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I'd like to see some "Home-made" weapons. E.G. Two pipes, one fits snugly over the other, depending on their size you could fire a grenade round from it by loading the pipe with the nade and using one of the pipes as a firing pin. You would extend the pipes till they almost came apart then slam them together so that the bottom pipe strikes the nade round and ignites it and propells it. Smaller pipes could be filled with scrap metal, bits of old tin cans, screws and bolts... a nade round could be opened up and the gunpowder taken out or a mixture of salt peter/coke/nitric acid or what ever chemicals are used to make gun powerder could be used instead and you have yourself a highly inaccurate, long reload, wide area of effect boom stick :D I've not put a load of thought into this as it is all off the top of my head at the moment, but I hope you can see the kinda example of home made weapon I was trying to get accross... P.S. Trip wires, nades and buckets of bolts... INSTA CLAYMORE!!!!

I'd quite like to lend my voice to it if you still need people, I'm from Scotland with a distinctive Glaswegian accent. If you want a sample of my voice or anything you can hear me in my videos... I think I'm talking from the very beginning in the video in my sig

I've used PlayClaw and it seems too work well. My FPS doesn't drop too much, file sizes will be quite large with any software you use for screen capture depending on the settings you use. My files are massive because I record at 1600x1200. It is very simple to set up, you can record sounds from your pc and your mic at the same time and mix the audio into a single stereo file. [Pro Tip] You should have a hard drive (for best results use as fast a HDD as possible) that is not used for ANYTHING else to record to. If you start trying to load files while writing huge videos its very likely gonna mess up your video and what ever else you are read/writing. To encode videos on the fly you want a good processor, obviously an I7 3rd gen is gonna be good at it but I have no issues what-so-ever using my AMD FX-4100 for basic screen capture. DayZ + recording has never maxed out my CPU, but live streaming uses more CPU as it encodes the video first.

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No such place exists...

- Look at dead player - Roll mouse wheel and select gear (alternatively you can press "G" while in range of the body and looking at it) - When the invintory screen appears look at the left hand side of the menu and scroll to the very bottom of it. - You should see the dead players bag at the very bottom (or you will see your bag and the dead players bag if you have one). - If you double click the name of the bag in this window it will move over to you.

You will be luck if you find a server that has custom loot tables, most just use the standard DayZ loot tables. I would recommend downloading DayZ Commander (there is a link on the home page of this site) and checking out some of the other DayZ maps/private hives... they will be your best bet for custom load outs and custom loot tables, but you will be stuck on that server as it will not be part of the public hive, so if you play there you cannot carry your gear over to another server.

You could also try staying away from bigger cities during the day, and only hit them at night... you can lose zombies much eaiser in the dark.

Try running the software you use to launch the game as administrator... My bro had issues spawning in as a crow on Wasteland and I think on that occasion launching steam as admin helped. If you use DayZ Commander try launching that as admin too (same goes for Play With 6 etc...)

You may have been playing on a server with it's difficulty set to Rookie or Recruit or what ever the easiest setting is. On this difficulty the "peripheral dots" that you would normally see indicating the presence of a vehicle/animal/player that you have seen recently, appear constantly even when you are looking directly at the zombie/player/animal. It makes spotting mobs easy because they like a white "halo" type thing going on round them and you can see if a player is running through town with lots of aggro because you can see all the white dots scurrying about.

I would assume you can use both at the same time. When one of my friends started playing he had only ever played console games, so he had to use his xbox controller. He eventually stopped using it because there are too many buttons that get used regularly to map them all to the controller haha

Primary out for protection, avoid zombies, if you pick up one or two zombies you can get away with headshots from a pistol like the makarov or g17, if you are in a building the noise is reduced by 50% im sure so if you really need to fire it might be worth getting into a building to killl a few zombies. Be careful though, many a time I have took refuge in a building only to find out I had more zombies on my backside that ammo, results in death every time ;)

I take it you have ran Arma2 and Arma2: OA at least once without any mods? Try running commander as admin? Not sure what else to suggest without more info.

So I was killed and just fresh spawned in at Mitrovice and was running through the forest when I met "him". Man I think this is the best thing ever to happen to me in DayZ to date lmao

HAHAHA man tell me about it, I was soooo paranoid the whole time that there was someone following me lmao

Agreed, I can't tell you how many times just stopping and thinking about my options has saved my bacon... It has also got me some good bandit kills as a bambi. Stalking people in the through the trees in the night with a makarov? awesome!

I was put off silenced weapons after I used the M4 SD, it just didn't have any power in it. I'm a little bit better at the game now after several months of playing and I think it is about time to try them out again. Does anyone have any good or bad PVP stories to tell about this class of weapon? - I hardly ever use my primary against the Z population unless I'm all out of side arm ammo or in a panic haha so really it's player stopping power I look at (purely for self defence... OBVIOUSLY!).

Ideally I would like to be cutting about with either M14/AKM + any sniper + G17. Although recently I have found a few FN-Fals and damn do they kill nice lol. Both the M14 and the AKM pack a punch, the AKM making up the lower stopping power with fully auto fire. Any sniper will do me, I prefer the ones that can be ranged, but the DMR's mill dots work just fine with the bonus of NVG usage at the same time. Finally the G17. The reason I like this is purely for it's ammo versatility, and the fact that it can hold upto 17 rounds per magazine... which, technically could be 17 kills. Unlikely (unless it's zombies) but possible :P P.S. Forgot about the PDW, I'll pick this up for the same reasons as the G17.

Okay I hope this isn't a topic hijack but people should start listing how they say it, and where they are from. Maybe there is a correlation between regional dialects and the pronunciation of the word? DayZed: Scotland - This is how all my friends say it too, unless they are singing,"I'll have to shoot you, cos this is day zee"

I've not played vanilla in ages... sounds like an interesting challenge but I think I've found 3 Dews in my DayZ lifetime hahaha

Yeah, I remember watching a video when I first really started playing DayZ of two guys holding up a guy on the road just east of Cherno by the looks of it and they just rob him... but he turned around eventually and spammed his makarov into one of their faces... If gear gets damaged when you kill a player like has been suggest with NVG (kill with a head shot = broken NVG) then I think that will help towards "proper" banditry. I also agree that more has to be added to allow for a "proper" bandit etiquette: Rope, handcuffs, duck tape etc. Imagine peppering a player with small arms fire, killing them and looting only to find burst cans, broken magazines, smashed binos, ripped cloths, damaged vehicle parts and ripped clothing... that would be cool Hope this font helps :S maybe too IN YOUR FACE?

So a friend and I got a whole dayz worth of DayZ Origins in and what a game it was. We started off with nothing (as you do), I was on a bit earlier so I had made it to Branibor after spawning at Mitrovich. Our goal: Salvation City. We found an APC (armored personnel carrier) that had clearly been crafted by some survivors (I don't mean actual players, this mod had me thinking you could build your own choppers etc...). After getting together some basic essentials we decided to head to the big bridge to see if we could catch anyone in ambush... it didn't really turn out as expected! Part I - Open with a kill Part II - Just driving no action, but I'm posting it for continuity. Strong language from the begining! Part III - Driving while under fire, still not much action. Part IV - Finally some action! UPDATED: 27/02/03 Part V - Doing up the chopper Part VI - Off Shore Shenanigans Part VII - An Uninvited Guest More to come :) I will update this each time I have uploaded the next part of the story. I would appreciate feedback too :)

Sorry about the huge delay in videos... I'm learning all about the fun of editing lmao, the last two skills show of my mad skills in video editing lmao...

I started a thread that I thought was quite funny and now I can't find it... would I be informed if one of my posts got deleted. Is there any way I can find out why it was deleted so I don't make the same mistake twice? I had embedded the most recent (as of 25/02/13) dev blog update and just posted a quote from it... was that wrong?

AHH okay, gotcha! Thanks for letting me know!