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M4 A1 CCO SD packs the punch of a decent AR, but doesn't call every zombie in town. I'm stuck with a bizon right now and I miss my old SD gun. I mainly use this for when the coast is clear and I'm taking out the zombies. Before I know the coast is clear I go with the DMR. Ammo is pretty common and its a good pvp weapon unless You go against someone with a more high power sniper rifle.

The dude who appeared in front of you was probably the cheater. He could have run a script that made it look like you did something. Find another server.

I like Shifty's idea, that tent capacity is too high. Even if tent capacity was say 50 item slots, but the same mechanics as backpacks, it would be better. I mean the guns would take up 10 slots etc.. You could keep a decent loot pile, but not a giant stash, Because really, once You know where to get the good loot, You only need one decent gun and some toolbelt essentials before You are back to getting good gear in a short time anyway. The way tent's are now it becomes a needed item really. Once You have one, or access to one, the balance vs non tent owners is pretty OP. The end of item duping will fix this to a large extent. I think making tents stealable would be going too far.

You should try the Stalker series. It has a good single player survival sandbox type gameplay. Don't wait for that dev team's next game though, because that will be multiplayer only too. DOH! Dayz is and should always be online only!

Besides the places mentioned above, traveling is the only way to find the very best thing in the game. Crashed Helicopters!

I agree. Once I got my two tents It's quite easy to keep very well geared. This is even without doing any ammo or item duping. The only thing that kept me going for the past weeks was hunting for those elusive nvgs. It hurts to lose rare items, but the fun in the mod is that crawl up from the bottom. I'm taking a break now, so in a few days my tents will despawn.

FN Fal when I can find the ammo. Usually go with the M4 A1 sd but currently rocking the Bizon till these 4 clips run out. I usually keep the DMR in my pack in case of bandits too. Early game it's Winchester all the way.

With dayz commander click all the options to eliminate wrong game versions and sort by ping. I think I might go with what Fraggle said. I have thus far been on public servers. Unfortunately every weekend on my current server (where I have 2 tents) every tent gets crushed and all vehicles get teleported to a single location... Private Servers don't have this problem as frequently I'd hope.

I like the idea. It's pretty known that nwaf is a no friendly zone. I think of it like that anyway. I'm generally friendly to the point that I have gotten killed a few times, but I still keep it that way. At NWAF though, I keep a very low profile. If I see a group I avoid. If I see a loner I break out the DMR.

Use dayz commander, and make sure You select the "ignore wrong Arma version" and "ignore wrong Dayz version" The bad: You will now have a much smaller list of servers. The good: You will not have this problem anymore.

The standalone will be based on arma 2 engine so that they dont have to recreate the entire thing. They are calling it arma engine 2.5 because it will be a modified version customized for dayz. I hope they can upgrade it somewhat. I agree the screenies look pretty nice.

Yes there is a map hack/ esp script. But at NWAF it is quite possible they were watching you from afar.

It might have become a private hive. That's whats happened to My previous home after a weekend of horrid mass instakill griefing. search your server on the server stats sites to see if it's become a private hive and/or changed the map they are playing.

No dogs, and duping is still there. Way too many as50s sitting in tents/vehicles. The Devs are putting their attention to the standalone, as I think they should. Hacking has died down somewhat, but it's still pretty common. I haven't encountered hackers in weeks. I thought the server I play was pretty hack free, but the other night I happened upon a "parking lot" with a bunch of vehicles and the boat, so scripters are still around. There are more private hives if You want to play it safe from hackers. Avoid Saturday night that seems to be when the script kiddies are most active.

Saturday nights are the worst night