How exactly can i get an m4 without killing someone?

[fetgalningen 0]

FAL will be new king I'm sure. Battle rifles are ideal for the open expanses of chernarus. I wonder if they will be optic-compatible...

 

Also, which spawns are intended for 'it', for example, will it be on a chopper-crash site or make an appearance on other spawnpoints to make em more viable for looting, barracks/prisons/atc? 

[Bororm 1156]

They confirmed in the same post showing it that it would take the rail optics.  It'll probably be OP honestly, which is a bit disappointing.  I really liked using it in the mod but hardly anyone did because it was iron sights only and had a smaller/rarer mag.  However, using winchestor ammo I doubt it will be much of a problem in the SA.  I hope it's restricted to semi and burst.

 

I suppose it will depend on rarity of the spawn as to how popular it actually is.

 

It is just boring when particular weapons become the go to because they're just flat out better, I like it better when it is more personal choice.  We'll have to wait and see though.

[KenoSkir88 181]

1. I think I agree. Certainly I haven't seen one, but others claim they have.

2. Again, if my recent experience is true, I agree. But also again, more than one poster says "loot cycle, four splurgespawn at once!"

3. Indeed.

4. I'm looking...

 

2. Yeah someone told me they had, but when i spoke to others he had been with they said he was talking about UMP's and being excited by all the m4 buttstocks n stuff.

4. Still need the SMERSH vest with or without backpack, will trade you a worn m4 with a full 60 clip?

Edited September 23, 2015 by KenoSkir88

[Bonappetit 117]

Got my first kill with chambered CZ. There's something I love about it as it's the closest thing as manually chambering a gun and my love towards bolt action rifles like my favourite Kar98 :)

Anyway your best bet is a method as mentioned above. I have never stumbled upon an M4, just one from a guy I killed.

[Dagwood 680]

Got my first kill with chambered CZ. There's something I love about it as it's the closest thing as manually chambering a gun and my love towards bolt action rifles like my favourite Kar98 :)

Anyway your best bet is a method as mentioned above. I have never stumbled upon an M4, just one from a guy I killed.

Umm, I would say IzH rifle and longhorn are more similar to chambering cause it's the only way to use them. But I also love the CR527. Having to find the mag to get it running optimally makes it more satisfying for me to use once I do so. Plus it's considered a suboptimal rifle compared to the blaze and Winchester so it's got sort of an underdog feel to it.

[PongoZ 127]

I think I have twice that, and a pristine version of every single M4 attachment, three times over....

 

I'm giving up on looking for one for the time being, while I patiently await the arrival of the FN-FAL (or 'SLR' as I'll insist on calling it).

Why would you call my C1 an SLR?

[KenoSkir88 181]

2. Again, if my recent experience is true, I agree. But also again, more than one poster says "loot cycle, four splurgespawn at once!"

 

Ok i we were wrong. I was online with a friend yesterday when he spawned a damaged M4 base from the officer tent at mysh. It was just the one that spawned, just fyi.

[Mookie (original) 799]

Ok i we were wrong. I was online with a friend yesterday when he spawned a damaged M4 base from the officer tent at mysh. It was just the one that spawned, just fyi.

 

Having given up looking for an M4, I bumped into a lootsplurge at officer tent last night (looked the result of some well-organised cycling) and found a worn one.

 

So perhaps this is the statistically most likely option....

[KenoSkir88 181]

Still think trading is the best bet if you can do it safely. Hint hint.. :P

[pilgrim* 3514]

Let others find it and look for camps and steal it from there :)

 

SAK makes good point.

 

If you don't want to kill, then be a man-hunter/tracker  =>  hawkeye/spy/tracker/shadow-walker/woodsman/ninja/thief  => It's a whole different way of playing.

Since the days of the Mod, once vehicles and tents and stashes were well established, stalking has always been a respectable profession.

 

Move on the map. Know the region. For instance move and check till you spot a truck spawn. dont go near it - get up in cover on a hill and keep eyes on; Plant a crop while you're waiting?

Sooner or later someone will turn up and find it. You'll see that 50%+ of players will hide it somewhere close, mess around, and use it as a base/stash.. others will drive off in it looking for loot or fun, or back to their tents if they already got any. When you know what's happening you decide your move - follow, move on, wait, see if their friends show, steal it now ?  You have the advantage, you got eyes on them, they don't know you're there. 

 

This play takes different skills and a different mindset from PvP. You learn to move in cover, change location, know the approaches, watch, follow, know how to get out of the way fast (is useful). Learn the players - you'd be amazed how many players do exactly the same thing in a situation, have the same reaction, take the same decisions, make the same move, hide stuff in the same places.

 

But (heh) remember there's always one player smarter than you, He's on the map somewhere right now. He's got the skills and the experience, so if he finds a truck spawn he might surely circle round to check if someone's overlooking it. Maybe he was there first and he already watched you go to ground.

 

It's a new game in DayZ SA. Some folk do this full time (but you don't have to). Pretty often nothing happens at all, you move on, check, maybe check back later, there's a lot of "nothing happens" and then sudden situations.

 

This is the fair honest play method,

[You can play this totally without going looking for loot farms, or those 4-person public servers that kick soon as you log in - because their tents are right by the airfield, natch, somewhere real easy to get to - but then they go away hopping for loot, and also they have to sleep sometime, so ya can take note and log back sooner or later when they're not around - But IMO all that 'my-server' hopping/farming play is just for duckheads ]

 

.. Yo can make a honest manly healthy living and survive on just one populated server as a savvy-ranger-ninja, don't even need a gun really, just need your skill and wits, stay sharp and know the terrain. 

 

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and - as folk already said in this topic - ya don't REALLY want an M4, (and anyways you'll probably be dead by the time you read this so your mags will be gone).

You want an AK (hmm, my kinda joke) - or more likely you need  any rifle with a scope or a sawn-off or a pump gun.

Mags are going to get scarcer, so when you track down someone's stash, take any auto-weapon mags or ammo cartons, or even loose rounds, and throw them away in a bush. Up the odds in your favor.

Edited September 24, 2015 by pilgrim

[ScipioII 176]

Just picked an M4 up in the NWAF officers tent. With mags and all.

First one in 500 hours of play. 

[nl 986]

SAK makes good point.

 

If you don't want to kill, then be a man-hunter/tracker  =>  hawkeye/spy/tracker/shadow-walker/woodsman/ninja/thief  => It's a whole different way of playing.

Since the days of the Mod, once vehicles and tents and stashes were well established, stalking has always been a respectable profession.

 

Move on the map. Know the region. For instance move and check till you spot a truck spawn. dont go near it - get up in cover on a hill and keep eyes on; Plant a crop while you're waiting?

Sooner or later someone will turn up and find it. You'll see that 50%+ of players will hide it somewhere close, mess around, and use it as a base/stash.. others will drive off in it looking for loot or fun, or back to their tents if they already got any. When you know what's happening you decide your move - follow, move on, wait, see if their friends show, steal it now ?  You have the advantage, you got eyes on them, they don't know you're there. 

 

This play takes different skills and a different mindset from PvP. You learn to move in cover, change location, know the approaches, watch, follow, know how to get out of the way fast (is useful). Learn the players - you'd be amazed how many players do exactly the same thing in a situation, have the same reaction, take the same decisions, make the same move, hide stuff in the same places.

 

But (heh) remember there's always one player smarter than you, He's on the map somewhere right now. He's got the skills and the experience, so if he finds a truck spawn he might surely circle round to check if someone's overlooking it. Maybe he was there first and he already watched you go to ground.

 

It's a new game in DayZ SA. Some folk do this full time (but you don't have to). Pretty often nothing happens at all, you move on, check, maybe check back later, there's a lot of "nothing happens" and then sudden situations.

 

This is the fair honest play method,

[You can play this totally without going looking for loot farms, or those 4-person public servers that kick soon as you log in - because their tents are right by the airfield, natch, somewhere real easy to get to - but then they go away hopping for loot, and also they have to sleep sometime, so ya can take note and log back sooner or later when they're not around - But IMO all that 'my-server' hopping/farming play is just for duckheads ]

 

.. Yo can make a honest manly healthy living and survive on just one populated server as a savvy-ranger-ninja, don't even need a gun really, just need your skill and wits, stay sharp and know the terrain. 

 

xx

 

and - as folk already said in this topic - ya don't REALLY want an M4, (and anyways you'll probably be dead by the time you read this so your mags will be gone).

You want an AK (hmm, my kinda joke) - or more likely you need  any rifle with a scope or a sawn-off or a pump gun.

Mags are going to get scarcer, so when you track down someone's stash, take any auto-weapon mags or ammo cartons, or even loose rounds, and throw them away in a bush. Up the odds in your favor.

 This is exactly the type of gameplay I am trying to teach myself at the moment. I make many miles trying to discover "hot spots" for camps and caches. At first I was always hungry for an AKM but now I am back to the SKS because it still packs a punch but you don't waste as much ammo. A SKS, 2 or 3 stripper cilps and 40 spare ammo should get you a long way and if not, you are probably dead. Camp scouting is even not really because I want the fancy weapons, it's simply a sport to find them. But I have to admit I am carrying a M4 at the moment that I stole out of a camp :) But I have a AKM, SKS, MP5, Derringer, CR75 scattered across some different caches. They have not been discovered so far but I guess that is just a matter of time.

[Kiwiyellow5 16]

Ok guys finally found dat m4 in officers tent

[Yuval 221]

To the bitch who decided to take his M4 to elektro in order to kill people, enjoy the 12 gauge buck shells to the face and thanks for the loot

 

[pilgrim* 3514]

 This is exactly the type of gameplay I am trying to teach myself at the moment. I make many miles trying to discover "hot spots" for camps and caches. At first I was always hungry for an AKM but now I am back to the SKS because it still packs a punch but you don't waste as much ammo. A SKS, 2 or 3 stripper cilps and 40 spare ammo should get you a long way and if not, you are probably dead. Camp scouting is even not really because I want the fancy weapons, it's simply a sport to find them. But I have to admit I am carrying a M4 at the moment that I stole out of a camp :) But I have a AKM, SKS, MP5, Derringer, CR75 scattered across some different caches. They have not been discovered so far but I guess that is just a matter of time.

 

A Longhorn is a really useful weapon for different reasons. I always like one in my pack. If I'm out solo ranging. Which is what I mainly do.

 

- I feel happy with a Longhorn plus some kind of shotgun for close encounters, and an axe. Add a waterproof and something with plenty of pockets, and/or a backpack.Then I'm just about OK equipped.

I've only been in a couple of barracks since this patch and the patch before, and maybe a police station from time to time. For 2 or 3 months i never been on the Airfield, or the big tent camp (none of those 'high loot' places). Heh - except skulking around in the bushes and trees on the edges of them when I'm out trying to cause trouble.

 

if you are around the edges of any of those loot places, you got to be wary of snipers up behind you somewhere, or across on the other side of the place, not just on the obvious roof spots inside the area. Coming up behind a sniper with your axe at the ready is a fun thing, and IMO most 'snipers' rate 95% beginner at the trade - But some of them are pros - when you work round to come behind them, they suddenly gone - they ain't there anymore(!) then you're in the bad place with no paddle. You got to admire that - you may even have time to say "beanz brother" before you're dead.

 

I never like much to snipe myself, as a way of life, because to do it you need to overlook a popular place, then to make a profit you got to go down into that place, so IMO it's more sport and fun than survival. But you do have to give respect to one or two of those guys. 

 

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