Tase

If the server goes down and you notice it's on the turn of the hour, it's a server reset. The admin will also reset the server again if shit like tents/vehicles aren't present on the map after a reset. I don't think anyone minds that, there was even a thread requesting this for US 216. Heck, we've been caught by the server restart a few times (me at least) while in a vehicle.

Well it's not a BattlEye ban, because he's been playing with us through a few servers, all of which are BattlEye enabled. And the server ban happened a week ago, so it would have had time to come in effect by now.

What about the "I need to get the hell out of here before someone gets the drop on me" feeling? That's what I feel when I hit up high-value locations, and it goes for people spawning in and for people walking in. You can't secure an area, someone might be 500 meters behind you going to the same place, catch up to you while you're securing the place, notice the dead zombies, and take action. And people spawning in isn't all advantages for them. You can easily kill someone when they spawn in. My buddy had finished looting a deer stand, and some dude spawned in it. The guy got shot, and he never knew what hit him. And an other time, an other buddy spawned in front of someone, and got gunned down. It's all a question of luck, people usually don't purposely spawn in to kill you.

I shot up some guy that was crawling to the Elektro hospital with nothing on him. I heard him say wtfwhyme in voice. The guy was in the middle of my gun fight with 3 other armed guys :(

How does the vehicle spawning work on new servers?

Dunno what happened there. You/he unloaded a lot of AS50 rounds into the guy when you/he regained consciousness. And I doubt you/he missed them all.

I tried logging in to that server after hearing buddies got banned from it, and I got kicked, and now I can't connect (kicked kicked kicked). I wasn't even online when the previous bans happened.

I tried logging in to that server after hearing this, and I got kicked, and now I can't connect (kicked kicked kicked). I wasn't even online when this happened.

I was a sniper, I shot an other sniper (twice), and he DCed. What do you say to this? Players characters should stay in the game if they have been damaged by a player in the last 30 seconds. Admittedly, I should have gone for a headshot, he was 330 meters out, and I had a M24. But this was the first (and last) time shooting it.

I was in a gunfight at the NWAF, some sniper was on the west side, I was in the middle with my M24, both gillied (my buddy was ironically located right next to the dude). I shot him once in the body, then an other when I noticed I didn't get the kill (I had assumed this thing was a 1-hit body kill, at least at 300 meters anyway). The guy fell to the ground and disappeared, I never got the kill. Then later, I had moved in some bushes outside the north barracks, watching over some guy prone in the barracks, and some dude appears out of nowhere and shoots me in the face. That or the guy in the barracks shot through the wall / used the invisible exploit (I think I saw some dude standing next to the barracks when I died, but my buddy had eyes on me and didn't see him). I hope this shit gets fixed. I didn't get a kill because this dude had his esc+alt-f4 on a macro, but someone else got one cuz he logged off to re-position himself / used an exploit ?

Always 4 (threat) and above. I will shoot anyone that is armed though. I have 3 murders to my name. #1, an armed player got too close to me in Elektro. #2, this poor dude was headed in the general direction in which my hidden ATV was. #3, I was at the ACT at the airstrip in Balota, someone tried to shoot me when I was up there. I went down, turned into the first hangar to see a guy prone with an AKM staring at me. Shot him up with an AK-47. He was out of ammo (had AK ammo though).

I think the NWAF is the spot you will find server hoppers. I wouldn't say, from checking out that place, that everyone server hops. It just happens a lot there.

As my friend says, "These survivors are retards, bringing a bandaid and a flashlight and expecting to survive the zombie apocalypse". Starting out with a Makarov isn't a great idea, but a simple box of matches, maybe a knife or hachet, would be awesome. Water canteen would also be cool, but that's a moot point. Maybe a can of coke.

I'm looking for a group that kills on sight, raids and loots places, and does some sniping. Ideally, also some vehicle hunting and tent-dropping. I've got a mic/TS3, I live on the East Coast, GMT-5/6, and I usually play the afternoon/night. PM me on these forums, reply to this post, or add me on steam "Tase".

I don't think he had time to DC, he must have been dead before he hit the ground. And I think 2 shots would have been enough to kill him, according to the wiki. But who am I to talk, for my first murder, I unloaded half a clip of AKM ammo into the guy.

I got shot up quite a few times. But killed my first guy last night, in Elektro, in the backyard of some house on the other side of the supermarket. I saw him sneaking around the office, I decided to leave him alone, and then moved 3 meters to the south, keeping an eye on the street, just to see him sneaking into the backyard where I was from a little arch passway with his sidearm out. I shot him 15 times with my AKM, full auto. I felt bad, as I killed him, I said "I'm sorry dude" in voice. After losing the zombies, I looted his body and got myself an ALICE pack and some other junk. I regretted it for a few times, but I could also see myself get gunned down by the guy if I had hesitated one second, like what happened to me so many times. I didn't feel like losing my new-found AKM with it's 3-4 mags. But damn, did I become nervous, I prone-sneaked all the way out of Elektro, freaking out when I heard a gun fire, a soda can open and seeing a guy 150 meters away. I was sure I was going to get shot by the guy I killed.

Im not saying that starting without a gun is bad. I enjoy having challenges. But as a new player, the time it takes to find a gun plus the chances of me dying (as a newb) makes it really frustrating when I do die after finally finding a gun. It's the same as if you guys had a DMR and other shiny things and got killed by something you didn't umderstand (I.e: bug) Anyway, do send me some tips to surviving and finding a gun. I'm a newb, show me this game rewards effort and isn't based on luck.

its so easy to find weapons on this version... u cant be serious... Just started playing DayZ when 1.7.1.5 was released. It is very hard to find a weapon without getting mass zombie aggro. The time spent prone-sneaking into a building versus the mass of tin cans you find makes it really frustrating. I even tried server-hoping in some positions (Airstrip watch tower, a deer stand and the large industrial building south of Komarovo) and never found anything more than a hatchet (in Komaravo industrial) and some ammo in the watch tower / deer stand. I've seen youtube of videos of 1.7.1.4 where people enter a barn and find 5 weapons (lee einfield, winchester, 2 crossbows and a makarov), and bitch about the Makarov being crap, but I love the makarov, it's better than a hatchet or your bare hands. The only viable solution I see in 1.7.1.5 to find a weapon is to visit a supermarket or some other building in Elektro/Cherno, if you can even find/fight your way there with your bare hands. The current version is not very "starter" friendly (newb isn't a fitting word, a newb wouldn't last 2 minutes). And on top of that every survivor I've encountered has shot me on sight, and I've encountered survivors armed from a simple hatchet to NVG (and x-ray goggles, or hacks, or it was just nighttime for us 2 and not them, got shot through the bushes from about 100m out) and rifles. The videos from 1.7.1.4 I've watched is the ARMA 2 DAYZ "Survive" Part X, starting with this video: He starts with tons of loot (gun, morphine, water bottle, ammo, I've killed for this shit), there are barely any zombies around and he's finding a t-o-n of loot. And considering the amount of dead bodies he stumbles upon, this server isn't empty, so the loot is genuinely either re-spawning fast, or that abundant. The game is hard, it's not bad, but if you pile on-top of that some bugs and the fact that everyone you see will kill you, and people can appear from anywhere, the game is too much "luck" based for the amount of effort put into it. Like my friend said, no matter how much gear you have, or how much experience you have, nothing is going to save you from that guy that spawned behind you. My friend actually got DC from a server, rejoined an other, spawned north of Cherno, he had good loot and it was night time, but he got shot right when he logged, seems someone was right behind him. I'm trying to figure out what to do now, seems it's either join a clan or keep trying to get better at this. Or try to find a server running 1.7.1.4 :P

I pretty much registered on these forums to talk about this. There is no way to know if someone is friendly, with no chat and no nametags, it's pretty much a shoot first or die situation. My story... I got the game yesterday. I've learned sneaking, and I use a nice interactive map with all the loot locations. I play with my friend. So far, on this 1 server ( US 5 [...] ), every time I went to Elektro, I got killed. People just spot me, and shoot. The first time there, I saw some guy, talked to him in direct chat, he said he was friendly but not looking for company. Then about 30 secs later, I turn around, walk into the building I was, and there is a guy in front of me (the building is an office), I see him, and immediately try to strafe into one of the side rooms - I don't "fit", he shoots twice, I manage to fall back onto the balcony I was, I'm in shock and lying on the ground (he broke my leg by shooting me?), I have my M1911 out, he has a revolver or an other kind of high-powered sidearm. He creeps up slowly into the door frame, I shoot him 3 times in the stomach, he shoots me and kills me. I spawn nearby, I make my way back where I was. I find my body. AND HIS. I managed to kill him as he killed me, his corpse is right in the doorway where he was standing last time I saw him. I loot my old body and his. Later in the day.... I make my way north of Elektro to this power plant thing, military loot with a smoke tower and a building with a tower. I heard gunfire previously while scouting the area, so I am very careful. I enter the building, find a Remington and a AK Cobra in the tower, my friend is coming to join me at this location, so I leave the tower and go onto the roof of the building. I hear more gunfire in the town. I stay put, waiting for my buddy to come so he can pick up the AK Kobra (I didn't have ammo for it). I hear some footsteps - zombies? players? - I never knew. I see a shadow move, there is a guy up in the tower, I don't think he saw me. But then I get shot, once, then twice - he's in the tower where I was, looking down onto me on the roof. I have no where to run, so I decide to bandage up and wait to see what he does. I get shot an other time while on the roof - I never knew if it was the same guy, I was behind cover, he shouldn't have been able to hit me - I notice him moving in the tower, I peek out with my M1911 aimed, I get shot, but I don't see him, so I decide to return fire, once, twice, three, four shots, but he doesn't seem to die, his head is poking out of the little window, and he quickly kills me. My buddy is on Teamspeak with me, he tells me how he met these nice people over in Chernogorsk. Guess Elektro isn't as welcoming as Chernogorks. I met up with my buddy at the airstrip, then proceded to die stupidly. I spawned just east of Elektro. This time around I know what's up. I know the lay out of the city, I know it's hostile. I will not hesitate to shoot and kill any one I see. And I've seen a few Survivors crawl around, I didn't shoot them, I didn't want to be a dick, but next time it's a bullet to the head, no pity, because they'll be shooting me eventually. I'm also considering going onto a night server and going full on commando. TL;DR - Raided Elektro solo, go killed, went back, go killed. Seems it's full of bandits. No more nice-guy. Zombies are the least of my troubles. EDIT: Went back, inside a 2-story building, I see this guy come up to the second floor, where I am. I decide to run (I had a gun but not the will to kill), I make it out outside, turn the corner, and his friend/someone is there, he shoots me and I instantly die. I'm pretty pissed, is there anyone in this damn game that won't shoot me? I was running away from him, why did he kill me. Do I need to talk on the VOIP ? Will that make them less prone to killing me? Or are these people like me, who where killed for no reason, and are just scared themselves to get killed ?