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Until he can prove standalone will get rid of most of the hacking, nothing.

Be realistic, with all the hacking and duping we should remove these 'ultimate weapons' for now, until standalone. Take some of the power from the hackers (who like to use 'legit' looking loadouts so it isnt totally obvious they're hacking).

100% it'll be infested by cheaters, I predict that's what'll end DayZ. Already the daily player number has dropped by about 40k. Don't expect the standalone before mid 2013 either, release dates are NEVER met.

I keep reading so many posts with people saying (probably wrongly, ironically) that their PC that CAN run arma 2 won't be able to run DayZ standalone if it's on Arma 3's engine. They protest and demand the standalone be kept on this engine (despite the hacking and crap) because they want to try to play games on a fucking potato. YOU CANNOT PLAY ​MODERN GAMES ON A FUCKING POTATO. I'm sorry, but once the standalone goes live, this mod should be entirely shut down, close the hive and force people onto the real game. You can't stifle progress just because your computer sucks balls. Oh, and Rocket's going to make it on whatever engine he wants anyway, so the crying needs to end.

Because of my weight I need stuff to do in the house, so my parents get me nice stuff? Haters gonna hate, yo.

Wow, a lot of people here with potato's I guess. You all need to just get with the times, maybe console gaming is better for you?

I joined 6 servers tonight. I was teleported into the sky on 3, thunderdomed on 1, instakilled on another(along with the rest of the server) and teleported to the NWAF along with the whole server on the last one. This was on relatively 'low pop' servers too, 4 of them had less than 25 players. When I actually did get a few minutes 'proper' play in, the only guns I heard shooting were AS50's and the occasional m240. I seen one other player who I talked to on direct chat, "I'm logging out man, too many cheaters" he said. It's gotten to the point where the hackers are fighting over the legit players... to kill them. After all, why kill another hacker? There's no fun in killing someone who can get it all back again with the press of a button. I can take being killed by someone who hacks in weapons, as long as they don't 'god mode' themselves, I accept that challenge. But I just can't see my way to play DayZ when I fly off 5000 feet into the heavens after 10 minutes of play. I don't blame Rocket for this, I know it isn't his fault and can't be fixed. It's just a sad state of affairs than none of this can be patched over and the people doing it seem to only grow in numbers. If there's any European clans out there that run a passworded server(with decent pop) and will allow 4 or 5 ruthless, jackass but non hacking bandits play on their server, drop me a PM - we'd be happy to have some fair gunplay. We don't cheat, we don't alt + f4.

Well shit, that must mean they're gone?

Yours is american.

Anyone has any hacker free servers (something I'd doubt) with active admins, PM me or post them here. EU only please.

I know it's an alpha, lets get that out of the way first so that canned reply is spewed out of some idiots gullet. But come on, first the patch is 2 weeks late, then it's broken as hell. Every single patch thus far has made issues worse and not done anything to fix previous bugs. And this one is no different. The graphical glitches are still there (and worse). Login times are far far worse... that's if you can login at all and don't get stuck on the loading screen forever. Bear traps still aren't fixed since the last patch? I spawned invisible with a thermal scoped gun in my backpack, the hell? I suicided to get rid of it, since I like to play fair. Just the graphical glitches alone are game breaking, why wasn't this fixed? Why was it listed as fixed if it wasn't? Was ANY testing done on the patch, or was some code just splurged into the editor then the patch fired out? I hope the 'team' rocket is overseeing on the development of the standalone are more competent at coding and he's just giving them ideas, since he seems to have sort of the right ones for this game.

Put simply, hacking is easy on the arma 2 engine because shit can happen client side and the server basically says 'ok, lets do that!'. BIS made a shitty system and as a result hacking (as we all know) has basically ruined DayZ at this point. Now, rocket has hinted that the standalone will be on arma 3's engine. My question is, will arma 3 be as bad? If the answer is yes, the project should just be left to die now.

I don't believe people who say their experience isn't ruined by the hackers on a daily basis, I just don't. Today I've ONLY looted As50's and thermal scoped weapons, what does that say?

Apparently alpha testing has gone from - Finding bugs - fixing those bugs - checking they're fixed and releasing a patch to Finding bugs - making them worse - not checking how much worse they are and THEN AND ONLY THEN to releasing the patch. A new direction for game development - backwards.

Can we get one competent coder on the DayZ dev team or at least one person who tests patches before they're released? Seriously, I'll do it myself, it'll take me 1 hour max to walk around and see if dead military zombies or barb wire is still causing glitches. I'm up for it. Does the 'dayz forum team' do anything except post sarcastic remarks on threads that criticise rocket?

Yeah, the usual 'its alpha replies', which I'm sure we'll hear when the standalone is released. Why even roll out a patch that isn't tested in the slightest? I'd bet money he adds dogs into the game before fixing the graphical glitches, wait and see. He's trolling us.

No longer do the carebears have any reason to whine about not knowing who's a good/bad guy. Run or fight, that's your choice. I love looking like a middle eastern terrorist with my AKM.

They're a threat - simple as. They naturally try to get weapons, then they're 'armed players'. In fact, when they're unarmed is by far the best time to kill them, they're like fat suckling hogs who aren't quite ripe, but may still yield a bounty of ham. 3 rounds from my AKM isn't a high price to pay for what loot they may hold and the elimination of a potential threat. Nothing cruel about it either, quick and painless, just taking care of business. Sometimes I like to explain to them why they're being killed so they know it's not just a random act. Cherno was infested with unarmed players earlier, we had to cleanse the whole city. If you're unarmed, you shouldn't expect better treatment, in fact you should act accordingly, knowing you can't fight back against someone who is. Hide a little better, whine a little less.

The only problem with it is, if you kill anyone, even if they're a bandit - you normally get a murder. So basically, everyone is a bandit now...

Different industries, yes. That's just how people work, like it or not. Ultrabooks are overpriced too.

So get it and shut up? This guy asked a question, the assult wasn't warrented.

I have exactly 0 humanity and the bandit skin, my humanity should be like - 600,000 by now. Bandit skin rocks.

Different industries. You could argue that a PC can do the same things as a Mac, just as you can argue a Mac does the same things as a PC. That's really all there is too it. I would argue they're protables are higher quality though, I really don't think anyone would deny that. I can't find a laptop comparable to a MBP or MBA in quality, and certainly not for less money. There's a large number of mac owners who just flaunt there wares and browse facebook, most people however are doing graphic work and video production. People are only clinging to PC's because of legacy software needs and gaming. Trust me, in 10 years it'll be Lixus distros and OS X, windows will be a strinking minority.

It's been shown that BE is painfully inadequate at stopping script injection in Arma as well as in any mods based from it. Lately they boasted about '10,000' players being banned for 'cheating', only to promptly lift the bans because most were innocent players. Meanwhile the cheaters still run wild in game, my bet is there's easily 50,000 people cheating at the moment(and I don't mean duping, I mean scripting). I know there'll be the usual excuses here as to why this is, but seriously, wtf? The end result is still the same. Take a look at battleyes website. http://www.battleye.com WTF? It looks like it dropped out the ass end of 2002's dot.com era, what an amateurish organisation. If they can't even code html to anywhere near the latest standards, how can we expect them to detect cheats in game? I'm calling complete incompetence on their part. Yeah, this is a rant, I don't care - battleye fucking blows, their attitude blows, their cheat detection blows, and if they sold doughnuts, I'd avoid based on the poor quality of their site alone.

Lots of people can't afford macs so they tell themselves they're 'overpriced' and the people who use them are 'idiots'. Well, you know, if you say so. Whatever helps you feel good about your £1000 PC tower with stupid blue flashing LEDS.