Rowrin

Yeah, updated to latest beta, batteye and 1.7.2.5 and almost every server I join I get kicked from with no other explaination; when I do connect, arma2 crashes. Edit: Something might be wrong with the 1.7.2.5 update; in the main menu, in the bottom right, the game still shows it is running 1.7.2.4. Edit 2: Fixed by completely removing dayz and reinstalling 1.7.2.5

Lol admin of that server is so sad. I wonder if he will uninstall now for being terrible. Poor guy. xD

Yeah, stored a bunch of junk in my tent, something like 8-10 cans of food, 6-8 sodas, 1 m4, 1 m9, 1 as50, 6 stanag mags, 4 m9 mags, 4 m107 mags, 2 blood bags, 2 as50 nato mags. I basically put my entire inventory in there because I wanted room while I foraged for vehicle parts. Saved multiple times. Logged off for about 40 minutes, and heared from my friend that the server had just restarted. Waited to get back on and the tent was completely empty. /sad panda. All i got left is an enfield and waterbottle.

So yeah, I guess I ended up picking the best sniper vantage point over Electro as the ideal location to set up my tent. All in all: I died twice. I killed 3 snipers, one of which alt-f4's as he died so i couldn't loot his body :\ the 4th sniper kills Ilthane before he and his friends leave server. One bystander gets caught in the crossfire :\ whoops. I'm pretty sure these guys were item duping cause all 4 of them had silenced m9's, silenced m4's, AS50's, NV goggles, rangefinders and ghillie suits but whatev.

It was so weird, like... there were 4 of them on that hill all suposedly watching eachothers back or something and every time i sneak up to the sniper I am able to kill it before they realise I'm there xD.

Probably just lag, I encountered similar thing in the cherno general store. guy opened up on me from the back corner of the store while i was behind the counter, i started unloading into them and realized my bullets weren't doing anything so i just chilled for a moment behind the counter since it was able to block the bullets. 2-3 seconds later the player's character looked like it teleported or warped a meter or so to the left and when i shot at it they finally died.

Killed 3 of 4 snipers in a group yesterday out on electro. They were on the hill behind the fire dept and shot at me as i was running up. All I had to do was go around the hill, and come up behind them from the top. ezpz. I ended up with a silenced m4, silenced m9, as50, night vision, rangefinder, and all the kewl gizmos/gadgets. It isn't hard to kill off a sniper if you know there they are, just don't be stupid and charge them from across an open field.

Was this on us 717 by any chance?

Are you sure you just dont have it toggled? :o

I'm more in favor of 15-20 seconds but 5-10 is fine for most of the alt-f4 situations. 5 is kinda short but it is plenty of time for a sniper to line up a second shot. Most of the time, if the first shot doesn't kill or misses the guy is gone. standing still for 5 seconds as your character logs out makes you a sitting duck; hopefully more ppl run for cover now. That said, yeah you can run for cover and then alt-f4, but if you are sniping it isn't like you are going to break cover and run down to the guy to finish him off if he didn't quit anyway. You'd probably try and wait him out or look for another target. The only reason why you'd break cover and run down to a guy out of your vision is because you know he alt-f4'ed and would be completely vulnerable for 80+ seconds. I'd still be in favor of a cooldown on top of this. for example, not being able to rejoin for 2 minutes or something after logging off, but again, for most of the practical situations 5 seconds will work.

I believe Rocket disabled it with the latest patch (1.7.2.4). I'm pretty sure i read that the single player mode was a hack made by someone Rocket trusted with the game source or something and hackers ended up using it to test and develop other hacks. or something like that. Although that is some pretty good machinima.

Again, this was an Arma patch change not a Dayz one. So what does this have to do with anything mentioned?

Quality thread... 5 word OP... Damage Nerf has its own thread already and is an arma change not dayz. Fog has its own thread.

If you are standing still for the 2-3 seconds that it takes for a bullet to travel 1.5 km and somehow standing in plain sight. . . let alone 15 miles. . .

Just took a screenshot of the NWAF: Basically objects seem to stop rendering somewhere after 900 meters and all you can see is the ground. My render distance is at roughly 2000, post processing off, etc. The marker is at 903m. There should be the series of four hangars 50m behind that marker. The zombie in the picture is somewhere between 700 and 800 meters.

It is like half of that. I set myself up in an open clearing and tested on several servers with waypoints enabled to i can see how far I could scope. fog starts around 500-600m and you cant see past 800-900 meters. Maybe it is 1000m, but the fog gradually gets thicker from where it starts so you really cant see anything halfway through it.

Lame, anyone know if there are servers with the fog farther back? I thought something was wrong when I needed to be within 700-800m next to green mountain before i saw the radio tower.

you obviously have never tried sniping in arma2 before. This doesn't even hurt the bad snipers, it really only affects the good ones.

It has always been there, but it has never been this close before.

Yeah this is lame. Wanted to test out my m107 but alas cant see crap. . . I can see up to 500m without any fog, max i can see through the fog is 600-700m. Might as well have a cz550.

Was running around cherno, saw a few raised buildings which immediatly put me on edge, figured it was done a while ago. As i'm running in the field away from the hospital i hear what sounds like a jet or something almost on top of me. Knowing this isn't right i immediately dc. I come back and the hospital/apartments and field next to where I was standing were all on fire. Screenshot of the fire didn't catch for some reason and all i got was my desktop, used fraps to take a image of the lobby player list since i didn't want to reenter the world. Time: 1:50-2:05 PM pacific time Server: US125 hosted by Roosterteeth Edit: re-entered by accident so i ended up taking some screenshots of the aftermath. US125 ScreenShots.zip

Today i walked 12 kilo's to meet my friend, as I was about to switch servers me, allong with the entire server were teleported to 153153, aka the far bottom right of the map in the middle of the ocean. I immediately disconnected as bombs started falling, very much like grenades dropping into a barrel of fish. After a quick server hop, I swim 2.8 kilos to the nearest island. Water indicator blinking, food indicator in the red, 4000 blood later and a bad case of hypothermia I make it. 8 kilometers later and near electro after raiding the hospital for antibiotics, I log off this server so i can meet my friend. We both pick a server and upon logging in I realise that there is a lot of smoke comming from electro. I turn around and, oh look, the entire town is practically leveled. I immediately give my friend the "LEAVE THIS *(^&(ing SERVER NOW!!!" and in the abort menu group chat, the server inhabitants are qq'ing about bombs and nukes. I haven't played in about 4-5 weeks, friends just got arma since it was a summer sale on steam and decided now would be the best time to come back. If today is any indication of how hacking has grown in a month then there is a serious issue.

Yeah severs aren't showing up in arma2 either. Got a message error today something allong the lines of "Online support for Operation Arrowhead is currently unavailable". Looks like an arma thing. The server list server might be under maint. Was able to get on a few minutes ago, disconnected from a server cause my friend couldn't see any servers and when i got to the server screen they were all gone.

The only safezones that should exist are player/community created ones, not ones hard coded into the game. What makes DayZ unique is its attempt to stay as realistic as possible. It is just as much a psycological thriller as it is a zombie apocalypse one. If you want a safe zone, get a group of friends/survivors to secure an area on a server, maybe make a post about it to get more help, fortify it with barbed wire/sandbags, etc.

Ok, so Rocket or whoever removed the link for the previous versions of the dayzmod, however the files are still on the server. You can access them via the link below or by going to the download server, clicking on the link for latest, and replacing "latest" in your browser bar with "old": http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/ The versions are pretty scattered since unchanged files stay in latest. Here is a list of everything for each version i could track down: /////////////// Previous stable versions: /////////////// 1.6.0.1 you need: http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_anim_v0.1.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_code_v1.6.0.1.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_equip_v1.2.5.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_sfx_v1.1.2.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_v1.2.6.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_weapons_v1.1.2.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/latest/dayz_vehicles_v0.1.rar 1.7.0 you need: http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_anim_v0.1.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_code_v1.7.0.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_equip_v1.2.5.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_sfx_v1.1.2.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_v1.2.6.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_weapons_v1.1.2.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/latest/dayz_vehicles_v0.1.rar --------------- /////////////// Previous test builds of current version: /////////////// 1.7.1.0 you need: http://cdn.armafiles.info/latest/dayz_anim_v0.2.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_code_v1.7.1.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_equip_v1.3.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/latest/dayz_sfx_v1.2.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/latest/dayz_v1.3.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_weapons_v1.2.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/latest/dayz_vehicles_v0.1.rar 1.7.1.1 you need: http://cdn.armafiles.info/latest/dayz_anim_v0.2.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_code_v1.7.1.1.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_equip_v1.3.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/latest/dayz_sfx_v1.2.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/latest/dayz_v1.3.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/old/dayz_weapons_v1.2.rar http://cdn.armafiles.info/latest/dayz_vehicles_v0.1.rar ---------------