DarkwaveDomina

Why OP? Why? I tried so hard to forget!! :|

I'm not sure it's that way intentionally, just that the way the game mechanics work have fostered a decent PvP experience. And I say this as someone who's not interested in PvP. :P

You almost make it sound like an alpha of a sandbox mod.

I'm sure he did, and that's why I made a point of saying I don't do it anywhere near as often as you seem to think I do. I'm only trying to explain that heli hunting isn't really that hard if you're looking for good loot, it's much less risky than going somewhere like the NWAF and as a result can actually save you time, as you're not running all that way just to bite a bullet. This is why I have come to change my previous opinion that most of the AS50s in the game must be duped*, because I run in to them quite a lot when I'm heli hunting while my friends aren't online. *That's not to say it doesn't happen, it undoubtedly does. But the items in question are not as rare as people think. What's also worth noting is that people like me might run in to AS50s and leave them on the ground for someone else to find, I have no interest in the AS50 (I took the M14 AIM out of the stuff I found this morning) so someone will find it eventually. I'm not really keen on the amount of AS50 spam in the game either, taking this in to account I might put them on a pilot zombie and hide the corpse in future. ;)

That's a cool assumption, and it sounds a little bitter from your tone, but you're wrong. I play a few hours a day (it might be six or so at the weekend), it's just not that hard to find crashed helis and sometimes you're just lucky. I don't run a circuit either, and forgive me for saying so but this is a sandbox game and for many people heli hunting is part of "playing" the game, as is anything else you can potentially do in a sandbox game. You can play it how you like, I will play it how I like.

It's not actually that hard to find helis if you're looking for them and covering a lot of open ground, as well as checking places people wouldn't normally look. I'm not a great DayZ player but for as long as I've been hunting helis I've found 2-6 per day without trying very hard, so that 5.22% chance per heli is actually very good and explains why I ran in to two AS50s, an M14 AIM, and an FN Fal over the course of last night and this morning. As I've been saying throughout this thread, duping undoubtedly happens but this gear is just not as rare as people think if you know how to find and retrieve it. That's why I support some kind of item decay mechanic. My friends are always complaining about how they get good gear and are then bored because they're afraid to use it, because they know it'll last forever if they just stay out of trouble.

That video was hilarious, beans for making me laugh.

I try not to engage zombies, but when I do I make it a point to aim for a 1:1 ratio of zombie kills and headshots. My highest has been something like 78:70 so far, I rarely live long enough to get it higher. :P

In fairness, earlier versions of DayZ weren't as popular. It's only been around a short time and has recently exploded. As for tents, well, according to people on this forum tents are not required for duping and Google agrees.

Didn't I just specify that's not what I mean by "outplayed"? That's twice you've jumped on one of my posts with a retarded straw man.

I don't think anything can really be done other than server admins being vigilant about restarts and making sure the server time and server name match. My advice would be to favourite servers with the right time and little or no lag (as well as no/rare 'hacking' events), gradually removing ones that don't maintain their servers as well as others, and eventually you'll build up a collection of clean and reliable servers.

That's the one thing that happened to me in the last fortnight. My friends and I were at Green Mountain when we were transformed in to cows and teleported to the NWAF, I aborted the server before I could be shot like my friends were. Since then I've not experienced any sort of contact with a script kiddie. Maybe I'm lucky, maybe I just play on good/varied servers, I don't know, but one thing I am sure of is that people are over-reporting 'hackers'. If someone doesn't specify that they were transformed, teleported, or dropped from the sky I tend to assume someone outplayed them and they got mad.

I was an AK guy but I love the accuracy of the M4 and M16 weapons now. Currently rolling with an M14 AIM though, it's a thing of beauty. (Shame about the noise though.)

I've only encountered one script kiddie in a fortnight, you can deny it all you want. Some people are encountering them a lot more than others, part of the problem is probably server/region choice and some of it is undoubtedly people assuming some events are "hacking" which probably aren't.* *Like one guy on these forums the other day who said two guys driving around in a UAZ with silenced weapons must be hackers. There's no doubt in my mind that "hacking", while an extant problem, is being over-reported.

My advice would be to look for "daytime" servers with something like four people on, sometimes the time is reported incorrectly and people log off right away. I think the times in DayZ Commander are just reported from the server name or something, because the time zone in the server name often does not match the time on the server.

Heiduk you get all my beans.

Cool story bro.

The hosting sticky says you can kick players for being disruptive, are you not allowed to ban them too? If not, that does suck.

Every death I have suffered in DayZ has been hackers, nothing else could possibly kill me because I'm a special snowflake that never makes mistakes or gets outplayed. Nor do bugs and glitches happen, don't give me that "alpha" nonsense.

Every death in the past two weeks? Okay, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but there's something fishy with the servers you're playing on as I've only been teleported to somewhere once in the past two weeks. Changing servers once in a while is server hopping? You can't possibly be exaggerating, no sir. Crap, playing on a different server each day, and maybe swapping servers once or twice a day due to lag, is really going to come back and fuck me hard when Rocket implements a punishment. Whatever will I do? I just told my friend on Steam that it wouldn't be long until someone implies I am, or am defending, hacking. I should've put money on that one.

Stop blaming every death on hackers, I've only confirmed one encounter with a hacker and I aborted before they killed me (immediately upon them teleporting me to the NWAF). Every other way I died has been either legit or due to my own carelessness, or bugs. People abusing scripts does happen, but there's no way are you guys getting killed by 'hackers' as often as you think you are. If you really are then you need to change servers once in a while.

Per person who happens to be looting at a crashed heli, it adds up with so many people playing now. Like I said, I found two in the last 24 hours, and I'm beginning to believe many/most might not be duped at all. Considering heli hunting is not hard and all.

This game isn't for you then, one of the requirements is balls. Says so on the main site. Why not go play a game like COD or Battlefield where you can unlock a new weapon by easily headshotting 25 people?

It's more than possible some/lots of duping is going on, but really, the probabilities are not really that surprising. I've been playing DayZ for something like a week and a half or two weeks now, by the end of week one I'd learned enough about the game to start helicopter hunting, I'm not in to PvP so that's "end game content" for me and it's now what I typically do unless I've been killed and had to start over. If we assume that even a fraction of the 183,873 unique players per day engage in helicopter hunting as a passtime, the 0.87% spawn rate per person/group just shot up quite drastically and we might have plenty of AS50s and other pieces of hardware floating around the hive and being stolen by bandits. Edit: Unless my maths is fucktarded, and it usually is, if only 10% of those people are heli hunting at the same time then there's potentially a chance for an upper limit of over 21,000 of them finding an AS50. Nope, that's totally wrong, but it'll still be a lot. Edit 2: Okay, unless my maths is still fucktarded it should be an upper limit of about 159 people finding an AS50 at any one time, assuming even a low as 10% of the population are heli hunters. Feel free to correct me, anyone, maths is not my strong point.

I used to think all the AS50s were duped too but I can't ignore the fact that, just in the last 24 hours alone and during the course of investigating around six heli crashes, I found two AS50s, an M14 AIM, and an FN FAL. I won't even get in to which weapons a friend and I found at the NWAF last night. This site says there were 183,873 players in the last 24 hours, this needs factoring in to your probability.