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No ,that's not the problem. I've been hosting dayz for over a year so I'm honestly not that stupid lol. That setting is ONLY supposed to turn off VOICE in Sidechat , even if your theory was correct , it shouldn't be disabling TEXT-CHAT in Direct (which it does) and if that is the case, why can players still talk in voice and text chat in Vehicle? They can also still type in SideChat. (fyi: some users can talk to each other, even when that setting is enable, if you read my post properly you'd have seen that.. it's not you, I'm just a grumpy old bugger lol). I'm actually hoping that one of the developers answers this question because in all honesty the lack of answers to real questions on this forum is shocking. No offence, but all I see are answers from people who don't know what they're talking about. People just taking wild guesses based on a hunch etc (which is ok, but when that's all there is, its just the blind leading the blind). Also please look up the differences between Public and Private servers. Your link is for private servers, I said that I'm running a public server (the first paragraph says it's an official hive public server, sorry if you missed that). Like I said, no offence but I'd like one of the developers to answer this for a change. I'm sick to death of people asking genuinely important questions and not getting an answer, while some moron asks about "how many animals spawn since the new update" and they get an answer within hours from the devs.

Can't spectate players on official servers. I used to on my private server and it helped me catch loads of hackers in the act. But You know how people cry admin abuse (even if the admin doesn't get involved in pvp etc).. Thanks for the confirmation though , appreciate. Thanks to everyone else for replying too. :)

One player listed has been a regular for months, never seen anything dodgy in the logs from them. He claimed that he was in a vehicle when his connection dropped, then he logged back in and the vehicle was way off in the distance. I'm usually pretty good at sniffing out the bullshitters, it'll be a real shame if he's been hacking. Can I get others to comment on this? Don't want to ban people for a false positive :)

That just reads like "Blah blah blah, sales pitch.." to me. We already have Teamspeak for this, what makes yours any better? Please, try to keep it to one paragraph, I have a short attention span.

I think it's high time the developers made it tougher on PVP'rs by adding some game mechanics that increased the Zeds aggressiveness and alertness on an individual player basis, the more that player kills other players, the tougher the zeds get for them. Why not even have AI bandit hunters, at least it'll get them off our backs. PVPrs who kill for the sake of it, are just dumb, they absolutely refuse to accept this game is not a substitute for their failed career in COD. Ever notice too how these are the same people who cry, bitch and scream hacker when they get nailed by someone better than them? lol ..

I'm getting ALL my players complaining about this too. Since the 1.8 update. Any chance someone from the dev team can shed some light on it, as this has been an issue since January now for other people. On my server I've disabled Voice of Sidechat , but nothing else. I'm pretty sure this shouldn't cause the issue as I was told it wouldn't, and it doesn't make logical sense to break anything but SIDEchat.

Maybe someone else already siphoned his fuel !? ;)

Don't know if you can fix this or not. But there's a glitch where a player can run through the wall to the left of the ladders at the top of the small apartment blocks, from the behind the wall they can shoot players coming up the stairs but not out through the back of the building or onto the roof. I discovered this at Berezino , not sure if it works for the other small apartments over in Cherno.

Is this a hack ? Can a dayz dev or moderator confirm..

You find more Servers under SERVERS , it's at the top left of your Dayz Commander screen. Missing files isn't much to go on unless you give us more information, though to start I'd recommend that you check your Arma 2 installation is up to date and that you've got the very latest Dayz mod installed via Dayz Commander (look under the install/update menu option. Glad you enjoy the game, feel free to join my server (see my signature below) we are UK352 :)

Could this go on the first post as an amendment? because it's pretty buried back here and takes a while to find it again :)

I'm not as comfortable as Seaweed is when it comes to editing the official server file scripts (as I was with my private server), so I'm at the mercy of your dev team to release that hotfix. Losing night time alone has started giving me issues with regulars, and like I said I'm not comfortable playing around with the official hive files because I'm worried I'll just create my own bugs ;) I hear you on the real life commitment thing as well, so don't take this the wrong way, but doooood , where's the hotfix? :p

Is there a place to download the nightlies / rolling changes ? Or do we have to wait for an official 1.8.1 ? Sorry if this has been answered before, I did search but couldn't find the answer.

Solved: It's now in the server_cfg.cfg disableVoN = 0; Change the 0 to 1 . I'll try it and let you know if it works. Edit: Works like a charm, on any difficulty level. Players can still talk in Direct and Vehicle :)

Those settings don't exist anymore. I've already tried that, my cfg only has the following: version=1;blood=1;singleVoice=0;gamma=1;brightness=1;shadingQuality=7;shadowQuality=3;maxSamplesPlayed=32;sceneComplexity=300000;viewDistance=1600;terrainGrid=10;volumeCD=6.5;volumeFX=8.5;volumeSpeech=5.5;volumeVoN=6.5;vonRecThreshold=0.029999999;I'm running on Official Dayz Hive, not Private. My old private server had those settings you mentioned, but in the official hive they took them out. I'm just trying to find out where those settings are now found. Thanks

What has this fixed? EDIT: Just put that file on my server and it crashed with some local database access error. This file smaller than the original , and I'm running an official hive server. If that helps. I just hope my server admin can get the server back up for me!

What graphics card does it have? I'm running on a laptop , 4gig ram, 64bit, Nvidia graphics etc.. and apart from being a little laggy in the cities it plays pretty well. Wouldn't advise it for PVP though, as you simply don't get the framerate required for a fare fight ;)

This is what i've got in my Arma profile, The VOID=1 setting doesn't work .... Any ideas? version=1;blood=1;singleVoice=0;gamma=1;brightness=1;shadingQuality=7;shadowQuality=3;maxSamplesPlayed=32;sceneComplexity=300000;viewDistance=1600;terrainGrid=10;volumeCD=6.5;volumeFX=8.5;volumeSpeech=5.5;volumeVoN=6.5;vonRecThreshold=0.029999999;

This option isn't there any more. Do you know how to set the names to show in sidechat when skill level is set to Veteran ? Cheers

Love this photo, sent to me by a musician friend who has no idea I'm a DayZ fan (synchronisity?) :p

I'm writing this because I think people need to know what they're getting into with this company. Everything I write about here can be verified by other people and log files. (which I copied for legal reasons) I signed up last week for a standard account for me and my clan. From the first day of getting onto this service I've had major connection problems, for me and all my players across the globe. The server just randomly goes offline (or least gives everyone the red chain icon and loses connection), it has lag spikes of up to 400+ and the support desk bluff with every support ticket. My players complain all the time about yet another crashed heli, which I've also had. One by one my clan have moved to other servers because this service is so poor. But apparently, according to the HFB support team "this is normal for Arma servers, they randomly crash all the time" and apparently just because I don't get this on ALL the other servers I use, doesn't mean its not Armas fault, its random , apparently. Anyway, every couple of hours or so I'm getting complaints from my clan and today I log in after getting an email telling me off for complaining about them on twitter "from HFB". I get a lecture about Arma 2 always crashing, blah blah blah.. So I feel a little bad for them, thinking I'm being too harsh.. Then, I log into my server after taking several hours break and the first thing I get is "connection to host lost" and a big red chain link. I also notice that non of my clan are playing, so I ask them. The first few tell me they aren't bothering anymore and they're sticking to public hives with other groups now.. I then ask one of my top clan members and this how the conversation goes: Nomadic Hayward: hey , have you had any issues with the server ? kole: YES kole: aalot Nomadic Hayward: like what ? kole: I LOST MY ********* UAZ MY BIKEE! and the worst of all kole: MY HELI kole: cuz of the server crashing Nomadic Hayward: what do you mean? kole: i was in mid air with my heli server chrashes it exloads kole: blows up) kole: lol Nomadic Hayward: I'm really sorry about that, I've been talking to the admins and they are saying its a feature of Arma 2 , that it crashses like that.. kole: and i went to go back and my uaz is destroyed and my bike cuz of the crash kole: thats gay Nomadic Hayward: Nobody is using my server now, even (name deleted) has gone to another server. Nomadic Hayward: So how often has it crashed for you? Nomadic Hayward: How long were you playing before it crashed again? kole: um like evry 15minutes kole: maybe 20 kole: teamspeak? Nomadic Hayward: thanks. I'm going to request a refund... yeah, see you there in 2 mins.. let me send this to their support team.. ------------- End So that's it, I'm done with HFB and their lying. How dare they try to make me feel guilty for complaining about 3 days of constant downtime. I'm going to dayz.st , and I'd highly recommend anyone else to do the same. Oh and FYI in case one of the HFB admins comment here. All this was happening before I made changes to the core mission files. Which I had to do as compensation for my players already complaining about the issues, I added auto refuel script, temp vehicle repair script and map-edited in some supply crates. So I can tell you now, the server crashing was happening before these updates. There's no doubt in my mind this is a HFB Service issue. Sorry for the rant, I'm just fed up with losing my clan members to other servers now thanks to HFB!

I look forward to reading that. I'm always struggling to catch hackers due to the complicated scripts etc :(

This doesn't seem to work any more. There are several log entries that are clearly from hacks in my script log (3 of which are from BE advising the user they're marked for global ban) , but this tool finishes its report with an all clear. Didn't find one, not even the ones tagged by BE as global bans. Don't suppose you've got an updated version ? :) Cheers

What is the process for crafting an item. My friend says that he has all the bits needed for making the baseball bat with barbwire for example, but when he puts it all in the crafting window nothing happens. He's tried everything, so I'm just wondering if there's a specific procedure, i.e put items in slot A, click this button, and so on....

I set up my battleye scripts with the 2"" setting as per the instructions given by Gotcha Antihack rcon tool (for anyone that doesn't know, it basically sends all the serverside messages that normally get logged in your report files to the rcon screen). I've removed those settings for now and zeds are at least attacking me, can't say for sure about the lag issues but then that might just be because the server is almost full. Thanks for the quick response btw.