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I'm also interested in this. I just bought my littlebrother Arma for DayZ purposes, but if we can't play, that's a bit of a bummer.

After several lives getting shot at, me and a friend had decided to be the ones who shoot first. Honorable bandits if you will. If we can avoid you and we know you haven't seen us, we'll do our best to leave you alone. But if you so much as glance in our direction, we will shoot, and we will not feel sorry for you. So, we're going into a small village on the way to the northwest airfield. The server looks rather empty (30~ players) and there's less than 200 zombies, suggesting most are out in the wilderness. We go for the water pump, because we were thirsty and free water is a-okay in our book. That's when we see someone outside of the enterable building next to the pump, likely with his inventory open. We exchange quick words and both go prone. My friend, who has a better view of that building's door chuckles real quick. There was another player in there, who walked into the doorway, stared at my friend, then quickly closed the door. Since we figured the two were friends, we considered them to have seen us. We open fire and quickly kill the player stuck in his inventory. My friend sneaks forward, and I sneak off to the side to flank the building. Suddenly, my friend dies immediately. Sniper? I kept going though, hoping they had only seen my friend, not knowing I was there. The one we killed had a clantag, so it was probably a group of three clanmates. I slowly sneak into the building. Door is open again, and noone's there. Noone's looted my friend's corpse yet. How odd. I sneak around to the forest, to camp my friend's corpse for a bit, and that's when I spot one of them. Few quick AKM shots to the torso later, he falls over and bleeds to death. At this point, I know I've announced my presence, and I dash into the forest and hide behind a tree. I look towards my friend's body. Noone. I lean right and look at the one I just shot. Noone. I keep doing this, until I spot a -third- player trying to circle around the house. He, too, goes down, not expecting me there. That was them, right? I go to my friend's corpse, and try to loot what I can. Tools, supplies, ammo. I hear footsteps behind me. Before I manage to close the gear screen, I hear a single shot. I break my leg and fall over, and immediately turn around. A player in a ghillie suit, with an SVD, walking towards the first one we shot. He didn't kill me. Did he think I was dead? Holy **** what an oppurtunity. One short desync and half AKM mag later, he's dead too. And then all was quiet. Me and my friend successfully took out a clan of four in a firefight. Too bad he was KIA, but that happens. And I wasn't sure how to feel at that point. A clan of four, just looting a random village for supplies, got knocked off the map by two players. Sort of felt bad for them, but hey, I got an SVD. :D This is coming from someone with thousands of hours on non-milsim shooters, like TF2, CSS and CoD. This mod is AWESOME.

I'm not a veteran. I've little over a week on this mod. Yet I do just fine without a gun. It teaches you something very, VERY valuable. Avoid zombies. Even if you had a gun, this is a vital skill to learn. You don't want to shoot bullets unless it's the last resort. Or if you see a player, lawl. Even WITH the current loot table bork, I've managed to find an m1911 with ammo in Cherno. Have not yet aggro'd a single zombie, yet I logged out near the city hall, having looted at least a dozen buildings (With only my m1911 and one mag to show for it, though.) My experience, quite clearly, tells me I can survive just fine without a starter gun, even with the current loot table bork. If we're playing the same mod, so can you. It'll get easy-ish again when the loot table's fixed.

When starting Arma 2 and joining a server, the FPS is fine, much like before 1.7.1, but if I die, or disconnect and reconnect, the FPS drops from 1.7.1 feel like they're back again. I need to completely shut Arma 2 down and start it back up again for the FPS drops to go away, until I die or connect again to another server. Core i7 930 and HD5970, if that makes any difference. Using 1.7.1.1 and beta 93825 to connec to servers running the same.