Flashlights, Night, Hatchet, Ammo, Loot

[KaitoKid 0]

hey there^^,

1. the military flashlight is gloomier then the normal flashlight (my opinion) and thats kinda weak, we kicked our military flashlights out for the normal one cuz if u get to close to zombies u still have to turn them off anyways so it dosnt rly matter (still my opinion)

2. i rly like the night but even with brightness etc. turned up u cant see shit, im out (in rl) with the dogs every night and i can see ppl and trees etc. up to 100 meters (330 feet) in a clear night and in dayz u cant see anything... we tried to travel without flashlights on and we lost each other every minute or so... it kinda sucked balls cuz we knew every potential sniper in the hills could simply spot and shoot us.

3. i would like to change my main weapon to a hatchet cuz sometimes zombies get agro on you in a big city and u cant start shooting so u have to run out and try to shoot them out of the city... that gets me kinda mad cuz u wasted 30 mins or something to get to ur point and bam u r back to the basics...

4. i get rly pissed atm cuz we were traveling (with our weapons) through 11 deer stands, bor, drozhino, the south part of zelenogorsk, the green hill mountain and the sosnovy pass without getting any new ammo for our weapons, idk why but its rly rly boring like this cuz we have 7 rnds for my remington and 14 for his double barrel shooty... so we rly dont have any ammo to get into pvp or pve (what gets me to the next point)...

5. we are rly unlucky with our loot (our travel route: kamenka, komarovo, bor, drozhino, zelenogorsk, and 15 deer stands and 5 barns (i tried to loot 1 of them 4 times to get some stuff) and we only got: some food, (found) like a million hatchets, a water bottle (im glad for that :D) an alice pack, an czech backpack, a remington, some sodas, bandages, heatpacks and painkiller... NO matchmaker, binoculars, gps, map, watch, compas, hunting knife, snipers, steel bolts (he carryed a crossbow for 2 hours before he kicked it out), pistols, smoke grenades, grenades, cars (vehicles).... we play for 8h straight now and we r rly fast with traveling but it rly gets the moral down if u sneak through a horde of zombies and the only things u find r piles of wood, hatchets and empty tin cans... i think they have to fix or change something there cuz we get rly bored atm...

thanks for listening and sry for my bad english (i do have the perfect face-saver: im german :D)

greets, kaito

PS: thats all my opinion! :3

Edited July 22, 2012 by KaitoKid

[RayPugh 146]

the military flash light is supposed to be a low light torch to attract less unwanted attention, and the last time i used a torch it didnt agro zombies so idk why your turning them off to walk near them.

read a guide or two so you can get the basics of how and where loot drops and youll soon be finding more than just your run of the mill gear

[[email protected] 26]

1. Have no strong opinion there - I thought military flashlights are meant to be less visible for those with NVG, as red light is not that amplified with night vision tubes.

2. Agree. Human eye can easily see in dark high details, when sky is clear. Just b/w, but nevertheless.

3. You can. All you need is 10 slots in backpack for your main weapon, and like 2 minutes to make like 50 mouse-clicks to do that :D

It SHOULD be less cumbersome. AND WHY CANT YOU SWITCH WEAPON ON THE MOVE???? Why do you have to stand still for 3 seconds to put AK away and to pull makarov out - is beyond me.

4. Actually this is survival game. If you don't struggle to survive - DayZ fails as a game.

5. Learn where to find specific loot: matches, compass, watches, map - shops. Less in civilian buildings (houses, apartments, hotels). Weapons - military/security areas: fire stations, airports, military tents, military barracks. Ammo - anywhere.

But 99.9% your loot will be junk. :/ Sry, but this is apocalypse. Even more: this is apocalypse in Russia! Place where no electricity, no tap water, no gas, no internet, no phone - is a pretty common and normal life.

Edited July 22, 2012 by Infineon

[thatcommiekid 57]

1. Meh...

2. Very true :D! it would be nice if weather was implemented and effected you more.

3."And so is life with a repeting cycle that is always ment to be."~Mr. BoBo

4. Sorry dude bad luck some days, good luck some days.

5. Infineon is right go to the good spots bro.

[KaitoKid 0]

the military flash light is supposed to be a low light torch to attract less unwanted attention, and the last time i used a torch it didnt agro zombies so idk why your turning them off to walk near them.

read a guide or two so you can get the basics of how and where loot drops and youll soon be finding more than just your run of the mill gear

i have the dayzdb open and we were runing through 11 deer stands and the only stuff we found were markanov mags and m1911 mags and stuff like that... and i know how to use the dayzwiki ;)

[thorgold 91]

1) The military flashlight is a night-vision preserving flashlight only meant to allow you to read maps, not light up your path. The red light doesn't fry the rods in your eyes so you can maintain no-light navigation, but still be able to see when you need to read a map or note. It's not MEANT for navigation. Also, why throw it out? There's plenty of room on your tool belt, and it's... just as useful as the other flashlight (0 use is equal to 0 use), if not more so (less attention)

2) It's part of the ArmA lighting engine, can't be fixed. Turn up gamma or wait for the moon to rise - your "night out" was probably lit up by far-off lights and the moon, even if the difference wasn't detectable.

3) Then keep your hatchet out while in the city instead of a rifle you know you can't use.

4) You won't find Remington or 2rnd ammo in deerstands - you can find M1014 (which can be converted), but no 1886. Also, that just means' your SOL as for loot. Did you make sure to let everything spawn before you entered? Server desync can cause a delay on spawning zombies and loot, if you enter before it registers that you're in looting distance/time it won't spawn.

5) It took me two weeks to find my first matchbook. Rare means rare, the only reason NVGs and uber-rare equipment is relatively common is because it's rare enough for people to bother duping it. Deal with the lack of materials and survive - can't find matchbooks? Tough, gotta keep finding cans. Can't find a compass? Better learn how to navigate with the sun.

[KaitoKid 0]

ok i'll awnser all these posts in 1.

i've never found something about the detection range of the military flashlight for zombies so i rly dont want/like to use it while im sneaking and if you turn it on its still pretty dark arround you and its still very hard to find zombies, enemys or allys. so its useless for me (ME!!!!!!).

yeah the night thing sucks, i guess we all agreed with that :D

yeah i know i can store my weapon in my backpack but srsly it takes way to long to change it + i've a close to full backpack just like my m8 (me czech he alice) + there is a little bug with the bagpacks: if u ty to put something into a full backpack it just disapears... had that with a cz550 :(

its a survival game i know but we r so incredible unlucky, we went to the green mountain... all we found there was a coyote PATROL backpack and scrapmetal... and i guess u all can imagine how pissed we were :s

[KaitoKid 0]

5) It took me two weeks to find my first matchbook. Rare means rare, the only reason NVGs and uber-rare equipment is relatively common is because it's rare enough for people to bother duping it. Deal with the lack of materials and survive - can't find matchbooks? Tough, gotta keep finding cans. Can't find a compass? Better learn how to navigate with the sun.

i died 6 times before we played togheter and i found 8 of them just by roaming arround... i guess u r just as unlucky as we r... i played it ,before my friend started, alone and i never had troubles like that before... its since the last patch... or i just dont have any luck... but it still should be playable for guys like us who cant play 24/7 to get what u need...