GoldenPSP

Geez, Learn2Melee. I haven't played long enough to know how it "used" to be. But I melee zeds all the time. The hatchet is so OP. I rarely get infected. Antibiotics are a bit too rare though IMO.

I have only been playing dayz about two months. I have only been playing on basically vanilla servers, or servers running mods that are a challenge (starting with 2 bandages and flares etc). I've been doing fine and having a blast.

Yea tried that last night. Worked better.

I understand. I don't know that would have worked in this case. In this case I wasn't trying to swap a weapon between my pack and main. I was trying to put my only weapon in my pack to then pick up a new one. Although in hind sight i could have picked up the weapon off the ground directly into my pack and then swapped them with this method. Yea mostly. The barracks floor seems to have a habit of eating gear that drops though. Lost my M4SD that way.

Hey everyone. Being relatively new I have been learning a lot about the quirks of this mod. One thing however has me a bit confused so I came here to get some tips to avoid future pitfalls. I understand that trying to put a weapon in a pack without sufficient space will eat it. I ran into an issue the other day that i did not expect. Here was the situation. i had my M4 equipped, with 5 magazines in my main equipment location. I had 2 free slots in my main equipment location as well. My pack had 11 free slots. I wanted to move my M4 into my pack in order to pick up another weapon I had found. i expected when I moved it, it would move my gun, and them it would move one magazine (since there was one additional slot on my pack) and leave the other 4 magazines where they were. Instead it tried to move all 5 magazines, and since there wasn't space I ended up losing 4. What would have been a better way to deal with this so I don't lose items?. I am guessing one option would have been to shuffle some items around so that i would have moved all 5 magazines into the pack first, and them move the gun. But this was a time sensitive situation so i was trying to avoid wasting unnecessary time.

I guess it depends in what environment we are talking. Current Dayz/Arma2 is pretty much unfixable in these aspects. Future games sure it would be nice.

I would like to respectfully disagree, at least a little. I do like and prefer first person, even when driving most vehicles. But there are some vehicles that translate pretty badly to a computer game, and it can make them very difficult to deal with in first person. This is primarily the small vehicles, motorcycle, ATV, bicycle. Try driving any of these, especially offroad, in first person and it becomes an exercise in frustration. Now yes even IRL the ride gets pretty bouncy. But also IRL our bodies, eyes etc have an amazing ability to steady our view quite a bit in the midst of the bouncy ride. But in game its much more like a fixed view. If there was a way to have a bit of a "steadycam" effect when driving these vehicles, I'd be all for it. Otherwise I find these particular ones mostly usable only in 3rd person. The only other area is when backing up. Again IRL I can shift my entire torso, bend around and get a good view out of the back of the vehicle, that simply isn't achievable in game. But this is less of an issue than the above one and could be dealt with.

Well actually yea it is. This issue is not limited to Dayz. It is an issue that exists for ALL games that have privately hosted servers. Minecraft, Team fortress 2, Counterstrike, the list goes on. I have had good luck finding servers that don't require donations, and have a fun group of people playing on them.

Cool story bro.

Loafy, The server referenced in this thread is gone. The server you were on today (with me) is a brand new one that just happened to get the exact same address. Threw me off when I logged in and the heli I had almost repaired was gone.

So I saw this thread and added the server to my favorites. It was offline. Been watching it go online and offline over the last few days. Decided to try it. Ran around elektro for about 5 minutes picking up the essentials. Then bam the server went down for about 5 minutes. I logged back in at the location where the server had gone down but without any gear at all. Bottom line is you server seems about as stable as my bat shit crazy mother in law.

well that didn't last long :(

Hey, I just found your server and have played on it for the last day or so. I hope you can gain some popularity and population. I have only started playing Dayz in the last month and definitely enjoy Vanilla. I have been a bit frustrated with the public hive servers, as there seem to be a fair number of issues/bugs lately causing them to become unavailable or throw weird script errors after reboots. The only thing personally I'd love is for crosshairs to be off. otherwise I hope you can get more people and keep the server going. its fun so far. I will be telling my friends to try it out as well. [edit] Also just as an FYI. Upon my first disconnect and later log back in I encountered the cloning glitch outlined in this thread http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/141326-1771-cloning-glitch/ the server was not lagging or anything.

Just curious, but doesn't this apply?

GIven the nature of these forums, I think first and foremost an admin needs to have at least a minor grasp of English, and not what you run through google translate. Just sayin'