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I really would like to thank SmashT and all the others who contributed to this topic. Great topic indeed, and I think it should be one of the first things new players see when they come to the dayz forum. Cheers! :) :thumbsup:

Of course, and as always, haters gonna hate. No, I´m not talking about the guy who hates DayZ. I´m talking about the DayZ fanboys here who replied him. You do think DayZ it´s a great mod? That´s great, man. Keep playing. What´s there to do in it? Kill zombies. Kill players. And... be killed by zombies and players. Wow, sounds fun... If you take the time to use six updater, a very powerful too that manages all your ARMA 2 mods, and install a few mods, like @namalsk, @stalker, and, best of all, @ACE, you will see that ARMA 2 has way, way more in it than DayZ. Talking about DayZ: it´s a bad mod. Even worse, it´s a poor mod. You don´t have missions in it. You don´t have really much do to in it. You spend 95% of your time running from one place to another trying to equip yourself, just to be able to "play and have fun". If you are in to killing zombies, it´s just a matter of time before a group of player killers hears you and kills you. If you´re in to kill other players, you will have fun for a while, until you get killed. And tha´ts it. That´s all about DayZ. I stopped playing it after a month. Have with my char the coyote backpack, the M249 SAW, nightvision, rangefinder, all the tools, the works. I could go on playing until I got killed again, to players, zombies or to bugs - yes, the ladder bug still exists. Checklist for DayZ mod quality: Missions? No New equipment? No New features? Close to none Things to do? Grow old running around Chernarus trying to find food, weapons and equipment. Get killed in the process. Start it all over again. Eventually, you will succeed. Then kill other players, until you get killed. Do it all again. I´ll say it again: DayZ is a bad mod and a poor mod. And like "Disgraced" said, "bye, have fun playing those other things - *wave" - thanks a lot, have fun wasting your time with a poor mod *waves back. You wanna cheer someone, cheers to the guys who made @ACE, @stalker, the incredible Predator mod and to Sumrak, who made the amazing Island of Namalsk (@namalsk). You can check it on youtube under "Stalker mod ARMA 2". It´s a scary island, and a great place to play. And above all else, to the guy who made Six Updater, Patrick Roza. That´s a genius, right there. I also want to congratulate my good friend from Canada, Sung, whose work was utilized in the DayZ mod, but he never had the credits. Way to go, Rocket.

First of all, if you see me, shoot me on the spot. Cause I will certainly kill you if you dont. Body count yesterday between 2-6, sometimes you just cant confirm the kill - the best way to die like an idiot is to go running to get the loot of someone you just shot. Last time I did that, I got shot on the leg and had a broken bone, and had to spend hours seeing all blurred. So I learned my lesson. Second, yes, Im a bandit. Occasionaly, I will save someone, like this guy yesterday who was running at night with a flare on the beach. I just followed him, he was more useful to me alive than dead. But then he ran from a zombie and fell on the water, and got unconscious. Out of pity, I dragged his ass out of the water, then proceeded with him for a while. He even gave me morphine when I broke my leg because of a zombie strike. Sometimes, it pays to be good. Most of the times, it doesnt. You see, I wasnt always like that. A murderer. My character today: a good rifle, or at the bare minimum a Winchester, and lots of blood bags, bandages, pain killers, morphine and ammo. That is, Iḿ not ready for the zombie apocalypse: Iḿ ready for the war. I see someone, I shoot them, unless they clearly just respawned and it would be a waste of ammo. Sometimes, you try to save on ammo, you get killed. It happenned to me. Now let's see my character a week ago. You had the bandit skin and the dark vest survivor skin going on. My character was pure good: joining with other willing survivors, applying bandagens and helping everyone. My backpack: engine parts, scrap metal, fuel tank parts. So what the hell happenned? How did I become that? Just two short stories. And yes, believe me, they are real. 1 - A guy logs in the hotel, it was in that hotel next to the Main Town Hall in Chernogorsk. I was with a friend, we had already went down the dark path of shooting people, but I was trying to stick it to people with valuables. Guy ' s name is "Temos" - if you read this, we will get you someday ^^. But back to the story. My friend tells me he will shoot. I tell him not to. I had found a crossbow without ammo, and decided to trade with for me Lee Enfield with one clip. So I leave the Lee and take the crossbow, without ammo. We go on our way to Main Tall Hall. After we left the hotel, I told my buddy: "Lets move fast, I dont want to have this guy with the Lee Enfield on our backs, he might start to have funny ideas". 4 seconds after I said this, while my friend was entering main tall hall following me, he gets shot on the chest by Temos. He didnt die instantly. He fell unconscious. I told him "do not stand up! He has his sights on you!". I should have done something instead of just hitting the ground and wait for the enemy, but I didnt. When my friend woke up, a few secons later, his character automatically crouched. And he took it on the head and died. Then Temos started talking to me on side channel "You there, on the town hall. I just want your friend's sh*t. Just run away and I wont shoot you." - yeah, right. I didnt reply right away. I was buying time for me friend to respawn and come to his body again. So I waited some 3 minutes, and after no activity, I started to talk to the guy. I told him he was alive and had a Lee Enfield because of me, and that I wouldnt make that mistake again. Then he entered running on the Town Hall. He was probably hoping that I was shoot and he would have time to get me, but I didnt shoot immediately. I pointed my Makarov at him and... theres was a FIREFIGHT! Problem is: Im very good at Makarov Duels. I fought against 3 guys and killed two of them, and only died to the Third because I bandaged myself (what an idiot). But not only I didnt have any ammo for the crossbow, I had just one clip for the Makarov. So after exchanging 8 rounds with him, I had nothing to fight but bad words. So I had to flee. He got me on the leg, I only had time to roll to the left and log out. After bandaging myself and going back, he was gone and my friends stuff was gone too. I stayed on the area and killed two survivors that I saw, but none of them was Temos. And my friend just didnt get there, so I shrugged and moved on. Both of us had a lot of good stuff, and the lesson that day was: no mercy. Kill everyone on sight. 2: Just two days ago, I got killed and respawned. I was in a hurry to get my bearings and run to my body, when I saw another survivor. I was in bandit skin. He kept pointing his gun at me and running around. I waited a few seconds, and after he didnt shoot me, I just assumed he was an annoying kid wanting company. I had to take some time to read the city plate so I knew where I was. While I was doing that, he saluted me, and I didnt consider him a threat. I didnt pay attention to him and looked at the sign. I just heard the Makarov shot and my character died with a bullet on his head. You see, I didnt kill him because I thought he wasnt a threat, so that would be a waste of ammo. Of course, I could get his ammo, and would profit from it, but I was just in a hurry. His strategie is to salute, and when the other person salutes, he probably just gets back from it first, them shoots them on the head. I also didnt shoot a bandit after a respawn, he let me run past him, and when he was on my back he also shot me on the head. Now you know why I will shoot you on sight. For the sins of the sinners, everyone pays. And by the end of the day, I will feel a lot better killing you, even if you werent a threat, than if you were a threat and killed me. And the beauty of this is: imagine youre living in the forest. Then you find someone. If the person is a threat, they will believe you are also a threat, and will kill you. Even when it made more sense to stay together and be stronger and have more resources this way. You know, two makarovs are better than one. But tell that to these guys. So you either shoot everyone on sight, or if they didnt see you , let them go their way. I can risk not shooting someone when I had just respawned (like I did), but now even if I just respawned, at the minimum I will shoot to scare people away. Usually, I will shoot to kill.

My clan, the Chernorussian DayZ Militia, had two base camps and several vehicles, like tractor, land rover, skoda red and the bycicle. And tons of weapons, food and equipment. So we were playing on the server, about 20 minutes ago, and the server restarts. We rejoin, and it´s all gone. Everything. So: what the hell happenned? Can they just destroy all our work like that? Was that a time warp or something? And congrats to the admin or admins. Great job on the server. NOT. [ChDZM] Unster

They restarted the server, it´s all fine now. AAaaannnd our vehicles vanished. LOL;

I have already succesfully used the entrenching tool to build a wall. You need to have it, obviously, and the sandbag. Right click on the sandbag, you will build a low sandbag wall. I know it says on the entrenching tool description that you need to have an engineer backpack. But there is no engineering backpack on the game. I believe they will fix it later.

My clan, the Chernorussian DayZ Militia, had two base camps and several vehicles, like tractor, land rover, skoda red and the bycicle. And tons of weapons, food and equipment. So we were playing on the server, about 20 minutes ago, and the server restarts. We rejoin, and it´s all gone. Everything. So: what the hell happenned? Can they just destroy all our work like that? Was that a time warp or something? And congrats to the admin or admins. Great job on the server. NOT.:@ [ChDZM] Unster

It´s all fine now, I believe they did another restart. I know I sounded mean. But I think anyone would be if they thought they lost everything, just like that. Thanks for the replies, anyway.

What about servers with passwords? First it was the "filming servers", who had the excuse that they have to lock their servers so they can make DayZ videos about it. Like you can´t just turn on fraps or other program and do the same thing. Now it´s possible to see at any given time a lot more than 10 DayZ servers running with password. If that´s forbiden, how come so many of them are doing it?

Just yesterday, I was kicked out of nowhere. You see, when battleeye kicks you for "ping too high", it says so. But when it just says "you were kicked out of the game", it´s because someone on the server with admin powers kicked you. I haven´t killed anyone (yet), so it wasnt some angry admin taking revenge. But I had a few friends playing with me on the server, and they saw someone from "the server clan" enter right after I got kicked. DO NOT give more power to them. They are already abbusive as it is. You give them a water drop more, they will screw with it the same. Will they whine and complain? But of course. That´s all they do.