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the fact remains that you were informed of the state of the game at the time of purchase and you still went ahead and purchased it. My issue wasn't with your other concerns, my issue was the fact that you accused Bohemia/Rocket of 'conning' you. I was simply pointing out that there is no 'Con' in play. You have paid £20 for an unfinished game that will cost more when it is finally released, It is not going to cost you any more money than the initial £20.

the only issue I can think of that prevents eating/drinking is desync, sometimes it can take a few attempts at right-clicking for it to show the eat/drink option.

II think you want to be looking at the big paragraph in caps under the heading "About the Game"

edit: I decided to not feed the troll any longer so removed my post.

how on earth are you being conned? you paid £20 (or whatever equivalent currency you use). for a game that you were TOLD was unfinished, you were also told that when it is finished, the game will cost a lot more than what you have currently paid. At no point were you told it was a finished game. You paid the money KNOWING that the game was unfinished. You aren't expected to pay any more money, so there is no 'conning' going on at all.

if that doesn't work, try setting your headset to default sound device before you launch the game.

I wasn't moaning about it at all, I was just saying that the 'permadark' was a bit unrealistic.... and the key word there is 'spawn' with a flashlight and battery. I usually play on daytime servers so I throw the torch away as it takes up 2 precious inventory slots. The day/night cycle will be a lot better when loot respawns properly. At the moment, the only way to get loot respawning is to restart the server.

well said that man! you may have my :beans: !

I had a similar issue where I had to exit the game and relaunch it to fix it.

not had this issue, you have to drink and eat quite a way past when your indicators disappear in order to be properly "full", it will show "energized" and "Hydrated" when you are sorted and will then last a LOT longer :)

I find using a machete and aiming a little bit above the head works, usually take between 1-3 hits to kill them, you want to aim the weapon, not the crosshair as the crosshair is a bit off for melee i believe.

do people forget that both COD and BF were originally PC games?

night-time won't be an issue when (if) Night Vision goggles get put into the game, half of the issue with darkness in the game is that it is so utterly dark... even the most new person to a dark area will be able to see in the darkness after 10-15 minutes of no light, but in DayZ it is permadark the whole time.

hmm, if it was me then it seems I left some ammo behind :(

might have to come give this one a look-see tonight :D

I've actually played on this server quite a few times and not had any problems. I've had a few people attempt to KOS me but it's part of the game, I accept that (and I rarely read the server description, knowing as I do, the rules of owning a public hive server). The SA public hive server rules have not changed at all from the mod public hive server rules IIRC

i've not seen any such videos but there is no repercussion either way for killing people if they are a bandit or not... Other mods change your skin depending on if you behave like a bandit or a hero but they are only visual guidelines. That hero skin you saw may have just been killed by someone and looking for revenge... Bandit or not, if I feel that someone is about to kill me I will either shoot first and not bother asking questions later, or turn tail and run.

install arma2 and run it once, then exit. right-click on arma2 in steam, click properties, then verify the game integrity (it will probably download a file or two) install the expansion and run it once, then exit repeat the integrity verification steps for OA (this may not be required but it won't hurt) install the arma2:OA beta program (it's a small download). load up dayz commander and check for updates on everything there. This worked for me. Counterstrike, Half-Life and other games will have absolutely no bearing on your arma2, OA, DayZ installations whatsoever, they use completely different architecture and engines. hope this helps!

the "GAME" hasn't been released. An "early access alpha" was released and in all fairness, was probably released in order to placate the masses of people wanting to play it... I've seen it before on many games... people cry out for access to the game, they claim that they "don't care what state it's in" they "just want to play it"... So the devs oblige and then open themselves up to a veritable s***storm of abuse from the same people that claimed they didn't care what state it was in.

I've seen a few of these posts about the 'fresh spawn with m4' hacker.... chances are that it is a hacker.... but there is also the chance that the guy could have spawned, made a bee-line straight for the airfield and picked up the m4 with bullets, this would explain him being in a new spawn skin... It's unlikely but it is a possibility... some people work under the false belief in this game that people won't attack them if they look like a fresh spawn... there is also the possible scenario that the guy was a fresh spawn on a different server, ran to the airfield that had already been mostly looted, was only able to find an m4 and decided to server hop to try and find more loot.... they are all possible scenarios and unfortunately given the apparent prevalence of hackers in SA they become more unlikely as time goes on but it's something to think about before screaming "HACKS" as for him taking the point blank bullets, that could just be desync (not neccesarily between your clients, but his)... more than likely it is a hacker. I've only played DayZ for about 30 hours and as far as i'm aware I haven't come across a single hacker yet but I know they exist as it's an internet game and well, hacking and the internet go hand-in-hand. The way I deal with it is basically, If someone gets a warm glow in the belly by only being able to kill me by cheating, then good for him, at least I know that my kills are legitimate. Sure it's annoying to die and lose all of your stuff but it doesn't really take too long to get that gear again, it's not like you've paid real money for the items so there's no need to get so attached. I play EVE online and I lost a tengu because I was being stupid (about 1bn ISK value), everyone in my corp was going crazy at me for losing it, I just laughed it off and pointed out that it was Internet Money in an internet game. There is no "Real World" loss, games are games and should be enjoyed as games... personally I actually find the looting and gearing up more fun than anything else in SA at the moment, once you've got everything you need, what more is there to do than to go and get into combat... which could end up with you losing everything anyway.

i've been getting similar issues. my friend recently bought the game so I thought it would be an idea for us to join a 0 pop server so that he could find some good loot and learn his way aroudn the game a bit but whenever I try to join the server I either get kicked straight back to the server screen or stuck on waiting for host. then my entire server list disappears and everything ends up with ridiculously high ping. It then won't let me join any server at all and I have to exit out of the game completely and log back in in order to get the server list to work again.

try pressing tab to bring up your inventory, that will show your cursor. Either that or, as was said above, the normal cursor is just a . in the middle of the screen.

i've had this issue a few times, exiting the game and reloading solved it for me

there is also a development roadmap on the steam store page for the game :)

PART 5. Happened last night, I bought my housemate a copy of the game a few days ago but hadn't been able to get on at the same times due to work/other commitments, we logged on and realised we were somewhat close to each other... He was a few miles away from Kamyshovo and I was heading down towards elektro from berezina. I was very hungry and thirsty, had run into a guy with a gun who had grunted something incomprehensible at me and then left me alone so I was a little bit wary of my surroundings due to this, half expecting him to gun me down from a distance, I stopped off in a couple of the random houses by the wayside when I saw a couple of guys with full camo gear and rifles heading towards me, they shouted out at me to get on the floor so I complied (I had a double rifle with no ammo, a backpack, hat and a full medkit so it was pointless arguing with them.) They entered the house and handcuffed me, one of them looked like he was trying to put a sack over my head but it never happened, then they removed my ruined trousers and started talking to me, they gave me an sks with no ammo and told me that if I so much as pointed the gun at them as they left then they would drop me where I stood. I assured them that I had no intentions of doing so and just wanted to get down to where my friend was waiting for me. They gave me food and drinks too! They left on their way and I continued on to where I was headed, few seconds later they are running behind me and asked me if I wanted anymore drink, I said if they could spare one more that would be sweet which they obliged, also gave me a gasmask as well, the guy that handcuffed me (I think) then came over, said that he 'owned' me now and that I would be forever known as 'Dave', I played along with them and they eventually ran off into the treeline and I continued on my way :D