harken (DayZ)

Done.

I am against ideas like this because they take way from the excitement and danger of the Mod. That feeling of complete randomness when you spot another player from 500m away through your scope of Binocs, only to realize he is scoping you out as well. Adding any kind of hi5/flag system would detract from this. I am unsure how to solve the issue and perhaps that is because the Mod is so perfectly designed to mimic the real world situation of total freedom of choice and consequence, there is no way to limit that without being ridiculous.

We got the fly ours at least, but yes it vanished from the place we parked it so perhaps the coding needs some fine tuning because our other vehicles saved to location ok. We had a really wild escape with ours. We got there, repaired it and we were just about to start fuelling when someone opened fire and killed one of our darlings. Cue intense gunfire refuelling, all done by me, with my back to the shooter. We escaped with just enough fuel to get it over the water to the beach NW of the island. Epic times. I highly advise you all to play the "airwolf" themetune while flying.

I plan to survive in a snowy climate.

hate to say it, but...CSB!

JUSTICE! You should have yelled at him over direct chat seconds before DEATH IS HERE FOR YOU!

I still favour the revolver. I think it is the most accurate of the pistols, and because of this the easiest to get a headshot. Ammo is very common as well. All this update will do is force people to learn to aim for headshots, it really isn't that hard unless you are getting swarmed, but in that situation you should run.

I placed a few tents last week in what I know for a fact to be very good positions, left a few goodies in em and off I went. 30 minutes later when I came back, tent was empty. My buddies informed me that for a few weeks all the tents were bugged. Does anyone know what the current situation is with them? Am i safe to place a tent I packed up? Or should I drop it and get a new one that presumably won't be bugged? Any info would be good, cheers.

So if i have a tent I placed a while ago and I pack it up and move it, will it get a new ID, making it bugged or can I rely on tents I know are ok?

I blame roleplayers for everything. They play Dayz as if it is real, and of course in a real apocalypse every single one of these 12 year old spineless sadsacks would have the balls to just shoot someone they have never met without a word, or even go so far as to lie about their intentions before blasting away. In other breaking news, people who avoid people tend to live longer.

The revolver has more accuracy, so for me the debate is over. Why should I care if I can rattle off 7 shots very quickly if they won't hit where I aim them.

If they had been utterly polite at the start of this adventure, would you have let them live? I doubt it. Kudos to you for killing so many players but please don't pretent you did it because one of them had a bad attitude. You might dislocate your shoulder patting yourself on the back. /wink

Don't get attached to gear, ever. I almost don't want to find rare items now because i know at some point I'll either get sniped out of nowhere or some hacker asshat will nuke me. All you can do is try to contact the server admin, note the time and location etc and hope they care enough to check who did it.

Not really. Unless you are able to follow him around servers, you could give him an exact location of a good camping spot and chances are you'd never meet him to exploit it.

Outside electro with an m14 and my buddy. The server was dead so we were just blasting away for fun waiting on the server reset to fix our flipped ATV (offroad vehicle my arse!). One of our clan buddies comes on Mumble and we explain where we are (up the hill from the grocery store). He didn't explain he was moving up to us and decided to run up the hill while 4 Zeds were also rushing at us. I blasted him in the face thinking he was a Zed. His fault. An hour later I'm with the same player again and we are trying to prone down to the same Grocery store. Zeds are everywhere and one of them spots up so I tell him to just get up and run inside and we'll take them out from there. Now I was in front of him, and I got up first and ran full speed into the store. He was behind me for sure but when I got inside and moved to the other end of the shop there was a player sitting there. I opened fire instantly with my revolver whilst my buddy said over Mumble "player in here...player!" . "I know, I've just shot him, where are you?" I replied. "that was me you shot!" I have no idea how he got in there before me, but again his fault for not communicating his location. We had a good old laugh about my blasting him twice within an hour. Dayz is the school of hard knocks. Now he keeps us updated of his movements like a good trooper!

Look at one of the maps that have all the looting options (like the dayz db one), including deer stands, vehicles etc. Now look at all the places on the map that have no loot, no landmarks. Now consider how often players will pass through those quiet locations getting from loot point A to B. Now come to understand every other player is thinking along the same lines as you. Now, with all this in mind, pick a spot. What I'm suggesting to you, if you don't already know is to pick a spot that isn't obvious in any way, ideally close to some low yield crappy loot location no serious player would visit, like one of the small towns with a few houses and no barns. Find a few big tree's near one of those places and make a camp. You can also put a tent inside a tree if you are patient. When my friends hunt for camps, they hunt up north and near cities and landmarks like Dubina peak etc. I've never heard of them going to a crappy little town and searching the forests in a 500m circle around it. Hope this helps.

At the moment, the best way to store items in on your person. tents are not safe, but sadly neither are vehicles. Hackers can teleport right next to any vehicle if they so wish, and anyone can find the ATV or car you parked and just drive off with it. Remember you are playing an Alpha game, and things are not perfect. I used to work hard to get my clans camps stocked etc, but we got raided and now I just don't bother. I use only what I can carry and fuck the rest.

Hey campers, I'd like to see the above mentioned ammo/weapons added to the game, only to be found at military spawns where they would be used in "training excercises" What these items will allow us to do is train with our allies in game without killing each other. I know the idea sort of skirts the border between reality and fiction, but they would also be really useful and lots of fun. One pistol version and one rifle version, akin to the m19 and say, AKM and that would provide enough training opportunities for most people.

Sort out the hackers and bugs and I'll pay for the game once.

I support it, though such things would need to be reasonably rare and not quick to apply.

This is a nice idea, though I suspect it would involve a massive amount of programming because a molotov would set Zeds on fire which isn't a mechanic currently in ARMA 2. I do like the idea of combining jerry cans, bottles, matches with some kind of paper/cloth to make a weapon.

I honestly have no idea mate. I couldn't tell you what guns and ammo are banned/hacked if you put a gun to my head. You can all rest a bit easier, Sykotix, who is server admin and also a Dayz Dev is on the case. He is going to review all the logs and start issuing bans to the hackers and exploiters, so we'll see who has been cheating. Grats on getting our camp, that indeed was the one. We learned a rather important lesson from that about stockpiling so much in one location. Feel free to trample it into the ground.

I remember my first drink too. I think someone needs to log off and get sex.

Someone just nuked Cherno and blew up some of the buildings on the docks. Then a group of players used some kind of Fus Doh Rah force push on my buddy when they couldn't shoot him and he flew 60m and died. Then, another player teleported behind me in a pitch dark forest and lit me up. If this isn't justification for passwords on servers to keep the scumbag hackers out, I don't know what is. Sort this shit out and disable scripts or you'll start losing players and you will never be able to release this as a standalone game.

Have some beans for giving me useful information.