colinm9991

Even though I disagree with KoS, you're a very nice shot still.

I agree with you, I'm tired of seeing threads like "How to Fix KoS" which are posted at least 20 times a day, I'm tired of seeing the same bugs posted over and over again with end sentences like "IM NEVER PLAYING THIS AGAIN" etc. This poll is going to bring more disappointment though; the devs know what they are working on (which is server side optimization) and people are just going to get disappointed when they realize that half of what they've been reporting such as combat loggers, isn't even important as they think and won't be worked on until possibly full game release. I absolutely hate combat loggers myself, but the only way to ever stop it is for BI to make an operating system with no Alt+F4, no Task Manager, run it in a computer that's "Solar" powered off air and can never be opened; because regardless of what's put in the game, people will always be able to combat log; and keeping your character in a game for 10 seconds more would cause a lot of issues such as if a sniper is watching you ready to take a shot without your knowledge and you log without knowing there was a sniper.] Besides, we're not here to enjoy gameplay as of yet, we're here to stress test the hell out of the game and report bugs; even though I'm being a hypocrite now saying that (I've been playing for fun most of the time), it's true.

This is ridiculous, I'm going to be the only person who uses this sentence right, "This is Alpha"... The whole point of this isn't to add more loot to lag everybody to death, or more "goodies" for you people to run around with; only so you can make more threads complaining about more stuff because you died. It's about optimizing the SERVER SIDE architecture so that we can make room for more loot, zombies, weapons and security in the beta. P.S; How do you all propose we fix Combat Logging? I've seen ideas of keeping the body there for 10-15 seconds extra, is that so you can continue shouting in direct comms for an extra 10-15 seconds telling that person to put their hands up? How do you know there isn't a 10-15 second timer in now? My point is, it won't make a difference because you're still going to think he's active in game due to his character still being active in front of you.

You'd make a great administrator on the bug-tracker. Yes, "This is Alpha"; he is however posting a bug on the forums (Yes he also should be bug tracking it and not posting duplicate reports) so that the development team are aware. Sgt_Slaughter don't stoop low just because some people are pedantic, or ignorant idiots. There are a lot of problems with the server side architecture and databases; it'll be fixed when it's fixed I guess, no real time on anything yet. This isn't true either; the server saves in to the database when it's about to restart; it will only set you back about 100-200 meters or 1-2 minutes if you keep running during the yellow chain until the red one appears with "Lost connection", otherwise EVERYBODY would lose their gear in Standalone.

I like to give little stories to share and give thank you's so here I'll go; I was rendezvousing with my group at the North East airfield and I ran in the center gate where the first police station type building is; once inside I saw a person in the jail cell so I asked on team-speak "Who is that with the green back pack in the jail cell?" Another guy responded "Me" (Error in communications), the person in the jail cell put away their gun and waved as soon as my member in team-speak said "Me" so I was convinced. Whilst heading to the location my group was at near the command tower, I heard one of them shout "Get in, two people are coming down" so I informed them that it was me and the other guy, I was then asked "Who is the other guy?" so I knew then that it wasn't anybody in teamspeak (Thank you for not shooting me when you seen me, you could have but you didn't become like the rest of the KoS idiots). Initiative was to turn our weapons on him and ask him to get down in Direct Comms, he responded by disconnecting. I added him on steam so I could thank him for not killing me, then told him that he can group up with us if he likes, so he came back on and we grouped for a while. He then made a big mistake, he climbed up and down the ladder to the Command Tower, the ladder climb down killed him (I can't wait for that bug to be fixed, I want to climb ladders again). What you see in this video happened not long after he died, when we started clearing the food and supplies off his body.

I have yet to find any of those items; I stick with the traditional black tactical clothing for an urban environment.

I often see 5-10 Long Range Scopes at the NWAF Camps; be careful looting there though.

It's nice to see a post like this on the forums, dozens of people only say things like "It's alpha", which is true, but unhelpful in certain situations. Thumbs up to you :thumbsup:

Bad timing, it's a racing game to get loot once a server restarts.

It's not that you're getting thirsty or hungry fast, it's just that you don't eat enough. You spawn in the 30% threshold, when you get hungry you can be at let's say, 25%; so if you eat until the hunger status goes away then you're back at 30%. Eat and drink everything until it says "My stomach feels stuffed" (It says it if you drink a lot of water too, this does not mean your hunger is satisfied so keep eating until you see it for the food too!) You'll be at 100% food and water once you do it for both. Sit down and drink some sodas along with eating lots of cereal too, eventually you will see "Healing" in your character screen followed by "Healthy".

I'm a 3-4 year ArmA 2 Gamer from ACE/ACRE on and off, Military experience and training etc. I have a group of about 30-40 in total with 10 being on at any given time. We're more or less a group of bandit hunters, we never shot a person unless we were fired upon first (only in self defense), We've always fed and given water to new players, with our medic given them Saline, Anti biotics or anything else they need to help them. Send me a private message if you're interested in playing, all of my players are between 18-40, ranged in areas such as Ireland (Myself), England, Germany and the United States.

Longest time alive: 1 week, then I was killed due to a bug, then I was character wiped after my next gear up. If the bugs didn't get me then I'd have been alive for 2 weeks :P It's no fun though, never get attached to gear because the game is boring once you have it all.

I do try :P Like I said though, good job. It annoys me when people KoS, or run away from you when you're talking in direct comms to them because they may have the logic of "if I pretend I can't hear him, it'll hurt his feelings and he'll leave me alone; nor will he offer me any food, water or firearms that he poisoned"; but it's the best feeling in the game when you kill them. All they had to do was respond to you saying "Friendly" over microphone, instead they lost all of their gear and probably rage quit.

This. All you need is a gun with two magazines and an ammo box full or half full. You don't need attachments and all of that fancy gear. Get geared with a weapon to protect yourself, then get as far north-east as you want and pick a certain grid to loot, move to the next grid and keep stocking up on food, water and a few medical supplies.

Link his thread in which he is giving you crap, when you find it.

Go on to your router gateway and adjust your firewall settings, make them less strict.

Good luck, but please don't resort to childish insults just because of a video game; you obviously got the better of him so leave it at that.

Compare the standalone to default Arma 2 Chernarus; I didn't notice until I had seen a comparison photo, but the map/towns are completely different; there's much more buildings, much more cover and much more trees. It's beautiful

It is very annoying when people log, especially since we always start our direct comms sentences with "We are friendly, we will not hurt you just please lower/drop/un-equip your weapon" etc, it can be a random statement but we ALWAYS start with the "We are friendly" part.

His mind says no, but his hand says yes... We could all hear that clicking sound as we were leaving the airfield too, it was like one last laugh for our ladder-friend.

I usually organize a get together with a few of my buddies and "clean" Balota of Bandits, or people who shoot on sight.

Not being able to log within a radius of players is a ridiculous idea who ever said it; what if you're in a group and you all like starting at the same place the next day? I think a 3-5 minute timer would be good if a bullet lands nearby you, or another recognition system that would work so combat loggers can't continue.

Post it on the bugtracker, I know two people who sometimes play in the same house under the same network; works fine for them.

A short video of each encounter (minus the 'mini' firefight) will be posted later once edited and rendered. So here's a quick little story of yesterdays events when I had decided with my buddies that we would go Bandit Hunting. It started when I spawned in Elektro and started heading west to rendezvous with my group; after only patrolling from NWAF to Green Mountain for the past few weeks, we all decided that we would go from Balota up to Berezino by moving along the coastal areas only. I first went to Pavlovo camp to get geared up with an M4 and some clothes (No masks) and moved down to Balota airfield once the entire group was geared up. In Balota Airfield we encountered our first person so we all opened Direct Comms VON and repeatedly said "Friendly" etc, the guy closed the door to a room and logged out (Thank you for that, idiot; I have no doubt that you were killed in the new server you joined for logging out in Bandit Territory when we were going to give you food, water etc). We continued on to Chernogorsk where we began looting and encountered another player who just ran away, I didn't blame him for running out of fear, or not wanting "to be killed again" (A reference to most bandit kills in that area). We had looted Chernogorsk for about 30-40 minutes, found a lot of food which was our main hope. From there we began heading through Prigorodki toward Elektrozavodsk; we encountered our third player who was equipped with a Mosin, he had seen us first however and took out two of our men thus hitting me. I ran to the side foliage and hid behind a tree to bandage, my group was all pressed together and pinned down; I stayed out of that pin-down, Instead I looked around and saw the shooter trying to flank us so I flanked him. This time I had him in sight before he saw me, as soon as he looked at me; he lowered his weapon and I shot 10 rounds in to him which then killed him. I informed my group that I had taken him out and our medic ran over to me, during that time I politely let the guy I had just killed in VON that we weren't going to hurt him, we were only interested in helping people out with food/water but he had killed two of us so it was a "Shoot on sight" initiative from there. We looted his, and our guys bodies and took their food; when our fourth encounter came along; a guy with a baseball bat and a shovel. We asked him to put the weapons down and he did; for that we gave him a canteen, I sacrificed my tin-opener and gave him a few tins of food, I then told him that there were three bodies further down the road with guns and ammo on them should he wish to take one to be protected (We were all geared with M4's and food, we did not have room for any more weapons nor did we need them). My medic gave him some anti-biotics and what not to help him as he was sick and had a slightly grey screen; we parted ways and continued to Elektrozavodsk. After attempting to loot, and realizing it was a dead end; we went to move but encountered our fifth player, again a person who was almost a fresh spawn. We spoke for a while and he decided to follow us on our journey to Berezino so we moved. It took us 20 minutes to rendezvous with two more members of the group at Solnichniy Factory and once we were all together we headed to Berezino; we looted a bit in Berezino and after I went away from my computer to grab a drink, everybody left so it was over there. We had two more encounters between Kamyshovo and Berezino; one was on the roadway up and the guy only said "Well, fuck..." in VON when he saw us coming towards him, he said nothing else after that despite us asking if he needed food, water or medical treatment. The second guy was one of those fresh spawn types with the logic of "If I pretend I can't hear them in Direct Comms then maybe they'll leave me alone" so we did, we left him alone; wasted no more time with that kind and that was the end of the "action". All-in-all, it was quite an enjoyable night; it was good to go "Bandit Hunting" to help out the new players, and it was all done without any 'KoS' attempts from my group or me. Anyway, a bit of a read but I hope you enjoyed reading it :)

Wrong forum/section.