Ninja_Meh

so after seeing the new update come out and reading the patch notes stating hacking issues had been addressed i thought why not have a bash in stable for a change, how wrong i was to do so... my first encounter with one of the scrub kind, was about 45 minutes into my first session, was in a room alone, no windows in sight just organising my gear before heading off the coast, then bam, im unconscious, ok i think probably just a house bug i wait it out, but then within 2 seconds i see my hotbar items dissappear one by one... once the last item is gone i miraculously instantly wake back up wearing someone elses clothes. it seemed the guy had been killed (as hackers tend to be awful players) and respawned and found the closest slightly geared player to rob. needless to say that is definitely not fixed. after that i took some time away (as i usually do when stupid stuff like that happens) came back in with some pals got geared up as usual and decided to check out elektro on an official hive server to try help out some new spawns or at least clear out some bandits. coming past the lake at the northern end of elektro to cross up onto sniper hill to get the drop on some bandits when i hear the first shot of banditry ringing out from upon the hill. great i think, ill make my way onto his six and try and take him out... not a chance, guy literally appears in front of me pops off a mosin shot, misses miserabely and i start to zig zag trying to get my sawn off out, he misses me again (as usual with crap hacker types) and then literally speed hacks up the hill out of sight. i get my lrs mosin out and shoot him directly. no blood nothing. next thing the guy who is 50 odd yards up a steep incline i cant even jog up has miraculously run up behind me with an axe which he is teleporting around me hitting me with. i tell him he is a c*nt for needing to hack to get kills he laughs says thanks i know bruh and i just exit giving him the pleasure of killing me while i sit down in the exit animation as opposed to killing me even trying to defend myself. long n short. hax seem worse than they were before. i only had id say 2 instances of hacker confrontation since release then two in the space of a week since the supposed fixes in place :( i hope sometime this gets a fix all round.

http://arma-2-free.en.softonic.com/ ther ya go

http://www.bistudio.com/english/games/arma-2-series/arma-free still there, and you need it i think, not the demo :P

no so far only a mili combat knife fits the slot apparently. kinda dumb cos tbh i can fit almost any knife down the side of a boot or if its a little large i can stow it in my belt line

also the new addition to being able to stow your combat knife into military boots means you can free up som invent space for other things and still be able to use a knife to skin and quarter wild animals, win win in my eyes

i cant see why they took out the ability to acces player bags until they are unconscious, in mod it was greatly useful for pairs and teams, and not to mention once i managed to sneak up on a guy once when i was fresh spawned, open his bag which had a revolver in it, and kill him with his own gun, the former argument makes sense although the sneaking up stealing gun thing is a bit much as you would clearly need to make sound to open a bag. but still having no option to enter bag invent accept when player is dead or unconscious leading to annoying ground drop trades and stuff is annoying, especially when server lag can lead to your dropped items getting lost in odd places away from where you actually are and sometimes full loss of items altogether.

inb4 dayz is an unoptiomized POS posts roll in

if you get good pings to uk servers i highly suggest UK410 im pretty sure it is totally vanilla, the guys in there are relatively sound (in terms of global chat not getting spammed to bad by a-holes) and there is a nice mix of friendly and banditry maggits to bump into as well. i made some cool team mates in there after getting tired with standalone all the time. great server and totally vanilla. have had some great experiences on there. only warning is that blood test kits on the server seem to be bugged because of something to do with the server version they are running so to find out what blood type you are, you actually need an empty blood bag, a transfusion kit, and well over 4000 blood so as to be able to fill your bag and find out what type you have. other than that, its great. hell i even have a small little camp there if you wanted to have a meet up some time and help me expand my base coverage. I tend to like having a number of small well hidden camps in the central map so as to make vehicle part scavenging easier and stuff instead of having to risk dumping parts in the invent of a vehicle you find, i tend to find vehicles, note the location, then scavenge all the needed parts into a central camp, then go out with low quality gear equipped and all the parts to fix the vehicles and bring them back to base :P

im surprised you would have to use different user accounts, i would of thought the fact different steams use different keys to differentiate between accounts that would of forced steam to either A) rewrite the key in registry each time a different account is used (like in arma) or B ) write both keys into registry and call on either one depending on the account asking for access through steam. I hate user account clutter on PC's and having to create a secondary user just to switch steam accounts STRICTLY for dayz seems odd, when arma never worked like that.

i never noticed that function yet, although i guess i never thought about it or tried. will have to check that out when i next get in game

i believe you get the chop kindling option if you have either a hacksaw, any axe variant or a machete. im not too sure about kitchen knives or combat knives and the like, but i know i have been able to gather kindling without an axe before, you do need an item that could feasibly chop or saw wood to do so. i personally think kindling should be gatherable by hand, if you go out into a fishing spot or something, and look to make a fire, you certainly dont need much strength at all to break twigs and small to medium branches of bushes or trees. however to chop large lumps of firewood, needing an axe is a given. I can only see that making kindling obtainable without any kind of tool almost nulls the point or use of morphine, although for one splint you can have 2 morphine so it kind of is balanced to a point. just would be nice if you get legs broken, to not have to crawl around just to find something you can then use to get kindling.

i would much like to see variants in civilian gear clothes with designs on not just colour variants also more civilian gear with higher capacities, eg trench coats, and other long variant jackets. definitely some more interesting and stylized trousers and shorts. SHOES loads of different bloody shoes, which i REEEEEALLY feel would be great if they had varying sound outputs so certain foot wear was actually worth having for differing reasons, maybe even having sporty shoe variants that gave a slight buff to speed or something, not huge but just enough to make it worth wearing different things as for weapons, i long for a vast array of craftable items, in place of bloody guns. granted guns have a certain role in the game, but i think people should be given far more creative license to make varied ranged and melee combat tools. its a lot more believable than finding guns lying round just here and there. guns should be a truly distinguished show of some serious survival time and so on in my eyes.

funny how the "lore" says survivors were immune, cos last time i played the mod, you had a fairly high chance of infection after contact with viral zeds... seems the "lore" can make itself up as it goes along these days lol

unlikely to get r for reload, as it is going to be the rimjaw button when sex acts are implemented :P also, i agree i have had the reload open door conundrum but i havent been shot for it yet. luckily...

So i was havin a run from berezino all the way round the coast to balota, where one guy nearly killed me stumbling across me on the stairs of the ATC at Balota, needless to say my flee as soon as i saw his ass and quick evasive under the stairs confused him enough to think id run out the door, SKS triple shot to the back of the face, heart in mouth, calmed. I decide having made a bit too much noise instead of wait it out for any curious bandits to come see what went down i sprint back up to the cherno side prison, close the door behind me, have a loot downstairs, nothing to great, meander up the stairs onto landing find a few nick nacks (and a paddy whack i think) finally enter the bunk room and woohoo a nice big ammo box pristine as all hell just for me, im stoked and pumping rounds into this bad boy but forgetting what just went down and also forgetting im standing up to access the box as its on a top bunk... PEWWWWW i see the wall shard of concrete where a nooby sweaty handed bandit sniper misses by around a foot, i duck grabbing my precious box and try to find the guy using my sense of direction and position to figure where he could of shot from. needless to say im arse in mouth thinking am i about to get rushed by my victims crew or what. head down to the main door and just wait, must of been about 10 minutes but felt like forever, i get cold feet playing the waiting game and open the door then make my escape, lucky for me, the guy hadnt got a position on the door and my break is a good un. i decide to make my way through the barracks at the secret mil base, leading up to the zel mil spawns, and finally up into the NWAF, by this time, the servers on like 9-10 pm clock so its dark and everyones left barr 2 and the barracks had been looted, then bam a reset. i decide fuck it, i have had a little luck streak and got away by the skin of my drawers lets hit up a slightly higher pop day server (im logged out around the north tents at the airfield by this point) i log to a 15 strong server so medium enough to expect contact at nwaf, looting the tents yields next to nothing so i make my way down to the top eastern prison, inside is a few minor treats, nothing outrageous, heading up stairs i find ANOTHER ammo box on another bunkbeing memorable of my last encounter i grab the box and replace it on the floor and start to jam more rounds in, then all of a sudden, PEWW PEWWWWWWW some how i actually get hit crouched in the top of the prison (what confuses me the most was that i was shot IN THE LEGS ruining my old ammo box and a fair bit of ammo and my nice new pants) im unconscious and im like FUCK FUCK FUCK bloody c*unting kiddy campy sniper bastards how could they of even got a shot on (only thing i could think was they were on the tower on the opposite side to the west near the two warehouses) so my hearts in my mouth again, im mashing my keyboard to smithereens praying to wake up without a barrel in my face for the final blow.... HUZZAH i wake up no broken limbs and missing a fair bit of blood but not bleeding, i crawl along to the overhang of the stairs just in time to hear sprinting footsteps of my (now rather stupid) sniper. like a bell end he walks up the stairs looking to the room where he thinks i am unconscious or dead BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM goes the sks again lavishly spraying the obviously gutted guy, he must of been gutted, i send him off with a quiet "asshole" in direct chat right before i land a lasting bullet in his dome. best thing was i had been hunting for a mosin for literally best part of about 3-4 hours finding nothing. guy only goes and delivers me a pristine one with compensator and lrs AND another ammo box. And that kids, is why you should be friendly, and if you dont play friendly, never overestimate your aim and always approach your victims as if they survived. cos they might just gank you harder XD