Herr Robert

You have obviously never used the AS50.

It's possible that you lost the loot due to a server restart. I lost some good stuff I had stored in a tent yesterday.

It used to be a bit of both, but at the moment it's all about the pleasure :).

There are plenty of vehicles. The problem is that douchebag clanners are hoarding everything off the map, effectively taking the vehicles out of the gameplay for 99% of the players. Exactly. All it takes is for one of the clan members to have a spare account next to their off-map vehicle park and save it on a regular basis ... I do think that it would be too harsh to have vehicles blow up instantly if they leave the boundary of the map, but a timer of 1-2 minutes would be reasonable in my opinion.

Why don't you just doubleclick on the items you want to pick up? That looks like an awfully slow way to pick up items, and if anyone else had been near, you would probably have been shot. Very nice find, though, and make sure to have some fun with it :). It does seem like that guy didn't have alot of experience (camping on a nighttime server with the AS50 that doesn't have NVG support), but he might have been lucky himself at one point and acquired the loot from another sniper.

I'm going with the AS50 and L85A2 AWS. It's very nice to be able to spot snipers in ghillie suits with impunity. Yesterday me and one of my teammates killed three snipers at Stary thanks to the thermal optics.

I think that the player should have to wait at least 5-10 seconds before getting disconnected. At the moment it's nearly impossible to kill the DC snipers unless you have a weapon that kills them in one shot, simply because they will hit abort or ALT+F4 as soon as they see you or get shot at. It's a bit sad that me and my team have to base our weapon choices on the actions of exploiters. We can't count on killing them with machineguns or DMRs, and are more or less forced to go with the high caliber snipers because the piece of shit disconnecters will have time to log out otherwise.

The NVGs are far more valuable than a M14 AIM, but it's still worth to try I guess. It's a solid weapon, but it's not that good — and not nearly as rare as NVGs. Anyways, I would recommend you to start a thread here: http://freesidetrading.co/index.php?forum/

Right now, I would give NVGs for a L85A2 AWS.

I bought a second copy of Combined Operations for €25, just so I wouldn't have to worry so much if I die with one of my characters. It was definately one of the most wortwhile investments I have done this year; it's very nice to be able to have a more casual playing style on one of the characters, rather than worrying about losing all of that great gear all the time.

There needs to be more Russian weapons, but I would not like to see the American and NATO weapons disappear. I mean, the zombie outbreak takes place in the fictional Chernarus where there's Western forces, right? Perhaps the spawnrate of the Russian weapons could overall be increased, while US/NATO weapons would only retain high spawnrates at the airfields? Helicopter crashes could have US/NATO weapons exclusively.

That would be an overly complicated solution. I think that someone else on the forums had a good idea. Basically that you need to stand still for 30-60 seconds before you are logged out once you have hit "Abort", and if you move, the timer resets. I wonder if that would work for people that hit ALT+F4, though.

Do you have to knock someone unconscious to drag them around, or is it sufficient to break their legs? The next time I run into an unarmed survivor in relative safety, I will make sure to knock him unconscius, drag him into the woods, light a fire and then chop him up with my hatchet for some tasty meat :D.

Yes. A primary weapon consumes 10 slots and a pistol 5.

It seems reasonable to ban the one that combat logged, but the first one? It's not fair to ban him because his teammate disconnected during a firefight.

It sounds like those bandits were too greedy for kills and completely neglected having someone guarding the rear. Nicely done and congratulations on the loot anyways :). What did you choose to pick, if I may ask?

You ended up in the debug zone. If you are lucky, it's only a matter of 5-10 minutes to get into the map. Try heading east.

In general, I think it's safe to assume that every weapon that has an icon is legit. And yes, both the M4A1 Holo and FN FAL ANPV S4 are legit. It's not worth going by the DayZ Wiki, since it doesn't list all of the weapons.

Nice one, but a shame you missed out on the L85A2 AWS because of him disconnecting in time :(. That bastard has probably been bandaged by a friend on a low population server by now ...

I don't think you would say that if you had a L85A2 AWS and an AS50. You can use the thermal vision on the L85A2 to quickly scan for targets to snipe, and then use the AS50 to silently kill your enemies in a single shot (yes, even if you hit their feet). Silenced weapons are also great for disposing of zombies quietly without alerting more zombies or hostile players. I carry a M9SD together with my L85A2 AWS and AS50 for this purpose. But yes, military weapons are often overrated, and won't do much good unless they are used correctly. In a 300m firefight between a guy armed with a M16A2 M203 and another one armed with an Enfield, the guy with the Enfield will have the upper hand when it comes to weaponry.

It's not just bandits. Disconnecting to avoid death seems to be a common practice at the moment. Me and my friends were doing some target practice at Elektro earlier today, and at least 4-5 players disconnected right after they got shot at. Some of them didn't even have anything better than an axe!

Very true. You are also going to be playing with basically the same people all the time.