TheYetiBum

It'll beep when the battery starts to die, always worth switching channels for a few minutes at a time and calling out if anyone's on the channel. You just use push to talk whilst the radios turned on, even if it's in your clothing or bag it'll still broadcast in prox chat and radio. If a player talks back it'll sound just like prox chat does but with a grainy radio style sound overlay. Hope this helps. I use them frequently when playin solo and have met with large peace keeping squads before through radio communication and gone bandit hunting lol. Good for squads who want to role play it abit more and totally use ingame chat, that way you can loot seperately but still stay In touch but with the risk of other player close by being able to listen in or hear you on there radio.

1. You need to manually switch from party to game chat in the xbox menu, a quicker way of doing this rather than scrolling left to your party and having to go into party options is to simply press your central xbox controller button tap down to party and you'll see contextual options on screen saying tap the start button to instantly switch back and forth. It's much quicker. 2. Yes if you are in party chat and another player within range uses prox chat ingame you will hear it. It's overlayed game sound so doesn't come through your party chat, the sound quality isn't as flood as party chat and it's pretty loud. Seems like the range is about 20-25 meters but I think it's volume based so if you shout players can hear it further away. Hope this helps :)

PU scopes spawn a lot in the small shops with hunting loot suck as canteens, hunting knifes etc. Also try hunting lodges too, there's a great on that pretty central and south of map just 30-50metres north of Dolina, just follow the double tire dirt path just outside of Dolina on the right on the Dolina to Polana road & there's three hunting lodge buildings and a lake. I always atleast find a PU, hunter backpack, compass, mosin, and random assorted hunting stand stuff. Oh and great helms spawn there a lot too. Basically like ten spawn points in every lodge a posed too two in a hunting stand so much higher chances of getting what you want. Hope that helps in future.

So today I had such great experiences on DayZ, my character has survived many days playing solo and in squads, I'd travelled all across the map & tbh I was starting to hope for death so I could start the loot cycle again. Then it struck me, collect a dry bag, fill it with a combat knife, tins of tactical bacon and a canteen of purified water. Throw in the MP5 decked with silencer , 2 mags and a few boxes of 9mm rounds aswell as rope and a sack to make an improvised bag. Then head for the coast find a fresh spawn thats not full psycho and has a mike, then offer him the ultimate starter kit. On my way I found a wannabe bandit sat on the hill near solnichniy, I approached him with gun on back and scared the hell out of him with prox chat, I was the first person he had seen in the game at all lol. Gave him some cans of pipsi after a short chat & left (after asking to not be shot in the spine on my way down hill). made my way out of solnichniy towards berezino when I spotted a freshy looting up houses so ran over and shouted hello and asked if assistance was required, now the guy was French & spoke broken English at best. My French is okay but we came to the understanding that I wasn't gonna kill him and that I wanted to give him a present. At this point I hand him the bag and he explodes over comms with joy! The guy had been spawning and running into berezino death match arena for about a week and was ready to uninstall , but I turned his experience around, I showed him my central route up north using forest trails and hitting military bases and police stations galore all the way upto NWAF where I had to log off and leave him. So Emanuel the French guy.........your welcome & good luck and remember pass it on

Gotta have spare inventory space where mag is stored (weight of applicable clip)to switch mags, also mags have to imbibed in hand with bullets and hold RT to reload. The game won't reload an empty mag with an empty mag . Hope this helps, oh you need enough space around you to complete animation too so don't try reloading in a tree etc as it'll block it.

It's game preview and the game loading screen and forum development cycle details state clearly that with every update players should expect full character wipes. The games pre alpha which means you've paid for the abity to help test the game to make it better over time, that cannot be achieved without constant server database resets. If this process will upset you maybe take a break and play Dayz once it's at 1.0 release

Voip definItely works, I've spoken to several people after update in person and on radio, I even was in party chat and switched to game chat and it worked so dunno why you think it doesn't work. You gotta press down & hold on the dpad to open mike or double tap down to open permanently like before update.

Do you have a spare full mag to reload with? Because if not you need to remove mag and combine with ammo in inventory then hold RT to reload then press y again once guns back in hands to reload mag. Games hardcore so doesn't auto reload bullets. Gotta have a spare mag to reload on the fly. Hope this helps

Down on dpad opens mike whilst pushed, double tap to open continuously and double tap again to close same as before update but now they've fixed it so you can switch to game chat from party chat & back with out having to reset game to do so

What's with salty posters getting mad at an early access game that clearly states in several different locations on the forum there actively posting on that with the game still being in development and receiving frequent updates that character wipes will come frequently and with no warning. It's the only way the game gets better for everyone

Awesome thanks you for the frequent updates and bug fixes so far, the devs teams really grinding it out ATM and it's certainly appreciated by this survivor

Definately not ingame yet, either is netting. Netting & burlap sack make ghillie suit and ghillie wraps for guns and the spray paint is used to change colour of camo for ghillie and spray up helmets gun parts etc. But 100% not ingame in this current 0.63 build

Feels bad man, part of the survivor dynamic though. That's what makes DayZ so good, the survivors & uncertainty make the game really. Sorry to hear your plight thought, especially because you'd partied up & he still scumbagged you, which is a step beyond RP'ing as a long con bandit. To restore your faith in people , If I talk ingame and assure someone I'm friendly I mean it. If I run with friends or am in a party I always warn any survivors I'm with that I'm with friends who may be unpredictable and that I can't vouch for there behaviour or avoid them as much as possible. But tbh if I'm playing solo even with a decked out character I'll always risk losing it all to try & help/befriend a freshish looking survivor.with so little actionable content ingame right now it seems pointless to KOS constantly or half ass role play as a traitor/bandit. I don't mind real bandits but large squads in party chat just mowing down unarmed fresh spawns with no comms is more disappointing than frustrating, hopefully when the ingame prox/party chat isn't bugged this meta will change abit. Hope you have better luck in the future, the joy if the game is that if you do get scumbagged you can always give properly role playing as a bandit a go until you feel guilty and then switch back to another play style or role. Aslong as your not a complete A-hole and actually hold someone up and give them the full bandit experience lol. But I'll always be a friendly at heart

Good on you dude, you should post the server number your squad join and a radio signal so friendly survivors can jump on and join the mission . And I agree the pen should be added again for writing out messages for other survivors. I'm sure we will see many items and reworked mechanics in the next two months added back in . Fingers crossed

I've been watching PC DayZ on YouTube from back in the Arma mod days & wished one day it'd come to console . I've watched the standalone a development from day one & took even more interest once it was mentioned that the new engine would be designed to be ported directly to xbox. So I pretty much knew the map and how it's changed and grown & knew exactly how what mechanics were currently in the PC 0.63 build so I guess I had a head start on new players. Also a good map with forest trails and point of interest up to date online & an ingame compass go along way. The PvP can get stale quick due to it's limitations and reduced weapon selection ATM so being friendly , using in game chat & not having a KOS mentality can pay off if your wise about who you choose to interact with. If a players carrying a weapon out especially a rifle or SMG un suppressed I tend to assume there hostile so tend to follow for awhile to see if they post up to snipe or if there just abit scared from being constantly shot after two hours of looting by someone they didn't see and who certainly didn't even try and be a bandit and loot them , tie them up , etc. Atleast a good bandit interacts and makes a story out of the situation, I've talked down bandits and rolled with them happily through prox chat . Anyway guys I'm rambling but hope to see you out there in chernarus . Names The Yeti Bum, hope you all find SVD's with mags at heli crash sites on your next respawn :)

Going prones fine but the pso-1 scope is bugged an the scope blacksout if your wearing a backpack ATM, plus probing misaligns your aiming but a quick fix is to ADS directly down to your feet and it pushes it back Into alignment . And keep hold of LT trigger and spam right dpad and keep an eyebottom left of screen for for mode because I always have my AKM set to full auto now. Can take a minute of spamming :)

Hopefully the problem was server side and you can join now, my only other suggestion would be to restart game or hard reset console then try again. Servers are frequently taken down for maintenance but are usually up again after an hour. The DayZ Twitter account is usually the most up to date source of server issues though so it's always worth checking that

Pretty sure the original commenter is from the UK so NL would be the way to go. But a ping indicator or general connectivity stats for each server would be a great help

Pretty sure once the games out of game preview it'll have some form of solo play to get used to map and mechanics etc. But the devs have stated that this is a hardcore survival MMO first and foremost so the focus will always be on player interaction and PvP. More gameplay mechanics, items, vehicles etc will enrich the gameplay options and make it harder to find the exact loot your looking for so all of that will decrease shoot on sight PvP mentality. Also when private servers become available in sure there will role play servers where Kill on sight will get you banned from said server as you'll have to atleast role play a bandit and hold people up etc. ATM there's a severe lack of stuff to do once fully looted so ppl tend to go kill crazy, add ontop of that the fact that if your in party chat you can't switch back to game and talk due to a bug so that breeds KOS mentality too. When people get used to the game or bored the killing will decrease outside of military zones.

Nope the rumours are false my friend , unless it was a dev jumping servers after playing on a private test server where everything's ingame or a future build. So that's possible. But I checked for a dev response to this very question and found that netting isn't currently in the game, I believer there remodelling the ghillie suit and ghillie gun wraps before reintroducing. Also no spray paint either ATM so couldn't rock multi cam anyway . Hope that helps

Pretty certain it's not in game right now ad if it is it'll be heli crashes only. I've been to every military base several times and never found one. Only vest in game are ballistic & press vest (which I don't think offer protection yet) high capacity vests (mainly at tizsy) and assault vests

How long have you been playing? Unless your in a full server and sticking to roads or places of interest it can be really tricky finding other survivors. Tbh 9 out of 10 players will kill you on sight mainly through fear that you'll kill them. And if you see a squad either hide, get the hell outa there or try and take them out as I guarantee they'll be in party chat therefore can't talk ingame and will be out for blood. Best place to find friendly survivors is the coast really, run along the coast between the road and the ocean looting small boats for food and soda cans until you see a fresh spawn with a mike then see if they wanna team up using ingame prox chat, stay in prox chat and you'll be suprised how many people are around you at all times as soon enough more friendly survivors will pipe up wanting to join your gang or kill you lol. Either way it's interaction. Once ppl know the map more as hotspots it'll feel more lively. Hope you find other survivors soon my friend

Yep we need this on console asap, weapons are sway heavy and seeing as though TPP modes reticule is quite badly misaligned, so aiming ADS in FPP is the only way to go at range. Thankfully switching to full auto is available now even though the buttons are buggy as hell, but hopefully holding breath and looking over shoulders keys will be added

Gotta remember there's a lot of young kids on console & the games still fresh for a lot of people, so people are super precious about there characters ATM. Also when someone love there character remains stood there and are fully killable for around 30secs. My advice would be if you see a player enter a building during combat, push up and clear the building ASAP from windows or within. If there logging it's an easy kill as they'll just be stood there, if not you've still got your gunfight. It's an almost impossible issue to solve as if you implemented a mechanic whereby people could not log out at all whilst within a certain radius of gunfire or richochets or whilst still taking damage/bleeding etc it becomes restrictive and I should imagine would be very difficult to implement . Combat loggers suck but until we get private servers with FPP only options or RP only servers etc then everyone's play styles are bunched together. Once people can choose there dayz experience more accurately I think this issue will subside as PvP heavy players can join servers appropriate to that & people who want a casual friendly experience can join an RP server where bandits will atleast hold you up etc and not just KOS.

Every time you load into a server, you need to check if you can press Y to change magazine. If you can change mag then your good to go. If your mag won't change try dropping clothes & bag and putting them on again as this unbugs clothes not allowing mags being switched out. You'll need the weight of the mag free in the clothing/bag to allow this as you'll be taking a mag out first in animation and putting in said bag/clothing then putting new mag in. If all this works but the gun still doesn't shoot then drop gun on the floor and go into vicinity loot, select the magazine within the gun and micromanage by holding A button and scrolling into your hands. Pick gun up and either combine mag with B button in inventory again or tap Y. I've had this big and the stuck mag bug many many times and these methods 100% fix every gun. Very occasionally I'll get the stuck mag bug and will have to drop the gun as get a friend to remove mag for me, so I'm assuming it's not always a gun bug but a character issue. Also be aware that you cannot change mags whilst in a bush or tree, you need enough space for your character model to complete the reload animation. Also if you didn't know holding LT trigger and spamming right d-pad switchs fire modes. Hope this helps, since I've used these fixes I've never had a gun that won't fire.