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Just what we need is a pre-pre-release of anything related to this game. Thanks for bolding and underlining the question though. Plain English is a little ambiguous without it.

50/50 server... DaveB and I end up deciding to go get into some trouble around the Myshkino tent camps. We navigated there in a relatively evasive route but got into position in pretty good time. He had a longer range weapon so he did overwatch and I moved in a bit closer so I could see the parts of the camp he couldn't. Before we had a chance to get set up where we wanted to be, we spotted one heavily geared character sprinting through the tents shooting zombies but he ended up carrying on out of our range. Undoubtedly we were going to be busy so we continued to our desired spots and waited. And waited. And waited. A zombie appeared... walked about 10 steps then evaporated. We logged.

I'm on that same server... for all of you who think that coming in here (other than the first guy) to remind Emu of all people of the 45 day cleanup- thanks but we're WAY past that. One of our main camps had mostly despawned because of the 45 day cleanup... We were under the impression the tents were persistent but the inventory wasn't. Two tents remained... A mega camp Cold had built suffered the same fate even though he was moving inventory items around (but not repacking the tents). This was our lesson so we promptly went around all our camps at that point and meticulously unpacked everything- including tents- and redistributed them. As Emu said afterwards... everything vanished in about a 12-24 hour period. I'll approach our host provider (Gameservers) and see what they can dig up. Thanks Moss.

oooooooooooooooooh Sorry- I thought you meant the ones from the M4.

Mags are good for the AUG aren't they?

Well... I think about vehicles. We keep hearing that the renderer isn't ready for exp... It isn't ready for stable... it isn't ready to show anything other than basically rain. Vehicles were, apparently, ready... broken but evidently ready enough to release into the wild and they're the absolutely most fucked up thing I've ever seen in any game. So if they want to keep .60 in the garage for a little longer so that it's "moar ready" that's fine by me.

I sent you a quicker solution. Assuming you're not a purist and your buddy doesn't mind the 2 extra hours he'll have to play the game without having to wait for Emu to crash every car on the map before he gets to him.

Unfortunately no. You need at least a 48X optical drive and some Freebies.

DAVE! You will be next!

There is no such functionality. Not even close. You can set what time your server starts during resets, persistent time, a few message of the days... see the logs (that are bugged now and generally erase with every restart), reset the server from scratch and restart it manually. Oh yeah, and you get to choose the name of it. You can kick from public but only for cheating (though many kick for whatever reason they want since nobody does a fucking thing about it anyway) and you can ban under similar circumstances. Other than that your functionality as an "admin" is extremely limited.

Very well done. I'd have died 3 times and killed two of my own in that situation.

Yeah, that's been discussed a lot considering many people park in tents only to find them hopelessly jammed inside after a reset.

Yeah sometimes rotating them works as dave said. If you can repair tires to make sure they're all pristine that can help with stability on the road too.

Whoops- disregard. Back to zero.

You can drive with ruined components now... but don't take them out and try to put them back in.

Very strange... just went in to look at the logs now and they're fixed. Well, at least they appear to be. I have logs through several resets in the past 22 hours so who knows... maybe someone was listening afterall!

We've changed the name of the server- no particular reason other than to try and and draw more players in. The server is now called: << = THE HELPY HELPERS: FOR MERCY OR MAYHEM >> We experienced some pretty avid duping for awhile from about a dozen guys... strangely I banned two of them and never saw the rest again. Not sure if that's related or just a correlation / causation anomaly. We're also limited in how long we can see the logs for since they rewrite themselves after every server reset. We did stumble into a duper camp a couple weeks ago- complete with two M4s and a bunch of other high speed gear. We disassembled that camp and threw the M4s in the woods... but generally if we stumble into anyone's camp we may take a few things (as we'd expect someone to do if they found ours) but we'll leave it alone. We do our best to go about the running of the server honestly. I continue to read about public servers banning / kicking people on entry and I can guaranty that doesn't happen on this server. We'll also not kick / ban you for killing our members (cough Drew / A.friend cough). To be fair- Schwab and I were at the NWAF so we weren't expecting silk glove treatment there. We'd have killed them if we had the chance. We go through the logs regularly and look for suspicious behavior (and by suspicious for those of you who know what the duping behavior looks like, it's VERY obvious)... when we see the guys online we'll ban them when we get the chance but otherwise we just let people do their own thing. If we come across someone in the server we'll treat them like we treat anyone on any other server: Mercy or mayhem- whatever the situation calls for.

Anyone hear whether or not this will be addressed at all?

Soon.TM

A few of the Helpy Helpers (Me, Schwab, Twosp) got together over the weekend and had a rather bloody experience. Schwab was a bit late to the party and Twosp and I weren't feeling confident enough to head south towards Kamy so we departed Sol and headed north towards Nizhnoye. The walk was relatively quiet with only a few guys asking for us to kill them or killing themselves before we got close enough to talk. I have to say that looking along a beach and seeing a bunch of people frozen in place from having done the old "rag glitch" suicide is tremendously offputting but I suppose that's where the game is right now. We met up with Schwab at the factory and doubled back to Sol with the intention of meeting up with DaveB and possibly Shell to head around the south corridor. The intention was really just to set up shop in the more contested territory and escort people who spawned in Elektro and wanted to get out of there to a safe(r) place. We were ready to pick a fight and getting closer to .60 and a wipe is making us a bit more liberal in our kit distribution and use. Schwab was on the west side by the train station coming into Sol, I was mid and Twosp was closer to the beach. Schwab loves to sprint around everywhere while twosp and I move a bit more slowly. I'd lost some ground since I was tail end charlie and checked 6 a lot... It's never ceased to amaze me that no matter how tactically you maneuver, somehow that ONE freshie always seems to stumble into you to ask you to kill him. Schwab had made it to town and Twosp was near the bridge on the north end of Sol when our relatively unremarkable patrol exploded into chaos. "Oh! I'm dead," Twosp said almost as if he'd expected it. Normally if I get shot in ambush I'm all over the expletives and my volume / frustration goes up. He was cool as a Popsicle and barely even noticed. "What? Unconscious?" I asked- I wasn't that far away and didn't hear the shot. "Nope- dead dead. Right at the bridge." I started running across from the train station and got shot at almost immediately. I was hit twice- You are dead. At that point ZH (step son) came in and jogged over to Sol from the south. He had nothing onboard- a purple jacket, child backpack and an axe if anything... he stumbled into a guy wearing a bunch of my stuff- I was looking over his shoulder as he was trying to make contact with the guy but got gunned down unceremoniously. He and twosp respawned somewhere way off and were out of the fight for the remainder. I respawned near riffy and no less than 6 people were laying there dead on the beach- most had slid into the water. The run to Sol began... A few people were shooting at one another in Zino as I ran through... I recognized one voice as a guy we'd encountered at the factory who was just doing his thing- "Stop shooting at me you asshole!" he yelled at someone as I sprinted past thirsty and hungry. Meanwhile Schwab had made contact and was moving very carefully looking for the source of the ambush. He had spotted one guy around my body, hit him but didn't kill him. It took about 15 minutes for me to get back to him- he exchanged fire a couple of times and got hit. A bunch of his stuff was ruined so we were dealing with that. A few of my items were left where I died so I grabbed those but none of the weapons had any rounds left. I worked my way around the west and actually spotted one of what would quickly turn into 3 guys working together near the bridge. I called out the contact thinking Schwab was closer to the rock face at the quarry with good visibility to the area- but he was further north than I thought. He took a few shots but got hit and killed. I stayed hidden in my cover when a second guy sprang out and joined the one closer to the bridge. As they approached, still annoyed at the fact they gunned down ZH (moreso than I was annoyed at being gunned down- we had some high speed gear on and that's the way it works on the coast). "So what- you guys just gun down everyone on the coast?" "Sorry man- we just hit some geared guys and we thought you were one of them coming back to get their stuff." He must have thought I was ZH. "Well- actually... I AM one of the geared guys you took down. It was a great ambush... But you also gunned down one of ours who had nothing on him." "Are you the [SAS] guys?" "No- we're Helpy Helpers... from the forums. Not sure if you're forum guys?" "No... No." There were now three guys standing around me- one guy in a full mossy ghillie suit- the others wearing a bunch of our stuff. "Anyway- we patrol the coast and try to help out the fresh guys... hence why I had so much water and food in my kit." "You know how it is man- you had some heli loot on you and we weren't sure what you were doing on the coast with all that." The conversation was actually quite civilized. At one point the lead chatter in the group said, "Oh man, now I feel kind of like a dick for killing you guys." "I didn't even kill anyone and I feel like a dick," said one of the others. I admitted that was sometimes the price of working the coast with the high value gear- and again acknowledged their ambush technique. "Not going to lie though you guys- I have to get going and you're not going to want to spend much more time standing out in the open talking to me." We broke contact and I moved on. I had some leathers I wanted to try out back at our camp so I went back, grabbed some leathers and my winchester and headed back to the quarry face to overwatch. Sol was proving to be more than a challenge enough for us so we decided to stay near there. I was laying up there just with my scope in hand and DaveB had since joined. I think Shell was in as well- but he glitch died walking out of a barn somewhere. Dave was down by the fence a bit to the north of the storage tank on the south edge of Sol... I'd just looked over at him and was scanning the area when I heard a gunshot VERY close by. You are dead. "Fuck! Someone just killed me." I can usually hear footsteps so I was pretty sure the guy had just spawned in at that spot- very unlucky for me... though I didn't have much he'd want other than the fact I was dressed like a gimp in animal leathers- maybe that was his thing. DaveB looked up and saw the guy but put a couple rounds into the side of the building he was behind. Not even 30 seconds later some idiot with his mic opened up singing "fuck my ass" over and over again to some cheezy music wandered into Dave's line of sight with his gun drawn. Dave took a couple shots at him with his Blaze and retreated to try to get a better view. I'm not sure how that one ended but I'm pretty sure Dave lived. In addition to all this glory- it turned out we misunderstood how we needed to "interact with inventory" to reset the timers on tents / barrels. When you say "interact with inventory" to me that means you need to pick up / handle / move an inventory item to reset its timer. Apparently you need to empty the tent and pack it to reset the timer. So a bunch of that stuff evaporated... While heading to one of our camps in the sedan, it randomly started to wander off the road and crashed into a tree- wiping out two wheels. I logged.

I'm with BAM on this... but I understand your feelings. Right now I don't think DayZ is about playing the way you want to all the time, but more about playing the way you HAVE to. Leave too many loose ends out there and you end up regretting it in the end. Further to that- the guy (whoever he was) will have learned the lesson and maybe he'll approach the situation differently next time. On a second note- I have to admit my entire DayZ experience collapsed when the forums went down. It just felt like the few of us in the Helpy Helpers were the only ones playing the game anymore against a bunch of bots. Missing out on seeing what everyone else was up to really affected my enthusiasm for the game... So I'm glad the forums are back up and looking forward to seeing what's been going on!

I got killed glitch thrown from a car and "confirmation of changes" followed by authentication timeout- randomly died on an empty server in the middle of the woods... But I've never died from the steps-ladder glitch either and while not an expert by any means I'm a thousand plus hours guy... One of the guys I play with sub 20 hours in died a week ago via stairs... I have no idea what it relates to- I suppose if the devs did it'd be fixed by now :(

Easy there gimp! ;)

Low to medium settings- like most of us. I'm driving a GTX980 and don't expect to run everything on high unless I want to watch the game unfold on a flip chart when I run through cities. I suggest you take the time to AT LEAST figure out what graphics card you have (doesn't sound like you even know)... and then do a forum search for "graphic settings" to see some of the work dozens of people have already put into figuring out what settings works best.

Ooooooh so you can also fit a tent in a backpack? Cool.And L fucking OL at "heavy tactical gameplay." Jesus man where do you come up with this stuff?