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WARNING: Massive cd-key theft going on [ 29.08.2012 • 17:00 ] As already mentioned in the previous news post, there is currently a massive ongoing effort by certain entities to steal people's cd-keys to then sell them for a profit. Private hack forums are full of posts of these fraudsters trying to sell heaps of cd-keys for a cheap price. We are talking about hundreds of cd-keys here, so this is not a small issue at all. The game developers confirmed that this is a huge problem right now. Their process of stealing cd-keys is quite simple: They advertise a supposedly undetected hack on sites like YouTube and the moment you download and run it (it will probably report that the hack failed to load) your cd-key is already stolen. In many cases your actual cd-key in registry is overwritten with a banned one, so you will automatically receive a global ban message on join (see below). This is done to prevent you from using your cd-key again, so the fraudsters can sell them claiming that they are valid and not in use. Note that this can be fixed (temporarily) by deleting the cd-key from the registry and reinstalling your game. While your original cd-key is not banned due to this, it might very well end up being soon when your cd-key is being used by a cheater that purchased it. This causes many players to think they were innocently banned when in fact their cd-key was stolen and used for cheating. At the very least you will often receive a "CD key in use" message when trying to connect to servers. If you think this is false propaganda to cover up supposed false global bans I advise you to do some research on this yourself. You can easily verify this by searching for "free ***" on YouTube. You will see lots of results and almost all of them are scams. Most of them are actually quite popular and have thousands of views. When downloading them and opening the .exe file in e.g. Notepad (warning: do not actually run the .exe!), you can find cd-key related strings such as "SOFTWARE\Bohemia Interactive Studio\ArmA 2 OA" (the registry location of the cd-key) inside. In short, heed the following: DO NOT EVER RUN ANY HACKS OR OTHER SUSPICIOUS SOFTWARE! If you end up being banned due to your cd-key being stolen there is nothing we can do for you.

Well folk have been officially referred here, I hope you are proud of yourself..... Good work keep it up!

tish to your modern games. Hungry Horace ftw! L

Hello there That's your excuse eh? I think we both know the truth. You're a "socketeer", you love those dirty websockets. rgds LoK

Hello there Why not just crawl to the nearest zombie? Having "an easy way out" takes away from the nature of the game. If you *know* getting a broken leg is going to *really* inconvienience you then you'll take many more steps to avoid it. It's like spawning in an inconvienient place, if one can simply restart, then people would just keep hitting respawn until they found a favourable area. It's much more part of the Dayz ethic to have that risk of the unknown. Rgds LoK

Hello there Corpses do smell quite a bit, but once the flesh and internal organs of the zeds would have rot and decomposed completely the smell would be ok again. But Zeds don't rot do they? or the game would be over quite quick. Zeds, how to they work? Here's a joke. Survivor A: I say, I say, I say, my zed's got no nose.. Survivor B: By golly! Then how does he smell? Survivor A: Awful! *chortle* rgds LoK

Hello there I too was going to look through the google cache to see what RAGE has been up to. My detective skills tell me he likes the colour red and lives in wales.... Interesting vid. Won't have any impact though, they'll still post. If you erected 32" screens in their bedrooms playing it on a loop 24/7 they'd still post. Rgds LoK

Hello there I'm going to lock this before you get cremated by the flames. Moral: Dont hack. rgds LoK PS. If you really want to change your ways use the search tool, the info you need is there. @folk who wanted to flame OP. Frustrating that I locked the thread Isnt it?

Hello there I didn't notice anything out of character TBH. rgds LoK

Hello there I have well over 50+ gigs of mods, so free up some disk space if the bug bites you. Dayz Commander and The Six mod launcher offer simple ways of installing and launching dayz etc. There are other launchers out there though but they're more aimed at arma in general. Rgds LoK

Hello there I played my first session of Falluja Dayz today and spent a good hour or so running around with a ghillie suit but no weapons whatsoever. These things do happen. Rgds LoK

Hello there As RAGE points out there are thousands of superb quality addons/mods/missions/islands etc. Definitely a worthy purchase *IF* you have the pennies. Try Arma2Free first to see if it will run ok and if you like the playstyle/control system. Rgds LoK

Hello there Underground structures are possible with one of the later VBS2 builds I believe, but they are a far cry from a subterrainian environ, Rgds LoK

Hello there Personally, the "i'm friendly" over comms has always seemed a bit of a waste of time, someone planing to kill you for your beanz is highly unlikely to let you know in advance. Trust no one. Zeds are the most reliable, you know where you stand with them. rgds LoK

Hello there Arma is a bugger for streaming textures, would a USB port handle it? Mods *could* be placed on the drive though. I still don't think it's a superb idea for general use IMHO. Rgds LoK

Hello there The PBO should be safe, but who knows what else was downloaded with it. If you are downloading/running anything from an untrusted source you may have compromised your key. Moral: Stay away from cheat/hack sites. Rgds LoK

Hello there One word... Acid Rain. Well two words... Horrific Acid Rain... Damn! three words... Horrific acid rain that forces you to take cover in buildings. It would certainly force a sense of urgency on one. Perhaps a benefit could be that it would clear cities for a limited amount of time? Regardless, any form of advanced atmospherics, in my book, would be lovely. Snow angels anyone? Rgds LoK

Hello there There are no quick and easy answers I'm afraid. At first the game *is* very daunting and death comes regularly. Maps are relatively hard to find compared to other items. The thing is to keep perservering. eventually you will get to know which types of buildings spawn the loot you are after and you will become familiar with the landscape as you most likely are where you live. Just keep at it! rgds LoK

Hello there Pay attention to the CD key thefts happening, don't download any exe you are unsure of that promise to "optimise DAYZ" etc. Read all the stickies, don't turn all your settings to max, play a bit of vanilla Arma to get used to the control system. But, most of all have fun. rgds LoK

nice shaft.

Hello there I prefer it hard, and the game settings on expert. 1st person too. But, there is a fanbase who don't like it that way and why should they be alienated? I think it should be a server setting, but more servers should man up and be all butch and macho and have all assistance/3rd person off. Did I mention I like it hard? rgds LoK

Oh, the irony, spam in a spam thread. I hammered it. With my spam hammer. rgds LoK

Hello there Ballistics....how does it work? More to the point are we not a little offtopic? Perhaps ballistics needs its own thread? Back on topic, 3rd and first person IMHO should be server set. Let folk play how they will. Rgds LoK

"spam hammer" does sound like a euphemism.

Hello there It's all in a "dayz" work. see what I did there? Rgds LoK