DragunX5

Head to NW airfield, plenty of bodies on the ground you can guard there lol

Hi guys Was 25 days into dayz, fully kitted out. Playing last night and was all good, got to a safe place then logged off as normal. Went to play this morning and it's spawned me on the coast, day 0 and no gear!!!! And yes it's on an official server, the same as last night infact. Anyone know wdf?

Your right, it's on alpha stage and I don't mind that. I've had my fair share of bugs and glitches which is cruel but you just laugh it off. If this happened due to a bug or glitch then cool I'll shrug it off. But the fact that it's happened to so many people, and rumours are pple with hacked guns were killed makes it bitter. It takes only a min for someone to announce that a bug may have hit some players resulting in character reset, but we have had no explanation at all. We all still had to pay for arma to support and play dayz, we deserve atleast that right?

Hope so bro, I played last night around 2:30 am and all was fine, just this morning everything was lost. Feel ur pain, very fustrating

Go to battle eye website and download latest client. Copy n paste over the existing battle eye file of the same name somewhere in arma oa folder think it's in it's own battle eye folder and paste over the one in there. This fixed it for me.

Have a look at my post called profile reset rage. Same happened to me, apparently last night all players with hacker weapons were killed!! I didn't have a hacked weapon and if I picked one up how was I supposed to know :s big fuck up by the team I think

I know :( I would rather have them take all hacked weapons and vehicles away so that when u log in you hacked gun has gone if you had one but this was cruel Only guns I had were mp5sd m9sd m4 and svd camo. None are on the hacked ban list but hackers can still hack guns in that are legitimate to find in the game which made this a real stupid thing to do :(

Bro I spent ages looking for nv!!! Finally my team mate found one for me and this, never got to use them :( I really hope a mod reads this thread and explains why this was done. If its true all players with hacked gear were killed. It's a survival game where scavenging is part, a huge part of the game. Unless There is a huge flashing sign or a zed comes up to you and tells you "that dead body or tent has hooky gear on it" you ain't gonna know. Was gonna start my life again but I can't be fucked. No point until this issue is clarified. Got gear stashed in our tent but if it is hacked I'm just gona be here today gone tomorrow :( The game is cruel enough with all the bugs n glitches lol, part of the joy is overcoming these by the seat of ur pants like one time my TM got spawned on the roof of the barracks lol. He was so prang jumping off for ages lol, but he did and survived...just. So much joke, Ahh the memories, not to mention the indestructible cow that needed a whole clip from an l85 to drop it lol. Ah the memories.....and for what? Nothing.

Does that mean we can't pick up guns off the ground? From tents we find? Bodies? Cos you won't know if the gun is hacked or not. I want answers, this is a ridiculous action, spent so much time getting character to where he is now and it's wiped out in an instant...good job it's a free mod cos if I paid for it I'd go mad! Oh no wait...I did, I paid for 2 games that I'll never play just to play dayz...this just makes it totally not worth playing cos you'll always be prang about picking anything up

Yeah I didnt have any hacked weapons. What a stupid thing! What if a player finds a weapon on the floor that is meant to be in game but someone hacked it in and dropped it. The person picking it up wouldn't have a clue. Disgraceful. First steam fucks up the ability to launch dayz with their "optimisation update" on the game and now this? Proper pissed off.

Would be nice to get military grade camo netting from barracks or military spawn, so when you obtain a vehicle and want to hide it when you log off you can throw the netting over which will make it harder to find. Although players can still find it, it's harder to see and doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.

Yeah it's just to conceal it more that it would b without. Same as a gillie suit, normal player lying down is more visible from distance than a guy in a gillie. The trick would be hiding it in a very big built up area of foliage rather than next to a random tree in a forest. Also pple use choppers to locate things, with a net slinger over will make it harder to see something from the air.

I like the idea of sleeping but now how described in this thread. I have a job and social life and don't get to play as often as some do. What if I go on holiday and my player is sleeping for 2 weeks, what are the chances I'll be dead when I get back? Very high. Sorry but idea is flawed

Yeah I love this idea, adding bushes where you can collect berries for food and mushrooms too, but eat the poisonous ones and youll need to cure urself with herbs like mentioned.

Haha Some DE servers are proper dodge!! Theres a few DE servers by ZAP hosting that hang on the loading screen. You'll have to close arma in task manager but of course if you do, the next server you join will spawn you back at the coast!!! Beware! Quitting a server on the black loading screen will spawn u back at the coast grr!!

My advice is bud, find the coast and run along it, you will eventually come across a major town. Once you do, if you have a tail of zeds in ur ass is to enter a large building, zeds can't run inside buildings so you can easily pick up useful loot and get by them. Don't be frustrated though, this isn't a game you can just expect to hop in and play like a normal fps, you have to build up from nothing. Once you find your map, compass, first weapons etc you will be so happy!!! It's a very rewarding game, I've never been so happy to see a can of beans when I was hungry. That's what makes this special, every little thing you do makes it more rewarding the more you play, and you get fearful of dying because of the progress you have made. Not like other fps where your handed everything on a plate and if you die it don't matter. Just really pay attention to the sight and sound icons on the right when being stealthy, the line of sight engine on this game is brilliant, use cover to your advantage and be patient!!

Agree with everything said above. And fix glitches like zombies hitting you through walls or walking through doors n floors etc.

Agree with the above....this isn't trauma centre. Gutting an animal in DayZ is such a small part of the game, I think much more things should take priority like zombie AI animal AI, player behaviour etc. i still wonder why you have to cook meat in DayZ before you eat it? When your tryna survive a zombie apocalypse I think you would eat anything!

I think if it's not a hack...it's fair. Snipers in real life are a pain in the ass......invisible killers...the whole point of them. Part of the game is to be cautious. When approaching locations go prone and scope out anywhere you think snipers will be, tall buildings, windows, under trees on hills....binoculars are such an important find in my opinion to extend your survival chances. I'm a player that is always willing to help other survivors, I never shoot players unless attacked first..... But I'd always take down a sniper cos I guarantee they not there to shoot zombies lol

I'm confused as to why the dogs n cows n sheep n rabbits aren't zombified :S

I love playing at night cos I have f all finds, so getting into houses without alerting zed sis easier. But I agree it's too dark, I think the moonlight should play a bigger role so it's not so dark but occasionally clouds cover the moon and make it darker etc. a more realistic sky behaviour.

First off I just want to thank developers for creating a brilliant game! So few ideas are -punch/kick (when you spawn and have f all it would be cool if you could punch n kick, even if it does sod all damage, just adds to the realism and can give you vital seconds to escape chasing zombies if you crack them in the face!) -blowtorch, wire cutters etc (would be cool to be able to use a blow torch to weld perhaps metal fence poles/steel pipes etc on vehicles to create a deadly vehicle) -more interaction with environment (just to make it more realistic the ability to pick up stones/sticks, chairs in houses, even tear off planks of wood from small barns to make firewood etc) -player stats( to have a levelling system where ur ranked on kills, survival days,shot accuracy etc similar to cod games) -ability to combine items (so if you find a rag, petrol, empty bottle you can combine to make molotov, or if you find c4 old mobile phone etc make a bomb etc.) -zombie AI( this is what my least favourite thing is, would be cool to see them tryna grab you, bite you etc instead of all being generic swiping at you) ID friendlies( so once you meet other players you can add a tag to them so if you encounter then again it displays if they friendlies or bandits etc) Shovel. (would be good if you could find a bag and put stuff in it you don't need and be able to bury it for later by using shovel) Glass shard-( if you have no guns it would be sweet if you could smash a window and pick up a glass shard to use as a weapon, however If you don't have an 'old rag' or something you lose health whn u use it cos it cuts ur hand, unles u have a rag to combine with the shard to hold it). I'm sure I could go on forever as this tripe of game has no limits on the possibilities of expansion :) Great work guys!

Agreed. For a zombie post appcalyptic survival simulator spawning zombies don't fit in. There should be a set zombie population for the whole map, once the number gets low they spawn from remote locations or something similar. If not once the zombie population reaches 0 you unlock maybe another city you can fly to or an island? Just thinking out loud.

Would be cool to see more female and children zombies....it's a city right, why all men :S

I agree a headshot is a headshot and should b instant kill....however I think that the damage should be based on the distance shot in regards to the effective range of the gun. A makarov is 50m so a headshot from anywhere between 0-50m instant death....yonder 50m unconscious/injured :) I agree that close quarters shooting is more likely to be lethal than ranged but remember that British guy in the 80s who was shot something like 18times by police?....he survived :)