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So it seems that a lot of threads are popping up to whine about the game and shame Rocket. That's great and all, but if you hate something, why bother doing it (or in this case, playing)? I think Day Z is great, Rocket and his team have done a fabulous job and have done something even more impressive. They are regularly updating and communicating with us. I have never found a mod where the dev team is this active and friendly. So, kudos to you devs, you guys are great! I hope that you guys enjoy what you do and continue to make this mod even more amazing. Just know that for every whiner, there are tons more people too busy playing your game to find reason to complain. :D

Interesting and insightful thread

The current build has a bug that causes instantly respawning zombies, has that been noticed/addressed?

Yeah, I made a thread about this yesterday. I cleared a deerstand, turned around, and found 3 more respawned.

Hey, I was wondering if anyone knows how hiding from Zombies works. Do you just have to lose Line-of-Sight with them or do you have to get inside a building? Losing line-of-sight doesn't really make sense to me because, for the most part, zombies move at the same speed as you.

Twice in the current version (1.7.1.5) I've cleared out deerstands only to take a few steps away and have 3 zombies respawn as soon as I move about 30 m away. Kinda strange, considering that this kind of issue was supposed to have been fixed in this patch, go figure. Either way, this patch has probably been the best so far, besides this. Anyone else encounter something like this bug?

I'm surprised not many people are noticing this. I'll get zombies spawning as soon as I turn my back.

Yeah, I love the style of the M16 + M203 but the leaf sight blocks a lot of your iron sight when you are trying to shoot straight. Plus, I have never come across an HE grenade in the time that I have had the grenade launcher, I have only found flares and smoke.

You need the British one for camo. I have used camo several times and I am all good, no ocean spawning for me!

Yeah... but that's a separate issue than the one at hand.

Hi, is there a way to bind text chat to buttons on the keyboard (such as on the numpad)? I would like to bind phrases such as "Friendly?" "I'm Friendly" and "RUUUNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!1!" so that I have a better chance of perhaps not getting shot if my mic isn't working.

Does anyone else have some input on this? It would really come in handy.

You either have to encounter people at your level (if you are unarmed, they better be unarmed too) or be lucky. I took fire from a dude today and killed him in self-defense. A little later, his buddy came crashing through the woods yelling "Friendly" and explained that his teammate was being stupid. We exchanged words and left peacefully. So it comes down a matter of luck and not looking like you can harm them.

I avoid players, so I haven't really seen much difference. When I spawned with no gun, some two well-armed guys decided to take a ton of shots at me and eventually kill me even though I had nothing... guess that says something about "banditry" In regards to #4: I usually run along the coast with or without a weapon and just lead the trail of zombies until I get to where I need to be and shake them or if until someone decides to take on my problem (sorry sp4nner), I think we would appreciate it if you didn't "put us out of our misery." :P We would appreciate it if you picked some zombos off though :D.

His whiny "sentences" weren't enough indication of his stupidity? :P

Would it be possible to have a selection of starting clothes (like a T-Shirt instead of the button up or Army clothes without the helmet) instead of having one skin for all survivors? Obviously the camo and ghillie suit can't be issued from the start as that would cause unbalance, but what about normal clothes? I'm not very familiar with the inner-workings of Arma, but is it a possibility?

Yeah, I changed the face model and got some uber-cool shades, but unfortunately nothing can be done about your body at the moment unless you find camo/ghillie.

I found matches in an apartment building. They are super rare now.

Go to the Seattle 50 server and give it to me!

Hey, I'm just checking in to see if anyone else is having problems with the beta patch. I installed it for the first time this morning but now cannot connect to most servers due to a bug that causes me to get stuck on a black screen with the word "Loading". I don't think I'm alone on this because I saw others posting about this in the announcements thread about the supposed fixing of a similar issue. Even if I do happen to actually get ingame, 2 out of the 4 times I was kicked for "Battleye Script Detection #16" or something like that even though the only thing I've done to my game is install the beta patch in preparation for the next alpha patch. So, is there a fix to this? I read this: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=9314 and did what it said but still have the same issue. Thanks guys! Been enjoying the mod immensely so far!

I think they are pretty difficult if you pick up more than 4 or 5. The erratic running means you don't have much of a clear shot until they get in your face. So it's all perspective, they are hard in their own way.

If you have .45 ACP and a 1911 magazine, you can right click either of them to turn them into each other. You can also split or combine shotgun shells to sets of 2 or 8 (You need 4 sets of 2 to get 8... math). So say I had a revolver and bunch of .45 ACP. I find a Colt 1911 and pick that up. Instead of ditching the .45 ACP, I can right click those and convert them to 1911 magazines.