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So where is the admin that kicked him? There's no reason he should be unable to comment on the situation. He can make a new username on the forums just like you and CaTFisH did.

The first 3 are from before we killed the guy who appeared in the camp. The last ones are when the server was going down (a few minutes past killing whoever spawned), then a few shortly after the server went back up. Did you not see the screenshots where I had the Ural after the server reset? :P Nothing's hard to find for someone not walking straight to the NW Airfield or Chern. Over 800m? And you're calling bs? Nobody I know has ever died randomly joining into a server – sometimes I have died from somebody killing me while loading in, but that's another story. My friend was in the middle of nowhere, safe in a forest. It is awfully fishy how the person that killed a clanmember trying to defend the camp dies the first time he joins after the server's been down all day. Also fishy how the same person was kicked right after killing the clanmember, and none of you have commented on that yet.

PHOTO DUMP I arrived an hour after my friend stumbled upon this area. Here are a bunch of screenshots with commentary. Arriving at the site, you can see a truck & motorcycle on one side and the gigantic tent area on the other. A tractor, 2 buses, UAZ, Ural Truck, and other things. Sorry for the windows media player stuff - I didn't have any actual screenshots so I just took them from the video I recorded. More tents. Playerlist showing a few bTd clanmembers in after the server after my friend killed the clan member (may have been bTd iFistUrDad, but I'm not sure because I stopped recording when that happened – but it was definitely a bTd member) and got kicked. Before this incident there were no bTd members on. Screenshot of the scoreboard while the server was being shut down. Note the timestamp in top left. A screenshot 3-4 minutes later (note the timestamp), after the server went back up. The scoreboard reset when the server did. I managed to find the Ural truck but I lost the UAZ. After everything cooled down, I got a screenshot of the loot we piled in, after finding out it was hacker spawn. Note the SVD (camo) and SVD Camo. I don't think the SVD (camo) exists in DayZ - it's not on the wiki. The only difference between the SVD Camo and SVD (camo) is that the (camo) had desert camo on the gun. Here's the imgur album: http://imgur.com/a/8zVga Summary: unless you like hackers, don't donate to Brothers til Death :P http://www.brotherstildeath.com/donations ◄▬ >:(

because the regular (mostly mature) arma 2 player wouldnt destroy his own game... lol I think he's referring to the OP, also stop acting so full of yourself.

Yep, this guy is a hacker. I took the screenshots. It's worth noting how the first 5 times Zero was killed, it says "friendly fire", and my friend (Rock God 64) said his murders/bandits killed never changed in the 3 times he killed him. I didn't get a screenshot, but the last time he died it gave the standard "Zero was killed". He left the server shortly after.

BUMPING

In Vegas, I use 8Mbps .wmv. Edit the preset that comes with it to make sure the resolution is 1920x1080 (default is 1440x1080 I believe), and set it to VBR (variable bitrate). It's what I use and my videos look basically flawless when uploaded to youtube. If you need more help, reply. I'm at work so the instructions are as specific as I could remember off the top of my head

no

Good idea. My modification on it: when you are facing another player, there should be some ~30 degree cone in which your voice travels ~50-100m. If you aren't facing a player, it travels the normal 20m.

No. The reason it is how it is is so you don't kill a player solely for their skin. I know player killing is shitty at the moment (for others mostly, not for me), but that's something else to discuss and shouldn't have an impact on this decision. Giving in to this (getting skins from dead guys) follows the mentality of "oh, pvp is really high and it's rare to find a friendly, might as well make it even harder to team up". It's giving another incentive to kill.

I'm surprised this thread isn't more popular. Agree with OP 100%. One suggestion I have for increased communication is a complete weapon holster option. I know there is double-tap ctrl to lower your primary, but I'm thinking of something more than that. A way to appear completely unarmed, and render yourself vulnerable (would take +/- 3 seconds to get your gun out for shooting), but appear friendly to any player. Of course, bandits/dickheads would shoot if they saw you were an easy target & had your weapon holstered, but I think it would be a step in the right direction for facilitating more face-to-face player interaction. As it is now, other survivors appear too dangerous.

same problem.

Yes yes yes. It's only happened to me once when changing my video settings, trying to get better FPS/fix the wire fence glitch, but when it did I was really pissed.

2nd one without a doubt. "I survived.." is really obnoxious.