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Yeah, but who is going to volunteer to drive up and down the streets of Cherno and Elektro? <_<

Ah....so you are trying to get back to your stuff and hoping he didn't rob your body. LOL Best get running!

No. I mean great project. Very impressive work... BUT, why not just navigate around the map using the contours or looking at them for elevation? ;) What would be the practical application of this map?

Well, how does it work then? I've also died in the past few days and thought I lost the three small camps on different servers my group has setup. The tents were saved to me.

I got transported to a thunderdome last week. As I appeared on the ground I ABORT'ed. I logged on to another server and had all my stuff, the only thing that saved was my location. I was where the thunderdome was on the previous server (NWAF). Sheer luck.

LOL, nice reference..... Long time since I thought of that song... "We don't need to know the way home All we want is life beyond the thunderdome" Very fitting!

Have you died? If you have tents etc and die. After a few hours they disappear. Might even be 2 hours, I can't remember.

Hack stuff. Post the server so the owners can deal with it.

You need a better sound system or headset. I use a headset with 7.1 surround and can tell exactly what direction sound is coming from. Every gunshot, every footstep, exact direction. When someone shoots in the distance at me, I can turn to the sound because it comes accurately from the correect direction. If you already have a good sound system, check the settings. The only thing that doesn't work well for direction is the actual in game VOIP.

Impressive project. But why don't you just use the contour lines on the exisiting map? lol They tell you the same thing.

Nice post. My buddy and I had a good firefight the other night too. He was shot (had Enfield and Czech pack etc), I had an AKM. I guarded his body while he came back. The guy who killed him disappeared, I had assumed he disconnected but I think he must have been waiting for my buddy to come back and went up to the castle at Zub near where we were as I heard shooting up there (likely the two zombies being shot). Buddy gets back 7 mins later, the guy comes down from Zub (well timed). He shoots at my buddy again while he's getting his stuff back and kills him. I end up in a fight, firing two full mags at the guy, trying to keep up cover fire so I could move back. He didn't disconnect, but took cover behind a hill, laid down and threw a grenade at me. I was seriously wounded and bleeding from the nade when he came at me from a bit to the right of where he took cover. Both of us shooting like mad, my aim all over because of the blood loss etc. I die. I'm sure I hit him. Good fight and like you said, it's rare to have a good gunfight with guys who don't disconnect. Alwyas a pleasure to die and be bested in a fair fight.

I also want to be able to fill my water canteens with rainwater... Great idea for the beard but I'm guessing they have other things more pressing. I've chosen the old man beard from the character list. Makes it look like I've been in the wilderness for weeks!

As far as I know from the footage of Rocket's interviews etc that this feature was only considered but is NOT currently in game.

Admins cannot see everything or do anything besides play, kick, restart and lock a server. Admins do not have an ability to see vehicles or players on a map. It does however sound like you were playing on a server running recruit settings, where big glowing lights show up to all players that give away locations of any player or vehicle at distance. The vehicles you found and hid would have been visible via a nice big glowing light on the screen of anyone within a km or so, even in the trees. The markers are visible in the same way the little glowing markers on the rabbits etc are visible, just much bigger. Most likely they were just found this way. Try playing on a server that has veteran settings.

Nothing to do with Rocket. Hackers have been around in Arma2 for years and BI has never done much to address it. Unless all the community pressure gets BI and Battleye to actually DO something about the hacking that has been around since the beginning it will always exist in this current form of DayZ. I look forward to the stand alone, where Rocket and the future DayZ team will have access to an engine can actually end the hacking (or at least control it).

The fog happens. Weather moves in sometimes. But the server needs a restart to solve the loot issue.

Yup, my bad. I shit the bed on that post. Too late at night coming home and not able to pay attention. Your bad on the piss poor attitude though. Just for the record I have owned and shot firearms chambered for both of those rounds for almost 30 years...so yes, on a normal day I do know what I'm talking about.

There are police cars in Arma2, but I don't think they are in DayZ. It is also possible to include a clan tag and have any vehicle one is in display the clan tag on the side. This is an easy Arma 2 option. Could it have been the tag on the door or was it the actual Arma2 police car, which I believe is orange front and back with a white door and a roof light?

No, there should most assuredly be this possibility. This is the kind of think that makes the loot spawns and the game in general unpredictiable. That is the greatness of DayZ. Once the hackers and scripters, bugs and crap are taken care of, playing with days into a character and NEVER being able to predict exactly what will be in each type of building will keep the thrill alive. I don't play this for predictable crap like every other game out there and I doubt most do. It is a possibility that all the spawns are a single item in a building. This is entirely realistic as well. It happens sometimes. I love this. It makes the game harder (when I'm not getting hacked). Keep it.

It is still a 9mm projectile and does the same damage. The great thing about SD is that you can kill zombies with it and it makes no noise. Or shoot people with it and they don't know where it comes from. Due to the subsonic velocity though, it drops a LOT more than regular 9mm.

You are sure you were on an actual server and not a private non-hive server? (If that is still even possible?)

They can't "roll" their characters back as an admin. Once they die, they are dead, just like you. They likely shut down the server to try to figure out who did the hacking that killed them so they can ban. Server admins are a bit overwhelmed with the muliple hack attacks per night on any busy server. If they ban whoever was on that they don't personally know, they are guaranteed to have banned at least the one hacker, maybe more. From an admin perspective, the innocents who were banned can play on another server but at least some hackers can't come back.

The farmer who owned the barn must have been the local hatchet maker. Poor infected soul.

Hackers have been an issue in Arma2 for years. BI and Battleye have never worked to deal with them. BI has long since moved on to developing other games. Most of the Arma2 commmunity is pretty mature, plays the simulator games with regular groups of people. The admin on my regular server the past few years bans hackers at least once a week. The reason they are identified is because any new person who joins and suddenly blows everythign up or starts spawning vehicles not in that particular mission is obvious. Hackers in DayZ cause a lot more problems because of the popularity of the mod and the fact that your persistent character takes days to build up. But, Rocket has nothing to do with being able to fix that. DayZ is just a mod for Arma2. Sounds like you have a bit of an anger going on. Read up a bit about the issues and go on the BI or Battleye forums and put pressure on them. The one good thing about community anger is that the suddenly very large DayZ community may be able to convince BI to actually DO something about the hacking issue after three years.

Good vid for those of us who have seen new players try to ride a bike for the first time and immediately crash headlong into the first large object they look towards and break a leg. I came across a bike yesterday on a hilly area with two bodies, one with the bike, one 100 meters back. The nearest I could figure is rider #1 got on the bike and immediately zigged and hit a tree, killing herself. The bike then laid down on it's side. Rider #2 got on the bike, it stayed on it's side and slid down the hill and brained him against a tree dead. I thought I'd get on the bike and it stayed sideways and started sliding very fast down the remainder of the slope and I ejected before hitting a tree...luckily. LOL Possessed bike! So find a bike and try to ride it through trees and then come back and say this video doesn't have a note of great sarcasm to it. :D