thesaurusRex

Same here. I bought Arma 2 OA full.

To Rave VG and I guess others, I'm about to drop some fucking learning on you right here. A heatmap is a visual interpretation of a histogram. It telsl you how many people are in a unit area within a unit time (for example, 5 people per 25-by-25 meter square per 10-minute interval). Since it tells you the frequency of visits by players, any given space in the heatmap also gives you the probability of finding players in those areas at any given time. You can ratchet up or down the specificity of the heatmap data (or granularity, for a better term) by increasing or decreasing the size of the areas and lengths of time sampled. So a heatmap doesn't need to tell you where players actually are at a specific time to increase your odds of finding *a* player somewhere. To the other points I've read, I doubt the heatmap would change much over time, especially now that people have been playing awhile. In the very beginning it probably would have changed as people were learning their way around Chernarus. I also doubt the heatmap changes much from server to server, unless admins are manipulating certain spawning mechanics like vehicle spawn locations, etc (I'm not even sure that's possible). Why? Because Chernarus and its reliable loot piles are static--they doesn't change. People, even players in a game, follow predictable paths when given certain information, rewards, and barriers. So my guess is you'd see hotspots in the towns (obviously) and also in channels, sort of like game trails in the forest or , between towns and certain points of usefulness (like deerstands).So I'd argue that if you think about it logically and intelligently, as you would need to in a real survival situation, you would already have a good idea of what the heatmap looks like and thus where the players tend to aggregate. Thus it doesn't seem to me that it belongs in the gameworld as the DayZ team has described it. Not hatin. Just sayin. Hey DayZ team. Hire me. :P

The back story is that I had just killed some group's medic in Zub with my SAW (I was playing alone). After a 1-hour standoff that the respawned medic negotiated we ceased hostilities and I tentatively joined their group. Minutes later I did this. They were kind enough, and I mean the type of kind you never see in this game, to guard my corpse while I ran back from my coastal spawn point to get all my gear back. And they didn't even take anything from me. :o

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who's seen this. This didn't seem like it was a player gathering zeds tho, more like a hacker spawned em all in one spot. I gotta admit, it was pretty funny. Would've been less funny if I'd died of course.

Sudden zombie swarm busts through building wall. Probably a hacker, but at least it fits the game's universe. You could say it took us by surprise :)

I got a M4A1 Holo SD off a hacker who killed me, took my gun, and put his on my corpse. Consolation prize I guess. Didn't realize it was hacked til I look at the wiki. Once I found a replacement (SAW, which I prefer anyway) I destroyed the cursed weapon on a zombie's corpse that I hid :)

Just like a real tent! :P Thanks, I'll look for it tonight. Someone mentioned that if you pitch a tent, save it, wait for the server to restart, THEN put your gear in it and save again, the gear will be OK. Anyone try that or heard of it?

I found a big camp of about 12 tents in near Guglovo. Ghillies, camos, NVGs, antibiotics, GPS, and weapons and ammo galore. Woot! Going there is like going to DayZ Disney World. Thanks to whoever set that up! If you could put some vehicles there I'd really appreciate it :P

I lost all the gear in my tent yesterday. Pitched it. Saved it. Put my gear in it. Saved it again. Server restarted 5 minutes later. Logged back in after the restart. No gear. Lost 2 NVGs, GPS, multiple weapons, other tents, etc etc. [Crying] Emailed the server team. No reply. Any ideas of what went wrong or what I did wrong?

"Discover Chernarus!" Promotional Tourism Video. I made it as a good-natured spoof of the game I love :P Styled to be old-timey and all. http://youtu.be/aOf9iTIrt1k

I'm in need of antibiotics and am near the NW airfield. Had a cold for days. The coughing, oh the coughing! :) PM me if you can help. Thanks!

Anything that gives the player some control over the environment will be abused to the maximum extent allowable. The right questions are whether or not the barbwire mechanic fits in the gameworld, whether its balanced and/or appropriately-powered, and whether it works as intended. I'd say it fits in the game. I'd also say it's balanced. Hording and base-building is a viable strategy. Wire passively protects gathered assets when the player isn't around. But the wire can be easily removed (as I've done myself, to the joy of finding NVGs, GPS, and a car). It's not overpowered. It also signals to players that other players might be nearby, which gives that player a tactical advantage. But the mechanic breaks down because it doesn't work as intended--it clips, sometimes prohibits player movement, sometimes doesn't, can be very difficult to remove sometimes, and doesn't stop zombies. If it could be un-bugged (at least to the point of not clipping through walls) and made to stop/injure zombies, I'd definitely keep it in. But I don't think it's the most glaring issue that the developers could be thinking about right now :)

I need antibiotics and am near the NW airfield. Can go to meet a medic anywhere. I've had an infection for days now and I'm getting low on meat and all my hospital raids have been unsuccessful. On Day 30 or so and ~300 zed kills, so don't wanna lose my guy. PM me for details. Will friend you on Steam if you want. Thanks in advance for any help.