shagohad

true, but these hacking issues exist within the structure of ARMA do they not? it is that structure which is failing. yes, the hackers have been brought here by the popularity of the mod to ruin it for everyone, they are just as threatening to the core game of ARMA as they are to dayZ, i don't think it is illegitimate to desire a fix for hacking cheers Shago

how about you take your homophobic slurs and go fuck yourself?

^^ true but an awesome idea, imagine fending off a crazed survivor after your beans, machete blows being parried on a rooftop above cherno, the crazy look in your enemeies eyes as he pushes you towards the ledge! would be epic, was part of a 4 man axe battle once in the dead of night, was a lot of fun, was taunting on direct chat the whole time

why are you guys crucifying this dude? he raised a valid point, and was always pretty rational in his arguments, its true navigating and finding people to team up with is fun and part of the game, but for example if I'm going to meet some friends on the coast or whatever and we are all spawning in for some reason it sucks to have to spend an hour to meet up, the problem is when people have jobs and attention seeking girlfriends and shit they can't play for 3 or 4 hours, 3-4 hour sessions can be the most fun because you actually get something done but when you only have an hour its a bit frustrating, especially as the scale of the game means you meet up and and then have no time left to do anything else i don't think ryeezy was saying RESPAWN IS BEST, he was just putting forward a valid argument that a better system could exist, if you would till like to be hardcore (or whatever) and spawn randomly that option would still exist so whats the problem for you? its less immersion breaking then running along the beach finding 100 corpses with starting gear on them, and yeah people would travel in groups n the z apocalypse so ti seems to make sense cheers Shago

nice, finally a post about making friends and having fun as opposed to i have no friends, everyone shoots me in the face, so i shoot everyone in the face

Ii think zeds add a fun tactical element which is part of the immersion of it all, like is it worth join into this town? what is the risk s reward of taking too much damage or getting an unlucky leg break then there is the stealth aspect, as aggroing zeds will alert other players, this makes avoiding them in towns you know to be populated, a lot more tense i think zombies are just a backdrop in the game like in good zombie stories, its really about player interaction, i think it would be fun though if yeah, headshots only killed them but maybe they were slower, way more powerful, and ammo was much more scarce, and maybe you could tactically dismember or break their legs and shit ( i think you can break their legs now but usually from a long range shot with a decent gun) these are probably all discussed in a thread somewhere....

hey mate, are you saying bandage option does not appear in gear menu? if so, my bro had a similar issue, re-install and six updater fixed it for him

that is how we should punish bandits in elektro :) (not my video, found it on youtube)

seriously? 1. you are being elitist 2. what is wrong with calling it secondary and primary lol, sorry we aren't all military buffs, just people enjoying a shooter vidogame 3. i haven't played CoD since MW so i dunno if I'm still a cod kiddie, but i had a great time with Flashpoint and I must have been about 16 if not younger, I used to play Company of Heroes (strategy game) a lot and was more a part of that community than I have ever been with Arma, but it seems like the same situation occurred there, everyone complains about how underrated the game is, then when new players join form a steam sale, everyone gives them a hard time rather than trying to get them involved in a positive way, thats the problem with elitism, it makes other people nervous about getting into what is quite a challenging game in comparison to most others

"cod kids" is elitist bullshit and sorry wasn't being very helpful, Stary is a high risk high reward area, better to avoid or ambush rather than reveal your position as people have more to lose further north generally and are thus more dangerous add me on Skype (shagohad90) not online for a week or so but always welcoming people into our party (we are planning on raiding some clans :) ) where you from? edit: oh lol, let me guess... Yorkshire?

don't try and make friends in Stary....

I agree, ARMA has fun pvp, but I think at least what draws me (as an RPG lover as well as MilSims) is that in this mod with the looting and perm death you are more attached to your character and the conflict has more weight to it, the tactics feel a bit more immersive, just my opinion :)

i actually found a portable generator.....

^^ people have a strange attitude towards killing other players, as I believe Rocket has stated, we the community have created this environment of kill on sight therefore the only way to avoid this is to stop doing this as a community, some people say thats bullshit but honestly just try a couple of things 1. stop shooting everyone on sight (at least on the coast, not shooting people in Stary is a bit suicidal) 2. call out friendly on direct before you enter a building, avoiding people freaking out and firing on you 3. if you see people, try and approach to hail them on VOIP rather than just avoiding them to find yourself in a bad situation 4. if you really keep getting killed don't be greedy on the coast, you really only need a weapon (could be a hatchet), some morphine, and some drink and munchies, everything else you can get further north in safer towns, i usually die in Chern and Elektro looting shit i don't really need, my character right now left cherno with a chezch pack and some beans, one heli crash later and some light looting up north and I have a bison, dmr, and alice pack and if these fail what is the worse thing that happened? you died and lost what? a makarov and a nice backpack? honestly you have so much to gain from befriending people and not much to lose if you have recently spawned i play almost exclusively with a dude from Belgium (I'm Canadian), who I ran from elektro to cherno to give a blood transfusion (back when there was side chat) it could have been a bandit trap but i was tired of the loner life getting killed by others, i have had most of my fun in this game playing with him, stealing buses, doing raids on Stary in a stolen van with some dansish dudes (who i approached in Berezino to befriend even though i had a shot on them both, but i decided not to take it) so honesty sorry if this is too long to read, but try and make friends, you have nothing to lose and lots to gain, then when you have a team head north where the truly exhilarating PvP is, where an engagement is planned out and where when the dust settles and you have taken out another squad and got crazy loot of them you feel like you are going to have a heart attack its so intense, cuz lefts face it, shooting people in cherno and elektro is kinda meh...

plz no monthly subscriptions, would be happy to pay 60 bucks if it came to it worth the 200 hours so far for 30 bucks do it whatever way is best !

BROS, yesterday, I found a portable generator (lootable item) in a quad I jacked in Berez.... discuss what this means plz :)

Hi Guys Im repairing a bus in komashovo and would like some help, i have a tent to sotre parts, message me and ill tell u the server! fun bus drives await! :)

sorry dude, server has long since restarted, fckin bus took way too many parts lol

just always be in direct channel, when you roll into a building shout "friendly coming in!" if you get shot then at least you tried, if you dont try, then fuck it might as well kill everyone

Hi, Im about to go on a DayZ haitus as I go on vacation, would love to join though Steam is Shagohad, have a mic and teamspeak :) Canadian, 22, friendly survivor

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I think what the game really needs is something that makes players really work together, u can raid all the main bases without much dificcully on your own, it would be cool if here were some places really hard to acces, or had some kind of boss (tougher) zeds the risk would equal the reward of better loot and would inspire people to team up rather then KoS so much really just some kind of "higher level" objective would be cool Cheers Shag

^^exactly, i have a scoped m14, rarely use it on zeds and murders people in one shot..... would be cool if assault weapons had more purpose