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I have only had good experiences since the last patch. I was rummaging through the firestation at the powerplant near elektro when all of the sudden I hear zombies and suddenly there is a player up the tower with me. I had just found a gun and he had one too. He asks if I'm friendly and I say yes - I can clearly tell he's an american. And then off we went on a little adventure. I tell him to keep all the good stuff as I doubt I'll make it anyway and sure enough a few kilometers later I get trapped in a gas station without ammo. I'm not sure if he escaped, but I hope my dying helped him get away safely. Second time around I end up at the same power plant / fire station and accidentally break my legs. With no morphine I decide to suicide by crawling off the roof. But as I'm preparing my last free act I see a group of survivors come running into the fire station. One of them is definitely russian and another sounds danish. There were a few other in the group but I didn't hear them speak. Anyway I yell at them and say they are free to take what little I have from my corpse. And off the edge of the roof I went. Russians teaming up with other english speaking survivors? When did that happen? Must be the power of the patch. The fact that it's suddenly harder to avoid zeds and nobody blows your face off right from the start seems to make people more likely to stick together.

Maybe the hatchet will have a middle scroll wheel option attack. Not so useful for zombies, but it could be pretty useful for taking down animals for cooking.

So many posts, so many tears. I have only had good experiences with the new patch. People are much more willing to team up now that there is no threat of getting your head shot off when you see other survivors on the beach. Avoid the cities for crying out loud. I mean, it's so bloody obvious that people with guns will be there. Find a weapon in deer stands or cities further to the north. Play the game as you would were you really the survivor of an apocalypse and avoid all people you don't know. Watch "The Road" and you'll understand why strangers = danger. EDIT: The FPS lag can be caused by a crappy server. ArmA2 servers will sometime transfer their FPS lag to the clients for some reason. Try other servers, you're bound to find someone that doesn't lag.

Cock the trigger, do it like a man.

Rocket should incorporate some MMO mechanics here. In good ol' EverQuest you had to wait 30 seconds while sitting in order to log out. Any aggression would cancel the logout. A similar feature could maybe be implemented into DayZ one day.

I've been running around and not finding any food as well. But then I started downing the military zombies at deer stands and voila, pepsi and coke galore. I have yet to find any food, but as Sinaz20 said they're bound to drop some. Besides military zombies also drop smoke grenades and AR ammo. I'm starting to think it's a bug as well. I visited maybe 4 farmhouses that used to have a lot of loot, but now I'm barely finding any. Not to mention that farmhouses also have at least 4 zombies in the middle of them.

I was just about to scold you for trying to address more ram to a 32-bit application that it can handle, but I googled around and some claim that ArmA2 does indeed support up to 4 gigs of ram. But it seems that ArmA2 rarely ever exceeds 1.5 even at maximum usage.

I still see people on servers using side chat while I myself is not able to. It's frustrating because the ones using side chat are usually people with questions and with no one answering them..