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So what's the word these days on fortifications... for the mod and standalone. IMO... you can't have a zombie game without being able to build a defensible structure... ABOVE GROUND! I want to board up windows, move furniture... ect... just look a project zomboid for example, best survival zombie game if it wasn't still in alpha, so buggy. Don't tell me they are still going with that below ground crap they were saying a year ago... Yes barb wire was ridiculous before, but that was only because people were duping them and they were too common. Its called game balance... do your job, don't cop out...

Haven't played in a while, was wondering if they changed anything to base fortifications? Is it still the same tents and barb wire crap? Are fortifications used to defend against zombies at all? or do they still walk through walls? Ideally I want to find a house or spot of land, build fortifications and defend myself against zombies and bandits. Bandits server hopping into a camp is still a problem I assume.

I heard about the underground bases before, kind of don't really like that idea. Depends how its implemented, we'll see. When I image zombie survival I think of a farm house out in the middle of no where, boarding up all the windows and placing traps and fortifications... at night, hide and defend against zombie hordes, at day scavenge for supplies.

not walls, mean doors. they used to walk through doors and hit through walls. although there's probably still no point having a fortified base in the woods, its not like zombies are going to roam out there.

Wiki has 2 other confirmed spawns but i dont believe it http://www.dayzwiki.com/wiki/Vehicles

this issue is server specific and battleye related us1225 loads fine every time where us 1462 I will get into gameplay about 10% of the time, get stuck on loading or battleye failed to initialize error. If you uninstall battleye, delete battleye.dll from appdata folder, delete beta folder and then reinstall everything you will be able to get in the server. Although once you restart your game it breaks again.

Is it possible to loot the same helicopter multiple times?

confirmed he grenade killed the admin, 1 min later the servers went down and restarted multiple times and we were kicked several times upon connecting.

[iCE]-COL-KNIGHT Admin was killed, 1 minute later the server was restarted and locked. For the next 15mins the server restarted several times and did not appear in the server list.

you can recycle the trash loot on normal spots and it will respawn with in 10mins

Farmed the apartments for about an hour today and then looked at dayzdb and noticed camo clothing isn't on the loot table for residential areas anymore. So are they crash site only now?

https://twitter.com/DayZDB/status/224280894515580931 come on... really? :(

no duh dude... but if they are removed from the loot table that's a problem.

UHHHHHH dayzdb guy said they removed it completely? CONFIRM / DENY??!?!? https://twitter.com/DayZDB/status/224280894515580931

loot cycling on the same server

So as the wiki says NVG only spawns at Barracks and Helicopter crash sites. Apparently now people are finding them at deer stands, which are military loot spawns. Can this be confirmed or denied please? Thanks

DENIED Alayton Norgard ‏@kittenses - dayzdb.com @ch05en Just checked, and as of 1.7.1.5, NVG are still only available from barracks and helicopter crashes.

Was watching a Twitch stream and several people said they found them at a dear stand, still dunno though...

Any residential area with 0.28% chance to spawn. http://dayzdb.com/map

**SPOILER ALERT** Part of the game is figuring out how to survive, please do not read this unless you are absolutely desperate and need help to survive. **SPOILER ALERT** Also I like to keep this short and simple so I won't be going into much detail on each subject. Rule #1 Don't waste your time going for low loot spawns, too many zombies not enough loot... risk vs reward. Rule #2 Don't go anywhere without Morphine and Bandages. Rule #3 In Cherno and Elektro, kill or be killed. Rule #4 NEVER shoot or melee in 3rd person view, the sights are off and you actually hit lower than the crosshairs. Starting Out - Spawned, check your location, it appears briefly in the bottom right hand corner. - Look at dayzdb.com/map, see if you are at least 10min run from Cherno or Elektro and find your way there. - Hit the big industrial buildings outside of the city and try to find an Axe, a Knife and Road Flares. - Stealth your way to the Hospital for medical supplies and loot anything you find on the way. Make sure to keep an eye out for other players in windows and on rooftops. Listen carefully for footsteps, gun shots and avoid others at all cost. - Hit the supermarket and med/high loot spawns in the residential areas to try to find matches and a Pistol then GTFO ASAP. - If you have the inventory space pick up Crossbow Bolts, you are gonna need them later. - When having a hard time doing the above, just try to get an Axe and Medical Supplies then get the hell outta town. Surviving - Make trips to all the Med/High Loot places, Deer Stands, Farms, Supermarkets, Industrial and Military loot spawns. - Farms to find a Crossbow, Supermarket for Camping Supplies, Industrial for a toolbox, Military for GPS and 24-slot Coyote Backpack. - Keep an eye out for animals to gut for food. - Drink all the Soda you find immediately to stay hydrated. Don't bother wasting space on Soda if you have a Water Canteen. - Same goes for canned food which also helps keep your blood level up. - Keep at least 4 or more pieces of cooked meat on you at all times to heal up in case you get in trouble. - Manage your temperature, if it starts to go below 38 degrees then find shelter or cozy up next to a fire. - Try to keep your Blood over 9000! Any lower and you risk serious injury. Camps & Vehicles - If you have a 16-slot backpack and a toolbox by now then make some room in your inventory for vehicle parts. - You will want at least 4 slots free in your main inventory and 12 slots free in your backpack. This allows 2 large vehicle parts to be stored in your bag and 1 in your inventory. - Find a wrecked vehicle and repair it! Check dayzdb.com/map for vehicle spawns, not all vehicles can be repaired. Easy way to see if its repairable is if it can be entered or not which then tells you what parts need repair. - Once you have a Vehicle drive around to all the Supermarkets and High Residential spawn areas to find a tent. - Fortify a camp with your tent surrounded by Sandbags, barb wire and tank traps to stop vehicles from running over your tent and destroying everything. - Make sure to save your tent and vehicle by mouse wheel menu and then choose Save. Bandit - Grab a military weapon/ammo and goto town... please don't shoot noobs with Coyote Backpacks... - Hit the industrial areas to also find more military grade ammo. - A Ghillie Suit, Night Vision Goggles and a Range Finder will also be very useful. End-Game - Start or Join a faction. - Find Land to claim. - Gather Supplies. - Build a base with even more Sandbags, barb wire and tank traps. - Go out Raiding other bases! Pro Tips - Don't bother picking up any primary weapons till you find a Crossbow. The Axe is far superior to kill zombies silently. Although this leaves you prone to being killed by bandits, but they would probably kill you anyways as they have better military grade weapons. - DayZ only allows the player to melee/shoot when standing still or walking. So when engaging in melee you can dodge zombie attacks by walking backwards/sidewards and hitting at the same time. - Flares are your best friend, they can be used to lure a group of Zombies away from loot spawns and out of buildings. Beware this gives away your location, so keep an eye out for bandits. Reload your stack of flares as you find them. - You make more noise and move a bit faster when crouch running with your Primary Weapon out. So equip your Pistol when crouch running through grassy areas past zombie for only 1 noise level. - With primary weapon you can strafe crouch run for 1 noise level through grassy areas making the same noise as crouch running forward with pistol. - Strafing left or right while walking is actually a tad bit faster than going forwards without making anymore noise. - If you are completely surrounded by zombies but they don't see you yet then you can slowly crawl away for 0 noise level. Do this by equipping your primary weapon, go prone and hold shift to slowly crawl right behind a zombie. - With your pistol you can kind of slow crawl for 0 noise level by using W+A, W+D or S but only through grass areas. - Stand walk through most zombie infected areas, then if you see a zombie looking towards your direction crouch walk. Only need to prone when they are at least 15m away from you. - Zombies seem to be able to see/hear through walls, if you are in a building and zombie is passing right by you get ready to take care of business. - To lose zombies chasing you use the terrain to your advantage. Run them up and down steep hills, zig zag up/down it to run faster. Leap over fences and run through buildings or over bridges to put some distance between you then start to crouch run. - Also Once you have distance from them run into the dark woods and start to crouch run in the shadows to lose aggro. Then finally prone in the shadows behind a tree and crawl away to safety. Or if no woods around try to break line of sight around a corner of a building then immediately go prone. - Never fire your weapon around an infected area, if you get zombie aggro in town then crouch run out to an open field. When out of town start stand running to get some distance and then kill 'em all. - Militar areas can have Mophine, also try to kill military type of zombies for extras. Can find Morphine in industrial areas but is even more rare and risky. - dayzmap.info/ is good for searching for individual item spawns where as dayzdb.com/map is nice to see all the different type of spawn areas. - You can use distant zombies as an indicator of other players in an area. I always ask myself when overlooking a village etc. "am I close enough to have spawned those zeds or did another player in the village spawn them?" This has saved my ass on numerous occasions. -SystemiK Crossbows - Only need to carry 4 bolts at a time, by killing all zombies you should loot more bolts off the hunter types so this should keep your supply going if you happen to lose one. - Shooting from Irons Sights isn't what you would expect, the shot is actually about a 1/3 of an inch higher than the tip of the bow. Check this screenshot for exact placement. http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/9207/crossbowshot.jpg - Crosshairs are much easier to use than Iron Sights, so join a Normal server if you want to use Crosshairs for perfect shots. - Be very patient with your shots and make them count, you don't want to lose your bolts. - Get as close as possible to the zombie without aggroing before you fire. - Line-up directly in front or behind the zombie as this makes for a a wider target. - Don't move your crosshairs to the zombie, let the zombie walk into your crosshairs and then fire. - If you have aggro with the Crossbow equip either run away into the field and pull out your pistol or allow the zombie to come right up to you, when it stops to attack then fire. You might get hit once this way but at least you wont lose your bolt or aggro more zombies. Might think of some more tips later... so check back. Feel free to add your own tips, might update this post with more info. 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So the past couple times I died I just spawned in a 25man server that was nearly full. Going to Cherno/Elektro there is loot EVERYWHERE ripe for the picking. You can get sooo much for so little effort as there are hardly any zombies or players anywhere. Almost ruins the fun for the start as its so easy...

People who say this know nothing about loot, all of the loot-spot types share the same loot table. Only difference is there are the barracks and more military camps to the NW airfield. Personally I don't care for military weapons, Crossbow is good for me, I'm just killing zombies for now. I can get fully geared on Cherno/Elektro alone minus military loot which I dont care for anyways.

I like to play on servers with 30-50 people at least, so generally resources are hard to come by. I been running around all night and day going to each of the vehicle spawns and there are none to be found... People must be hoarding them like crazy, ARG!

LOL... well couple hours later I found a tractor in Gorka on the road in the middle of town, which isn't marked on DayZDB. Dunno if that was a spawn or someone left it there. Long story short I drove through some woods, hit a couple trees... and I guess it blew up! or someone grenaded me a couple times, dunno lol.