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Do you sit there and watch the screen while running to make sure you dont get stuck in trees, ponds, or end up in enemy camps? I always run across the map by doing it manually and constantly holding ALT and checking my surroundings for movement whether an animal, zombie, or another player there's also a chance at spotting a tent. I fear being caught off guard and killed due to being lazy.

It's an amazing weapon. I recently tried playing with using only the crossbow, no sidearm other than the flashlight. Survived a lot longer than expected and had a lot more fun. Crossbows 1 hit kill zombies, they are silent and you are able to retrieve all the bolts you fire, even ones that hit and kill zombies. Carry 6 bolts on you and use strategy on which zombies to take out.

I just simply ignore the glitch. run in half blind do what you need to do and hope/assume the possible sniper is seeing the same glitch making you hidden. Glitches come and go this one isn't major at all. It will not kill you It does not interfere with anything it doesnt break any gameplay mechanics. it's purely visual This mod is in alpha, there are much bigger problems that can and should have attention.

The low fps is most likely due to the cpu, ram, and even the HDD that it is installed on. My suggestions first, Defrag the HDD it will help a lot. two how much ram do you have? have you allocated enough to arma 2 via startup parameters three open up CCC and set gaming>3d applications to default. four download and install MSI afterburner, consider overclocking your gpu as well as using it to monitor temperature, gpu usage, and clock speeds. five consider doing some upgrades. pick and choose the battles here, a new mother board and cpu can run you a little bit depending on architecture. something like this isn't way over priced and could offer quite the boost, http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=71249&vpn=BX80637I53570K%26Z77X-UD3H&manufacture=Others&promoid=1145 of course spending little more can get you set up for a longer run of no upgrading. six: think about trying out a crossfire gpu set up. However it is more likely your cpu is and motherboard are causing the bottleneck. I am currently running a xfx 6950 crossfire with i7 3770k and a p8x77 v deluxe board, 16gb mushkin enhanced frostbyte ram. Who knows maybe you want to build a brand new computer if you got the money and feel you need an upgrade, a gaming rig can still be reasonably priced if you build it yourself. might be something to look into. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclock-radeon-hd-7970-core-i5,3210.html

It should be it's own special map. Dayz is a mod of arma 2 and is using an arma 2 map. It wouldn't seem right to use an arma 2 map in a different standalone game, almost seems like a conflict could arise even though its from the same company. Then there is also the new arma 3 engine which can handle much bigger and better designed maps. If anything I could see it using a map from arma 3 such as Limnos for example. Although eventually I'd like to see many map/world locations in dayz

Hello I don't know if this will ever get seen by the server admins however I hope it does at the server looked like it could become my new home server as I saw active admins ban hackers. Saw a hacker get banned earlier today after I lost my 9 day character due to everyone being thrown into the air but I digress shit happens. I was playing at 6:15pm PST Monday, August 6th. I had just died and re-spawned in komarovo as I start heading East towards Balota to try and recover my some of my items I notice a shiny new SUV. I check it for gear, nothing in it I jump in and there is fuel in the tank and everything looks good. I take it for a spin to speed up my journey to balota. Unfortunately my body has been raided and is gone, I find a fellow survivor offer him a ride, he jumps in and off we go to try and pick up his friend north of Cherno. Drive through cherno get a few shots fired at us, nothing big dont think any hit. I get just north of the hospital on the road and bam. Kicked and banned from the server. I do not know why I was banned, maybe I stole an admins vehicle (that would be pretty petty and low not to mention abuse of power) or perhaps the more likely is that I was banned because you thought I hacked the vehicle in which I did not do, I play legitly. Regardless of reasoning of what happened I truly believe a mistake was made and I was unjustly banned. I had only just found this server this morning, lag free, active admins, decent community, and server time closely matching my own real time were some of the reasons I was thinking of making this server my home. If someone could please look into this matter and help get it resolved I will gladly be back playing and making friends. PS. To the guy who jumped in the SUV with me at balota, sorry I got banned and the vehicle most likely crashed. I'm hoping it didn't get too damaged so you and your friend can enjoy it.

Sorry JayNic, I never knew got name or anything about him. He was a complete stranger I saw looting hangers at balota I took a chance at being killed by parking outside the hanger honked the horn told him to jump in and cruise around. If I was the only one on the server logs that got banned at that time there is a chance he was never banned. Info I did find out was by the sounds of it this server is not his primary one, nor does he have a camp on it. he may have just been passing through. He does however have a friend who was online at that time which we were going to go pick up. As for people saying things about server admins not following rules. The rules are WAY to tight and don't take into account the rapid increase in hacking and hack prevention. I believe the server admins have the ability and right to ban people breaking the rules even if they don't have indisputable proof it should be admin's discretion without abuse of power. The bans the server admins give out to me are a proactive method to at least slow hacking down.

It was not abuse, simply a case of mistaken identity. The vehicle was hacked and spawned in a ban happened for all the right reasons. Only downfall was I stole that vehicle or it was left as a trap. Even though I ended on the poor side of this situation I highly support the decision and applaud their willingness to give out bans that are deserved. There is a difference between abusing bans such as banning players because they shoot on site, they are not nice, or just banning anyone that isnt a friend. A strong message must be sent out that there is zero tolerance for hacking/duping/exploiting. Starting with bans of people USING said items is exactly what is needed. Thankfully the server admins are great and have amazing support to help those who accidentally do something they shouldnt. As for the loot tables, does anyone have a simple clean list of legit items and vehicle spawns? I checked through the wiki and there is no simple list I can of items in the game that I can print off in a printer friendly format instead there is info thrown all over providing more info then necessary with the same info being repeated multiple times and in odd inconsistent formats. And it is true, many people don't know what is and isn't supposed to be in the game. But because they are willing to help those banned for ignorance I feel they should be allowed to ban on those principles. Although I do admit if they made a forum or website for the server and provided a list of what is and isn't allowed on the server and had it spam the server through admin chat every few minutes like it does with the teamspeak ip I think that would help.

Thanks for the help and lifting the ban, I just spent the past hour installing my second copy of arma 2 on my other computer so I could get your teamspeak IP didn't expect a response this quickly. and I was unaware that vehicle was hacked in, I am VERY happy to see how active you are with banning hackers and suspected hackers I appreciate it and looks like I may have just found a primary server to play on. That was the one of the first vehicles I have found so I was a little excited when I saw it and didn't think to check the loot tables, I'll print off list of items to check over with any suspicious items. If you banned my passenger as well can you please lift his ban? He was just a random guy I met in the hanger, honked and invited him for a ride I would hate to have him face a similar fate for simply jumping in the suv. Unfortunately I did not catch his name.

I've been wanting to see a horde of at least 100-200 zombies in a localized area moving somewhat in unison sweeping the land. So many that it would actually take a group of people co-operating to take it down or thin out the numbers. Having a dozen zombies in a single town just isn't enough of a threat, id prefer to see a randomized event of a horde appear in towns and other locations. What do you guys think about the current number of zombies that spawn and how spread out they are?

That is exploiting a game mechanic, no better than Alt F4ing to get away from being shot/killed. You might as well start duping items and server hop to get behind people. I do not do this zombies are easy to kill or hide from. Simply run into the woods and circle and zig zag around and through trees they will be gone in a matter of seconds. Or run through a tunnel/building. Once the zombies no longer have sight on you, stop running press X to crouch run away.

L4D type of gameplay would ruin this mod. I want LESS machine gun zombie mowing. Firing off any weapon has little consequence other than a few zombies come at you and other players nearby may hear. What I am wanting is to INCREASE the threat zombies pose and lower the ability to clear every zombie you see from an area making it more about survival by sneaking around and using stealth. I would keep everything how it is now with zombies everywhere but add in several large hordes that wander through the back woods of the country side making it so there really is no safe area where your only threat is another player.

Lee Enfield is usually my go to weapon when first spawn in. its excellent accuracy and range for a common weapon and enough power for zombies and players alike. Firing the lee enfield or any high powered riffle for that matter no matter will cause MAYBE 10 - 15 zombies to come running. That number is pathetic and not overwhelming at all now that you can easily hide from zombies. Sure you can get screwed if your trapped in a corner but if you're not trapped taking out a dozen zombies is only limited by your ammo and not skill. A horde should NOT be something that you take lightly it should be overwhelming and cause people to run away not stand and fight. The horde should contain enough zombies that a squad of 5 should reconsider engaging. At this moment there is nothing remotely close to what I would consider adequate for a large number of zombies or a horde for that matter. They are to few and way to far spread out Not to mention the forests are completely safe from everything other than players which leaves the mod lacking in ways. I'd even like to eventually see the rare chance of a super horde where multiple hordes end up crossing paths and join together doubling or tripling the size of a normal horde

The engine is not restricting large amounts of zombies, what is restricting it is the spawning code. It's designed to limit the amount of zombies spawning in an area to ease up on FPS, server load and keep the amount of zombies equally spread out over the map which has players. It's largely based on amount of players and their locations. a server with 8 people online may only have 50 zombies in the entire game. however a server with 60 players may have 600 or more zombies loaded into the game throughout the world map. as for the amount of zombies that would make up the horde, I think for testing it should be 30 or so would be enough assuming there is more than one horde happening per server. There could be lets say 7 hordes roaming per server that would bump the current zombie count by 210. The zombies spread out in roughly 150 x 150 meter area I would like to see the horde "linked" together like a school of fish, they all follow each other so if one zombie spots you the whole horde is after you. The way I could see this working is if it is coded for the horde to be a single large entity allowing it to move freely without lag. Only until the horde is aggro or within certain distance of a player, lets say 1000 meters will it actually spawn the zombies, despawning a few other zombies from the world if it causes to much stress for the server. Based on the recent texture bugs with military bodies having a small entity with an oversized texture overlay is possible allowing a single roaming zombie to appear to be a horde from distance. Imagine the panic of someone having a horde after them and running into a populated city. Of course bigger horde = bigger impact on the oh shit factor.

The longer it takes, the more stable and more fixes it will have. Anyone even the dev's can post a date when they want it to be released but in reality it will be done when it is done.

In the past couple days I have found 3 Ghillie suits and one camo... It feels more than luck, found them in residential and castles. Currently wearing the ghillie and running around with two more ghillie and a camo in my bag, If I find a helpful friendly I'll give it to him. I don't trust tents as I don't have a server I call home instead I just play on whichever has decently large amount of players and a low ping.

I would be happy to see that pistols can only kill with a headshot. Shots to the torso would slow them down, turn them into a hopper, shot two shots to the legs would make them crawl something along those lines would be amazing for me.

I was just playing using the new update which was pushed via steam. Works great. You can read some info on the update here http://www.arma2.com/latest-news/arma-2-combined-operations-operation-arrowhead-reinforcements-update-162_en.html It's essentially all the beta updates we have been using put into an official release.

Hey guys, remember all those beta patches we have been downloading and updating our game with... guess what they finally got it far enough to consider all the beta's a full release. The game has updated for the better and as a result DayZ and servers must get updated for us to continue playing. Downgrading is completely pointless as by this time tomorrow most servers will only allow the newest update. Remember, like any game when a major patch/update happens it usually breaks mods/servers. Wait it out and everything will be fine and for the next while we wont have to download daily beta patches.

Or you could just drink it and enjoy the taste of rarity! I've found several mountain dew's in my dayz history... lost a couple to people shooting on site, another to item glitch where my bag disappeared when swapping it. There is really no point in hording them or saving it, treat it like a normal beverage and drink it when ever your player is thirsty it's not worth the inventory slot

They have been REMOVED from normal spawn due to glitches and server lag caused by them. They are supposed to be returning with upcomming patch. With that said any and all helicopters you have seen in the past few weeks are hacked vehicles. There are so many hackers spawning items and vehicles that they people think the heli is back in game because they are nearly one or more in every server either flying around or hidden. You can still find the crashed heli loot sites, but those are non repairable vehicles.

I could see a new game happening from this.... protect the people trying to kill themself and just taunt them lol All in all, Removing the respawn is the greatest addition since zombies. I have never abused or used the repawn to get to a better spawn. I commit to where I start good or bad. The respawn button has however killed me a couple times accidentally while quickly trying to get into options. I will be very glad to see it go.

The build looks decent however I would change a couple things. I'd get a different graphics card if you can shell out a few extra for it grab a xfx hd 6950 2gb It will allow you to play a much much larger amount of games at better settings. It is more expensive but it is a lot more bang for the buck. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150549 The ram, looks alright but you might want to try for a 1600mhz (wont make much of a difference in gaming though) I'd also recommend you check out some budget gaming builds and try to tweak those a little bit to get the price and results you want http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclock-radeon-hd-7970-core-i5,3210.html They have a bunch of different builds at different price points check them out. Might be worth it to save a little longer and get a computer one tier higher.

Give this a good read, and try applying it to anyone of those script kiddies, douchebags, and pretty much anyone in the dayz world that is an over the top griefer. http://thebitchnextdoor.com/node/51 Here's a little excerpt The narcissist will also lack much level of empathy for anyone and will feel it's their right to take advantage of, maliciously lie about, or walk on anyone if it furthers their goals, whether right or wrong. They will feel that everybody is jealous of them, when, in reality they are often the jealous party of anyone that is happy and feels successful by their own standards. Their opposing inner forces, whether conscious or not, leads to very dysfunctional parenting, social interaction and work situations. These traits often make the narcissist be overly involved and even intrusive in some aspects of the roles and very neglectful in others. The willingness to exploit others, sense of personal entitlement, lack of empathy, complete disregard for others feelings, ideas or goals and constant need for attention, praise and admiration that a narcissist has adversely affects interpersonal relationships of all kinds for the narcissist. Because of these traits the narcissistic rarely achieves any sort of the personal or professional success they so desperately crave due to their inability to deal with even minor setbacks or criticisms, or be able to work cooperatively with others for any real length of time. The narcissist walks into every situation to take control over it and start pushing people around. It is basically impossible to deal with a severely narcissistic person that does not recognize themselves as such. The world owes them, they owe nothing, they have no concern for the welfare of others to achieve what they feel they deserve, and have no problem doing what they need to get what they want regardless of who gets hurt in the process. They have extreme reactions to even the most mild correction, disagreement or even constructive criticisms or input that is against their ultimate goal. Happy Gaming... Try not to get shot in the face.

If you want to justify your actions in game by blaming the world fine go for it. But stop trying to convince everyone its alright to do.