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My friend and I once stalked a group of 5 starting from south of Stary for about 2 and a half hours, and they had no idea we were their the whole time. We followed them for atleast 2 hours while they looted stary, headed south west and set up a camp fire and hunted animals, then looted Vybor, and then to the airfield. We killed all 5 of them with only 5 shots from 600m away. Don't go mental at me because they did nothing too me. We didn't KOS, we let them live when we found them, and we took them out with precision. I feel like that's how the game is meant to be played. Not you just seeing someone and spraying because you're scared. I also had an incident on a private hive about a week ago, where some guy knew I had top tier gear, and he said he was coming for me in a light hearted way. I didn't want to take any chances though, and again, I found him entering stary, and followed him until the Airfield again, and took him out. That one was about 1 and a half hours, and I was by myself. Stalking people at night time is one of the most intense things you can do, especially when you don't have NVG's

When I used to watch 'qnomnikai' he did 24 hour streams sometimes, where he'd just play dayz for 24 hours with a small break every few hours.

I think you underestimate just how much of an image and icon Heinz beans are in DayZ. Have you seen a single dayz cosplay costume that doesn't involve heinz? Have you seen a single real life dayz youtube video that doesn't have heinz in it? How about people that have been to chernarus IRL? All of them have cans of heinz in the pictures. Notice the forum? "You have my beans!" button with the can of heinz next to it? This is a missed opportunity by Heinz. What will Fraggle base his profile picture off now? It won't ever be the same!

FrankieonPCin1080p is playing on this server for his next video.

I think we can live without pepsi and coke, but Heinz has become a symbol in DayZ. DayZ just isn't DayZ without Heinz

Top right near guba. It's toned down a little now, and people are a little more creative with their camp spots, but a few months ago, you'd never be disappointed if you went there.

This is kind of excessive bumping don't you think?

I wish there were more of these. I don't want 500 vehicles and 30 helicopters. If I wanted that many vehicles in an open world game, I'd be playing wasteland, because that's effectively what the game becomes. Vehicles shorten the games life in opinion. Everything can be done in such a short time, it's too easy.

This right here. Giving your friend your CD key would be a fair amount of trouble to go through, and I see no reason why he wouldn't just buy the game himself. Sounds to me like you got one banned, and you need to buy a new one. If not then this is the weirdest set of circumstances I've seen here.

This is the case for almost any open world game ever made. It makes sense that your frame rate is less in a city with lots of buildings and cars and zombies, than in a field where there is only grass. You're not the only one, so don't worry. Frame rates will always be lower in cities, no matter how much optimizing they do, all they can do is decrease the difference between cities and fields, which I'm sure they will try their hardest to do.

0/10 would not operate with. My gun with an attachment or 2

Too colourful, too bright, it says 'party island' too much. I loved Far Cry 3, but the map doesn't fit dayz at all.

I'd also like to point out that The Warz came out as an Alpha 3 months ago, and the only changes they've made so far have been terrible ones that have ruined the game. Not turning this into a flame war, but putting it into perspective, a lot more has gone on behind the scene of dayz, because, you know, they're making a new game. Where as The Warz has remained the same the last 3 months,

You're entitled to an opinion, whether you're wrong or not. Here is what has actually happened: Dean stopped regularly making updates for dayz about 6-7 months ago, and made his last probably around 3-4 months ago I think it was. He would have started work on the SA anywhere between 3-6 months ago. Dean spent a shitload of time fixing bugs, and dealing with exploits (there was a point where pretty much 3 patches in a row were to fix duping). Since then I think we all get the feeling that instead of spending 99% of his time bug fixing, he's changed tactics, and is try a whole new bunch of things, hence why he's doing the closed testing. He said himself he'll be doing updates for what he hopes to be atleast a year after SA release. If you read his Q&A's, you'd know he's got big plans for the next 6 months or so (he's already started some big things that he's keeping a secret). Cool story though, there are still over 70,000 people who play daily. The figure on the main page of 43,000 is just showing public hives, which are the least popular servers at the moment in comparison to private hives. So I guess you really are the only one who doesn't enjoy the game. I don't get why people come onto forums just to post negative comments. I can understand constructive criticism, because it makes the game better, but this whole "I don't like this game, so it's not going to do well" shit, we don't need it.

I think you can turn off Private Hives if you use DayZ commander, so that's one way you can do it. The other is that official servers have to follow a certain naming rule. For example, a private hive might be called "GenericClanGaming #2 [v1.7.4.4][MORE VEHICLES][CUSTOM LOOT][270 HELI'S][EXTRA GAYNESS+] - dayz.st" Where as a public hive server's name: "DayZ - US 1234 (v1.7.2.4/beta 95417) [3DP:ON CH:OFF][uTC-4] DayZMod.com - DayZWiki.com" (stolen from dayzwiki.com) The thing to look out for, is pretty much the "US 1234" part, most servers named like this are public hives. If it says more vehicles, or more loot, it's private.

This gun is in a lot of Private Hive servers. If you're on a private hive, then that would most likely explain it.

I believe the Balota Buddies whitelist UK server is one of the most populated. I played on their AU server, and the server was great, but the moderators are questionable in how the deal with some situations.

I've been using Plantronics Gamecom headsets for years. I picked up the new version about 4 months ago after I broke my last ones. I'd say that plantronics are easily the best budget headsets around. They offer great sound, and they're comfy, plus they are usually only around 30$-40$. The only issue I have is my newer version picks up a lot of background noise. The best option though, is to go with a brand like Sennheiser, and if you game with with your mates at all, then pick up a desk mic. It sounds like a lot of effort, but no gaming headset gets anywhere near the sound quality of a good set of headphones, and desk mics are also unbeatable in sound quality.

SoulShaper2 is a filthy bandit that would never help a person in any situation, whether it's a broken car or in need of some blood. That was sarcasm, I can see you're a medic.

That's a BAF (British Armed Forces) skin as far as I know, so your game is launching the "lite" version of the BAF DLC, instead of the full version. I don't actually have this DLC, so I wouldn't know how to fix it. You need to find a way to stop it from launching the Lite version of the DLC.

Imagine an M16, or an M4 with a scope like the DMR. Deals pretty small damage, and is only effective to about 400-500m

"2) The realistic helicopter demo that's free and is a good training tool for the new helicopters in SA" [Citation needed] Can someone post a link to Dean saying that helicopters will be running the same physics engine and controls as they do in TOH? As far as I know Dean only posted this on his tumblr "We have setup all the required pipelines to best push the project forward. The standalone engine we are using is a branch of Take on Helicopters, which itself is a branch of ArmA 2 Operation Arrowhead". That was 3 months ago atleast, and things have changed a huge amount in regards to the where the project is going. Back then, they were pretty much going to release the dayz mod, on a slightly upgraded engine, and then update it as we go on. Now, we've got something that will almost be a new game when it's released in a few months, and a lot has changed in regards to the engine. Dean said later on "I see people say that DayZ is based on the ArmA2 engine, or Take on Engine, or even the ArmA3 engine. I have been joking with team members on the project, that if we were to focus on making shader updates and not change anything else, everyone would be proclaiming that it was a “new engine”." This is pretty much a little later when they realised they could go a lot further in the changes with the game, and fix a lot of issues. tl;dr: as far as I can tell, dean a long time ago said that the SA will use the TOH engine partially (remembering that TOH doesn't just do helicopters, it's a whole engine like arma 2), but that has now changed. 'the SA using the TOH engine for the helicopter physics' is just a rumor as I see it. It will most likely be the same as ArmA 2.

I'm beginning to look forward to the daily Demon thread. I wake up wondering what the topic will be about today. I usually just find a place to wait out at, and watch what they are up to. If they're just looting, then I'll usually just leave them. If I have a silenced weapon, or I'm a distance away, it's always fun to kill a zombie that's after him, and watch how they react.

Erm, hate to break this one to you son, but the controls are going to be relatively the same in the SA

I'm not a fan of R4Z0R49's direction with the DayZ mod, so I probably won't be using the dayzmod unless he really pulls something cool out.