Mastiff (DayZ)

i think it is actually a joke, i see it on a few servers every now and then

I thin logging to avoi zed aggro is ok unless it is abused, ive spent hours creeping in this game and there is nothing more annoying than creeping perfectly tohave a zed glitch through a wall or door and kill you. Doing it to remove zombies from an entire area is a bit crap

What I find funny about this community is people whohave a legitimate complaint and good reason get shunned down by 'this is alpha!', aint the purpose of this alpha to highlight these issues or complaints.

would be interesting also if i could find a UK clan, been playing with a few friends but when theyre not on dayz is a bit dull

happened to me and a friend thevother day, we found out that hitting the very left window resulted in it breaking. Anywhere else was useless and wasted our time

i hink the popularity boom will slow down as development picks up pace, people try it play for a week and you can effectively be at the end game content. Whilst the population increase is impressive i think when dayz goes into beta or even when it adopts a MC pricing strategy will we really see how popular the game can become.

cant say i am surprised when i watch over people creeping into a town slowly and quietly only for them to magically trigger a handful of zeds through buildings, ive seen a lot more people who having done this go for a full sprint to where they want to go and then just log out and back in. whilst the zeds needed altering they needed fixing before being boosted

Hey... Basically I've been using enfields, AKs, M16s and others recently but I managed to get my hands on the common CZ550 which proved to be not so common for me. I'm familiar with the mildots on the M24 and other scoped rifles but when I look at the CZ550 I'm not familiar at all with the way of using the vertical markings. Am I right in thinking that the vertical lines are used to measure shoulder width and thus you gauge distance that way? Unless I have an accurate way of gauging distance I'm thinking this rifle might be a better off just using an enfield... So any idea? or guides? I've looked around but can't find a guide to such a scope. I'm not professional gun user either I've merely used mildots in other games. Edit: I prefer to play on Veteran servers rather than those that display tags and distance.

So basically if I was using this rifle purely for PvP and my M16 for PvE, humans are around 1.8m tall aren't they on this game standing? I need to be able to quickly calculate 1,800/mil dots and guess the rest?

I just rolled back to 1.7.1.5 because it works... and I am now enjoying DayZ again, a infection survival mod. Where as 1.7.2 is a loading simulator as someone else previously stated. Considering I got straight into 1.7.1.5 no problem I wouldn't be pointing the blame at the "Hive".

I know how to zero in obviously but I'm struggling to judge distance and thus it starting to feel a bit useless at times. To the previous responses the CZ550 doesn't have the traditional mildots it seems to have vertical lines to the sides, I was under the impression it was to do with shoulder width but I heard that on the grapevine.

I guess that is what is expected in an Alpha testing stage that patches introduce bugs but I think they really need to take steps of fixing previous issues before introducing new ones without even attempting to fix problems. My problem is I can't seem to find any server in the UK That is using .2 so many are still on .1.5 and I'm tempted to see if I can roll back some way so i can get on them. I'm not liking the idea of logging in and getting killed by zombies instantly, I logged around 300m from a deer stand.

I wouldn't say it as extreme as you have put it but once you have found a hatchet, water bottle, box of matches and hunting knife you have completed the "survival stage" against zombies. The rest of the survival only really applies on highly populated servers, its so easy to last an entire day without seeing another play whilst running even the NWA if you play low population. Some people enjoy the rush of surviving against aggressive players + zombies but I agree once you have got to the point you are "surviving" the only really progressive stage from there on is to hunt other players... at least that is what I am doing now and it adds another swing on things.

Also remember trying to crawl into a city with a broken leg, you're going to have a bad time. Realistically you need to do it at night time on a quiet server or the best case scenario you make a friend and get him to get you morphine. I have quite an abundant supply of it due to the fact my friend broken his leg recently and neither of us had morphine and so I did the honourable thing... shot him in the face and ran to meet him with his gear. I've considered being a helpful chap and fetching morphine for people but at the same time I always fear the thought of me arriving and being killed almost instantly and since I don't have a tent I have no where to leave my items for safe keeping.

I'm waiting for someone to rage at him because he logged off near someone... the madness! Or someone to accuse him of "ghosting" by logging in later on the camp... If that doesn't happen, I think the forum might have advanced a level. On the other hand, an interesting story. I like to hear about adventures people have, I know I was all over the place when I had my first long life character and I didn't know the map what so ever, I found all sorts. Now I know what I'm doing I can get fully equipped in like 30 minutes.

I was stunned to not see caps lock enabled at any point throughout his post. Are you even sure the server was connected to the Hive it might of even been a custom server?

I would like an answer similar to that... My friend frequently go onto a server when its night time due to it being easy to see (its not solid black) but we're still playing night time rather than 24/7 day light. Anyway.... This server as cross hair enabled, target tagging and interestingly a very active map. Now I can look at my friend and he appears as "Man" and then after some time he might appear as "Sniper" or "Rifleman", on occassions this has led to me discovering a guy lying in a bush in the middle of a field (Lol I know) by chance I was looking at my map saw "Man" and he was too far away to be a zombie and I thought it would be a low chance an animal would be sitting in there. I left him... by the way. On top of that if you open the map you can see people who have put markers down, last night I saw "Derp" written down near a town and then I wrote "Herpa" because I'm cool like that. Finally... my friend and I set out to run around 6KM across the map during the night under the cover of darkness to go for medical supplies, I used "Shift + L Click" to place a waypoint, my friend said he instantly saw that way point appear on the map. Does that mean everyone else in the server sees it as well? Or does it only allow people who are standing next to me to see these sort of way points?

I'm not sure, I've owned arma 2 for around 20 months so its not like I went out and bought it for DayZ, although I did have to buy Arrow Head.... so I wonder if that is more popular now...

Shit just got real

You're bad at trolling. Move along. Is this marik dude for real?

No idea... As answered before, Cross hair on/off, the gold one... I have wondered the exact same, I've only ever seen one or two in the last week, at first I thought it meant a server I've already been on but.... The main problem I have with Six is sometimes I can connect to a server, and then 3 minutes later my mate can't find that server on Six... I say no u lie, look server has vanished... though the server is showing fine on the in game browser.

I have to admit the loot system does need a revamp other wise it does encourage this sort of farming and whilst I don't participate in it myself I can see the benefits. Everyone says this is a survival game blah de blah, I agree it is and Rocket promotes the meta gaming but I've said it before and I'll say it again... a game of this standard begins to blur the lines between what is acceptable and what is not. It reminds me like 10 years ago when I use to play Runescape classic and everyone server hopped to mine that fabled rune ore under the heroes guild, everyone server hopped because that's what respawn timers encourage. It might be a game but at the end of the day when there are large timers involved a lot of people want to avoid them so that they don't spend most of their free time doing demeaning tasks like searching for enough tins of beans or that gold dust that is known as "box of matches". inb4 game isn't for you, noob etc etc.... face it, there are so many aspects of this game that are similar to other games and thus they have the same "tactics" or what many people on this forum refer to as "exploits".

Someone said sprains... I think that would be interesting, perhaps painkillers can numb the damage from a sprain but can't heal it only over time. Broken bones should be reserved for something more severe, although dropping a floor is... depending how much gear you have would depend on whether your legs break or not. However I've had two moments of madness, one I went to go up a set of stairs and instead I actually ran through them until my head was the only thing above the stairs and then I broke my legs, passed out and died quickly after. Another, I went to climb over a fence near a dear stand, I climb over my character is on the other side... I go to move, *SNAP* left lying on the floor miles away from anything... Respawn

Well its assuming when we die we play the same character but he is rebirthed, who is to say when we respawn we are not representing another survivor? Thus making the finding our own body issue less disturbing.