Bororm

Yeah! All about the style points.

It's sorta one of the things I worried about going into the SA, before it was actually released. They talked a lot about stream lining the inventory and stuff and I was a bit skeptical. I think it's easy to overlook how much little quirks like that add to the tension of the game. Being in a fight, or even just with zombies, and having to put up with "clunkiness" really makes you get into that "come the fuck on, hurry up and bandage god damnit. fuuuck, just pick up the item already for fucks sake" kinda frustration that makes these encounters. If everything ran perfectly smooth it would become trivial. That said I think it's worked out fine so far, I think Rocket has a good eye for balance in that regard. I'd say overall the SA is quite a bite more streamlined and I'd dare say a bit more action orientated, but I think so far they've managed to include enough "inconvenience" as well to keep things interesting.

Around the lower apartments, police station area is the most popular area in my limited experience. Some times the upper apartments, ran into 3 guys there today in a short period of time. I spend most of my time at the neaf myself, as it's slightly less hectic on the respawns running back, and I got tired of urban combat.

berezino, svet, neaf are the most popular spots still in my experience.

Eh I mostly agree but think they could take it a step further, which burning or an animation would do nicely. As it stands it's a magical pixie wave of the hands and it's gone. At least some sort of animation would add a slight inconvenience to the process. Burning would be nice because it would not really require a lot of work either, just some flame animations and everything disappears or whatever. They've said that dragging bodies is coming when they add ragdolls, so it will be interesting to see if that plays any role along the lines of hiding them. Might actually be cool if hiding bodies was taken out entirely, and you had to drag them into some bushes or whatever to conceal them manually.

Go for the normal "black shirt." It's like a check shirt, but black. Pretty rare and extra style points!

Way too gamey for my liking. I don't want this to turn into a game like WoW where I need to have my buffs up all the time. Also detrimental to encouraging group play if you can just pre-emptively protect yourself against a lot of these status effects.

Guy, I know what an LMG is. I did not say an AKM is an LMG, I implied it's potentially like a shitty LMG because it has a 75 round drum mag, meaning you're going to be able to spray a shit load of bullets downrange. Pretty sure being belt fed isn't a prerequisite of being an LMG either as you're implying, as many can support magazines. Reading comprehension man.

Personal preference is a thing in real life too you know. Some where there's some guy who's been shooting a mosin his whole life, and may just not like the way an m4 feels to him. That recent thread by that dude in USMC recon is a perfect example of how different people prefer different weapons.

Not to mention penetration power for shooting at folk behind cover.

That's what I'm saying though, everyone already know's they are crappy. You're just trolling at this point. If that's what you're into that's great, as long as you realize it. I've got you on ignore for a reason, you basically add nothing constructive to any discussion I've ever seen you take part in. I was just hoping I guess that maybe you were just ignorant (still not convinced honestly).

I believe if you kill some one, you've gained the right to all their loot. Or for that matter, if some one dies the next person upon their body has the right to all their loot. For that reason I think hiding bodies is perfectly acceptable, although often times frowned upon as a subject of "honor." I personally avoid doing it usually, unless I'm in a fight where people are constantly coming back. Generally I just pull mags out of guns and toss them away. It's usually beneficial to leave a body, in case you, yourself, die. I do find myself hiding them more often in the SA than I did in the mod though, probably as a result of the current state of SA being a bit more deathmatchy with a higher concentration of spawns in a smaller area. That said, I feel it's a little bit too easy to hide bodies. Burning them or requiring some other tool (shovel? pickaxe?) would be nice, at the very least requiring an animation would be a good addition.

Hey man don't question Gibonez's armchair ballistic expertise and understanding of physics, he's an expert on all things firearms because he read the wiki articles and watched some youtube videos =P In all seriousness though gibonez I think you should relax a bit about all this sorta stuff. Weapons are wonky, they've got bad statistics but it's not going to change any time soon. Constantly railing on how crappy the weapons are isn't going to solve anything. They aren't going for ultra realism so some of the stuff you go on about is pretty inconsequential, I'm not saying weapons shouldn't behave accurately to their real life counter parts but some of the crap you go on about in these discussions is pretty irrelevant. At the end of the day it's some variables that need to be changed, full physics simulation isn't at work here. If you want to do something constructive gather actual in game information and suggest the changes needed, but I'm pretty sure that's already been done. Above all else, have some patience man =P

Badass.

Lag/desync whatever you want to call it. Combination of the server and your connection probably, though more emphasis on the server. This is how basically every encounter on a highly populated server plays out at these distances. Just take solace in the fact he's probably seeing basically the same thing from you.

Had some more fights today with my double barrel, died a lot, killed a decent amount of dudes. I'll say that in one fight I was sorta pinned in a shack with 3 guys in varying locations around me, maximum 40m, some closer and there was very little I could do. I took shots at them all, but if I scored any hits at all they were inconsequential. Close up, talking sub 10m yeah, the thing works pretty well but anything past 30 I'd say you're effectively throwing a handful of pebbles at people.

They don't care about weapon balance yet, so get used to it till beta at least. I think it would be an even bigger mistake to just start "fixing" the newly implemented weapons without addressing all the old ones as well. I'd rather not end up with a 75 round akm actually being accurate while every other gun in the game is still shit.

I think it will have bad dispersion just like every other gun, I don't think it will suck though just like the m4 doesn't actually suck. Do they suck compared to arma? Yeah. Do they suck compared to every other gun in the SA, not really. The AKM is going to have a 75 round mag and shoot a higher powered round than the m4. It's going to be devastating at certain ranges, and like the m4 I think it will make up for medium ranges with the sheer amount of rounds you can throw at someone. It will also be able to attach a PSO scope, and if they allow it to attach a bipod well I can see this thing basically being a shitty LMG. And a shitty LMG in a game without LMGs is still an extremely strong weapon.

Rocket stated some where they've decided against adding Utes because plopping in a premade island just didn't really fit.

I'd imagine it has to do with items worn on your head stacking up in terms of blocking damage.

These things have been addressed. It is to move spawns away from Balota and a lot of the higher concentrated mil loot bases on the west side of the map. THIS HAS BEEN STATED BY THE TEAM. The map is very likely never going to be expanded, it involves too much work. THIS HAS BEEN STATED BY ROCKET HIMSELF. http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/23o3bj/a_dayz_dev_answered_some_questions_on_4chan/cgyz4s7?context=3 Go on reddit and search rocket2guns and keep up to date on the crap he's saying. I also recommend checking both his and hicks's twitter regularly. Watch streams etc. Almost every topic that people are constantly making new threads about has been gone over at some point. Why speculate when the information is out there?

It's not really a bug, melee is supposed to function as actual melee in the standalone. The point of impact is where ever the weapon connects with the target, not where the crosshair is. They've made some adjustments to animations and now it does seem easier to aim in first person for some weapons, where as before it was easier in third.

I agree, I think they could prioritize better to make it a more enjoyable process for the players. I'm just saying though, I really don't think they care (yet) and I wouldn't get your hopes up. I don't mean to discourage you or the conversation.

Zeppa thanks for being reasonable, I think we just disagree. I don't see it as not fitting the game, as it's been a part of the game since it started. I can see your stance and going for realism, but I personally feel any form of third person is going to break that realism any ways. I just don't want to be forced to change the way I play this game because some other people don't like it. Again, I feel for those people who want something in the middle, and I'm all for providing that option but I don't think it needs to come at the expense of changing what other people have already come to enjoy. It should be another alternative not a replacement.

Honestly this topic has been talked about a lot with suggestions made and as I said earlier it's just another case of them implementing a system and not tweaking it yet, which will likely come in beta. That is their whole purpose of the alpha currently, to implement systems/mechanics and then they work out the bugs/fine tune/balance later. This is also why they don't give a fuck about gun accuracy currently. We'll probably see the same issues with things like cooking, building, vehicles and all those major additions.