ElectroLlama

Toss it!

Very yes.

I've noticed that even after hitting "L" to turn it on, you have to move around for it to activate for some reason. That, or you spawned with a fleshlight instead. That does not light up.

Good on you not taking the AS50 TWS, and doubly good on destroying it! That was a worthwhile life taking that gun out of the food chain. My new mission is to do the same thing. There really aren't enough sinks for the best gear, especially while hackers breed them.

No problem! I plugged this into Google Translate, put it into Russian and back to English. I think... it helps. "Ohhhhh see it now Pug bandits raid will love this shit Your doctor is produced in a rage tank head throw n wait landfill gas it will not work and suck what do you do to kill a bunch of OZ n to n cry like a ninja guy looted weapons Bet to keep things as they are Maybe some of NPC, where players can trade with each other in Saftey heh, as the raid But if you want to bank, then yes" -- Mr. Stagger Lee, PhD

On my very first life, I came across a hacker who bestowed a crate of goodies on me. At this point I thought M4 rifles came in crates of 20 with all the ammo you would ever need. I wandered about aimlessly for a while and was just about starving as I came in on some buildings around Nizhnoye. Thought I needed to kill my way out of every situation, so I did. I killed and killed and got hit a lot. At the end, I had a pile of corpses and 1.8 BLOOD. Yes, 1.8. I wouldn't say I "survived", per se, but I lasted a lot longer than I should have on 1.8 blood and no food. In retrospect, I probably would have been fine if I checked bodies for beans but I did not know what I was doing. I passed out a few times over 10 minutes or so. Fired off a few rounds to call in the rest of the Z in the area I didn't catch in the first wave, and I let them have their way with me. That was my 1-hour intro to DayZ and it was a weird way to come into the world.

Right, you won't be banned. Maybe the guy you killed took it off another player, who took it off another, and so on. Before too long, someone will be taking it off you, so do the world a favor and destroy it before that happens!

In ideal world, this makes perfect sense, yet some how hacked in items outside of the spawn tables persist in the game. Honestly, why don't they scrub the database more often?

This is my only realism gripe with the high power rifles. You hit me in the head or chest with a 50 cal, fine, I'm a blood stain on the roads of Cherno. I'd tip my hat to you if I still had a head to tip it from. However, if you're not the best sniper out there and you nail me in the leg or arm, well that's probably gone too, but I should still be alive. Alive and toeless/legless/armless. In those few moments I should be able to return fire or scramble away in panic, because adrenaline is a hell of a drug. Should I survive the encounter, perhaps after having to tourniquet myself or with the help of a squad mate, I'm still surviving, down one limb and slightly more grizzled. Maybe life is harder until I can fashion some crutches, or a peg leg, or a M4A1-Leg (<--this). I'll roam the hills north of Cherno and Elektro, looking for my white whale and get revenge, and hopefully the next update will include Chest Cannons, and will shoot my heart at you.

I love it when the loop is closed on both sides of an encounter like this.

I'm not sure anyone has proved out what events actually result in your character appearing at spawn. Anecdotally, I was moved to spawn after playing a few hours on a server, logged on to another server the next day, couldn't get in and was stuck at "Loading", found another server, and I was at spawn. I'll also add that I think BattlEye is at least part of the problem. I had a friend in the server and right when I got to the "Loading" screen, my friend saw that BattlEye tossed me 'cause it couldn't connect. Right now I'm only using two servers exclusively, both on 1.7.2.5, and I have not had any further issues.

Just got tossed for #87. One of my friends made it in to a server and he's seeing a LOT of people getting tossed for #87.

The comes to mind when thinking about heat maps. Could something like this be rigged up using a sub-set of data that wouldn't provide much of a game play advantage and would just look freakin' pretty? What would it take to record bullet trajectories over a few servers over a few weeks? That, or go simpler with player deaths or zombie deaths. The trends would be obvious but a point cloud render of that might look neat.