Just a few general questions?

[EthanHD 5]

This is just a few questions that I've thought of over the past few days that I'd kinda like help with?

- What causes my legs to break when I'm in a fire station picking something up? Don't know if it's just a bug or if I'm doing something wrong.

- Can gas stoves actually cook anything yet?

- Is it better to travel light or get a massive backpack and gear up?

- Why is every single sight for the M4A1 either damaged or badly damaged?

Any help is appreciated, I just want some decent advice and answers.

[novogeek 253]

- Legs breaking out of nowhere is normally indicative of a bug or a ladder/stair glitch. There is also a bug that breaks your legs if you remove a carry case from your hand or put in in ... can't remember the exact details.

 

- Cooking is not implemented yet, so no the gas stove doesn't do anything yet.

 

- That is entirely up to personal preference. Right now it is kinda pointless to completely gear up with long term survival in mind as there are a lot of server wipes and a lot of the functionality is not implemented yet. In my opinion, the more gear you carry the bigger target you become. I just play to survive and generally have fun ... typically just run around with what I find and an Axe when I can. Obviously later on I will revert to Lone Wolf Survivor mode.

 

- Probably just bad luck. I have heard people having mixed fortunes in this regard.

 

HTH

[Neinsager 30]

- Legs: Yes, it's a bug. You sometimes can break your legs just by walking up/down stairs or ladders, and very rarely, it happens on silly occasions: A mate simply put on a new pair of pants - BAM - legs broken.

 

- Stove: No, cooking isn't implemented, yet.

 

- Travel light/heavily packed: That depends on your style of playing.   :)

 

- Broken sights: Simply said: bad luck. Keep looking and you will find better ones eventually.

 

 

EDIT: Damn, too slow. :)

Edited February 27, 2014 by Neinsager

[LaughingJack (DayZ) 767]

1) sounds like a bug, hard to tell without more details, but I've read some times about similar issues

2) not yet

3) Whatever you like. Really, it's just your playstyle that counts so you'll get from every persona  different answer. I only have a courier backpack and not much ammo - i travel light. Just because I like it and I know where to find food ;)

4) Bad luck. Really, it's just a chance I guess, I have found a pristine one some time ago but on the other hand I haven't carried an M4 for quite a while now...

 

 

Edit: DayZ Ninjaforum O.O

Edited February 27, 2014 by LaughingJack

[GrappleX 354]

Probably a bug.

I don't believe so.

At the moment gear up. Weight may be added later, but right now there's no penalty.

Probably trying to keep every one from running around with fully kitted l33t m4a1's.

Edit: three times ninjad, damn.

Edited February 27, 2014 by GrappleX

[mosibfu 71]

This is just a few questions that I've thought of over the past few days that I'd kinda like help with?

- Is it better to travel light or get a massive backpack and gear up?

- Why is every single sight for the M4A1 either damaged or badly damaged?

Any help is appreciated, I just want some decent advice and answers.

 

Well i decided to answer the bottom 2 questions, since the top 2 are already completely answered in my eyes, and i have nothing to add to the above posts.

 

On your question about traveling light, or having a big backpack.. both have their pro's and cons. if you have a small backpack, you have a smaller profile when in prone, but you will run out of hoarding space faster. Its all about your playing style, do you want to carry 20 cans of beans and 2 sawed off shotguns in a backpack.. get a huge one, if you want to travel light/low profile, scavenging food as you travel across the world... get the small one

 

On the scopes.. today the point (wo)man and me died, yellow link+firefight lol, more of my squad died a bit later, dont even know why.... we met up, went thru berezino and then 2 had to log off, we gave them the rifles the group already found and the remaining 2 continued gearing up, so we went to NEAF.

 

well we managed to find 2 m4's and 2 red dot sights (m68 and RDS) on the NEAF, no server hopping involved, both scopes were in good shape, think pristine even (at least no cracks in the glass and both working).

after a slight friendly fire accident (i changed helmet and did not tell my buddy.. next thing i hear when i walk outside is my buddy going "there is someone here!!!" and he opened up on me..), at this point my buddy did hop some servers to find me a saline bag, i was KO for quite some time.. afterwards we headed back, found an sks&mosin and pu scope, so now we have variety ammo across the group, so we pick up any ammo and divide it later..  we logged off where we left our friends 2 hours earlier.

 

so yeah, i would say its 99% luck, but they do spawn, i logged out with 2 m4's (one in my hands one on my back), my buddy with the mosin he wanted, and an sks for the point (wo)man, tomorrow when the group is complete, we will figure out who wants what weapon, if nobody wants the 2nd m4 (with m68) ill send you a pm, and tell you where to find that scope.

 

btw if you have a worn or pristine long range scope, i think my buddy will aim his mosin at my face (for another incident) untill we do a trade :P

Edited February 28, 2014 by mosibfu