cameorunner

I don't care much about the standalone, so i did not follow every new article about it. But today i stumbled over the hotbar-thing, and i thought "wtf are you guys doing with the game???" For me, all the fiddling in the inventory, the timeloss, how you are exposed when you do it, all this complicated stuff, makes a lot of the tension and realism for me. The idea of a hotbar, where you put, grenades, bandages, gun1, gun2, soda, etc......is killing me. i really really cannot grasp that idea. For ONE thing i think this is a good idea, when every part of clothes have its own inventory, and you have some pockets in the trousers or jacket, that you can get stuff IN THERE quicker out, without going to inventory screen. But let's be honest, what fits in your pocket? Ever tried running with a can of beans in your trousers-pocket? Apart from that, a hotbar is a terrible idea. Also a "trading screen".... WTF? You allready can trade, let someone grab in your backpack, or lay things on the ground, put it in the others backpack, etc..... And now we need a "trading screen" like in every conventionall MMO like WOW or ROM or anything? This things are, what makes DayZ so special, so different from other games, that the players theirself have to implement the ways to deal with certain demands. And you can say what you want about DayZ-Mod today, the demands of so many things where solved by the players in a great way. Where do the devs of the SA get their ideas from? a COD-Forum for minors? And i wonder.....what is so special about "pooping an empty can out" when you eat canned foot? In what world is that new? Sorry for all the ranting, i jumped in this thread. =) But the hotbar thing really destroys so much for me, i had to.... **Sorry if this is maybe the wrong thread for a discussion about that things, but only for posting official news. But i can't find any other thread to put it in, so if i am in the wrong place, please move it mods, or tell me where to put it.

Today i cry a little. A little story: My character was alive for nearly 4 weeks, and i was geared up well. only thing i missed was NVG, but who cares. This morning i wandered around in the north of the map, when suddenly i came across some big castle ruins. This should be Devils Castle, and that's exactly the name i would give this damned place, if it not already had it. So i decided to take a look. I shouldered me rifle and took out the silenced M9, and sneaked through the ruins. And there they stand, 2 big choppers, really big, really really, this russian choppers or something like this. Of course, totally wrecked, so to repair these beasts is impossible. But maybe there is gear inside... Not much, only 2 cans of Mountain Dew. Mountain Dew? I read about some silly Curse some days ago, if you find Mountain Dew and not drink it, you will die very soon. I don't believe in this things, but i was thirsty, so i took one can and drank it, left the other in the chopper. I went on the pilot seat to look how bad it is, all red. I want to get out, and suddenly i am inside the back of the chopper, and can walk? Is this normal? I don't think.....suddenly a crushing noise, a fall down, and i am dead. the chopper on top of me makes funny bumps. I don't believe this shit, i walked all this way, to get killed by a f****** chopper that glitches on me. Maybe i should have drank both cans of Mountain Dew? Anyway, back in Cherno. What to do now? walk all the way back north, only to get my gear? I had the big backpack, the biggest, and thats the only thing i would miss really. So, i have time, the server is not that full. I'm on my way north again. It was a long journey, but a peacefull journey. On the way, i found a crash site, and there i found the incredible useless, but ultra rare FN FAL with nightvision. But no ammo. Whatever, i found a big (not the biggest) backpack a while ago, so i take it with me. I also found the full survival gear already, Good weapons too. One could say, i was equally good geared as before, except the backpack and a rusty AK instead of a DMR. So, in front of the walls of devils castle i think to myself "do i really have to go in there?" - but i went all the way, all the kilometers.....So why turn back without looking. I go in there again, and i can hear the flies. The choppers are burned to crisp in the meantime, and the burned down chopper seems to lie directly on my corpse. SO i cant reach it. I can hear it, but i cant see it. I sneak around the chopper and try to get to my corspe in some way, around and around, and another turn. after about 10 turns around the chopper i decide to let it go. I have good gear, so why bother. And in the moment i decide to leave this damned place, i got shot in the back. I ... got ... shot .... and am dead. AGAIN! So now there are two corpses of me, lying next to each other in devils castle. Two geared up corpses.... And NOW i know why sometimes people "nuke" servers". I would so have nuked this damn server, if i could. I never would do anything like this, but to be honest, i had a moment, where i thought i will never ever again play this stupid game. But i will play again. I know how quick you CAN get new gear, i know the places where to go for that. ;) But i know one thing for sure - i will NEVER EVER go near this cursed castle! AND - i will drink every can of Mountain Dew i find. And now please excuse me, i have to go in my closet and cry for the next hour. Or maybe....maybe i log in again.

no, but i am interested in where it came from also. first read about it in some wiki i think, that was BEFORE that happened, so maybe it was unconsciously influenced.

Just thought of how cool it would be, if you could out a trailer on a tractor, so you can transport a lot more, maybe as much as an ural or something like this. With the speed of a tractor a risky transport, but why not. And when we are talking about hanging something on the back of a vehicle, what would be cool also, a caravan on the back of a car. This could be function as a mobile tent. This would be awesome. You could use it as a tent, and for transports, but always with the risk of a noisy car attached to it. Want to drive only? De-attach the caravan and hide it somewhere. And as a bonus, i really REALLY would like to see saddlebags for bikes. =)

Anyone has an Idea where this "Mountain Dew Curse" originated from in the first place?

Yes i should have not moved, but i was not sure if this is a glitch at all, because i could see the "perfectly" built inside of the chopper. And i thought "oh cool, you can walk inside....." =)

Yeah, i forgot the [sarcasm] Tag. =D And accidentaly i posted in "Bandit campfire", allthough I am not a bandit, i messed that up. On the other hand, i got shot by a bandit, so maybe it's not as wrong here.

Tonight i was playing with 2 friends, when we where suddenly kicked with the message "script restriction 3". We found a boat, where driving it and kicked in the boat on the water. logged back in, spawned in the water, but not swimming, so we did not lose gear. We then decided to destroy the boat, shot it to pieces, and some seconds later artillery went down on us, killed one friend, the rest of us where unconscious and injured. we immediately aborted, but when logged back in, still unconsciousness and injured. the counter goes so slow, that i will die before i wake up. The server was restartet after that (DE 26), and everytime we tried logging in on this server we were kicked again. some minutes later the server was back up, i am still unconscious and will wait to die some time when the server is quiete and empty, so i can walk back and get my stuff. all this is dissapointing, but that's life. not too big of a deal. What is more dissapointing, that this server, and many other, hosted by this host, seem to be totally unmoderated/administrated. The teamspeak-server is empty, the forum of their site is full of some ghost-posts with no answers from the admins, and i dont get any feedback on whats happening. would like to now for example, what "script restriction 3" is. Did WE do anything wrong? Was the boat not legit? I think it was a script kiddie with the artillerie, i know, public servers.....anyway... i was kicked many times on different servers, allways with some strange "script restriction" message. Is there any list, where i can see, what message stands for what?

Yesterday i found a "PKM mag" with 100 rounds in it, but i did not know for what gun. So i looked online, but found next to nothing. There seems to be a PKM/PKR, (russian machine gun) in ARMA2, and on some other map (lingor? namalsk?) but not in chernarus. The changelog of the last patches does not show anything related too. Are there PKM/PKR Guns in the game now? Or is this item not legit? It was at a crash site, and the crash sites seemed to be unlooted, so i was pretty sure that it was legitly spawned and took it with me. Anyone an idea?

i like the idea of taking a shit. without tp you stink, zombies can smell you better, and you maybe get an infection. you also could shit in other peoples tents, which would be awesome! =D in a serious note: to be exposed while taking a shit is another tactical perspective, you have too look for good places to shit. or you go in a toilet in a cafe in town or use a wooden toilet at some houses outside. on this places you would not need toilet paper, tp is for shitting in the woods.

Since a couple of days i hear strange sounds frequently, sounds a bit like when someone is swinging his hatchet. This sounds are very quiet and appear mostly, when crouching in bushes. This is so irritating and is making me nervous. I don't know if this is new (since the last patch?) or if i only registered it lately. I think it's new. Anyone else has this? Everytime i log in - in some bushes or trees - i stand still for some moments to scan the area, and so often i thought someone is around and stood there for 5 minutes, searching for a player. I allready had the idea of an invisible hacker with a hatchet, running behind me and trying to troll me. If someone would watch me, i would give a hillarious scenery, running a bit, tunring around, scanning behind while running backwards, turning around again,.... Feels like i'm getting too paranoid, but the sound is definitely there.

@steak you mean, like sitting in the forrest for days, and immediately when you see or hear any non-zombie human getting an adrenalin-shock? =D I really like the forrest, i really really do.

i swear i did not take any drugs. =)

Good to know, did not know that. thanks. @R.J., it was on a public (DE) server, but i think TMW7 solved the mystery. =)

Since some days, i DO hear strange noises. Like someone swings his hatchet behind me. I did not eat any mushrooms or other plants, was not bitten and did not drink from lakes without boiling the water. So i am sure it's not an intoxination. =) A very nice idea is hallucination/stress/emotional troubble after killing another player. This could be related to the humanity, people with low/negativ humanity doesn't suffer from that as much as player with high humanity. After killing another player, either in self defence of cold blood, resulting in tremor, tunnel view, blackouts, maybe even uncounsciousness, puking,crying, etc for 5 to 10 minutes would be a nice feature. However, even with very bad (negative) humanity you should suffer from that, so it does not make it too unballanced for on sight shooter and bandits. Frequently (not often) suffering from some of these effects for players with huge negative humanity would also be nice, simulating the last bit of emotional humanity in people who turned "bad ass". I guess it takes a looong time for someone to completely fuck up moraly, so you always have to fight with your own counsciousness and memories.

Subway tunnels connecting the "big" cities would be cool, but not fitting in the setting. The cities are too small for that. Sewers on the other hand would fit in. Maybe connected to some underground bunker, under/near the military spots, under the airfield, etc.

Something that would be cool to add would be these modern kind of flashlights that are on the market for quite a while. They are extremely bright, mostly adjustable, and some flashlights can be used for defense in the brightest setting. Some even have a strobe setting, and this is interesting. flashing someone right in the face with the strobe WILL irritate and demobilize the person for a while, because he will close his eyes, and even then, he will have a red/purple spot in the vision when he opens the eyes again. Normal reaction, when registering the spots, is turning the head away, which will disorient a bit. These spots normally last for 15-30 seconds, will wear off constantly, and you can adapt to them, if your eyes will get strobed often. Would be interesting to see that effect in game. These effects should be "easily" inserted into the game and would be a nice defense possibility. Strobing someone at night could give you precious seconds to hide, run away, equip weapon, axe him, whatever....i think you get the point. Also would be very nice to evade zombies with that technique.

A friend mentionned Flash-grenades also. But the thing with them - and HV-Laserpointers is, they are not really everyday items. So they should be very rare like high value military loot. Those flashlights are pretty everyday these days. They could also be used to give signals over huge distances (from one hill to another) And for the absolute Mac Gyver Effect - you can start a fire with a flashlight, even with low power FL's, but only one time and you destroy the flashlight. And duct tape for attaching an ordinary flashlight on the rifle is a great idea.

bump! I'm new to dayZ and have the same annoying problem. The first two days it seemed to be working but then i registered, that no one can hear me. i have tried all the solutions, none worked. When i auto adjust the mix ingame, it sets the mic-volume to ZERO. that's interesting i think. I run teamspeak parallel, and this works fine. I installed ARMA2:CO with steam, and then installed DayZ with Play with Six. I am using play with six OR DayZ Commander for starting and server browser, i have made all the arma2(oa) executable files in my steamapps-folder run as admin. the server has the same arma2 version and same dayz version, i even reinstalled to the allready running version via dayz commander. The server HAS voice chat enabled. Interestingly, i can't hear anyone in global chat either. Its irritating, because i could hear talking in global the first days, and i dont know what happend, other than six launcher updated maybe this or that. dont know exactly what this launchers do, but that is the point of the launcher, they do the shit for you. ;) One thing i dont understand, and maybe related? Whats with the "beta version of arma2OA? that is for when you want to start the game via steam? Or should i tell the setting of the launcher (dayz commander or six....) to launch the executable of the beta where i make the setting of where arma2:OA is installed? Its really frustrating, the whole point of talking with nearby players makes this game so interesting and fun, and not working spoils the most fun of it. only talking to my friends on Teamspeak is pretty pointless. I searched the web for days and days now and tried all possible things. i really hope i can solve this. *btw. first post on the forum. Hi all! i'm the new one! =D