velyse (DayZ)

Nope, you just need your fists and to catch a player by surprise and rush him. Free gear. Everyone can be Mike Tyson.

Brass knuckles please. Best weapon in the game only made better. Nothing beats fists. Except a motorcycle helmet, which is absolutely ridiculous since I have yet to see even a single rotted out motorcycle anywhere in chernarus. Why do these people have motorcycle helmets in their homes? It should at least reduce visibility. Put on an inexpensive full face bike helmet and tell me how well you can see. I'd like to see you try and shoulder a rifle and look down the sights on it too.

I go to elektro to gear up. I find a bambi camper, knock his fucking teeth in with my bare fists, and take all his gear. I like to mix laughing maniacally in there somewhere, and shouting "PUT YA DUKES UP SON", as well as "YOU GOT KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT" One dude told me to "put my hands up" as I am chasing him with my fists. I pop him in the face, he drops, take his M4, all his clothes, and then execute him with his own gun. He should have been putting his hands up, because the fists are the best weapon in the goddamn game. If they were smart they wouldn't even wait until they had a weapon. A good punch to the jaw is all it takes. Then just a few more swings at the head while you're getting back up and it's lights out for you.

Punch them in the head, only takes about 3 or 4 jabs. You start DayZ with literally the best weapon in the game. Effective against zombies, extremely effective against players. Would love to see brass knuckles introduced.

Maybe, just maybe, some of us don't want to spawn in the middle of bumfuckistan. I don't know about the others but for myself personally, I don't want to spawn around a thousand other freshspawns and have to run miles and miles to come across another player who is NOT a fresh spawn. I have faces to punch and people to mug and solnichniy is just way too far from elektro/cherno. I mean, I could fistfight fresh spawns all day long, and have spent plenty of time doing that but there's just no reward for that. Nothing is more satisfying than knocking a fully geared dude out and taking all his shit off his unconcious body, leaving him with some rotten fruit in his tum tum. There never was much out east to begin with, from day one, west was desired spawn which is fine, but if you're now going to FORCE us out east, at least have something in the east for people to duke it out over. No more small camp in berezino, no hospital, it's pretty barren this side of the map. Instead of spawn cherno race to stary, it's spawn solnichniy, race to balota. Same shit, different version, still frustrating and boring. Want gear? Take it off a freshly punched dude. (I would say corpse, but it's more satisfying not to kill them.)

joined up us 1560 with a couple friends, was in the middle of cherno... took down a barbed wire, headed for the military tents. Shot a zombie in the head, started crawling across a road and got this ban message. wtf?

You need to download/install it then launch it once.

backstory: Guy was invisible trying to shoot me on a bike with a crossbow. A couple near misses and hit me once I just started singing and guy chased me down. Did the greased up deaf guy "you cant catch meeee" and told him maybe he should try dropping a helicopter on my head. That's when he responded. Guy stopped and showed me a couple things (like the cow airdrop, hilarious) and I asked him about the shit. Apparently with the last two arma betas the injector they use would crash the game immediately. Well, they must have fixed it last night because after being hacker free for 5 days or so I ran into three hackers in 15 minutes. There's some serious issues with the anti-hax and battleye in particular. From what he told me there is a language barrier. The antihax only detects english based scripting. He said he can get away with way more shit on german servers since the antihax is written in german and doesn't catch english scripting. facepalm worthy. They can't spawn vehicles in US servers, or buildings, etc. However they can still spawn weapons, crazy artillary barrages, become invisible, teleport, see all vehicles and tents and players... Just thought i'd share this little bit of insight I have gathered with you guys.

The one that I talked to I actually ran into on a low pop server, 6/50 people and it was night time no less. One killed me and then I ran into this different one a little later. It's not always about audience size. They were there for the vehicles (which that server had a lot of, according to him.)

I stuck around to watch the aftermath.

whoops. D:

Would like to see certain wildcard cars, with no storage, that respawn after x amount of hours of not being used and cannot be saved. That would be awesome. So many servers have all the vehicles hoarded.

I stay off servers with more than 25 people playing. Almost every time I'm on a server and the population climbs past 30 or so, someone comes on and fucks it all up. Two days ago myself and a buddy got instakilled in the woods in BFE. Last night I was on a server with like 12 people and someone teleported everyone to the NWAF. Hit my bitch key and got the fuck out. 4 days ago "Jason Voorhes" or a clone of his was playing that creepy song and teleported everyone 40ft into the air above the apartments in cherno then ran around with an axe killing anyone who returned for loots. A week ago I got hit by what looked like a hailstorm of gau cannon rounds off of a A10 outside elektro. I really wish I were as lucky as some of you guys who claim to only have seen one hacker in 3 months of playing or whatever but I've been playing since may and damned if I haven't seen at least 50 or so. It's almost gauranteed anymore that I'm gonna run into one any time im on a server that's like 30/50 people or better. So I just avoid them but even then it still happens.

That's funny, it's kind of hard to help test an alpha when you can't progress at all due to griefers. Perhaps the focus should be on eliminating this major problem before moving on? Think of it as a massive gamebreaking bug. The whole "it's alpha" and "you're here to test not have fun" argument only goes so far.

kill process hotkey = success.

they are.

You could also, it seems, use autohotkey to run that simple batch file. I have mine named armakill.bat set up a hotkey "run c:\armakill.bat"

batch file with the text bind to a keyboard key. I've got my G15 set to launch it on one of the hotkeys. Instakills arma. Little simpler than random51's solution but I am sure they both work equally well.

If you guys paid attention to the interviews you'd have heard rocket talk about them, he plans to have them as hunting companions, you'll be able to train them to hunt and track.

Can't wait to go sniper/camper hunting with my old pal rex. Which bush is he in boy?! GO GET EM!

AR-15 platform firearms were not affected by the damage reduction in the last beta patch so M16 any day of the week. Before that I probably would have favored the AK74.

Flush command 10 times before artifacts drop to a playable level. 10 minutes later can't see shit again. LOVE THIS GAME. They've released minor patches before for things like this but two weeks going on now with nothing... it's literally unplayable in the high-traffic areas of the game. Don't care about the ammo, more features, whatever. 1.7.2.4b with a fix for the artifacts and just work on the rest of the shit for 1.7.2.5 and people can play again. NOOOOOPE. We're gonna release a full-feature patch in the next forever and until then you can suffer playing blind!

dis. cry me a fucking river. a more just thread would be "Dude is camping in bushes, takes clear shots at me, hits me once or twice with an AK in the back from a hundred yards. take cover, spot guy, return fire, he alt-f4's to protect his precious AK74." That happened yesterday. Crying because you couldn't murder two dudes who weren't agressive towards you, nor even knew you were there no less, doesn't count. That's the sort of shit that makes people just stick around in cherno and elektro and KoS instead of wasting hours to head north just to get sniped by some jackass who has nothing better to do than sit in a tree and watch a firehouse or control tower.

i herd dere be QQ in dis tred.

I run the game off of my wd caviar black raid-0 array, I get no stuttering. Main performance issues are due to zombie and loot generation in large cities.