Ken Bean

Yeah, hatchet would be too overpowered. But we don't know how they tweaked the Zeds. Maybe hey got a lot harder, so... Anyway, we'd need a second purpose for the crowbar. Maybe opening stashes or sth. It's a little useless as it is currently.

Thanks for clarifying.

Since I read it a few times, how does it come that CD-Keys get stolen? Can server read them out? If someone can steal your key, why can't you steal it back? Can they use the key or did it just get invalid?

then better take a crowbar

Jo, get that DayZ Commander (post above), install it, start it, update the game, go to settings and tick on both steam options.

Hi folks, is it possible to install Arma X (Steam version) and ARMA 2: Combined Operations - Gold Edition (retail) on one and the same computer without interfering the installments (addons, probably registry keys) and player characters? One might solve it by using separated windows user accounts, but the problem is, the steam version can't be installed “only for me”, while the retail version offers this option. Thanks in advance

Finally solved it this way: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/32775-multiple-dayz-accounts-useful-for-shared-computers/

The rule is to randomize word endings. It's spelled wrong as soon as the same typing repeats.

Looks like you had bad luck. This happened to me once as well. Thankfully it was almost empty. I'd look for another tent to pitch, they should save automatically.

Oh great. Now I feel almost as depressed as your tires.

This was what I thought as well as I heard the term Bambies the 1st time in DayZ. Bambis are living in the woods, I though, eating berries and stuff. But no, the term obviously is misleading, they are kind of fresh spawns or new player, whatever. I'd suggest to call those, who are living in the woods, lone wolfes.

Yep, you need PMC. I thought you have it, misread sth there, my bad. The reason behind was, I had the situation to have PMC, but got the low res textures. This was because running Steam without Admin rights, which didn't activate PMC at all.

Come on guys, it's a shame, he deserves a serious answer. @ChaoticFarva When did you controll the air pressure of the tires last time?

I'm still awaiting the day, DayZ turns me into a bandit, because it betrayed me for my gear once too often. As I see threads, there so many people request to make valuable gear way more rare, this may happen with the Stand Alone. This painful long gearing up and being striped in a few moments, really plays into bandits hands. They are the only once who would gain profit out of this. "I'm looking for that M1A4 for 5 weeks." "Wait, what carries this dude in his hands?" "Hmm, he had all the work finding the stuff for you." <Pew> "He was a nice guy, thanks." But you are right, don't planning for long, don't making a base, just saying goodby to your gear as soon as you found it, is the best way to be prepared for the upcoming loss.

I'm always the same character no matter what profile I chose. I thought this depends on the game copy.

I used to play on a private hive server which was a very friendly one, most were nice to each other, so I teamed up quite a lot. This worked pretty well for a few weeks, until a cheater went mad, broke everyone’s legs and somehow screwed up the server in a way no one was able to join after that. So I started on another server an still was in friendly mode. I ran into Cherno, found an alice pack, some water, food, a map and a hatchet and just was upon leaving as I saw that house I just wanted to check. Okay, I stood up, run to that house, turned around and chopped the horde of Zeds that was behind me. I crouched into the room to the right an saw this survivor dude looting a pile of merely half interesting gear. His back was turned to me, he couldn't see me. So I just stood a bit nearby a few seconds without thinking any bad. Then the guy turned around and immediately switched to panic mode. He started chopping me and my character started screaming and bleeding and I thought, “Shit, well, should I type sth friendly? Maybe running away? Aww, I don't lose any super rare gear. It doesn't really matter. I'm just at the start. As he is. He probably just stops chopping soon. Because he realizes, I don't do anything. Not defending myself. Not even stepping aside.”. This were the last thoughts of my character. He didn't stop, panic mode was stronger, I died. But I couldn't be really sad about it. I respawned once more in Cherno, this time on the other site of the town. I run to my dead cold body, which still was there, as I left it, completely unlooted. The survivor was gone. He already left the crime scene. I had the feeling that he was very sorry. Maybe he felt like he made a very bad decission. So I grabbed my stuff, left Cherno and this was the beginning of a 25 day life, until it ended driving my tractor against a hay roll because I was gaping out of the window on my left, instead of the direction I drove.

I just have a different user name on each web site I sign up. Maybe I like to be a mysterious stranger? Maybe not. Anyway, names are different opportunities, aren't they?

If you have the Steam-Copy, start Steam as Admin, start all the Arma 2 entries, BAF or PMC will be activated. As long as they are not activated, the game uses the low res light versions.

Some actually are female.

Probably maybe. The engine leads my personal weird bug hit list.

It's okay in single player games. Event though, I wouldn't recomment it blindly, since Cheater will most likely get used to it. A game should stay challenging. Anyway, sometimes it's plain fun to play a little around with the console and having fun with cheats. Some single player games can easily get screwed up by cheating, e.g. Fallout New Vegas, so you should have at least a clue what you are doing. I for my self use to play around from time to time. But most of the time I just need console commands to test a mod ingame. (That's what a console actually is made for. I also never continue a cheated game. I always save it before cheating around, close the game after I did and continue the uncheated save after. This has become a habit. I also cant stand mods where you just get a god mode like over powered weapon.) In multi player games, it is a no go in my opinion. Because of the impact to other player. It can be kind of trolling to ruin other peoples game and it's just plain unfair. (They also ruin the game for them selfes. Playing a game as it was ought to, is the more challenging and therefore rewarding way.) If you cheat an advantage in a single player game, no one cares. Online just is the very wrong place. Having dedicated cheater server, where everyone knows that cheats might be allowed, would be another thing.

Pay attention to the stickies in the trouble shooting forums. Edit Oh, your question has already been answered in that other thread.

Hey there, what TCP and UDP Ports do I need to open to allow DayZ and DayZ Commander for outgoing traffic? I'd need to know the ports as a client, not for a server. I already searched for the respective ports but just found server configurations. Thanks in advance.

Turning off the firewall is kind of the worst thing one can do. There's no real safety at all though, even with firewall. But I wouldn't let all my ports open. There are lots of people driving around an scanning networks for easy victims. I also don't like to have many programs calling home for whatever reason. This is the main reason why I set it so strict. Allowing all TCP and UDP ports for the Arma2OA.exe for outgoing traffic works and should be save enough though. I just started to define the ports. Yep, I'm aware that if someone really would want to brake in, probably would succeed anyway. But would you like to let your door open to anyone? Opportunity makes a thief.

Thanks for the reply. I'm using the Windows 8 default firewall which is configured to block every incoming or outgoing traffic as long it is not defined in a allowed rule. There's no router to configure since I'm online with an umts stick. (Yep, very high ping, but somehow works. ^^)