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Or you know... You can just play on 1st person servers. This is why I don't understand the bitching. You guys have an option yet you choose to bitch about 3rd person still.

Dude inside could've easily heard him go around... Should be fixed... What? 3rd person isn't broken. It's never been broken. If you don't like how "unfair" it is then play on a 1st person server. People saying 3rd person was just tacked on... lol. DayZ was born on ArmA 2. ArmA has always had 1st and 3rd person. Early OFP had 1st and 3rd person. It's always going to be an option in the game. Get over it. I'm getting real tired of these 1P hardcore elitists who think the entire game should be 1P only and anyone who plays 3P is a scrub. What difference does it make if I can peek around corners or see people over fences? They can see me too half the time. It's not game breaking. Oh and I definitely pray they never add over the shoulder perspective. Whoever thinks that's a better looking view is fucking mental.

I just want a semi-modern bolt action sniper rifle. The mosin is nice but it's such an old rifle. The SVD is cool, I'll definitely pick it up on release. Hopefully it'll take 7.62x54 like it's supposed to.

Will look out for you. Thanks

Being back-stabbed and shot on sight isn't a good experience. Dying over and over again isn't fun. Maybe it is for you but not me. My enjoyment DOES come from interaction but 90% of the time that interaction is ruined because people are so paranoid. I haven't KoS'd since the beginning. Because part of me goes "I don't want to ruin this guy's experience and frustrate him". But too bad that thought has got me killed 99.99% of the time. I've literally only ever met 3 friendly people ever who didn't decide to blow my face off. There is no solution. You have the people that kill you for your gear, the people that'll just kill you for the satisfaction and the people that KoS because they fear you want to kill them and take their shit and that's over 50% of the population.

Skateboards? Yeah that really fits in DayZ lol...

Is there any word on when they'll fix the sound bug where you can't hear gunshots? I almost died to someone at NW because I couldn't hear their SKS shooting at me. Luckily I saw them after the first shot hit me and blasted them with my shotty.

It still gives me a reason not to trust anybody. I'm gonna gear up for hours just to get shot by somebody I think is friendly? Nah, not anymore.

It's fine on 0.51 for me. No overheating what-so-ever. I'll try that though, thanks.

I've also learned something. TRUST NO ONE ON EXPERIMENTAL. I don't care how friendly they sound, they want your loot 100% of the time. I just got blasted by a guy I figured was friendly and I didn't think to shoot first when I passed by him. Came up behind me after I finally grafted my ghillie and was running down the road, saw his shotgun out, I turned around finally deciding he had hostile intentions and I died instantly even though I circled around his back. Experimental servers are horrible for gunfights. This was the 2nd time I lost a fight to a high pinger. If the guy that saw me way up north is reading this, you are an absolute asshole considering I spared you the first time we passed. All the other encounters were me trying to help people out but they all tried to end up killing me afterwards. I'm done trying to be friendly I can't just trust strangers anymore. Gonna blast whoever I run into now.

Hoping they push out a hotfix for temperature or release 0.51 soon. My character is literally stuck in the middle of the map borderline hyperthermic. I can't cool down at all. I've tried soaking myself and dropping all my gear. I can't play stable right now at all and it's really frustrating.

It's like that because people are constantly looting certain common areas. I've been in towns people usually don't go to and found hoards of loot. Though EXP is almost impossible to play on because half the 1st and 3rd person servers are broken so loot wouldn't be so weird. Also people complaining about the lag on full servers. Ever check the ping on most of the players? Almost 80% of the US EXP is 200+ ping. Too many high pingers can lag the server out. I actually lost a mosin I found with ammo because the server lagged out completely.

Probably the most messed up EXP patch I've seen so far. I don't know how they broke the melee mechanics or why they are changing them but they were fine a long time ago. The supposed new melee mechanics just make it almost impossible to kill a zombie with any sort of ease. Even if you see the tip of your weapon clip through the zombies head it won't hit at all. This has gotten so much of my gear ruined it's not even funny. A lot of stuff that's pristine like food, rags, etc... Will sometimes say they can't be used because they are ruined even though I can clearly see pristine on the description. I've even seen some stacks of ammo that are just damaged say they can't be used because they're ruined. Also, I don't know if I'm crazy or what but I swear the hunger system is broken in this patch. I can NOT hit energized stage 2 no matter what I do. I can eat literally stacks of food. My thirst can be at its worst stage and I can eat a handful of baked beans, fruit, canned tuna, etc and go from red thirsty to stage 2 hydrated and still be at stage 1 energized. Because of this I can't heal from any sort of damage because you have to be stage 2 energized and hydrated to start the healing process. I finally quit and played something else after zombies who somehow saw me from a mile away facing the other direction chased me through 20 something different houses. Kept trying to lock them inside somewhere or find a hiding place in the upper floors of some of the 2 story buildings so I could bandage myself. I didn't die but I kept getting hit from them even though they were constantly being locked outside and I was way out of their melee range. I usually don't have a problem with retarded bugs but my gear getting constantly ruined, not being able to heal, not being able to kill zombies and having them hit me from a mile away got a tad too frustrating.

After hearing about you can now pin fishing hooks on boonie hats and tuck knives in combat boots on 0.47 EXP I thought why not be able to tuck pistols into your pants? It would make sense to be able to always have a pistol at the ready somewhere on you. I always liked using chest holsters over some tactical vests because you can actually see the pistol and it seems more realistic then instantly taking a pistol out of your stuffed backpack or vest. Little details like that make a game for me. Like this Maybe get to choose where the pistol is placed? Pockets, front, side, etc...

It's funny how people still forget to realize this game was born off of a clunky military strategy simulator. Advanced melee was never possible in the series at all. In OFP and ArmA years back I saw a few melee combat mods but it was all just scripted animations where you never did anything. Just click the action and watch it go. If you want some real melee combat go play something else because it'll be a very, very long time before any of that is possible.

Mind posting a screenshot at least?

Yeah exactly

I've only had a few situations where my pistol is viable and absolutely needed mostly because I ran out of rifle ammo. Other than that they're pretty much only for show. Honestly I'd rather have pistols as the norm main weapon instead of rifles. Make military rifles very rare and make civ rifles/shotguns rare. Hopefully the loot system improves drastically. I think it'd be a bit more realistic if more people had just civ-esque weaponry while the handful of big dogs have the best weapons.

Yes that's exactly what I was saying Exactly

Ah yeah, forgot about that.

They've had the same effect since Operation Flashpoint. It's been that way for years. Probably end up seeing a different effect when they come out with the remodeled engine.

Uh, sorry but I haven't been getting any buggy melee or hit detection issues with zombies. The only time I have a problem is when I'm desyncing and nothing registers till I'm synced again. I played for a while and didn't experience any issues. Zombies would go down pretty easy. I'm back on stable now but I'll do more testing later on.

Yeah I'm aware. Was just saying you'd have a better chance of finding an AK in military bases than an MP5 in a police station.

Seems fine to me. I've never had a problem hitting zombies. If you miss that much when a zombie is right in your face then it's your fault not the game's.

I'm sure the MP5 is rarer than the AK. I found 2 AKs in a row just hours ago in the Balota long barracks. You have to remember that there's always a chance that location has been thoroughly looted. I've checked dozens of police stations as well. I just managed to find one in a town nobody ever visits. No magazine though yet.