Uncle Zed

Can anyone give me a step-by-step on how I can add new locations/camps to my map, like in the A2/A3 days?

Use DZSALauncher instead. It's much better than that POS that BI created.

Yeah, DZSALauncher is the way to go. All the mods you need for a server downloads when you click the join button and you don't have to wait 10 minutes for the server list to populate. Easy-Peasy.

That means the server isn't being shut down correctly. That's what BI says... if you use Graceful Shutdown, they claim persistence won't be lost.

I had no idea we could customize our characters. I thought it was 100% random.

DZSALauncher is a great program. If someone wants to join a server that runs mods, they just have to click on the button to join and the mods are downloaded. It also doesn't take 10 minutes for the server list to populat! That's your game port. Your Steam port would be defined in your server config file.

What's your steam query port? Not showing up on DZSALauncher: http://www.dayzsalauncher.com/#/servercheck/178.164.57.239:2303

It's a problem with DayZ. Nothing you can do about it. The devs need to fix it.

Go to mpmissions\dayzOffline.chernarusplus\storage_68376\data\ and delete vehicles.bin.

Join a community that runs a server, They tend to be friendlier than the players on official servers. When you have players communicating with each other, say in a Discord server, they are more open to helping others and creating a server that people enjoy playing on instead of one where you have to worry about every player attacking you. Check us out if you'd like at http://discord.me/KillinZedz

BI has tracked the problem down to servers not shutting down correctly. See this post: If your server doesn't shut down properly or if it crashes, you may lose persistent items.

5/5/2019

With the right mods and the right date set, your night server can be twilight instead. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1598572482

It's for these reasons I use DZSALauncher. You don't wait 10 minutes for the server browser to populate and it works so much better.

Ah, the retro graphics of Arma 2. I can never go back.

Use DZSALauncher and set up your name in Settings. That way you won't be kicked off of the servers (I don't understand why they do that - it reduces their playerbase) and you won't have to wait 10 minutes for the server browser to load servers.

The cause of lost persistent items is servers crashing or not being shut down properly. BI has already stated this. Hopefully they'll come up with a way to protect persistent items is the event of a server crash.

I see these announcements that say stable servers go down for three hours every Wednesday morning. What exactly is done during these three hours and do community servers also go down?

Mine said DayZ, not DayZ Workshop and when I ran a Steam update on my server, it updated some files.

My update was 1.7 MB.

Does anyone know what the 1.7MB update was this morning? Nothing on the forums here under the Stable releases...

GTX Gaming is very good. Click on my signature. It will take you directly to their site.

I use both of those parameters and they work fine. You can't join via Steam without the mods set up and the mods download when using DZSALauncher. Maybe it's the mods you're trying to load. If they aren't signed properly by the author, you'll be kicked. Try one mod at a time and see what happens.

I think most people that were around for the A2 DayZ Mod are aware of the launcher, because Maca also had one for A2 (and A3). It's always been a great tool for those games. I think an effort to educate people about DZSALauncher is really the way to go. If they're using it, they can't join without the mod because the mod will download for them automatically. Maybe he could sell it to Bohemia and it can become standard for DayZ!

How is it not solved? If you use DZSALauncher, you don't need to subscribe to anything in the Workshop. When you join a server, you will automatically download the mods. There's no guessing, no telling people how to download a mod or how to join the server. It's easy-peasy.