miscology (DayZ)

25 dollars is pretty cheap for a game as richly detailed and moddable as Arma. If you waited for Standalone but decided the game was too difficult or boring, then what? You've wasted your money. If you buy Arma and you decide DayZ is hard\boring, well there are lots of other mods to play. If you discover the Arma editor you can design missions as complex or simple as you want. Once the Standalone is released DayZ mod will still continue to grow. It won't be possible for SA to please everybody all the time. New features can be implemented much faster in DayZ mod, however, Standalone will be more secure. There are huge advantages to both.

Starting with a gun Pros: You have a gun. Fun times. Starting without a weapon: More challenging. Fun times. Writing long articles. ???

Pointless killing is only a problem because the features that will balance it haven't yet been added. - There's no ability to find out who did it, track him down, revenge kill etc. When players know there are consequences for their kill they'll think twice. - Also, there's no ability to incapacitate somebody, like tying them up, knocking them unconscious, pinning them down. This would stop a lot of the killing for loot. Put in those and you restore balance.

Poor organisation. Major Lag. Watching 6 streams. Everybody dies during lag\desync. Great, as in accurate, advertisement for DayZ

Head up to the inlet past the NE airfield. It's nice there, and I've found some ATVs and camps around there.

Guess learning to survive in DayZ is Trust Noone. Most of us learned that from Day 1 when dupers used their AS50s to kill us on sight. If you've got an AS50 or L85 in a tent, you didn't find it legitimately - it's a duped or spawned weapon kept there as a spare. No tears shed.

I like to hang out in the wilderness or northern areas, solo, therefore need a hunting knife, matches and hatchet before setting out. Last night I had such trouble finding meat that I easily died at the next zombie encounter. It was a 4 day character and I hadn't been able to find what I needed in any supermarket or apartment I visited. I can always find 2 out of 3 in one city, but rarely all three. Last night I finally found some matches, but ran for hours and couldn't find a single animal to gut. I finally found one and it despawned as I approached it. :( Is it just me or is wildlife really rare.. in the wild?

For the love of God just use the Steam Overlay trick! Hold down W. Press Shift Tab simultaneously. Click to close the overlay. Done.

They're already logging Alt-F4s with a recent patch while they decide how to punish players who do it. Rightly or wrongly, people do it as a tactic, so until there's a fix, use the opportunity to motivate you to learn to be a better shot, or avoid conflict altogether. There's a Sniper Range map you can get for Arma 2 that allows you to practice every gun in a target range. Learn headshot kills.

If there was a system to know who killed you and track them, would you look for revenge? I still remember the name of the first person who killed me. He tried to hold me up like a mugger. I ran and hid, got a few Makarov shots in him, but he got me in the end. If I meet him again, I'll kill him. If you're a murderer and you knew that everytime you killed someone they could identify and track you later, would you still kill as often?

I was looking around my home town of Edinburgh thinking how perfect it would be for a DayZ setting. It's got a large central city, with a sprawling superb, plus a castle, and seven large hills surrounding the city. Every hill can be seen from 6 other hills, so sniper hills have an extra challenge. It's often cold, windy and rainy, fitting my favourite weather in DayZ. Lots of hills and interesting areas for DayZ players. There's a great coastline, a large river, huge old bridges, mysterious islands and lots of interesting mountains in the distance. There's an airport and old WW2 airbase that used to keep squadrons of hurricanes. The towns in DayZ are unrealistically small, making me wonder if the DayZ engine can support them. However, if DayZ is going to venture into other world's I personally would prefer something that really feels ancient, decayed and apocalyptic. What do you think? Is this the direction DayZ maps should go, or are you a fan of the Lingor Island setting? Google Image Gallery for more pics.

I don't like bandit skins, since you can't tell who's a murderer in real life just by looking at them, but it's a useful stop gap until there's a better way for players to find and punish murderers in-game. The biggest reason people kill is because there are no real consequences, which is pretty unrealistic.

I laugh when I saw that it took you three shots to kill an unarmed player with an AKM. When you're that bad at a game, even an unarmed player can be a threat to you. I don't blame ya. Kill the sheep too, just in case you trip over one.

Mind the Gate. While prone my head was hit by the opening gate. I was already severely wounded, had no more bandages and died.

Thermal doesn't work behind glass, and buildings, but that's about it. In the cities you can use cover, but if you're in the open country you really have very little hope. If he's a good shot he'll take you out before you know his location. If you figure out where he is, then Zig Zag could work, especially if you bring zombies with you. If you're close he'll run. If he has buddies, you're dead. When they fix the duping the L85 thermal will be so rare, and fall only into the hands of good clans, so you won't ever have to worry about it really. Make sure to remind ever person you see using an L85 that unless they found it themselves at a heli site, then 99% chance it's an illegitimate dupe or hack. They probably won't care but i get the feeling the developers are tracking these guns and making lists, checking them twice. By Christmas time - who knows....