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First off, there is a reason why third person view is in Arma, and why Dayz was modded onto the Arma platform. The Reason? Realism! Now I know most of you, especially those who come from BF3, COD, or any other fps will be crying foul, but you have been taught that FPS is what real field of view should look like, I will show you in this thread that its wrong. FPS lack peripheral vision, something us humans use almost every moment of every day. 3rd person was put into arma to account for lack of FOV I.e scanning to see what was in front of you and at your sides as well as making sure your in proper cover, and first person was to be used for aiming and firing. 1# reason you should stop demanding 3rd person be out of the game. Because servers can chose to turn it on or off. There are plenty of FPV servers, and there will probably be even more as the mod gains popularity. Dont like 3rd person? DON'T PLAY ON 3rdPV SERVERS. First person servers always full? Demand more from your community or rent your own. Pretty simple. 1# reason 3rd person is more realistic then First Person - Field of View. (other then the fact you see your own body) Example. FPS FOV (field of view) For most Videogames, is anywhere from 60-90 degrees, depending on how old the game is, and who made it. 3rd Person FOV in arma, is around 170-180ish degrees, meaning you have very good vision to your left and right. Human FOV is around 180 degrees or more. How do i know this? Simple test you can preform yourself right now. Hold both your hands up to your ears palms facing forward, thumbs touching the base of your ears. Spread your fingers and wiggle them while looking straight forward. You can see your fingers move, in fact some people will probably be able to see the entire front of your hand. in a standard FPS POV, this would be impossible. Here is an example for your clarification: Notice how the human FOV is much greater then a Standard FPS, allowing for peripheral vision. Arma II 3rd only gives the advantage of the FOV starting behind the character about a meter, but also allows you to see if your in cover properly, or if your exposing yourself, something many players find hard to do in first person perspective. Other issues people are complaining about being able to see around corners and out windows without exposing yourself. My counter to this argument Is that in FPV, you basically have to expose the entire upper half your of body to "peak". Where as in real life, you would only have to expose enough of your body to get one eye around the corner. Same thing with looking out windows. I know this is a weak argument but i feel its more realistic to see out window/ around corners unexposed, then to expose most of your body. Anyway /rant over. Basically the gist of it is, Don't take it out of the game, just continue to give servers there own preference.

NVM the right thing was done.

Getting Dropped by my internet connection, only to respawn dead :(. Got disconnected while checking a tower in the worst place possible, logged back in to be dead, someone shot me. (don't know if this happened when i joined or when i was timing out) Post your "Well this blows" Stories here, I would love to see what other fun shenangins DayZ players find themselves in.

I don't mind if there are a lot of cars, In an apocalypse situation, there would probably be more drive-able cars then people. In the US alone there's something like 1 car for every 1.3 people.

not to mention, someone could have climbed the ladder instead of using the main door.

The topic is different, these are you best %^$#$%# stories, not today i went to stary for the first time variety.

Face? have you met palm yet? you two should get acquainted.

You failed to include the reason why it's not an exploit or a cheat. You didn't explain why it's not cheating when you use 3rd person view to look around obstacles and corners, while staying hidden behind the obstacle or corner. Read the the first post, its in there.

Awesome, Just a question I noticed a lot of buggy or laggy things can happen on some servers.(known its an alpha not really an issue) Any-chance the game could mistake them for hacks? For instance I cannot connect to some servers with Certain CBAs enabled for some reason.

Just a thought. It might be appropriate to have military/police zombies have a chance for a sidearm to spawn on them. Reasoning is pretty simple, the poor fellow may have died before he was able to draw his weapon, or in the case of a military zombie, he was probably using a primary weapon at the time of his death, with his side arm holstered. I would propose that military zombies have something like a 3% chance to drop a sidearm/pdw and police have something like 0.5-1% since most officers primary weapons would be a sidearm. The best example I can think of is in season 1 of The Walking Dead, when a character draws a sidearm out off a dead military zombie's holster in a tank.

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lol you guys get pretty angry from getting pvp killed don't you? If your worried play on FPV only servers so "arma II noobs like me don't kill you." So reading this thread, apparently 120 = 180 degree vision. Or im supposed to edit my config file so I get massive unusable fisheye vision. if that doesn't work i need to invest in 50$+ worth of equipment so you can be happy? That makes total sense. I could give a flying shit if you guys only play on FPV servers, People need to stop bitching that the game should be FPV only, BECAUSE THERES THE OPTION TO DISABLE IT SERVERSIDE. (in caps so the people seeing red can read it again as it was in the orginal Post)

ArmA 1. not active in dayz and as far as I know not in ArmA II