SandMan20

This gun is OP in DayZ. Its OP in regular ARMA when playing against other players in warfare or other PvP modes. It has no place in DayZ. And all the idiots saying the gun is inaccurate and has terrible power have probably never used it properly. Out to 300m this gun is spot on, its not a sniper or battle rifle so quit taking 500+ meter shots. It is pretty much the M16 ACOG but thermal zoom. It needs to be removed, it takes away the whole point of stealth and paying attention to your surrondings. All you have to do is right click and sweep an area and you know where any players are. Not fun.

How bout they just add a respawn system like in warfare mode. Remove the respawn button too as well. When you die, you wait so many seconds before you are brought to a respawn screen, at which you select from any number of spawn locations on the coast and respawn. Wouldn't that make everyone happy? .... Eh, at least make me happy

Something I wanted to ask the community is its stance on teamspeak. For those who don't know what teamspeak is it is a program that allows you to talk to other people over the web in groups while playing games like DayZ. Almost like talking in side channel, but only for your friends to hear. Now what I was thinking about is teamspeak in the spirit of the game. Now what that means is if your on a server with no side channel (only direct comms, group which is useless and vehicle) should you be allowed to use teamspeak. Now obviously there is a huge advantage in using teamspeak over direct chat, as direct chat is heard by anyone near by and only goes a certain distance. Teamspeak is only heard by who you want to hear it like clan mates or friends and goes infinite distance. Obviously using teamspeak or a similar program is the choice of many if not all DayZ clans for being able to organize much easier yet keep quiet from other players. What I was thinking is that it is unfair and against a basic element of DayZ, and that is not knowing. You shouldn't be able to tell if the guy 500m away is your clan mate heading to your position or a bandit getting into position to shoot you, likewise he shouldn't know if that's his clan or not. Another thing is being able to tell your friends what is happening while you are knocked out. You can't talk while knocked out in DayZ, but with teamspeak you can. You can say "he's [insert position]" so that your friends know where to look and find him to kill him. That's not fair to the guy who just shot you and is ambushing your group. Now I know some people think they should have the ability to communicate like what teamspeak gives to avoid these exact problems. What I'm wondering is the communities take on this. Personally I think it is OK in the Alpha stage, but once a way of communicating in game like this is implemented (finding a radio and setting up a channel on it, maybe implement the ACRE mod to accomplish this) then teamspeak would become on unfair advantage gained by others and should be against the rules. So, what do you think?

Well, yes communication is key to survival, but should you be able to download a program to get that communication? Or should you have to find it out in this world and utilize it? (when and if something like I said gets implemented)

I did not steal from you. I had that M107 since yesterday when I found it at a heli crash site near devils castle. I never walked close enough to any tents to access them. The guy who was complaining about his missing equipment was complaining before Vlatima said I could freely move about. I never walked out of that middle area where I am in that picture except for when the zombie spawned and I walked near the sandbags where it was. I wish I was recording so I could prove it to you, but I even said when I first logged onto server and asked if you guys would KOS if I came near. I said "I might show up in a bit with my M107 lowered don't shoot me please". You told me you guys were friendly if I was friendly and cooperative, and I was nothing but that. I never took anything. I would have stayed and talked to you about this but Vlatima was making me very nervous, even counting down the time to when he was going to kill me if I didn't drop my gun. I found it and did not take it from any of your friends tents. Yes, I did disconnect which had to seem incredibly suspicious and all but convinced you I had stolen from you, but Vlatima was making me too nervous and I disconnected. I apologize for this and I also apologize to the community for technically combat disconnecting. I hope we can talk through this on the forums, or at least with out him threatening to kill me.