KenoSkir88

I'm with you mate, i haven't seen an M4 at a crash site yet in .58. 5 or 6 SvD's but not a single M4.

Confirming carrying bodies would be fun and helpful in a team. Also it would allow for construction of base defenses using the corpses of fallen foes which is obviously a nice effect on any base. Potential for abuse is huge though if carrying bodies is the only fix, since bodies can merely be moved to hinder your enemy instead of yourself.

There's an option in (public) server config to have cross hairs disabled. I've had it set to disabled entirely so far but as yet have not seen it make a difference.

Today's lesson from DayZ, even if a group of people are already fighting they will join forces to take out a geared soldier with an SvD. Almost soiled myself so sorry for the heavy breathing and foul language.. Was originally trying to track down ONE guy with a mosin. Everything went wrong, even got stuck in a scoped lean when i was trying to hip fire and took two axe wounds to the neck to get started. Less than pro :P Clip Here

There are 2 in Novo :)

So, thought since i was up north i'd swing by an un-dead friend i've seen around a few times. Problem is i didn't spot her quick enough while driving and she ran into the back of the truck. Everything normal tho, don't want to mess up the truck driving away with it in back (have lost couple trucks this way) and so i dutifully climb out to dispatch it and hope it falls out the bottom and i can leave without glitching out my vehicle. Soon as i step out of the truck tho, everything goes dodgy. 4 frames a second, no windows on V3S and tires look decidedly unwell, in fact all textures seem to have regressed into the stone age along with my frame rate. Was it the zombie somehow? I've never had this happen before. Unlike temporary common frame drops this was constant and lasting and of course there's all the visual weirdness. Here's a short clip just for info : http://plays.tv/video/55f7172ee31adeffa6 The hell happened to my beautiful view?

I do still have some parameters on... Ty man i'll definitely check it out.

I don't want to alarm you or anything, there's at least twice that many. Be careful out there :|

Ah yeah thanks, sounds like it. Only started happening very recently, 3 / 4 days or so. Lettuce face was funny for ages tho so i don't mind it once in a while :P

Have you ever considered settling it with a duel? Pistols at dawn kinda thing, we could host it on a private server and broadcast the action on the forums pay per view (1 Can of Peaches). Maybe a triathlon of dueling, orienteering and a grand V3S race.. Is anyone up for running the books? I sense some serious rice gambling afoot B)

Hmmm, another instance where textures went strange and my resolution dropped suddenly (picture is actual size <_<), turning me into some kind of lettuce.. Edit : Confirming what Mad says, this was far from Novo or any PC breaking zombizzles. Third time i've seen her (once with a male also) while driving out of novo heading east. Rev the truck a few times and hang out a bit on the outskirts to see if she's local :)

Haha fair enough man :) Guess i was a little hair trigger due to previous forum warrior experiences too. I never stress about glitches in this game, so i'm not part of the apology crew. With that said there have been times where i just happened to decide to stock a base a few days before a wipe, and it does suck a little bit (not sarcasm, literally just a small sigh / chuckle and then back to work happily). I'm ultimately passive about whatever the devs wanna do and i get the whole alpha thing, but that doesn't mean you can't say it sucks to lose stuff you worked to find / create. For someone to be disappointed (ie. it sucked a bit) to lose something, doesn't always funnel them into the i hate alpha rawr! crowd. There can be both a feeling of loss and an understanding of the alpha process simultaneously. They can wipe my stuff whenever they want i don't stash much and don't really care enough to miss much of it, but if Mookie had plans for those guns that are now off the table i'll do my best to help :) Hehe, yeah i know what in all honesty means it just didn't really fit the situation is all :D only reason i threw some banter back at it ;)

That sounds flashy but "in all honesty" makes very little sense at all. Since there is no form of official ownership in dayz we can safely assume that possession is the decider in the abscence of a moral agreement. Basically you understood exactly what i meant just like anyone else would.. so... if you could avoid picking apart my nice post about helping someone out to try to sound clever i'd appreciate it, since we're all friends and all :) cheers :thumbsup: Edit : Quotation marks for effect.

Sucks to lose your gear (a very small amount), so i won't scream alpha (partially because it's lost it's meaning of late). I assume you're a privateer Mook but on the off chance you use public servers i'll hook you up another m4 :) threw my svd in a bush a few days back or you could have that too..

Look in the wooden guard towers around military areas (wooden, not metal) for hunting scopes and various rifles.

I was basing the opinion on the players of all different walks i have had contact with, be it from forum contacts or people met in game. It is not meant to be evidence of a fact, just the basis for an opinion. I rarely get much insight into why someone just gave me the "you are dead" scene, but as you're well aware that isn't the only way to communicate with other people who play the game :rolleyes:. Anyway what i've heard from most i've spoken to has been along the lines of "i really like the idea of banding together with randomers, it's just they'll probably kill me and take my stuff if i don't do it first". I've also felt the same way, and although i still make an effort to create some content rather than shooting everyone on sight i can totally relate to the one's who don't take the risk. The issue with the current trend is that this kind of attitude perpetuates itself.

It's my opinion / experience that the fear group account for the vast majority.

Confirming friendly fire in our group has skyrocketed since there have been no zombies to shoot and people's travel has been predictable. We were testing shotguns on each other yesterday while walking through Novo (truck wheel is the riot shield of the future).

KOS people are not evidence of a flaw, it is a natural evolution of this post apocalyptic sandbox.

Thank's Mookie, i'll put it down to grizzly campfire stories from old survivors :) Still got that head bullet in my pocket for luck, everyone has one u know? ;)

If above method doesn't work, (usually does) - try dragging the hand-guard from the gun to your bag (it wont work, nothing will happen initially) then immediately logging off and back on. In my experience 100% of the time when you log back in, the hand-guard is where you asked it to go before you logged. Works with the "swap hand-guard" action as well.

I assume you have all tried playing a bit on a freshly wiped server to make sure things improve before you wipe yours? I know a few people who regularly wipe their servers so you could pop across and check the difference one day when it's happening to you guys.

It kinda seemed the need for explanation was there.. Just my 2c but your posts in this thread also gave me the impression you had been beaten at DayZ by a sniper and were quite butt-hurt. I use the term "beaten at dayz" to illustrate a point, that the game is not about crafting, sniping, assaulting, role-play or any other single approach or discipline. If a guy waits three hours in a bush and eventually manages to shoot you in the back and take your gear, or even just eliminate you as a threat and move on, then he beat you at DayZ because he is still alive and you are not (regardless what you spent the 3 hours doing). I find this the only way to properly view a sandbox such as this. Whenever i hear someone passive-aggressively mocking another play style i always wonder how many times the complainer has been "beaten" at DayZ by the play style in question.. Your bit about sniping being "lazy" just shows a lack of understanding of what goes into a good sniping strategy. The fact that it "bores you" to have to look for snipers doesn't make their play style lazy, it makes you lazy and is likely the reason you keep getting killed by them and have developed this stigma against the nasty snipers. Reminds me of the anit-kos crowd.. this is exactly the strategy that would emerge imho.. And for extra info i also tend to run & gun, preferring the multi-role tactics i can get from an assault rifle.

Were you alone in the truck? Assume you were the driver? Had a passenger recently char wiped after losing connection in cab of truck with me. [edit - double word postage.]

When this happens to you (Assuming you didn't accidentally join a private / 1pp server) it's important you don't move, change weapons, eat / drink etc. You must ascertain without action if you are in the correct body. If you see new spawn stuff like "I'm hungry" / cold / can't see any items in quick bar, press escape and push EXIT. This has worked for me on a number of occasions, anytime i moved or did anything before realizing what had happened i lost my char permanently. 9 out of 10 times i noticed before moving i exited and when i came back onto a server (do a different one just in case) i had my gear. I know you said you had tried immediately logging out but thought id write this in case you had maybe had a look around yourself or walked a step or something, it's my understanding that most actions will "save over" your actual character file due to new location / item input.