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Was at NEAF, and was trying to leave. I was in the second jail when i spawned in. I kept hearing an m4 every few minutes, when i worked up the courage to go i ran out and where the fence is with the trees, i went prone behind the tree to make the appearance that i kept running and they can't spot me. Nothing, all's good. I see a fresh spawn just running around, and I'm not a dick so I wasn't about to shoot him and/or give away my position. I was planning on going to Berezino, so in that direction, i took the trees until an open field. I HATE OPEN FIELDS. I ran a serpentine maneuver across the field then into heavy pines, where I again went prone to give the illusion i kept running and maybe trick them into running past me so I can kill them.......Here's where shit gets weird. I hear footsteps, so i prepare for someone to be running past me for the direction i ran. Instead, I see some random dude in mil gear right behind me(I'm proned far into a pine tree), so i quickly spin around and unload a bunch of shots in his direction(hip fire) with my SKS, I think he was shooting at me also, then he runs like around the tree for a second, I pull out my shotgun and begin to lie in wait. I proned around the tree in the direction he ran, and NOTHING. The dude disappeared. I waited there for about 3 more minutes, then did more zigzagging up the hill into some more trees and waited, nothing. What happened? Was he a hacker who juts couldn't kill me? Did he combat log in an instant?

Seems plausible, he was just looking right at me and I assumed he had to have seen me lol

My friend and I were looting NE airfield and I was running up to the second jail building to meet up where I thought he was, I saw who i thought was him near the hangar. I just kept running by and over teamspeak I heard my friend say "You know there's a guy pointing a gun at you, right", so I turned around, scared, I didn't have time to react. I drew my SKS and let loose five rounds in quick succession. He fell, we both shot the guy at the same time(my friend was actually behind him). I was not expecting that, I feel bad because maybe the guy was gonna let me pass :( And yesterday, also at NE airfield, we were barely kit'd(I had a shotgun with 6 shots and he had an m4 with a mag or two). As we were approaching the jail building I thought I saw someone running into the ATC. We just kept going. The jail doors were open so there was a high probability of it being another player(Even though there was only 1 other player on the server(my friend's new)). As we were done looting it, my friend said: "There's a guy spawning in up here". We made him drop his primary weapon and stay crouched, whilst I watched the door. He said he was friendly, and so did his friend who was somewhere within DC range. We decided we should handcuff him, because he was most likely on teamspeak with his friend and I figured he would try something(his voice reverberated deceit). As I was moving around, the prisoner must have been on teamspeak and told his friend what was happening/when to attack; because when I came back to guarding the stairs there he was. I saw a faint outline of a person just barely peeking around the corner at the bottom of the stairs. Luckily I already was ADS'ing as I looked down the stairs; the dude just started firing at me. Being scared shitless, I quickly aimed at near where I thought i could and ran back into cover. We then executed the prisoner for aiding and abetting a bandit. As we moved downstairs I discovered that I actually shot the guy! One hit headshot for the WIN :P Pure luck, thankfully they removed mouse acceleration; which makes for much much MUCH smoother gunplay. tl;dr: Thank god for no mouse acceleration and buckshot.

I am using my internet big man voice, deal with it :P ALL CAPS MAKES ME SUPREME LEADER MF'ER! ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR! Seriously, it's all good. I'm just saying that I wasn't the initiator of combat in this situation. I may have shown some aggression/ initiated force by handcuffing the guy, but it was for my own safety. De-escalation was readily available; but his friend decided to be sneaky and try to spray me down.

I wasted the first guy for no reason? The damn dude was shooting at me. His friend was almost certainly on teamspeak telling his friend exactly where we were and when to attack us. I killed his friend for his gear, I would admit that anyways. But it's not like he was 100% innocent. I forgot to mention they said they were friendly...UNTIL HE SHOT AT US!!!

Click on your name at the main menu, and you can erase it and change it.

They shot first in the latter case, but that guy probably didn't have to die. I was in need of supplies, and there is no doubt he was orchestrating the assault; acting as an agent of his partner.

This was one of my first really organic trust vs teamwork friend vs foe situation. I spawned into the hotel in Elektro(Across from firestation) on a 40/40 server. There was a dead body in front of me with like a mosin and some stuff on it. I waited a second and saw a bambi run upstairs and then proceed to eat a can of tuna. I surprised him and said: "Hey buddy"; he was like: "Don't shoot, im a fresh spawn im just eating some tuna" I proceeded to tell him its fine, and he then told me about dudes with guns out there. Just then shit started to get real, so I told the dude to come take this dead guys stuff so he can defend himself. He was shocked that I was allocating him such trust, the ability to take my life. We trusted each other. He went into the one room that you can see the firehouse roof from, and watched it. Soon a third player came about, and seemed friendly enough. I told him to keep his distance, he explained that he was getting shot at by someone down there with a mosin. He parted, then he started to get held up/about to get shot. He told the dude where we were( i heard faintly over DC), and that guy came and was waiting for us. I told the third guy that the dude wasnt me. Then someone was shouting; he was like: "help me!" like numerous times, and we were like; "NOPE". After a 5 minute standoff the third person came back and KO punch'd the dude and took his shit. The guy had a mosin and was waiting for us to come down. The dude earned his place and we exchanged steam names. The third dude assured me he would add me through recent players(has not yet been done). As I was about to open/share some food, and then go take up the sniper up near the hay bails, the server restarted. It was terrible. Such a perfectly played organic situation.

The pure emotions that DayZ can evoke are unlike any other games. It's a truely rewarding(as far as game feeling) feeling when you have almost real player experiences. When people just camp and KoS, it just ruins the game for other people. It seems the most honest people I meet on DayZ are ones that are new to the game, they are fresh and haven't been 'traumatized' or 'turned' yet. I mostly look for an oppertunity to interact, but sometimes I get scared and KoS. I like to stalk people and watch their intentions before I(we) engage(I usually have a buddy or two with me).

Yeah, this rarely ever happens sadly. It's mostly KoS. You could tell by their voices they had good intentions, but its the best part of DayZ.

So, I haven't been on in a few days, so I forgot where I was. I had an SKS with 16 rounds, and that's about it besides a fireaxe and backpack. I thought I was in the hills before Elektro, but to my surprise/dismay I was on the middle level part of the hospital on a 40/40 server!! I quickly went prone and crawled, and to my shock, I saw two bandits aiming their M4's at some bambi(s)(I think there were like tow of them). I sprung up and shot one guy in an adrenaline rush and headshot'd him. Then turned to his partner who was running behind to the right of the school. I hid back down and proceeded to lie down unbeknownst to them. I saw that one of them retreated to the school roof, and I engaged him(unsuccessfully I believe). I then saw one of them on the left side of the courtyard near the alleyway; aiming at a bambi at close range and before I could react he started shooting the bambi. I sprung up and made some pot shots at him hastily, causing him to flee into the alley. A bambi ran by bleeding and went to pick up the guy I first shot's gear, and then I saw the other one, and as fast I could stand up I got shot and insta-killed. At least I was a hero for maybe one person who could get away and loot'd my body.

I know Dean said in that other devblog thing that he's thinking about certain items being thrown having damage. I am thinking something like either throwing a kitchen knife with a slight change of getting a back of the neck kill or something if they don't have a helmet. Or a specific throwing knife weapon that can be used. Also, I would love to sneak up behind someone and smash their skull in with a rock. That would be epic.

That is true, I'm talking about like split chance of like hitting your 'weak' points on someones head. Like a single stab with sufficient force at close enough range could easily paralyze you if not sever your brain stem/dislocate your neck from your spinal column.(A stab to the back of the neck)

This one requires a decent bit of experience with land navigation. I will explain to the best of my abilities, then back show you fragmented images of the loot route: Beginning: Anywhere that isn't so far east you blow your brains out before you make it to Elektro. Ending: Wherever you want it, baby ;) So basically, you start out somewhere near Elektro/Kamyshovo. On a low pop server, try to gather maybe a backpack and definitely a melee weapon. This is your problem, not mine. So first things first: SKIP ELEKTRO!!! YOU WILL DIE!!! After you have either filled up at the pond slightly north off the little road going up into the mountains or at the well on sniper hill(bad place), or skipped it(only if you know where you are going!!!!!). Get into the treeline in the back of Elektro, you can scavenge on the outskirts but Elektro is a death zone. So stay about 200ish meters into the bush when running along the coastline. You will run into a mini dam a little bit in the run. Fill up there if you can. Continue running until you're up Cherno's ass. Just past Prigorodki(little village b4 Cherno, back and to the right is a little pond if you're dying of thirst. Get into the treeline! The highrises on the right side are Dubky. The residential buildings take toooooo long to loot and are a waste of precious time. Run around the outside of it, and hit the grocery store, and run directly to the other grocery store. Head into the treeline back to the right(if you are parallel with main road). Run around all of the highrises. And cut slightly in towards the left. If you see Balota, you have arrived, if you see a creek running up a mountain, follow the creek down and you are at Balota. Balota is plausibly non-essential, but mostly worth it for getting a weapon. Just check the jail and the barracks if you're on a low pop server, but it's also scary so GTFO of there asap. Re-orient yourself with the creek. If you follow it basically straight you will get to NWAF, but that isn't where you should head yet. Facing the creek straight, take your character basically hard left and slightly up. Like a heavy merge. You should hit Pavlovo military base. Almost always untouched except by server hoppers. Great military loot. Don't forget about the hidden barracks. Head past the town, you can follow the road or basically straight with a slight right merge you get to Zelenogorsk. There is a Jail and two barracks right as you get to the city. After there, depending on your supplies, you can hit the grocery store(in sight from there), or/then cross town and go to green mountain.(Cant miss the giant antenna). There is one jail there. Follow the road to the end, to the right of the road where the forest ends is a deerstand. Orient yourself straight with the deer stand. Run straight and to the right a tiny bit. You will hit Veresnik military base. It's a landmark for NWAF, so be careful. From there, run straight north into NWAF if you please(you should be heavily geared from there or well before. Keep in mind you don't have to follow most of this path to get geared. THE REST IS UP TO YOU! Loop around to NEAF, Berezino, Stay for PvP, run south and kill bambis if you are a douche. Images aren't aligned, so try to look where the green starts and ends(I SOWWY <3) Map: DayZdb Map Route(fragmented):

All of those loot routes are good, thanks for your input guys.

I was doing some enhancements, and I messed with my cfg and profile files; I reduced my preferred view and view distance to 1500, and scene complexity to 100000, and now objects don't render until I'm like within 30 feet of them. I can't see if doors are open on buildings across the street. I was thinking, should I reinstall?

yes, but I also messed with my actual profile, should i delete that too?

Shameless self-bump :/

Wood cabins almost never spawn loot. The bi-colored houses, one part yellow with a stripe spawns a lot of food. The brick houses always spawn good loot, and the white houses with the like green colored, covered balcony type things, they have pianos in them. Those are the best.

All of those are correct, it works out pretty well either way. Sometimes you can get lucky and find basically everything at once. At balota today there was an sks and an m4 in the hangars, and two hunter backpacks. I prefer the improvised, but yeah.

So, I know how it's pre-alpha and I'm fine with bugs, but I just had a real immersion killer. My friend and I decided to join a hardcore server and play without using maps, and the only plus is him partially being able to read Cyrillic(hes Czech). We wandered inland off the coast near Solnichniy, only a backpack and a few essential supplies. We made it all the way to Stary Sobor, can opener, FNX but no mags, backpacks, compass', we JUST found a fireaxe and a splitting axe respectively, we were looting the piano building in Stary when all of the sudden: My character basically slid him out the second story wall and he died. Effectively killing our experience. inb4 welcome to DayZ posts

Sorry this wasn't meaning to be a crosspost. But which incoming and outbound ports do I forward for DayZ?

This is for a friend. Does anyone know which ports to forward? He keeps timing out and getting desync.

He clicked play when I was AFK, AT BALOTA(in the woods, where my clan was, not server hopping). Got hit by zeds about 30 times but luckily he didn't die and SOMEHOW I didn't start bleeding. I haven't bled once on my character. I've not been shot, but hit by zeds a good bit and never bled somehow.