KField86

You need 10 available slots in your backpack to hold a second primary weapon, as well as space for the ammo unless you put it in your inventory. Also, to switch between primary weapons you never want to put a weapon IN to your bag. You always want to take the second weapon OUT. This is very important. So, if you're already holding a weapon and want to switch to the one that's in your bag, take the other weapon out instead of putting the one you're holding in. If you don't, it will delete it every time.

Sadly it's a giant clusterfuck at the moment. Multiple betas. Multiple versions. Having to update manually. Having to update battleye manually. It's just not streamlined. I had to update via six launcher, and THEN re-update the beta and 2.5 files manually after that because apparently SL is patching files incorrectly which is what is causing the stuck at loading issue. Now I'm correctly on 95883 and 1.7.2.5 as well as my server and I get in instantly. It has to be more streamlined than this guys(devs). One update. One EXE. Maybe a manual battleye update and then that's it. You're in. This is how it needs to be. A lot of people are simply getting frustrated now.

Well you do something, because they're black. I'm not saying this for my health or anything. They're fucking black lol.

So yesterday I wasn't around for all the new betas being released and the new hot-fix. I just updated my server now to 95883 and 1.7.2.5 but with all the new betas that were just released.. I'm left clueless on what beta version I need to enforce on my server. This is a vilayer server and I'm sort of new to the whole thing but I just want to be sure. In server .cfg I have it set as Arma 2 version:95883 and DayZ: 1.7.2.5 and under Enforce beta version: I don't have an answer for that one. Can someone quickly tell me what I need to put down for this so I can my server back up and running?

You might as well run the latest. 95883 and 1.7.2.5. And no, Dark. The guys at vilayer have instructed me several times in the past that rocket wanted people enforcing a different beta then what the server was currently on. It's all dependent on the patches. That's why I truly have no idea. Sometimes I've had to force the current beta, and sometimes I didn't have to.

Newer instance IDs take a few days for vehicles to appear in that instance. Everyone, well.. most people anyway who get a new ID have this problem. They'll show up, don't worry. Give it another couple of days before you start really panicking. It took my server about 5-6 days to have vehicles appear.

Guys, for the new patch since I just updated my server to 95883 and 1.7.2.5.. what beta do I need to enforce? This is a Vilayer server. I was totally out of the loop with all the new betas and wasn't even aware of the update so I want to be sure I don't have something set wrong.

Give me a break dude. If server admins weren't forking out money each month you wouldn't have a fucking place to play. Maybe you should be grateful and I'm not even defending any sides here, but I sure as hell am going to respond when I see a fucking ignorant post like this.

Holo is rarer in my experience, and ammo is more abundant/common. It's a beast gun.

I do the same. :) Like your AS50 TWS? Use it on another server. :D

It's not removed..

From what I recall, you actually WANT to be using default under video memory because with it set to default, it recognizes all of your video cards memory, where as low, medium, high and very high are preset numbers. If you have 1g or more, you should be on default.

I'm really starting to hate the people who post this kind of shit on the public forums. Camp locations, raids, etc. I've never had anything of mine called out before, and I don't think I ever will but it's just retarded in my opinion. Leave that shit for the regulars who play on that specific server, because it's just inviting every retard with scripts to join that server and cause mayhem.

As other people have said. Recruit servers where peripheral dots can be seen through walls, and nametags with distance on almost every kill. Montages are a demonstration of kills and or talent. It's a shame in this case it's "or", because I definitely don't see talent here. If this had no name tags and I saw you using mil-dots to accurately range your rifle, I'd of clapped. Until then, I'll wait. CSB though?

Refer to my avatar. AS50 and nato rounds coming up.

We can also see what's in your inventory at any given time, and a general area that you're in on the map (it's not standard coordinates, like 060/115.) It's a completely different format. This lets us determine if people are using hacked weapons, or giving themselves items or travelling too quickly (teleports). Besides that, we have no other powers.

Try mine. US 1313. Veteran with CH/3DP enabled. It's a lower population so the cheating presence isn't as big, but hackers do come and go(and are usually dealt with if I catch them in the act) but it's nothing like what I've seen on other servers. It's east coast, time zone is usually UTC - 6 and it's setup by Vilayer so performance is actually rather good except for a couple of rare crashes now and then.

You'll never keep them away mate, trust me. I thought the same way you did when I started up my server, and I swore I'd keep it cleaner than most servers. It's simply impossible due to bypasses and if they're running one, your logs will look as if nothing abnormal was happening. Of course you'll catch the idiots doing simple spawn scripts and other things like that, or you can catch them using hacked weapons(but you technically can't ban on that alone)... but still it's a rough job man. My DayZ server is the first server I've hosted since 2003-04 when Call of Duty when I had a Nuclear Fallout NYC server and I knew nothing about arma scripting. It's getting better and I can spot out of the ordinary things and dish out kicks, or shut the server down quickly if a mass teleport goes off(to prevent retards from killing each other at the 'dome) but it'll never be as clean as you want it to be, until the game goes stand-alone and the scripts are locked up tighter than a nun.

This was an issue for me when I first bought my server from Vilayer. My ID was 6083, and we had zero vehicles for about 4 days after we purchased the server, then they showed up randomly after a restart one day. Still though, I purchased my server about a month ago now, and from what I've seen, NO ONE has found a legitimate helicopter on our server. We looked for over a week, and it was not spawning at Skalisty or Skalka or the observed spawn locations. We grid searched the entire map, no helicopters. To this day, it is not spawning at the spawn locations and Vilayer, my provider has basically told me "This is DayZ's problem, and they'll have to fix it." So, we've pretty much given up on ever getting a chopper, which I don't even mind anyway since it's only good for quick transportation and ingress/egress in more dangerous areas quickly, or providing support for someone. I wouldn't take the thing and let the M240s loose over Elektro or something, I see no point in that.

Perfect in all honesty, this is all that needs to happen. Every time an item is removed, or added...the tent just saves automatically. It would be a proper band-aid fix until the problem can be addressed in the code itself.

Meh, I hear you. I've toyed with the idea of turning crosshairs off quite a few times actually. Me myself, I'd rather they be off, but I've had multiple requests to leave them on so I guess I'm just giving in to other people's desires lol , but being that the server is low population right now, I'd rather not do anything that could possibly lower the population and let's face it...veteran players aren't going to not join a server simply because it has x-hairs turned on, but a newer player might not come if they are turned off. One thing I'm doing soon as I figure it out is get rid of these damn peripheral spots. I did not enable them and they were there by default, which they shouldn't of been. They'll be gone today hopefully, and then I'm happy with the server. And yeah, no nametags. Ever. Someone else mentioned them so I figured I'd just get that said.

Yeah, the server actually crashed. It happened twice yesterday. Myself or another admin will always announce an intended restart 10 or 15 minutes before hand allowing people to get somewhere safe, or save tents if they happen to be near them. Wasn't happy when it went down, to say the least...but I can't complain all that much as the server performance has been rather good coming from Vilayer. Actually, that helicopter was spawned in by a hacker. We don't have a chopper actually, but when the helicopter showed up I checked the logs to be sure. Was 100% definitely spawned in. Caught a nice "createVehicle [uH1H-DZ] script(As well as him spawning an ATV for himself a few times), and promptly banned him. I think it was still flying around, or maybe someone else got it. There were actually a number of hackers on yesterday that were dealt with. Couple of which were invincible and killing people in elektro with thermal AS50s. I guess the server picked a good time to crash because it would of deleted that chopper since from what I know, spawned in vehicles won't save after a restart and despawn.

Hey guys, I'm getting better slowly at being a server host, but one thing that is bothering me is this. I have my server set for Veteran. In the arma2oa profile folder, I can obviously change the settings. So I have 3rd person on, as well as crosshairs(due to request). No map positions. No nameplates, friendly or otherwise, but I do have waypoints enabled. Now, one thing that has me curious is why the peripheral spots(for enemies) are showing? Before I hosted my own server, I always saw these on recruit servers and the like. I do not want these showing on my server if it all possible, but I can't figure out what setting I need to change to take them off. Here's my settings: class Veteran { class Flags { 3rdPersonView = 1; armor = 0;// Cannot be changed autoAim = 0;// Cannot be changed autoGuideAT = 0;// Cannot be changed autoSpot = 0;// Cannot be changed cameraShake = 1; clockIndicator = 0; deathMessages = 1; enemyTag = 0;// Cannot be changed friendlyTag = 0;// Cannot be changed hud = 1; hudGroupInfo = 0; hudPerm = 0;// Cannot be changed hudWp = 1; hudWpPerm = 0;// Cannot be changed map = 0; netStats = 1; tracers = 0;// Cannot be changed ultraAI = 0; unlimitedSaves = 0; vonId = 0; weaponCursor = 1; }; skillFriendly = 1; precisionFriendly = 1; skillEnemy = 0.9; precisionEnemy = 0.75; Maybe I'm blind but I see nothing that would indicate peripheral spots for zombies, etc. Can anyone help me get these stupid things disabled as for me, it kind of ruins the experience being able to know something is happening off my screen that I'm not actually witnessing happen on the screen, if you know what I mean.

Still getting used to reading scripts, but this is a vehicle spawn script right? And we had a second chopper flying around on the server today so I'm assuming this was him. Name edited out, along with guid. 09.08.2012 15:00:19: XXXX (****) XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX - #36 sleep 0.1; player setVehicleInit " if (****) then { XX&X&X&X = createVehicle ['UH1H_DZ', [2597.38 That's only part of it. This same command was entered to spawn multiple ATVs as well. Can I go ahead and put a ban on this guy? I also edited out parts of the script as well as to not show the full thing.

Done. This command was entered 7 TIMES for ATV_CZ_EP1 so I only can assume he tried several times or succeeded several times in spawning an atv. Restarting soon to rid the server of the chopper if it was handed off since from what I know, a scripted in chopper will not come back at restart even if saved.