Mastiff (DayZ)

Take the M249 good practice for when you find the god mode MK48 which has the same damage as the FN

Yup civilian clothes are the default skin, only get the civi item when you put on another skin.

Its impossible to prove you weren't hacking, what evidence does he have to present to support his case if he wasnt hacking he has nothing out of the ordinary... guilty until proven innocent? I feel really sorry for anyone who has been falsely accused.

10/10 would read again

I must congratulate you on posting this topic like 6 times, surprised it wasnt detected as flooding.

The rifle isn't even important but the scope itself, when I had my L85 I had it for ages before I was finally killed... by a hacker. Up to that point I had pretty much scouted out everyone I came across using the thermal vision in day and night, all I need to do was right click and spin my scope along the tree lines and horizon and I had scanned for survivors/zombies. It got to the point that I was so lazy I didn't even bother visually inspecting the area with binoculars I just looked for zombie spawns in the thermal scope and if I was 300m I knew fine someone is there. The only downside of the thermal is that it can't see through glass which is fair and everything else is a massive positive. Being able to carry two weapons using a back pack pretty much makes any second primary weapon even more deadly. I come across so many snipers using an L85 + Rifle X because of how effective the thermal is. I remember my first kill when finding someone with it, I was literally approaching elektro from one side and I decided to scope into the town... looked didn't see anything of interest but a small heat signature behind the power plant up on the hill and this was broad day light... guy was wearing a ghillie suit and I just pop out my DMR... dead, so I decided to sit around and the kills just kept coming. It is unfair and unbalanced, the only way they could make this fair is if you had to carry batteries for it and the power was used up quickly, then again everyone would just dupe batteries so... The gun isn't OP because to be honest the L85 is pretty bad, low damage and low range but the thermal makes it a master scout rifle, on top of the laser...

The skin changes pisses me right off at the moment, the only way to make sure you're safe is to kill as many humans as possible. What annoys me the most is when the skin changes it swaps to first person AND my secondary weapon... can't count how many times I've fired in self defence at someone and the skin changes mid combat.

Have to be honest there hasn't been much in the direction of content although there has been a fix for the debug plains, I think probably most resources are now on the stand alone game. I mean they were already talking about an alpha build which had every building enter able or at least that is what I thought I read. Personally I don't think there will be much movement from this mod anymore in terms of development, It would be odd when they have a standalone to build.

I know what you mean i had someone log in on me as i turned round i unloaded around 15 shots firing on semi automatic straight into his stomach... nothing, his first shot seemed to be from and M24 and broke my bones... im not ashamed to say i logged after that. He ghosted on me and then was invincible from short range bullet damage then blasts me.

Oh sorry to burst your bubble but... Did rocket copy ZDay? http://www.zdaygame.com/index.php I'm sure we can admit Rocket and WarZ are both responsible of a bit of "idea theft".

Mine is more a case of mistaken identity... I normally kill on sight for the safety of myself and others in a group, though one day me and my mate had decided to re roll our characters, I last around 24 hours before getting killed by a hacker shortly after my mate logged off. We met up again on another server the next day and I ran from Balota to Cherno on one server with my mate on, shit hit the fan when we got there and my mate ended up shooting a ghillie sniper with his CZ550, the sniper had an AS50 and had killed 3 or 4 people before my mate shot him. Within seconds of this guy dying the server goes from broad daylight to pitch black... I insta log thinking my mate has stirred up the hornets nest, so we log onto another server. We log in on a fairly populated server and meet up near the Hospital (the one next to the residential buildiings) I'm looting there find some binocs and literally on my first scope I see someone in the distance but he is so far away he isn't much concern. We pick up some supplies head to the firestation > Super market and suddenly I hear gun shots... bursts... distinctive bursts an M249/240 or MK48, it goes on for some time and we see the zombie count dropping. It stops and me and my mate cautiously move to the church to finish our looting run. After that we creep back towards the fire station for one last spawn check before we bean it elsewhere. As we're creeping back I start to hear what sounds like aggro'd zombies but it soon stops and my mate insists he didn't hear a thing. We go into the fire station and I find an MP5 that has just spawned in the last 10 minutes by the looks of it, lock and load I drop my winchester, I want something for close range spraying in the city without ringing the dinner bell. My mate suddenly pulls aggro and I tell him just to run a loop around the fire station and crouch walk when neh comes out the other side... as he's running I hear the distinct noise of a zombie punching someone... I say are you bleeding? and he replies "Nah, I didn't get hit"... So I think odd... within a few seconds I hear a few more punches and then the loud scream of someone being eaten. I quickly run to the source of the noise and there is a survivor on the floor... normally I would finish him off or leave him as I play KOS but for some reason me and my friend were looking to interact with players in another way, I clean the zombies off him with the MP5 but this guys body is half glitched into the concrete fence panels. He's asking for help, pleading for us to not let him die, and I'm replying "Mate don't worry I've got supplies to get you up..." however I still couldn't find a way of interacting with his body and neither could my mate. He "says shit I'm dead" "Joe was killed" appears in chat and Iappologise profusely over VOIP to him. We search his body and find an MK48. NVG, GPS, M9SD and a few other goodies.. I was a bit stunned considering he didn't shoot to defend himself. We take his good stuff but leave the MP5 with 3 mags, food and water for if he did find his corpse again he could survive - the stuff we "Looted". We decide to cheese it out of cherno and head towards balota and considering running up the west of the map soon after hitting the airfield but not long after leaving cherno I hear gun shots...I look over and see someone being chased by a zombie, I stand up lock and load and get ready to waste that zombie and then... then I see a survivor chasing the first human and spraying his Mak at him, I hesitated on who to shoot, the zombie or the bandit? Then the first human dies... "Joe was killed..." both me and my mate were a little disappointed... we failed him twice in the space of 15 minutes I actually felt really bad. I start running towards this guy and get within around 300m of him and just open fire on him with the MK48, the guy shits himself and logs but I quickly checked the lobby and he logs back on almost immediately as soon as I see him reappear I'm spraying more than I would on CS Surf, the guy hits the deck, neither of htem had anything interesting and we decide to hide both bodies to forget about such tragic events for both us and Joe. We move to Balota airfield and we spent some time surveying the area before moving towards the hangars and I see that the zombies are spawned at the far end using peripheral vision and we approach cautiously, after around 10 minutes of slow moving and scouting we see the first signs of someone, a guy running rapidly in the hopes to chain the zombies away. A few gun shots came from his direction and me and my mate got a bit spooked so we were ready to KOS when he appeared. The guy finished looting the small industrial building next to the hangars and started crawling under the concrete barriers.... I tell my mate I'm going to open fire as he's telling me what he's doing whilst looking down his CZ550... I do a small burst with my MK 48... "Joe was killed" We both felt like shit :( Could be a boring story but at the same time it is a unique one that I will probably remember for a long time, something of the same calibre as my friend saving me from a Talon jet in BF2142 by squad spawning his pod onto the helicopter without even realising.

I do like that potential bandit skin with the Bandanna or black scarf over the players mouth/nose with a hood up... looks a bit more yobbish than the headscarf my player decides to wear at the moment, I mean seriously is he trying to avoid sun burn or something with an extremely odd wrap.

I saw the topic title and thought... When to KoS? When you see them... At the moment I kill anyone I see given the opportunity, if they're near me there is a chance I will get killed so I kill them first. However if theyve got no long range weapons and I'm at a distance I will usually ignore em. Had some guy who I think was creeping up on me and my mate today, he got knocked unconscious by zombies and asked for help over VOIP I tried but he died... saw he had quite the gun and equipment but was literally around the corner from us when he got knocked down and didn't fire off a shot. Even that makes me think... if I hadn't of killed him when I saw him I would of got killed myself due to his loadout and suspicious actions by not firing back at the zombies. The only time I would hold fire is if I saw someone in a hero outfit in Cherno/Elektro, if I saw them elsewhere I would kill them but in the cities I feel like there is a high chance they'd be offering assistance to people... though the people they offer assistance to might kill me and therefore it would be better if said person didn't receive assistance... Its a vicious circle and for those small moments I meet other people outside my group usually the easiest and most secure decision is to kill them. I think having no side chat has made it even harder to meet other people inside a server, the distance people need to get to use VOIP makes me feel insecure I would prefer that our initial contact was long range to begin with.

Depends what you determine the size by, the EU uses staff count and turnover to gauge the "Size" of an enterprise. The amount of games BIS have sold recently ontop of that past performances I wouldn't be surprised if their turn over launched them quite high up. On top of that, they're both game companies... both companies are in the console and PC market. I'd be surprised if BIS didn't see this an opportunity to milk it and gave Rocket something nice and special to ensure he stayed with them for the stand alone game. For maniacmike or probably others that haven't actually seen the point of this I'll reiterate it... Consoles are under powered compared to PCs, therefore the amount of stuff in a game (Map Size, Player count, engine capabiltiy etc) will need to be limited to allow it to be a console port. Now the problem is and using BF3 as a prime example. Apparently the PC was the lead platform but it shifted to the console market... what happened? The PC version also had to suffer some of the limitations of the consoles and since they were producing the same game they didn't alter the maps for both platforms. BF3 has the same maps but just more control points on the PC, not much different, key bindings are screwed up, destruction is terrible. So basically, next time... open your eyes and read. TLDR: Console ports tend to limit the content, quality and overall satisfaction of a PC game due to limitations of said console. Seriously what a retarded point to make, Tell me again how your credit card details are safe with PSN...

You must laugh... with only 6 people though do you really need to hoard that many vehicles? I know you say its your own server but seriously that is quite excessive. I wouldn't be surprised if people don't sit around for long on your server if you have them mostly hidden. Though you said you found it, keep in mind you can still hide them off the map as long as you keep accessing it... so if it ever goes missing again!

I seem to find I catch aggro from insane ranges when I changed from a crouch stance to going prone. I can be running straight up and when I lie down then I aggro though... its very strange. If you aggro, run to a bush/pine tree immediately crouch when you get to the other side, if there is a enough distance they will lose you. In a city it is so easy, you just run into a house out the other door and crouch walk away.

Cooked meat is the best... If I ever find food on the floor (Beans etc) I will eat then and leave my meat in the back pack. It is the solo mans blood bag.

I got 34 days, Had somewhere around 400 zombies killed as I liked to play quietly I tried to avoid engaging them and a handful of murders but no bandit kills, Died with an DMR and M4A1CCOSD because my mate tried to shoot one zombie that was chasing me with his AK74SU and instead got a perfect headshot on me. I helped many friends start the game by running them safely through the main looting towns up from the shore to the NWAF, equipped them up, joined a clan and much more and yeh accidental shot ended it... got to about 10 days on my next character after that with around 110 zombie kills but about 12 murders and a bandit kill (9 of the murders were snipers at Elektro) and the other was two I sniped myself and the final one was some guy who fired at shot at me on the NEAF and got swarmed by zombies... I killed the zombies he's unconcious asking me on VOIP can you heal me? I ask him why he shot at me and he said honest he was after the zombies, I said this one was meant for the zombie too *headshot*. He later died due to a hacker lost an L85, Mk48 and all tools etc, respawned within a few minutes I managed to kill a hacker (I spwaned right near where I got killed , they teleported onto me) killed him picked up his SVD/ghillie M4 SD, killed two people with the SVD and felt like I was cheating, went onto an empty server waded into the sea dropped all my equip, went back onto my clan server and rolled off a random roof in cherno to die. Refused to pick up anything interesting, picked up an M14 aim from someone who tried to shoot us at a deer and found a helicopter (marked it on the map and the server was shut down within a few minutes lol, later killed by a hacker along with the rest of the server not long after that) until today myself and I were looting in cherno and I could hear what I thought were M249 rounds firing off but not at me. About 15 minutes later as we were at the Firehouse I told my mate I swear I could hear someone being hit by a zombie, then I heard the screams of someone being eaten. I stood up and ran to where it was coming from and blasted the 3 zombies that were doing it. I could partly see the guys legs but I couldn't see his full body to give him a blood bag or anything. I was telling him over VOIP I'm trying to save him but he unfortunately died. We looked through his body to find an MK48 NVG,GPS but the Coyote starter pack... could only assume he found it off a dead hacker or scripter. Me and my friend had deduced that he was creeping up on us because I had heard at least 3/4 zombie punches and he hadn't fired off his weapon so we're thinking he was creeping on us to kill him. We loot his corpse and run to balota... within moments I hear someone firing a mak, look over someone being chased through a field by a zombie and a player. The first guy dies... Its Joe! the dude we tried to save... the guy standing over him got what was coming... Flung a few MK rounds at him... he logged instantly but seemed to log back on almost as quick so I finished him off again. Whilst we looted the valuable items on Joe we left an MP5 with 3 clips, 2 cans of beans, two cans of coke and a pair of binoculars... maybe he found his corpse.... Ive been killed by hackers a lot but for the time that this game isn't full of them I usually thoroughly enjoy them, I enjoy it a lot more when playing solely around the big cities, sure there are a lot of snipers but at the same time there is a lot of cover. When I get whacked by an AS50 round I'm dead but I haven't lost much, On another note my friend managed to get an AS50 sniper with a CZ550 from 550m who was on the roof off a cherno building (In a ghillie lol) he logged whilst his headless body was dropping to the floor. TL:DR Been killed a lot by hackers, since then refused to go much further than the coast and refused to get attached to any of my gear... not because I might lose it through PvP but because I'm almost guaranteed to die by a hacker at least once a day.

I find on heavily populated servers I can be waiting 5 minutes for my character to appear in game on 2.5, it seems to have got worse than 2.4, each time I log in my Humanity is completely forgotten and it sits at 0 (with bandit skin) and after 5 minutes it changes to a normal dude. Then when I log out and back in I'm a bandit again...

I think you're avoiding the point entirely... I have no doubt they could make Arma 2 or Arma 3 or any spin off work on the console... though my concerns and many other PC enthusiasts is at what cost in the game development would that port come at. People aren't screaming "NO WAY DON'T GO ON CONSOLE PC ONLY WAAAHHH" and if they are they're being douches, I don't mind if it goes to console what I do mind is that it takes priority in development. I have a 360 and I play a few games here and there on them but when I want a proper gaming experience I turn to my PC. If consoles took priority in development then the PC version will likely suffer... and thus this is where many concerns are being raised... BF3 is an absolutely prime example, even looking at Skyrim, it had huge potential on the PC and in some ways it does but as someone pointed out before the key mapping is just diabolical on that game.

He is developing it with a large corporation (BIS), he ain't doing this entire thing solo and I'm pretty sure it would be in their best interests to rake in as much money as possible. Announcing a console release version means they will be trying to go for that... the pattern for nearly every game that has had a split release is to focus on the console and that pattern more often than not causes a game to be lower quality than it could be on the PC I can't imagine Zhinto or whatever or any of the leader Dice developers would of wanted BF3 to be shafted so much, they probably didn't even envision Battlelog at the beginning. So, if you think this one man is actually in control of everything and that Bohemia interactive are giving Rocket a blank cheque to do this project... Do humanity a favour and remove yourself from the gene-pool. This is also my opinion, however I have little faith that will be the case... only hope.

Destruction is gimped, key binding is gimped (Look at the example of Air brake, an unbinded key but completely functional using BF3 mapper), the maps are actually gimped to shit. I mean seriously, Caspian border is not suitable for 64 players, the maps aren't that much different, the PC has more conquest points on certain maps and a slight amount more of accessible area... Lets say Gulf of Oman on the Xbox is easily 90% of the size of the PC map it just doesnt have all the conquest points on the shore but you can still go there... (Hotel for example, PC is it a CP and if memory serves me correctly on the Xbox you can access the roof, run around but it isn't a CP so the map is effectively the same...) you can play 24 players on that and still have action everywhere... PC... they ramp the number up to 64 but the actual map size doesn't increase they just slap a few more spawn points down and what you get is an utter shit fest. I honestly can't believe you are calling it an imaginary threat, play some of the previous battlefields and you will see what it has done to the series. I did however enjoy Bad Company 2 and thought it was a good balance between short and medium range combat but the solid Battlefield series was all about all over combat and they gimped that due to limitations of the Console, they were hardly going to create 2 versions of Caspian Border or Operation Firestorm were they? If you can't see the limitations the console release imposed on BF3 and would likely be the same for Dayz you are blind. I do agree I believe the game would function fine on the console but I think that the cost of that would be the PC version would be much shitter than its potential. Perhaps this choice was taken to ensure the competition from WarZ won't damage their income.

How many people playing DayZ on the PC are playing it on a 7 year old machine? ...because that is what it will have to do for the Xbox... I haven't seen a good AAA game on the console for a while, the limits imposed by the consoles are poor. I mean this might be a bad example but even look at some thing as basic as Fifa, it apparently plays at 720p but the picture quality is shocking, put it on the PC and already you see the image is much sharper and clearer even on my 4 year old laptop it excels. Even the destruction on BF3 is poor because of the limitations of an Xbox/PS3, PCs would be able to easily replicate buildings collapsing (like BC2) instead BF3 destruction is worse... than a previous game in the series because of it. Lol, 24 player cap... a smaller map too? The PC master race isn't butt hurt because it will be on console, they/we are butt hurt because they know that the PC game will have to suffer for the sake of the console release. If DayZ standalone ended up targeting the masses (the console market, because it is obviously a larger sector) then the game will be developed for that sector, they would stop their build at 24 players and their maps suitable for that size... they've made their profit the PC players can just "enjoy" the mutilated husk of what was once a good game series (BF3). I mean come on... look at the maps on BF2 even BF1942 had bigger maps than BF3 has, they mutilated the entire series for the sake of console sales... clearly money orientated but Rocket has come across in way he appears to be thinking Game first Money second Then he gets maserati Develop for PC with console in mind > Game suffers > Money first > Maserati > Game is somewhat raped.

No you just have your credit card details hacked. The only 'deluded' people here are those that thinkcurrent consoles are powerful and sufficient to even play games on a similar level to the pc, the game will have to be toned down to work on a console, which would more than likely tone down the pc version.

Just a quicky, the reason they can run 'current' games is because they are down graded, lets look at bf3 map size, player count and graphics... all massive downgrades compared to the pcs, console can play at a whoppng 720p where as the pc can easily play 1600 or 2440, ye the pc is still pulled downed by the console with key bindings, vehicles and updates.... Consoles are not powerful, they just have games made to be suiable for that gen, pcs only games tend to have a large room to play with especially with up to date tech, not 7 year old crap