FishGuts4Lunch

Yep your mosin is Rubber ducked! get a new one or get something else.

There is enough loot but if you spawn three hours after the last server reset most everything will be cleaned out. On the coast get to a pond or a pump and drink until you cannot hold any more water. Then run inland to the smaller villages and search the ones with zombies and closed doors. EAT EVERYTHING you find... Don't save it for later and drink every chance you get and drink alot. The other option is wait to start playing until a couple minutes past the hour when the server my have rebooted. They always reboot at the top of the hour. Usually every 4 hours at 12, 4 and 8 (am and pm)

I found 2 yesterday, damaged and badly damaged on the bunks in the barracks of the NWAF

Ok thanks kilowolf Ori the tents at NWAF are empty but you can still find a few things in the two bunkers covered with camo netting just outside and inside the gate. There is also some stuff upstairs if you are not afraid to climb the ladder (I am). Be sure to look om top of the sandbags the bunker is built of as I always find at least one item on them. Not much but it is as good as it is going to get.

Deus-drone... Have you tried using a bipod?

I think the aim is to get the number of snipers down to a minimum. A pristine scope of any kind is going to be a rare item from now on. If you want to kill someone with your M4 or mosin it will most likely mean using Iron sights to do so. If you still have any of the laser dot optics, PU scopes, Acog or (praise to the gods) a long range sight, in decent condition, cherish it greatly. If you lose it it may well be a long while before you find another. I cleaned and painted my mosin last night and ruined it several different ways. In the end I came across an M4-A1 and just happened to have a box full of pristine goodies from the old days when things were not as hard to come by. I kitted out the M4 and then stripped the mosin of the scope bipod and compensator, stuck that into the box and tucked it away for a rainy day.bet it's going to be worth some this someday soon.

Mandelorian... Instead of the airbases try some of the alternetives like the little military camp in the south of the city of Zelenogorsk with 3 barracks and a jail. Their is also a camp SE of Polovo but that is a bit more risky. It is in a depression and snipers can hide on all sides. It gives me the willies! I only go there on an empty server. I try to get near the camp and log off until directly after the server resets. Most servers reset at 12, 4 and 8 (am and pm) What ever you do, don't spawn when the server resets, wait a couple of minutes or you may lose your charactor. you can see the server time in the server list. Zelenogorsk has plenty of ammo for the A4 with a .357 pistol now and then. Not seen any 45's or A4's tonight, but I did see the occasional grip. Acogs and all other scopes are going to be rare as hen's teeth from now on especially pristine ones. But that's ok, less snipers to worry about! :P In the barracks I found a small scope for a mosin and a damaged acog but nothing else on my wish list. Just north of the camp are 3 garages near the water pump and 6 more across the street up the road. They sometimes spawn kit for the gun but not often. I found a speed loader there along with a pistol and A4 flashlight and a damaged bipod. It's not what it used to be so get used to it.A pristine weapon of any type with full ammo and all the bells and whistles is going to take much searching and mean going head to head with all the other players looking for the same jewels :beans:

I always use the fire axe if I can. I find if you aim a head width to the left it is always a direct hit. Trying to axe them with the aim point directly on them is useless.

Both the M4's I found were pristine if not the parts. Fortunately I have been toting a box full of pristine parts for several days now and switched them out. I dumped my mosin after I cleaned and painted it leaving me with a worn rifle (formerly pristine) that only hold a single bullit. Isn't progress wonderfull? I did take off the attachments and put them into the same box in case I find a nice mosin later.

Here is a quote from SmashT about the first part of my above post. <Work on queued login has begun and should be implemented soon. This allows for penalties in certain situations, in the form of a time out. Which means thier charactor will stay in the server they logged out from, until their timeout has expired. It's the devs solution to both combat logging and server hopping. Default time is 30 seconds + any penalty we apply to combat logging, rapid server hopping etc.So that mean, as a minimun their charactor will be present for 30 seconds. During that time you cab loot,kill, anything to that player and the results will be saved.>

Just some thoughts I had responding to some of the posts on the forum. These are some suggestions for some features that lie within the scope of the game that could solve some of the problems with spawning, loot and bandits... Random airdrops: These could take place at random moments with a cargo aircraft flying over and droping a number of "relief crates". The crates could land anywhere in the path of the aircraft which would be visable to people on the ground who could then try to search benieth the flightpath. Crates could be in fields forest or even towns and would despawn after a server restart. This would spread some significant loot over the map at random and give the dogs a ball to chase as well (so to speak) Infectious illness: Imagine if loot taken by bandits could be infected and perhaps make them ill. We have the drugs and meds in the game as well as disinfectant. So if you DO shoot a guy for his stuff you have to sit there and clean it before you take it and become a target yourself. Illness could also require a course of antibiotics to cure Weather: I am sure this is already in the pipeline. But once again cold and bad weather together with exposure could lead to illness which could be spread to other players (or turn then into zombies?)

Judging by some commets posted today by one of the people higher up the food chain, server hopping may soon be a bit more complicated than it is now with a "linger time" before you charactor disappears from the server and possibbly additional penalties when servers are changed often. In such a case weather would be a bit less dependent on being uniform over all servers as players would become, albeit only slightly, more server specific at least in the short term. In other words a person would be less able to switch servers again and again until they found one with weather they like. With regards to illness, I was thinking more in the terms of contagen instead of infection. Lets not just have sickness, lets make it contagious! Of course that could get out of hand with empty servers killed off by some computer black plague! LOL :lol:

Here in Europe (and for that matter most of the rest of the world) guns are exceedingly rare, maybe not even 1 per 1000 inhabitants. The odd shotgun used by a farmer for vermin or a hunting rifle which requires permits up the butt as well as two safes (one for ammo and one for the gun) are about all you all come across. US style gun possesion is pretty much an aborration exept in places like somalia, central africa and SW asia. Hand guns are completely forbidden in the UK where even air rifles are on a short leash. I would be very disappointed if this game ever turned into something like the Mod that preceeded it. As things are now KoS is pretty much the rule. The only time another player didn't try to kill me was when we both had nothing. That changed as soon as we found some guns! I'd like to see something more than a game resembling the Lords Resistance Army. But hey even there the main weapon used is a machette.

Yeah, what could be a bigger source of infection than a corpse?

You say that but the story line is about as close as you will get to the game. How about having players be infected. If you loot them you may get sick and die or at least be very impaired for a while.

Or use a flashlight...

indeed, we are already finding the raincoats. It may just be a matter of time

They should have made the ladders growl instead of the rabbits

Bonny that gives me a great Idea... what if you were to get relief flights coming over and dropping a few crates of supplies across the map, say in a big arch? You would see the plane go over and have to search for the supply crates in a random spot. Try to find it before someone else does. They could be anywhere and you could only take so much as you could carry anyway. They would the despawn at the next server reboot

Look at your filter at the bottom of the page. If the ping is set too low or any of several criteria to servers will not be shown.

I have seen it rain cats and dogs in the mod, you could get sick or cold. Building a fire was often needed to get warm. I like it! I look forward to more survival, less shooting/sniping. Trading with other players for meds, food, artifacts or self crafted objects will make the game much more interesting IMHO.

I'll be glad to never see all the high-end weapons Even the mosins are a bit much with people doing nothing more than staking out loot spawn points and shooting whoever shows up just for the halibut. It would be nice if 95% of the weapons were short range that would allow you to stand across the square from another player and check out their intentions without getting blown away. With factories closed and the population gone how long would the supply of ammo last? I would like to see guns spawn in pieces spread all over.Let people put them together from pieces, force them to trade with each other to get a working example. Make the bigger, more powerful guns even scarcer or perhaps just the ammo for them. This would make people conserve their bullets. The more rare the items the more people must interact to get the pieces they need. So you have a mosin... but if you only have 6 bullits for it are you going to waste them killing new-spawners on the beach?

Suppose he wanted to share some of that stuff with you but you killed him for it. I guess next time he'll just shoot you without talking. Asking you to put up your hands may simply mean he was worried you might shoot him... guess he was right. :(

I'm afraid of ladders and avoid them completely. Stairs are not too bad but the ones in the barns with the little loft above are very dangerious indeed. I always manage to walk off the side somehow and either die break a leg or hurt myself. need less to say I no longer covet any of the things to be found in barns at this point. Well at least opening doors no longer breaks your legs like they used to in the mod.

I disaggree. I found at least 2 M4-A1's at NWAF on a single server but that was top. I would now expect to find no more than 1 per location after any server reboot. and the question remains what the condition is. The 2 I did find were pristine though. Boots on the other hand... how many do you need? Lots of boots.Those who dare shall never suffer from lack of footwear!