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It gives coords for deerstands and the airfields. according to a dayz mythbusters video.

I think 2 types of vest, and no helmets would be good. Similar to what Vindicator posted above, but I also think you should get a default 5 sec knock out timer on first impact for anything except pellets, with no blood loss.

I lost gear to a hacker, and the next day, a guy picked me up on an ATV and I told him my story. Next thing I know, he spawned my old gear in my bag, plus extra stuff. That's how I discovered I met a "friendly" hacker. Long story short, I refused to play with him, and burned everything he gave me that was "extra" (AS50, Ghillie....) in a fireplace. I still have the replacement gear on my 16 day old character now though. I feel a little guilty about getting my rifle back this way, I had most everything back again even before meeting the hacker, and I dropped the M9SD he gave me for a PDW I found eventually. I guess my precious M16ACOG "shouldn't be". :(

Yeah, so needing a good scare and being a little inspired by the urban legends I decided to make a quick night time visit to Green Mountain tonight. I rolled up from the NE and parked 125m from the tower, in the woods. Standing near the road, I watched from less than 100m away as nearly 10 freshly spawned zombies began to disperse. Only 2 of them were walking in my direction, which just seemed odd. Almost as if there was something else for them just on the other side of the hill. I headshot one zombie with my PDW, and he falls. I headshot the 2nd zombie walking towards me, and he keeps walking. Another headshot, still walking. 4 fast rounds center mass, doesn't even flinch, WTH!? At this point, I thought I heard my character make an usual and faint moaning sound, but I chocked it up to hearing the sound Zombies make when being shot. Zombie number 2 finally aggroes from the sound of the gunfire as he has closed almost half of the gap between us. I back up towards my bike, reloading, my first round from the new clip finally drops him. I stood there for a moment confused. Something wasn't right. There was no more Zombie aggro, and at that moment, not even a zombie in sight, but I felt like the mountain itself would swallow me up at any moment. Just at the peak of my most irrational moment my character DID let out a very distinct and unusual fear laced moaning sound. Which freaked me out, 400%. Now I remembered Dreganius speak of intense infection after visiting Green Mountain, and fearing the moan was a sign of exposure, and thoroughly scared, I hastily mounted my motorcycle and flew off the mountain to relative safety. After this, I decided that heli crash sites and deer stands would be a much better way to spend my evening. I searched 12 heli crash spots and no heli's found, and 6 deer stands with 1 stanag clip from a zed for my trouble. No coughing, so I guess I'm not infected. *phew*

I've had the same self repairing glitch spawn motorcycle for almost a week now. I'll be sad when it's gone.

I did not have any problems with artifacts for quite awhile, and now I see them more and more. Today I found most military locations unapproachable. Rockets twitter made it sound like the fix is a priority.

Hey, "thatguy" (in game name). Is that you with the pickup truck, shooting at me at the NE airstrip as I rode up on my motorcycle? Are you stalking me? I'm not leaving that server until vehicles are fixed so, I guess... catch me if you can.

Fun video. Thanks.

I don't need to force quit, if you never find me. 2 weeks in, and I'm getting nervous. 800+ kills, I would like to see 1,000. Someone took some shots at me just 2 days ago.... When some murderer see's me before I see them, I could easily be killed. And if I am shot and killed, so be it. Come to think of it, if it wasn't for hacker death 2 weeks ago, my character would be going on a month old. I haven't been in a PvP exchange in almost that long.

You're not paranoid ENOUGH IMO. I recently had contact with another player for the first time in a week. In the form of 2 shots whizzing past me as I rode away from Stary on my motorcycle. I'm staying hidden until this whole apocalypse thing settles in a little more. Current character going on 2 weeks. Edit: to say, I would like to see a Mountain Man skin. No other player contact within 40m, and you look like ted kaczynski. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Theodore_Kaczynski.jpg/220px-Theodore_Kaczynski.jpg

Thanks to all devs, and others involved with this amazing game. I anxiously await every iteration of DayZ, and look forward to testing as much MMO Survival Horror as you guys will let me get my hands on. Keith Moon wanted to see Anne Margaret bathed in beans and chocolate, so this scene in the movie Tommy was born. For you all bean kings, I give you your Queen.

These are my new favorite threads. See yuh!

I do everything you say there, EXCEPT I will loot a tent for something I need, or take a vehicle if I don't already have my own. The only tent I have griefed was full of hacked items. Fact is, even if I take something from a tent, I often leave something in it's place.

TL;DR http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/56-dayz-stories/ Sooo many extraneous threads.... :(

No Jinx, I blame you for not having the strength to stand behind your convictions.

Yeah, patch to be released "after September 6th" is the vague target date given.

Bandits are scum, and will eventually be dealt with accordingly. Good luck.

I died to a hacker once personally. My play style and server choices help me to avoid them. I play for 2+ hours at a time without a scripter or even seeing another player. I feel for all of you dying this way all the time, I'm sure it's awful. But maybe if the skiddies scatter, the CoD kids will stop KoS, and DayZ may revert to a state of co-op and more dynamic play once again. And then when stand alone goes live, the douch baggery will resume again.

I'm becoming complacent. I found a very sleepy server where I know a motorcycle glitch spawns on reset. I've been circling the map killing zombies, collecting ammo for my m16ACOG and PDW, and I had not seen another player in most of a week. (king of da castle, king of da castle!) Today I rode up to Stary military tents, as usual, the UAZ was pointlessly sitting there, it's Red today.... how nice. Clearing the tents I was fairly happy to have found stanag and PDW rounds, and proceeded to perch myself overlooking the tents to pick off the zombies meandering below. After a few long minutes of killing zombies, I hopped back on my motorcycle and began to head NE meeting up with a treeline. Just as I am approaching the treeline, riding at nearly 50mph, sniper rounds zip past me, 1 on my left, the other to my right, both seemingly very close to their mark. I began weaving the bike erratically to avoid any other rounds, until finally disappearing into the treeline. That was my first contact in 6 days. I think I got very lucky, and picked the exact right time to leave Stary, just as some murderous bastard entered. And to the "sniper" who didn't get my motorcycle, my tasty gear, or my 12 day old survivor..... :P

"Your vote has been validated. Thank you!" Well deserved.

Though I like the idea of the random lucky high damage very rare shot with any firearm. I do not think it would impact KoS much, except to add a random element on both sides of the equation.

No. I play often but if someone wants to pick up DayZ infrequently, and not care much what happens to their character, that's fine too.

Dude, go play something else already. You're obviously not enjoying DayZ. Rocket owes you nothing, despite what you may think.

I actually do like Rockets ideals for gaming. Like most of my favorite game producers, there's a real passion to do something exceptional in what he is trying to create. His posts and online persona seem to be the product of someone who isn't afraid to speak his mind, or cow tow to a particular group. It's obvious that a large amount of talent has sprung up to support him in this effort, including people who came up through this community. I prefer Rocket to stay focused on the most important goal of the stand alone, and would likely be best served only gleaning suggestions from this board now, rather than spending his time fielding questions about dog functionality, and drying QQ eyes after hack death, or glitch rage.

wow, im surprised someone hasn't yelled at you yet for "vehicle hoarding".