Reklin

I only play in the north. I had my fun in cherno. There are fewer players in the north but when you do see them it's so much more rewarding, the fact they have to respawn on the beach is rewarding too :D It's just a lot more fun, and so much more randomness. Our first trip to NW airfield we almost got ran over by a car as it came flying over the hill and we all span round and started pounding it as drove off and managed to pop the passengers head. Being in towns looting without a care in a world and suddenly realising you're not alone. Or coming across dead zombies and realising you're catching upto someone as you go town to town. The north is what DayZ is all about.

Arrowhead, then download Arma2Free from steam or just install arma2 as you already have it. So you only buy arrowhead.

Funniest DayZ video I've ever fucking seen. "oh shit. wheel broke off" "whos got the spare fucking tire?" *bus engine starts* "OHHH MY GODDD OH MY GODDDD" "I think that fucker took it"

Head north. Loot barns for a gun. Plenty of loot in small towns. But despite what others will tell you, you can easily run from the coast to the other side of the map with starter provisions. I often run back to nw airfield after a death without ever looting or entering a town.

Staggering logins works. But you do it alot, and should expect some people to complain about you locking a server, so don't whinge about it.

I'd bet money that the people saying "no it's fine" are able to play at different times. Those that can only play say in the evenings, and have to endure pitch black moonless nights every play session or endure a 150 ping I'd say are more than justified in suggesting a change. It's not even just that, but like I and others have already said, compressed day night cycle would add more to the experience, getting somewhere before nightfall or sunrise etc, planning ahead to use the cover of darkness, which right now isn't really applicable because the cycle is so long. Currently the only servers I've found that are daytime during night time on all the other EU servers is SE, but they hit night time too within 2 or 3 hours. If more servers had reversed night cycles so we could atleast get to experience some more daylight in our playtimes, I wouldn't be as fussed.

Honestly I don't really see how skins change much at all. With skins: Survivors shoot bandits on sight just because they're too far into the "possibly can't be trusted" spectrum. And most bandits become bandits because of self-defense, and then end up having to shoot every survivor and other bandit on sight because of my earlier point. Without skins: Most people still shoot on sight, still just as much distrust between players, possibly even more because you can't tell who's new or hasn't gotten many kills. To me it all seems the same. So the only gripe I have with skins currently is that the bandit skin is horrendous for the terrain and we stick out far too much, and that I dislike being forced into a role, because being a bandit means I have to shoot on sight because as soon as they see me they'll start shooting anyway. Atleast with a larger variety of skins or no skins at all I can still attempt to mould my character however I'd like with no "preset impression" I'm giving out to other players.

If he has HDR Quality set to very high and yours is Low, that's the explanation.

Today I've started logging in unconscious, not bleeding, just with the LONG timer. Every time, I was playing for 2 hours, log out, log in unconscious. It's happened every time right now and is REALLY annoying, is there any fix?

I'd like to assume Rocket gets something from BIS due to the influx of Arma CO sales which is down to him and this mod, but I don't know how BIS run.

Google Chernarus Arma Map? Takes 5 seconds. Failing that, search the forum, there are like 10 variations.

High number of zombies, great. Practically instantaneous zombie respawn rate, not so great.

I know there are people who scream for realism and want the full day night cycles, but it's still a game. And logging in every evening and only getting to play night time isn't really that fun. It would also add more "we should move over that side of the map to that factory for supplies when it's nightfall, we'll be more under cover" or "we should get out of here before it's daylight" which right now doesn't really apply because the cycle is so long. Logging in EVERY day and having to play moonless nights isn't fun after a couple of days.

Thermometer/Chemistry icon - anyone know what it is?

When switching backpacks, scroll wheel Open backpack, and open your backpack, then switch everything from your backpack to the one on the floor using the arrow buttons. Then pick up backpack. Easy. No more losing items or losing your dropped backpack full of stuff.

You can disconnect out of the game to the lobby without disconnecting from the server. So it's entirely possible he just tried to respawn as usual "Abort, disconnect, OK, voila back ingame" and ended up at a previous save and still alive.

Blood Bags allow you to give other people blood transfusions, always puts you to max blood (12000) but can't use them on yourself. Tins of food give 200 blood each. Cooked meat gives 800-900 blood per.

We do the same squid, as soon as one of us dies we camp the body and destroy anyone who gets close, and either wait for them to run back or take it halfway to them. We've been toying with the spawns and seeing how close/far away we need to be to encourage spawning, it tends to be if you're too close nothing will spawn? But if you're too far away the area seems to be "inactive" and nothing much will spawn including zombies. Hopefully we'll get some NVG's soon, only one in our group has them and we're all sick of hearing "night time? WELL THAT DOESN'T MATTER TO ME I'VE GOT NVG's"

Yes theres an option to save it. It should stay on that server forever already, unless it gets stolen. Just database problems cause it to disappear occasionally.

According to the cheat sheet they also spawn at heli crash. We do the same at airfield but have yet to find any, generally trash like AKM's, CCO's and Kobras.

NVGs!! It's all I need. Where are you guys finding them? Every chopper wreck I come across has no loot.

They're not really "wells". Just more like metal pumps sticking out of the ground on a small sandy-coloured platform.