Anarki (DayZ)

So we're getting alpha patch for an alpha game? Too funny. Rust is more popular than DayZ and there is a reason why.

When one of your games on Steam gets banned, you are simply not allowed to buy a new one. A "hacker" (or in other words, a kid using a script made by someone else) will get banned sooner or later, which means that he won't be able to buy a new copy of the game. The reason why all "hackers" kept coming back is because you could find a lot of Arma II keys that had nothing to do with Steam. The game was sold on other websites, like Green Man Gaming and Gamer's Gate. They could just change the key in registry (this is hard with Steam, it automatically changes the key back to original one) and continue playing through DayZ Commander. Limit Dayz to Steam and I think it will root out most of the hackers.

Yeah, true that, but there's another reason why DayZ mod "hackers" kept coming back. That's $1-$3 Arma II keys that were made available on the net. I doubt that a hacker would spend $30 just so he can continue hacking and again get banned in a day. Besides, even then, those with lots of money to waste would be extremely rare. Way better than how it's now.

The standalone is probably never coming out. Or it's going to fail big time. It was supposed to come out in December 2012... it's almost May 2013...

So, after gearing up myself, getting my hands on Escalade, night vision and a AS50 with thermal, I only go out at night. I have my base set up far north of Berezino, with few tents and my SUV. The private server I play on is a pretty big one, with always 10+ players playing at night and it's at 55/55 16 hours per day. I rarely come out at day, I cannot risk losing my gear. And when I do so, I always go out on foot without my items. But when the night comes, I drive out, without lights. It also really helps that Escalade is an awesome offroad car that makes very little noise. It's the quietest car in the game I think. I get my supplies around Elektro, go to NW airfield for the ammo/weapons, maybe have sun fun around looking for heli crash siets, then quickly fall back to my hole before dawn and wait for the next night. How do you play? Note: Escalade is a legal spawn on the private server I play on, and I found AS50 in a truck loaded with hacked weapons. Took the sniper and blew up the truck. It was hard to resist not picking it up :) I know you don't get banned for using a hacked weapon as long as it was not you who spawned it, so I thought, what the heck. I'm a survivor, not a bandit, so the AS50 is for my own defense.

While "buildings spawning inside other buildings" or "buildings spawning inside water" is not an issue as long as you know what you're doing, I agree with the guy who said it would just become a mess. Imagine if World of Warcraft had randomly generated world :x

My story is short. I was riding around just exploring, when I suddenly stumbled upon a truck packed with all kind of stuff. There were satchel charges inside. Being the sick and twisted person, I immediately thought of a sinister plan and set it in motion. I picked up satchel charges and placed them next to the truck. Then I announced in general chat (which is activated on my server), that I found a truck north of the NW airfield and that I'm "all excited with the items I found inside and how I'm looting everything". Then I hid on the mountain nearby waiting and expecting the owners to show up. And truly so, in no less than few minutes, there was an UAZ driving to it. They parked next to it and 3 guys jumped out. They immediatelly started checking out the truck. The items they left in there is the last thing they saw, as I blew them in the air along with their vehicles. The aftermath was almost as enjoyable as the explosion itself. I have never seen anyone so angry.

You sure you werent close to The Mountain? If you ever find yourself near Zelenogorsk, do not go close to The Mountain with a huge tower on top of it. That place is pure evil and will fuck your mind up.

Lol, I'm total opposite of Frankie when I freshly spawn. I just run like a headless chicken around not trying to hide at all, picking up stuff quickly and hoping no sniper will hit me. It's actually effective as snipers do have hard time hitting someone who runs as much as me.

I've got my hands on one of those new choppers, MI-8 or something, which to my knowledge, are invisible to maphackers (they don't show up on the map like Huey). Which is my early Christmas present. However on my private server there are plenty of choppers (varies between 6 and 12) and people flying in those looking mostly off map for other hidden choppers. I tried parking it north of Guba, twice, way off map, and it got stolen both times. Now third time is a charm and this time I'm looking for someplace better. Now, I know I can always park it on a building with inaccessible roof in some god forsaken village. But considering there are so many choppers on my server, it will be found sooner or later. MI-8 is no tiny chopper, it actually takes more place than Huey, so I can't park it anywhere. I've been thinking and decided that the best place to park it is on the smallest possible opening in the woods. Doesn't have to be off map, but close to the edge as possible, where people usually don't go. Right now it's on a tiny opening east of Pavlovo. I feel like it's a nice spot but would like to find something even better! The biggest problem I have is there are so many damn mountains in Chernarus which make the chopper slowly slide once you have landed it. Then it eventually ends up in trees so you can't get it up in the air. Which makes it even harder to hide its location. The spot has to be almost perfectly horizontal. Parking it anywhere north of NW Airfield or NE Airfield (even off map) is like asking for it to be stolen. On my server, the admins have added extra barracks to both airfields so they are always crawling with choppers and players. There are plenty of tiny islands around Skalisty Island, but that place already has a chopper spawn and people will poke around, not to mention that like those islands around Elektro, it's a high traffic area, meaning someone will probably see me either land or lift. There is of course no 100% safe place, but there has to be a place where people will rarely look! Anyone know of some godforsaken building with inaccessible roof somewhere deserted? I know there are some far north east, but that is also a high traffic area.

I seriously hope that stand alone will be better on that part. I remember when I started playing Day Z, I was crawling around not to be detected, planning my route carefully to crawl between those two walkers so neither will detect me. What do I do now? I just run. I run like hell, doesn't matter if I aggro 0, 1 or 5 zombies, I will just rush to the building and then loot quickly whatever I need and then rush out. And if they somehow block the door, I just run zig zag so they bug themselves outside the wall which opens up a way for me. Also, once you find a tactic for zombies, it applies to all of them, everywhere. And even if stand alone fixes the issue with zombies bugging out or walking inside houses, it will still become tedious after a short while. Now having few different human zombies (which are all basically the same) is not enough. If humans can be infected, why not all the living beings? Cats, dogs, wolves, bears, birds. Imagine having to watch out not only for human zombies, but for birds as well (reminds me of the classic horror movie, Birds :)). Or ditch the animals (might make the game not safe no matter where you are) and create 10 or so different zombies that behave differently.

Ohhh, would you look at that :) I got here by chance, and I must say, being an Overclock site user for the past 4-5 years, I totally understand why they run some things like this. The thing is, back on overclock.net, the mods are pretty tight. If someone posts a game trailer in the news forum and you say it sucks, your post is deleted and you're issued a warning. It's a bit (ok, quite a bit) of a fascist way of running things, but you know, it's a tough life out there. Us Day Z players should know. If you don't like it just change the server. It's one of the reasons why I have no interest in playing on Overclock servers :) If you have seen Equilibrium movie, you'll know exactly what I mean.

Hello. I installed Windows 8 64-bit few days ago and decided to reinstall ARMA II Combined Operations. First problem that I encountered is that I cannot start "Combined Operations" anymore. Steam doesn't even report that I own Combined Operations! When I search for it on Steam, it says that I have to buy it, not play it -.- I don't get this error on Arma II or Arma II Operation Arrowhead, I can just "Play" them. I remember buying Combined Operations and not Arma II + Arma II Operation Arrowhead. DayZ however works fine. But there is a problem that I want to solve. Thing is, whenever I start Operation Arrowhead I get "Addon "dayz_anim" requires addon "ca_dubbing_counterattack"" error, but the game still starts. Then in main menu, I get "No entry "bin\config.bin/CfgVehicles/Citizen1.scope". error. I can still search for servers but if I try to join a server I usually get kicked because of "missing downloadable content" etc problem. When I launch the game through DayZ Commander everything is working fine. But I don't like DayZ Commander and want to play through Steam.

It doesn't seem to be working with the new patch. I have not played Dayz for a while though. The reason why I want Debug Monitor back is because my eyes are not very good at noticing color changes. I'm partly color blind.

So me and my friends had fun for weeks on a near server, got geared and set up a big camp with a lot of stuff. Zombies are not really much of an issue, just a minor annoyance. I was thinking, would it be ok for me to equip a L85A2 AWS, go to a higher populated server and go kill people until I get bored or killed. In case I get killed, I go back to my server, get new gear, then continue killing people on the same or different server. Would that get me banned?

So me and my friends had fun for weeks on a near server, got geared and set up a big camp with a lot of stuff. Zombies are not really much of an issue, just a minor annoyance. I was thinking, would it be ok for me to equip a L85A2 AWS, go to a higher populated server and go kill people until I get bored or killed. In case I get killed, I go back to my server, get new gear, then continue killing people on the same or different server. Would that get me banned?

Hello, I'm trying to update to beta patch 97771 from here http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php But everytime I download and install it and try to play on a server that requires 97771 it says that my 1.62-something version is invalid (there are like 2 versions it requires, and it's complaining about the top one). If I reinstall DayZ through play with six then it again starts to complain about 97771 not being present. So how do I fix this?

Nevermind! I forgot to copy the exe file from beta folder :)

Yeah but, how do I install it so I can play on 97771 servers? I see there are other people online on my favorite server so they must have it installed. I downloaded and installed 97771 from the link mentioned in my first post but it only updates ARMA II OA and not DayZ.