TheGoldElite

I think people should leave their preconceptions of how hard or easy a game should be when playing DayZ. Also if you pay for nothing you are owed nothing. The teams does this out of the kindness of their hearts, so criticism is acceptable but not hate. Blatant rage, hate, etc is unnessecary but human.

Finally an incentive for night ! Might do actually, just getting flares and using them all is a pain

exactly :)

I will add my opinion. Arma 2 doesnt support melee. End of.

Try playing the military simulator you paid for xP. But seriously you coulda have googled it or used the forum search function

Im not sure about 1), but for 2), note that the display is only ever for your items, and that the list is for your items and theirs, if theres a number on the right, thats how many of that item you have, and on the left is how many they have. Sorry if you already knew that/didnt help. Arma inventory, espec dayZ is abit clunky and hard to get used to. search the forums for inventory guides, there is one stickied somewhere

The key for vaulting is V. Talking of mouse bindings, I find that the Field Of View can be abit to narrow for good situational awareness, particulary when you are proning through a minefield of zombies, or when expecting danger from any direction. So I hotkeyed something like "Toggle Zoom out" to a spare mouse button. If you hold the minus key, you will grealty increase your FOV. If your used to Arma, you will find it feels like a fishbowl lens, but I use it far more than the normal FOV, as I feel alot more aware of my surroundings and peripheral vison. Double tapping the minus key also works. I feel like the FOV is too narrow as it is, must me around 40 degrees, this is more like 90, and in most cases I think its better, unless theres something in the distance you need to aim at. Pro-tip double tapping any key usually toggles it on or off, such as compass, or the shift key, or zooms.

Haha wait for the 1.7.1.1 hotfix. Zombies will have their sight angle reverted from where their eyes face (which flail wildly) to their body direction, meaning their long distance sight doesnt swing all over the place.They will still have a large® line of sight distance, but much narrower. I havent played 1.7.1 yet, but advice I can still give is to say about 3 mak rounds to chest will kill, but stay indoors and aim for head, if possible. In 1.7.0 I just managed to sneak through 2 towns and 5 settlements unnoticed, by using prone, and stealth. Watch the sight/sound meter on your right HUD. You will notice that it is one bar greater/louder when on hard ground, so I always go prone on hard surface (except indoors), or I go prone whenever zombies are close, because regardless of surface, your Sight/sound is zero(this does not make you invisible, but you can get pretty damn close). Also, do not hug walls too tightly, as they can attack through them! in the new patch your playing, you can lose zombies by breaking line of sight (a luxury I never had), so running like a maniac through town can be good. if you have some room between the Zeds chasing, try vaulting over a fence, as they cannot do the same and must run around. Also note that Mak is very inaccurate at range. Players will almost certainly kill you, and if they don't- then be cautious. I once got held up by a guy, he snuck up behind me as I was stalking his friend. I didn't aim at him directly and we exchanged a wave, and he let me go (I was extremely surprised). as I left I heard gunshots, and I found that someone tried shooting the pair, but was killed himself. I found I play better when I turn the sound up loud, as audio cues are VERY important. You can very often get the drop on people be hearing their footsteps. I often travel by forest, and I'll hear footsteps and drop prone. They will go past me and I can do as I please, shoot them or leave. If you are in cherno, or elektro, then it is kill or be killed. No exemptions. "Friendlies in cherno?" is a running joke in servers, or often "friendlies?" in any context is humorous. Something you could do is go to armory mode on Arma2 Singleplayer, and select Makarov or other common weapons such as winchester to get a feel for the guns and improve your aim; or simply play some Arma, as you get a good feel for how the gunplay works, without worrying about ammo.

And there was silence I like the game when it works, but I cant answer really i'm UK, GL

Haha hold on, did it sound like this... I got this from PcGamer http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/15/10-awesome-dayz-moments-freaky-stalkers-blood-fountains-tractor-rampages-and-more/?ns_campaign=article-feed&ns_mchannel=ref&ns_source=steam&ns_linkname=0&ns_fee=0 Ah guy beat me to it. but yeah funny :)

Agreed, rocket and everyone have put a lot of hard work into this, giving this for free, who are we to complain.

Apparently in 1.7.1. you can hide from them, but alas they have supersprint, unless you lead em through a barn

The reason that its perfectly black, is because if it was even slightly light, then anyone who wanted to could turn brightness and gamma way up, (as they try to now), and have a huge advantage over anyone playing fair. It's the only way to make it the same darkness for everyone, as far as I know

I've given up on getting Steam to run the Arma 2 beta versions...

Im a noob too, but if you search Arma 2 beta into google, you get this site - http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php Basically they are newer versions of the game, that are kinda experimental. You can download any one from that list, it has an automatic installer, and comes with some readme files. If you look through the server list in the actual game, they usually state which version they support, they are all numbered. I'm currently running the 1.6093616 version (IfIRecallCorrectly), because I saw alot of servers run it, though lately the next patch up, ending in 666 is taking over. Anyways, pick which ever one is madatory, when the time comes. It may take some tweaking to get the beta patch working, for example after I installed the patch, I had some problems, which was the shortcut was abit weird, as you have to go into your steam folder, and copy and paste the "Run Arma2 OA Beta patch" shortut, to somewhere like your desktop once you install it. The only diff I noticed is that the game seems more reliable (once im already in, it doesnt start up properly every now and again). There are youtube videos to help on the matter etc too. Hope that made some sense.

Here comes another CoD player :)

Im from UK, if I could join anyone at all would be good, I play this game fairly often in afternoon, PM me. I cant promise I'll be on alot but would be nice to have anyone at all to not shoot me