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All good points. And, I'm sure there are many others. I certainly agree that you should not be able to make it back to your body. I think that would be cheating. And, i think the main demographic are people that have enough experience with computers/games to use a map and find their friends again. Just takes a while. And, i also agree it would change the dynamic of the game to some degree. But, i had the understanding that there would be some significant changes as they were just temporary and limited to what the arma2 engine would allow for. And, i have no idea which is which. I play with my niece/nephew (10 and 12) and i also play with my mother-in-law (55). All of which are just occasional/social players and it can just be a bit much to find them sometimes. Because they don't have the ability to read/use maps and/or figure their positions and figure out which direction they are or need to go. That sort of thing. And, then after you do meet up, some one just gets killed by a bandit while you loot a deer stand or something menial. Obviously, they get "better." But they will never be the best of players and they don't get to enjoy the game as much because of that. Granted, this isn't pong and requires some thinking. But, i didn't feel like being able to make it somewhere in under 30 minutes would be so harshly criticized. I'd love it if the map were even bigger. Hell 10 times the size. But, if something like this weren't done, it would be near impossible to meet up with friends and make team play near impossible. But, this obviously has come up already and was shot down. So, it's a closed matter. I'd like to find those threads, though. And, i apologize for posting something that has already come up. I really couldn't find anything. Which i thought was weird.

Wow. Didn't expect my post to lure nothing but trolls. And, i used the search feature. couldn't find a single related thread.

Not an exact position by any means, but 2 fresh spawns could literally be 45+ minutes away and that's if you know the map well. I think the spawns points should be random, BUT within specified parameters. Perhaps divide the map in to 4 or 9 sections, and you can choose the ZONE you would like to spawn in. If it must be on the coast, then don't make the whole map available as a "zone." Each character could possibly even choose his "home" position so that any time you die, you would always spawn somewhere in that zone. If the zombie apocalypse happened, i would likely be within so many miles between home, work, and/or school. I say this because it is much more enticing to play the game with friends. And, especially if they are new to the game, can be a bit much to reach them in a relative amount of time. Besides, if a zombie apocalypse occurred, i would likely be near some friends and/or people i could trust. I understand that this could give some people an unfair advantage. But, i think it would make it more fun AND more realistic.

I've been having the same problem but only in those few places. I've noticed it in Berezino on separate occasions (1.7.2.3 and 1.7.2.4) and recently in Stary Sobor but ONLY when i was close to or looking at the military tents. In berezino, it was the entire city to some extent but you could not even approach the hospital (with the military camp next to it). I figured it was a bug but I'll play with some of the graphics card/game settings like you guys have had. I just wanted to put this out there. I play with 2 other people as well. One gets the problem. The other doesn't.

It appears that the server crashing disabled it from communicating everyones character info. I logged in today and still had all my stuff. So, all good.

Server: US 470 Atlanta Time: 2am central US time (UTC -600) on 7/25/12 Description: Someone killed everyone on the survey instantly and then I (and presumably everyone) lost connection to the server. When i died (instantly), i saw 20-30 other players names scroll through saying they "has been killed" as well. My best guess would be that whoever had the access made everyone commit suicide. When going back to the lobby i could here other players talking about it as well. We all knew what happened. And, shortly after, i got the error that I haven't recieved any connection from the server in XX seconds. My last 3 deaths have been hacks on different servers. oh well. i suppose i didn't anything irreplaceable. lol

This happened around 12:20am (central US time). The morning of 7/23/12. I'm sitting under a tree looking at my map when I hear a bunch of noise and gunshots and just assume that a couple of guys have found me. When i exit my map, i'm in the middle of the airstrip and I saw dead bodies everywhere. I hit print screen to save a screen shot but it apparently won't copy those correctly. I had aborted the second i saw this so I survived. But, i talked in chat for a short while and I think that someone was teleporting everyone to them and he/they were having target practice with everyone. I could actually be wrong about the server. But, i'm about 95% sure it was this one. Perhaps someone else will also comment on it. This is my second cheat post in a relatively short amount of time. But, i promise they are legitimate. I never have issues during the daytime when I play. It seems the griefers like to come on after midnight for me.

1) server this happened on: US 38 Texas Hosted by NeoGAF.com 2) Time: 1:20 AM on the morning of 7/20. That's Central standard US time. (UTC -600) 3) I died instantly. I had cover, no gunshot, no drama, just insta death. I also saw many people dieing beforehand and thought nothing of it. Then, when I respawned, I saw something not normal. I saw a massive fire and smoke right off the coast. When, i got closer, it looked like a straight line of fire (like napalm had been dropped). And, after getting to close(?) i died again. I have plenty of video if you need more detail.

I try to stick to Texas servers and prefer a server that stays daytime until 2-3am cst because of my late work hours. Anyways, been playing the Chalas server and I stumbled across this thread. And, it looks like pretty much what I was looking for. If your still looking for a few more fellow survivors, I'd like to group up. Got a buddy that I always play with that would probably be interested, too. SteamID = VCRController