Gibbonici

Yeah, I'm all for this :)

I always put them out. I'm all for helping others out but I'm pretty wary about attracting attention.

I'm not averse to new players coming, not even ones who come to DayZ 'raw'. The game has a lot of unique experiences to offer and although it might scare some new players off, it'll give others a whole new perspective on what games can offer. But the video... I like the Yogscast Minecraft videos, but this DayZ one was rubbish IMO. There are loads of other ones that give a much better impression of what it's all about and what it's actually like. But whatev, if it brings more people in then that's good enough for me.

I found an ATV parked up by a road somewhere west of Berezino while I was yomping south-west on an epic trek to Kamenka. I couldn't believe my luck. It was just sitting there like it was waiting for me. I scanned the area and saw no sign of its owner so I jumped on it and gunned the engine. I drove it across the road and between a couple of bushes when I suddenly took damage, my screen greyed out and I was suddenly horizontal. I got off, bandaged myself, then saw the low, broken wall I'd crashed into. I'd driven approximately 10 yards before tipping the damn thing onto its side and causing myself a fairly serious injury. I walked the rest of the way to Kamenka. It took fucking ages.

The "best" guns aren't necessarily the best guns for your playstyle. Don't rush out and grab a sniper rifle because they're the "best" guns, and then tell us there's nothing to do but PvP.

Go to the Direct Communication channel by pressing . or , until you get to it, then press caps lock to speak.

Indeed. The idea is that even if you close your client your character stays on the server until the timer expires. Been done in MMOs since god knows when.

Try telling my grandmother that.

An overrated TV show with b-actors that every hipster loves. You are precisely the definition of hipster in my book. And I'm not even a fan of it To answer the op' date=' at first I was probably more like the asian dude (sorry), and after I got killed enough times, guess I turned into the bandits they ran into, or Shane maybe. There is no place for good guys in DayZ, not at the moment at least. Well there is actually, but it's decorating Cherno's streets surrounded by flies [/quote'] This good guy doesn't go anywhere near Cherno. That's bandit country.

I'm Glenn. Maggie goes commando, btw.

I won't kill another player but I'll take whatever I can from his tent. In fact I found a bunch of tents a couple of kilometres east of Novy Sobor a weeks or two ago, most were empty but a couple had food, cooked meat and a few bits of medical supplies. I took what I could and left the rest. The other tent had loads of military ammo inside, so I took it all out piece by piece and dumped it in the woods. Why? It might have bought a few people a few more days of living.

I'm not sure how would

When a player dies, all his stashed equipment should be deleted.

My career doesn't affect my gameplay at all, but my love of the wilderness and wildcamping does.

Totally. I realised a while ago that having the "best" gear doesn't really make much of a difference, except making you a more attractive target. If someone gets the drop on you, the chances are you're going to die and if you get the drop on them with pretty much any weapon, you're going to win. These days I'm surviving almost indefinitely (its blood attrition that kills me in the end) with nothing but an M1911 and a hatchet, and solo too. It's been a long time since a player killed me - I guess wits are the best defensive weapon of all. NVGs and thermal scopes are a bit different, and I think requiring batteries is a good idea, partly because they actually do require batteries and partly because it gives their owners another resource they need to find and manage. We need much more of that. I like the ghillie suit idea of no backpack too. As others have said I don't really feel that they fit in DayZ. They're not exactly standard military issue and they should be much, much rarer than they are now. That said, they're a cool little feature to have for those who want them, and we need more bits of kit that enhance different styles of gameplay.

The best way to find this out is to play and get a feel for it. You have to do that to get a sense of distance anyway.

no you were slightly off after you save the tent for the 2nd time' date=' you must prone and roll around the entire circumference of the tent while chanting "oh long johnson" into your mic [/quote'] I think that requirement was dropped in 1.6.4.

Yeah, that's very true. It's a hard, harsh world outside of civilisation.

I usually turn the music off in games because it gets irritating, but yeah, the music in DayZ is just awesome and is totally part of the feel of the game. Still play with it on, and even don't mind those ambiguous sounds that may or may not be someone or something creeping up on me. I'd be jumping at all sounds, real and imagined, in a real zombie apocalypse.

I've gotta be honest, even though I don't consciously hoover up all supplies, my backpack sometimes looks ridiculous when I check it. Like today, I killed a cow and needed to make some space for all that meat. Turns out my backpack is full so I take a look at what I can ditch. Turns out I had 10 cans of sardines and 3 of other food, all gathered one at a time from all the places where food was to be found. I also had 3 M1911 mags, despite having a full load in my inventory and only having fired about 5 rounds in 4 days. So I ate all the food and didn't need the meat. I took it of course and left the spare M1911 ammo inside the carcass to make room.

I dunno, they all do the same thing after a point. Good for epeen, but would make no difference at all to the game.

Regarding violent animals, I've often thought it would be awesome, not to mention terrifying, if there were packs of domestic dogs gone feral roaming the cities and outlying countryside. It would definitely happen during and after an apocalypse.