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Haven't encountered one either for a long time. But I don't play that much and mostly the custom maps anyway. The trick is probably not to join populated servers. Hackers tend to look for high player count because they need an audience.

For a bandit any survivor is a threat or a loot pile. Unarmed players will gear up an get a threat, so better take care of them right away. It's like keeping vermin down. They're just stealing your loot you didn't come to pick up yet. Yeah, that's really annoying. And hearing the shots doesn't help that. And that's also why snipers are so hated. If you can see your opponent and even shoot at him but die anyway it's not so bad.

Rocket answered to this question in some thread. He thinks because of the new update more servers report their users correctly. So user numbers didn't actually go up that much. They just weren't that accurate before.

Private hive with active admins til standalone. Public hive is screwed. Even devs say so.

If they talk in side chat turn down VON in audio settings. If they troll you in direct chat they are usually within shooting range. Never had trouble with that. Just don't fire a Enfield or any sort of rifle while talking. ^^

Direct Chats reach is limited as it is. I'm not sure how far it is though. If anybody on the server can hear you and complains about it, stop fucking talking in side chat!

Does that matter to the victim?

DayZ is better without thermals. Period. It would be ok though if they are really rare.

Standalone definitely will get a melee system. You can't have a zombie game without! Museums, castles or some medieval nerds basement. There's a lot of people training in medieval martial arts just for fun and therefore have the respective equipment.

Have you searched for Arma2-Servers or only DayZ? My Google Fu found 2 things. Peripheral dots are turned off with difficulty "veteran" and there is a bug with changing the settings. http://guides.gamepressure.com/dayz/guide.asp?ID=15601 https://dev-heaven.net/issues/6406 Arma2 is now 3 years old. There should be documentation provided by the creators. If not, they should get kicked in the butt.

Zeds swim and climb. Nothing new.

Nope. Scarcity makes banditry even more profitable.

The Ak-74s fire 5.45 bullets which are roughly equivalent to 5.56 STANAG. The AK-47 and the latest version of it, the AKM, fire 7.62 x 39, which has a little more punch than both.

The only skin that get's shot at less is the ghillie...and that's only if you stay down in grass. The whole skin changing thing is retarded and should be gone with custom clothing.

You can bathe in soda and find more than enough food...in Vorkuta. Just not anywhere else.

Don't go to Elektro or Cherno. Or Solnichy. Or Stary Sobor. Or...well...stay home! ^^

The question is rather how do you police that?

You can turn down VON in audi settings. Silence! :) You need those to get beans!

There is no west coast in Chernarus. :P

It's natural to be pissed. It would be reasonable to get over it quickly. Especially regarding stuff around the internet where people are double the assholes they normally are and options are limited. Btw, his cactus is still allright. Nobody really touched it. Let's have it right there. That is my point from the beginning...and all the "reasoning" of the others haven't moved a bit as well. This discussion obviously leads nowhere. If he gets over himself he's free to whitlist me again. A short notification would be nice. If not I'll just play somewhere else. No big deal. Have fun!

Good shot, bot not that awesome.

Ambient sounds should be used very very carefully! DayZ is not supposed to be some horror flick. Sounds of crying children should only be where children are crying. That would be side chat. The wind sound is great. Adds to the immersion an is plausible. The children not.

I could empathise more if he wouldn't have de-whitelisted me. I thought he was a nice guy but my picture of him has changed drastically. He poses himself as the one and only righteous super admin, who can't entrust his precious Mod to others, and who never would misuse admin powers and the like and the first thing he does to somebody telling him the plain and simple truth is practically banning and ignoring. Pretty lame. I was just typing a cynic piece of him beeing to emotionally fragile for this world respectively the internet...but what the heck? Good night.

I'm not unable to empathise. Just unwilling. Because there's no point to it. Pretty hard to understand, isn't it? There's a thread in the DayZ-Redux-Forum. Read that! I made myself clear there. If you then still don't get what I'm saying, I will have to classify you as a moron.