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Dying to zombies? Happens more this patch than previous ones. Not often but it's usually when trying to be cheeky and wrangle 6+ of them into something like a garage and just end up being corner blocked and mauled to death with nothing to shoot with. Zombies 1 hit KO'ing me also happens. That one is kind of bullshit.

There was a very lengthy and well written post a year or so back, that had tons of screenshots and possible solutions, so nighttime is nighttime, and not a 1930's movie because people crank up the gamma or mess with tools like Powerstrip which is your graphics card settings which the game has no way of controlling. The poster knew what they were talking about. I doubt it went unnoticed.

I hope not.

Long barracks in the shower room, on the sink. Dunno if they still spawn there, I don't really look for them anymore. They are useful for clearing out campers hiding in buildings, but I find them inconsistent.

Was at the military base in Zeleno with a friend and some freshy had picked up a ghili and was laying at the north west corner of the wall where there is high grass and debris. He was yelling "waaaah" when people approached the dead player next to him. Eventually we found him after laying 2 meters from him for a while. We let him live for making us laugh, his ghili did get ruined tho after we shot at him. Made a ghili once, and never again. We tend to play very aggressively and take many risks, so dying is likely. Creeping around in the bushes for hours is not for me.

I honestly don't see why zombies are a problem. Yeah, the hit detection is wonky at times, and lately they seem to have a habbit of aggroing back and forth between players in a weird and random way. They aren't a real threat in any way however besides alerting your position to other players. Either you shoot them and risk alerting more (if you got the ammo to spare) or just run from them and lock them inside buildings. Zombies should be the least of your concerns, so I guess they aren't the real issue here, it's probably you or how you deal with them.

The only reason I mainly play 3PP servers, is because I primarily play with a streamer and content creator. He plays it that way because it's easier to follow for the viewers. 1PP action is a lot slower paced, it feels more tactical, and satisfying as well. I like having an actual chance of spotting that guy looking at me, instead of him eyeballing me while prone and behind cover. The corner peeking thing just reminds me of how APB is played, which is not a good thing. My 2 cents.

Not sure when this change was made as I had a 6 month break from the game, but I take issue with not having access to the player list. Not so much for the list of names, but more to see how many people are actually on the server still, sine I dont find half empty servers especially thrilling.

Has anyone tested the volume of other players footsteps while they are crouched? I know it was somewhere around half the volume of regular running in the mod, but I cannot find any solid info regarding standalone. Your own character basically sounds like an elephant to you, but different to other players.

Can you elaborate on how footsteps work, or how they are supposed to work after the new sound module? I find it quite inconsistent at the moment. Sometimes you can hear people 3 floors down as if they were in the same room as you, other times you cannot.

It's actually kind of hilarious when you get KO'd out of nowhere by a freshie with the brass knuckles. Melee will most likely not get any major changes besides better hit registration and tweaking, and im honestly fine with that.

Some patches they are completely turned off by the devs, in others the amount are a bit overwhelming, and in some it's somewhere in between. Right now they seem to be kept at a minimum in most areas, but from time to time you run into an area that has quite a few of them. My guess is they are attracted by gunshots and sort of pool on the area the shot came from. They are obviously experimenting with the "zombie slider", which is what, you know, an alpha is for. Why they are as scarce as they are right now? Who knows, probably performance issues or testing.

Seems to me like you are already breaking the #1 rule in Dayz. But congrats on the phat lewt, enjoy while it lasts ;)

Officers tents spawn them. Officers tents are the.. well, green tents that has a door, and a few bunk beds inside. Both the AK101 and M4 can spawn in there. Your best bet is either the area with tents west of Myshkino, or the North West Airfield. I haven't seen an M4 at heli crashsites for a while, not sure if they spawn them at the moment.

They don't. At least not in the game, and it's pretty noticeable.

No, that would be too... Aw screw it. TIMMEH!! Probably the first time you heard that one, right?

Settle down Timmy. You don't need to explain me the difference between DayZ and Call of Duty, nor do you need to explain to me the survival aspect of the game. Not quite a veteran yet, but getting there. I'm not running and gunning, but i'm certaintly not just prone on sniper hill above Vybor military base, waiting for people. It bores me having to spend 15 minutes looking for that guy taking pod shots at me from past 500 meters. It's just a lazy "low risk, high reward" playstyle. I like a good gunfight, even tho it can be frustrating in the current state of the game.

And I could name countless situations where I was getting shot at, at it definetly wasnt instakill. Its a good weapon, I just prefer the MP5 myself, for the same reason I prefer the AK74 over the AKM, as many other people. The firerate. Ammo is also a whole lot more common, and it doesnt break down after 3 mags. Thats why you see ruined UMP's everywhere at military areas.

I'm gonna go with the extremely unlikely explanation and suggest that whoever you killed with the MP5, was bad. I know, it's unlikely.

I was merely poking fun at the opinion some people have, that the sniper is the top echelon of skill in FPS games. Snipers are a dime a dozen, It gets boring when everyone is sitting in a tree abusing the third person camera. Aint nobody got time for dat. I play in a squad, i'm rarely dying to sniperfire because i'm not he point man, but thats besides the point. Snipers camping in trees and far away hills, seem to be 2/3 of the encounters I run into, which is just boring. It is quite satisfying when you spot them and flank around to their back, but a good sniper wont be caught in this way. It's not scouting an area, it's flat out camping the same spots with overwatch on the same locations. They arent scouting out a location before they head in. They dont head in at all, because that would mean risking thier gear. They just sin in treelines. These players are typically overly cautios because they are attached to their gear.

NWAF, especially treelines surrounding the entire airfield. Lots of overly cautios "MLG L0n3 W0lF ApeX PredatoR" snipers up there enjoying their point and click mini game. You know who you are. Myshkino Tents (See above) On the western hill, far up, overlooking the entire area. People will know the exact range across from testing. You are not safe anywhere in that area. Tree foliage will give you no cover when spotted from that distance. Vybor base, Lopatino. Basically the towns surrounding NWAF, and the fields between the towns.

Same from my experience. Not worth ditching an MP5 over it.

I know quite a few girls in real life that play videogames. You'd be suprised at how many girls "come out" when they hear guy talking about games in the cafeteria over lunch. Most just does not confess to being a girl online, because they don't want guys stalking them online. Some definetly loves the attention tho. "Hai guyz, imma gurl, just so you know <3" Just the other day I was talking to some friends about games, and some girl started talking about how she plays a lot of XCOM. Some, it's more casual like The Sims or the occasional session of Battlefield. Others, it's CS:GO or MMORPG's. If we are talking DayZ, the group I usually play with, there is one. I've met one or two ingame as well. I used to play World of Warcraft, and most serious raiding guilds had at least a few girls in them, which often tend to cause drama because there are a lot of lonely neckbeards out there. It wasn't always the girls themselves, but more the fact that said neckbeards would fight over these girls attention. Many a guild breakup has been caused because an e-romance went south, or just pure jealousy.

I've only seen a boar in the wild a few times, and it's been a while. I think it was 0.57 but not sure.

Yeah that's a new bug, and it makes double carrying weapons unviable. I lost an M4 I had just found at the Myshkino base earlier today that way. Was not about to search the entire forest. Ain't nobody got time for dat.. I think it's terrain related, because it happens to other players as well at the same spot. If you move somewhere else it stops. Usually 10-20 meters.