Mad Vlad

Hahaha great idea!

Try disconnecting your modem while in a full sprint forward(if you can even move "forward" at all). I know this works when stuck under houses and such.

Bummer man. I foresaw this coming so we moved all of our barrels, tents and protector cases last week.

That character had been shot up and near death several times. But the sickness came on after taking some pistol rounds to the arm in kamy. Headed up into the wilderness to rest and recoup when the sickness hit like a freight train. Thought I could drink it away(solves almost any problem in the real world haha), but I could puke my brains out and still remain sick. Twas fun.

Glad you liked it, I've got plenty more to share. Never a better time than now to get back into it!

I lost a long surviving character to a bad case of some sickness. Couldn't find antibiotics anywhere and charcoal tabs wouldn't help. I'd drink constantly but was always full, while being dehydrated. It was pretty damn rough. After nearly a week of this I stashed my gear and ate a bullet. This was probably about a month ago so I'd say sickness is still in. But anyways I'd love to see the survival aspects get cranked up some. Would make things a little more interesting and dire for sure.

Glad to be back, really missed reading these tales of survival. Was heading east through the woods north of msta with 2 of my friends/squadmates, we were all decked out in full matching ttsko gear, plate carriers and blue armbands with some decent firepower. I happened to glance off to my left and noticed a player about fifty yards down the hill flat out in the grass. We determined he was a lost freshie so we quickly approached and detained him while checking to see if he was on our bandit list. He came up clean and we began talking. Turns out Dr Martin was RP'ing as well a good ol' English doc. We agreed to escort him south to msta so he could meet his friend. One of our group broke off and set up overwatch while we brought the good doc into town. Turns out his friend had a highly coveted black M65 jacket so the sarge began to broker a trade. Things were slightly tense as I don't think this fellow really wanted to give up his jacket but three armed commandos might've been the bargaining chip for that deal. I moved off into overwatch while everyone talked and searched through the town. This is when I spotted another player entering town, he claimed to be cool and everyone resumed what they had been doing. Our youngest member told us over TS that the doc had whispered to him that we needed to kill his friend. Here's where it all went bad. Caiden(the kid in our squad) ordered everyone to put their hands up and the two other guys bolted leaving the doc with his hands up. The newcomer had drawn his rifle and kept peeking out from behind a fence, I said f' it and shot him in the neck with my sks. Some how he didn't drop and began to move when I put him down with a follow up shot. More shots rang out. Our guys had the doc in a house and he confessed that his little amigo wasn't pleased with the trade and was planning on killing one of us in retaliation. He did have a magnum with ammo that we let him keep when we initially searched him. So there was a threat, I guess that guy took a few shots but we never found him. The doc was released and we pulled out. Cool encounter, a little roleplay with a catch. Love these episodes.

Just curious what server that was on. I find and raid multiple camps everyday day I play. Depending on what I find in the camp determines my actions. Craploads of guns and combat related gear normally leads to a full dismantling of camps, while farming/survival gear typically finds me leaving notes and goodies behind. A bunch of random stuff leads me to picking a few things I need, leaving some ok stuff along with a note. But when it comes to barrels there's no exceptions, I just love me some barrels. So I liberate them back into the wild they came from. (I'll often monitor camps for weeks before decimating the KoS kiddos plunder, it's just us hillbilly's doing some taxation)

On private servers barrels seem to be a very valuable resource. If I find a camp I always snag the barrels and haul them off to somewhere else to be relocated at some later point. The loot plays out somewhat differently between public and private servers. It's apples and oranges but I prefer private hives. I do like the idea of some sort of static tanning "station" (for lack of a better word) being included. Maybe small tanning sheds at some small hunting camps/cabins spread around the map would work.

Amen amigo. I wonder the same thing myself. And I like your view/stance on the IZH/CR527 topic. Alas people have made up their minds and it seems there's two (at a minimum) very different groups/mind sets when it comes to peoples opinions on DayZ. The lone wolf, survivalist types will always differ in opinion from the big squad PVP focused groups. It's just how it is, I only hope BI sticks to their guns with development and once modding comes along everyone will get to play the DayZ they enjoy.

Go back and read the actual assesments of the gun earlier in the thread. Pretty sure it's been summed up pretty good already.

@me1andme2 It's dayZ, guns and ammo take some time to match up. You find a gun and ammo to go then in my opinion you're all set. But opinions differ. IZH has it's place for sure. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

So being able to have a sawn off "rifle" in addition to the mosin is a bad thing. I like variety, crappy guns or not when you're down on your luck and finally find a gun that goes with some ammo you're carrying it's always a "happy" moment.

I found assault vests back on .59 exp, Quonset huts seemed to spawn them. Haven't seen any since it hit public.

Why would something that's done, finished and works as intended be removed? Should they remove the derringer too? The IZH is fine with reloading from the hot bar and it's ammo being in civilian spawns now.