maximumak777 (DayZ)

My current loadout+gear is this: Primary: Winchester M70 or Blaze 95 w/ Hunting Scope Secondary: MP5 or UMP Melee: Stun Rod OR Combat Knife GEAR: Summer Hunting Jacket Summer Hunting Pants Beige/Green/Brown/Black footwear DPM Assault Vest Headwear: DPM Bonnie Hat OR Ghillie Head AND Beige Balaclava and sunglasses for badass factor :P What loadouts do you guys use? I'm not good with colours, so what blends in best in woodland? Whats the best sniping gear for different situations? Anything I should improve on my loadout? Thanks!

I don't think base building is even needed because people will just grief bases. Instead, we need features that will allow groups/clans to invade and secure cities and towns.

I think this game would be cool if it had more camouflaged items, or if you could manually camouflage something yourself. For example, we need a camo-patterned backpack (eg Flecktarn or DPM), and some more camo-patterned clothes would be cool. You could also rub stuff like mud on your backpacks and clothes, or collect leaves and sew them onto your clothes/backpacks. Thoughts?

This update is the WORST. There's desync everywhere, server issues, my character gets wiped lots, no zombies and abundance of loot at NWAF and Myshkino. Also, ground swimming. I thought 0.55 was bad, but at least it had zombies and SOME player interactions. .58 is extremely boring, glitchy and incredibly laggy. Pretty much everyone shoots on sight now, because there's no point doing anything else. For example, I saw some guy at Stary Sobor Camp from the 'DS' clan and he killed me pretty much straight away. I tried firing at him with my AUG, which caused incredible lag and desync and the AUG glitched out and fired all its rounds without me even touching the mouse. The desync caused him to fly all over the place and I couldn't hear any gunshots. There's no zombies which means there's not really much point in doing anything in DayZ. The devs might as well spawn M4s, UMPs, FNXes and UMPs all over the map and give us infinite food and military gear because the game has basically become a deathmatch at this point- only it takes 3 hours to get the guns you need. I'm going to quit the game and hang around on the forums offering help and advice with the game until 0.59 experimental comes out. Now I'm not saying DayZ is a bad game. I've loved almost every second of it. I like the devs a lot, and after this Pax AUS thing and the stuff that's coming with .59, I've gained a lot of faith in them. I also understand that the game is in Alpha, so shit like this is to be expected. However, it begs the question... When the hell is 0.59 experimental coming out? I really need .59 in my life right now!

Whenever desync is fixed

Yeah, the game needs optimization, working zombies, and a better engine before it adds trivial stuff like more camo. I'm just saying it might be a good thing to add when the core mechanics of the game are sorted. I like the idea of smearing mud on your gear, especially

I've been getting this too.

I agree- .59 shouldn't be rushed. It will be the first update in a while that brings something new to the game rather than trivial stuff like oil barrels. I joined DayZ during .55 so I guess I had it pretty bad. I think .59 will be one of the best updates for DayZ. I just hate .58 and I am really hyped for .59 experimental!

Welcome to DayZ. The public builds have next to no optimisation, so even powerful computers like yours will struggle to run it. These problems SHOULD be resolved in the next update.

Did you piss off the developers in any way? If not, then just go message the dev team for support. Their twitter is @dayzdevteam

First, thanks for trying to speak English, it's appreciated. Secondly, you should probably contact Steam Support. If your account has been hijacked and got you banned, then there's not much us survivors can do here on the forums.

Probably desync. .58 has very bad desync. Use UMPs for close range, they 1 shot

Perhaps it WAS a glitch then. My character is getting wiped a lot too. .58 is a terrible update. Was there anyone attacking you? Did you hear gunshots? Any sign of human activity?

Can I ask what Sniper Rifle you used? Also, you don't need a full ghillie suit to successfully hide yourself. Although you'll be practically invisible wearing one,you only really need it for gun wrap and the head. These items provide excellent camouflage to successfully hide you in woodland environments (in this case, the Forest bordering Cherno) Ghillie Head, Woodland or Moss pattern (Moss is probably better in this case) If you don't have time to make a ghillie head or gun wrap, spray paint your gun green or black and wear either a beige balaclava, a green balaclava or a camo face mask AND Bandana. Summer or Autumn Hunting Jacket(the camo patterns on these two really blend in on forest surfaces- the other hunting jackets are okay but they have one colour so they don't break up your silhouette very well.) DPM Assault Vest- DPM pattern breaks your outline up better than other assault vest patterns. It also provides extra carrying capacity and protects you against bullets. Summer/Autumn Hunting Pants or UMSC Woodland Pants Any brown, beige or green boots I discourage against using backpacks but the ones that blend in the best are Hunting Packs, Improvised Backpacks and SPOSN Tortilla Backpacks. If you want to blend in with urban environments, wear grey or navy colours and preferably play at night in urban environments. The choice of rifle is also very important. AVOID: Trumpets- can be fitted with a hunting scope, stealthy but weak damage and low range. Repeaters: Excellent as a semi automatic combat rifle but does not have sniper capabilities Izh43- Avoid this flimsy piece of shit at all costs. DOUBLE EDGED SWORDS: SKS: This rifle packs a high clip size, a nice range, a high fire rate and reasonable damage. However, it's key drawback is that it can't be fitted with a sniper scope,only a 3.5x PU Scope. Pick this rifle if you're covering shorter ranges such as sniping small alleyways and town centres. Mosin: This rifle packs beautiful damage, has excellent range and beautiful accuracy. This rifle is very fun to use. It was THE sniper rifle of dayZ before it's sniper scope was removed in .57. The main drawback to the Mosin is that it can only be fitted with a PU Scope. Sporter: Excellent stealth sniper. Packs a high clip size of 30, makes next to no noise, has almost no muzzle flash and quite good accuracy. The .22 round is also quite common. However,mags are rare and the damage is so low you might as well be shooting peas. Can down a poorly armed player in 1-2 shots and a well geared player in 7+ shots. BEST SNIPER RIFLES: Blaze 95: Superb damage,range and accuracy. If the first shot misses, the second one will. Drawback is that it only holds 2 shots, not ideal for squad wiping or large groups. SVD: The best sniper rifle in the game. Can down a player in one shot and outclasses other Snipers by far. However, the rarity is not worth the time. Winchester: The new Mosin. If you find this rifle, keep it and use it. Treat it with love. Make love to this rifle. It is a beautiful rifle. Have fun with your future sniping experiences!

Sorry, re-read this. There were no windows. So you were probably sniped because of bullet penetration. You don't just die automatically from server glitches. You were just really unlucky and got sniped through a wall. Not sure why you thought it was a good idea to combat log in the middle of an apartment l in the most PvP-intense city in Chernarus, so I recommend you be more careful when you log out. You see, your character doesn't disappear instantly when he logs out. He stays for 30 or so seconds, completely still, meaning it's important to get out of the hot zone or hide before you log out. The apartment probably wasn't the best sniping spot in Cherno- you don't get much coverage from the Cherno apartments. Again, either snipe from the treeline or find a tall building, especially near the industrial areas.

Firstly, urban sniping clearly isn't your strong suit. You should've found some camo-patterned clothes or a ghillie suit and sniped from the treeline. An important question here is- did you log out in front of the window or behind cover?

I usually get stuck on the 'Spawning in X seconds' 'Wait for Host' screens for like 2 minutes, or I get on the server and the game freezes as soon as I spawn in. I then get the message 'Session lost'. I often get the 'No connection for X seconds' when I join servers. Is this a problem on my end or the game's end?

I have multiple users, although I've never really had any connection problems until the last couple of weeks. Recently, my youtube videos have been playing in poor resolution and are buffering a lot. I have a wireless adaptor for my PC if that helps.

Holy shit, congrats!

Annoyingly, there's not much you can do about it. It's a known issue that has been addressed by the devs and currently being worked on.

DayZ's performance would be terrible if you had a NASA grade PC. It is not optimised for public builds yet

They should be back in .59, if the developers stay true to their word.

Having PVE areas would be a bad idea. DayZ is about trust. As much as I love meetups, RP, trading posts etc, I wouldn't want an entire portion of the map to be limited to PVE. DayZ is about unpredictability. You'll just have to trust people if you want to do RP, or organise a meetup and hire some guards to stop bandits from tearing the place down. Besides, the developers have enough on their plates as is. We need optimisation and working zombies before we have PVE areas.

Yeah, sorry about the server-hopping. I've stopped recently, because I realised how boring and scummy it was. I played on a high pop server, armed only with a shotgun and a blaze with no more than 5 rounds. It was so much more fun. I'm going to be doing this more often. Again, I apologise if I have ruined the experience for other people, but the truth is, I've never really gotten in many PVP situations. I usually die from zombies or glitches. When .59 is out, I will definitely stop the serverhopping. I just don't see the point in not doing it right now because there is nothing to fight for in .58 due to no zombies. The game is basically deathmatch mode, so I might as well get good gear. I promise you, that will change, and I realised in my recent playthrough how stupid Serverhopping is. I remember on my recent playthrough, I was hiding in a deer stand with my shotgun, taking fire from all sides. I heard gunshots everywhere and realised how helpless my player was with his shotgun and 3 rounds. Now, if zombies were added to that... It would be so much fun

I agree. It's like the developers went AFK, permanently.