Mattix90

I just recently started playing dayz after few months of break. My gear remained intact so I decided to check if my abilities didn't get rusty during that time. After considering few of my usual sniping locations I decided to settle down near NWAF and begin my hunt there. I spent 2 hours on a 20+ server yesterday and about 1,5 hours today. I didn't see a living soul... I was gone for some time so maybe I've missed something? Do people even visit north anymore or did this game finish it's transformation to Cherno-Electro deathmatch and no one even considers leaving the coast?

See, that's what I'm talking about. Sitting on the coast and pwning bambies running into fire stations with nothing more than an enfield is hardly a challenge. Taking down a huey hovering above NWAF is something entirely more exhilarating and I used to pull such stunts from time to time in the past. Now I guess all valuable vehicles are being hoarded far east/north and guarded 24/7. This game has been reduced to yet another FPS, where you grab first weapon you can put your hands on and bolt to the nearest city for a deathmatch...

AS50 or DMR if it's night - helps keeping NWAF clear of any unwanted intruders :) M4A1 CCO SD - trusted companion for silent zombie extermination having NVGs is always nice and a Coyote to keep as much steaks and sodas as possible :P

Yep, tents don't work. Pitched one literally few minutes before server restart, stuffed it with some gear and logged out. Logged in just after the restart, the tent was empty.

My AS50 magically disappeared from my backpack (all the other stuff from my backpack did too) preceded by a cryptic message I didn't care to read. Does this mean I can no longer put big weaponry into my backpack or is this just me being unlucky?

Well, I assume this is the only part of my post you actually read/understood. It is tragically sad :(

Not killing on sight in a FPS game, huh? Weird... What I find most annoying and face palm stupid on this forum is players rambling about some silly bullshit like their game philosophy, their idea of dayz or how the mod should look like in their opinion. This game is like a huge sandbox and you have a numerous ways of having fun. I say - to each his own. As long as you don't stay on the coast deathmatching other newspawns in cherno/elektro I'm not gonna judge you or tech you how to play. Still, the neutral way of playing, collecting beans and shit, avoiding conflict gets really boring really fast. If you aquire end game gear, find a team of friends you van trust, the whole idea of traveling through Chernarus, looting markets and barracs becomes pretty redundant. The real thrill of this game is PvP encounters. This is the shit. I am a full blown -500k humanity bandit, I snipe NWAF, Stary, Olsha, Berezino and many other locations and have never nor will I ever hesitated when facing the opportunity of piercing one's skull with few grams of lead (Most people deserve it anyway - stupidity must be punished. Checking your gear or, for the love of God making fireplaces in the open = death). And I don't feel bad about it. Not one bit, because, for the love of Christ - THIS IS ONLY A GAME. It's not real life, it's supposed to be fun. I am having fun playing as bandit. I murder 10-15 people a day. In a game. In real life I am a lovely person, kind, supportive, helpful and I loath violence in any form. So please, be so kind and don't drag terms like "killer's mentality", "humanity", "decency", "cowardice" into a discussion about a fucking online game about zombie apocalypse. Accusing bandits of being immoral is like calling a killing of a virtual cow an offence against animals rights. It's stupid and makes me feel even dumber when reading it. Shooting people is fun and unless Rocket comes up with a legitimate idea on how to support team play it will remain the only way I can have fun playing DayZ. People play games to unwind - no one unwinds by debating moral choices or deciding whether clicking your left MB affects your humanity, so grab your gear and let's go kill some people ;)

Yes, they probably were duping, there is a certain technique which leaves a standing, blooded body and from what I can see I am certain that they, on purpose or not have used it. I am not going into details though, as there are enough dupers already present on dayz servers

Holly Jesus Christ! Well, damn and blast my eyes, as we can see there is no single duper present in dayz. Only valiant white knights who refuse to sully themselves with such dirty tactics. I salute you shrewd and law abiding survivors! Astonishingly, the servers are still overflowing with as50s and l85s so I assume, from your testimonies, that those items must somehow magically appear in player's inventory thus forcing themselves on otherwise baffled and disgusted survivors which are being forced to use them. I... AM... APPALLED. For something like this to happen to unwilling and otherwise just players. Rocket, shame on you for implementing such treacherous mechanism in the mod...

So what's the deal with this huge ammount of as50s nowadays? The rifle in most cases is wielded by the worst snipers in the game, only today I managed to put down three yahoos camping roughly 150m behind military tents in Stary <facepalm>. To be honest it's the most common sniper rifle I'm encountering - I can hardly find M24 or DMR anymore. I don't have any numbers to support this claim but I think as50 may be one of the most if not the most duped item in the game.

Yesterday, when I was sniping near stary, a heli suddenly appeared north of military tents. It has flown towards the tents and starten hovering just above them apparently shooting at someone. I didn't think much and decided to do something about it. I had an as50 with 5Rnd. mags, but i didn't really know how many shots to the rotor would it take to destroy it. After considering trying to shoot it down, I popped the gunner and run further into the forest, scared that heli might want to take it's revenge :( So there's the question - how many as50 shots to the rotor does it take to topple a huey?

Jesus Christ... I am mortified that some of you are seriously considering that idiot's idea. Game without backpacks, eh? As someone said before - try game without bandages or make it randomly kill you every now and then, it will make it more challenging. No backpacks = no fixing vehicles, no scavenging (what's the point if you can only carry 1 gun, few mags and some cans and it's at BEST). What exactly would it add to the gameplay? What is wrong with the idea is pretty much everything. Why would I play one life without a backpack? How would that be fun? How do you play that game anyway? Go from coast to elektro and get killed by a sniper every time you aquire something more valuable than an AKM? Also - it's fucking zombie apocalypse, you're on your own, don't trust anyone. Other players are not danger to me. I am the danger, I snipe the shit out of stary looters and NWA barracks hoopers. If you think it would be fun to limit this game to just collecting cans and avoiding gunfight then you probably should think of another way to spend your free time as this game is clearly not for the likes of you.

You got it all wrong mate. It's nothing wrong if you play bf/cod, it's just that those games are fucking magnets for underage, immature shitheads. And they basically dig everything that is "on top" at the moment. So when they swarm Dayz servers they're like - dude, what a cool game,it's like, it's like bf3 but with zombies and hatchets! Whoa, mate, lets skip school and shoot eachother at the coast! It kills the purpose of this game and make it just-another-one-repetitive-fps. Also: >using coloured font >placing your signature under a post >chinese cartoon sig Not sure why, but it rubs me the wrong way...

Considering the audible range of this rifle is about 450m, those "snipers" were not using this gun properly if you have heard the "ting". Still, in times when everybody DC from combat it's nice to have something that won't give your target the time to escape. It sure does. Never actually seen one <lol>. Guess I'm no big fan of the barns :)

Just wait till the serv restarts bloke and you can start grieving over your lost items.

Considering that tents no longer work I can't see why anyone should bother pitching them

I am having hard time trying to decipher your gibberish. Your english is astonishingly bad. I don't really understand half the bullshit from the first part, but rest assured - tents DO NOT work and CAN NOT be fixed. If you put something in your tent before 1.7.2.4 patch then your tent will be duping items inside each time the serv restarts. As for the second part - it has been discussed hundreds of times, there even is a sticky somewhere describing temporary fixes for artifacts but again problem is NOT solved as it doesn't seem to work to everyone (eg. me) and is only halfmeasure to a serious problem.

As well as artifact glitches, duping items, doors and trees crushing you to death, disappearing equipment and so on and so on. The mod is a dead end and I seriously doubt the devs give a shit about it. Since Rocket is walking the earth spreading news and advertising his creation they've probably remained unsupervised playing solitare and what not. Best thing to do right now is sit tight, wait for the standalone and hope it won't be as screwed as current mod is.

No shit... Anyway, the answer is no and I wouldn't expect it to be fixed any time soon

That's why you don't camp in the places you mentioned :) I always begin my sniping by clearing my competitors hiding north of stary. If you camp ~1km from the city you have a fair chance you will survive longer. Although that seemed to be the case a month ago. Now, when cod/bf kiddies took over the game is just big deathmatch in cherno/elektro with hardly anyone coming to stary or nw airfield. Except for the snipers ofc :) So if you have thermal you can countersnipe the shit out of them.

It's basically sniping for dummies - you zero your 50cal rifle, you aim and you shoot - body, head, leg, doesn't matter, it's always one-hit-kill. Doesn't need any skill whatsoever. Though I like it - makes it impossible for the target to alt-f4. Don't have one? Go to the hill over elektro and log to 40+ server, chances are you will find some yahoo duper shooting newspawners from over there. You can basically rape his ass with an axe and take his shit. Makes looting heli crashes completely obesolete :)

This is preposterous, the influx of cod/bf kids made this game a huge cherno/elektro deathmatch. For 3 hours me and my mate were sitting south of sobor on 40+ server trying to snipe someone, no results, not even one person approched the city, not even one zombie spawned in stary... for 3 hours. Next thing, we set an ambush just north of elektro, on the road to mogilevka, same thing, 1,5h, not a living soul, again 40+ serv. We approached hill above elektro and what do we see? Shitload of bodies, new spawners running frantically and killig eachother with some basic weapons. On NW airfield I managed to countersnipe one dude hiding near barracs possibly doing the same thing I was doing - sitting for 2 hours straight on a server trying to snipe someone. Most people just don't get the idea of this game

As stated in topic, will buy AS50, preferably for L85, but I can also offer gps, nvg, rangefinder and ghillie. Contact me on PM if interested

>implying that 90% of top players are not duping their equipment you're adorable :)

Big deal, guy is obviously some kid - the way he writes, the moronic philosophy justifying his actions, the Vendetta avatar (seriously fuck the anonymous...) - thinking he is cool and anti establishment by being a dick and turning his back on a person who has just saved him. I don't have anything against bandits, it's part of a game, but what you did man makes you pathetic... not even player but a person. But as I said earlier, I would be surprised if he was older than 16, so I might cut him some slack