Nam Otatop

Well this obviously isn't true as me and a friend haven't been south of Polona for 3 weeks now and everytime we play we get in a fire fight, hell we killed 3 players yesterday in Novy Sobor, Gvozdno and out in the fields between Devils castle and Novy Lug. That was on a 24 player server too so yes OP is correct, northern towns are all dead. I can think of 4 different incidents of running into players at Polona on 2 different servers in the last week. We have stumbled across 4 major campsites around Klem, Berezino and Devils castle, seen 2 people riding an ATV, stolen someone elses ATV at Gorka and had a standoff with a 3 man group in Gorka, chased a peddlebiking maniac at Novy Lug who combat DCed. So yeah, total ghost town.We've had much more player activity than this but it's all i can think of within the last 10 days or so. "There is no point in going into towns due to cooked meat and waterbottles" this is true of every town in the game once you do the standard Cherno run, of course that's if you're ignoring - tent spawns, ghillie spawns, GPS spawns, vehicle spawns, waterpumps, medical supplies. So once again you're right, visiting these towns is pointless.

As soon as i read "Lol u" i knew this was going to be bad.

Pointless mechanic, it is already easier to find normal food than it is to find an already dead player or to kill a living one. Animals are everywhere in the game and you can get to any supermarket in the game before you will die of starvation. You can survive with flashing red food for around 20 minutes, if you can't reach a supermarket or find an animal in that time you're incompetent.

Is anyone else having major issues with FPS since the 1.62 ARMA patch? Previously my PC handled everything on High just fine with no FPS issues whatsoever. Now i can't get more than 10 FPS even with all my settings on very low or disabled? The wierd part is, putting all the settings back to high doesn't make the FPS decrease either, Very low and High give the exact same unplayable FPS. I tried searching the forums but i don't see anyone complaining about this FPS issue specifically, i know it isn't just me since my friend has the same issue and he could run it smoothly on even higher settings than my own.

So these guys killed most their group memembers, banned them from TS and didn't bother to give an explanation until now? Wow, Black Lake too, not exactly a safe location for a camp given there is a vehicle spawn nearby, it's hardly surprising you got your shit raided.

Wait, so you say playing the game like this is 'hardmode' because your life is in the hands of another player, yet you say you mostly only approach unarmed survivors. What difficulty is there in that? Look out he's going to give you a beat down with his flashlight.

So, today was a very two sided day. Me and a friend had been camping out up north for nearly 2 weeks now, only to lose everything in our tents to a bug this morning. We decided as a result, to go to Berezino and get our hands on some new tents, what we found? A tractor, an ATV, M4A1 CCO, MP5SD etc, nothing amazing, but certianly worth a pickup. My friend drives the ATV up to our camp only for it to freak out and flip on its side, dissappearing and taking everything we found with it. Not disheartened we decided to go on a run for some heli sites to fill up our tents. What did we find this time? LA85 AWS, FN FAL with mags, m107 with mags. Pretty neat stuff, we head up to camp and store it all in our tents before logging out for awhile to get stuff to eat. On logging back in, everything in our tents was gone AGAIN, but not to a bug this time. We saw about 100 meters away, a new tent that wasn't ours. Now this is where it gets intresting. We notice the tent is in the dead open with a perfect line of sight from a small opening, we deduced it was bait and someone was waiting in the opening out of our line of sight. We head up to a treeline and take a 5 minute journey round to an angle in which we can see into the opening but not be spotted ourselves. Using the majoryly OP LA85 AWS scope we find out there's no one there and decide to head for the tent. Inside we find some mediocre loot, DMR mags, anti biotics, lots of medical supplies but nothing of any real value and nothing from our tents. We decide to pack up our tents and move north. Not 5 minutes later we're running up a hill when my friend stops dead "Holy fuck, you have to be kidding me", i can't see what he's looking at. I swivel around and then i see it, an offroad pickup truck, an ural and a green truck i've never seen before surrounded by about 30 tank traps. We cautiously approach, once again abusing the L85AWS to spot people, nothing again. We move in *chink* the notorious sound of a coke can opening. I nearly jump out my skin as my friend lets off 5-6 rounds from his L85 without saying anything. *Soldier was killed*. We move in, even more cautious now incase he had friends. We calm down and begin searching the vehicles, we can't believe what we find. 4 AS50s, 2 SVDs, 2 L85s, 3 rocket launchers, 16 bear traps, 40 ish silenced stanag mags, m240, mk 48 MoD, multiple versions of the m4 with various attachments, FN FAl with the night vision scope, 2 ghilli suits, gps, 2 NvGs and lots of RGO grenades. Giggling with excitement like 2 little girls we clear the tank traps, move them up the hill, put everything we want in the Ural and pickup before blowing up the green truck. We take the vehicles up near Guba thinking no one will bother looking around there. We park up, set up tents, get screenshots to brag to our friends with. I decide to log out for a minute as something is wrong with my UI. Not 30 seconds later my friend tells me over skype he's dead, 1 hit from close range. I decide not to log back on as the Setup completing phase will probably get me shot. So yeah, what a rollercoaster of a day, finidng rarities and losing them like it's nobodies buisness. Hope lady luck is treating the rest of you rather consistently :P

Yeah, a jynxed one though as we gained nothing from everything we found :P Our tents were visible but there was no option to access the gear inside so we just had to abandon it. Oh well.

You realise this game as a whole would be void without the PvP element? It would go from difficult to no challenge whatsoever. Zombies are already pretty much irrelevant, the only reason to sneak round them is to avoid alerting other players you're there.

Also remove zombies because they don't exist in real life and obviously this game is trying to mirror real life in every single aspect.