Patient Zer0

In the dayz before duping/scripting/cheating/more duping/tent cities, stuff like this happened between players too. Once upon a time, it was actually hard to keep yourself fed....

It's probably disabled on the server(s) you're playing on. Yes, that's an option. Yes, people use it. Don't ask me why. Note: When it's disabled on the server, you can still type/talk and it looks like it's all working. But no one ever responds and even if they try, you can't see/hear them do so.

It's better now that the graphics glitches have been fixed, but... yeah. Tap the ground just a little too hard, everyone falls out unconscious and bleeding and the helicopter vanishes into thin air.

What not to do while flying in DayZ: Fly during the day. Fly while anyone not in your squad is on the server. Fly with a cracked windshield. Attempt to land without autohover. Attempt to land with autohover. Attempt to land at the NWAF. Attempt to land on a firestation roof. Attempt to find a main rotor assembly after you find the helicopter (they all mysteriously vanish).

All jokes aside about asian girls all looking the same, is that the same girl on the subway in Gangham Style? On topic: Tons of guilds/squads/groups have gotten sick of DayZ and shuttered their servers, and the servers that are still running are a lot more empty than they used to be. The hosts are trying to make up the missing revenue from all the servers that have shut down.

You know what I do when I find a hoarder camp? I take what I need and destroy everything else. Every tent, every vehicle. Protip: Don't shoot the vehicles with an AS50 or anything. They'll just vanish and reappear with the next reset. You need to use explosives. Shooting out the tires and saving them in that state is acceptable for frustrating the hoarders too, especially if you just ran over their tent full of tires.

You have to push Escape first, then Alt-F4 from the menu. It won't work in the game.

L85, nametag checks on the horizon and frequent looks at the player list. Now that's survival!

No tariffs on alloys without representation! This is a rebellion, I say!

Never "own" more than you can carry and the tent/vehicle storage issue isn't much of an issue. It also makes the game a lot more fun to play when you don't keep a safety net. Yes, I've spawned on the beach a few times with no gear (no backpack, flashlight or pain meds). It just look at it as a chance to start over with the fun part - gearing up from nothing.

I loved the degradation in System Shock 2. In fact, that's one of my favorite games of all time. It was a thrill finding one of those Leatherman multitools and knowing I could keep my pimped out shotgun going for a little longer. Weapon degradation forces players to make choices. Choices are good to force players to make. This has long been documented that EVERYBODY loves choices. Do you pick up that fancy, finicky M4A1 CCO SD that will break down as soon as it rains, or do you stick with a trusty AK-74 that will keep running forever? Is the advantage of a "better" gun worth the hassle of extra care and maintenance? Do you like the 'never fail' simplicity of the revolver, or do you not mind having to keep the silencer on your M9 cleaned and tuned? These are questions that soldiers in the real world have to deal with. Unlike the soldiers in the real world, in DayZ the choice is left up to the player. Every weapon has its good sides and bad sides, not just in the areas of accuracy and power, and with weapon reliability and maintenance that could be well reflected in the game. Ask anyone who used one in combat and they'll tell you what a piece of crap the M16 is. That why there have been so many successive 'improvements' made to it. Yet in DayZ it works just as reliably as a Kalishnikov and hits harder too. That's just not correct. On topic: Thermal is fine as long as it's attached to a gun that can't snipe. The problem is people carrying the L86 just for the thermal, then pulling their 35lb, 5 foot long AS50 out of their backpack for the shooting.

Intentionally duplicating items is breaking rules.

No, but they'll stay knocked down until then (good for hiding trucks!)

The 'fix' seems to be to instantly dump all the LOD levels as soon as the dead soldiers load on your computer, which for me leads to a framerate of about 2 and my backpack looking like cherry cobbler after my extended family's gotten to it. I have to go into my video properties and toggle the memory setting off of 'Default' and back again to get things looking normal. This isn't much of a fix, and is very inconvenient to have to do considering the places I have to do it (Stary tents, NWAF, Green Mountain...). And since barbed wire is only used to grief and doesn't even stop zombies? It can be removed. +1

We had this happen to a guy in our group. We had to drive the car up next to him so he could get in one of the seats. After he got back out he could move again. Weird thing was, he had a doppleganger stuck in the front passenger seat until the next reboot.