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Never drop your original pack. Just transfer all the stuff from your existing pack into the new pack you found, THEN pick up the new pack. Works like a charm and you will never watch your old pack full of items go poof...

This only works on regular servers though, not the veteran settings. I prefer to have this setting turned off whenever possible.

Yes. You can also navigate by the stars if you know how to do so. If you have a watch, you can tell directions using the sun and shadow as well. The only really unrealistic thing is that the clouds always move from the west to the east.

After updating to 1.7.2.3 / 94876 yesterday I had a solid 7 hours of trouble free gameplay (not a single issue, which surprised me considering the problems many people did have). Upon logging in this morning the first server I joined (same as the one I was playing on last evening for several hours) kicked me with a BE kick message "Battleye not updating" I would get this message (and kick) around 15 minutes after joining game. I kept re-joining the server. Soon, it was happening right after getting in each time, and a bit later I was getting kicked at the lobby before I could even join the game. Joining other servers had the same result. There were actually two BE errors I was getting kicked for, "BE not updating" or "BE not responding", seemed a bit random which reason would kick me. Since it seemed Battleye related, my next step was to manually update Battleye. I manually updated to BE version v1.11 / v1.60 since version v1.61.94945+ seemed to indicate a more recent beta than my current 94876. Now started getting CTD during loading screens. Later tried v1.61.94945+ and again still CTD's on all servers during join. From that BE update onward it's been CTD every single time I begin loading into a server. I get the screen with the arma tanks/hangars and progress bar beneath and immediately when the bar completes progress it's instant CTD. Tried replacing the BE files with the BE v1.61.94945+ files and no change, still CTD. Occasionally I see a quick (42KB of 42KB) message pop right before the CTD. Since then I have re-installed the game twice. 1st time: Manually add DayZ and Beta patch as usual. I did all the usual steps for steam, i.e launch A2 then A2OA etc. (same CTD) 2nd time: Deleted all Arma folders in Steam and Documents as well as deleting all registry entries to Arma. This time used 6 updater to install DayZ and Beta (just in case I borked the previous reinstall somehow). Same CTD. Nothing gained from reinstall. I'm not sure how this CTD is persisting across new installs. I made no changes to my computer in the interim, all was well last night when I logged out for the night, and then logging in this morning all hell broke loose. Any suggestions would be appreciated, I really dont know what else I can try at this point. I've been playing dayz for 10 weeks now, today is the first CTD I've had but now they are every single time i join a server... The only solid clue I can offer is that manually updating Battleye immediately introduced this CTD. I have not loaded into game without CTD since, and 2 complete reinstalls of arma have had no result. tl;dr nothing to see here.

I've read that it took a BIS development team an entire year to make Chernarus. Large maps are not as easy to come by as many people seem to think.

This is entirely possible (I'm not real big on that whole ELITE business). Edit: Loading now, but I'm not sure I'm worthy... :P

~ 160,000 new players have been added to DayZ in the last 7 days alone. New players tend to die a lot. Until you see this growth rate drop substantially, the average life expectancy overall is always going to remain much lower than the average for experienced players. If you took the avg life for players who have been playing for a month or more, you would likely see an average life of days, not minutes.

Heh, your website does not even load. Might wanna work on your eliteness a bit more...

http://southcoastbeanwars.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Crashed-Heli-Map-v7.jpg Ken I haz your beans now?

Nothing random about it. The game has no system to account for weight carried either. There does seem to be a fatigue system in place (you can hear the labored breathing) but I have never been able to sense a slower run speed from it, as far as I can tell the fatigue only affects your aim. If you are running slow, odds are either your CPU or GPU (or both are not up to snuff). My buddy had a sprint speed of about 65% of mine for the last six weeks until I gave him an old 4870 GPU I had laying around. He now sprints at exactly the same pace as me.

open ALICE pack Heh, saw that name in your clip. What a great tag. Sucks that a clan of that size wont fight like men but sounds like you made them hurt a bit at least.

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Well I've managed to get my client to load into a server without crashing now, but I'm still getting Battleye kicks for BE Not Responding / BE Not Updating. Fuck it. I'll just give it a go on the next release.

I've followed your guides (actually a combination of both suggestions) and finally I can load from a server without the CTD however instead of instantly CTD at the end of getting data I find myself stuck an an endless loading screen. Seems I've managed to jump out of a boiling pot into another boiling pot...' Edit Been up against this for 17 hours straight and still pretty much where i started, gonna sleep and hope for better dayz tomorrow... more details here if anyone is interested: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/33248-ctd-introduced-after-manually-updating-battleye/

It'll likely hit a million before the end of July...so far the rate of growth has been exponential.

I recently had an issue with the forums hosting limit and realized that there is no forum dedicated to discussing forum specific topics. Having no where else to turn, I sent a pm to a mod to get further information. If there were a seperate forum dedicated to these issues I could have probably searched an answer to my problem and been on my way without bothering a mod at all. Just a thought, most forums have a place to where all topics about the forum itself can be found.

Are you seeing red X's at the left of the server browser list? I assume you are connecting to servers with the yellow icon?

Looks like you've done everything right, what are the errors you are getting? Can you be more explicit than 'no servers work'? Not really a lot to go on there... EDIT Go to your Arma 2 OA folder and try launching with the _runA2CO_beta. I believe the game engine treats the beta as a mod and that launching from steam launches the game without the beta patch applied.

On July 10th, a bit over 500,00 unique players had launched DayZ. As of July 14th, another 114,000 unique players have been added to the ranks for a total of 614,000. Even as I type this post another 50 people are installing. Definitely not popular, you got that right son...

I'd be interested to know if the 3rd person view helped. It worked great for my buddy (except he hated 3rd person view), but others reported no change in run speed between 1st and 3rd person views. What you reported about animations is true. He always looked like one of those excersise freaks who do that speed walking thing when he had the bug. What are your friends specs?

Same here. After manually updating BE folder to latest version my game client started crashing during load (was also happening with the previous version V1.1 - V1.60 Prior to that, the game was loading fine, but I was getting constant "kicked / B E unable to update". Currently doing a fresh install of Combined Ops and Mod Files.

A fair amount of people have reported having this movement speed bug. A friend of mine had it for about 6 weeks as well. We did comparisons in sprint speed (taking into account movement penalties for weapon, stance, run/walk etc.) On average he was full sprinting at around 65% of my sprint speed. If I sprinted in crouch posture and he sprinted standing I could still outpace him slightly. At one point we found that if he used 3rd person view he could run at my speed, which worked as a temporary fix. Since then I gave him an old 4870 gpu I had laying around and his sprint problem has entirely disappeared. I would have previosly argued to the death that a GPU could not be related to this movement speed bug but but after seeing the GPU upgrade fix his problem entirely on the spot, I may have to change my opinion on this. Search the forums for "movement speed" you will see that while this issue does not affect most people, it is still a huge problem for many. There are at least half a dozen posts here where many people have also reported this problem.

In the OP, below the torrent download link it says: Later in the patch notes it says: Just to be clear, which is the suggested beta version for this release?

I support this. It would be an inconvenience for server admins and players, but the upside is that there is no longer a fractured server and playerbase using outdated versions. Let's face it, the people / servers still running 1.6 are no longer involved in testing the game at all. They are merely along for the ride, offering little or nothing to contribute toward the development of the game.

@ Horus. I've been playing on US295 for a couple of weeks now, I dont recall ever finding it locked in that time. I've been unable to join since upgrading my client to 1.7.2 / B94700 yesterday, but that is a client/server version issue not a locked server. Not sure why you are being attacked here, but I can say that the time myself and a friend have spent on your server has been a good experience. I look forward to playing on your server again once our versions are once again compatible. Sorry to see you are taking flack man, my limited experience of your server has been very positive. SK