slyder73

It's an island used in many missions for regular Arma2. Either as a capture point or as an airbase. Remember DayZ is just one of the dozens of mods for Arma2 so lots of the landscape won't be used in DayZ.

Good to hear. The only "man in the woods" I've come across was the invisible asshole who killed my buddy and I last night.

Agreed. If you want to try DayZ and also enjoy what Arma2 has to offer then buy. Arma2 is a great game. DayZ is a great mod but not working so well in it's current form as a mod for Arma2. The scripters are what really kills it at this point. Scripting is what makes Arma2 a great game. Scripting is what allows mission makers to create the great military sim combat missions and all the other few dozen mods that are out there for Arma2. DayZ has become so popular though that even a tiny proportion of the 1.1 million players using the built in scripting ability in the wrong way is destroying all of the fun and challenge of DayZ. Arma2 is a trusting game engine that until DayZ, relied on a mature and ethical gaming community. Wait for the stand alone if you want DayZ only. If you want to play a great military sim game and a bit of DayZ on the side, then buy it.

I did one last week and another, but the more, "too much" threads the better; a nice change from the whining. :beans: You know you play too much DayZ when you feel like you should crouch walk up to your car so zombies can't see you. ...when driving through town and planning the routes to take on foot, with lots of cover and trees; just in case....

How did you ask for the ride? Direct chat isn't very far reaching. Was it a private server with the global chat on? As for working WITH someone in game, it doesn't usually work out for me. My buddy and I play together and pretty much shoot on sight. If another player arrives, even unarmed (we play far far away from the beach and unarmed players where we are usually have a hidden hatchet or pistol ready; learned that the hard way), they get shot if they don't follow direct chat directions. Usually I tell them to stay back at least across the room and one of us watches while we loot or back away. If they move or try to run around a corner, they get shot. Just not worth the risk of them coming back around with that gun or hatchet. If they are calling friendly, like some guy did the other day wanting to come into the barn we were in, they are given a chance. But, as I was saying in direct chat to the guy, come in sideways and do not point a gun at us. Silly fool walked in head on and his gun was in our direction, he got shot. Just not worth taking the risk.

Also remember that *can't recall which Eastern bloc grenade of the two in game* is a detonate on impact as opposed to a timed fuse grenade. If you accidentally throw that one it might land very close to you and will blow up when it hits the ground.

Did you actually get to the dead screen and respawn? Or did you ALT-F4 as you died? If that is the case, the server to hive may not have registered your death before you logged off. When you come back you are in a state just before you were shot.

I've been off and on camping and road tripping for the past 3 weeks so a bit out of the DayZ loop. Last night in DayZ my buddy and I were playing for the first time in a while. We were in a buiding and someone was outside calling "friendly", don't shoot, I"m coming in. I face the door of the barn with my SAW and watch, guy comes around the corner and has a shotgun pointed in. Friendly or not, if a gun is pointed at me and it's not the buddy I play with and know in real life, I shoot. So I killed the guy as he yelled he'd be back for us. I felt a bit bad but DayZ is dangerous times lol. We both learned early on in DayZ back in May that you shoot before asking questions or you get killed. More people are trying to use the direct chat to communicate and say friendly but that has still gotten me killed. I base my shoot decision now on whether there is a gun in hand and where it is pointing. If they don't present an immediate threat we back off and warn the other guy to back off. Pointed gun, even if it's an accident on his part, and it's shoot on sight. My question is about the bandit and hero skins. The guy that came around the corner seemed to have bright green camo on. What does a hero skin look like and what does the bandit skin look like?

Most of your story is clearly bullshit. You are a hacker trying to get sympathy and allies to justify your actions but you are a cheater nonetheless and you are banned. Good riddance. You are the problem with DayZ. You could have kept playing, learned the game, which does takes at least weeks or MONTHS! This is Arma2 remember? The learning curve is very very long, and months is not a long time for it. Instead you looked for the easy way out when you died for mistakes made because of inexperience. Again, good riddance and I hope you never do play the standalone. I don't want to play with you.

Where is your survival spirit? 50 blood and alive? You can come back from that. That is what makes DayZ good and fun, not just suiciding when you want a reset.

I see others have 12, 50 something and 69. My lowest was 98. Gunfight with players that attracted a shitload of zombies. My buddy and I won, barely....lol I had broken legs and 98 blood left when it ended and I bandaged. My buddy had died in the shitstorm and I belly crawled to the top of the nearby hill until he got back to me. By great chance he spawned and was able to get to a hospital for morphine. Never underestimate morphine! I had survival gear so hunting, fire and meat would get the blood back, but the broken legs were causing a problem. But 98 blood. That was a VERY fun night AND it was nice to be in such a good combat situation with players who moved locations, buildings and countered our movements all while both of our sides were dealing with zombies and NOBODY disconnected! Good fight!

It is NOT a problem with the ARMA engine, in fact it is the reason the ARMA2 engine is so great; extremely flexible in it's modability and scripting etc. WHen you say "problem" you seem to imply the Arma2 engine is flawed. As others have posted, the problem is the engine trusts the community to be so honest and to have some integrity, which it did for yeears until DayZ came long. Now, all of a sudden we have 990,000 new players and if even 10% of them are idiots (and I think the number is much higher) who have never played a mature, niche game simulator before, there is a problem. The standalone will be able to deal with most of the issues, because the engine will be locked down and handled. The Arma2 engine can't be, it relies on scripters and mission builders to create new content on a weekly basis. The fact that Battleye is trying to change it's entire screenign process to handle DayZ, which is a complete anomaly in terms of the dozens and dozens of Arma2 mods that are out there is a good thing. It's not easy given the engine and historically established community. DayZ has only been around for a few months, it takes time to deal with the idiocy, no matter how important new players think they should be.

Then you sir, should be globally banned, repeatedly. We don't want you around and you sully the Arma 2 community.

So you come here to brag somehow like a child about getting a hacked/scripted weapon? If you actually had any integrity or cared about playing like a mature adult you wouldn't have taken the weapon. If your response is that "anyone would take it", then no....they wouldn't. I wouldn't at least and I'd hope most won't.

DON'T take it. Have a little integrity and play the game like Arma2 and all it's mods were designed to be played; by mature players. If you take it and use it, why even play DayZ?

Or what about SPAM! It fed the Allies during WW2 and is famous in Hawaii. How about cans of Spam? :beans:

I'm heading out camping for the weekend tomorrow. I bought a can of beans and have it in my pack, ready to pull out when my buddy gets there (also plays DayZ).

All correct but the posts so far are missing an important feature of the map notes. The notes are visible to the same CHANNEL the text is set to. IF you in global/group chat, the blue or green then yes the notes are visible to everyone. If you are on vehicle chat they are only visible to others who have a map in the vehicle, and to you. Direct chat I'm not sure about as I rarely use the notes other than in the stock ARMA2 game to communicate armour locations to the team. If you want to leave notes privately for yourself, use a piece of paper. If you want to note on the map semi-privately use vehicle chat. Anything else is visible to all who have a map. You can still make a note, tell a buddy to check and then delete the note (mouse over and press DEL key) and hope nobody notices in the few seconds the note is up.

I had no idea what that meant either. tl;dr and then people have the idiocy skills to post about something they have already said they didn't read? lol These interwebs be makin' folk more stupid every day. How hard is it to read a paragraph or two? lol As to the OP, I've geared up in the South and gone North and both are becomming much faster. I think part of it is having played the game for several months, along with a few hundred thousand others who have done the same, the "spots" to go to get gear fast are well known and I'm used to making my way around the map now without a map and compass. Familiarity speeds up gear up.

ORANGE CRUSH!

I actually run with shadows at minimum settings. I find the shadow gives the enemy away sometimes and though it is a bit of a graphical bug exploit, often the shadows of other players are visible through buildings and even over hills. Besides, the shadows look cool.

You know you play too much DayZ when you're driving by the local airshow as the A-10 flies over and you yell out to your spouse in the car, "Fucking hackers!"

You must be a very angry person. I've never been on reddit, is it even connected with DayZ? Try not being an ass... reported. You know you play too much DayZ when you have a conversation in real life and feel surprised that the other person isn't swearing, insulting and behaving like an angry 12 year old.

Long distance sniper. The bullet reaches you before the sound. Someone was waiting and watching that crash site.

I just had this as well, though a bit different. I've been off and on away on travels the past few weeks. Played yesterday for a few hours and got geared up decently and made my way to a town in the middle North of the map for a tent setup. I log back in today and I have all my stats and gear but I'm respawned on the coast by Kamenka. I run the Steam version of Arma2 and all downloadable content and use SixLauncher to load up. Running nVidia GTX260, 6 gigs of RAM, Win 7 64 bit.