Chuckles (DayZ)

There have been some similar ideas, personally I still hope there will be a solution when they fix the "unlimited ammo" bug (refilling magazines) and perhaps make military ammunition slightly more rare. I love the pvp in this game, but it would be nice for there to be less incentive to camp the starting spawn areas. Had a guy waste I don't know how many bullets from an m4 SD this morning as a fresh spawn, I just ran zig zags... Doing something about duping would hopefully help too.

I haven't logged nearly the amount of time you have but I've been playing regularly for about a month now. In that time i found one M-24, one CZ550, and about 3 M-107s. I've been lucky with crash sites, finding several bizon smg's and FN FAL rifles as well. I was even lucky enough to find an L85a2 AWS the other night and still have it. I suppose its all about luck, and as I said I have been very fortunate with the helicopter crashes.

I like this, but maybe we can see a broader range of civilian weapons rather then military. I had the empty clip idea myself, it makes a lot of sense and adds to realism.

I know there's a lot of problems with PKing right now but I don't know if this is the answer. Guns need to be common enough that most survivors end up with them in relativity short order for survival and pvp (PVP is a major major part of this game like it or not). I'm looking forward to see if the ammo fix will balance PVP out a bit, I hope that it does. But I still want to have a gun available to me in relativity short order, its a survival game but in many places (maybe not Germany) guns are fairly common or at least not rare. In the event of an outbreak of bloodthirsty cannibals anywhere in the world you better believe people would be breaking out whatever firearms/other weapons they have and that's not even considering the weapons that would be available from the inevitable failed military/police response. Maybe a better idea would be to tweek the amount of ammo that spawns a bit, that might lead to people making tough decisions on how to spend their bullets rather then searching for extended periods for the weapon. Really were kind of beating this to death though I think, this is a realistic game but still a game, I don't know how much fun id have crawling around in fields and towns with an crowbar eating beans and drinking coke without end and using a mods melee system to brokenly attack zombies and other players.

If you have heard about this game you should know its difficult. Just about everyone recommends you view/read one or preferably several of the MANY tutorials available online. I took a few hours and watched many DayZ videos and read the wiki a bit before I started and I have had no issue with the game (outside alpha bugs and hackers which is to be expected). This game is meant to be difficult, if you don't feel like putting in the time then fine there are many other great games out there. And for the love of god the mod is free, you paid for Arma2 not DayZ (DayZ is free), if you don't like Arma2 which is what you paid for you can visit those forums. If you care to learn a bit before your next trip into cherno here's some links. - Inventory guide - more basicsI found these in about 15 seconds, there are tons more. Really a little prep goes such a long way...

I don't know if its an issue of play style or luck but I rarely have these issues with bandits. The majority of my characters in the game last a week or longer and generally hit several bases and helicopter crashes before I get knocked off by zombies or bandits...I try to play on lower pop servers, I rarely run into others and while most people have shot on sight I have had more friendly encounters then others seem to have. I also generally spend about 3-5 min watching towns from the hills with binoculars before I go down to loot and play almost exclusively mid/north map (this has let me avoid many more players then I've gotten into shootouts with). I know this is all advice that's been given before, my experience just seems much more positive then others and I don't really know why.

There was a nerf, head shots are still instant kills though.

I have this happen to me as well, even with a decent population the middle/fringes of the map seem to have very few people which is good for those that want to play there. Don't let your guard down though, players shoot on sight in the mid map as much as the coast it seems. (when you actually run into them)

You have an infection, you need to find some antibiotics. Rare item that spawns in hospitals I think.

I love this community, these forums always make me laugh. On topic, this guy will be back.

Swing and a miss.

My friend and I found an A-10 in a field last night, just parked there. Had a M-107 + 4 mags in it which he took, he sat in the jet as well but didn't take off.... I hope he isn't going to have the same problem.