Zarlak

This would be cool, if only to shout 'Heeeeeeeere's Johnny!' on Direct Comms while doing it.

Surviving is easy. Go into towns in the night. Stay outside the towns in the day. Don't be visible if you don't want to be shot.

Stopped reading at 'guy has lots of good gear on him, decides to go into Electro to make a fire.'

Well it depends on what you're gonna use it for. You can always go back for ammo. I find mags for my DMR in a lot of places. Use your ammo sparingly, don't just fire it all off so you need to go back every 5 minutes. It's risk vs reward. If it was any more available everyone would have one.

You lose it if you go swimming. Why on earth would you want to go swimming with precious stuff. You don't need to re-enact Free Willy to refill your water bottle.

I highly doubt in a zombie apocalypse that bandits would dress the way they do and hold signs up saying 'I'm evil everyone just thought I'd let you all know' So yeah, use your brain when coming across other players. We don't want the game to hold our hands. It's supposed to be nervy. It sure will be nervy coming across other players with no way of telling if they're evil or not. The same way you wouldn't be able to tell IRL coming across someone. Get rid of the chat too. Just use the direct voice chat to speak to people to find out if they're friendly. That would shit me up no end if I'm running through a forrest and from nowhere a voice calls out to me from nearby when I thought I was alone.

Exactly, you'd probably dump the gear anyway to avoid drowning.

Makes sense TBH. It doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen sometimes. If you take backpack swimming, your flares probably won't light, your matches will be fucked, you won't be able to read your map, and some of your contents might have been lost in the water anyway.

To be honest it wouldn't work. If you drop to the floor incapacitated, the follow up shot is coming faster than you can regain consciousness. Some snipers do take 2 shots anyway. I killed PureUncut and another at the airfield the other day. I hit them with my DMR. Took me about 3 seconds to drop them both. If they were incapacitated and not killed, the follow up shot was coming immediately. If you could still crawl away, then it would be semi viable, but if you just have to sit there for a few minutes waiting for a timer, you're dead anyway. These were both one shot kills, however I've also been sniped a couple of times, I was hit first, drop to the floor unconscious, then dead within 3-4 seconds from a fast follow up shot. It's also annoying when people just alt F4 after you hit them the first time and they're unconscious, then switch servers wait out, patch up and go from there. I've taken to disconnecting myself when I see them disconect, check through the servers until I find them, reconnect and finish them off. I'd prefer it to stay 1 shot. It's a powerful gun we're talking about that's been carefully aimed to hit you ina certain place.

I'm in the Krasnostav airfield control tower looting and all of a sudden I hear chopper blades. I look around and see a chopper fly right past the control tower, only it's spinning 360 degrees constantly. The pilot is fighting to regain control of it, he swings all over the airfield madly and eventually gets control of it. He lands it and gets out. I'm now prone on the walkway outside the control tower on top of the ladder. He legs it to the control tower running towards me. I'm not on my server so the chopper is useless to me, but he's heading right for me so I put 2 rounds into him and he dies. Check out the chopper, it needs repairing, but it's useless to me since it's not my server. I then advertised the choppers location to the server before disconnecting when my own server came back up again. So swings and roundabouts.

I'm pretty sure that IRL evil murderous people, would be evil murderous people given a chance to be so.

Which rifle are you using? My DMR for example cannot be zero'd. It's already zero'd for about 500m.

CoD comparisons are laughable. Bandits are not CoD players. You can't run gun and respawn with your loadout, you lose everything if you die and have to start again miles away. Killing you is a choice they have to weigh up, and choose to take with consequences for losing. That's not CoD. Deal with it you just got killed.

Replying to a post is polite mate. Nothing more. You can't defend yourself too much, that's silly. If you ignore it, surely that's more suspicious. Also LOL at PureUncut. De-reps every post I make in this thread after I killed him at the airfield. That's 6 now.

I definitely agree that admins/server owners should get onto their own servers. How that's not common sense I've got no idea. There are people shouting 'fair for everybody!!!' 'Okay then, pay towards my server with me. That's fair. Fair for everybody.' 'Oh no, no I don't mean like that. I just want to play on it. I want YOU to pay for the server, so that I can play on it instead of you, while you pay for me to do this.' It can't be fair for everybody. You can't ask that it be fair for everybody yet 1 guy foot the bill for everybody. That isn't fair to that person. Fair is balance, balancing person a.) giving you the resources to allow 50 players to connect, and b.) the other 49 players who want to play a great mod for free without spending anything. Reserved slots though for clans is a no no for me I think, look at the big clans, what's the point in joining a server where the clan makes up more than half the map.

You have no idea what you are talking about. 'Lock it with a password then restart it join and lock it' You don't even know how it works. I'm way out of my teens, and my acne is none existant. Do you need proof of this as well? No doubt you'll ignore it, like you have everything else in this thread. Or you can stop making childish remarks like the old 'guess the age must be a teenager' nut that we've all heard seventy billion times throughout our gaming lives. The way I'm replying to you, is a retort for the amount of times you've tested my patience posting what you've clearly got no idea about. Ignoring the other people who have come on to confirm how our server operates and how legit it is. You have no idea how many people try to connect to our server, what you are suggested is next to impossible. While it's locked it's getting spammed by connections, the second we unlock it we get 4 connections at least with another 6 in the next second. Then we lock it again. So I'll put it as plainly as I can, for about the 4th time that you keep ignoring it. It, is not possible, to choose, who connects, to our server. Many randoms, enter the server, at the same time, as us. Our vehicles, have been lifted, on a full server, in front of everybody, having to kill people whilst obtaining them. Enough people have come on here, who play on our server and see what happens, to back us up, vs you, who sits in the lobby and sees nothing of what happens in the server.

Yeah, the admin is playing the game also so if it gets to 35/45 and he goes a few minutes without unlocking because he's being swamped by zeds then a polite ask and he will unlock it until we are full. You asked yourself today and he did it. Bingo. We've got no agenda, or any conspiracy. I've got no idea how many vehicles there are on the server. We had 3 choppers and a jeep. We were lucky that one chopper spawned where one of us happened to be (NE airfield) raiding and nobody was there because people don't often go that far up north so we scooted over and got the chopper and jeep that was there. We'd already lost 3-4 choppers due to bugs in this alpha on other servers so we've been keeping stock piles of parts in tents so we had it ready. Once we had that up it has a radar on it that shows you where other vehicles are. So flying around the north we found another one at the dam in the middle of the map, again on its own. Nobody ever goes there ever, so we managed to get that off without any problems. This is all on populated servers, so people are saying ohhhh you're farming everything on your own servers, bullshit. Then the third chopper we knew about because somebody told the whole server in side chat that it was there. So on a full server we fixed and lifted the heli off the hospital roof in Cherno with people coming to kill us, we had me and pope fixing it whilst killing bandits before we flew it off. No cheating at all, people were there to see us take it. On the subject of trading stuff, send me a PM on this forum. We won't ever bring you to our base camp, but if you've got something we need and vice versa we can meet somewhere on the map.

It depends Rugby. Thanks first of all for clarifying that it's not just FS members, but in fact quite populated as we unlock/lock. The server cannot handle 50 connections incoming at the same time, this mod is alpha it's supposed to be buggy as hell. A lot of people are treating this game as release, and whining like it's a release but it's a buggy alpha. If it changes and the server can handle it, we will just let everyone in at the same time. If one of you is in the server and the other isn't, just ask the admin if he can unlock it again, or how long until he's going to unlock again, as he will be keeping an eye on the database requests and SQL requests coming in and whether it can handle it or not.

Stop being a retard. If there were 40 people on the server and we kicked them all, they'd be here complaining. Use your head for once.

Lol, no. You've come to a thread about my server, talking. So I've replied.

Complete nonsense. The server was locked with 6 people for bloody ages last night - if that was traffic management what were you waiting for to let the next six in? Hopefully, this now wont happen again. You should respect the spirit of the mod or else go and play a game where this nonsense doesnt matter. If it ever happens and when it happens, tell a dev or Rocket. They will investigate it. I like how you all keep banging on about just being the 6 of us, completely ignoring the fact that we cannot control who gets in an out, and when we unlock it and you hit join, you will get in. Instead you prefer to ignore that and think that we just joined ourselves somehow and didn't let anybody else in. Randoms join the server at the same time we do before the server is locked. If there was anything suspicious being done, they'd have screamed here 'I'm on the FS server at the moment and they're doing such and such'

Thanks cm. Our server the second it's unlocked gets spammed with connections. You can see people trying to spam connect even when it's locked. It fills up in the bottom left 'so and so uses Arma II such and such' Before for example our screen looked like this Agent uses Arma II blah blah blah Agent uses Arma II blah blah blah Agent uses Arma II blah blah blah Agent uses Arma II blah blah blah Agent uses Arma II blah blah blah Agent uses Arma II blah blah blah Agent uses Arma II blah blah blah Agent uses Arma II blah blah blah Agent uses Arma II blah blah blah As a guy called Agent wouldn't stop spamming connect. This is in between everyone else trying. We unlock it and within seconds we've got 10 people incoming and we lock it again. The time in between unlock and lock is like 8-10 seconds. Server just cannot handle letting everybody in at the same time.