dinosaurJR

I would suggest searching running beta + steam, if you are doing so, in threse forums; there was a very helpful thread. Although if you are not using steam, you might have the wrong settings in the beta launcher. Of course, this is irrelevant as you hate the mod and have carried out the mother of all rage quits...

*ahem* Yeah, hands up anyone who hasn't died since before the update removing the mak and morphine?... I haven't experienced the sheer terror of spawning at the coast with nothing but your pork sword to ward off enemies... Which is why I find this guys tears fruity and delicious. Seriously though; there seems to be crossbows leeroy Enfields and shotties everywhere I look thesedays. Binos, hunting knives and hatchets too... getting tooled up isn't that hard, no sir...

Agreed. Hell, even if I am about to break from the tree line (with nothing in particular around) I stop for a couple of minutes, check around (including the back trail) and then I will go ahead. That said, when I am in town I tend to run around like a big stupid zed magnet... If town is empty it means that there are no players in there, plus the longer you wait, the more zeds will spawn because of you being there...The new aggro mechanic makes it easy to lose the bulk of them anyway, then mop up the last dogged few that keep coming. Then you have a few minutes to loot before they respawn / other players arrive... Player corpses always make me jumpy too - I very rarely go check them out as I am worried that they are sniper bait.

You are not impressing me with your intelligence OP. You have just stated that you are buying your own server so that you and your clan; 1. Can have control over who plays on it. 2. Can control who has the vehicles and who doesn't. 3. Can lock the server when ever you feel like it to fix up vehicles, loot farm and do all other kinds of dick head things. 4. Lock the server any time you want to make movies. Yeah... good luck getting that server white listed. Even doing this "quickly at night" will cause an all mighty shit storm in the Cheat Reporting forum. Go, check out the amount of Admin Abuse threads being started for just this sort of shit.

Kids will be kids... It was probably him that was doing the illicit flying.

This is the dumbest most ill conceived sugestion thread since the last fucking / marriage / kids / NPC family thread... And that one was a fucking doozy. OP, you really aren't convincing us at all. Repeating "but realism" or stating that those who don't like your suggestion are trolling you are not very persuasive arguments, non?

Holy shit! OK.. OK, dibs on being Robin....!

Zombies don't chase you forever anymore. Break their line of sight for long enough and they lose interest. True fact.

Jeg har ingen mikrofon, men jeg skal prøve å vare snill hvis vi treffer hver andre. Hvordan er de Svenske servers, da? Jeg pleier å spille på UK87...

Kult! Hvilken navner bruker dere i spillen? Og hvilken server spiller dere på mest?

Well then the developers need to update it then, eh? Otherwise who knows what is legit anymore? Of course; the game is being updated fairly constantly, so it should probably be updated once the content is frozen (which will be a loooooong way away, probably) the best solution is; if in doubt, leave it.

I think the best thing to do is err on the side of caution. If you are unsure, check the wiki HERE; http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Weapons If it isn't in the wiki, leave it be. But if you are quite happy to run around with hacked weapons (yes, I know, that you DIDN'T hack yourself, you found them...) then you are really not the kind of person to err on the side of caution, are you? TBH it seems like you aren't getting the answer you want which is "yeah, sure, everyone is happy for you, use the hacked gun, enjoy", so you are going to go ahead with this fool's venture anyway, regardless of what anyone says...

As I lack a mic, I don't think I will ever get that experience. Added to that, the lap top is situated in the lounge (where the hard wire connection is; fuck wireless for gaming) so I play using big ass can stylee headphones, due to the missus wanting to watch tv etc... This makes using a mic in addition kinda impossible... Luckily we are moving to a bigger place next week, so I might try to lay a claim to the spare bedroom for my gaming room... Shitty thing is that even then you guys might not understand my shitty Scottish accent... :(

I can see this server being black listed pretty damn quick. Toot sweet.

Normally play solo. Only really teamed up twice, neither trip ended well... Session length? I think the shortest is around an hour, longest around 3 hours. I don't get enough time to play, sadly...

Yep - combat troops don't tend to wear overt symbols of rank / profession any more. Rank insignias etc... are universally subdued. Hell, even the Italian troops I met last summer at Passo Falzarego had the white in their shoulder patches (the tricolore) replaced with black. As for the combat medic thing; I mainly am on UK87. Hope to see you there some day soon - I go by the same name there.

I have the same outlook as you. If the guy isn't a threat / not threatening (NOT the same thing) then I will hesitate. This made me a dumb mark on some occasions, but on others I have made (albeit temporary) friends. Chris was not among them. I would have done exactly the same thing in your situation. Hell, I did with the Chris character - the difference is that you were lucky, I was not. The only thing that chafes now is that I have survived since before the patch that removed your guns, food and morphine. Therefore I have a little more to lose - two morphine shots to be precise - than before the spawning gear nerf.

The only option I can think of is adding them to your Steam friends list. More than that I can't say...

I was shot by an Englishman. True fact. I guess the lesson we all need to learn is not to trust anyone you don't already have previous comms with and shoot anyone else on sight if they are likely to be a threat. That said, I was being chased by a bunch of zeds, east of Zelenogorsk (near the power lines / deer stands) and I ran straight past a guy who was proned on the ground... He didn't shoot me, I didn't shoot him, I stayed around and watched him for a bit then booked it the fuck out of there as our presence was spawning zeds like crazy. He could have capped my legs then looted my corpse (I'm still alive from the pre 1.7.1.5 days - yep... two morphine shots...) but he didn't... I hope he found some nice loot in the deer stand...

Might be... Might very well be... If so, tell me this; what was my in game tag and what primary weapon was I carrying? Also, did Fergy actually shoot you by mistake later or was that just a sweet, sweet lie to appease my wrath?

Same shit happened to me in the church in Cherno, UK87. I run in there with a zed train in pursuit, kill them using the door as a choke point, then fizzzzzzz-thud! a flare lands by the door. I run into the church and find defensive cover. I chat with the guy who threw the flare for a bit and let him in (I had looted everything already). He seemed ok and was worried I would kill him if he came in unannounced. He said he was out of ammo for his mak, and I had like 8+ mags - so i gave him one mag. He gives me sardines in return and as I am stooping to pick them up, he shoots me in the face with my own ammo. Thanks, Chris...

AFAIK it is a left over from ARMA II. The orange dots were meant to represent civilians. I think the orange dots in Day Z represent zeds.

I heartily veto this suggestion.

Ah... My weapon of choice in The Zone...