dealman

Yeah, zombies have a "very rare" chance of doing that on-hit. No matter the Blood you have. And it's one of the must frustrating and most idiotic features of DayZ. I'm all okay with if they break your leg, I guess that makes sense - but knocking you unconscious? That's a death sentence, even if there's just 1 zombie since he'll probably just break your leg while your unconscious. I've experienced getting knocked unconscious by a Zombie several times when above 10k blood, it's so frustrating and unfair since it kills you like 98% of the time... It really sucks when you're fully loaded and then get fucked by one stupid feature that doesn't even make sense. Well, maybe I guess it makes sense in DayZ since the zombies have some fucking superhuman abilities. -.-

Good point, I hadn't read about that... So I guess it makes sense, but I'd have to disagree with vehicles being too excessive. There's a few of them and they're very spread out. Now the cars are everywhere because 1.7.1 reset all of them, otherwise it was really hard to find a car because they were most likely to already belong to a server hopper - which is pretty much the only way to get a car. And when you do get one, everyone, literally everyone will shoot at you on sight no matter what. Even if most of the wrecks on the road was repairable I'd still say it'd be somewhat hard enough to get a car. Because you'd have to find all the parts for it, and make it so you need a Toolbox in order to repair it. That way, it'd still be hard enough to get a car, but you wouldn't have to run across the map and hop between server to see if there's one. I've only ever seen one car, and it was the Military Offroad, just next to a road when we were heading to the NW Airfield so we assumed someone must have been disconnected because it was loaded with stuff. Other than that I've seen 2 or 3 cars drive through Cherno with like 60 zombies chasing it. And lets face it, cars are hard enough to use as-is since they blow up if you hit any kind of object at any speed, well, as long as its the wheel that hits it. You're dead. :P

Well said. I think the Zombies were good as it was, the main issue is players being utter douchebags. I've played at least over 50 Hours of DayZ and I've only met 1 player that did not shoot me, and that was because he was looting. Every single other one have shot at me, and when I fire back at them with a beefier gun, they disconnect. The only fix I see in this 1.7.1 Patch is that the player stays for ~5 seconds after disconnect. Other than that, I don't like anything. Oh, sure the new monkey animation is cool and creepy but other than that, it's shit. Seriously. Spawn with a flashlight, a bandage and some painkillers? Sure it's realistic, but we can't do shit against zombies nor players! Some players are camping along the beaches killing every fresh spawn for easy kills. Zombies still run through walls. Vehicles still blow up when hitting some roadblock at walking speeds. Night is still gamebreakingly dark. Sure, it's realistic and all. I want DayZ to be somewhat realistic not entirely. It's not possible to play DayZ in Night anymore because all we have is the Flashlight and it's like telling everyone "Hello, Bandits, I'm running over here, feel free to kill me!" Even though the Road Flares does pretty much the same, you can at least throw it to get an idea where things are and where to go. Also the fact that you don't spawn with Morphine anymore! I'm so sick of Zombies breaking my legs and/or knocking me unconscious when I'm above 10 000 Blood, you might as well just hit Respawn. If I'm to be honest, I'd ask Rocket to(if possible) re-roll back to 1.7.0 and work further on 1.7.1, because it's not good. It's horrible, utterly utterly horrible. Edit: And not to mention, if we're spawning with this junk because it's more likely to be the stuff you'd have in a zombie apocalypse, what about cars? Just think about it, working cars would be everywhere. They'd be a thousand times more common than firearms! Sure you maybe don't have the keys for it, but you can always break the window and hijack it, and maybe the alarm would go off and you'll have the entire city on your ass but that's cool. This patch has in my opinion broken DayZ entirely, I can't play for shit. I'm lucky if I find a server that I can join with sound and without that annoying watermark, but then I get stuck with 2-6 FPS. It's not playable whatsoever. :(

I think the whole release of this new patch failed quite miserably. Servers say they run 1.7.1 even though they don't. Some servers don't have sound. Some server have absolute shit FPS(This is the issue I hate THE most in DayZ.) I really don't get how a Client's FPS could be affected by the Server being real shit. Sure if it caused some latency issues, but FPS? ...What? Am I missing something? I've found 2 servers running 1.7.1 that actually worked, DE60 and some American one. All the other ones either have either of the stuff above, an annoying watermark in the middle of the screen or I get stuck on loading for all eternity which I read Rocket had fixed. :(

While I do like the new patch, zombies can still hit you through walls and even deer huts if they're underneath it. The one thing I want fixed the most are Vehicles, I mean come on! Me and a few friends have had numerous vehicles but if you hit a roadblack at like 5km/h and your tire pops the car WILL explode after a few seconds. We even had the V3S, a military truck and we didn't even make out the Quarry because vehicles are so shit, we barely touched the fence that's around it and the truck exploded from nowhere. Vehicles are so ridiculously fragile! Gunfire? No problem at all, they can take a lot of hits! Roadblocks at low speed? Fuck you, you explode. ArmA Logic.

So I just managed to snipe a guy, and I ran up to loot him and he had an absolute ton of stuff I wanted, including a Light Machine Gun. Which I wanted to put in my backpack, but I couldn't. So I exited the loot interface to drop the M1014 I have in my backpack, and as I drop it, the corpse sinks into the ground... What the hell?! I can still hear the flies and everything, so now I didn't get to loot anything at all from that corpse. :/ I thought only Zombies and Players could hide bodies, and I was looting it and there were no zombies nearby! Edit: So I tried to connect to another server and then back to the Server with the Corpse to see if the corpse would be visible, but nope. Instead, I lost my CZ550 for whatever reason! But the shotgun is still in my backpack :S

So me and a few friends stumbled upon a Huey in the middle of nowhere, and decided to try to repair it. We've managed to repair all of it, but the Hull is still Oranged. We've used 5 Scrap Metal in vain trying to repair it, but it's still Orange! When we try to refuel it, the Fuel Meter goes back up just a tiny bit in yellow, then turns orange and then empties right away... Is this a known bug? Or have we missed something? Everything's green but Hull. Edit: Now we've repaired literally everything again. All the glass is green, and the windows still haven't repaired! We can start the helicopter for a split second WHILE refueling it. Wtf is this?

Come on, no-one? We've just spent hours trying to get this running, I even managed to find some guys with a several problem that reported this bug through the dev thingy, over a month ago. How can such a big thing as Hueys not have been fixed yet? :/

Date/Time: 12th of June, 2012 What happened: Time doesn't seem to be synced at all for whatever reason, it's pitch-black for me while my friend can see just fine! Also, I tried to reconnect, now I get stuck on loading. Tried restarting the game, and my computer - nothing. Where you were: Middle of nowhere. What you were doing: Messing abouts, saw a helicopter. *Current installed version: DayZ 1.7.0, ArmA 2(CO) 1.60.93666 *Server(s) you were on: UK 7 *Your system specs: Windows 7 64-Bit Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 ASUS GTX 560 Ti DC2 4GB DDR2 RAM(Speed and brand unknown.) 500GB Barracuda HDD *Timeline of events before/after error: Around 21:57 GMT +1, so that'd be around 9:57PM GMT +1, I suppose... Here's 2 screenshots for comparison; My Screen His Screen And I've even upped my Brightness and Gamma quite a bit... :/

So me and a friend are playing on the same server, and the time doesn't seem to be synced for shit in DayZ 1.7.0(ArmA 2 93666). He's right next to me and this is what it looks like; My Screen His Screen That's quite a difference, don't you think? And I've even upped my Brightness and Contrast a bit. What's going on?

Just tried several servers, didn't get in on a single one. I updated to 93666, and now I can't join anything. Either I get stuck on Wait for Host or loading... :(

I too have experienced this issue A LOT after updating to 93616, pretty much every consecutive server I join - I get stuck on Loading. And yes, I had made sure the Server was using the same version(DayZ 1.7.0, ArmA 2 93616).

Never really worked with Laptops but either it's on ArmA's end or it could be your CPU/GPU. What CPU do you have? And as I said, I don't know much about a Laptop's hardware, but it could be that your GPU is too weak(Though I doubt it), never even bother looking at the VRAM, it's pretty much irrelevant nowadays. :) Some servers tend to give players a low framerate because they're stupid enough to set the player limit to 50, which just doesn't work with DayZ, not even the slightest. Personally I think there should be restrictions for servers to only host 30 players max :/ Did you try to play around with the settings? Turning off Shadows and Anti-Aliasing and etc?

I agree that it's too dark, I just can't stand playing during night-time... Why? Because it hurts my god darned eyes! I wouldn't mind playing in the dark, but this mod's night is ridiculous! The only thing you can see are the stars - and barely the sky. Nothing else. I've been trying to find a Day-Time server for over an hour, though I did find like 3 of them, they were US Servers and I lost connection to them after less than a minute of playing. Turning up the Brightness barely helps anything, and turning up the Gamma causes my game to glitch out(Textures start flashing, shadows fail to render and etc.). I know that DayZ is supposed to be realistic, but this really isn't. Even in the middle of a forest in the middle of the night, you'll be able to at least see your hands. Of course, this varies from different places on earth. But still, they have to change this because at the moment I find it to be gamebreaking. I was really looking forward to playing DayZ(I got it today) and night-time have killed the whole experience for me, I want to be able to play a game for at least more than 10 minutes without getting a massive headache! And as some other people stated, playing during day-time isn't an option to many players because they have jobs, why should we get punished for that? The very least you could do would be to add a way to tell if a Server is running Day or Night-time before you join.

So I bought ArmA2: Combined Operations today at Steam and was looking forward to play DayZ, but I can't since not a single server is up-to-date. After actually managing to find a Server with room(I'm really glad that it's so populated, despite it being a PitA to find some servers at some times :)) I can only play for a few seconds. Then my screen flashes black and says that I'm using 1.6.0.1 and the Server is using 1.6.0. This is getting very frustrating, I've tried several servers and I get the same thing all the time. The version at the Server Browser isn't even highlighted in red. Am I doing something wrong? :S Edit: I thought it might be worth to mention how I installed it; I downloaded the latest BitTorrent, and put the @DayZ folder in ArmA2: OA, I then set a Launch Option through Steam on ArmA 2: OA "-mod=@DayZ" Not sure if this actually works, but I thought it would :P The Expansion does show up in-game and I can join servers so I assume it worked nicely. Just that I can only play for a few seconds

I doubt it's related to steam since it complains about DayZ_Code being too new, and not the ArmA 2 version.

Same here, it says they're running 1.6.0.1 but once I get in, it says I need DayZ_Code 1.6.0... Also, I noticed this ONLY happens on EU Servers. I can play on US Servers without any problems other than 250ms+(Which is unbearable in a game like this :()

That's bull and you know it. I've already set the Filters to DayZ and to hide full servers. The majority of those I get are 1.6.0, even though they say 1.6.0.1 in the Server Browser - once you join, you get the flashing screen saying the server is running 1.6.0. :/

I give up for now, it's just not possible to find a server at the moment. Pretty much every single server is still on 1.6.0, and those that are on 1.6.0.1 are having issues. Guess I'll try again later...

When I launch ArmA 2: OA it asks if I'd like to launch CO - which I do. I managed to get in 1 darned server in like 40 minutes, and they had to restart so I got kicked out. Seems like 90% of all servers are running 1.6.0, and if you find one that is 1.6.0.1 you either get stuck on Waiting for Server Response or Requesting Character Data(Tried respawn - nothing.)

I launched ArmA 2 and it said it's version 1.11...