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Agreed. Although I think I should add, alot of them are server owner/admins who can respawn as soon as they die with everything they had before they died. You might remember a while back RhinoCrunch going on about how he was now a "hero" and he was going to drop the "bandit" lifestyle. I caught on fairly quickly, turns out he had just started renting his own server and using the respawn button. Its alot easier to be a hero when the already broken perma-death can be even more broken as an admin.

Advice: Keep killing otherwise guaranteed your skin will morph and switch you to your pistol at the worst possible moment.

Its really hot today. Is anyone else hot?

Went in at 9am as it opened. There was already a surfer bogan in there talking constantly to the service guy. I got a bit impatient because I just wanted to grab the first headset I found and go do other jobs before I could go home and play some games. Eventually I got my headset, payed for it and the guy says what games are you playing at the moment, Battlefield or Call of Duty or? I was like "Nah mostly been playing DayZ". The surfer bogan jumps up and is like "woah dude that game is awesome". I thought it was pretty funny. Maybe you had to be there. Not sure. Nice to see DayZ has a good name for itself in the bogan hangouts anyways.

"The term bogan is Australian and New Zealand, usually pejorative or self-deprecating, for an individual who is recognised to be from an unsophisticated background or someone whose limited education, speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour exemplifies a lack of manners and education.While bogan is widely recognised, localised names exist that describe the same or very similar groups of people." Basically it depends on where you are from as to what personal attributes defines a bogan, but its essentially any person who has characteristics which exemplify a lower form of person. The where you are from can vary from one town to another, which makes defining it difficult.

I just realized RhinoCrunch has a financial interest in DayZ, things just became more clear. EDIT: Also IMO there should be a warning before one of his videos, I seriously cannot stand listen to that voice.

Bandits kill for loot. Survivors scavenge for loot. Your not a bandit at all, your a survivor.

Bandits kill for loot. Survivors scavenge for loot. Your not a bandit at all, your a survivor.

Just spent my last $50 on a bag of crack and a hooker so no I cannot make this bet.

I only carry one primary. I find it difficult to carry two primaries and ammo for two as well as all the basic survival gear I keep as a standard. My favorite weapon is the M14, but when I can't keep up ammo on that I will opt for an AKM as they are easier to get and so is the ammo.

lol yep. Well I was reading your description and was waiting for the bit that differed from how I play DayZ. Didn't find it :P

I'm pretty sure there are some new hacks getting around that buff your health and increase damage on weapons. Ones that haven't really been made publicly known yet. Ive run into a few of these cases that make no sense.

I like the bit how he knew whos tents they were when he found them.

I think this is the best idea I have ever read in this forum.

Just passed my first milestone. The most kills Ive had on one life on one server, 50 xD. Thought Id celebrate by making a thread about it :P On this server Ive been alive for 25 days. I probably average about 1-2 hours in there each weekday, more on weekends. I stay mobile and start hitting high value areas North and then once it looks like Im not going to get any fights North I slowly head South. When I get South I kill for a while and eventually start running low on ammo so I had North again to gear up at military spawns again. Most of the time I have used an AKM although I use an M14 when I have one and the ammo. I also only carry one primary as duping is fixed on the server and it makes the survival components a little tight at times. Gearing up to kill is hard work! Most of the players in there are geared clans who have alot of vehicles vs me the lonewolf so it makes it very difficult to stay alive. I follow a very strict ruleset on this life. Never over-commit to a firefight. Always have an escape plan in a firefight. Always play tight and always wait for the other player to make the mistake. When identifying a number of players/clan don't retreat, fight them but keep the escape option...sometimes I will come away with 3 or so kills, other times I have to run for my life. Dont attempt to kill someone I can't loot and bury. And a heap of other stuff. All these rules make the game a bit boring at times, but they keep you alive.

Ive only got one kill on that server on that hill (assuming we talking about elektro). My gamestyle doesn't allow me to get many kills up there. Because I use an AKM or M14 I'm not really getting kills outside 500m and I aim to have most of my fights within the 100m-300m range. Lower than 100m is dangerous because damage can take time to register so even though you kill someone they may end up killing you after the fact as well. 300m is nice but outside this range I have to aim off alot and I play on servers with an average ping of ~220ms and I play on lowest settings. If you take a look at that hill, the closest places I am willing to go on there, the firehouse on its own is 450m away. The supermarket and school are around 650m. So no, I don't get many kill up there. Only one I got up there was when someone came after me. I do observe up there alot. Part of my tactic is to observe major towns and cut off players who are exiting the town. The strong thing abou this is you can often do it as an ambush where you are at rest and they are breathing heavily from running out of town so your aim is going to be better. Ive had more kills over near the barn a few hundred metres north of Elektro. In there I can get into the ranges I want and cut people off. Also I had a really good experience there recently where there ended up being a massive gun fight between what looked like two clans. I turn up late and there is only one person alive who was looting around 10 bodies, so I killed them, looted the bodies, buried them and then camped that area and caught one coming from fresh spawn who wanted to pick up the gear there :P On this server though, Ive had more kills at berezino. Possibly because alot of them are clans with alot of vehicles.

My public hive character is over 50 days old because I don't play on public hive anymore. Most of my private hive characters are between 30-60 days. Oand beans to OP. You look like you actually played the game because you have murders/zombie kills. Most people who come in and post up days survived clearly hide in the corner of the map.

I consider myself a bandit but I kill fresh spawns. It pisses me off when I do though, I just wasted ammo on someone who has nothing.

Scenic tour: NWAF - Devils Castle - Pobeda dam - Black Lake - Willow Lake - NEAF - Krasnostav - Khelm - Berezino

Yeah wow not going to bother practicing, AS50s and M107s only.

Before this game I was an adamant League of legends player. But I hit a stale point where I wasn't really learning alot from the game. Then my brother mentioned this game. I had a look at some youtube videos and was impressed. Thought Id give it a go as a casual game on the side whilst playing LoL. Never went back to LoL.

lol nah couldn't be me. I literally will not go into Cherno and Elektro. I will scout if from range, but never get within less than about 500-600m of the outskirts of it. I never look to kill fresh spawns. From time to time I do observe Cherno/Elektro from range with binos/range finders and if I can I will cut off their exit from the city. But this usually doesn't last long because you quickly run out of ammo, especially when Im packing an M14 its not often I find players around Cherno/Elektro who have DMR mags. Even the AKM mags slowly run out. Its a bit harder to kill with the AKM and I often have to apply suppressive fire to lock down a player so I can get into my preferred ranges.

Or put a backpack full of gear inside a tent. Oh wait I always lose my gear overnight anyways, what am I saying.

I like the concept. I think there are alot of people who would like this to be the main part of their game. Id like to see it happen, although not a major feature of the game for me. Its a bit hard to keep this stuff going right now with no protection from hackers etc. I really think in order for this to be working well players need a storage component that can be saved offline IE one tent that can be saved offline so people can't raid it when they are offline.

I believe I recall a video where Rocket was looking at how to integrate them into standalone. Sidechat pretty much does the same thing but server admins remove them and on most servers where they are enabled people prefer to rage at players who use sidechat rather than mute them or change settings so its not annoying for them.