Rainbow Dash

Back in days when you spawned with beans and a Makarov and lots of people were new, I joined a nighttime server and was pretty scared. Ran along the coast at a kind person's instructions (good ol' Side chat) and bumped into a fellow group of survivors - numbering about 6, one of them held aloft a flare and ran at the front while the others ran along behind with makarovs out. For hours we roamed up and down the coast, adding to our numbers, until someone had the idea to start putting people down. We charged through Cherno, killing anyone and anything that wasn't a member of the group, lighting the way ahead by taking turns to throw flares - the whole coast was lit. We met our demise en-masse when someone with an automatic weapon opened fire on us from a rooftop - don't remember which now.

inb4 it doesnt work and I quit DayZ again

Any timezone requirement? I'm interested but I need to be awake when you're shooting. I'm GMT complete with English accent for what its worth.

You have my hoof

I made Scumbag Rocket. Here's a template. Have fun with it. You forgot to show his rifle and backpack and everything else falling off and sinking

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Rudson, that's unnecessary. If a post is dumb, report it. Don't flame him and provide no help, the least you can do is link the post you're talking about. rocket's posts aren't plastered all over every page, funny enough not everyone keeps up with rocket with the devotion you do.

Sounds like a problem with your computer! But yeah, I tried connecting earlier after Rocket tweeted that it was working. Sat on "Waiting for Host" for a good 10 minutes before crashing out through Task Manager.

YES I AM

Silly. I think it's daft to have any indication of who's a bandit and who isn't - I picture events of people getting attacked and killing their attacker in self defense, then they get this kind of silly penalty which makes them even more of a target. What kinda happens with interaction is it's either a band of newbies on the coast, and almost every other group is communicating externally via skype or similar voice program - once people get the awesome gear then there isn't much else to do except shoot other players. tl;dr - humanity system always redundant

No Melee in ArmA afaik. I'd love to see it but it would need to be added to the engine separately - maybe in ArmA 3? Haven't watched much on it.

Truer words have never been spoken. Really happy to see the zeds being reworked. The main thing for me is actually making stealthing possible, seeing as their x-ray vision kinda makes hiding somewhat useless and the only way to navigate around them being go prone/crouch and move slow at the moment. Moving around buildings in the dead of night with an NVG overwatch on me telling me where to go will be awesome :D Making them this dangerous is nice too, at the moment its possible to deal with zombies by just running away then turning and shooting. So much new realism being brought in I could gush for hours over it :P

Yeah, the DayZ guys won't ban you for possession. Nor would BattlEye - that would only ban you for obtaining them through illegitimate means i.e. hack-spawning them in. To prevent players having weapons that are illegal, DayZ guys are just replacing them with Makarovs so the weapons don't exist anymore. edit: and the replacement will take no time at all. Yes Rice, weapons do have different IDs - this is how the game's code works, so the values within your inventory correspond to different items in the game world. All the dev team have to do is compare all the weapons in people's inventories with those that are on the loot tables - anything that doesn't match up will be replaced with the value for Makarov. It's a pretty simple process.

What bodily orifice did you pull the name Jennifer Lopez out from? If there was anyone whom I'd suspect, it would be rocket himself - because I've seen a picture of him in a mocap suit, holding a model rifle :P the image is somewhere in this thread i think.

We're still arguing about the darkness issue? 82 pages of this thread alone and we're STILL fighting over it? @Anastaja, that is a useless uninformed statement and you damned well know it. While I stand resolutely on the side of making nights darker and harder to exploit video settings to bypass this, I may or may not have said in a past post that pitch black is silly (or something to that effect) - I'd use something which was darker than what we had before (so that gamma made a tiny tiny difference) with enough light to at least make out whats nearby. Justifying the use of an exploit with "but i'll get shot otherwise" when I suggest using artificial light is like saying "i want to run but silently so zombies dont attack" when someone says to just crouch and suck up the slowness of it.

I don't like the idea of this purely on the basis that it is flawed. The current system of users discuss and suggest seems to be working pretty well - if an idea is good enough it goes in the suggestions forum. A small group with the power to pretty much sit in the way of the user and a suggestion is... no. Simply put, the whole thing is unnecessary if the OP in the Suggestions thread is able to form his idea on paper and argue it out. @Jorden: Germany wasn't the only nation in history to have concentrated power on a very small number of individuals/a single individual. In fact, it is one of hundreds and possibly thousands, if you consider every single ruler in history who conformed to the template of "one person in the lead". Whats more, the dev team actually discusses and refines ideas - it's not all obey-rocket-or-get-shot. Please don't draw parallels that don't exist between Rocket and the Nazis.

I don't see why someone wouldn't realistically have something as basic as a backpack at spawn. I mean, if someone has a torch, it's LIKELY they'd have a pack, right? I used to live in an area prone to earthquakes and a torch was one of the most important things you could have, along with the obvious things like water and food. What better place to passively store this than a backpack? Think further in to it - it doesn't make sense that a new-spawn would have a military grade backpack or similar (unfortunately we are limited to this in ArmA, without custom made models) but more likely to have something like a rucksack or small container of some sort. I see people (ordinary citizens) every day living in a city, and a lot of them have some sort of bag to store everyday items. To remove a backpack on start would make about as much sense as removing flares or food supplies on start. Also I agree with Strategos' point. Some things in bags take up silly amounts of space. A small sidearm is roughly smaller dimensions than a bottle of water, but in the land of ArmA, takes up five times MORE space? The solutions are shrinking bag size or reducing the amount of space things like sidearms take up. Folding up and carrying around a rifle or shotgun is a different story.

I think it will hopefully be by the end of this week. That's what I've heard.

I wonder if we're getting any nice fixes to the weird glitchy zombie movement :S Aggro'ed some earlier, turned around to shoot when they were at 10m and one just teleports behind me while the other sprints around me in circles, mocking me with its song :(

If you're going to debate, at least refute ALL the points presented by your opposition. Don't just answer bad points with worse logic because you only end up digging your own grave.

I think anyone who complains about lag on servers should first be running the BETA Patch of Arma 2 before complaining and demanding fixes. Make sure to play on BETA servers, too. It literally fixed all problems I had with the game. I run the beta patch and have at times had lag that makes the game unplayable, although its nowhere near as bad as some people on the forums make it out to be, for me at least. I can play for 30 mins fine, then hit a bit of turbulence which makes me lag to the point zombies are going Michael Jackson Thriller sliding across the map, then passes after a 5 minutes. Although that's probably not as bad as the average, it leaves me in a position where I can't really comment for everyone. All I can really say is reinforce Mromson's suggestion of using the beta patch. I won't tell you to play something else (only asshats do that), I know how much we all want to play on a lag-free server, but I'm sure there's an even better reason to what I posted that's causing the devs to hold back some form of "hotfix". Problem about that its that only rabits and dogs have running animations on arma2. So unless they made new anims its not posible :-/ I wonder if they'll make rocket do the boar/cow anims with mocap.