Dr. Goner

Dallas, do you work for BIS? Because you offend more of their customers than any one person on these forums.

Typical arrogant response from inception. If you're going to blow your moderator load prematurely at least put some thought into this guys complaint. It's just rude man. No wonder scores of people are leaving these forums.

You're logic would be great if there was a way to know whether or not you would "like it" before you bought it. Often with a game you have to purchase and invest time before you make this decision. This is were I see most of these issues coming from. Money doesn't grow on trees, times are tough, and my dollars are hard earned. I've spent nearly a hundred dollars with BIS this year. DayZ mod was worth it, but I'm still on the fence about ARMA III. I really don't like the game where it stands and I'm not sure if it will get better or not. I hope so, otherwise that money is gone. Can I have it back now that I don't like the game? This is what I'm worried about with DayZ. I want to support a great game and purchase the SA alpha release, but I don't know that ARMA III was worth it, so do I wait and see if the game takes off or buy it? It's not as black and white as you make it sound. I've had a lot of fun playing the DayZ mod. It's also been extremely frustrating at times with bugs and blah blah blah. I'm just not as sold as some folks. Especially when there are so many other amazing projects out there to support in initial phases.

Uh... Are you being serious? I can't even play ARMA III as it is right now.

Can anyone help me keep the game interesting? What to do now? Seems like the mod is basically dead. There are a few new players here and there but in reality I think most people have moved on while waiting for standalone. Thanks!

Yeah, I just feel like I haven't heard anything good lately. Maybe folks will post some of the better threads here.

Thanks for the intelligent reply! You must be well read.

So, let the onslaught of "who gives a $%&!" replies begin... I have returned to DayZ. Even with the prevalence of low brow moronic phrases like U Mad Bro and Derp, DayZ has a great group of players. The "U MAD BRO" crowd may be a sign of the apocalypse and the first step backward in human evolution, but they make up a small portion of the dayz commmunity. I made a post a week ago that I was leaving dayz because I had been screwed over by some fifteen year old kid. Well, in private messages, forum members reached out to me encouraging me to fight on. So, I'm back on my home server. I had made friends there, I missed those guys. They're good hard working adults just like me and we're only looking for a little escape. It's great to be back. I am limiting my play time extensively and honestly it has been really nice to get away from the computer and do some real world stuff. I still play the hero because it's the toughest way to play the game and the most challenging gaming experience I've had. All you bandits go back to kiddie camp. You know nothing of elite gaming. The first day I logged back on and retrieved a chopper. I got shot at while performing an evacuation with medical support. I had to laugh. After all, now I know it's not my chopper, it's dayz's chopper. The guy I saved was extremely thankful and apologized because I'd been shot at while picking him up. No problem, I said, another friend gained. The kid who screwed me over is now hated by the entire server as he has screwed every "regular" over in one way or another at this point. He can't help himself. In fact, it was a day or two after I came back that his entire crew fell apart and most of his group left the server. I wonder if undercover saboteurs had anything to do with it... :P Anyway, I did do a lot of research on morality in gaming. If you're interested there is a ton of information out there. It seems that most researches find, in controlled lab experiments, that a players controlled actions of an avatar DO in fact point to real aspects of that players personality. It's kinda scary, if its true, how most of us are keeping our demons in check. Thanks to everyone who helped me get back in the saddle and extra special thanks to those who dropped by the server to help decimate a clan of fifteen year old bandits.

1. Make sure to use dayz commander and perform all the updates need for ARMA II, DayZ, and DayZ commander. 2. Pick a server that you've successfully played in and add it to your favorites. Try to log onto this one each time. 3. Double click server and wait in lobby until Battleye fully updates. It might not happen on the first attempt to log in. Let it kick you... 4. Click and log into server a second time through commander and wait for the two red lines of type to pop up and then hit OK from the lobby. PM me with questions, there are a lot of little tricks here and there, but if you see a server listed in DayZ commander with any greyed out info, that means it is on a different version than you are. Be patient when finding a server and when hitting OK from lobby. Keep messing with it, you'll figure it out. Battleye is a pain in the ass and servers no purpose other than making it hard to log into servers as far as I can tell. Oh, you can perform all the need updates through commander and if you've played on a server before you don't need to start steam each time, just go through DayZ commander for updates and logging on.

Nothing new since PAX then?

Also: Back in early December, I had just begun playing dayz. I was walking near the coast with my flashlight on. You robbed me using only your flashlight. You said "Don't move, don't move, checked my backpack, stated "How's dinner going?" You then ran off towards Cherno docks.

Why the hell would you post this here?

Robert!!!!!! Where are you man? We played together on the DIS server in the early days before they even called it DIS. We had an epic PVP battle with Turtle. Steaz and Ragepants took out our base and I never saw you again. It was good times man. I hope all is well.

Good lord, where is Roger Ebert when we need him? Why in the hell are dayz videos always so amazingly long and mind numbingly boring. Get to the point for crying out loud. No one needs another twenty minute dayz video with nothing more than footage of you mucking around in your inventory.

I'll be enjoying the summer sun for a few months come June. I probably won't play or buy the game until October. I have to say this is really frustrating. Can they not find good programmers or what?

Will the ARMA 3 DayZ mod be better than the standalone game?

Yeah, I don't see how it could possibly be better. But you're right, ARMA 3 is very very pretty. You can kill this if you need to. Thanks!

Here we go...

http://i.imgur.com/UTgtVQz.png

Also, before this gets ditched. I'm only asking again because now we've seen screen shots. http://i.imgur.com/UTgtVQz.png

I'm guessing its informa bold condensed. The distressed pattern and landscape obviously added in photoshop. It's nice work.

Well, they're ten times easier than 1.7.5. I thought the zeds were great (excluding obvious glitches) in that patch. They hunted, I avoided them and definitely fired my weapon less.

How do you fix the issue yourself?

I bet they don't release it until we've all bought ARMA 3. It won't be out for at least a month. I hope I'm wrong but I think they're milking this gravy train all the way to the cash cow bank.Edit: Before you start acting like jerks, that last line was a joke. I mean, who really knows where the cash cow bank is... come on.

Thanks Mr. Sarcasm. It's not news to me. I love how hateful this community is. I'm just making sure that people are informed and don't make the same MISTAKE I did. Learn some manners.