ThrobbinCorncob

Amazing, isn’t it? Gotta love the knowitalls who haven’t been here a fraction of the time some of us have yet know better than us despite years of failed deadlines, “new engines”, and watching mods of A3 (and still to this day, DayZ mod) surpass a studio game.

Just experienced what I think is my first script kiddie today. I refuse to call them hackers because they just buy someone else's work and think they're gods gift to coding. I've only got 41 hours but I got hooked in to Overwatch and have 811 hours in OA and liked the deathmatch in the interim while the HUGE bugs get worked out for SA. inb4codkiddie Was in Elektro with a couple of guys from my squad. About 30 minutes prior to me dying, we all heard an SKS going off. We heard easily about 30-40 rounds go off with no reload or anything. We investigated and my buddy found the ONLY guy with an SKS and he shot and supposedly killed him. We don't know for sure because as soon as the guy hit the ground, his body disappeared. Fast forward, we're holed up in town looting and just watching for bandits. Suddenly, we start hearing another SKS go off up on the mini-hill that has the tree and the park bench. Turns out it's the exact same guy wearing the exact same clothes and gear when my buddy shot him. I run around towards the fire house outside of town by sniper hill and I see a guy crouching looking at me between two bushes as I'm running. I do a double take and the guy isn't there anymore. I start running along the wall and I get shot about 3 times and die. I raged, finished up some college work, and hop back in TS about an hour or so later. My buddy then goes on to tell me that he got killed by the same guy who magically appeared near him, and that our third buddy took the guy out. We again don't know for sure if he died because as our other buddy was running up to the body, it was gone. Again. I'm not one to call bullshit because I'm used to garbage games I had the misfortune of playing like BO2 and Arma 2's terribad desync but this was ridiculous. Dude disappears right in front of me only to reappear, as I'm going to assume, and kill me. All while his body disappeared after being "killed" twice. I stopped playing the mod because I was tired of bullshit desync and firing 13 times into a dude's face only for him to kill me with a Makarov shot to the toe while he finally falls over dead 30 seconds later. Now with this, it seems I'm losing any faith in actually enjoying this game.

Yes.

In! I'd love to be apart of the early-access. All these new games piss me off because it's rehashed bullshit and DayZ has truly been the only game in the past two years that I have been looking forward to.

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Just for poops and giggles... I just set up my own server and finally got everything working properly. I tried using your ArmA2OAProfile settings for the Veteran difficulty with changing some stuff but I kept running into a problem where the map looked like a BluForce tracker(showed any vehicles/players/zombies near you) and if I set a waypoint on my map, it wouldn't show up when I went to the HUD. I sat here the past 2 hours trying to figure it out and I finally did. The following parameters need to be set like this if you run into the same problem: I apologize if it has been posted but Google, the search function here, nothing was turning up any results.

Beans to you my great fellow.

I've seen it happen too. I wonder if there's a timer to clear out bodies after x amount of time to help with FPS?

I don't think any G36 weapons that spawn are SD. Pretty sure they're all non-SD. Probably hacked.

Bout time, guy.

Wow, good thing we have your super informative post on why you think it did. I'm a new(er) player myself(started a month ago) and 1.7.6.2 was just a clusterfuck of "grab everything you can and hoard all the things!" type of gameplay. Last night I ran through Cherno on my server and I found a total of 1 bandage and a few cans. It sucked, don't get me wrong, but it's so much better than running into the church and finding an Enfield with 3 mags, BAP, compass, and 3 food/drink all next to each other(true story). I'm even more drawn to playing and I want to play even more with this new patch.

My buddy had one on the server I play on and he spawned with it but it did no damage. He killed a zombie with his pistol and hid the body with the M107 on it.

Before this past weekend, it was extremely quiet. Then suddenly it seemed as though Saturday/Sunday was no holds barred, every server getting script kiddied. I tried to play on seven different, completely unrelated servers and there were script kiddies all over the place this weekend. I think it may have had something to do with 1.7.7 and trying to get their last "hoorah" in before new "hacks" have to be developed. It had calmed down yesterday again thankfully. TL;DR it's hit or miss right now but definitely has been on the quiet side except for this past weekend.

I'll admit, I've killed quite a few hatchet bambis running through Elektro because I was bored. I try not to but when none of your friends are on during the height of the server, camping and sniping can be a quick time killer. I KOS because everyone else does. Two wrongs don't make a right, right? Well it sure helps me survive longer. I KOS because exactly as you said, OP, once you get good stuff it's pretty much end game. What else is there to do besides hit up barracks and troll some towns? My general rule of thumb is draw a line from Starry due west and then a line to NEAF. Anything the falls north/northwest of that line is KoS. No exceptions. It's a survival game. Only survival I care about is mine and then maybe the survival of the group I run with. Anything immediately south of that line is at discretion(someone aiming at me, someone sneaking up on me, clearly has military grade gear/camo/ghillie is absolute KOS) and anything near the coast I generally tend to avoid and go on my merry way. Balota is hit or miss. M4s do have a chance to spawn there and if I see you pick it up, you're fair game. I do agree with above though. ACTUAL bandit/highwaymen are exceptionally few and very rare between but when everyone thinks they're John Wayne with a Makarov, it's hard to try to be a "nice" bandit. Let's add weapons durability to that list. No, not WoW stupidity of "go to gun store and pay 6 beans for 100/100 durability." More along the lines of, 1/10000 chance of say, your barrel explodes because of a faulty round. You come out of the water from swimming and you immediately try to fire with an M4 and the lower receiver break into pieces. A car runs into your car or a tree, a chance of certain weapons taking damage and a higher malfunction rate increases. Maybe have a random chance of unknowingly picking up "dirty" ammo that gums up the bolt/firing pin. Etc, etc, etc. Then at the point unless you can find pieces or scavenge pieces from other like weapons, that gun is now completely useless and you have to decide if you want to run around with a hunk of metal and wait it out trying to find parts or to just dump it and move on. It would really cut down on people just sitting and waiting at a spot for 6 hours because of weapon degradation.

Yeah no. I had an EVGA 560ti Ultra Classified and the 640 would be a step down for me, let alone alone not enough for anyone else for this game. I had everything on high and I would hit the occasional FPS hits in towns pretty bad. Don't get a 640 or even a 650. Go with a 560ti or 660 or higher.

As long as it isn't Duke Nukem Forever: Part Deux, I think everything will be alright.

This.

Be careful saying what you have. Bacon and RJ may call you out because there's no way you found that much gear and you're duping. (/sarcasm)

APEX is far from dominating anything. I think they and myself die more than some of the bambi's. :P However, Drunk I think you guys are going to have to police voice a little bit more than usual. People were streaming [shitty] music and being belligerent all night last night.

Been playing on here for a couple days and aside from some of the retards on side chat voice, this is a great server. So far I've been lone wolfing it but hopefully some friendlies will come along. EDIT: Also, the server needs a restart badly. No zombies and no items are spawning as of about 7:30am CST. It's fixed now