NonovUrbizniz (DayZ)

Ugh. Riding a bike in Vybor, got hit a wall near a school building, go to get off the bike and it clips my character through the wall of the school... INTO A SEALED ROOM. WTF do you do in this case? I can't die, I can't get out, I can't have someone kill me or recover my gear... Any advice is appreciated but I already kinda screwed the pooch anyway. Would love to hear how to solve this one.

Yep. I'm the freaking admin lol... and I can't fix a bug that affects my own character, I'm going to switch over to a hive soon I think.

Super late not sure if this has been touched upon but I got serious graphics glitch with barbed wire on our server today, I've never had it previously. There was TONS of it.

We had previously not had a name for the server so I think people had a hard time figuring out how to get back to it... now it's unique and we were one of the first 3 Gameservers.com servers to update to 1.7.3 Going to be implementing more security in the near future too Looking into doing antihax and possibly kicking hacked items regardless of how they came to be... but that's still up for debate among our group.

In fairness some of the "hack" Programs can be very useful diagnostic tools on a local (not live Not BE enabled server) however some of them are just key stealing tools which switch your UID or CD key HEX in your registry files to known banned ones, they then sell your still valid CD Key to someone else for cheaps... IF this is the case you can uninstall and reinstall with your original CD Key and it will work until the hacker uses the same cd key or sells it... then you will have a conflict and BE will likely ban the UID for the "good" key. Long story short you have to buy another CD Key. HOWEVER you only have to uninstall the game (keep you character and user settings/files (it's an option in uninstall) and re-install it with the new CD Key. I originally got the game and DL'd it through Amazon because I'm such an old man the last time I was into PC games Steam didn't really exist... or was JUST starting... Now they don't sell it anymore, so I got another key (a couple actually (multiple separate characters)) through steam and installed using the Amazon files and the Steam CD Key. You can check to see if you got switched by doing a backup of your registry files for arma first (saving them to your desktop) and then comparing them before and after reinstalling the SAME key you THINK got banned. If it really got banned then the before and after hex keys will be the same, if you got switched you will have a different hex code in the backup you make before uninstalling... This is also how you can quickly switch between multiple accounts... you back up the Registry settings for one clean install, then uninstall, reinstall, and back up the 2nd Registry settings under another file name... then when you want to switch between Accounts you just double click the registry settings you've saved. They update and the next time you launch the game you are playing with the other account. I frankly think it sucks that DayZ nor BE give you any real tools to debug/check things yourself.... I wish they had a suite of tools that admins could use OFF LINE on a local install so they could test a server upgrade before running it and risking F ups.... I'm new to BE and Server Admin'ing though so I may be missing something. [Cliffs Notes] You are screwed likely no matter what, uninstall (don't delete your character/user files/settings) re-install with a new CD Key.

I run a Gameservers.com server and LOTS of them are setup with web interfaces, that leaves it up to the hosts to provide the update in THEIR format to their users... if you have FTP access you can work around it but just directly updating the files linked here... I did that last night so I was the second or third Gameservers.com server to be up to date. Still today there are only 3 or 4 out of 55 servers. Play Cifor NY/NJ Yo! I keep that thing up to date yo!.

It's stupid IMO that as a server admin I'm given NO extra tools to bug test without losing my actual character that I love.... I spend a LOT of time researching updates, security, different versions etc etc. and I admin a server, the fact that I just have to kill myself and then be unable to retrieve my kit because I'm not given any tools to quickly check stuff, then when something goes wrong I'm given no tools to recover from those errors... I really feel like server admins should be given a setting in the config file to have the server live but not open to the public so they can quickly check the map state and bug check using god mode and teleporting etc to speed things up... Is there a way for me to run an offline copy of my server on my local machine and turn battleye off so I can jump around the map and check things before going live with an update? I'm totally new to the admining thing and completely new to Battleye which while obviously needed seems sort crappy. I'd like to see the ability to override a global ban on you OWN server ONLY. Is that something you can do and I just missed it? Or is the concern then hackers will just run servers and do what they want?... If that's the case then users should get updated Community ban lists so they know if banned players have been unbanned on the server they're joining... To some degree hack servers can be lots of fun... it should be a choice. Not some iron fisted law from above. I don't even freaking play arma.

Well I can confirm you can clip through walls when dismounting a bike... I dismounted into a sealed room inside a school house in Vybor on a Gameservers.com hosted server (Cyfor NY/NJ). I help admin it and was running around a bit trying to get a look at some of the features... Also noted that the Bike DOES infinitely repair when you get on get off... I thought that was "fixed" in this although I love the bike for that and it's relative silence. The Combat menu is good but I definitely noticed a lag spike when it gets triggered and when it goes away. Lag spike at the onset of combat is not exactly ideal. Also noticed the combat active/not active menu bar prohibits the use of the debug menu, not sure if this is a glitch or if it was meant to be removed. Do NOT like that. Zombie deaths are great. So What the hell does one do when the get stuck in a room the clipped through but can't get back out of? I can't let myself die, I won't be able to recover all my gear, I can't get out... I'd really like some advice on this.

Don't the official DayZ servers reset vehicles monthly? Tents should remain and vehicles return to spawn points. That's what happened on our server.