daze23

that's not a wookie. it's a ghillie suit :D

lol, that quote fit perfectly with your avatar

it's rare ingame it's also notorious for being high in caffeine and sugar, therefore making is 'essential' for long/all-night gaming sessions

oh internets...

look for a server that's actively kicking/banning people it won't be a guarantee you won't encounter hackers, but it definitely helps

that was my problem in other games. I was so quick to reload after every time I shot my gun, that I would often get shot while reloading I have a thumb button on my mouse that I usually assign to 'reload'. I had to undo that binding for DayZ. come to think of it, now I can assign that to something else...

lol, I swear I've been "daze23" since like 2001. I was playing this game for awhile before I saw the connection I'm also a pot-head that named my dog "Buddha" without seeing the connection, until someone assumed that was why I picked the name

my name is daze, and I'm a compulsive reloader. DayZ has helped me to cure this terrible habit

whenever you deal with a hacker, the results might not be desirable i don't think there should be global bans for having hacked weapons. but if some hacker were to get you kicked, or wiped, be mad at the hacker. it's not much different from when they just kill you

yeah, it should be simple to lock down in the stand-alone it's not like people spawn weapons that aren't in Arma 2

some servers do ban people for that. I'm sure people do get banned that didn't know they had a hacked weapon. but oh well, they know now, and there's plenty of other servers out there I was thinking they could have a system where you just can't join any server with a hacked weapon, but then you wouldn't be able to get ingame, drop the weapon, and play again

found one at the barracks when I first started playing. haven't seen one since

been playing since mid-june I've never found a mp5sd, at all I've never found at their spawn: rangefinders svd mountain dew

I play on a server that bans for hacked items. it seems like it's automated. when you get to the lobby it has a warning. I'm sure people get banned that didn't know they had a hacked item, but oh well, they know now, and there's plenty of other servers out there

nah it was that automated shit. it was people talking. they were just being real official about things. it was probably some 'hardcore' server

my point is it all happened organically. it was never meant to be this big. it didn't begin as something that would make it easy for server admins to deal with hackers. it began as just trying to get the mod to work I know it's cliche, but it's an alpha. can you think of another situation where you have to worry about your alpha testers hacking?

it's just where we're at with the 'game'. rocket didn't set out to make a secure hack-proof game. he set out to make a cool zombie mod for Arma 2

yeah, I was talking about the burying bodies thing. that's why I said "outside the norm". it seems most people don't like voice in side-chat I was playing on a utes server the other day that was trying to enforce no-pvp zones, and it was a mess. it was a lot of he-said-she-said, and the admin ended up getting mad and kicking everyone :D

I think players should at least take the time to go through the first boot camp mission. it would help with the perceived 'learning curve' also there's a lot of things you can do with the editor, that people are constantly claiming they "need" SP DayZ for I've been playing the Red Harvest campaign. it's pretty cool, until you get to the later 'high command' missions. I just prefer controlling my little 4 man squad, and not all that other stuff. the missions can get bugged, but that's kinda to be expected in any 'sandbox' game. I particularly like playing the 'Manhattan" mission. and like I said, the editor is real cool and fun I tried MP Arma 2 once, and honestly it was intimidating. everyone was talking like "echo zero one niner, over?" and I didn't know what was going on. maybe I'll give it another go some day...

it's a problem when there's rampant hacking in a game. anything that maybe the result of skill and/or luck gets blamed on hacking

the other day I was running through some woods, 'in the middle of nowhere', when I saw another player running at me. I felt like I saw him kinda late, but he just kept running like I wasn't there (I think he had his "w" key jammed down, and wasn't paying attention). so naturally I lined it up so he was running directly away from me, and gunned him down with my (silenced) bison. from his end, I'm sure he thought I was a hacker

I use Play with Six and have no issues :trollface:

that's why I added "..or whatever". insert any criticism that has to do with age

I want all hot tubs cold!

I always think how I would have felt at that age if someone told me I was too young or whatever. I'm not sure, but I think my reaction would start with "F" and end with "U"