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I tried to come back to DayZ after a few months of not playing, and I saw that the DayZ mod was now available through Steam, so supposedly there s no need for Commander or Six Updater. I really like the idea of only using Steam. But, it's not working. Connecting failed on every server, every time. I launched Arma2 and OA, verified integrity of game cache, installed the newest beta patches manually. I don't know what else to do. I also did a netsh winsock reset, and restarted my PC and Steam. I also run Steam as an admin. What do? I will update this post with a solution once I find one that works. EDIT::: Resolved, shitty Windows 8 firewall was blocking the app and not telling me about it.

So I was sneaking around Cherno with a Winny and patrol pack when I hear 2 guys firing AKMs into a giant train of zombies entering a house. I tried contacting them via DC but they wouldn't respond. So I took them both out with headshots before they knew where I was coming from. Lo and behold, GPS and NVGs!!!!11!!!111 Problem is, I'm in the middle of Cherno on a busy server, I dont have a large pack and have no medical supplies whatsoever. Should I risk going to the medical tents or can i get some medical supplies in another place besides Berezino and Elektro?

Tomorrow. 2pm. Cherno grocery. DE 22. COME AT ME BRO!

It was taken down because of reasons.

I have a UAZ on that server, but it seems to have disappeared. (the server, not the vehicle)... I also have a couple of tents hidden on that server as well.

Bird, bird, bird...

Given enough time, any high-profile internet thread will devolve into either idiotic rehashed arguments about religion or politics or other ad hominem-ridden drivel. What seems to be a common characteristic is this mind-numbingly irritating tendency of people to post shit that they haven't spent more than 2 seconds thinking about. Said shit then irritates other readers and stirs the same reaction, making it a vicious cycle where people can't seem to refrain from swearing at each other's dumb faces. Case in point. Anyway yes, technically we are not ENTITLED anything but complete radio silence without prior explanation from rocket on the forums/twitter for what - 4 days now? Come on, that is understandably something people will be annoyed at considering how active he has been at communicating in the past.

Oi! You! Rocket! Come oooon, throw us a bone here :)

This.

After a LOT of running without a compass and checking the map using roadsigns, I finally made it. Where do you guys reckon is the best loot? Also, should I just sprint into the zombles and hope I can find a good weapon before they eat my dextrous butt or sneak? If I sneak I guess I have to wait for the 1.7.1.5 hotfix. I only have 4 slugs in my double-barrel weapons-wise. :D

Come on, Rocket.... At least say SOMETHING.

(Today 10:40 AM)MuteMan Wrote: (Today 10:27 AM)AchtBead Wrote: In Fallout there was a mechanic where you couldn't wait or go to sleep if there were enemies nearby. Why not implement this for D/Cers? Good suggestion, but a flawed idea. People would use this to detect if there are people close to them. I think the only simple way to implement a deterrent is to have a really long egg timer appear before being able to disconnect. Leaving yourself exposed to being shot and unable to react. ---Why on earth should you be unable to react? That's not necessary. Make it so that you can stop the timer and react to whatever at any time you want, but in order to disconnect, you eventualy need to wait through the entire timer.

Exhausted after a hard day's looting and my first vehicle find. Excuse the graphics, I'm playing on an old laptop.

^THIS. Considering the fact that Rocket will be on the PC Gamer livestream playing DayZ with the BIS developers later today, I think it's somewhat safe to assume that the update should be releaed in the next four hours... Or perhaps the livestream will be a live closed test? That would be fun too.

The only things I now of that I can't find are: GPS, rangefinder, ghillie, NVGs. And ALL vehicles. Seriously, I have 45 hours played of this game via Steam and I have not found a single vehicle. I found a bicycle once but as I was running towards it the server reset... I've visited over 6 vehicle spawns and no luck, been all over the map. I've even started walking on the outskirts of the debug forest hoping to find an off-the-map hoarder's cache but no luck..

First off, let me say that before this happened I had zero player kills. Ever. I was killed by unresponsive or traitorous bandits 11 times before this, and wasn't about to take any more crap. So anyway, had just spawned but found an AKM at the med tents near Balota, made my way to Cherno and started hearing a lot of AKM gunshots. Made my way to them carefully and then saw - in the nick of time, as I thought - a guy on top of one of the fire stations. I managed to go prone in the grass before he looked my way and, after about 10 second sof having him in my sights, took the shot. Alas, my Bandits killed: counter stayed at 0, but my murder count went up by 1.... :( So yeah. Sorry. On a side note, It would be good if the killfeed showed one's killer once again. It's not much of an immersion breaker and it makes revenge somewhat possible.

Zombies running inside buildings... Seriously? Their max speed had better be halved then.

To whoever shot at me at the NW airfield on CZ121 - I aborted the game just in time (I don't have a problem with doing that when I get shot without warning by a POS kill-on-sight bandit). I will return when you least expect it and send your ass back down to the beaches.

I feel like the bandit leaderboards are counter-productive. Correct me if you think I'm wrong, but I think that a leaderboard like that is a huge incentive for people coming from games like Call Of Duty to just kill every survivor they find. Sure, it's a cool stat but if it's going to affect gameplay by making every player hostile, maybe it should be reconsidered.

You're making assumptions that are not warranted. Yes, you DO know their intentions in this case - I should have been more clear, let me explain. I am talking about the fuckers who kill you without a word when you try to contact them. This has happened to me 5 times now, in my 2 days of playing. Whatever. You are obviously one of the bandits that will not be remotely affected by the removal of the leaderboards. But some might kill just for the stats, and that's what the issue is.

I don't understand why silenced weapons take specific rounds. Is that a realistic thing? I do not know too much about guns but it doesn't seem logical to me that silenced weapon would require special ammo, since the silencer is often just an aftermarket addon... If it's an attempt to stop them being overpowered, just make them slightly rarer - they're very rare as it is - but allow them to use regular rounds.