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For some reason if I launch the game using DayZ Commander it fails to connect, BUT when I go into menus and connect through normal browser it works. After I turned on DayZ Commanders ability to run the game through steam, it connected straight away! Do not know if this will work for everyone but worth a shot!

Thanks for the reply. I was sure I had played on servers without PV, or at least where it was "turned down" i.e. did not show people that are hundreds of meters away and behind a wall.

I have a few questions about difficulty, the answers to which might be good to add to the first post. For Mercenary, what is the setting for Peripheral Vision? Are there different levels for PV or just ON/OFF? Second, what does the armor setting mean?

The topic says it all really: is loot spawning based on server population? Has this type of variable perhaps been added recently. Do not get me wrong, I would support such a feature (i.e. good loot spawning less frequently on lower populated servers), because it is a good way to prevent people to simply hop on servers with few people and raiding the hot spots. I simply wonder because as server pop decreased when me and some friends were playing last night, the amount of empty cans just seemed to rise to ridiculous numbers. Maybe it was just a coincidence?

Our camp on DE77 has been gone for almost a whole day, and it is currently getting dark which I am pretty sure is not the right time. Any word on what is going on from the admins?

If you survive the zombies but not the players, did you win at the survival game? Anyway I thought we were becoming friends but I guess not. I leave you with this video of me killing a zombie with a bicycle.

Nowhere is it described in those words. However, from the twitter page: "The first and thus best, free-roaming, survival mod for Arma 2. Comes with a free side order of Zombies" Also I have received no PM yet :(

So the server has been down most of today and the restarts are still messing with the server time. We have set up camp on this server and have a lot of stuff on it... what is going to happen with it?

Thanks for this list, I can't imagine why people play this game with any of those things enabled. I would really like to get in touch with the admin of DK1 SOEBORG, anyone got any tips?

I am not really arguing against that wanton PKing is pointless, I am simply saying that it is unavoidable in a game like this. The current state of the game lets PKs abuse game mechanics (or lack thereof) so that the playing field is not level. Things will calm down when they can no longer Alt-F4 to survive any situation and simply hop on another server and start again. This is the current state of this alpha however, so if you want to play you have to accept it and find ways to deal with it. I am not sure what you are trying to say here. I am suggesting that you should learn the rules of the game and adapt to them. Yes we all suffer under the dictatorship of the game mechanics. Some of us choose to try to understand them while others go on the forums and whine. I am not the best nor have I claimed to be so. I think my longest survival time so far is 2 days. The point is that I accept it when I die and try to learn from it. Again' date=' as opposed to whining about it. Perhaps you should not ask others to bear the responsability of your survival, but make it your own?

Another tip for those who do not like getting killed by snipers: play on a server that does not allow 3rd person. It actually confuses me why it is even available as an option in a mod like this. It allows you to easily spot people before they have a chance to spot you (because you can look around a wall or ledge that you are hidden behind) which to me contradicts the very basic gameplay design. Unfortunately there are way too few servers that turn off 3DP, but if people start poking server admins more then that could change. My hope is that it is turned off completely in the future. Either way I will certainly never play on a server where it is turned on.

Discussing why bandits kill anyone is pointless. If you are going to play this game the first thing you have to do is simply accept that there will always be people who take pleasure in killing you. If you cannot handle that then this game is not for you. After you have accepted this then you can start acting accordingly. Assume that there is always a sniper on the hill/rooftop. Assume that those shots you just heard being fired were meant for you. Do not take unneccesary risks, do not stay in high loot areas for long and keep on the move. Find people to play as a group with. If you want more tips on how to survive feel free to PM me. ;)

I have survived several trips to Cherno, Elektro and other hotspots on highly populated servers. I have gone in both alone without gear and together with friends and better gear. Me and my friends have now twice set up camp on a server and gathered resources for our new players. Sure we die sometimes but mostly it is because of bugs or being careless. I am certain we could do it again even starting out fresh if we had to. Certainly bandits have some undue advantages because of loging out and server hopping, and I do long for the day when that is dealt with because then we will really be able to turn the table on these people. However, when you play DayZ and repeatedly die you should be taking note of how and where you died and think about why it happened. Learn from it and you will become a better player. Stop repeating your mistakes. Stop thinking like this is any other game you have played the last 10 years. It is not at all impossible to survive in the current state of the game, even though a lot people in this thread seem to think so. Me and my friends, and a whole lot of other people are the evidence.

It is too bad direct communication is not working or things may have turned out differently. I really hope there is a fix for that soon. Anyway kudos to the guy for not logging out, it seems every time I manage to turn the table on someone they manage to disappear.

This happened to both me and my friend on different servers, and in 1.7.1.5. Both times were in Berezino.

Playing on DE77 voice chat seems broken as well, tried it with some friends but they could not hear me.

This happened to my friend as well, instant death while prone under a fir tree.

Even UTC-8 would fit a lot better, though -6 is probably optimal. Also it seems we were getting different server times when we were playing together earlier, which just seems very odd. Is this something you have heard of before.

This seems to carry a great risk of affecting players who have done nothing wrong, as well as not helping against griefer bandits server hopping to get free kills all over the place. This to me is the much bigger issue with server hopping.

Just another day in the Zone.

I just want to say that I think this is an excellent idea but that it is probably a bit too early for this kind of endevour, with all the hacks and exploits still available to unserious players. Still I wish you the best of luck!

Out of all the things that can be done I feel that fixing disconnections to bail out of fights and server hoping would be the most effective. That would bring down the amount of random killing since people would have to start taking larger risks. A lot of the people that are going on murder streaks for the fun of it are doing it now because they are also the kind of people who will gladly expoit these features in order to stay alive. So they kill some people on one server and if things start getting hot, disconnect under fire and go on another server. Before something is done about those two, I think a lot of this discussion is moot. People hunting PKs cannot use these mechanics against the PKs so the playing field is not level. Just for the record, I am totally against any kind of in game mechanic that punishes you for killing survivors.

If you removed the loot and full PvP, this game would completely fall on its head because these things are the very essence of what makes the game interesting. I have played in this type of enviroment for a long time, since Ultima Online back in the day and many after that. As Legacy says, the only way is to rise up, create your own groupings, and punish those who kill indescriminately. Developers of games with full loot and unlimited PvP tend to end up limiting these very aspects of the game in a variety of ways, often after players who cannot handle losing their gear whine and whine and whine. Ultima Online completely broke the core mechanics of their game when they started allowing "insurance" of items and more. We have seen a huge influx of players lately and with that comes the downside of getting a lot of "bad" players. People will try and bend and break this game in every way possible, BUT this is not really a bad thing because it will teach the developers what they need to protect themselves against. I just hope that whenever a way to abuse game mechanics is found, time is taken to consider a good way to protect regular players against this abuse without detrimenting their game experience. Currently this game is ripe for abuse, which is not strange considering it is in alpha. You can log out and flank enemies on another server, you can disconnect in the middle of a firefight to survive etc. My hope is that the solutions to these problems and the many more that will pile up do not turn the game away from its core mechanics, but instead build around them or even add to them. I have not enjoyed a game this much for many years, even in its current state, and I hope to be along for a very long ride!

I have a question - I run DayZ through the 6 launcher, and I have noticed that it starts up fine even if steam is not running (I own Arma II and Combined Operations on Steam). However, lately I have felt like my weapons do less damage and that I die very easily from taking hits... is it possible that if I start the game with the 6 launcher and do not have steam running that it detects it as a pirate version and thus degrades my game?

It seems to me that putting the day/night cycle at about 16 hours would solve this (or somethign along those lines). 16 hours would mean that if you log on at regular hours you will be in a cycle where you log in at tree different times of day, on day four it will be the same time of day as day 1, etc. This will give variation to everyone but still maintain long days where you have plenty of time to do things.