sausagekingofchicago

Don't listen to any of these guys. The only way to get a dog is to go prone in front of a doghouse and start crawling into it. You'll just bump up against it and crawl in place. This is good. You need to do this until you glitch into it. It requires a fair bit of wiggling around to get the angle right and it's not easy. Whatever you do, don't give up. Once you do glitch into it you'll turn into a dog. The next time you die you'll spawn on the coast with a dog. Right now, it wont do much but follow you. This obviously isn't official so be careful.

Even that is better than being teleported or insta-killed by some twat.

Needs to be harder.

It's a bug and easy to avoid.

Protip: You don't have to be right up against a door to open it. Protip: You can activate the door and back away.

wtf drives cars in GTA in first person view? Why would I drive in first person in DayZ when all the great sights are outside of the car?

I'd rather DayZ have a baby with Battlestar Galactica. We're all practically Cylons anyway.

Definitely. I think the tone in my original message came from what I perceived as a knee jerk reaction to a problem that stems from dupers and hackers. Barbwire is by design, in real world and in game, to keep people out of or away from areas. It's certainly doing that is it not? It didn't turn out well because we have morons that think its funny to grief new spawns. There's no denying that. I just use it differently. I use it to funnel vehicles and people into kill zones around my home turf (which isn't near Elektro, Cherno, or spawns). I use it secure my vehicle against players without a toolbox. Can barbwire be used as a griefing tool? Yes, and so can anything that can be created or placed by a player will be used to annoy others but they can also be used for intelligent purposes too. Knowing that, I still want more ways to impact the game world. I don't think we should climb under a rock because some kiddies want to abuse the game mechanics. Those guys aren't going to stick around anyway and the game will evolve into something more interesting than endless deathmatches on the coast. Everyone seems to want things removed but rarely do they ever offer solutions to problems. I think the best solution is to let players vault wire but suffer bleeding damage when they do. It'll still serve to ward off the weary but it wouldn't prevent people from getting into buildings. There are better solutions than getting rid of it completely. Hell, make constructed items a server setting. Besides, we know exactly who's bringing in tons of barbwire and tank traps to the coast and it's not legit players. It's the dupers and hackers. For the record, I usually stand against the removal of NV (even though it hurts legit players on night servers), thermal, one hit kill sniper rifles, and most of the most annoying things in game because I know these items are duped, farmed, or hacked and the rarity has been ruined. Plug these holes and these problems will diminish. Even a complete hive wipe sounds good to me at this point.

It'll go something like this. 1. Install game 2. Print out any large map found by googling "Chernarus map" 3. Log into game. Watch the right hand corner of the screen. Note the location of your spawn. 4. Find your location on your printed out map. Take your time. You're going to die. 5. Press the number pad enter key. This will help you get through doors without breaking your leg. 6. Pick a town north of you. 7. Go there. 8. Repeat as often as necessary. Chapter two would cover how to google "DayZ wiki" and "DayZdb.com". Chapter three would cover locations worth travelling to that are not filled with mindless deathmatch players that would kill themselves again and again if given the chance just so they could spawn at Elektro, server performance be damned. The Ipod/Iphone/tablet version of the manual would be much shorter.

It's working as intended. We were given a tool and people are using it. It's just how some are using it that is causing all the qq'ing. If it could keep out zombies, awesome. Right now, it's keeping the biggest threat away and that seems to be good enough in my book. I don't hang around Elektro and Cherno and have no desire to endlessly play capture sniper hill so maybe I don't see the problem the way you guys do. It might help if we could actually permanently remove barbwire. It seems like it reappears after each restart no matter who removes it.

But you don't need to gear up on the coast. That isn't required. Nothing in the game forces people to go to those cities in search of gear. The game only asks players to solve their own problems and doesn't hold their hand through it. If it's not barbwire and tanktraps in Elektro and Cherno then it's going to be players with better gear sniping them again and again. Should we ask for those cities to become pvp-free zones? (no) The easiest solution to your problem is to turn north and start running. You'll find everything there that you'll find on the coast but you'll find it without having to deal with almost guaranteed as50 snipers and gobs of barbwire. This is what I did before I ever found a map and had more fun doing that than dealing with shoot on sight tards that think the game is meant to be one endless deathmatch. Leaving the coast is as easy as following a road that leaves the coast. If that's too hard for people then maybe they shouldn't be playing this game?

No luck finding one of those. For some reason I feel let down by the ArmA community. I did find this, maybe it'll work instead. http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=16673

Everywhere? It sounds like you stayed on the coast both times. No surprise it's all barbwired shut. Did you consider going north to any of the other major towns, farms, industrial and construction sites, or the NE and NW airfields? You went to two of the most trafficked areas and couldn't get anything so you gave up in frustration? The map is enormous, leave the coast. If that sounds like too much work then find a different server, get a toolbox, and then go back if you really want to.

I'm glad OP went straight to youtube to learn how to uber hax instead of searching the forums here. Then again, he did just hand his CDkey over to some real hacker that's probably really happy to be able to get back into the game.

I believe all this hacking nonsense is all an evil plot by none other than Sid Meier.

If a chainsaw is added I hope they give us more than just piles of wood. I want logs to tow with my atv/truck to make defenses and structures.

Locking the game to steam? Does this mean I'd have to run steam just to play? I don't really like the sounds of that even as a legit player. I hate hackers too but is that the only way to tackle this problem?

I was hoping they'd add more wildlife to the game. If so, maybe bears, wolves, and players dogs would be attracted to the cooked meat in a players pack. This would force us to choose canned goods with low hp restoration or cooked meat and a chance of getting attacked by something hungry. I actually don't see anything wrong with this idea as far as survival goes. The Cherno/Elektro pvp guys might not like it but it makes sense. Maybe by logging out near a tent, in a building, or at least under a tree would be better than just logging out anywhere with no ill effects. This would actually make camps more useful than just storing gear and could make survival players more territorial than they are now.

I'd host a private hive but only if it was whitelisted.

Once they're done removing all the high grade gear you guys will be right back here asking for nerfs for the AK's because your shotgun isn't powerful enough to take on the new 'high grade' weapons. So, no. Bad idea, terrible. Honestly, this smells more like pvp'ers whining about getting sniped. Try not to spend your entire time in Cherno or Elektro (or somewhere in between) and maybe you'll find these guns are a lot less threatening.

And I here I was thinking no one could use slimier marketing than the War Z clowns..

This depends entirely on how you choose to play DayZ.

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I've run into hackers on servers with only 3 people, including myself. The other two were hackers.

First, I'd empty any tents I had, pack them or flatten them with a car, and then relocate my camp to someplace else. I'd leave one empty vehicle with four flat tires at the old camp site and then wait for the greedy bastards to show up again.