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It's random, but for now there's only a couple of spawns on the east coast, as they want to do more 'testing' in the newer areas (which are in the north east)

That'd be some real close range spraying, and you'd have to hit em in the (face) head to have any effect. Could be a fun way to do some non serious pvp as well, everybody use the water pistols (filled with water, not mace/lemon juice/'random' chemical) and whoever gets soaking wet status first loses.

Yarg. Beans for ye! And I've noticed that as well (with waterbottles/bandages/whathaveyou) but never though of it as a glitch before.

Because there's nothing to test (Vehicle wise).

IF everything works out right it can go to stable in as little as a week. (Notice the size of the 'if'.)

There is no launcher, Steam is the only way to play the game. So it won't really mater if you buy direct from Steam or from the Website (unless you want to buy the Supporter Edition, which includes Arma2 Complete and a couple of extras like access to a Supporters only forum). More than likely you'd have to enter the Key in Steam if you buy it off of the website.

I had my money on Global ban...*pays gibonez a can of beans and 2 boxes of 7.62x51*

I believe they respawn now, but it's very basic. And yes there's more than 3 per server now.

Nesuma nailed it. That and your body stays logged in for 30 seconds after you log out/crash/alt-f4/powerout/whatever. If someone comes up and puts 3 in your head, handcuffs you, or if a zombie kills you during that 30 seconds you're pretty much dead. Stay away from 'No PVP allowed' servers as they are against server rules and are often targeted by KOSers and Trolls. Find a small handful of servers that you like (I'd say no more than 3 per Normal/Hardcore) ) that you know your gear will transfer between. As for renting a server, I'd advise against it right now, there's not much benefit to doing so and very little control on your end for the price. The only option right now is renting public servers at something like $60 or more a month. There are no private hives and the rules for public servers there are rules you have to obey (some consider them strict, I don't think so for a public hive server), although rarely enforced, if you're caught violating them or get reported you lose your server without a refund. There are no server files to download to host your own yet (and probably won't be till late beta or Release). Any files you do find out there are not legit and cracked/hacked.

My problem was that they were armed, and the view distance allowed them to see pretty much anyone trying to hide in scrub/bushes/trees. That and the mounted guns on them. Also unless you had an LMG or were a crack shot with a sniper rifle you were pretty much fucked. I'd like to see it so that we only have unarmed Helis (Civil aircraft/unarmed military transports). Instantly having a parachute should be removed as well. If added at all they should be a loot item you have to wear if you want to jump out without dying/breaking your legs, and it would replace your pack/vest. You want to insert your team into an area, you actually have to land long enough for them to get out. I also like the idea of first person only for Helis. Something that should be solved by the TOH mechanics is that not every idiot can just jump in the pilots seat and 'fly' good enough to get 20 feet off the ground and do a belly flop into the ground ruining hours/days of hard work. Now your standard idiot shouldn't even be able to turn the thing out properly without a shitton of luck.

Wow, an actual Idea that hasn't been suggested yet (far as I can tell). You'd probably still have to disinfect/clean it somehow if it was from going in the lake/rivers. Rain soaked clothes should be alright but probably still dirty from the sweat and dirt on the clothing itself.

The Supporter Edition gives you not only the Standalone Game (Which you can get from just Steam for around $30, maybe less) but you also get all the games you need to play the Mod (plus more DLCs for ARMA2) and some other things like access to an exclusive forum and such.

Yes 'Lore'. Rocket's brother, a Virologist, actually wrote a paper about how the zombies could have realistically came about (I've yet to find/read it, but my money's on some form of Rabies that went airborne) As stated in the two posts above me it has been said by Rocket many times. I forget exact numbers, but something like 60% of the world were simply killed by the virus, somewhere around 35-39% became infected/zombies, and the remaining 1% are the players, people who are not only immune to the virus, but manage to stay alive this long.

There wasn't any AI other than the zombies and the wildlife in the Mod...the mods of the Mod on the other hand... And as mentioned above, there will be no non Zombie/Animal AI in Standalone. There won't even be 'dynamic' heli crashes (where you see the heli actually crashing) or NPC radio chatter (not to be confused with 'Web Radio' stations that will be able to be picked up ingame with radios). Modding will be allowed from what I can tell, so you'll have to wait for that to happen (probably sometime after Release, and however long it takes for someone to come up with acceptable non infected AI afterwards).

Suggested before, still a good idea. IDK how small of the animals we're going to get (I saw a demo of a mouse with the engine so...) but I hope we can set up Squirrel snare posts.

A wet/dry suit, that water's fucking cold. I can't really think of any 'loot' in the ocean I'd use if I found it (unless it was literally just thrown into the water like less than an hour ago) other than spearing fish or crab/lobster traps.

Yes, a few suggestions are enacted. Not all but a few, keep in mind not all the suggestions are gems, and a few are already planned features that someone who doesn't know suggests as if it's never been thought of before. Then there's the ones that usually get sent to the graveyard (Rape (or any sort of intercourse), Marriage, Children, banning anyone under 18 from playing using some magical 'never fail' test, and the other non-suggestions such as 'FIX THE GAME NOOBS!') That's not even counting all the things have have already been suggested before, over and over again, (Weather, Trains) and the same suggestions that are confirmed as 'No's (player zombies, npcs, safezones, ect)

Not gonna happen. Been confirmed many times by Rocket. From the Lore side, Dead is Dead. You don't get shot in the heart, get up and walk around to go bite someone. The zombies we have are alive, and the players are the only humans left in the world that are immune (also the reason there won't be NPCs in Vanilla standalone). From the Tech Side, it would cause a shit ton of lag and other problems, call it lazy if you want. Right now zombies are very simple things model wise. One layer forms the clothing and skin, and there's no accessory layers to complicate things. Players are many layers, skin, each item of clothing, backpacks, holsters, ect. Considering how often people die, and how few restarts there's going to be there would be lots of high poly count zombies that each need a lot of information, whats in their bags, whats their clothing conditions, what weapons do they have, how many bullets, was their leg broken, ect.

I'd like it to be how WoW did (at least when I last played...I don't do Crack anymore) where you sit down and you get the timer, you can either 'log out now' or wait the 30 seconds. I still think you shouldn't be able to move/shoot while logging out, but quickly cancel the log out and get to work.

I'd rather see ('empty container' + fuel) + rag = Molotov, rather than something chincy like alcohol tincture + rag = Molotov, the tincture is a rather small bottle, and when infections are added, will be more useful for something other than say setting someone on fire or forcing a slow death on a newspawn. Also there's no real fire mechanic in the game, so you'd just have an impact grenade that maybe does a 'dot' such as bleeding. I'm kinda sick of 'any bottle of booze' + rag = molotov. Granted a lot of stuff will burn and stay burning (best guess is 80 proof or stronger, or 40% abv) but not everything. When I was training to be a bartender, any flaming drinks had to have a splash of 151 Rum added to them because they were usually weren't over 40% total ABV (adding the different liquors and mixes and what not). Granted the alcohol tincture is probably composed of rubbing alcohol so it's around 90% abv or more (my guess).

Would be nice if they could set it up like a real GPS, IE if you leave the default settings on it pins your location and saves it to memory every 10-15 mins. That way you could find someone's base using their GPS.

Castles used to be big time bandit bases in the mod, Im sure when barricading and such are added they will be again.

In before Graveyard. Also you could simply take off the gloves and get your preferred skin color back. It's not like gloves (or skin color for that mater) makes a difference in this game other than some perception about camouflage or 'style' (at least for now, they might add something that makes gloves valuable, as for skin color, I highly doubt that).

I do not have enough beans to give you sir. Useless/shitty crafting should be a thing, I've heard of the binocs scope idea, but not the 'home made' RDS. True 'THE GOGGLES! THEY DO NOTHING!' moments should be added to the game. Damn, now I want to try and come up with a few stupid crafting ideas...where's Gews when you need him? 'Make gernade launcher with empty cans and bullets'. EDIT Something I remeber from watching History Channel (forget the exact show but it was one of the educational ones like Modern Marvels) A group of soldiers broke into the infirmary and stole some rubbing alcohol, then stole a bunch of fruits from the messhall thinking they could make wine with all of it. So maybe something along the lines of Alcohol tincture + Fruit (rotten/fresh) = 'Booze' I know that later on they want to make it so we can 'sabotage' items, such as put feces in a tin can, add tomato paste and water and make 'beans' (don't think that was the exact 'recipe' but that was the gyst of it). That would be akin to things like 'oh yeah, zombies totally wont aggro you if you cover your clothes in guts', except they will, and you'd probably get a higher chance of getting one or more infections.

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