Old news. The global bans are rolling out each day and they won't be doing it for long. If you want to ensure a cheater gets slapped with swift-justice, gather evidence - screens and recorded videos if you can. I know, it's easier said than done but it helps general security a lot!

The server is up to date. No-one else (that I'm aware of) is having connecting problems. The "connecting failed" issue is a weird one. Usually, it's either Battleye or the firewall. Perhaps the server's firewall has suddenly taken a dislike to you (PM me your IP and I'll make sure it's not being blocked). The only other issue that I can think of is that your BattlEye may be out of date. Go to http://www.battleye.com/download.html and download the latest client .dlls. Hope you can connect soon. Tav

Lol. Useless message of the day or what? IMHO' date=' to avoid frustration, [u']do not buy Arma on Steam. Steam installs A2 and OA in different directories, meaning you have to use stupid work-arounds to get certain mods and files to work, although due to popularity of DayZ means there are many tutorials out there. (normal install doesn't require tutorials to install simple stuff) Use Sprocket and buy the normal files, the sprocket downloader can be stopped/started as and when necessary. Once you have the setup files, then you can install where you like and it all goes into one lovely directory. Steam is only good for auto-updating and that's it as far as Arma 2 goes.

Hi there, I heard the dayz_server versioning match that of dayz code, is this true? The only version of dayz_server I can find for download is v1.7.1. Is there a new download location for this? Please somebody fill me in. Thanks in advance

Derp, I totally forgot to check the dayztechlist google group. If you're looking for access to new server files, go to the #dayz-admins IRC channel and ask a staff member.

Problem solved. FR4 is now live. Yep, same solution as Tamsien^^

OK, with help from the SES crew, I have got the server up and running successfully apart from one thing, HIVE. Now I get "Waiting for Server Response", and I see no activity on HIVE, when it used to run fine this morning (version 0.9.1). For some strange reason HIVE isn't working anymore.

Done that but still no joy. Are you guys editing the batch file file or using a separate short-cut? I tried editing the batch file but it still points to the normal server.exe - how do I change this? There is not enough space on the shortcut target line to add all the necessary parameters, so how did you guys do it? It's doing my head in. This is the contents of my batch file: arma2oaserver.exe -beta=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion -mod=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\expansion;ca;@dayz;@CBA;@JayArma2LibDayZ_new -name=cfgdayz -config=cfgdayz\server.cfg -cfg=cfgdayz\arma2.cfg -profiles=cfgdayz -world=Chernarus -cpuCount=2 -exThreads=1 If someone would like to spend 5 minutes of their time chatting to me to get this fixed, please PM me for skype/TS3 details. Many thanks, Tav

Can you please make a tutorial on how to get this working? I followed the instructions above and still cannot get the beta server to run. Cheers, Tav

Glad we're not the only ones. I can confirm this is happening to players on FR4 too.

All our vehicles are now completely empty too. Lost more stuff than I care to mention.

Date/Time: Over the past week What happened: Much mayhem over confusion of bugged chopper on Elektro fire station roof Where you were: Elektro What you were doing: Observing others trying to repair and executing repairs myself *Current installed version: 1.5.7 and 1.5.8.2 *Server(s) you were on: FR4 *Your system specs: Intel Core i7 2600 3.4Ghz on a ASUS P8Z68-V PRO, 8GB DDR3, GTX 560 TI *Timeline of events before/after error: The chopper on the main Fire Station roof in Elektro has been the source of much entertainment over the last week - due to the awesome challenge of trying to sneak into town with all the necessary supplies and get the chopper working, without getting shot or eaten. There is a chopper has been repaired multiple times but sadly the Hull never repairs (around 20 scrap metal added), and therefore cannot refuel Heli (almost 30 jerry cans wasted). Also, the damage to hull and engine seems to always gets slightly worse after a server restart, even though the vehicle had been saved. A few groups and individuals have tried hard in vein to get the bird in the air. Some players last night added 18 scrap, 2 engines and 12 fuel cans. These supplies took literally hours and days to gather. It's disheartening to say the least, when all theose supplies go to waste. Some players spent all day yesterday trying to get it fixed but couldn't. I suggest, if possible, could it be destroyed? So it respawns somewhere else. I love the idea and challenge of a copper on a roof top in a busy town! It just needs to be repairable :) What do you guys think? Any other problems like this? Cheers, Tav

I've updated FR4 with this version and the new HIVE but can not repair or refuel vehicles or refill jerry cans at the fuel tanks. Is anyone having this trouble? There's been no reports of trouble connecting or spawning though :)

On FR4 there is a Helicopter on the fire station roof in elektro that will not repair it's Hull and will not take on fuel. I have seen people try to fix it, they failed. I have tried to fix it, I failed. My friends have tried to fix it - spending almost 2 days gathering the relevant parts, and they failed too. Spending 22 scrap metal and ~30 jerry cans. I have a suspicion that the roof is damaging the chopper maybe? Making it unrepairable.

Where on earth do you find wood for a camp fire? Anyone know yet?

Don't reduce the zombies. Please.

Bah, merely a few tents in a field. Bet the owner's pissed :)

Server Name: FR4 Slots: 40 Difficulty: Veteran. Version: 1.60 (Not Beta patched) Location: Paris, France Time Zone: Should be GMT+1. Teamspeak 3: 188.165.226.149 Rules: English speakers only! No kicking for members, however in certain circumstances room will be made for Admins, in which case the highest ping gets kicked, No in-game VOIP. Contact: Myself on here, or on the TeamSpeak3 server noted above. Donations welcome, please ask for information. If any further info required, don't hesitate to ask.

Good idea, I like it!

I was rummaging around in armaholic and rediscovered Mondkalb's John Rambo campaign http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=11426. Would it be possible to ask Mondkalb nicely for his Bow & Arrow?

Yeah, I became a bandito after defending myself (shooting one guy and killing another went down to -268 from +2775) and only the back pack items where lost when this happened. However, I'm almost at +2000 humanity again and I'm rather paranoid about becoming a Survivor again due to bug reports of spawning in the sea and losing all gear, and therefore having to restart afresh... EDIT: SOLVED! I heard a rumour that if you're moving while your character changes you spawn in the sea. So, bearing that in mind, I let my character up to 1800 humanity and gave a buddy a bloodpack to take it over 2000 - I had dumped my kit into a tent before applying the blood pack to my buddy to avoid using it. Because I wasn't moving, my character changed back to survivor where i was standing (score!) and then had the black "Receiving/received character data". All I had to do was reconnect (making sure my character was saved to where i was standing (Unsaved: false) and all was good.

Complete knee-jerk assumption here by some folks. Server was locked by the Admin (me) for short periods to ensure the server doesn't get spammed as much with players connecting and disconnecting during heavy load last night. (20/30 players all connecting and disconnecting at the same time causes much lagg and red chains). There was certainly no private game. This post was created during one of the 10-15mins periods it was locked, as last night at one stage only a 6-7 players could connect without getting the "Waiting for server response". Due to this, many players were constantly rejoining the server in the hopes of getting in to play and duly causing lagg for everyone. If anyone sees FR4 or any server hosted by me that is locked WITHOUT ME ONLINE on the server, please PM me or a member of the DayZ Staff. Cheers, Tav

Can anyone confirm if tents and the contents of a tent save when a server restarts? Cheers

I like the Mak as a staring gun. The revolver was a very powerful starting gun, that could kill as Zombie if you hit it's finger tip. Now the player has to think before he shoots. Keep it coming DevTeam!