Momiji

Weirdest thing that happened to me was organizing a team deathmatch with a bunch of friends in the elektro industrial area. During the setup one of the guys got sniped so we set up and started looking for the shooter, i took overwatch on top of a building, i went away for a second to check the map since there was no sign of him/her, when i come back to the game the guy is just staring at me. Needless to say i panicked and emptied my m4 into him, then we went on with the deathmatch.

I don't particularly mind the spawn but for a few reasons i don't view it as the best of the spawns you can get. It's a shortish trip to Zelenogorsk which is a nice stop, but more often than not i seem to run into the people refilling basic supplies for their camps since the forests west of Zele are pretty popular for camps (Haven't player for awhile so not sure if this is still true). As said though, depends where you're heading, pretty horrible if your going for the cities, good for heading north though, if you get unlucky and aren't geared up for the NW then it's a bit troubling. Every spawn has it's merits, 3 valleys is still dreadful though.

Using the L85 frequently as the spotter in my groups overwatch team, the op complaints are just really whining. Thermal scope is the draw to it, though it is easily countered by walking behind something, glass, a bush, a tree. If you aren't in LoS the thermal won't see you. The effective range is 300m, 200m if you use SD rounds in it. If you get killed by an L85 at plus 300m you would have been killed by just about anything else. The scope takes up a large portion of your first person FOV, you can only hip fire in CQC because of the scope as well. Carrying the L85 with a sniper is not the most effective method to take out targets but if you can be seen by an L85 you can be seen by everything else, sniper rifles can see through glass though so that's a one up on the L85. L85 is basically the counter to ghillie suits, if everyone was forced to play with shadows on, Ghille's are practically invisible, hard to spot from a distance when using an M24 or SVD. L85 counters the advantage they have. As has been said, the gun itself is rare, duping has skewed everything but once that is gone in the standalone, it won't be so widely used as there are much better alternatives. It is outclassed in all ways except as a spotting weapon by just about every other rifle, we use ours exclusively as the spotter weapon on overwatch, rarely does it get fired. It's not the end all be all weapon people seem to think it is, just remember if you can be seen by an L85, you can be seen by a regular sniper as well.

Listen to interviews from Rocket, Day Z can't do anything about them, that's Battleye and BI's department.

Curious how the two door buildings are an exploit, i don't really consider it to be one. To each their own anyway, i just run through towns, i know what i want before i go in, get it as fast as possible and then leave. Sneaking has gotten me killed more often in my experience, me going at a snails pace makes for a great target for snipers. Unless you don't go into high value places at all and hit small towns only. Ammo isn't a problem really, Makarov as a zombie killing gun is plentiful enough, considering zombies drop mags for it on occasion. I'll go slow if a player is around, otherwise i just go fast, less time in a town the better i guess for my playstyle. Beauty of DayZ you play how you like, rushing works for me rather than sneaking. Not that i don't have patience, i just choose when patience is required. I'd call disconnecting to despawn zombies an exploit, walking through a building just doesn't seem like one to me.

Two causes i can think of. You clicked on a private hive server or you got killed before you loaded in completely. Most likely the first one.

Only thing you ever need to do as a precaution is drop your backpack, no need to remove any items from it, i've had 3 Ghillies and 5 Camo's since the patch and before (Player camps) and dropping the backpack was all i needed to do (Half the time i didn't bother and nothing bad happened anyway). Perfectly safe, just drop the backpack as a safety precaution.

Tents despawn after not having anything placed inside or removed for a period of seven days, we had 2 of our extra tents disappear after no one used them. Your own tents unless you leave them empty for a week will always pop back up after a restart even if you pack them up, if you pack up a working tent and place it somewhere else, next restart two tents will be up. That's if of course you get a tent to work at all. But they do despawn if they aren't used for a week in any way.

Gather the clan together, separate into teams and have a game of last man standing wins, then we hide all the bodies and start over from scratch.

My personal stupidest death was, Apparently my character had a bit of a balance issues, climbing out of a PBX, i'm thinking that M107 and backpack full of stuff maybe made him trip and crush his face on the rocks, legs got caught in a rock and broke and subsequently got chopped up by the PBX's motor. Least that's my hypothesis on dying getting out of a boat. My clan mates one was a little more hilarious. We were heading out to raid Berezino as a group of 7, 2 Overwatch, 5 looters. We run past the crashed boat at Rify and one of them decides to swim out to the boat to see if he can stand on it. Now here our group think as he got on the boat, he slipped on a barnacle or whatever, smacked his head on the deck and then got mauled by a shark or something and slowly bled out. The funny part was two of the group went full bay watch mode (Including slow motion due to swim speed) dragging his body slowly to shore where he finally bleed to death before we could help him. Shark theory comes from his body was bleeding from practically everywhere when we pulled him from the water.

Never actually saw any bad things when playing on side chat, recall one time running north and saw on there. "Who just shot me in NW Airfield?" "That was me, sorry" "Damn good shot that was, well done" Everyone seemed more friendly, the conversation was nice to distract from the running simulator, server actually had a community of sorts. Right now, 3rd Party is all the voip people use, Direct Chat is practically a death wish unless you have the jump on someone. (The sheer amount of idiots i've tracked and killed cause they were using Direct Chat, Proximity based volume is like a homing beacon) It'd be nice to have it, can live without it though, till it returns, teamspeak is all i use. Immersion isn't a big deal for me anyway.

The few servers i played with it on, were a lot more enjoyable to be honest. Trekking from the coast to the north is a lot less mind numbing when you can have a conversation with people. Course it can be abused with giving away camps, vehicles and whatever, but how many forum posts do we see with "Camp at xxx-xxx on Server XX" Hell i spent twenty minutes lying under a tree cause i was walking near stary and thought someone saying in side chat he saw someone in my area was me. Abuse happens enough as it is without it, don't see the harm in letting servers have communities, if of course they make mics not work with side/global.

The Sandbox. Along with the adrenaline rush combat gives in Day Z. Last nights session with my group was the best, my group, 8 players split up into teams of two. Each with a weapon of choice (Minus Snipers and L85). We headed into the Industrial part of Elektro and had a fight to the death, Grenades flying everywhere, flanking, supression everything went on until only one remained, The adrenaline rush after the first contact my team had with another was the best, the heart pounding events after my partner died were even better, Zombies were so much more threatening when you were trying to not reveal yourself in the end we all died, grabbed what gear we needed and hid our bodies, planning to have the little match again later. No game gives the same rush with playing, keeps me coming back every day for more.

No matter where you hide stuff, it'll be found, people dedicate a lot of time to finding camps and vehicles, they know where to look. Basically the place you decide no one ever goes to and is the best place,100% guaranteed 10 other people thought the same thing. Or will think it later.

1200m shots are not common place, most people can't manage 800m. Also forgot to mention, DMR can be used with night vision, best sniper in the game for versatility. Anyway on to the point. Duping is a problem yes, but the guns themselves are not. AS50 is going to kill you no matter what, not because of the gun but the .50 BMG coming from it, this round can tear a human in half from a fair distance. It is an Anti-Material rifle, designed for use on Military Equipment most commonly Vehicles, Infantry have no or minuscule chance of survival, get shot in the foot, you lose a leg etc. L85, This is not the end all be all weapon, it's range is pathetic unless your good at equating bullet drop, effective at 300m anything longer and you can get better accuracy elsewhere. Thermal is good for spotting sure, but lets see it's counters. Trees, Bushes, Glass and Buildings. It is nigh useless in close quarters because there are many better options for that situation, since it uses a scope, no aiming for you, hip fire is accurate to a point but you'd be better off with a FAL or Mk 48 if your going CQC. Duping is of course a problem, but teams usually only have 1-2 L85's, these guys don't shoot unless they are a solo overwatch then they have a back up sniper. I'll agree with the point made earlier, if these guns weren't here, complaints would go to the next high tier firearm, we'll end up at "Hatchet is to quiet, make it louder" at some point if they removed weapons because of complaints. In short, Get rid of Duping, but keep the weapons intact. Duping will have to waiting till Standalone though.