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.How long you have been playing - Since June .How often do you play - 3 times/week usually for around 3 hours, mostly weekend afternoons .Why you have chosen that lifestyle - Bandit - Have AS50 & L85 & friends also have AS50's which we found in crashed heli's, no endgame makes sniping players in Elektro good fun. .What drives you to play like that - testing our sniper skills, managed to kill a bandit and steal his AS50, and now starting to record for Youtube .A normal session in DayZ for you - Spawn on Sniper Hill - Check for other players on the hill - Check for zombies in Town - Kill players if there are zombies, move to a safer spot, find another server/wait it out .Has this game affected aspects of your real life - Hasn't, would be playing another game if it wasn't this one .What made you choose DayZ - good sandbox game .Why you play DayZ - relaxation .How you feel the team has done with the game - v. well so far! .The impact of Hackers/ scripters - sticking to low (less than 15) players means I hardly ever encounter them, we have met around 2-3 in as many months. .If you have stopped playing or thinking of stopping, why - not yet! . EDIT - Will you be buying the stand a lone game - Yes

What are you doing? You say you don't own a server, and don't plan on doing it so why do you need to know? Unless you are lying to us >:(

I am in the UK and generally play UK, FR, DE & NL hive servers, and I'm having no problems. What do you normally do, what's your strategy? Hang around the coast & cities? go for the NWAF/NEAF/Balota? Let's see if we can't see where you're going wrong. How many players are normally on the server you join? 30+?

I joined upwards of 20 servers last night, trying to find one with a low-med number of players and in the evening with no fog. I was spawning nr the Barn at Elektro, and scanning the hill hoping to get some counter snipes in too. Got about 4-5 counter snipes and got the gear I needed from all of them. I didn't get someone spawn behind me at any point, and no hackers at all.

Step-by-step guide for OP: 1. Find some friends 2. Meet friends on Dayz 3. Don't die See how easy that was?

Might get flamed for this, but London with more open space, or New York with additional parks. More high-rise buildings could make for interesting play, and less opportunity for snipers. Obviously the airfield could stay with several in London itself, and the parks could have military tents and spawns which would be fairly open for snipers. What do you reckon?

Lower pop. servers (5-15 players), staying away from the cities unless I have to go there, keep away from the airfields. Use Animals for food and lakes for drinks, you can survive well off deer stands for ammo and rarely encounter players. Got 25 days survival now.

I didn't find enough tank traps to get this done, however I did massacre a load of Bandits to lose my hero status. If someone wants to try and upload a video, I'm sure we'd all be grateful.

Thanks... Now to find somewhere to set up a roadblock between Cherno & Elektro with no way round... :D

Got a pic of the White Car? Could be the offroad pickup, or a white red car?

I'll have to find out when/what server this happens on and I might PM you :) But if there's a few of us, I might have to keep it secret for everyone's safety ;) This should happen tonight or tomorrow hopefully!

Sorry, this has gone! Got 2 Rangefinders if anyone is interested!

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If someone hasn't tried it by this weekend, I'll set one up near the hill between Cherno & Elektro and watch and wait :D And I'll put up a vid :)

Ideally cars or trucks, basically I can imagine traps right the way across the road either between Cherno/Elektro or up to Stary with sandbags & Tank Traps across the road, if it stopped the vehicle, you could get an easy sniper shot and then you'd have all their gear and vehicle.

Seriously? Sense dictates that barbed wire gets caught and breaks wheels of a vehicle. Can a tank trap stop a moving vehicle, and can sandbags? Serious question.

Ok cheers, what about the Tank Traps & Sandbags? :)

Violence +1 Great guy, swift trade, happy to trade with a trading noob :)

Other way round, surely? Less humanity = scared of nothing, cold hearted, seen & killed it all, desensitized More Humanity = More Shivering, less kills, less battle-hardened. This is an alright idea though IMO! And most of these are coming in the Standalone I think!

Go along the west edge of the map to the north, then along the North, and you'll find something 99% of the time.

Is Industrial Elektro ot Cherno? Either way not bad. Also, the Elektro spawn is quite a good one - Military tents, fire station + supermarket, along with many corner pubs/hotels make for quick and easy gear, and fairly high chance of PvP to get decent gear quickly.

You mean the TWS, which is not always hacked. Infra-red hasn't been in the game ever, and is always hacked, if such a weapon exists.

Or maybe jamming the end of the gun? Surely there is a way of stopping the bullet in the barrel so it will explode in the user's hand. It is all too common with homemade guns and converted blank-firers etc. I agree with the toolkit, but it has to take a fair amount of time as it's not something that can be done easily especially while there are all wheels on etc. This could also lead to stripping down cars which are currently un-usable, so if they have a wheel, it can be of use. I Agree, but if the engine is off, surely a wire across the dashboard and the ignition barrel hanging out/dislodged could be a good indicator in cars & trucks.

Try to entice it out with muffins, when it is out far enough... grab it and put it in a cage/box and take it to your local recycling centre.

I agree with them all except 2, which you can already do. Shooting tyres is great fun xD But number 4 could be expanded on by jamming a bullet in the wrong way or something, making it explode and knock out/injure the user as well as destroying the gun? Maybe put the suer in shock and lose 1500 or 2000 blood would be enough? The rigged explosives would be good in combined with tents and/or vehicles, so if you start a car it blows up, or you can see the bomb in the tent, but try to open the gear menu and it blows up. The tire iron could be in a toolbox. Very good ideas, I particularly like number 1, but the difference could be subtle in pictures of the items. Maybe a dent in a can of beans, red fading to gray at the bottom of a bloodbag (which could give someone illness - cured by antibiotics?).