Woodland Creature

I can't wait for tents, hunting, campfire cooking and all that good stuff. As my name would suggest I intend to spend more time in the woods living off the land, or maybe living off the critters that live off the land. Only venturing into towns for bog rolls, gas and batteries so I can kick back and night and write my culinary opus, 1001 Squirrel dishes.

My first thought on seeing the title of this thread was to post a picture of the infamous Holy Hand Grenade, but someone beat me to it. Gotta love Monty Python.

I've damned near shat my pants over my own shadow before now. Creeping down some stairs past a window with the full moon shining through it. As I turned to head down the next flight of stairs I see this silhouette at the bottom, about half a mag later I notice that my target still hasn't dropped and that I'm not getting shot at. Felt a bit foolish when I figured out what I was shooting at.

I like the idea of being able to keep a journal so that my killer will read them or possibly use the pages as bog roll, who knows. But I think it's far more likely I'll end up writing stupid notes like nonsense shopping lists for stuff like skyhooks, dehydrated water, long weights, zombie repellent, that sort of thing. Or nonsense maps. <=== You are here... But all the good shit is waaayyyy over here ===>

300 seconds might be a little too long but I'm in agreement on 30 seconds being too short.

I'm all for the current system, at least until something better shows up. However, I'm not a fan of being dumped back at the server screen right away. I would keep everything about the current system but include the ability to see my character for those 30 seconds. So once I hit that Exit button, I see the timer ticking down knowing that there's nothing I can do to effect the timer or defend myself in any way (just the same way it functions now) but I can still see my dude picking his nose or scratching his butt or whatever for those last 30 seconds until the server finally boots me out and drops me back at the server selection screen. It's more of a peace of mind thing for me as I'm one of those people that constantly wonders about their keyless car door locks and keep wanting to go back and check to see if it's actually locked. But yeah, other than the slight uncertainty of whether my character is alive or dead right now, I love the new system. Combat logging was never really a problem for me (nearly 40 hours in and still never seen another player to shoot at or get shot by) but server hoppers really pissed me off. I spent many an hour carefully picking my way across the map avoiding everything that might look at me in a funny way only to have someone magically *poof* into existence, hoover up all the good stuff then *poof* gone again.

This is the second time the OP/attention whore has posted that vid claiming that it was filmed in DayZ/Chernarus when it's clearly Takistan, It's no less fake this time that it was the first time round.

I'm gonna go with the "I don't give a rat's hairy arse about the cost, just shut up and take my money" opinion.

Attention whore fail? No deserts in the DayZ map.

There are many ways to see at night, flashlights, military flashlights, chemlights and flairs. There are even weapons with built in flashlights. You can also fiddle around with the video settings and turn the HDR settings to very high as well as messing around with your gamma and brightness settings. I'm not a fan of messing with the gamma and brightness but it's not for me to tell you what to do with your video settings. You can also wait for the moon to pop up, that'll lighten things up a bit making it much easier to see at night, unless you're in the middle of a forest. I don't have a set of NVG's and while I do have a weapon with a NVG scope, I prefer to stick with my silenced weapons when I go out at night, I honestly prefer playing during the night time hours mostly because I'm somewhat nocturnal but also because there are much less players lurking about to ruin your looting sessions.

All of the above, yeah I know that's not all going to happen in one patch but that's what I would like to see. If I had to pick one then I'd say... Decisions decisions... Sod it, All of the above. One patch to rule them all.

Rubbish! Managed it it a few times up on the hills of Electro and gave those camping snipers a couple of AK rounds in the back of the head. Also managed to go prone and catch another guy who was also prone heading across the NW Airfield a couple of nights ago. He was stopping every 30 seconds or so to check out the area with his binoculars which enabled me to catch up to him, must have stalked him for a good five minutes and he never knew I was there. He eventually had a rough idea where I was when I put 3 three round bursts from my M4A1 CCO SD into his poop chute from about 10 meters away. Probably could have got closer but I had two guys nears the hangers that couldn't move until the interloper was dealt with so I thought 10 meters was close enough. Thanks for all the medical supplies btw, saved us a trip to the hospital.

It's the sigh at the end that really made that funny. Nice find.

Your Arma 2 CD key is linked to the Steam account it was purchased with. Assuming you where using your own Steam account on the old computer, when you log into that Steam account on your new computer and download the Arma 2 stuff again the CD key that went with it will still be registered to the account, meaning you should still have your character. Do as one of the posted said above, after downloading both Steam and all the Arma 2 stuff, run both Arma 2 and Arma 2 OA before installing DayZ or it might not work.

203 'nades aren't that hard to find, especially if a large group has been farming military loot drops, I found quite a few on my travels and squirrelled them away for when I manage to find a weapon with the 203 launcher on it.

If you have a hunting knife, matches and a hatchet then you can go hunting for local wildlife, gut the bodies and cook the meat for 800 blood per meat steak. Rabbits and chickens give one raw meat, goats give three, boars give for, sheep give five and cows give eight raw meat.

That was pretty funny, nice one.

If they have two arms, two legs, a head, a torso and are holding any form of weapon, it's probably a Bandit. Or it's a bear. either way best to put a bullet into it, closely followed by another one.

You just have to play around with the zombies both during the day and at night to get a feel for how much you can take the piss before they start sprinting towards you. While you do have to be much more careful during the day it is still possible to sneak in and croutch walk through town going prone when one gets a little too close.

Permissions on bags? No. But loot spawned lock and key that can be used on bags? Could be interesting. The key could take one slot of personal inventory and using it could take X time to unlock. Could be both an advantage and a disadvantage. Advantage would be a more secure bag from everyone. Disadvantage would be the time needed to unlock a bag could be critical if you need to get into your own bag in a hurry. The sound effect idea is pretty good too.

It's not a bug as such. Just an unintended game mechanic that's been spotted by the dev team and left alone because it's useful. Sure you could go around pickpocketing other random players with it but you could also let your buddy take ammo from your bag while you keep a look out for hostiles. You can also add stuff to other player's bags too. The ability to access other player's bags is much better than dropping something on the floor for them to pick up, if you're in the forest then you might not be able to find the dropped item again.

Your corpse disappears after 15 minutes apparently so you'll either have to hotfoot it PDQ or get your team to loot your stuff and keep it for you. If you don't have a team then it's a good idea to start one or join one. You'll live longer if you have backup and if you do die, you have a pretty good chance to get your old kit back. Everything except worn clothing items that is.

Fatal accidents are fatal, run back to your corpse and go loot your stuff. Or get a friend to go loot it if you're not going to make it back there in time.

My character is an Omnomnomnivour, he'll eat and drink just about anything to keep him up and running. If there was a 'Gut Survivor' option on the scroll wheel, he'd take it.

Haven't had a bag eat anything yet but my tent is a hungry little bastard. It's eaten a toolbox, a military flashlight, blood bags, morphine injectors and other random bits. It doesn't seem to like the taste of my weapons or ammo. But yeah, gonna have to put that tent on a diet or it's gunna turn in to a two berth tent soon.