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Highlight clips of life on an extremely busy Epoch Server. There's always some PVP action to be had!

We jump in one of our Humvees and hit the high traffic areas to see what trouble we can get ourselves into!

After a loss in a humvee firefight with the JFN clan, they roll past me on my way to cherno. With nothing to loose and fresh loot off some AI it was time to take our Humvee back!

We go to check out an AI event that's near to our location. We soon realise we aren't alone! With a restart looming do we engage now, or wait to make sure we have time to loot the bodies?!!!

Heh heh, I've been busy bud. Sprog number 2 is nearly here so there's stuff to prepare, and I've been in hospital with a burst appendix!

We find a fresh spawn UH-1Y Venom Super Huey and spend the next few hours using it to it's full potential!

A 60 slot server and a military barracks reasonably close to the coast always means action! I take a few trips to green mountain to see what fun I can have. My strategy is, go with nothing other than a gun and basic supplies, then loot what or WHO I can when I get there.

I don't think I've ever been there on a busy server and not seen any action. It's just safer to presume that there's somebody in the area, and chances are they have some decent weaponry. Something that POK doesn't seem to do, since I caught him twice in this video :lol:

After a very short firefight in Vybor, I get what I want form the nearby heli crash sites. The only problem is, I also get something I don't want!!!

The first look at my Dayz Overwatch adventures, and it doesn't take long before the lead starts flying!

You should try the movie "Wolf Creek". It's an equally cheesy horror movie, but it could actually happen!

It's pretty enjoyable if you like a bit of action. It's basically breaking point, but without the stupid launcher, the login problems, or those idiotic bloodsucker things. If you join a 40+ server you can pretty much guarantee some action every night.

My friend an I are looking for one or two extra people to join us. Currently playing overwatch, but we dabble in most dayz mods. Preferably looking for someone in the UK or similar timezone. Mid 20's onwards (I'm 34). We have a ts server. PM me if you're interested John (EDIT) No clans thanks.

How old are you bud? I'm in a group of 2, looking for at least one other player to join us on overwatch. UK based, but preferably after someone mid 20's onwards.

After a successful raid on Sector B we make our way back to the mainland. But that's where the trouble starts!

I have an ATI Radeon 7870 Hawk, and a few driver updates ago I noticed that any ARMA game stutters once every 60 seconds or so. It's kind of like when you walk into a town and your PC spawns loot, you sometimes get a small stutter, but it does it all the time no matter where you are or what you're doing. I rolled back to driver 12.11 and the problem was gone again. I keep trying the latest stable and Beta drivers, but every time I have to roll back. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have a fix? I'd really like to get the latest drivers for other games, but DayZ is my most played game, so I have to cater to that really. All ARMA games are affected including ARMA 3. Thanks in advance for any suggestions

I think the OP has kind of missed the point that a lot of people are making. Yes you can play the game the way you described and survive. I myself played for 2 days by playing that way and never got injured by a zombie other than a couple of knockdowns. But you know what....... Crawling around on my belly whenever I had to loot a town is so tedious and boring that after 2 days I realised that I wasn't actually having fun playing the game. It feels more like work than entertainment, and I'm pretty sure most of the complaints are from people who have made the same realisation.

OK, I've played for a good few hours of the last couple of days and I've come to the conclusion that the fun has well and truly been removed from the game. I haven't died yet, but staying alive has meant crawling on my belly in high zed areas, only to find no loot when I finally get to where I wanted to go. I've spent so much time with my face in the dirt that I feel like I'm playing a snake simulation game (Well, I say game, but games are supposed to be entertaining). Even slow speed crouch walking agro's zeds from miles away, and getting rid of just one can mean 10 minutes of crouch walking through pine trees unless I want to start shooting and waste what is now rare precious ammo. No disrespect intended towards the dev's. People asked for a harder experience, and they got what they asked for, and a lot of the other tweaks are very good. All except the tent placement thing. They basically just made tents pointless for anything other than very short term use. Harder zombies are fine if the loot is worth the effort, but it just isn't. And when a game isn't worth the mental effort of playing it, it's time to walk away. I'll stick to Broken point I think. It may take 20 minutes to actually get into a server, but it's better than spending 3 hours crawling around for no reward.

The zombies aren't a threat as their blows are easy to evade, they're just annoying as hell now. They follow you through everything like they're tied to you at the waist, and agro through things that they really shouldn't be able to. I was crouching stationary in a barn with only 1 hopping zombie in there with me. He wasn't paying any attention to me whatsoever, but all of a sudden the 20 or so zombies around the town suddenly screamed, and all came running in after me. Another example; After sneaking out of polana I agro'd a zombie even though I was crouch walking a good 80 metres away. Not a problem, I was next to a small forest area of about 50 pine trees. I thought I'd easily break visual by crouching through the trees and out of the other side. But no, I crouch out of the other side, and 20 seconds later it comes hurtling out after me. I've been playing it for one night and already the bullsh#t agro's are starting to grate a little. I'll give it some more time and see how I feel.

I've been running an older driver for my 7870 for a while now when a newer one gave me these issues. I reverted back to an older version and it went back to normal. I just tried the latest drivers hoping the issue would be fixed, but it's still there. I'll try what you've done and see how I get on.

After a tragedy at Chernovar docks, we hit Salvation Island to try and re-stock our gear. It soon becomes apparent that we are not alone!

I realise this isn't a dayZ issue, but I'm hoping someone on here can help me out. I'm trying to play the MP Mission Escape from Chernarus. The problem I'm having is if I host the game, I just get an overhead view that I can't move (Exactly like when you log out of DayZ) and my friend spawns in as a bird. If he hosts, he spawns in correctly, and I spawn in as a bird. I'm pretty sure the problem is at my end, but I'm not sure where. The only difference we know of is that I got my Arma2 and OA from the bohemia store, and he got his through steam. You'll also notice that all my OA stuff is in my Arma 2 folder, and they seem to share a MP Mission folder. I haven't done it that way specifically, that's just where they installed by default. I have attached a file showing my arma 2 folder in case that helps. I installed the mission file into the folder by the mouse cursor Anyone have any ideas where I'm going wrong? Thanks in advance John

Ok, Aitchy sussed the problem. In the "Expansions" menu, the "@DayZ" option was ticked. I un-ticked that and tried again. Worked first time. Thanks for the suggestions though Steak. Much appreciated :thumbsup:

The main problem I'm having is not that I get birded, it's that if I host, I just get an overhead image of a random spot in chernarus.

I've attached an image of the lobby screen. There doesn't seem to be any AI text or option.