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lol Hate to say it, but for any real reply, you're going to get 100 troll ones. Choose wisely.

Really can't wait to see the end of this trend. But oh well, was a good move gtfo after they disco'd.

Yup, very much so. Has me taking a little break until some of my friends join up finally.

It takes a hack to do that, so probably just a hacker. Admin abuse is usually more along the lines of kicking / server restarts.

Unless it's been changed, this is where I got my info. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/7954-voice-text-communication/

This is a moment where I am either misunderstanding you, you're trolling, or my faith in humanity plummets.

Yup, stick to the north woods. Your basic goal when you spawn down south is to get a decent backpack, a hatchet, some food/water and a decent gun. Then it's more or less all North and out of the dregs. Quite a few mid-north cities where you can get great supplies too, but a gamble if you aren't properly armed.

Some low caliber rifles could be interesting. Something for quieter, less deadly, long range sustained fire. It would be a decent niche, since the only weapons capable of that right now are end game assault rifles with acog's or some other med-long range scope.

There's also some range limitations. I think its 80m for voice, 40m for direct chat.

Semi spolier if you want to just experience the game for a while, but all things considered, you really need to check out this map or a better one early on. It's quite literally the only way to figure out at first if you're wasting you're time going somewhere or not. http://dayzmap.info/

The stress system would almost be interesting if it affected everybody and could be alleviated with drugs/alcohol found in game. Otherwise justifiable killing will lead to suicide which is plainly idiotic.

I think hospitals are the only trusty place to find blood packs. Maybe high end locations like miltitary bases and helicopter crashes, but not familiar enough myself.

No one replies because there's a range to direct chat. You have to use , and . to switch to direct channel chat and then you can speak with people at maybe 40m. It's fairly annoying at first, but heed some advice, you won't meet very many friendlies anyways.

The gun was removed as of lately to make the beginning more challenging. The ping on servers is buggy, so just try to join one near your location. Blue chat is global chat, this is rarely turned on anymore.\ All in all everything sounds fine with your install, you just seem to be experienceing something different that you expected ;) Which sucks.

Ammo is great, power is good, acuracy is fine, rate of fire and audibility is what kills me.

Lee Enfield is a suicidal weapon IMO. Stick with the FAL and try to find a sidearm asap if you aren't near a good milt loot location.

Jumping servers near a loot location will delete any loot nearby where you log in, I believe. This may have been changed or yada blah blah, but that used to be how server hopping for massive loot was discouraged. There also seems to be a semi-known bug where loot just doesn't spawn sometimes. Might be a bug with the initiation range or something but it's hard to tell.

Ha it might ;) Good luck!

Weird. Not sure then man. Might be something silly to do with the recent updates but can never really tell.

Yet again, seems like it is a situation where the one server isn't correctly on the HIVE network. I'd suggest making a new character on a different server and seeing if that one can transfer easily. If so, then you need a new home server :(

... Are there boats? lol

More weather would be a great addition as this really amplifies the survival aspect, and usually helps avoiding deahtmatch situations (fog, rain, whiteout = less visibility). I would be all for those, but the idea of natural disasters is way too much. Noone wants to run from a tornado in a game that already has the undead and psycopaths lol (I suppose that's only an opinion, but, seriously, I don't need mother nature sniping me with a funnel cloud.)

And there's probably about a 50% chance that one camping asshole is watching one supermarket :P But it's generally worth the risk if you want to try the campsite idea. Be warned though, tents are a source of bugs in this game the likes of which you've never seen.

Yeah, I've sort of slowed my roll and suggested everyone I've been raving to just to hold out for a bit. No sense starting to play heavily when the servers are so completely shitted up with hackers everyday.

Popping off that many rounds at NWAF with those guns can definately do the trick.