NightRipper

After reading your original post, my serious opinion is that I don't think re-implementing side chat is the be-all-to-end-all solution to banditry. Also, there's a difference between KoS mentality and banditry that you don't seem to fully understand. Bandits kill because it's how they choose to play the game. Many players (including myself) KoS because it's safer. Also, many players use teamspeak/are in clans, and so the typical mentality becomes "unless they're on TS with me, I'm going to KoS." Being part of a larger group (through out-of-game voice chat) eliminates the imperative to band together with unknown players. I don't see a re-implementation of side chat really addressing any of this in a significant fashion. Also, on my last life, I was on day 26, and could have survived indefinitely. The only reason I died was due to a hacker using god-mode and teleportation. So your argument that everyone will eventually die is weak, and you didn't even mention hackers anywhere. Based on popular sentiment, it seems that hackers are the #1 cause of death lately.

You get my beans. Hopefully Rocket sees this. /Salute.

As a woodland warrior of the north myself, I couldn't agree more. On my last character (before I was killed off by a hacker), I spent most of my 26-day life going back and forth between my camp far in the NorthWest of the map, and Vybor and Pustoshka to raid for supplies. The woods of the North quickly became my home. I don't know about wolves or anything, but what WOULD be cool is a map extension to the North, with maybe log-cabin settlements in place of big cities, and maybe something like a permanent military cargo plane crash as another high-value military loot spawn. Maybe a mining settlement thrown in there, too.

After a mass teleport of the server population last week, we all reappeared on the beach after relogging.

STLAB

Beat me to it.

A few miscellaneous tips: - Reloading a gun while prone will cause your sound "visibility" level to increase substantially. So if you're proning through a group of zombies in the middle of a town, DON'T reload your gun. Learned that one the hard way. - Crawling along the ground makes you silent to zombies, but makes a ton of noise in your own speakers/headphones. If you're trying to sneak up on another player without them hearing you, you might try rolling while prone (default 'Q' and 'E' keys). It's soundless. - Get used to Aiming Down Sights (ADS) with weapons. A lot of servers have crosshairs enabled, but in my experience they're buggy as hell, so you might as well just learn to aim down the sights. Also, many servers have crosshairs disabled. -

Here's what I noticed last night: If you increase your visibility setting in the Video Options, you increase the aggro distance as well. Why this makes sense (my theory): Zombie aggro is handled client side, not server side, which is also why zombies "path" so weirdly (i.e. zig-zagging) when they aggro. It would seem that view distance/visibility for zombies is dictated by the client's video settings.

MOAR. MUST HAVE MOAR. Seriously, these are epic. Should have a pinned thread devoted to this!

Left Alt.

That's some funny shit.

Epic OP is Epic.

You have my beans for the thread title alone.

Excuse the naive question, but why are they using BattlEye and not Punkbuster? I was looking at the BattlEye website, and it said that BattlEye was used in Battlefield 2, but clearly a switch was made to PunkBuster/PBBans, which is what is currently in use for the Battlefield series. Having come from a Battlefield background myself, I know that PunkBuster was vastly more reliable than BattlEye appears to be, and evidently the folks at DICE/EA figured that one out too, and made the switch. What, if anything, is stopping that same switch from being made with the Arma series/DayZ?

This: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/35823-a-hacker-for-once-creates-smile-instead-of-anger/

Yeah I had a similar experience: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/44111-script-kiddie-god-mode-hackers-no-problem/

Red Bull. It gives you wings.

Did anyone notice this? [93958] New: Dropping items while swimming can be disabled with "enableItemsDropping = 0;" in description.ext TWonder if it works.

WHAT??!!! HACKERS?! Thank god you made a forum thread, and then kept bumping it. Otherwise, word might not have gotten out. Hold on, let me call Rocket right now and tell him what happened.

Inventory wipes? Is that a new item? I'm guessing it's like a wet wipe, probably.

Also this: http://dayzmod.com/f...le-forewarning/