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Survival Simulation. See that? That's what it states this mod is. Its going to give you hell whereever you go, where you start and whoever you play with. Shit will happen. The sooner you realise that and learn to live with it the more enjoyable the mod becomes. The things you wrote down in your ranting post are basically everyones starting experience and most people did not bother to make a post about it on the forums. Yes, we started with the makarov. Did it make things easier when we first started out? Nah we died in droves, all over the coast. But hey when we started the people spawning next to us weren't friendly either, we got shot... ALOT. Really though, if you are really that bad at starting out then watch some youtube videos of peoples play sessions. The zombies are nothing, when i die now its always to other players. (or that fucking ladder at the nw airfield)

Crossbow in its current form sucks, ammo takes to many slots. The ironsight... moving on, if the server has CH enabled its allright but the hatchet outshines it atm. Sure its close range but it kills zombies in one hit, silent and has unlimited uses. The lee enfield is a great anti player weapon, and thats it. Sure you can shoot zombies with it but its such an awesome rifle that zombies from the next town and all the dead relatives in the graveyard will come and have a look at it while enjoying you for a light lunch time snack.

I'm waiting patiently for the patch but i do have to add that the current community as it has grown can't handle a deadline estimate. They will rebel the moment the clock hits midnight on said patch day in any time zone. Just don't do it, just say its coming and surprise everyone when it suddenly hits. More ups to be had.

None of those are exploits, they are merely frowned upon by people that are annoyed by them. You can use them without any problem, some servers might ban you if you get caught disconnecting in pvp but only if people actually make a case out of it, or if you disconnected in pvp while fighting an admin on the server you are on. Things that are classified as exploits currently in game is duplicating items in ways that are not granted by the game itself. Using latency to dupe item etc. Most of those will eventually be patched out, but in the alpha stage most of those are minor problems and will be saved for later as they are annoying but not game breaking.

It's a great spotters weapon, giving any team carrying it a great advantage. Me and 2 friends got one from a prolonged firefight at an airfield (shouldnt have gone for the cow dude) And we used it to scout out any potential hostile places. But after finding a heli site behind the NW airfield (should have been more cautious here already) we decided to check it, friend with thermal was scanning around and didnt spot anything. Suddenly i dropped, no shot heard nothing. My 2 friends were set up at different sides of the site across the field and on the hill. One guy was coming down the hill shooting a LAW and dropped my friend on the hill without having to spot him. Then my friend in the field dropped after the firefight had gone on for a while. They had a thermal spotter and a sniper on the hill overlooking the site, they weren't camping it they just happened on to us when we were rummaging around. Gotta love this game for making something like that possible.

I generally make an effort of finding a toolbox so i can remove most of the stuff people set up, i wonder if the new patch will make them as rare as they were before or just less easy to find. Factory's on the map are like fortresses, ive seen one on a server where obviously a team of people had found a gigantic amount of defenses and had set it up locking down the terrain around the factory moving into the building itself. It was nuts, no going in anywhere and the road outside was blocked for 500 meters in every direction, they even made a big LOL on the field outside.

DMR is a marksman rifle, it can't zero in like the m24 and other sniper rifles does, so you have to use the little dots on the scope to judge distance.

Ok for the newbies and not so newbies and ofcourse the bandits i'll share one of my biggest survival secrets, against players. If you are heading for a town, airfield or any other generally busy landmark that you know might get you shot. Keep a distance, go on a hill atleast 200 to 300 meters away from it and just wait and look. See any zombies? Yes? You're out of luck, someone is already there. No? Good, noone around for atleast 120 meters, the zombies that spawn now will be your own spawned zombies.

Same thing happened to me, i picked off a bandit and went over to check him, He had the coyote pack so i dropped everything from my alice pack on the ground ( incase the other glitch makes your own pack disappear) put on his, took his usefull stuff and my own stuff and put it in the coyote pack, switched a server to get to my buddy and the pack inventory had switched to what the other guy had on him at the time. Ticked me off a little seeing i had morphine and he didnt. Also, guns take 8 slots right? So atm if you start out with the 8 slot bag and you drop like a lee enfield in the packpack it completely disappears :S Bit of a turn off, i love the axe for zombs and love the lee enfield for pvp but now i cant take the lee enfield with me in my backpack which does have just enough room for it. Also what the heck happened to patch 1.7.2, didnt he promise to release it last week monday? :D

You have been watching the walking dead. I like the idea, it will give you another thing to worry about when running in fields or forest. The idea though is still not clear enough, if you have a group of zeds walking around, then why dont the town zeds move off. What motivates the group of zeds to clump together and move off together. And, its not dangerous enough. Generally im around large fields and if i can see a group of 'walkers' coming i would just lie down and wait for them to pass. Also it doesn't really matter if it cant be implemented yet, if you find enough good points to this idea so the devs notice, they will find a way to implement it.

The batteries comment is viable, but its alpha so it wont be implemented untill they are done fixing bigger things. Ghillie suits, yeah they are hard to find, godlike in pvp? Depends what you do with it, seen enough dead players wearing one. The female models cant even wear one at the moment anyway. Rifle with thermal scope? Yeah sounds pretty great but a guy with a sniper rifle far away or someone logging in behind him should be the end. Also if the thing is so rare (havent seen it yet in about 160+ hours of playing) then the guy using it must have gone absolutely paranoid with not wanting to lose it. Great fun... Nothing in game is actually overpowered, or game breaking. They just give you an advantage. Thats fine by me. This thread was started with someone making points that might look like a genuine concern to him but it sounds like he just fears losing his stuff and starting over, well... That's Dayz.

It is a viable idea, but looking at the devs views of the game it is highly unlikely it will ever be implemented. They will patch out disconnecting on agro eventually, they made a stab at it in this update but it didnt work out well. As it is right now its doable, using a weak sidearm to make someone go down but i've noticed in the oh so many times i passed out in a fire fight that the passed out timer is pretty random. Ive gotten back up in seconds, or passed out for a good 10 seconds or more while bleeding to death. But i have not yet so far disconnected on passing out, if someone gets the drop on me and i go down, im dead. Not going to reconnect to another server and pass out again there and then bleed out. It breaks the game, it really does.

Just install Sixupdater and let it handle the updating and beta patch, no i'd rather do it manual stuff, the program is bloody fantastic. I used to do all of it manual and now ill never go back after using sixupdater. Still in the forest? I just looked at the tips in the debug forum topic in the bug forum and they said to connect to canada 2, and then walk straight ahead untill you reach some houses. I told myself thats never going to work, but i tried and holy crap on a stick it did work. I spawned in the forest and walk straight ahead for like 5 mins, over a hill and i reached a little village called... Pavlovo! Pretty familiar territory for me, raided a few deer stands while i was at it, killed some zombies and i logged off for lunch. Try it, otherwise wait for tomorrow for the patch and start over.

Arma 2 free version has reduced texture models then the bought version (just a small FYI) But most people dont seem to care. You just said that you bought arma 2, just operation arrowhead now and you're good to go.

Affraid not, it costs 10 dollars or something like that...

Sixupdater/launcher is great, it fixed all the tiny errors that i created during manually installing and mostly patching the game. Im currently advising everyone i meet that has issues with DayZ to use it. DayZ should come standard with it, dont let people manually install, just use sixlauncher...

Oh i went a bit further and deleted the @dayz folder and uninstalled sixupdater, reinstalled it and let it reinstall dayz for me. Worked fine for me after ofcourse, but it didnt fix my original problem which was getting stuck in the debug forest.

Heya! DayZ is pretty tricky to install properly, especially since the newest update requires the arma 2 beta patch. I strongly advise following one of the step by step installation guides that can be found on this forum, some even come in handy video format! And when you download the game the screen tells you that you might want to use SixUpdater. This is not a trick or advertisement it really does makes it easier for you to install and maintain DayZ. I would start by downloading sixupdater and make it fix any errors you might have made during installation. Good luck!

Sounds like you did not install DayZ properly, i strongly advise using one of the forums installation guides to set it up properly. This game is tricky to install. Good luck!

In any case the only thing you should touch in the menu is multiplayer and anything that comes after, the other buttons except for options you can think of as Turned off and wont do anything for you in DayZ. If you cant join servers then tell us what messages the client gives you, saying i cant join is to generic for us to think of anything to help you.

I'm using two monitors aswell and my system isnt very powerful either. DayZ plays fine but it does not support Fixed Windowed mode that enables you to click over to the other monitor without minimizing the game client. So i generally just have the map on the second screen and when i need to check something i alt tab or if i really cant be arsed i start dayz with steam overlay so i can use the build in web brower. No idea why it would lag for you using two monitors mate :( But generally for me if i have a problem hardware or software related there is someone on the planet that has the same issues, try searching if anyone has the same problem with that brand of monitor or with the type of windows, or if its graphics card related etc. Try putting the monitors in the same graphics card, either in one or the other or one in both, could be that. Good luck in any case, i know how annoying these things can be.

Sounds like you didn't install the beta patch properly, everything i've heard of people having no debug monitor or being invisible in 3d person view did not have the beta patch installed. Try using sixupdater or using the beta patch installation guide found on the forums.

Im not sure what's going on but it sounds like you've been trying to play DayZ single player, it does not support that. DayZ is multiplayer all the way and when on a server you dont have to save anything you just step out of the server. The newest 1.7.1.5 patch requires something called the Arma2 beta patch expained how to install here http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=9314 to be able to play multiplayer. You can also install Sixupdater http://www.six-updater.net/ which installs and manages any updates for you.

Im affraid they don't move people anymore or restore their stuff, fix coming on monday that fixes this corrupted session info that makes people spawn in the debug forest and plain. But if it will fix people already stuck there, i can only hope, im stuck there myself.