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Depends on your playstyle. I wouldn't trade my SKS+scope for any tricked-out M4. Problem right now is IMO that 5.56 ammo is far too easy to obtain and with everybody and their grandma running around with 60 round mags the advantage of more powerful rounds like the 7.62x39mm isn't that clear.

A buddy of mine got stuck in the scenery and got free again by running and disconnecting from the server. Might be worth a try.

AFAIK the servers are divided into hardcore and regular servers. Character progression doesn't get transferred between them. Does that mean you actually have two characters, one on hardcore and one on regular servers or does switching between them cause char wipes/resets?

Thanks, much appreciated.

... please continue hitting the magic alt-F4 combo whenever you feel one of your pathetic killing attempts with your pimped-out chars from constant server-hopping might actually turn into something resembling a fair fight. There are few things sweeter than reading "XXX is losing connection" in the middle of a firefight, then run around the corner/up the stairs/behind the trees and watch you cowards sit on the ground, waiting for an axe to the forehead. Bonus points for coming to the forums to whine about how your char got wiped yet again in this stupid game. :thumbsup:

I don't know what's sadder. Offering such services in a computer game or the knowledge that there most probably are people who would indeed pay for it.

30-40 player servers. The really low-population servers are just a playground for server hoppers.

The reason I posted this topic was an incident at the NW airfield yesterday. I was alone, coming from the NW and was carefully scanning the area. After some 5 minutes I was pretty sure there were no players nearby. Doors were closed, some Zs around. So I entered one of the 2-storey buildings and checked to see if its safe. It was. Then, while searching the ground floor I suddenly heard the "reloading" sound from a newly-spawned player. Hu? I carefully took a look around the stairs and yup, there was a server hopper. Fully kitted out with pimped-out M4, helmet, all military stuff. While I had a Mosin without a scope. He actually spawned into the 2nd floor. He immediately opened fire but only did some light damage. I returned fire and maybe hit him but i'm not sure. That was when he logged off and I killed him. Server hopper AND combat logger. It's people like this that ruin the game.

I'm not talking about the timer when leaving and joining a server. I'm talking about the mechanic where if someone disconnects from a server his char sits down and stays in the world for another 20-30 seconds. No problem if you log out in a "safe" area. Hilarious if you're a combat logger that uses server disconnects to flee from fights. I love this feature! B)

This is my current char, 3 weeks old...

Anything that makes mid-long range shooting more of a challenge certainly gets my vote. Anyone who ever shot a rifle at distances > 200m knows how much more difficult it is compared to the "line up crosshair with target and press the left mouse button"-method of computer games.

In the last 20 hrs with my current char I've probably seen about a dozen players. A dozen. And I only play on (full-ish) 40 player servers. I'm really looking forward to servers with a much higher player count. Playing on what seems like empty servers is just plain boring.

If you don't KoS sooner or later you will get killed because of that. You just have to accept that. So what? It's not as if gearing up in DayZ is some kind of monumental task. I don't KoS. Never have, never will. Not because of some weird sense of "honour" or whatever but because I find the KoS mentality boring. I don't shoot unarmed players or players that pose no threat to me. When I want to PeeVeePee I go to Balota AF and hunt geared-up players who hunt bambis for fun. Love it when a group of 3 military-style wearing, M4-wielding bada$$es log off the moment one of them gets a bullet into his braincase.

That's how sad stories usually start.

Probably my favourite location in the mod has always been Stary Sobor. It provided lots interesting tactical gameplay due to its location and the high-value military loot. Had lots of good fights there and much preferred it over the NWAF due to its IMO more interesting layout. I really hope that over time at least some military loot spawns are put back there.

I'd like to see Balota's military loot spawns reduced and Stary Sobor given a bit of that. I never understood why Balota AF got this massive buff in the 1st place, I hope this has been only done for testing purposes and will be changed again in the future. I really don't think we'll see many of the epic fights we had in the mod in Stary without at least some "incentive". And a supermarket just will not be enough for that IMO. @scavenger: there is no military loot in Stary Sobor. There are no barracks, no tents, no AF buildings.

NEAF. Lots of M4s lying around there. Red dot sight, bayonet, flashlight attachment, 60 round double mags, etc...

Dual-wielding pistols is IMO idiotic. I hope no resources are wasted on such a feature. What's next? Gangsta-stile pistol handling?

Dracula, Red Badge of Courage, War and Peace.

The payday masks are great. I shoot everyone wearing one on sight.

Leave the coast. There's plenty of loot up north. Other than that yes, it's an alpha. Many features and much content are still missing.

Don't right-click-> inspect. Put the map on the hotbar and press the corresponding number key.

If you want to play Arma, play Arma. If you want to play DayZ. stop wet-dreaming about anti-material rifles, machine guns, rocket launchers and frickin' sharks with laz0rs on their heads. -_-

I had the same problem, then I decided to eat some aintibiotics and suddenly I got a message about feeling better or my wounds getting cleaner. From that point on my blood started to regenerate. I still don't get the "my stomach is full" messages anymore. They stopped after the last patch.

Friendly in Cherno?