That Lamer

I played on a server that, for whatever reason, allowed sound bites, and all it was used for was shitty mic spam/memes. I wouldn't mind custom faces though, because it will help with identifying people on name tag off servers.

I'm sad to see it go, but only because I prefer it over the survivor skin. I hope selectable skins finds its way into a patch soon. Skins tied to humanity though can fuck right off. :)

People may join under populated servers to farm, but other people can still join at any time and cause considerable damage. As someone who plays with a large group, a well placed sniper who logs in can cause a lot of damage at most premium equipment locations with little risk to themselves. Who would be doing the inviting for these private servers though? How can we guarantee their intentions? It's better to bar any and all closed communities from forming within the game.

Besides the PDW, which fyi, can also use MP5 mags, a number of rifles also have interchangeable magazines. There's basically no reason the revolver and 1911 shouldn't share ammo, rocket just needs to make the decision and modifications to allow it.

Winchester began making lever action shotguns in 1887 that looked vaguely similar to the famous 1866. If that was rocket's intention however, he didn't do a very good job with it. I don't particularly care as it's a solid gun that looks great, but if people are gonna get spergy about it, simply debranding it in game would probably be a good idea.

I can't help at the moment but if you're still in plight in the next hour or so I'll take the risk and head up there for you. Hopefully this has been less of a shit post than the ones above.

Players can already drink from the sea. Chernarus is located next to a fresh water sea/giant lake.

There is a difference between the words race and species, hope this helps.

There are already (or were a couple of days ago when I last played, don't have time to check presently) servers specifically marked as roleplay.

Yeah, it's definitely realistic that I get hung up entering a doorway pointing directly forward with a pistol. STMovement may be slightly unrealistic but it compensates for things we can do in real life but not in game: contort our bodies naturally to allow quick movement through narrow places, and very quickly manipulate our weapons. You can't lower a pistol, and it takes 2 double taps of ctrl to lower and then raise a rifle, which in reality you would still be able to angle into a doorway for firing.

While it is true that the character database is overloaded and needs upgrades, no message received is a server problem. Server stability seems to have taken a dive this patch. Hopefully with the changes to spawn rate in the next one, this will be partially resolved. As it stands servers are more prone to crashing, and need frequent restarts or else loot and zombies will cease spawning.

When it rains you should be able to fill a bottle from any building, as the water will either stream in ribbons off the roof or collect into rain gutters and emerge from a single source. After a while of rain washing away the dust/dirt/whatever on the roof and in the gutters, it should be safe to drink from.

The makarov uses one of the weakest bullet types in the game, so you'll need multiple headshots and even more body shots to drop a player, who has considerably more health than a zombie. They one shot you in the head probably with a revolver or primary weapon, which do considerably more damage. Additionally if the target is moving, keep in mind you'll have to lead it, as there are no hitscan weapons in Arma. Every bullet has travel time, and can arrive at the targets position upon firing long after the target has moved away.

Jokes aside, the ability to send text messages and voice communication through a smart phone directly to a single individual or group of people from range would be quite nice. I don't know if it's possible for modders to add additional communication channels to facilitate this though. Maybe it's something BIS could open up to modding by request.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hard-coded Arma 2 has been out since 2009, and uses the same code for its inventory system as arma 1 (2006) and operation flashpoint (2001?) used. All ArmA games have been moddable. Don't you think if it were possible for a modder to fix the inventory, it would have been done by now? Do you think military sim players have a hard on for unintuitive interfaces? It hasn't been changed because this stuff is hard coded into the game. It is not a cop out in the slightest to say "complain to bohemia." In fact, since DayZ is driving sales and they're actually patching things that affect DayZ, now would be the perfect time to do so. If you want a cop out response though: learn coding and make the changes yourself, if you believe it's such a simple task. You'll then be directly helping the mod.

Direct complaints about the user interface to bohemia interactive, as it's their problem. They've reused the same hud and backpack interface since operation flashpoint.

In general, I would like to see servers located in the US or europe with +-6-12 hour server times. That way if you're inclined to chase the daylight, you don't have to do so at 150 ping. I agree with you though, this would be a good way of doing it and shouldn't screw up script timing too much, which is a reason why the game has to have real life timescale.

A while back a person by the name of Turkeyburger rattled on and on about bean coasts and loot fairies, before eventually getting banned. Although his ideas were terrible, he did have one good point. It is a bit weird and immersion breaking that loot just randomly shows up in neat little piles, complete with ammo right next to it if it's a weapon. That kind of mess makes sense in a convenience store with a pile of beans sitting next to a shelf, but in the middle of a barn, it seems sort of odd. A farmer wouldn't leave his guns lying on the floor, and a (non player) survivor wouldn't just leave it there either. To me, it would make more sense if weapons were found on dead survivors, and supplies in the cardboard boxes found in hospitals. My question to rocket is, would it be easy to program this with random loot? Hospital spawns are pretty static, and the boxes tend to actually be a half a dozen clipped inside each other. There are also no real examples of dead bodies with loot on them. Maybe spawn a survivor with random gear, then initiate a kill on it, so it crumples in place? It would be pretty jarring if you're sticking around farming a location, but otherwise should be pretty hidden while doing the initial item/zombie spawns as a player gets near.

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TBH, people need to start donating web servers to reinforce the back end, not yet more game servers. A half dozen more euro servers just went up, and there are two dozen sitting half (or less) full now.

I wouldn't give up the current bandit skin for a thousand woodland camo thermal scoped rifles.

I would rather respawn as a duck.