bluesydave

I love some of the ideas pilgrim and others are coming up with for this! I don't play games just for the immersion, I play to socialise. And I'm really missing that at the moment. Joining Clans and Teamspeak is fine if you can be arsed for each server you join, but it's too much of a hassle for me, and I find it a bit restrictive. I want a fairly universal easy way of chatting to people on the server without having to add steam friends or teamspeak groups etc. I think the radio idea will work really well, even it's a 'limited by range' version of side chat, much better than nothing. As to text vs. voice - text should definitley be there I think. Voice will depend on how they work out ways of blocking people blasting herebert the pervert samples down their mics.

Maybe it could inculde muting individual players again. But I wonder if it could be done so that, say 10 people muting an annoying player gets their voice chat disabled for a week :-)

I agree regarding voice chat, I'm just talking about the text version though.

I agree, and I think many German troops would have been quite isolated from what the Nazi Party was truly up to. There was little communication apart from word of mouth in those times.

I hope so, as I used to really enjoy the banter. I treated it as something aside to the authenticty and immersivness of the game itself, if you get my drift. It just a nice was nice way of socialising, outside the 'game experience'. I find myself playing for hundres of hours now with barely any social interaction with other players (not players' characters, but players). If folks want a strict, authentic reasoning behind having a type of side chat, maybe everyone should spawn with a mobile phone instead of a torch? ;-p

    You're right we should choose a server that has the best universal ping for everyone. Any suggestions? You're right we should choose a server that has the best universal ping for everyone. Any suggestions? I was thinking more like a survivor hang out zone with a mutual no KOS policy among fellow survivors, but possibly where people might still have to fend off bandits. I know it's probably a bit over optimistic, but I'd really like to see a bit more community interaction going on. It's just an idea to be chewed over though and open to altenatives!

Damn, you're on to me.

I didn't realise they already happened. Sounds like a good laugh.

Hi, I've been an artist in the games industry for nearly 25 years. Seeing as I'm out of work with depression, I thought I might create a couple of zombies for the Mod (or the standalone), but I can't seem to find a download link for the Real Virtuality Game Engine anywhere. I would need an existing character model to use as a basis for the binding pose, how many polygons are used and that kind of thing. Can anyone help me out please? All the best, Dave Hall :beans:

Thanks PurePassion!

Thanks folks, will take a look now.

I'm back again... I love this game.

I haven't seen a water bottle for 3 or 4 days. Is this to do with this build, or just a coincidence? I've seen more heli crash sites than water bottles... Armed to the teeth but thirsty.

I've been playing for weeks and never killed another player yet. Due to my misguided faith in humanity, I always give people the benefit of the doubt in case they want to team up (by which time they've usually shot me while I'm fumbling for the salute key, hehe). I Iove the challenge of avoiding players intent on shooting me though, paranoia is great, other wise you would only be scared where there were zombies In real life you'd be able to suss someone out as a bandit by body language etc. Maybe we could do with an in-game clue with people who've killed a lot of players, but more subtle than bandit skins - just ruminating... I think at the moment the fact that everyone looks the same, and you get shot by a lot of people in baseball hats, it's snowballed into slightly too much paranoia. Everyone is killing each other on sight.whereas I'd hoped for a few more oppurtunities for cooperation in more random encounters. (off topic - I had the spawniest luck tonight up by NW airfield - only three others on server, found M107 and Bizon at heli crash site, massive backpack, loads of gear, then found some tents at entrance to airfield, left them the M107 as present, and took DMR (first time I've found one - wanted to try it) then got killed by a couple of strangley spawning zombies - all was lost, but lo and behold I spawned in Novy Sobor due to that bug, and managed to leg it back to the airfield and loot my own corpse)

correction, died and then had all my gear on respawn.

I'm iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin. I've lost all my gear and started on the beach, but I don't care any more. Just gald to be back playing. I can get in via steam or six launcher again now. I'm on 1.7.2.3 94876. Thanks for the suggestions.

Thanks, am redownloading and reinstalling at moment, if that doesn't work will give it a try! See you in six hours hehe.

NOW crashes I mean at the end.

Arma II has stopped working! Hello, I've been trying everything I can think of for the last few hours to get this working. Yesterday I could play through SixLauncher but not Steam, after trying to fix this I can't either to work without crashing. I updated with the six launcher 1.7.2.3 yesterday, and manually updated to Beta 94945. I tried updating the battleeye for this also. Today I tried reverting to 94876 and it started crashing after the loading screen where it says recieving files. I noticed that if i launched from steam and sixlauncher both had different beta versions, so I wondered if there was a conflict? As it stands I have: Deleted and reintalled battleeye Deleted and reinstalled @DayZ in the arma ii OA folder, Deleted and reinstalled manually beta 94876 (checked launching game via steam lib) Updated six launcher also so it's reinstalled 1.7.2.3 (this now shows 94876 when I launch game via Six Launcher). Whatever way I launch the game I get 'ARMA II HAS STOPPED WORKING' and it crashes. Does anyone have any ideas as to what else I could try? Am I missing something? Help would be much appreciated. Even reverting to 94945 which was ok with six launcher yesterday, no crashes. Thanks Dave.

Same here actually, haha, I spoke too soon when I said it still worked on six launcher. Been going round in circles, downgraded to 94876, got same as you 'arma 11 crashing, deleting and reinstalling battle eye, deleting and reinstalling dayz. 94876 still crashing so I'm going to try 94945 again now.... fingers crossed!!

Thanks Hombre, Sorry for the late reply. Have just tried the above, but it still doesn't seem to work. I quit steam completely before I overwrote the files, then restarted it. I still seem to be having the same problem. I can play still through six launcher though so not a major problem.

Hello, I've updated both through the Six Launcher and also manually (94945) just to be sure. If I try and play through Steam I get stuck on 'Wait for host' indefinitley. If I play through the Six Launcher it works fine. Dave.

Hello I'm not a bandit either. I don't think I've killed another player yet. I'll add some of yon Steam in case you want to join up. My steam name is Bluesydave My in game name is Roadkill

Hello Folks Bluesydave on Steam Roadkill in game Love this game