DevilDog (DayZ)

As for how they do that. Well they are game designers and coders, not firearms experts. They do what they can I guess. "I also hope that they make the 7.62x54r ammo not usable in the mosin" That confused me though. I am gonna assume you mistyped what you really meant to say.

Nah they gave me no reason to shoot them. I was really hoping the guy with the Mosin would lay down some place to start sniping people. Would have taken him out for sure then. I enjoy following people in this game and taking surveillance photos of them. You know like what Rambo was supposed to be doing lol. It is actually pretty tough some times to follow people.

I honestly don't think it has been tested that well yet. Need some subjects. @heiduk my point is that IRL saline is not great than blood. Even if you make a case for them being equal, this game has them as better according to some people, which should not be. Especially when you take this being a game into account and the fact that blood is a lot harder to use so should come with some type of reward for doing so. Also the people on those expiditions take saline because it won't go bad, isn't bound by type, is cheaper and it is only a stop gap until they can get medivac'd out and get some real treatment. I flew on medivac helo's for five years and never carried blood with us for many of those same reasons.

Excellent thread. This was the game I played. No rifles. Two pistols. 1 wood cutting axe. I ran this route and when ever I got to a city/town I would walk down main street. Stopped in the grocery stores and churches and kept walking the town. When I got to the end I would run to the next one. Pretty fun way to play. Make sure you are on at least 25+ player servers though. I started my journey the day of the patch, so when I arrived back in Elektro it was my first time since the east coast spawn patch, and things were not how I remembered lol.

I really like the clan warfare aspect. Lets look at the backstory BEFORE the breakout. This is still Chernarus. They were in the midst of a civil war with the ChDKZ and Federal Chenarus government, the US military was there (explaining all these M4s lol) and Russian military. So lets assume this outbreak happened in that time frame or around there anyway. Even if not cities and groups would without a doubt form (think of Jericho tv show). These like minded people would still band together and hoard resources. I am not saying we should have to choose factions and yada yada. Not really sure how it would work. But what if things like fuel and certain loot spawns were distributed based on the side that was winning? Since you can play 24/7 though you make it so that a certain 2 hours a day are the "war times" that count toward this. The loot spawns after that are effected by who "won" those two hours. Would be cool to band together as Elektro and attack Cherno. Then if we won for the day Elektro would see better loot spawns than Cherno for the day. This is obviously me just winging it at 1 in the morning and would need to be worked out better, and maybe doesn't even fit this game, but would be cool.

Every day on here I see about 50 threads with various suggestions and have made a few (like 38) of my own. So I was thinking today. What if you had a suggestion thread. Here is how it would work. If you have a well thought out idea, not "need moar zombies", but something half way decent and want to share it you make a thread about it. Then you go to the suggestion thread and post your idea there with a link to the thread. The ONLY posts in the suggestion thread are suggestion posts, so the devs, if they feel like it and return from holiday ;), want to read some suggestions they can go right there. Allow them to respond in that thread if they want (would be cool if they did). You could also read the ideas there to see what people have suggested already and find links to conversations about them. So here is how it would look. Duct tape + kitchen knife = bayonet Hey guys I came up with this really good idea as a craft-able item. What if you could use duct tape and a kitchen knife to make a jury rigged bayonet. It would of course have to do less damage than a normal bayonet. You can take the knife off and use it for it's intended 'kitchen' purposes but in order to attach it again you need duct tape. Here is the discussion thread about it. http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?app=DuctTape+KitchenKnife=Bayonet (PS- I literally just thought of this idea as I typed this, but it is actually a decent idea :lol: )

It used to all the time, now I find the revolver or .45 there almost every time.

I am not a mosin expert but no there is nothing IRL that causes them to get pulled to the left and if there was you zeroing the rifle would account for it. :thumbsup:

Well no you can't, it's ludicrous. You can use them as monoculars though :P

Yeah you have to be at least close with your zero. Also aim center mass and you should be fine. Hit a zombie at about 550 yards while zero'd at 600. Cross hairs on the belly, round hit the head.

There is no loot in cars. Don't search them. SShhhhh ;)

I have not noticed it. I will test my LRS when I get back in game.

Everyone relax. This post nailed it. It is not a requirement. They don't even have to develop this any further. But it sure would be nice to hear from them once in a while. I would like a weekly post/update thing just saying what is going on, but once a month or just once would be ok at this point lol.

I played for 4 days where I ran from city to city on 25+ player servers. When I got to each city I would WALK right down main street. I was only shot at a few times, and I think all of them were outside of the cities. Stay calm, walk on. At the end of my trip I died in the ATC tower NEAF when I fell out through the wall :| Leaving the solid ground is more dangerous than KOS.

Very true. 52 years later we have greatly improved the firearm. ALSO they were told in Vietnam that they are 'self cleaning' which is complete BS. I have never had one jam that was properly cleaned. The issue with the modern M4s is they sometimes have an issue retaining enough gas pressure to properly cycle the bolt. Overall I like this idea. Weapon condition and cleanliness should be two things. If you keep it clean it won't lose condition as fast. My only problem is with sickness, cold weather, wet weather, eating, drinking, getting new shoes or coats, magazines breaking, ammo breaking, scopes breaking, setting up a cooking pot, going fishing/hunting and looting there might come a point where TOO much realism is a bad thing.

I suggested this but these 'zombies' are like the ones from 28 Days Later, IE they are infected LIVING people, not undead people. Would be cool though.

That is not how it is IRL. You can just live off of saline. All saline is for is to keep your volume up, it is a temporary fix.

Iv kit and blood kit in every med kit. :thumbsup:

I have not done enough testing on them but have heard from a few people that the saline does wear off. If that is not the case then I think it will be the case. A blood bag "should" give you 100% blood, but then what is stopping your friend from taking a bag of your own blood and giving it right back to you? I think maybe if you lose 10% (total blood) when you donate and gain 33% (total blood) it would be ok. Then at least you would need 3 blood bags to get it done. And make it so one player can't donate more than 2 bags with having medical side effects, so you can't farm yourself on the spot to get to full blood.

Yes No Nothing, you nailed it No Very solid idea and I really like being able to have the private hive. As long as there is still PvP it will be great. Not sure how much PvP there was on the other servers. How do you handle character "death". As in me and you get into a firefight and I die, do I have to make a new "character".

Some cool urban camouflage if you ask me. All I could think of was the original metal gear when you hid in a box to sneak around lmao. I like this.

Right here. I think once private hives come along that will help. I play on the experimental server when it is up just to have a guy to mess around with. It also helps the devs to have more people play so they get the info they need. Plus the weather effects are CRAZY.

Awesome posts everyone, some great ideas in here. You hero society guys are awesome and hilarious at the same time, even if a bit crazy. That "Sarah Conor" girl sounds like how I play my sniper character. Mostly in the forrests. I often stalk the eastern ridge line and stand overwatch on players without means to survive. The best is when some one starts to blood farm them and those guys get dropped. :thumbsup: Not everyone on the east coast is either evil or helpless :D

I have about 90 hours in game so far and thought I had found everything (even the can opener lol). The other day some one posted a pic of the Press Vest and I have seen a few more people post them as well. Today I came across a Press Vest of my very own, then in the very next room I found this which I didn't even know was in the game. Anyone else find this? Also what do you think is the most rare ITEM in game right now?

Shooting is not that hard. Marine Corps recruits that have never shot before have been hitting man sized targets from 500 yards with iron sites on shitty M16s under the stress of boot camp since for ever. Now adding in all the other factors, moving, firefight, ZA, different elevations ect makes it much more difficult. I think it is exciting to when there are rounds hitting all around you and you make it out. Also great when you actually get a nice kill shot on some one. I think the M4 should be much more accurate than it is though. The pistols too, depending on range of course. Maybe the buckshot and shotgun will be the ultimate weapon lol.