Zakificus

Yesterday evening I went to start Arma 2 through steam, and it gave me some message about the files being in some outdated format. In order to play it had to convert the files to a more recent format or something like that. I didn't think anything of it so I didn't write it down. A few minutes later it finishes, and now every time I go to start Arma 2 Combined Operations I get this message: "This game is currently unavailable ( Application Running )" Regular Arma II, and Arma II Operation Arrowhead start just fine. It is only affecting "Combined Operations." I've tried to verify the game cache. Ran that about 10 times until it didn't do any updating at all. I installed Battle-eye again. I tried with and without beta. With and without launch-options for dayz. Countless restarts, running in Administrative Mode etc. I've also been searching the web and forums and have had no luck in finding a solution, though several people have had this error message. There is another variation that says "Please try again later" instead of "Application running" but they are NOT the same issue, so none of the related fixes for the former case have had any affect. If anyone has had this issue and resolved it please let me know. For now I can boot the game through manually navigating to and running the game's EXE however I'd rather have the issue resolved than simply avoided.

Not really. If you can't maneuver to find a spot to reach it. Good luck finding another tent.

Chainsaw, since well... Why not. Behaves like a full auto melee weapon, needs to be refueled with Jerry can when fuel runs low. Loud as hell but can tear apart anything in front of you.

I personally like the .50 Caliber for the exact reasons many people hate it. When there is a sniper in Cherno/Elektro, they're not exactly the type of people who are going to play 'fair.' Regardless of what the sniper is using, it is going to piss of people. Every sniper rifle will incapacitate a player with one well-aimed shot, so it is still going to annoy everyone to death. The key reason I like .50 Cals though, is that if me and my friends are down on the coast doing trivia questions and giving out gear / supplies, you'd be surprised how often someone stops by and is like "hey there is a sniper in cherno, could you guys help with that?" Having a .50 Cal allows a guaranteed killshot on the sniper in cherno. They can't DC and heal then go back to sniping. They can't sneak behind cover and bandage. They die. That ends the kill spree and provides a few more minutes of safety in cherno. I know I've spent time in Cherno, not shooting noobs who really aren't worth the bullet, especially now that ammo doesn't refill automatically, but shooting the guys who climb the tall building or sit in the hills racking up kills. TL;DR: .50 Caliber rifles are the best defense, because they guarantee the sniper gets killed. Not all geared players are assholes.

That has been happening on my server as well. Seems to be a patch bug. We've tried two trucks and the heli but they all respawn on restarts. Also we have noticed on several servers, tents won't save any more new stuff in them. Had a great raid with a car through a bunch of towns and brought back tons of food water and med supplies, but none of the stuff we put in tents, or left in the car have saved. It has persisted through several betas in 1.7.2.5

You can ban by the game id that is assigned with each copy of arma. At best you're forcing hackers to buy a new copy of the game. But it's pretty much impossible to prevent a determined hacker from playing. Anything can be circumvented with a little know-how.

So I know I have seen this on here before. There was a guy playing predator and chopper sounds and whatnot screwing with people at Balota. And I thought he posted an explanation of how to stream things over your in game microphone. I have found one example of how to do it which involves adding games to the "Sound" folder, but they have to be limited to under 50kb but many servers won't allow custom audio files, so it's more of a pain than anything fun. I'm really looking forward to playing music / sounds in game. Like "Ride of the Valkyries" while in a chopper, or the Ahhhhnold clip "Get to the choppa!" Because when used sparingly it's pretty damn funny. Could anyone explain or link a good explanation of how to stream audio into the game over your direct chat?

Nice stuff is up north where the stakes are higher and people are generally better shots, so it is risky to try to get the stuff without a game plan. Be ready to die quite a few times. But there is truth in the game being much more fun with friends. I played solo for like two months, never setup a large camp or found vehicles and it started to get bland. Then I got a few friends to play with and we have a blast. Running around to help each other regular after death, or raiding camps, running around the coast helping noobs or scaring them to death by shooting at their feet, which is way more hilarious than just shooting them lol. Group dynamic makes the game a whole new beast.

This happened to me earlier and really concerned me. Howeveri gave it about 5 mins. Closed the game, started it back up after waiting, and bam they were back again. Might just have been some weird network glitch somewhere in the vast Internet tubes. Generally just patiently waiting for a while solves those types of problems.

It decays over time. So there is that to take into account.

When a server first starts is there a timer on vehicle spawns? I heard choppers take up to a week to spawn, but is it like that with all vehicles?

Yeah guess I'll find out the old fashioned way

I started a new server today. Within 20 mins I saw some guy pop on followed by a message like "Battle Eye has issued a ban on player ... " Honestly first time I've seen that happen, happy it is doing its job, 11k bans so far. I feel a bit safer already haha. Also happy to have a server where I can enforce a no butthurt hoarding vehicle admin policy. So if I lose my shit you won't get kicked and server restarted to oblivion. I hate when that happens to me so I won't be ruining other player experiences by sabotaging a good raid.

I just think after a certain point having everything is boring. Besides the most fun I've had in this game was running around and suddenly hearing a chopper overhead. Such an adrenaline rush, and if I own the chopper I can't have that happen lol.

I think posting it publicly will be just asking for an onslaught of hackers haha

You can use custom player skins. Jason is a popular one. Just having the skin isn't a hack by itself.

There is no mask anymore. Not in... several months I think at this point. I forgot which patch removed it. You can look directly at someone and depending on how low their humanity score is you hear a louder heart-beat sound. (Tested this yesterday with some friends, it works just fine at close ranges). I believe you need a significant number of kills (15?) to be classified as a bandit. This effectively makes you a bandit, there are NO visible appearance differences that I am aware of. Only indication is the heartbeat sound while you are aiming at them. That is based on old information from 1.7.2. I literally killed someone within 3 seconds of them killing another player, and got a murder not a bandit kill. This has happened a few times as I like killing the player killers when I have the chance. This leads me to believe it requires a large number of kills, and not just a proximity to time of last kill for someone to be classified as a bandit.

Off map stuff is only prevented if the vehicles are left 'unattended' for >24 hours. So you can save everything off map you want if you drive it around a bit every day, and save it back in the map at least once a week (there is another hard timer that removes everything out of bounds once a week). I'm hoping the team will fix this and make it so nothing can ever be saved out of bounds, or at least a shorter timer that only lasts minutes of being unattended.

The only reason to take a vehicle outside the map IMO is so that you can travel quickly around the map. Point A -> Point B. It's reasonable to assume if you are relocating your Ural from southwest corner to northeast corner, you don't wanna drive around all the random roads or spend hours navigating between trees and up hills. So speeding along the edge of the map to get a large distance seems like a reasonable use of vehicles to me. That said, 20 minutes of "Unattended" time should be more than enough time to stop and address a threat if you are shot at. Or if you need to stop and eat/drink or any other reason for a stop. Hell, that even works if you need to make an emergency run to the door or something. Also, there's absolutely no reason not to just drive right on the inside of the border to the map. I can't think of one area where it has anything blocking you (there's at least a few car widths of 'empty space' on the inside of the map border). All of that is second however since this time is 'unattended' meaning 'not interacting with.' So driving outside the map is fine until you leave it parked there. I would say if you save your vehicle to coords outside the map it should auto-relocate then and there. Or have the variables adjusted to the nearest IN-MAP point, right on the border. TL;DR: Make it instantaneous. The second you save vehicles "out of bounds" relocate them to the map. Drive them out there all you want, but they should reappear in map on the next restart or earlier if possible.

Had this happen to me a few days ago. Seemed to be easily solved by just going on a different server for a while. Then after you log out for the night / day / extended time period, you should be able to go right back on just fine. I had experimented with it after shock induced by vehicle nicking a tree near our camp. Connecting back to that server caused passing out, any other server was fine. The next day I could log back in just fine as well. Seemed to be some sort of extended timer that needed to run out before the passing out stopped.

Could have also been shot by 50 cal. Explosion would instantly kill you and depending on rang you'd never here the shot.

TL;DR: iLLxTyphus got butthurt we raided his clans camp and stole their chopper and raided their camp. Then promptly dumped/reset the whole server when we were flying it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So a few days ago had a frustrating case of butthurt admins that can't deal with losing their precious stash. Server was US 905 (it has since been reset completely / renamed). Found admins / clans camp up in the north on Night 1. That's a funny story in and of itself. I got abandoned in the north on another server when I lagged out. So I joined a random nighttime server and sprinted back towards camp. Lo and behold I go up a hill and see a bus surrounded by tents and barbwire. Greatest random camp I've found to date. Anyways, stole an atv and a few weapons. As soon as I got back to my camp I let my friends know and I logged off for the night. Next day I log in, and they inform me they went there that night and stole a chopper from them, literally moments after they landed it. A short while later the admin logs in and announces he's kicking everyone that isn't in one of the 3 clans that are listed on their MOTD. (iLL, [TL], and one other that I forget). After a while of that, finally able to log in, we figure that since nobody was banned in our group, the admin must not be too bad since he isn't just removing everyone who was involved in raiding their camp. Night 2, we returned for another raid, all the best stuff was gone, but I stole a V3S and it was fairly loaded up. Parked that back at our camp. Then we waited for everyone to log on so we could go have helicopter fun flying around the map. After a few people were on we flew to refuel it. Then went to pick up our friends scattered around the map. As we were doing a tour across the southern edge of the map we passed elektro right as the server went down. After that when the server comes back online, everything has been completely wiped, and the server restarted from scratch. There was in-game discussions between admin and clans discussing moving everything to a new server today, when everyone not in the clans was kicked yet again. iLLxTyphus I thought you were better than that... After we stole the chopper and truck, I scoured the forums, to see if you had posts on here, and they frankly seemed pretty straight-forward and stand-up. I assumed you wouldn't be the type to rage-quit and dump the whole server as soon as you saw someone in your chopper. Guess that explains the Bus, Offroad Truck, V3S, Ural, Cars, and ATV I found before you landed in the chopper which we promptly stole. Then again you did also say this: Anyways, on to the next I suppose. At this rate I think I'll have to make my own server so that I can enforce legitimate rules and not freak out whenever someone finds one of my precious camps. After all, it is pretty much the point of this game that eventually everyone loses everything. P.S. I'm not going to start a flame war back and forth about how I need to show proof, or about how I found it all so I must have been hacking. Or any other excuse that the restarts were 'just for testing' or, what did you use in game "Clearing out hackers", something like that. I was there first hand. You know what you did. Lol

We didn't fly the chopper until 1 day after we took it. Day 1: I steal ATV and some weapons. Later that day we stole the chopper. Day 2: Organize to fly chopper around later that night. Later on day 2, server restarted / wiped while we flew it. My assumption was the restarts (about 3 times) were because they thought the server ate the chopper. Then they saw us flying it, realized it had been stolen along with the other stuff in the camp. Then crashed it all. Edit: It was less than 24 hours from when we stole the chopper until the server was crashed and renamed.

Rather thn reply to the hundred or so topics complaining about the graphical glitch with wiring and everything... Here is a single post regarding a solution I found. Just restart your client and it should be fine. While visiting Stary with friends I had the issue couldn't even look at the tents I got blinded so badly. Restarted and bam, no issues. Had the issue a few times, every time a restart solved it. Good short term solution till bug is solved.

You start coughing if sick. Was with buddies earlier and got too cold. Started a fire and warmed up. After a while we started heading to camp. I didn't stay near enough to the fire so got cold again. On the run back my buddy asked who was coughing and I noticed my blood dropping. I estimate 10mins of blinking cold and you likely to get sick.