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Not in an appreciable way; the only change it would make would be the BAF-armored zombies looking a little less sanded. It's nothing special. Don't buy any of the expansions if you aren't a serious ArmA player; if you're just in it for DayZ, the DLC won't make a big difference. In fact, higher-rez textures would make the game harder; it'd be easier to blend into the environment.

A private hive that was 100% vanilla game (the only changes, if any, would make it harder) that promotes roleplaying and social dynamics all wrapped up an a tasty coating of no-TS3? That would be amazing. I would have that server's children.

Sorry, I wasn't saying that you did, and was not intending to put any words in your mouth. I just wanted to make sure he wasn't wasting half an hour letting 3 MBs of crap copy and paste he doens't need copied or pasted.

You're scared of the "Big Brother" aspect of monitoring your game? I personally don't like BattlEYE. It's finicky, it's touchy, and it's support is subpar (although I 100% respect their policy on bans:"You fucked up. Go cry about it.") I don't like what BattlEYE does. I got a 20 minute cluster efff on my PC because I had a program running that registered data value changes. It was kind of like Cheatengine, but some friends and I had brought it up from more-or-less scratch to test some Minecraft mods we never completed. I'd left Minecraft and the false-positive "Cheat Engine" running when I decided to play a few minutes of DayZ. BattlEYE initialized, gave me an error like "Injector attempt at ----really long list of numbers and letters, mostly 0000000Xsomething----- which gave me a 000x9c error and crashed ArmA 2 to the desktop... except it kept the rezise of ArmA 2, which I don't play at native resolution, which made my desktop unusuable. I tired CNTRL ALT DELETE and my screen turned into a rave party. After a manual shut off (via power button), I had to sit through 20 minutes of DOS recovering PC acitivity and making sure I didn't just break my PC. BattlEYE then took the liberty of telling my the false-positive was a cheat every time I tried to play. I opened up task manager and made sure the process wasn't running. I removed it from my PC completely, uninstalled BattlEYE, removed all traces of it from my registry, got rid of every left over .dll, et cetera, and reinstalled, which was the only way of stopping it from running a pesky little process that continously scans your PC for activity BE doesn't like. I'm not saying that's a bad thing; I think its great that BE is capable to stopping scripts (to some extent), because it at least keeps the laziest of script children away, but why wouldn't the functionality expand to see if Skype is running? See if TS3 is running? You shouldn't be talking to someone on Skype while playing DayZ anyway; A2 takes enough CPU as it is, and it's downright rude to go, "Hold on grandma, I need to shoot some zombies. Okay, what were you saying?" When I first started? Plenty. Now? Maybe once a month? I may be misunderstanding you, but are you suggesting that people that survive for a long time in DayZ are "Unrealistic" ? I think that if you're shot up, going "Bloop bandage and bloodbag" shouldn't save the day, due to the horrible infections you're going to get as a result of getting your stomach all shot to hell, but I don't think people surviving for long in DayZ is unrealistic. A bit irritating when someone has a URAL, NVGs, ghillie suit, AS50, and et cetera, but not unrealistic; DayZ is the survival of the fittest, and those best at using the forums/TS3. EXACTLY! Take TS out, be a loner. It's a more rewarding experience to run in and out of Elektro in starving desperation by yourself than it is to say, "Hey everyone, let's go to Elektro. Who's flying the chopper?" That is EXACTLY why TS frustrates me. It takes the challenge out of the game. --- I basically play with myself (immature jokes aside) when it comes to DayZ; I've got my own mission file that has double zombie spawns and half-loot spawns, almost no vehicles, and no helicopters. Occasionally friends come over. It makes a pretty tense Survival Games setting, where whoever is lucky enough to find a M1911 is King of the server and whoever can find a Winchester first is like Super Optimus Prime Jesus Cyborg Ninja RoboCop.

Has your PC recently taken a dive in any other aspects of its use? It could be the result of a ram stick dying or your graphics card taking a dump, which are the most common issues old PCs have that haven't been dropped extensively. Have you installed any programs recently that have an autorun on startup? It could be said new program is using up too much of your CPU. Finally: Have you changed your graphic settings? I've noticed ArmA 2 suddenly get really choppy and changing my graphic settings to bare minimum, then back, clears it up for whatever reason. I've had the same DayZ experience of 1 second freeze-frames, but not nearly as often as 5-10 seconds. It occurs to me when all the zombies spawn in/all the textures load/or all the blown up vehicles, custom buildings, fire places, and et-cetera render in, since my PC is suddenly adjusting to keeping track of a bunch of new things really suddenly. What kind of PC are you running? Do some research into your motherboard, graphics card, and ram. See if they have a history of crapping out routinely around XXX amount of time? I don't know if this posts will help, but it counts as a "Bump" so maybe someone that knows what they're talking about will see it. :)

Do waht this guy said, except don't worry about coppying things from A2 to A2 OA; if you purchased Combined Operations, there should be a folder called "Shared" or "Common" or something in your A2 OA folder, that already has all the "Addons" you use from ArmA 2. Make sure when you install the update, you use the cut-paste the .exe from the Beta into your normal OA folder, so when you run OA, it'll use the beta's content.

It's stupid not to waste ammo? To fire one burst, or 2 rounds in semi-auto to scare someone? I've never had to empty half a clip at someone to win a fight. I'm sorry, but if that's what it takes for you, you're just looking for excuses for how much you suck at DayZ.

TS3 is a third party program. That's even worse than abusing the game. The TOS need to be changed, and TS3/Skype/et cetera needs to be stomped out.

Duplication glitches were patched out of the game because players used it to gain an unfair advantage over other players. That was considered cheating. Is TS different? And to clarify and rectify the situation with a few of the above posters, I don't have a problem with TS/Skype/whatever being on while you. My problem is TS being on while you play so that you can communicate with other DayZ players, who are in the game with you, so that you can communicate as a team in a manner which is impossible for legitimate players. You can talk to someone; you just shouldn't do it for cheat reasons, like cross-map coordination.

Your argument is, "We should allow cheating, because if we don't, cheaters will be mad."

People that are mature enough to handle zombie survival as a survival experience, not a social fest. If I wanted to take the "Kick back, drink a beer with a friend" approach to gaming, I wouldn't choose the kill-or-be-killed-by-cheating-pricks world of DayZ. I'd play normal ArmA 2, where TS actually makes sense because the military uses radios.

The game isn't fun with all this metagame bullcrap. I'm not taking it seriously; I'm not having fun because ye bastards and all your dam 3rd party stuff stops it from being fun. When I first joined, PvP fights were fun. If you were stealthy, you could listen to direct communication discussions and figure out where someone is going. If you knew the map, you could follow them without being seen and ambush them.

Oh my God/Allah/Buddha/whatever... ...a private hive that doesn't spawn you in with NVGs, free guns, ammo, and all that other falsetto jazz? Oh la la! Tres bien server! Seriously. These are SO rare. Are there normal spawn rates for vehicles/gear? If you take out the map, I'd be really interested in joining. What map does it take place on? Normal Chernarus, or somewhere like Namalsk? Lingor? Lingor is a dealbreaker.

I wasn't trying to be a dick. I've never been shot at on a west-european server, or seen mass-server kills. But in the USA, Australia, Germany, or Russia, EVERYONE is a bandit.

In the future, "Follow" your own threads; you'll never know the replies otherwise. Anyway: Use the normal dayz.chernarus.pbo (or dayz.namalsk.pbo I guess) and delete vehicle spawns you don't want, and move ones you do want, instead of starting from scratch. I applaud you if you do so wish to limit the number of vehicles on your server to a subpar amount; that would be a rather refreshing change from the "FREE M9SD NVGs 900 VEHICLES 20 HELICOPTERS" bullshit servers I see here everyday.

1: It's REALLY OBVIOUS you recommend it; you put a link and several positive comments. 2: It's REALLY OBVIOUS you're only on the forums to advertise; you only have 3 total posts on an old account. 3: Your grammar is REALLY, REALLY bad. Turn off your PC, go read some books, get some exercise, eat something, and take a shower. I know the first two and the last of those are very foreign concepts, but trust me, it'll do you a world of good. 4: You spelled "Black Sparrow" wrong.

Can "Good" and "Australian" be juxtaposed? No offense, but I've never once met an Australian online in any video who wasn't a total douche. Australian servers are all bloody death matches.

In conclusion rather good suggestion? I beg to differ, on the second two ideas. First of all, just no. No exploding zombies. No. Second: Who the hell carries a blood bag on their person, in a pocket? No one. And even if a doctor/EMT/whatever did slip a bag into his pocket, you think the bag is going to survive him falling and getting torn into by his assailant zombie? There's no reason blood bags should be found outside of hospitals/ambulances. Speaking of which... Blood bags should break/"Spoil" after too much inventory carry or being left to sit in your tent for 2 weeks. Blood is kept refrigerated for a reason. Anyway... Pilot zombie, with 9mm-proof helmet? Bomb-tech zombie, extremely bullet proof in his bomb squad suit? SWAT zombie, also very bullet resistant? Possibility to scavenge *pieces* of SWAT gear, so that after several of these rare bastards spawn, you can get your own SWAT suit? Maybe stencil "DayZ" across the shoulders? Or "WTF?" or "OMG!" et cetera. Scientist zombie, with lootable scalpel/glasses/head scrunge? NASCAR-equivalent zombie? Motorcyclist zombie, with full padded uniform? That'd be pretty awesome, albeit hot. Winter survivalist zombie, in the cold regions? Fur jacket and moose pants! Redneck zombie in whitetrash clothes around the swamps? And best of all... Homeless/crazy person/advertiser, that has that double-advertisement board thing on? It'd be really slow and clumsy, but pistols at range might not get through the wood/plastic.

If he's got the power of douche-level movement, I'd imagine there's a few "This allowdamage false" commands enabled as well. Forget about that server.

Do you have the most recent DayZ? Are the servers you try to join using the same version? Are you using the same version of the Beta as them?

1: Not a hacker. He was using scripts. Scripts are not hacks. Whatever. Anyway: That's like murdering your wife, getting off the death penalty, then writing a book about killing your wife. (*cough* OJ Simpson *cough*)

Wow. Out of EVERY SINGLE private hive server I've ever written a sarcastic quip about, I think this is definitely the douchebaggiest. In fact, I'm not even going to bother with the sarcasm. Private servers are flawed, but this is like 3 extra levels of totally fucked up. You take away every single challenge in the game. Extra vehicles don't make your game more interesting; it means only asshole lazy players will join. Starvation and thirst aren't a threat. Only day? Are you fucking kidding me? You want to make your game INTERESTING by taking out the night? I'm guessing your definition of "Interesting" would be watching paint dry, or watching grass grow. Or staring at a blank TV screen.

Did you watch a tutorial on how to find a Bestbuy? XD http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-V3-571G-9683-15-6-Inch-Midnight/dp/B00B7JE6FS/ref=amtcd_B00B7JE6G2_B00B7JE6FS

I cut out all the walking and boring, daft bits, and skip straight to the shooting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVjfb4eziFg OR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib8xy2ddMrY

Keep hitting F until the green text pops up. OR Don't play on a douchebag private server that gives you free starting gear.