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Server: Chicago 56 Time: ~3:20PM PST (-8) Player appeared north of Cherno, and spawned a bunch of supply crates, my friend saw it and told me it was an invisible player (at this point I DC'd because I didn't wanna die). My friend logged on a couple minutes later to see if he could grab some ammo from the crates, and then said he saw a guy in an SUV driving up and logged, so I turned on FRAPS and logged on to catch the guy.

Who cares if it requires skill? Better weapons are supposed to require less skill. The entire point of the game is finding things to make life easier (vehicles, camps, high end weapons, NVGs, etc.).

According to the Brony Study, 29% are social/open about their fandom, 45% are not, and 28% are mixed, depending on the situation they're in. So it actually is the vocal minority. Maybe you should do some research before forming an opinion on something you know nothing about?

Why do you get to define what a bandit is or isn't, and what a bandit does?

Set your video memory to default (this is probably your issue) Also add -winxp to the target, this forces the game to run in default DirectX 9 instead of the DX9 enhanced that it uses by default. For the mouse delay, go into controls and turn mouse smoothing all the way down.

Says who? Getting murders makes you a bandit, not getting bandit kills.

It's a PvP based game, why should there not be PvP oriented weapons?

I wish you could clear an area of zombies. As in, you shoot all the zombies and they don't respawn and you're safe to loot that area of town. To compensate for the decrease in difficulty, there could be more zombies to begin with. That way you can set up in a town, or an area of town, and make it at least safe for your squad's movement back and forth temporarily.

A round exploding in your hand is VERY, VERY, VERY different than an already fired bullet hitting your hand. Please tell me you're not serious.

Then why, once I get 5 murders, do I become a bandit, and not a "murderer"? Why do I get "bandit kills" and not "murderer kills"? Herpderp.

Says who? You sure? Because once I get a couple of murders I become a bandit.

There's a difference between using a third party program to script in weapons yourself and taking a gun off of someone that you legitimately killed. If someone scripts in a weapon that's supposed to be a lot better than other in-game offerings, and I kill him legitimately with lower tier weapons, then as far as I'm concerned, I earned whatever gear he had fair and square. Anyone could have killed him and taken the gun, anyone could kill me and take it, it's just another weapon in circulation at that point. Honestly, I feel like it gives me something to strive for after I get fully geared (which takes 15-20 minutes on main hive servers because of the duping problems). Instead of looking for the "super rare" AS50, L85, etc. that 1 in 5 people has, I get to look for scripted weapons. That's not to say that I think scripting in weapons is a good thing for the game, I'd rather have it be played as it was intended, no duping or scripting or anything, but that isn't going to happen until standalone (and even then it will still likely be a problem), but scripting in weapons that aren't in DayZ, and using said weapons, is by far the most benign exploit/cheat that I've seen in the game so far. Ammo refreshing, duping, mass kill scripts, etc. are all ruining the game far more.

Says who? I thought the phrase was "There's no honour among thieves".

Difference is, most people know there are hacked weapons in the game, and anyone can happen upon them. If everyone at the poker game knew there was a 5th ace ahead of time, and everyone had the same chance of drawing it, it's not cheating. Anyone can pick up a scripted in weapon, most people probably have without realizing it (don't forget scripters don't always script in guns that aren't in the game, most of them just script in regular AS50s and shit). Same with duped items, which are ruining the game more than scripted ones.

Only one thing needs to happen to make banditing a lot less common: Some kind of incentive to stick together. The main thing that would help is zombies become a LOT stronger. Watch most zombie shows/movies, 1v1 a zombie still has a decent chance to outright kill someone if they're in close range, even if the person is armed. Some kind of infection from being hit, where you need an antidote or you eventually die and become a zombie (not like the current infection/antibiotics). Something that makes it so you can't take out a horde of zombies solo. But as-is, you're no more likely to die to zombies alone than with a group, so there's no reason to group up other than blood bags.

How is it cheating?

Weapon spawn rates and duping/scripting just need to be fixed. Once sniper rifles are super rare and hard to come by, and ammo for the .50 cals is nearly non existent, snipers won't be a problem.

M24 - Super super common ammo, amazing accuracy, good scope. M16 or M4 variant - Common ammo, good damage, lowish recoil, often good sights. PDW - Ammo everywhere, clip size ranging from 15 to 30, decent accuracy. Depending on my squad and their equipment/playstyle, I either go stealthy scout sniper with an M24/M4A1 SD/M9 SD, or more of an upfront assault with a sniper rifle as backup with something like M24/M16 or M4/PDW.

Time: ~12:55PM PST (-8) Server: US 2157 Description: Three players drive into Cherno, one on a bicycle, two on an ATV. They stop moving, I hit one in the head, nothing happened. Figured he died standing up or something, switched targets and got another headshot on the driver of the ATV, nothing happened. They all got off their vehicles, and I shot the last guy, the passenger of the ATV, twice in the chest (here I started recording, forgot I had FRAPS open) and he then shot the other two guys and killed them. I shot the last guy 3 more times in the chest, then he took off on the ATV (at which point I stopped recording). About a minute later, someone said "Look behind you, asshole" so I DC'd after taking two bullets (there was only one way up to the building I was on and I was watching it, so someone either ghosted me or the cheater teleported behind me (guessing the latter)). The three players names were [LP]Zillakiller, Sublime, and Iration. Update as I'm writing this (~1:35PM): My friend was on her way back to try and get to her body in Cherno. Iration was kicked for something about a script restriction #2. My friend was then teleported into an explosion and died. Sublime and [LP]Zillakiller were both still on the server at the time.

Video didn't work, re-uploaded, should work now.

M24 is the best sniper rifle in the game next to the .50s.

The M4 SD isn't a very good PvP weapon past close range, but it's certainly not bad and it doesn't attract any zombie aggro which is good. One headshot or 3-4 body shots kills a player, same as a regular M4 or AK. If the M9SD could be reasonably accurate past 5m, I'd agree that it's better to have an M4A3 or something as a second primary, but sometimes you can't wait for zombies to be within attacking range to kill them.

One of my tents perma-saved stuff, I can empty it and save it and everything will be back next server restart. My other tent is empty and swallows anything I put into it on restart.

My squad has 5 members, but only 3 of us ever really play (the other 2 play maybe once a week if that). We have 1 rabbit (runs around with a hatchet looting stuff) 2 general assault (AKs, M4s, etc.) 2 overwatch The 2 assaults never really play, so it's usually just 2 overwatch and the looter. My friend plays the long range overwatch with an AS50 and Mk48, he sits way back and out of danger, covering rooftops and other vantage points that could be a threat to us. I play the scout sniper/counter sniper with an M24 and M4A1 CCO SD. I move around a lot and try to always cover the looter wherever she goes.

I swapped to another server (same version) without alt+F4ing, I spawned not on the coast, but inside that infamous building in Novy Sobor. I died there, stuck. Lost my M24, M4A1 CCO SD, rangefinder, NVGs, full toolbelt, etc., and my body was underground so I couldn't loot it when I walked back. Died to a bug within a bug. :(