spacecraft

I thought I read in an RPS interview with Rocket that the standalone alpha would be coming out in September. If that's true, I'd wait a little bit longer. Edit: Nevermind. Here is the quote: "Well, the next six months… we have to get the standalone, at least the initial version of the standalone, out. That has to be out very soon. So the idea is to get that available with a low price point, Minecraft style, ideally in October, but realistically I think we’re talking end of November." Source: http://www.rockpaper...y-z-standalone/

Is there a way to stop xpadder from emulating the m/kb when outside of a game? I love Steam Big Picture mode and would like to play DayZ with a controller on my TV, but xpadder screws up big picture mode navigation. If xpadder would activate profiles based on what has focus, oh that'd be perfect.

I thought the AS50 only spawned at crashed helis, and the AS50 TWS wasn't in the game unless someone hacked it in. I found an AS50 TWS with no ammo in a pile of loot in one of the fire stations. Weird thing is that the loot started spawning after I got in the town, which means there wasn't anyone else there recently (server had like 6 people.) So is this a bug that this thing is spawning now? Should I keep it?

I may do that. Might drop it out in some water or something.

Oh I see, that makes sense then. So the item was "hacked" in, right? I assume that I could get kicked/banned if I was caught using it, or do people not care? Edit: Ninja replies before I could hit post. Thanks for the clarification. I'll probably drop it for a legit gun since it feels cheap.

I'm wondering what the safest way to store trucks, tents with loot and stuff while logged off. A buddy and myself stored a v35, a civilian truck, and a couple tents way out here in this area: http://dayzdb.com/map#6.003.044 I had to go to work the next day and when I got home all our stuff was stolen. This is on a server that rarely has over 12 people playing so I figured nobody was going to find it out there. So how did this happen? Did I hide it too close to the edge of the map? It was pretty deep into the trees. If I can't hide it out here, can I not hide it anywhere?

Yeah, I linked the map coords after all my loot was taken. I'm on us 1551, have fun going to an empty camp. >_>

It was recently. Weird thing is the server restarted once and none of our stuff was lost. Oh, I'm not too upset about losing my stuff. I know how DayZ works. :P I wish I could just not log off, but I gotta get dat moneh. :(

Would this work with Arma 2? Would the anti-cheat freak out and ban for using it?

You're right. If we're not under constant thread of death matchers, it would ruin Day Z.

Actually it is partially the mods fault. As it stands, there is no disincentive to murdering everyone you see. People don't feel the same risk they would in real life, and this is a problem inherent in all games. The only game I ever played that solved this was Face of Mankind. Your character had to buy clone insurance, and the more you paid, the more clones you had available. However, if you used up all your clones you died permanently. We're talking the loss of player housing, gear, large amounts of money. Of course this was based in the future. It was the only game where I would occasionally see conflicts be resolved diplomatically, and it was so much more fun for it.

I'm confused. Does the OP think he did something special here? Or is he really that amused that he managed to kill some people from short range with a sniper rifle? I've done this with a regular assault rifle.. Oh it'll be nice when these people are back in school.

Always stay in the trees. 99% of the players in this game can't hit shit through trees. If you absolutely must run through an open field, make sure you have a ton of smoke grenades and there are no zombies nearby. :P

How does it appear to other players if you're laying in grass and they're far away? I know the grass disappears after a certain distance, so would you just be lying completely exposed?

Do I need both Arma II and Arma II: OA on my SSD for good performance? Together they take up 16.4 GB of space. Do I actually need OA on my SSD if most of the game assets are from Arma II (to my understanding)?

What exactly is it loading from OA? Aren't all the parts that benefit from loading off a SSD the Arma II assets, like the world?

http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=18575&page=86 Scroll down to rockets post. :P Thank you very much :D Didn't want to read through all the pages in this thread, hadn't thought of just looking at Rocket's recent posts. :rolleyes:

I'm a bit bummed the patch didn't come out today. Oh well. Has there been anything on twitter or IRC or something from the devs about why it didn't come out? Were there problems? Last think I read was that this patch was coming along nicely.

I hate this kind of shitty exploit. I can't think of a way to fix it though. Can't wait to see what Rocket is planning. Edit: Nevermind, saw this thread: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=20863 That sounds like a good idea to me.

My #1 problem with pvp in this game is that it's so fantastically unrealistic. In real life death is a much scarier deterrent, and there would be significantly less banditry. In a video game it's not that big of a loss if you die. So this leads to everyone just spraying the hell out of everyone they see. I don't want an uber-realistic zombie sandbox game, we're dealing with zombies after all. But I don't think that being able to murder people with zero consequence is a good thing. It's not good for realistic gameplay, and it's not good for arcadey fun gameplay.

Wonder if they'd make more money selling Arma3 and DayZ with some of the VSB features included, than selling VBS licenses.

I can't believe people try this crap lol.

OP has the right idea. I ask people over my mic if they're friendly, if they don't respond then I assume they're hostile. 99% of the time the people that have mics and do respond are friendly, or at least not outright hostile. A lot of the time it ends up being like "Yeah, we're friendly but don't get too close. We got this building first and we're looting it. If you come in, we'll kill you." Then watching them exit the building, everyone keeping a close eye on each other until we part ways. It's very intense. And I say that is SO much more entertaining than just killing everyone you see.