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The OP had the courage to discuss their mental health problems, be supportive of their honesty.

Yes, if i spot someone at a distance, I just avoid them.If I spot someone up close, I tell them to move along, and make sure they do. If that doesn't work, I'll fire a warning shot with my loudest gun, then escape amidst the zombie chaos. If that doesn't work, then I'll kill in self defence. If I'm shot at, I'll run, hide or fight, in that order, depending on which of them is feasible. I've survived a long time following these rules, and am fully stocked up with food, water, medicine, and plenty of ammo for my glock and M4... You don't need to be a sociopath to survive.

When you save it with notepad, choose "all files" from the drop-down box. Otherwise you'll save it as blah.blah.txt. If if you've accidentally done that, just rename it to remove the ".txt"...

Their have a narrow field-of-view cone. They see far, but only in this narrow cone. You can walk right past them if they're not looking at you.

Look up the arma 2 gpu_maxframesahead fix

+1 For stealing boots off of dead bodies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ssUHT5AqQ]

Did you bother reading the OP? They're brainstorming survival-time based rewards as a possibility for increasing people's instinct for survival over risk-taking, by creating an element that can't be quickly regained after re-spawning:

When Arma2 first came out, and there was a lot of people online, then PvP was very popular. As the online community shrank however, it became almost exclusively Coop, aside from arranged Team v Team battles within organized Arma communities. The other online mode that's always been somewhat popular is CTI - Capture The Island. Which is Team v Team, but every human player receives income from bases (like in an RTS), which they can use to purchase a squad of AI characters... which kind of makes it a Coop vs Coop FPSRTS. Lately, there's some awesome missions such as Insurgency, which are a hybrid of Coop and PvP -- where one team is all players, and the other team is players + AI. Of course he's talking about MP if he's using phrases like "PvP". Though, as above, he's not correct -- online, Coop is more popular than PvP.

In boot camp, were you sure you were flying the same model of heli? A2:OA has a lot of helis.

What?

You are bad and wrong.Your character's mouth (which is what the microphone peripheral controls) is in the DayZ universe. Just like how your gun (which is what the mouse peripheral controls) is.... How can you compare the game's supported input devices / character abilities to non-official game modifications that the game attempts to block (hacks) and abuses of the rules which the developers themselves have said that they consider to be an exploit (alt+f4)?

That's your problem. The Arma 2 engine runs best on high-speed CPUs, and otherwise is bottlenecked. Reducing all the graphics settings doesn't help if you're bottlenecked by a slow CPU.Have a search around for any overclocking utilities for your particular laptop and see if you can boost the clock-speed.

Everyone who plays this game is roleplaying. Most people just suck at it and all play the "scared sociopath" character type.

When was the bandit skin put back in? It was removed ages ago, but I've seen heaps of forum discussion lately where people mention it in passing, like everyone knows it was put back in. I just went and checked the changelog and it's not mentioned. Was it a secret addition to the last patch?

It amazes me how well people manage to play dayz without a TrackIR. It's such a convenient bit of equipment that you quickly get used to. Looking back to when I wasn't using one, I realised it takes more time to continually glance around and re-aim your weapon, rather than being able to instantly glance without moving your gun. Same is true of all the alt+mouse alternative (which disables your aiming altogether while glancing around). I think all credit to those still using the mouse for peripheral vision because it's definitely more challenging. :thumbsup: :beans:

After 10 days: The ability to accurately aim your sniper rifle -- without it your accuracy is always bad and your character misses most scoped shots. Flame away, snipers B)

If you really don't trust an unarmed person, tell them to stand still while you open their backpack and have a look.

If someone had an IR scope, you would've been glowing white against a black background, even if lying down in a forest.

There's nothing to stop you from doing it, but you should feel bad if you swap servers every 30 seconds to exploit the loot spawns.

Cmon, really? You think people would quit if they couldn't get easy kills at 500m plus with minimal skill due to their uber gear?On the other side of that coin, how many people do you think have already had an "I'm leaving DayZ forever" tantrum over being sniped over and over again before learning how to avoid it? Would you really have a cry if rocket took away your anti-vehicle rifle? If so, perhaps you should quit DayZ and instead play, I dunno... maybe Arma2? PvP would be a lot more fun if the only snipers were the Enfield and the CZ. Hell, if most guns were rusty and had bad accuracy and occasionally jammed, then PvP would be even more fun -- fights might last longer than the first shot. To go with the scavenging theme, it would be epic to have to slowly assemble an enfield plus scope and then maintain it over time in order to posses the power of a sniper. If you've ever played Arma at all, then PvP is way too easy at the moment, and if you're an Arma/DayZ newbie, then PvP is way too hard.

You have my beans!I think a lot of fixes to the game are going to rely on the stand-alone fixing the hacking/exploiting epidemic... e.g. atm snipers currently are pretty rare according to the game rules, but farming/duping/not-losing-gear kind of breaks that.

Disconnecting to avoid death is an exploit. End of story.

In arma, the same voice clips are used by both american and charnarusian? soldiers, so I think they deliberately made them muttered in an unidentifiable accent.

What else can you do when hacking noobs kill you?I've only been killed by hackers via them spawning C4 underneath everyone... that was my longest surviving, most successful character, gone, with nothing I could do about it. If I want to punctuate the end of his story properly (instead of "then some hacking fag blew up everyone in the game") I'd say that as he was sneaking into the NWAF, he stepped into some bandit's C4 trap, yes. What's the other option?