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Game's more fun with PvP, and you die less when you shoot on sight. So I became a bandit.

The game is much better without the .50 cals. Playing on a server right now, only sniper rifles in the game are CZ550 and M24. Both guns are very rare, and the ammo only spawns with the guns. The rarity of the guns sort of makes up for the fact that everyone in DayZ can instantly pick up a sniper rifle and hit a target at 500m. Artificially limiting the number of snipers in the game, which I initially disagreed with on principle, makes the game a lot more fun in my opinion (and this is coming from a sniper).

Was looking for a new username, my favorite song at the time was Soldier of Fortune by Deep Purple. Soldier of Fortune is tacky and taken, so I shortened it to just Fortune. There's 'x'es in there occasionally because Fortune is usually taken and I don't like numbers, although I'm thinking of adopting a number pretty soon because the 'x'es look pretty dumb.

The game is better with third person disabled. There's a lot more action because people can't just sit in a bush and see everything without putting themselves at risk. Third person makes you feel more comfortable... In a zombie apocalypse... Doesn't belong. If you can't land in first person, you need to practice. I can do it pretty well with only a couple hours behind the stick. Driving is easier in first person imo, much easier to judge turning and shit, but I've played a decent amount of racing games in first person so I guess I'm used to it.

7.62 should instantly incapacitate someone with a body shot. Don't know how detailed Arma's body systems are, but maybe separate the gut and chest. 1 hit kill to the chest (11k damage + bleeding), instant KO (at least 8k damage) and severe bleeding for gut shots (so if someone else doesn't bandage/help them, they'll bleed to death or barely escape on the verge of consciousness), maybe 4-5k damage to limbs. Everything else should be 3 body shots max. I shouldn't have to empty 2-3 Makarov mags into someone's chest to kill them.

Make your own squad or be friendly and try to get into one. One I'm in right now, I got into by meeting a guy at Cherno hospital, gave eachother blood transfusions then ran around Cherno together and went north. He introduced me to the rest of the squad when they came on, now there's 4-5 of us.

No, Sacriel isn't becoming a bully. He's killing more unarmed people on Namalsk because the nature of the map demands it. It's not like Chernarus where the good loot is up north, and you spawn on the coast. You spawn anywhere and there's high grade military loot on 2/3rds of the map. Fresh spawns on Chernarus aren't a threat. Fresh spawns on Namalsk are. My question though... Why the fuck do you care what he does?

Bandits are more dangerous than most people, of course bandits kill other bandits. I don't trust people if I have anything worth keeping. If I just spawned and I have a Makarov and some food, yeah I'm gonna be friendly.

If I was stuck playing vanilla DayZ, I think I would have quit long ago. Private hives and mods are the shit though. I joined DayZ Redux a couple weeks ago and it breathed new life into DayZ for me.

I've drank (drunk?) 4-5 cans of Mountain Dew now. Feels good.

6 shots and you didn't hit the pilot, engine, or either rotor? You deserved to die =p

I think all of the base maps have way too many weapons. Chernarus has the least, so that's the best one in my opinion, but custom mods like DayZ Redux are better.

M16, feels far more accurate and less recoil.

DayZ Redux is probably the best server to play on right now if you're looking for the authentic DayZ experience. They have servers with almost all metagaming disabled (no peripheral dots, no name tags, no waypoints, no third person). Most fun I've had in DayZ since I started playing.

False. You can sit behind cover and look around without ever being in danger of being shot. Over walls, around bushes/trees, etc

Vanilla isn't that great anyways. Too many military weapons and supplies. Come play on DayZ Redux.

Playing at night might be fun if gamma/brightness/HDR abuse wasn't possible, but it is, so it's like playing during the day anyways, except a lot uglier and less fun in general. Maybe if they find a way to stop setting abuse, I'd enjoy playing at night, having to balance between enough light to see and enough light that others can see me, etc.

The game is much better without the AS50, M107, DMR, and L85.

3rd person needs to be removed or changed. People being able to sit in a tree, behind a wall, etc. and third person pan around and get view of everything is extremely dumb. Been playing on a 1st person only server for a few days now, I see 5x more action on it with 15 players than I do on a 40 man 3rd person enabled server, because people have to actually come out of cover to see other players. No more (or at least far less) roof camping, bush camping, etc.

Some people have dark monitors or play in very light environments, this would make playing the game extremely difficult for them. Although I do think they can limit the gamma and stuff a bit more, I don't think anyone needs the gamma up at the max setting to see properly.

Wanted to hit -500k, but my friends stopped playing and I hate playing alone, so I gave up.

The post directly above yours shows where you can post to appeal your ban.

Having a base and using scripted weapons isn't admin abuse, kiddo.

Been playing on this server for a month or two now, killed these guys so many times and they come back well geared every time, so I started following them around and found two of their camps. Camp 1 - Tapolka Dam, north side. There are several tents underwater on the left and right side of the little wooden pier. AS50, L85s, M24, DMRs, bunch of SVDs, every M4 variation, Bizons, LMGs, the works. Couple of alice packs and ghillie suits, NVGs, Rangefinders. Used to be an L115A3, but the server adopted a "hacked weapons = ban" policy and it's gone now, ammo is sitll there, not sure if it works in any other guns. Camp 2 - Cap Golova, south side. First section you can get to easily by walking, just stick to the coast, there's a little path through the rocks and you have to walk near/almost into the water to get around a bit, then you see the tents. DMRs, L85s, M249, AKs, AS50 mags, ghillie suits, coyote packs. Then if you continue along the coast, and stick as close as you can to the rocks, pretty much walking on them (otherwise you'll end up swimming and might lose your gear), there's a couple more tents, I forget their contents. Happy hunting! PS: If you [CNO] guys see this, GLHF getting your duped gear now. - Lyra

Battleye isn't the issue, ARMA is.