Cloud (DayZ)

In my opinion, it barely matters what guns do besides their damage because there are almost no shootouts whatsoever. In my case that is. I'd say I've had 120+ hours on this game and maybe 1-2 minutes of that total playtime was there a actual shootout. Shootout: Two(+) players know each other's positions and shoot at each other. Most PVP deaths (70-90%) are caused by killing somebody without the victim even knowing that the killer was even in his vicinity.

Do a 360 degree horizon sweep with a L85's thermal scope and mistake a bunny for a proned player.

Suggestion: Have the server check if players are using a legit skin. ( eg: Ghillie Suit, Camo Outfit, Civilian Clothing) and I guess in Rocket's case.. that Red Beret dude. If a player is caught using an illegal model have the Hive record it and further actions will be taken later. Reason: Too many times have I been killed by hackers with military clothing/pilot suit/red beret dude. I've been stalked by people morphed into dogs as well... Also: What happens if a hacker transforms people into an illegal skin? (eg: sheep,dog,cow, etc.., what was mentioned before..) Well this is a hole in my suggestion. :/ Open to ideas though. I am unfamiliar with the engine of Arma II and the way the game is coded but if it's possible it would be nice.

Hackers cause more worse stories.

Me and 4 others (last time 7 of us) died yet again to an invincible hacker. Multiple recordings (fraps and stream) of us hitting him and we can visibly see blood. We lose our NVGs, Range finders, Gps, best guns.. etc.. AGAIN. Last time this happened was only 2 days ago.

Don't forget guys of how fragile helicopters are. You can ever so gently rub the side of a tree and part(s) of the Helicopter will be orange/red. You can take a CZ 550 and hit the body of the Rotor/Engine and it will be orange/red. Take a AS50 or M107 and shoot the helicopter anywhere.. it'll take less than a clip to take down.

Yeah they are overpowered. I flew one for 4 hours with four other buddies and found so many hidden camps and vehicles. (I didn't even know the radar at the top left identified vehicles/tents etc... I just looked straight down lol). I'm glad though that you can literally just look up at a helicopter with a CZ550 and take out its rotor. And.. if you have a M107 or especially a AS50 you can literally just shoot it down.

Step 1: Exit steam, or to be safe go offline. Launch Steam as Administrator. Go to Arma II (the original) and right click and go to Properties. Click on Local Files tab --> click on Verify Integrity of Game Cache. It will say "1 File failed to validate and will be retrieved" Now Launch Arma II as a standalone game (ie just launch Arma 2 and not with combined operations). You can now play Arma II without getting that error. Step 2: Repeat Step 1 but for Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead. Repeat it exactly. Step 3: Launch Arma 2:Operation Arrowhead with Combined Operations. It will work.

I'm sure if helicopters were re-introduced into the game it would be more publicized. I think it's safe to say natural helicopter spawns aren't in the game again yet.

I'm not saying I flew a hacked-in heli that I didn't spawn (I really didn't spawn it) but me and 4 others (me as pilot, but the heli doesn't exist so how could i of piloted it?) flew all around chernarus doing some badass raiding. I landed next to crashed helis.. landed next to markets.. I even landed right on the factory rooftop that's south east of Polana. Desyncs happened every few minutes except for the pilot (me but I didn't pilot anything) but when the desyncs happened.. it looks like I crash the heli or whatever for others but for me (the pilot) I never desync. I really don't know what the problem is with helis other than the desyncing issue which is just a pseudo-reality when it happens as everybody resyncs a few seconds later. :) Oh and Helicopters are awesome other than the fact you can just just look straight down and see EVERY SINGLE THING through the miles of trees. Can see stashed vehicles and tents easily. Sorta kills the point of spending hours trying to find a hidden camp.

My story is me and 6 others playing for a week, having 20+ of the best guns, tons of ammo, all tool belt items, a bus, 2 atvs, and then die because of a hacker

7 souls 4 as50s 2 atvs 20+ m107 clips 2 rangefinders 8 coyote backpacks 3 m107s m4 cco 7 mk rounds 9 ghillies 2 dmrs 1 mk 1 bus 9 nvgs 6 gps 2 mks Fucking hackers. Respawned and Cherno is on fire.

Found it a unnatural-spawn-looking place. Right on the dirt road by a barn lol. Is it a hacked into game gun? It's not in the dayzwiki.

I was rolling with my decked out group, 7 of us, all ghillies, l85s, mks, as50s, gps, nvgs, etc.. in a bus and we came across someone on the coast bleeding out. We stopped the bus, one of us bandaged him another blood bagged him. He then said 'Thanks' and got on our bus without even asking lol. We then drive to some barn west of Solnichniy and we drop him off. He says thanks again. End of story. My first and only act of kindness so far of playing DayZ for a month. Every other player I just shot cause they would of shot me if I didn't take them out..

Uh oh now I'm scared, I have an AS50 with 18 clips on me.. and I just found and equipped a Ghillie suit. On another note, I've lost 2 l85's, 4 m107's, and a mk 48 in the past 30 hours because of glitchy shittiness of servers or mod bugs