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I have been sticking to servers with 10 or less people. I am on day #2 of playing, probably 7 hours or more so far, and I have not even been shot at on site, let alone hacked. I'm sure it will happen at some point, but it is avoidable to a degree i guess. It does suck, to be sure.

Well, I have to say this dude is for real! We had a bit of trouble finding each other due to my inability to figure out where the hell I was, but he came, he saw, he saved me from a zombie and then gave me all kinds of awesome gear! I was overwhelmed with just trying to fit it all in my little cyote pack, under the cover of darkness, lit by a roadflare. Intense! Now I have a real feeling of dread walking around because I know how hard it is to gather all this gear! I cannot thank KuumotusTatti enough! A class act. :thumbsup: Here is KuumotusTatti in action: http://steamcommunit...ls/?id=99880745

Thank buddy! Those wiki instructions worked just fine and I had zero problems whatsoever installing and getting up and running. Good to see another person from Massachusetts playing!

Hello, So I've stumbled upon this game/mod and I am very much interested in it. I currently play Iron Front: Liberation 1944 (which uses the Arma engine) but I don't have the various titles required for playing Day Z. So I go about learning a bit about this game, watch a bunch of YouTube videos and come away with the impression that the game is rife with hackers. This wouldn't be such a huge deal, except for the fact that this is a game with one life and scarce weapons and not a quckmatch-FPS-spaz-type game. The idea of trying to survive for a few hours and kit myself out etc, only to be turned into a bunny and exploded by hackers does not seem appealing to me. I have also read that this game/mod is being made into a more of a full title in cooperation with BI; are they looking to solve the hacking issues through some new anti-cheating technology? Does it make sense to wait until something like that project is available before I bother trying with the game in its current form? Obviously lots of people are playing this game, so it has got to be good. Maybe there is a disproportionate amount of information out there about the hacking, and it isn't nearly as bad as it looks? Perhaps I have missed the opportunity to get involved with this game in its "glory days", before it became infested? I would like to get involved, but I'm quite aprehensive. I do not play alot of multiplayer games, and the ones that I do aren't particularly popular, so I don't have much experience with, or tolerance of hacking. I ask you players to give me an honest take on the hacking issue in this game. Is it as bad as it appears from the outside looking in? Thanks!

I already have IrontFront Liberation 1944 which is, from what I've heard, better than the mod style WWII game. All this being said y'all, I just had an amazing experience on my first time out. Played my character for about 3 hours, met up with a bunch of friendly new guys, no hackers at all... the server had 10 players on it when I got there. Had an absolute blast. :thumbsup:

Eek, wish me luck fellas, I am about to attempt getting things to run. I am just finishing up all my Steam downloads now, and then I am going to attempt using DayZ Commander to get everything sorted. I am going to follow these instructions on the wiki... I pray they are up to date!

The opening post does not say which game these settings should be applied to? Arma2 Arma2: Operation Arrowhead

Well, I just couldn't resist fellas. I just got the whole shebang, Combined Ops and both the DLC's. I am a glutton for frustration and punishment I suppose. :lol: See you in the game! :beans:

Could someone explain the difference between the survivor texture with the blue buttonup shirt vs the all black clothes? Is that a random spawn thing where it is assigned to you, or is it dependant on having some of this additional DLC? Edit: Nevermind, I found the answer here on the wiki.

It's a shame. I got turned on to DayZ by watching Frankie's 11-part series. That bus video is #11 and at the end he unfortunately declares he won't be playing any more DayZ until the standalone comes out because of hackers. If you watch any of his other videos (battlefield3, borderlands etc), the comments section is full of people asking for more DayZ vids.

I really enjoyed the 11-part series FrankieonPCin1080p did for this game (what a voice he has!), but at the end of #11 he says he's going to wait for the standalone to come out because there is too much hacking in the game. :(

Interesting opinions and differing experiences here folks, thank you all. This is better than trying to glean info about the situation from watching videos online. I'm in the States, so I would most likely be playing on UA servers. BTW, beans for everyone in the thread. I presume this is this forum's version of reputation?

Thanks for your honest opinions guys. I think perhaps waiting and trying the standalone might be the best idea for me. I've had enough frustration lately with the horrible debacle that Iron Front has become, that my blood pressure might not be able to handle another Arma-based bad experience. I kind of had the feeling I missed out on this mod in its hayday, I can't imagine it would be this popular if the hackers were here from the start. Did Arma without DayZ have this much difficulty with hackers, or is it simply the popularity of the DayZ mod that has brought them out of the woodwork? I hope they do something with the standalone version to combat this; the game itself looks like quite a unique experience and absolute blast. I think I'll save my hard-earned money for now I suppose.

I haven't played any of those games, but I'll presume you mean its quite bad indeed. :( How does one, who is just a lone guy playing this game, get invited or become a user of private hives? One just has to slog it out until they are invited to a private server by a friendly player? Thank you for your posts, I've given you both my beans, whatever that means, lol. :beans: :thumbsup: