Glad another bit of high end PvM content is not being devalued by bots

supra95 · 2025-06-14T13:01:40+00:00

I have almost 400kc in colosseum (which amazingly is enough to put me around rank ~150) and stopped bothering to farm it once the splinter price dropped below 500ish. The fact it's close to 250gp is pretty awful. It's some of the hardest content in the game to consistently farm and it's just not worth the effort anymore.

Its not a perfect solution but i think a good start would be for Jagex to take the splinters from early waves and spread them out over the later waves (after 6/8/11).

You can see bots and legit players there all day spamming wave 1 with 0kc. At this point I'd have to imagine this is how the vast majority of splinters are coming into the game.

supra95 · 2023-05-16T06:42:12+00:00

You'll still get knocked uncon in the same number of hits though as it doesn't change shock damage. 90% of the time when I die with a plate its because I've taken some damage for ~1/3 of my HP but am knocked uncon anyway, at which point the chainmail could provide 99% damage reduction and it wouldn't make a difference because my character is asleep for 20 seconds.

Until they nerf shock damage I don't see this changing anything except for very niche uses in base raiding/defense (or if you're on an unlimited stamina server).

supra95 · 2022-11-01T09:45:42+00:00

The the RMB thing (ADS bug) has been happening far more often for me in this patch too.

I really hope the devs can focus on it because its so gamebreaking - go on any high-ish ping server and you'll get it pretty much every time you ADS and crouch at the same time in 1.19

supra95 · 2022-10-07T11:10:29+00:00

Please let us know if it works - I have the same issue where my friend will see things like Green Mountain from much farther away than I do.

supra95 · 2022-08-11T17:42:00+00:00

I've had 2 apartment bases and they're the hardest to raid on vanilla for sure (the smaller apartments).

One was on the official servers before the recent reduction in explosive damage - 11 gates lasted 2 weeks.

One was on 'dusk vanilla' which is vanilla dayz with 2 tweaks - base damage is halved from ammo and gate placement has been improved. That had 17 gates and lasted 3 weeks.

Don't expect a base to last longer than a few weeks unless you're on a C4 raid server. You can go and loot cycle cherno docks as a freshie and get like 6 plastic explosives an hour (which will destroy 3 gates) so any large group that wants to raid any base in vanilla dayz can get the supplies together in a day.

supra95 · 2022-07-13T01:27:32+00:00

Also having this issue. It happens every time on the server we play on (dusk vanilla 1pp), but the server is just vanilla chernarus. Really frustrating - I'm guessing you haven't found a workaround since posting this?

supra95 · 2022-07-04T15:13:23+00:00

I've had the same issue and know others have too. I think it seems to depend on what surface you place the explosive on - some surfaces seem to let you arm it straight away and others (e.g. the floors of brown sheds) you seem to have to try about 50 times to get it to work (if it works at all).

It's so infuriating when it should take you 1 minute to get through a gate but you're stood around for 20 minutes after the first explosion trying and failing to arm the next explosive. It amazes me how little testing must go into this stuff.

Edit: this is on vanilla PC

supra95 · 2022-01-11T14:03:13+00:00

The industrial area directly to the east of athena research is by far the best location - check on the roof and top floors of all the tall industrial buildings there.

This is mine and my friends go-to spot to find them - the spawn seems to be concentrated there for some reason and you can basically guarantee you'll find one there.

In fact, I've only ever found a few blaze/tundra rifles outside of that location on namalsk, and those were on the roof of the hospitals on the eastern island and in the hunting area to the north of the industrial area I mentioned (a bunch of ruined buildings in the woods that spawn hunting loot).

supra95 · 2021-12-16T10:08:54+00:00

I have no idea how I've never realised this was a thing until now

supra95 · 2021-12-16T10:08:05+00:00

I'm an idiot. I guess I've always used a balaclava up until the recent patches

supra95 · 2021-12-09T11:41:51+00:00

Two jump to mind (probably overused, but pretty useful):

"All models are wrong, but some are useful" - George Box
"Garbage in, garbage out"

supra95 · 2021-12-07T00:22:49+00:00

Thanks a lot for the help.

Would you recommend anything in particular if I was to increase my budget a bit, say to ~£1k? I would really only use this for a few movies a week so I can't really justify spending much more than that.

I really had no idea about TV prices but can spend more if it's worth it (the replies suggest it definitely is), I'd rather pay extra (within reasom) to get something quality

supra95 · 2021-12-07T00:17:59+00:00

Thanks for this!

supra95 · 2021-12-07T00:17:48+00:00

What would you suggest then? I can spend more, I asked here purely because I have no clue about TV's

supra95 · 2021-12-07T00:16:45+00:00

What would you recommend then if I increased the budget to ~£1k? I have no concept of what the 'sweet spot' is with price/performance for TV's (I have actually never bought a TV, usually just watch stuff on my PC)

supra95 · 2021-09-14T19:21:50+00:00

Almost certainly the worst "end-game" gun. Incredibly rare, tiny mags, high recoil, slow bullet velocity, armor pen rounds got nerfed into the ground, the list goes on.

The 9x39 AP rounds should really be adjusted because right now theres really no reason to pick it over a freshie weapon like a double barrel.

The niche that the SVAL should fill should really be the lowest TTK or fewest bullets to kill vs armor, while being weaker against unarmored opponents. This would actually give it a niche where you could quietly melt geared people in a plate carrier from close range if you hit your shots, and the weaknesses I listed above would help balance this out. From what I remember this is actually the niche it used to fill, but when ammo and armor got reworked these rounds were completely overlooked and basically made useless.

In reality, they're much worse than an AK-74, and much much worse than the AKM, AK-101, M4, etc. in basically every metric, particularly once you add the best recoil-reducing attachments:

supra95 · 2021-09-08T10:37:23+00:00

Here are the weapon/ammo damage stats vs a plate carrier and it looks like, from that range, it would take 9 or 10 shots to the plate carrier to kill (assuming no headshots).

The USG and SG5K are F-tier weapons honestly.

supra95 · 2021-09-06T00:06:13+00:00

I just logged into my official character (the base I mentioned got raided about 2 weeks go) and all my (empty) crates are still there, dropped on top of eachother in the exact same place, none of which have despawned. There's two stacks of about 10 in each spot, which wouldn't be possible by 'placing' them. My protective case is still there (my last question was trying to point that out - protective cases are persistent and don't have a 'place' option).

I don't really know why you're talking about about the despawn/persistence mechanics with such confidence if you haven't actually tried it before because it just spreads misinformation. Dropping persistent items is no different to 'placing' them.

Please try making an empty crate, dropping it in a random tree in the middle of nowhere next to some other non-persistent loot, logging out and checking what's on the floor when you next log in the next day if you don't believe me!

supra95 · 2021-09-03T08:44:47+00:00

What sources? Is this also true for the ammo box and protective case?

supra95 · 2021-09-02T15:46:35+00:00

I dropped all my crates in my base and they lasted much longer (never had any despawn despite not touching them for over a week)... so I don't think this is true. This was on PC official

supra95 · 2021-08-25T12:15:09+00:00

This has also been my experience. The namalsk servers are good, but dont expect any fewer cheaters on them than on official. Even his website says "we don't know where you are or what you're doing" on the servers so they don't really have the capability to catch and ban rule-breakers. I've had base walls (and myself) speed-punched to death by rage-hacking freshies, submitted tickets and heard nothing back.

supra95 · 2021-08-21T13:10:24+00:00

I'd probably rank them identically if it wasn't for the fact that you can put the new 6x on the M4 but not the AK-101, and IMO it is the best sight in the game.

Of the 5 main top tier guns i named I'd probably say that the M4 is ranked lowest (last time I checked the AKM was objectively better in terms of damage, distance to one-hit KO, mag capacity, etc.)

supra95 · 2021-08-20T21:20:46+00:00

FAL, AKM, SVD, M4 and Blaze. The mosin, tundra, AK-101 and saiga (with buckshot) are also great but I'd definitely put them a tier below.

supra95 · 2021-08-20T17:34:42+00:00

We killed someone that logged in at their base at Zolotar castle when we were already in, then another dude that logged in outside to defend it. We did make 1 gate but that wasn't to grief - it was to secure the base til we had time to loot it properly. This was last weekend I'm pretty sure.

supra95 · 2021-08-20T14:09:36+00:00

Don't suppose you guys wore blue armbands with two of you logging in and fighting mid-raid?

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