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To all the people saying the bandit skin would help the deathmatching, obviously have forgotten that it was still there with the bandit skins, or just wasn't around at all. And second, the skins did nothing of telling intentions. People killing in self defence was made "bandits" so they were a KoS target simply because some other SURVIVOR skinned dude was unable to hit first, and someone else bested him, but only to become a wrongfull bandit. I was around that time, and I never once were killed by a guy in a bandit skin. I befriended 2 in bandit skin, and was killed ALLOT by people in survivor skins. Can't trust anyone without bandit skins? Well a "fake" intentioned pulled skin, doesn't help that eighter. If you are sick of getting killed by other survivors, the bandit skins would NOT have helped you. It's the equivelant of getting shot by someone saying "FRIENDLY!" to you.

I agree with you But the problem is, IT was already implemented, and removed pretty quickly, I figure mostly because of duping, but also people logging in to a server and getting eaten by zombies, even though you do the *Connect - Get waiting for server response - Get "lost connection to host" message - Be dead* Shuffle. Which is honestly what i have to go through on the first 10 servers i attempt to log on, ofcause not the dying part, any more! Some could say I shouldn't log out where zombies can respawn, but then we are back to me getting thrown off the internet for a quick second. 5 seconds should be enough to kill anyone you have enganged with an upper hand. It would still be a flawed system. But it would be a huge improvement to most dcing, and still protecting people who ends up loosing connection.

Lol, you can cough up aprox 25€ right? for a game in alpha, or a mod actually, no way of knowing if you pc could or would run it. But not the estimated 10-15€ for the full game? o_O I know it could be more, but this would also basically be DayZ II So if you cannot buy the sequal, to bad bro! Marik, you will be missed... Eventually. If the game goes standalone, offcause it would need a new engine more suited to run what rocket wants out of the game. I HIGHLY doubt he would just take the mod, on the arma II engine, and want cash for a standalone on the very same engine we already have. Rocket deserves the benefit of the doubt here really.

I thought about a similar system as others mentioned, but haven't seen this little tweak myself. Not claiming this to be a new idéa though, I CBA to search simply to make a POST in a thread. My background for this idéa is that I also have shitty internet that tendts to throw me off servers once in a while. Upon logout, make a 5 second timer (I don't know if 5 is too much or not enough really, I just image a car race, where 5 seconds seems like allot. But too much time just leaves you a hanging ragdoll, and if someone cannot finish you in 5 seconds, then really?). THAT LOOSES all aggro from Z'eds. This should not be reversable, EG. No regretting and going back to the game, to avoid exploiting of the lose of z aggro. And if a player stumble upon you during those 5 seconds, well you picked the wrong place to log out. If someone stumble upon me if i lose connection, odds are they already had the drop on me, or wont make it to kill you anyways, because they where just as surprised as you were. (this is where the seconds might need some tweaking?) This way, if you lose connection inside a town, your safe from zombies. I would personally not have a problem with loosing connection inside a town, with a timer on, as long as only humans could attack me in that state. Because honestly, if someone can manage to kill me from i lose connection, to i finaly get a full dc, Odds are they could easly have killed me already anyway. Yes loosing connection during PVP combat could happen, but does it really happen THAT often? My impression is that people do not like the timer because theres a good chance, that you are going to get mauled down by random zombies who get their shuffle interrupted by you laying face down in the dirt. This is not perfect, and people will abuse it to avoid zombies, and if they die anyway, maybe even DC to give you some zombies to fight when they die (which happens anway). But I could not personally, care less if someone survived another day because he dc'ed right infront of a horde of 1000 zombies. But if you shot at me and then dc right after if you miss me, that really seems to get people worked up. And good luck with getting a zombie train, and then dc'ing them on someone elses ass, hopefully they won't wake up again. Sorry about the long ramble and incoherence, I am very tired and not from an English speaking country :P But still saw my 2 cents of idéas to be worth mentioning.

And so the hunt begins! Objective: Obtain said bloodpack, any way possible. On a more serious note, being a lonewolf myself, I would head up north and try to find cows and sheep. A week ago, I was in Polana, and I got myself 1 hit ko'ed by a zombie (had just on the wrong side of 10k health i think), woke up with around 2k health left, and blasted the zombie away, and some of his buddies. I was lucky enough to get to the store and eat some food, I passed out a couple of times on my way there, so the food really helped me get away from there. trying to sneak past zombies and passing out at the same time is risky bussiness ya know! ... AND I finaly found a knife! I have NVG's and basicly any other tool in the game, but i was missing that blasted knife. But there i was, with 3k health and a knife, matches and a hachet, so i waited for night, and snuck the f out of there. Found myself a juicy cow, and ate it! and some other animals aswell.. Still going strong today with full health!

If your still on 1.7.1.5... please update the game maybe? If you are in fact up to date with the game, please leave threads like this to die lol It's like an old wound.

Just to throw it out there, Rocket is not the one designing Battleeye. And since Arma 2, the game days is build on, all he can really do is hope for battleeye getting updated. IF he could take more action, I bet he would. But at the moment, he can't really touch the anti hacking mechanics.

keepcarlm Why not make it lethal? A hard wack with the back of an AK stock to the back head in real life is pretty much an instant knockout on someone or something. Easly capable of killing someone with continous hits. Not saying hits should be like that, but just that it is very possible to kill someone with the wrong end of a weapon. So Continous hits should eventually kill someone, should ofcause be allot less effective then the axe or crowbar, but say you shot someone and they go into shock, then you could finish them off by hitting them, both for stealth and for fun! :D and ammo conservation, but meh.. Thats no fun

I would have taken the m14 only, left the other 2 weapons. AS50 is tooo snipy, and FN Fal seems like a shitty AR. So having both would only leave you with a good sniper, and take up allot of room because you need to hold 2 weapons. I prefer not stuffing a weapon in my pack, having only one primary leaves allot of room in an alice pack :P lots of ammo or food, cba having to run around and look for food all the time. Better to load up on goats and cows once in a while :D

Agree with Lycake. Fluffy white stuff must DIE!

You obviously have no idéa what Alpha is. Or your coherens is just so bad that I did not get the fact that you meant that Arma II is in alpha, but then why exist? Or drink milk? Or breath air (please stop it now :D). Alpha is the stage where the game/mod is playable, but still under development. There really is no other time too actually add stuff o_O Adding stuff in beta is common, but it is still an alpha stage move, since the beta stage is about fixing all the stuff you broke during alpha. Adding DLC content to a game is NOT considered alpha stage, since the DLC content also have undergone an alpha, beta and finished stage. Do not qoute me on this, this is from memory (and mostly logic thinking). In the game or the real world? I am guessing this was about the game. Then you are right, though I have found myself some times being unable to find food on a newer char (no knife/match/hatchet for easy food) and started to starve, same with water, not always easy to find cantines when you really need em xD Only ever killed one person.... because of that though, the rest of the times was simply just fun! :D In the real world, if that was what you meant. Then sure, in the start there would be plenty of food, but a couple of months, or maybe even a year into a zombie apocalypse? *BLAM BLAM* "Sorry bro, my beans!" This is all speculation, just like what the rest off you guys are saying is. I do not claim this to be the truth. But what I would consider the most LIKELY outcome of a zombie apocalypse, conserning human psychology. Is that we decend into tribes, and battle amongs each other for the resources. This is how humans always have lived. In the earlier days, it was small tribes of maybe 20 people, who would more then likely murderise everyone else they met, in a battle for territory and safety, true they would also have allies, or more then likely be wiped out. Today we have countries. VERY big tribes of people, and in most places there is peace, but we still kill each other. And tribes has also always had killings among themselves, be it jealousy over that big storage of food and women. Or just straight thuging in DC, in the great clan USA. I know calling countries tribes seems silly, but you get my point. To add if this really was a zombie apocalypse, do not forget the infection. If I was rolling with my band of 20 peacemakers, I would be VERY carefull of that lone guy comming for help into my camp, if he doesn't play his cards right, I would be forced to kill him, incase he might be carring zombism? Just imagine a paniced loner out there, finally spotting 20 people, who actually might want to help him, but they dare not go near him in fear of him turning into a zombie, so if he are to eager, and just "demand" help. They will most likely have to do something drastic, like feeding him bullets, only real cure for zombism! All this has already been said by countless others too.

I sometimes pop people in the knee simply to jerk their chains. Or if they are getting chased by a horde! :D So if it was me, I did not care if you lived or died. :(

Lol you say it yourself, the mod is in Alpha. A normal game in alpha wouldn't be THIS playable, Rocket is not suppost to hotfix all the stuff the community is whining about is wrong with the game. All he should do is cram more and more crap into the build untill he's got what he wants it to be, and THEN starting to fix all the mishaps and errors. And "make there actually be a negative side effect for killing players" Just makes you sound like a whining carebear tbh. This is definetly not the stuff he should be focused on now with the mod, maybe later... or hopefully never, so i can still feel free to murder people who whine this much.

Arma II's engine isn't exactly top of the line codework. So there's a good chance Arma III won't be much harder to run, if at all. Pretty sure I heard somewhere that they are giving the engine allot of attention to avoid the code bottlenecks like arma II has

Where is killing just for the luls? Is it hidding in greifing, or in the "bored" part?

Why do people think they need some kind of god like detection tool against snipers? Does one really exist in real life? Sure there is thermal vision, but those i've seen, cant really go beyond 200 meters. That gun was pretty much just some sort of unfair balancing against snipers. Even worse really, was it when used WITH a sniper. In real life, you can pretty much home build a gillie suit, and if you then hide in tall grass with it, people can almost step on you before they even notice, but because of bugs or engine limitations, hiding in grass in this game seems futile.. since everyone from 100 meters away will just see some moron in the middle of a field, not someone in the grass. Also hiding up against a tree is also very possible. What are you people doing since you get caught so much out in the open that you need godvision 2000 to protect yourself?!

Atleast they admit to actually locking the server to "clean up" NOW ALL MIGTHY BANHAMMER, SMITE THY!

Ohh the tears of this thread. If anything, they should take out military grade snipers, and just give us the hunting ones. And in RL they are NOT rare, to all you people saying assault rifles and cqc is more realistik. I know atleast 4-5 people with hunting rifles with scopes on them (typically used for deerhunting, or the annoing ex), I know noone with assaultrifles, smgs, handguns, bazookas, nukes ect. ect. But yes, it is way to easy to snipe at the moment, should really add wind and other stuff to make it harder, to keep people from using them at unrealistic ranges (compared to the skill it actually takes to pull those shots off)

lol bandit skins where sooooo broken I got a bandit skin by killing some dude who tried to gun me down, I came out alive, and apparently a cold blooded killer, that was not friendly (sure, I am not the most friendly player, I will more then likely kill you, but by that time, i had never killed anyone before hand, and wasn't raelly going to) Yet i was branded a KoS target for that. And ALLOT of other people had the same problem, even with actually being friendly. And it completely kills the immersion that you "know" the intentions of someone else. If you meet at stranger in RL, you do not know by the looks of said person, w/e or not he is going to help you, ignore you, rob you or slaugther you like a pig for fun.

Don't worry, I didn't really mean for people to actually go and leave their friends upon death ;) But being in a group that just fully reequips you if you die, just defeats permadeath. Which is fine, I just do not see the reason for those huge offmap camps just to restock weapons and ammo. If your whole group gets mowed down, it should be starting over, or going to a camp that is most likely going to be stumpled upon by some random dude, who is in fact lost, and hits the jackpot. Though I would really like the idéa of it being possible to take over a city and clean it effectively from infected, and maybe having some kind of storage unit as long as the town is cleared. Or maybe just even make carrying and dropping a backpack that doesn't despawn. I would personally love a backpack I can drop under a tree, that will be there even after a server reset. Would most likely fill it with those tools that are essential but hard to find (like a knife... can't believe how easy it is to find guns and nades... BUT A KNIFE!? or matches? hate having to go through 3 stores just to find a single box lol, making fire IRL is to easy compared to dayz xD) Sure someone can go tree to tree to find it... But good fucking luck! xD If someone really finds my backpack in the middle of a forrest with 100'erds of trees, he deserves it

To your last part of the post. When I die I die, because I am a lonewolf I can't just go to a place and rearm and be just as fit as before my death. I keep the important stuff on me, and leave my tents with my spare crap. mix of food and ammo, and the spare weapon I have no room for. And I say again, there isn't suppost to be safe camps. If you want a camp, you have to take the risk of it getting stumbled upon while your away, and getting utterly crushed just for the shitgiggles. If not the alternative should be not having a camp, not going +10 miles off the game itself to keep it safe. Yes it is not funny to loose it all, but the game is permadeath, upon death, you are suppost to start over. In a perfect world, even finding new people to play with, not going back to your mates that restock you with your old gear. I can barerly be assed to set up tents, I have my weapons on me, and food and drink i find walking around or wacking off people. When I die, I do not just want to be thrown back into that. Would kill the game for me if perma death was put out, might aswell give you a spawn menu at let you pick any weapon and 1 car as it is now with people going offmap to restock

I sometimes take pot shots at peoples legs and then leave them alone, purely just to screw with them :P Even if they have good gear, they also need to know they are never safe. It also leaves people more scared to be alive and hurt, then dead but atleast it is the end, theres no uncertienty in being dead.

Nice to see that people can't just nullify permadeath with dupe cityes outsite of the game boarders. And to that annoing person who keeps saying that hacking and going off the boarder of the game isn't the same (to some degree he is right). Well, to use your own arguement, that YOU are just using an ingame mechanic.. Well a hack is most likely also just something that exploits an ingame mechanic and using code as it was not intended. Your just using the playingfield as it was not intended, because the arma developers did not inv barrier the whole boarder, or go battlefield and wack you off when you got too far out of the game. Look at CSS, they had those material wallhacks. But to your point, it was not hacks. It was simply new textures for walls, which ALLOT of people have, some liked high res standard textures, others wanted a more realistic look and others just wanted to be able to look through them, exploiting an ingame mechanic to get an unfair advantage and being a giant dick sure, but it wasn't REALLY a hack (by your standard). FYI, I was a server admin for css, I find hacking despicable, hence my knowledge to the hack. And what is it with all this "IT WAS NOT IN THE RULES HUR DUR!" This is not America (Sorry, America is a great country, but some really fucked up shit sometimes happens due to the way laws are constructed), you do not get a million for roasting your animals in microwaves, you get a ban! or atleast allot of hate. We are sensible people who should respect the work of others, not try to break it every way we can to "enjoy" it more...

Allot of people forget that you do not have to empty the whole airfield. I normaly just go for the northern barracks, because it is the easiest to sneak up to, and get away from. But yes, that place is a hellhole, and greed will get you killed really fast.