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If the Arma2-Controls wouldn't be so bad, there'd be no need for 3rd person view. But as it is, climbing stairs in 1st person can easily get you killed...or really annoyed at least. Aiming off the hip isn't that difficult in real life. As long as your bullet goes where the barrel is pointed at it shouldn't be different in video games. In CoD for example this wasn't the case when moving. So you could stick the rifle up someones nose and pull the trigger...nothing happened mostly. Really pissed me off. Not sure if Arma2 handles this better.

By the amount of watches I find Chernarus must be part of Switzerland. And one watch never comes alone!

Stary was a busy place the last hour. Could have easily shot 2 guys but didn't. I'm too nice for this game aparently.

Stumbled upon it on youtube. Brought me back into gaming after more than one year beeing clean.

I like how most of the players meet here in this thread an share their experiences. Keep that up guys!

I once shot down a heli with a makarov. ^^

OP has a good point here. At first I really cared about my stuff. After getting killed a couple of times you lose that affection, especially if the cause was a hacker. Conclusion: Gearing up is only interesting until you are strong enough to take on other players. That's relatively easy and not really time consuming. Getting and keeping vehicles is out of the question for a loner, especially when he can only play a couple of hours a week, as normal with people having a life....and playing on different servers each time. So there's no reason to bother with that unless beeing lucky or able to steal/carjack from someone else. Same with keeping a camp. The so called endgame for such players can only be fucking around with other players like trolling or just killing them on sight hence trying to be friendly most of the times will not be rewarded. The only solution I see for now is going on a private hive and trying to stick to a single server. There you might make friends or keep a camp or something. You might...

Both would be used to grief other players as with wirefences and sandbags. That just simply sucks. Btw, spraying on a buildig something like "keep out" will be interpreted as "Come and kill me!". People will be spraying all sorts of things...just nothing useful.

There are special deathmatch maps like Elektro Deatchmatch, were an area around the city is fenced, no zombies, you spawn with a m4 and everywhere are weapon boxes...an people not havin any intention of being friendly whatsoever.

It would be nice if characters were able to switch from US to EU so you can pick your timezone. Maybe you can add some mechanic to prevent joining from one to the other inside a set timeframe so teleporting is prevented. If you could get the DayZ-Commander to support Redux player numbers might skyrocket. Would break the private character we have right now though.

Why not? I like everything that is possible in real life. It would have not much effect though hence people just would make sure their subject to be dead.

There you go! Will take a while to process. I guess 20 minutes or so from now.

Range? Pistols are effective up to maybe 25 meters with the majority of action between 5 and 15 meters.

After my visit to Elektro just now I can say that zeds seem more aggressive and more determined to chase you down. Didn't find any backpack at lootpiles so I really was happy to grab a czech vest pouch off some poor soul's corpse. Elektro seemed abandoned. No signs of any other survivors there. My last time gearing up was in Cherno and I was alone there as well...except for multiple dead (non-)survivors. Where is everybody? NWAF?

Bandicam recorded like one frame every 10 seconds or so. Happens to me pretty regularly with the first recording. :(

Get DayZ-Commander. It will check your patch status and update by simple clicking. Great tool!

Are you sure you installed everything as instructed? Better do it again and do exactly as it says! Check if the path in the shortcut points to the Betapatch-Executable and not to the regular arma2oa.exe!

Hi Wormloaf! Just blew you to pieces at the airfield. Was even recording but the video is messed up. You guys should have talked to me. I wouldn't have attacked. Could've shot your friend before I was talking to him but didn't. Well, your friend took revenge. Knew there was another dude and almost got him too. The third guy was a surprise though. ^^ The second video was ok though. Here the finale: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxyJA5N2N5I

Kill your character and try to get this stuff yourself from the airport!

Don't worry. It's not your fault. It's explicitly hard in DayZ to get that going.

Tactical gear with slots for flashlight, knife, pistol, mags and grenades to free up inventory space. Helmets. Should be able to loot from military corpses...like the water bottles they carry. Obviously you don't spawn with it. AK-107 (extremely rare), Desert Eagle, .357 or other bigass revolver with 6" barrel Machete and some medieval melee like clubs, swords and even armor like a mace and helmets which make you less likely to get damage from other melee attacks especially by zeds. Full bottles of alkohol. Can be consumed instead of painkillers to reduce shock but will impair vision for some time. Maybe also to desinfect wounds...or to accompany the grilled meat at a bandit campfire. Will create empty bottle which then can be used to make a molotov. Won't hurt to have variety here as long as they use ammo which is already there. There's not just Chernarus. There's Lingor, Utes, Takistan, Fallujah and Panthera...and there will be more. Some of them will find their way in the standalone. Someone eventually will create a map set in northern america.

I support he motion if there's a beekeeper's suit added accordingly! I might give up the way of the gun and set up a honey production. With that I tame bears and finally rule the world!

And you're going to check out the waistband of that sniper...600m away...prone...in a ghillie suit? Hats off!

Found an Alice in Balota air control tower. Didn't even play that much, so I guess I'm some lucky bastard. But don't get your hopes up guys! You won't see me. Found a ghillie as well. ^^

Guy, Kevlar vests hold off pistols pretty well, but against any sort of rifle they are practically useless unless the have heavy armor plating, which is heavy and won't cover much of your body.