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With a good start like that I'd just go heli hunting and pick up the first primary on the way North if I don't find a chopper fairly soon.

The way some gun's iron sights are portrayed is actualy kind of crippling. Take for instance the sight on the PP-19 Bizon. I can't stand that huge flat bar on the rear sight. Reminds me of an old MP44 or some crap. You litereally can't even see the circular front sight which is what I'd much rather be using. Maybe that's realistic (and I play almost 100% CH:Off servers for that reason) but it makes that gun a real turd to aim.

If you log in, all the loot near you is removed. If someone else logs in, same thing. Trick is finding a spot where no one is either actively server hopping (so scratch chern/electro) or constantly wiping clean (pusta anyone?). Usually it's not that big of a deal unless you're starting fresh during peak hours. But then again it could also be a server issue like everyone else says. Just not sure how you can confirm someone didn't just log in nearby.

Not that I heard about this until recently, but it does give you a day counter when you log in I believe. Always thought that white text was semi useless information. Location: Chernarus "No shit..."

lol @ receptacle If you're holding one of those, you won't live long I fear.

Think I just had my shortest life yet. Maybe 50 minutes, tops. After getting a broken leg accidently sprinting down some stairs in a barn, I head to Electro since its really the only place I can get to in under an hour dragging my dick in the dirt the whole way. Needless to say, get caught, get killed. I respawn near NWAF, find no guns as per my luck, so I start heading NE knowing there's two usually easy access barns. Barn 1, crossbow and 2 bolts. Whoopee. On the way to barn two, I hear gunshots. I know the guy is directly in front of me but as I close distance all sound ceases and I begin to think its clear. With only a crossbow at this point, I'm desperate for anything else. I keep heading deeper in, all's quiet. I get about 25m from the barn entrance, and all the sudden this crazy SoB with a winchester (I believe) comes runnning out, gun blazing, racking up a horde of zeds, so I immediately start cowering in something I remotely see as cover. Next thing I know the guys runs straight at me, spots me, and (of course) starts taking aim. Cue the god damn 50's stooges music. This SoB chases me all over the place taking pot shots every couple of seconds, zombies in tow, relentlesly trying to ruin my day. Both my bolts miss *gasp* so now I'm trying to lose him in the brush so I can equip my silly hatchet. Finally he either runs out of ammo or actually didn't see me (or maybe the 6 zeds on his ass finally wear him down, who knows) so he takes off for the heavy tree line long enough for me to attempt a change up. Now get this bullshit. I try to equip my hatchet right away like the genious that I am. It actually goes into the slot, but it doesn't come up as a usable weapon, and my xbow still shows as what I have equipped. Hmm, shit. So I try to move it back to my toolbelt, no dice. Now I try dropping it (since my xbow doesn't show up in my inventory). That seemed to finally work, as my xbow returned. Immediately dropped the bow, equipped the axe. *Tick tock tick tock* Guess who shows back up as I'm going through the animation to equip the friggin axe? My local zombie hoarding psychopath (or his friend perhaps) with a nice assault rifle this time. At least I didn't get stuck having to reload the god damn hatchet I suppose. But there went life number 3, short and miserable.

Seems like the same thing that was happening in a video recording a hacker running amok. So, probably foul play.

Is it just my imagination, or isn't loot suppose to despawn when people log in nearby? Not sure, but I think that was a short term solution to server hop farming.

Personally, can't imagine why sniping is so rewarding, but in general this game seems far and away to have the most intense fire fights of any shooter I've played. I think if anything would be rewarding about sniping actually, it would be the reaction of 4 or 5 other people travelling in the group of the guy you just headshotted from 600+ meters away. That's possibly the scariest and most difficult situation to deal with in an every day pvp encounter and just instantly gets shit real. Having that kind of power as a sniper must be rather amazing when you come across the right scenario. Sniping poor bastards in Chern/Elec? Not so much.

Apparently relevance to location and whether or not anyone on a helicopter in Charnaus would have a .50 cal sniper rifle vs. a more standard issue rifle makes no headway here ;) But anyways...

Meh its still stealthy, if you don't mind wasting an hour. Hence the run and gun stlye though. Oh and fun? No idea yet, but it probably involves my friends playing and not soloing up north lol

Those scary shifty eyed bandits >.>

Ain't that the truth. I've been contemplating buying ArmA 2 copies for everyone I know while its on sale lol And then this damn hacking spree starts >:( Guess I'll have to wait a bit longer to actually enjoy this game.

You don't keep the muder weapon no matter how innocent you are :( It can only draw you the wrong kind of attention, as bad ass as it might be.

First and only Heli crash I've stumbled across actually had an AS50 in it, so 1 for 1 so far :P Real problem I could see for these is ammo though. Unless theres an exploit like with the Bizon I can't imagine that lasting too long. Either way, the fact it showed up first rattle out the bag says to me its far too easy to find one. Those should really be closer to the holy grail unless there's some insane drawback I'm not seeing to a 1-shot 1-kill long range shoulder cannon.

LOL If you really want to pay to be "griefed" and see how easily a group of players can ruin a game entirely, might I suggest Mortal. At least in Dayz you have a chance and/or can hide like a little girl when needed. To make Dayz the worst experience I've had, you'd have to move the location to Normandy :P

And THIS is why I'm not the only noob carrying road flares lol Awesome use of them.

Ive never lived less than maybe 3+ hours, but then I don't get camped, rush to Chen/Electro, or get killed by zombies like... ever. So who knows. Might be due to all the people mindlessly rushing into major cities or something.

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Make harder zombies or roaming hordes, make it a seperate save from "PvP" enabled servers, and maybe add in a few safe strongholds for trading and you damn near have a real game. Too bad its like so many others by then :(

90% of the reason behind not trying the robbery thing has to do with the threat of another player or friend of the victim coming in and killing you. This is just time consuming. Cool, but not very practical. The idea of a choice to become unconcious is a step in the right direction but still not sure if it really will stop the KoS. Maybe adding a knockout feature for close range encounters would work better? This would also add the ability to betray someone without them knowing first and make those random groupings a little less deadly at least.

lol Hilarious. Let me get my 85 pally and Ill be right over. :( But anyways, glad to see you haven't caught the right one yet.

Stealth. Stealth wins all battle whether you fight them or not, because in the end, you're alive. Hopefully... But I still have yet to need to murder anyone. Had a few close calls running around Pusta (or whatever) but usually the right cover and a slow approach keeps the bullets at bay. Haven't had the misfortune yet of coming into a snipers scope though, and that's all luck.

Well, its not the seven plagues, but thats a helluva story. Too bad this shit's everywhere :( I was just starting to get into this game.

Yeah, mostly North. Just look for the green zombies, dead give away har har. Other than that though, it can be a pain to see a chopper in the forests lol I have nightmares of potentially running flat out into a whole spawn of those SoB's in some pitch black forest at night. Really more the luck of the loot still and whether you found it first or not though. So keep your hopes dashed until you lay your hands on that FN-FAL or AS50 and gtfo alive ;)