A good Dayz

[Mookie (original) 799]

I've had a lot of the usual bad experiences in "1.0", and some crippling bad luck recently. My main char on the public hive, into whom a lot of work and grind went, got popped last week in a very obscure part of the map, west of Zabolotye, when a guy just ran over the ridge about 10m in front of me and shot me. 

Since then I've installed DZSA and have been having a much better time on modded servers. Running multiple chars means I don't have to invest in just one, while the launcher is streets ahead of the in-game one. Incidentally, if you want to see how many people are on the server with you, don't trust the Steam overlay version. The DZSA one is accurate - and it's also entirely accurate about time of day etc. 

Yesterday I tried a new winter/weapons redux/trader base server. Spawned in at Staroye. This is one of my least favourite locations. It's not enough west or east to be helpful. But wait...there are those mil tents a mere two minutes jog away. And one of the two trader bases is only five minutes away. So after my female char bravely fought off and killed the five resident Zs at the tents, I picked up an AK101 to see how much I'd get for it at the trader base. 

Jogging along to the base, I spot a car. It has everything, and it's all pristine. Just have to fuel it from the (helpfully provided) jerry can and I'm off to flog it at the base. About ten metres from the base its radiator gives up the ghost and the engine putters out - but the little beauty coasts serenely into the traffic cones and I sell it to the nice, if rather under-dressed man in the booth. 

Many, many roubles richer, I get pretty nicely geared up. A player walks into the base and comments on the fact. "I got a bit lucky..." I explain. I'm about to get luckier.

I venture up to Guglovo. Mmmm. Another pristine, ready to go car, So I'm off back to base with that again (after filling the radiator this time...). Neither of these two cars killed me, took off into space, or did anything else weird btw.

Now, pretty uber-geared after spending thousands of roubles, I'm a bit fed up with hanging around the base, so head north. There's a hunting stand about 50m to my left, and, er, someone in a white ghillie hood climbing up the ladder to it. I'm not usually a KOS-er, but I had something to get off my chest after the hideous death of my stable char. I take my time, crouch, make sure I'm semi-auto, and pop off three rounds at the guy. He falls backwards off the ladder and I take a chance to see what he's carrying. Clearly on his way back to the base from a looting trip to NWAF or Tisy, he not only has an M4, but also a FAL and a SAW (the first one I've ever seen). So I grab the latter and run - because I could swear I just saw someone else. Crouching in some trees a few minutes later it seems I did, as a guy runs past me just metres away. I stay put for ten minutes and then cautiously make my way back to base again.  

I have a look at the SAW. Its mag holds a tasty 200 rounds of 5.56, and it will take an ACOG, but not a suppressor, and is automatic only. Perhaps not the best weapon for a loner like me, so I'm sticking with my trusty M4. 

Some kind of hideous, buggy death-drama awaits this character in the near future, but in the meantime I'm actually having a lot of fun.

[mullo 7]

Sounds like a plan. I'm having a few errors trying to get on one or two of those servers (Steamapp ones) 

I played Koth last night and had a ball as I missed that bit of interaction with decent guns and PvP.

Sounds like your having fun.

[IMT 3190]

I wish there were more 1pp servers with these mods. Last week I started playing on "RicooDayZ | [4] | Modded | [Winter - Redux - Trader]" which was a 1pp server with a good population. On my second day the server started having some trouble, lots of people disconnecting, etc. I wasn't having any issues but after a restart I pressed "V" and suddenly saw that I could go to third person. Apparently the server switched to 1st/3rd person which is a bummer. After looting Tisy and getting 2 FAL mags I made my way towards the trader at Green Mountain. When I was just north of Vybor, the server crashed. Now to be honest, I really can't stand to play on a 1st/3rd person high pop server. I don't want to deal with those twats who sit in a building, peeking in third person and suddenly *bang bang* "You are dead".

I really liked the combination of mods and was really looking forward to try out the trader mod. Unfortunately there is no other good 1st person modded server other than servers which are modded to shit. There is one other RicooDayZ 1st person server but unfortunately it doesn't have the trader mod. I just don't understand how people can stand and play 1st/3rd person. I've had countless firefights where I said afterwards "this wouldn't have happened if it was 1st person".

Glad you're having fun though.