toshiba

im another vote for not making it impossible to solo. But i too would like to see K.O.S. end. But please please please please! don't make this a force grouping game. I have to force group every stinking day in RL, i dont want to do it on my escapes. I'm in the US army, and stationed at Kuwait right now. I have played a TON of online games over the last decade+ (first one was the Realm, lol) and every time they have tried to make it to where you HAVE to group, i move on. i do think we need incentives to group, but not a requirement. And i think the reason people don't group is because there is nothing permanent about the game. If you die, no big. Even in lawless times of human history, people have grouped. They wanted to build, and they wanted to use each others talents. This leads me to believe that two things will have to occur in order for people to desire to group. 1. Permanency. They are going to be able to have to carve out a nitch of their own, but need to have help to do it. Because the game 1 hour in is almost identical to 8 hours in right now. BUT, if say, one man can make a tent, two can build a better tent, three or four, maybe a perimeter with an npc guard or two... This can scale up to the point entire towns that can produce food and water (BIG group) and become trading post. (If you look at history, this is how and why most places form towns) 2. Exclusive skills (and I don't mean classes per say) I would think more of a classless system. a skill tree that you can advance down for every hour alive, with a cap on max time. You can specialize, and be a very narrow but useful person (healers come readily to mind, also technical types maintaining radio OR electrical systems, mechanics, gun smiths to improve weapons and manufacture ammo) or a generalist lone wolf (I can put on band-aids, and i can hunt, and oh oh oh i know how to track game) Basically, make the game more about more then find loot, spend loot, rinse and repeat But thats just me, maybe i need to brush up on java or something

hello everyone. i need to ask a favor. the 93965 beta is out, and i cant get a connection to the file to download it while im here in kuwait. i have tried various browsers, but none of them can get a connection to download. last beta, someone was nice enough to post the file on one of those file downloading sites. if anyone could do this for me, i would be greatful. my deployment ends in a month and a half, but i would really very much like to play between then and now lol

cant find a link, and i found a pretty good bug EDIT nm i found it, im a re re

I logged out before 1.7.1.2 went into effect. logged back in with 10k health (proper) but lying on my back passed out.(not sure why, im not under attack) but the clouds look nice :D

Actually, they can. I just ran from a set i aggroed for pretty far off (found them while running through the middle of the woods?) but didnt worry because i had a good lead. Within 20 seconds they had caught me and was actually hitting me as we ran. Spun around and took care of them, and figure that maybe i was crouch running, so i found another set to experiment with. After ensuring "c" had been pressed i ran and drew them. Not only did they catch up to me, but the second hit knocked me unconscious.

AC was my first beta i ever played :) i remember that comet soooo well Edit : but my first mmo was the realm

Rocket, i just woke up and had to jump up here. I had a great idea. there is a lot of griping about the one hit bleeding, and i find it over the top. But i feel like u were trying to make it to where every hit carries matters. Ill admit im a bit of a survival nut IRL. But as i slept, i realized what u missed. Instead of bleeding from small scratches, why dont u introduce infection. Not "oh i got a zombie virus" infection, but instead "good lord what is that smell, my arm is falling off, i have a fever" infection. Because lets face it, for the sim, a small scratch wouldn't bleed out, but getting hit by gore infected fingernails or mouth WOULD give you an infection if the wound wasn't properly cleaned. As the infection gets worst, (which IRL could take less then a day) your fever would go up, forcing you to drink more, and messing with your vision. and your health would trickle DOWN. Proper field care will help prevent infections, and antibiotics could cure it. So introduce sanitatiser (or just make a first aid kit, which would have it inside. this could run parallel to the bandages) and give antibiotics something to do besides cure the common cold. Its your call man, and i love what you have done with the mod, but this would add a level of realism. Extra cruelty mode, dont TELL them they have an infection, let them figure it out from water consumption, fever, and slowly declining overall health.

you mean like bandaging that fountain of kool-aid every time your touched? :D lol

Rocket, i know u read these. just wanted you to know, ill stick with you. tested alphas before, and i have to say this is normal, but the pace that you move at is breathtaking. thx for the hard work, and ill work as hard as i can at trying to break it in a new way so i can tell you about it! :D

This. I agree with making zombies more of a threat' date=' but all the increased aggro distance does is make sneaking into towns more annoying than tense. Crawling more ǂ more challenging. If anything, zombies' hearing should have been buffed, not their sight. Make all those PvPers in Cherno be extra cautious for all those rounds they expend in the big city. [/quote'] +1

"its raining men!"

Spawn with no weapon, no friends and no food or water? Outnumbered by hideous creatures and people who want to kill you for whatever you MIGHT have? Ladies and gentlemen, may the odds ever be in your favor! Lol, i think rocket is a closet Hunger Games fan ;)

"I like this idea, but make it where you can still bleed after a few hits, Its almost impossible to lose enough temp that you get sick. make it where the infection at first doesnt really need treatment but as time goes on the need to get anti bio get more and more important" That is exactly what i was thinking!

Also, infection could cause vomiting in later stages as toxicity builds up. Using more food up and increasing urgancy to find antibiotics. Just sayin. Also shameless self bump :D

Also read a neat article that stated that in the even of massive scale disaster, that gangs would take over the cities. Katrina kinda proved this, and this game defiantly supports the theory

But that makes it even more real. In any breakdown of society, there is ALWAYS those who will go after anyone weaker. They will find a reason. The honest ones up here just say they like too. Not all kills are just for fun though. Some are reactions to the environment we are in. For example, i was in Electro, at night, with my 870, and had the flashlight on. I heard running footsteps behind me, spun around and there is someone right behind me in the kneel with a pistol pointed right at me. I had no real choose but to shoot, or risk getting wasted on the spot, so i shot. lol, my first pvp, and im still not sure if they ment it or not, but i couldnt risk it. moral of the story. if your going to run up on a lone man and your not wanting to hurt them, call out to them or at least don't point the weapon directly at them, this will be interpreted as hostile. or i just found my own justification for the act lol

i just figured out the problem! these must be "White Zombies" because they are "More human then human" lol. and before anyone says it, that was NOT racist. Its a reference to a band from the 90's. damn it, you just made me explain the joke, now its not funny.

I am sorry, i didn't even think to put it in there, my bad.

lol. im up and running. pre patch i was out in the middle of the woods. logged in, and all was good. after walking for a while i see a barn. decide to raid it. got in no problem.... then things went to hell. one zombie was on second floor. i shot him with my trust 1911.... too easy. then it started...... wave after nonstop wave of zombies start flooding in! im trapped on the second floor. went through 5 mags for the 1911, and my two bolts for my beloved crossbow. ran up to the third floor to delay the inevitable, and found a double barrel shotty and 3 piles of ammo... so 6 more shots down on the heads of the wave of flesh pressing up toward me..... lol out of ammo so i jumped. got eaten. 34 zeds killed in under 2 mins, and the dang barn was still covered up with walkers! i dont know what this farm was, but in this version, i left a lot of compost before diving in the pile myself! tldr: lots of zeds, many many kills, dead man and loving this version!

Big thank you to codeine! i now have the beta. see yall inside, ill be the guy laying on his back makings zeds fat ands slow

maybe im looking for the wrong beta.. which build do i need?

thx, but i do go there, then when i click the link it takes me to the google cant find page.. tried it on IE and firefox, same results. sooo i grabbed on of my buddies laptops, rinse and repeat. Same issue. i think the internet here is just not making the connection for some reason. sigh, well it was fun :D

Ok, does anyone know where to get the beta other then http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=ftp://downloads.bistudio.com/arma2.com/update/beta/ARMA2_OA_Build_93825.zip&usg=AFQjCNGAVswQ_usIMPDTVHCFa4D-QNZ_KQ ? i have been trying to get it for half an hour now and i keep getting "Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to downloads.bistudio.com" gerr i hope this isnt an issue with the internet here in kuwait

dang it. i got this ArmA 2 just a few days ago, and i cant seem to find that beta patch everyone is talking about. everytime i try to follow a link, it is telling me that its not there :(