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I laughed pretty good and from your comments I truly hope you did crawl around for 3 days with a broken leg...

Yup happens to all of us eventually... I was heading to overlook Electro for a bit to hunt some bandits.. and im coming through the woods and im within 1500+meters of town so im crouching and walking and listening and looking as I go.. I play ingame a blackskin color and camo clothing.. everything is fine... then all of a sudden *somehow* I get shotgun blasted from point blank range behind me... no clue how or why.. makes no sence.. all I can gather is someone server jumping and I got unluck but was just no way.. so I died.. and lost my Range Finder, my DMR, AKM, full utility belt, meds etc.. and worst of all.... I had just cooked up and had a BBQ and had 5 steaks on me to enjoy while I hunted bandits... but no.. it was not to be... Having the best gear and even tactics cant save you in DayZ with the current system... doesnt matter who you are.. you go near a city theres a % you will die.

Aye never hide in the "open" always have a backdrop behind/ahove you... prone next to haybarrels/stacks... bushes... trees etc.. basically dont silhouette yourself

Ive seen/found I would estimate I have no clue but at least 20 or 30 in my game time.. and I would say 90% of those were all spawned in a radius of Stary often times 2 at a time. the other couple were pretty random i.e. one east of Cherno etc..

Are you checking your latency on these servers? If your running at 150-200... and they are say 20-70 then yes could be your lag... are the servers near you? PDW does take a few shots lol... Yesterday I did a mercy kill for a guy with a broken leg after he asked me so I put my DMR away and pulled out the PDW and aimed point blank at his head with 20-30latency and bam... still alive.. bam.. still alive... wtf.. bam bam.. passed out still alive.. finaly 5th shot in head he died. Ive learned shoot... then shoot some more if your gonna shoot someone... Only time I get single shot kills is Sniping with a headshot. Ive died quite a few times and one time I still recall was when I was being stalked towards a barn.. I ran in one side and flanked around the outside came in behind took aim with my Mak and emptied it into his head them to my dismay I got 1 shot killed by his Mak... sometimes things are just screwy.

Aye... Anytime I encounter this I leave the area and check a rural spawn(barn/farm/town) if im still seeing just trask 99% then I go ahead and bounce servers... I know what you mean though ive definately on more then one occasion encountered nothing but trash in a entire city... sometimes it just gets weider... last night in Stary I would say 9/16 tents had a AKM+Ammo... I was like wtf.. really come on..

Cool story and all... you win.. its not difficult to reach what you have, many many players have already done what you have and more every day. Its very simple to simply survive... what you should be doing is playing and testing... quit worrying about surviving in a Alpha mod and get out there take some risk and some chances, which from your concerns of loosing your l33t gear you will not and do not take. There is no end game in a Alpha stage if you cared about the game you would be trying things and providing feedback but from your 4 post and having "won" already I see none of that was of your concern. You get no pat on the back.

Sweet hatchet skillz

I believe the official stance on this is kinda neutral currently... it was brought up previously and dont recall seeing anything negative on using it... I play with dark skin and camo face which when wearing the new Camo suit is absolutely amazing. You dont need the mod to do this at all... its easy and there are guides out there and even youtube videos on how to do this... fuck downloading that 3rd party app. Will take you longer to get and run the app then to actually do it yourself... I believe it also helps in people identifying you as friend/foe.. I dont get accidently shot by people who im with. You can also just change/add sunglasses if you want instead of changing face/skincolor/camo etc...

Nah... right as they said something I saw the Zombie hand in my screen and heard the attack noise/hit... should have heard them after they kilt the zombie.. "Are you alright?" "Is he dead?" "wtf" etc... I was pretty sure I was just going to bleed out or die or they would finish me off. But humanity won over.

I know its been said before about how hard the Zs are hitting and causing bleeding instantly but today i think I got hit the hardest ive ever been! was quite epic!: Was near Electro, and saw a couple fresh spawns head into station decided id go say Hi as it had been slow and no banditos to kill and was tired of looking through my range finders.. So I head down and we all start talking on VOIP and as I enter the station I see someone has like 3 rolls of Wire up and a tank trap and everything else at the bottum of the stairs and the guys are all like wtf.. .only one of them has a gun and hes talking so i tell them watch my back and Ill take the wire down.. I start taking the wire down and a Z hears it I guess through the double doors I hear one say something about a Z on me and im like huh? as im taking down wire and WACK!!! I go from full blood to 7k instantly and im knocked out cold bleeding with broken bones and in pain... Im like holy shit.. im gonng die right here like this on a week old char helping others.. luckily one of them shoots the one Z and bandages me just intime as a entire horde rolls into the station, 4 of us and only two of us with guns and my dam legs are still broken! I set the PDW to full auto and start spraying mother fuckers... while rolling around on the ground between the other guys Winchester and my PDW we drop a solid 20 in a matter of seconds.. Was a close call.. Im giving Zombies a lil more respect from here on out after that. Cant wait for the new patch!!

At that point you gotta decide... be a villian for be a badguy? I alternate back and forth... currently ive been overwatching the coastline and sniping off anyone I see camping rooftops and openly killing other people... I also try to help others when they spawn in off the coast.. offer up freshly cooked steaks, offer a escort into town etc... pretty much just try and keep people from getting ganked right off the coast... however when I die this time Ill probally spend a few lives just going bean wars crazy and sprinting through town with a flare strapped to my chest yelling in VOIP im a suicide bomber and shooting everyone...