opticalshadow

there are, there are even constalations. you can navigate at night by using the north star.

the problem is, spawning with a weapon makes zombies fairly pointless early on, the other big problem i see, is it actually encourages spawn camping. right now its done for shits and giggles by people who are to afarid of dealing with higher end content, but you start giving people ammo, or other useful supplies, theres an actual value to killing them.

....yeah...

i was expecting shots at 800+ meters or something given how boastful you seemed.

to be absolutly fair you could replace the model with a russian rifle and have it do the exact same thing, all the weapons in the game could do that, but in the end it would still be a rifle in a barn with teh same dmg.

on youtube theres a few 3v3 and 5v5 level raids, theres also some decent larger groups taking control and holding areas (such as factories or airfield)

in one of the interviews radios, and radio stations were brought up, and rocket fell in love with it, going in depth about how importent it would be for a clan to control it and such, i think its a safe bet that our global communications will eventually return in the form of radios. some forms of communication do exsist in game if players are clever enough, morse code can be used effectivly with flash lights.

the problem with stating that any of the items in this game should be super rare, is that your talking about a landmass with multiple military instilations, after a global pandamic, which would deploy heavy military presence prior to total exstinction. there is absolutly ZERO reason that military grade items should be rare, given the fact that the military recently occupied the area extensively in a full combat mode.

the absolute only pro to duel weild i can think of, is not having to reload in the midst of a fire fight/zombie attack. but doing that i wouldnt be using both at the same time, if i could carry two guns, and bring one up as the other empties, maybe it might be worth it. for that matter, would love for some assult rifles to have twin mags.

i has one! its teh only item i absolutly must have a friend loot if i die, my characters have all had this can, its the only one ive yet seen. my goal has generally been getting a decent rifle so i can provide better overwatch, over 40 deer stands, a stary sober run, barn runs, nothing, not even a cz550. i havent made it to the airfield or found a crash site yet, ive been kinda escorting my buddies from spawn and such so no real time.

this will turn into a TCG i can see it now, or some form of currency, based on how good the players tag was. so much fun

if your temp is low youll get the shivers, if your character is coughing id say sickness is your problem. youll need heat if your to cold, and antibiotics for that infection, otherwise youll get stuck at 6k blood. if your not terribly far in the game might be less hassle to take the cowards way out.

contact one of the medics, though im not sure theyll meet you at the airfield..

while true, choppers are currently not in Day Z, they were heavily bugged at best rendering them nigh unoperatable, to the worse, outright killing players attempting to use them. they were removed from the game until they get fixed, there is no known ETA for their return.

ran down the coast twice last night for fun, got up to maybe 10 zombies to follow, went from olsha to elektro back to olsha, 10 zombies, ran though the cities, lumber mill, factory got zip

when their fixed

the thing new players need to learn to survive here, is they need to look EVERYWHERE. those trees? check em, the ridgeline 300m out, check it. you can give them a loot map, a camp map, and the best guns in teh game, it wont save their life. most of them will look right at a sniper, and miss him entirely. they NEED to learn how to be as omni aware as possible if they want to survive, pointing out common spots will breed a fasle sense of security which will only make the problem worse. once they learn how to look around, and how to observe, they will natrually be able to deduce where the best vantage points are.

isnt cherno and elektro already kinda doing this, by just exsisting?

they were removed because the fact players were going to sites and sending feedback because no heli was there. which was flooding the inbox for legitamite problems. the other problem is the number of crash sites kept growing, and eventually it would just become rediculous.

id also like to point out a large amount of bugs in day z stem fromt eh fact rocket does nto have source access, hes already stated alot of the bugs are easy to fix, but without source he cant do anything but try to run another script, in his very limited amount of space to do so, to try and counter the bug. teh arma 2 engine, which he cannot modify, has most of the blame for these terrible bugs. its easy to say fix it, its easy to give ideas how, but if it were easy, dont you think he would have done it?

send a pm to one of the medics on the medic thread, they can send someone out to you get you back up.

short of hacking, idc how he got the vehicles, he deserved them if he got them, plain and simple. hes hording them so what? theres nothing stopping anyoen from fidning them. if he didnt take it, someone else would, it doesnt matter who has them, someone will. it sucks they are gone too, we all lose things do to explots/bugs, ive seen groupd on youtube lose alot more at once due to alpha. never fun to see.

well rocket is from NZ, and from what i understand Z doesnt really exsist, they have Zed, so Z is a popular shortterm for zombies.

ahhh a man and his dew, ive found one singel can so long, never drank it, its been passed down though every life ive had, its the one item i have my friends be sure to loot, ill never get rid of that dew.

i imagine he either likes the current map, or sees it would be stalling actual development. as you know there are a plethora of bugs in teh game, haveing only one maps makes thigns simplier to diagnose and repair these issues. it also give players the exact same familure unchanging landscape, which allows testing easier. then theres the persistent issues. it might not be easily possible to add in a unconnected map, and still work properally with the hive, giveing errors logging in cherno and logging into elsewhere. rocket stated he wasnt much larger maps in the future, unless he absolutly has to (such as sqitching from arma 2 to arma 3) i dont see him doing any more maps, until hes ready to start working on his larg ones. as for the snipers, the map we have now is extreamly open, and snipers are already dominate in the landscape in theoretical power. but remember, large open areas are just as bad for a sniper, who has much less to hide with and conceal his vantage point.