canteen on me, and usually pick up more along the way, as well as any food. Gonna have to get back into good Dayz habits! The infected seemed a little different somehow. Besides the fact that could not outrun them, sound seemed a little different, and maybe something else. Might monkey around with them some more later (with sufficient rags lol).

Left my guns and melee weapons at camp and went looting. Forgot about the two infected at the east end of Novo. Since I drove through one of them the other day I though maybe they're just bugged and won't do any damage, stopped to find out (was on foot) and nope, they still do damage. Took off running and those fuckers did not give up, nor could I outrun them. Finally got enough space to stop and equip a pickaxe I had picked up. Didn't have it on a hotkey though so by the time I equipped it I was getting hit upside the head. First one went down with two hits, the other took 3-4 hits. Bleeding and no bandages nor rags nor any clothes that could be torn into rags. Checked a couple nearby houses and of course nothing useful. Did see some loot I would have taken if I wasn't bleeding out but color was starting to fade so I knew I didn't have a whole lot of time to be monkeying around. Finally logged out and will log onto my account (I was on my gf's account hehe) and take some bandages to her toon. Could I be the only dumb SOB to almost be killed by infected in .58? :blush:

Are radios still in the game, and has anyone seen where they are spawning? Not the walkie talkies, but the music radios?

We should be able to store it like this for less inventory slots. Using it in this configuration would add heavy sway and climb as it's without grip or buttstock. Where is that weapons thread, sounds like my kind of place. NM found it under Art! :beans:

Are you guys on servers with day/night cycle? I'm on a 24/7 day server and I never get cold, even when it rains. Although I usually have on a Gorka or raincoat if it's raining. Kind of miss nighttime, mostly for enjoying a nice campfire. Still light fires during the day, but it's not quite the same. Might jump on a day/night server next wipe. Speaking of fires, molotov cocktails would be nice. Only need to add glass bottles, and the mechanics/animation of course. Game already has gasoline, rags and matches. If they add molotov cocktails I'm gonna burn some shit down. Starting with those #@!% apartment buildings. :lol:

Yeah I found one car tent and one mil tent first few hours of the patch, stashed them for safekeeping and when I came back an hour later they were gone. I thought, son of a b*tch, somebody stumbled upon my stash! Only other person on was one of the admins. Think you are right, they despawn quickly once you take them and set them down without pitching. On that note, I have found a heck of a lot of civ tents that seem to spawn in already damaged. I always throw those as far as I can from the spawn points. Usually out a window or off the roof.

Is anyone else having trouble finding car tents? Found a bunch of them before the patch and now only one, which I couldn't get down off of a roof. Not sure why they spawn up there if you can't get them down? Have found lots of civ tents and a big mil tent but only that one car tent.

I was gonna say FN FAL and maybe a SAW would be the cats ass. Why are there no belt feds in Chenarus? Should at least be some PKM's floating around. Some RPD's and RPK's as well. Although, imagine the nashing of teeth that would result in Dayz adding belt feds. EDIT: RPK's would be a good compromise. 7.62x39 and uses 75 rd drums (or 30 or 40rd mags) DEVS: I have two Yugo RPK's you can use as models if you need/want!

I do like me some Larue stuff. Have a few dillos and some dillo dust somewhere. But in a 7.62x51/.308 I would rather have an M1A or M14, or maybe FAL, especially at that price point. Looking hard at getting a Springfield M1A Scout with walnut stock. Probably just throw an Aimpoint Pro (or maybe a micro) on it and call it a day. If the devs added an M14 w/optional scope attachment, that would be one hell of an awesome thing. Still in use by some NATO forces (USA at least) so it's presence in Chenarus would not be out of the question.

Yes, personal preference. Have several AK's back in the states, AR's as well but for some reason I prefer my AK's just a little more. No arguing that an M4/AR has better accuracy potential than an AK, but damage wise if SHTF I would prefer to have a 7.62x39 AK, rather than a 5.56 (M4 or AK). AK sights are horrendous but with an Aimpoint I'm pretty happy.

Well technically it's Austrian technology but the Aussies use them so much that whenever I see one I automatically think "throw another shrimp on the barbie."

Well, not for me. I had a couple of AKM's in .57 but haven't seen one yet in .58 Some people think it's better that .mil weapons are rare. I'm not one of them though. :blush:

I found a single infected in the usual place (at the beginning of Novo, near the Humvee) yesterday night. Slowed down to admire the sight, and he glitched through the truck front to back. Once at the back of the truck he got up in the cargo area. I tried to drive off with him, thinking it would be cool to drive him around with me, but he kept falling out the back. He eventually ended up standing on top of the cab of the truck. Took some screen shots and then left him there. No graphics issues but then I didn't get out of the truck.

800 hours total (on two accounts) on Dayz and I have never once seen an M4. After the reset yesterday I found two coupled 30rd mags, and a damage M4 buttstock, and in the past have found ACOGs but never an M4. Never really cared either, since I prefer an AKM. Have the AUG I found yesterday but ugh. A Tavor would be nice. Not knocking convict technology but even during the apocalypse one must maintain certain standards!