KField86

I'd say after the weapon nerf, it's still better in regards to the 1911 just for the silenced factor. If you can headshot zombies, you won't be alerting anyone to it, which makes it still decent. However, the G17 at this point is the best pistol in the game in my eyes, and I keep a couple of them in our camps tents with probably 8 to 10 mags for them in there. Reason I like it, 1: Extremely accurate. 2: 17 rounds per clip 3: Great iron sites 4: high rate of fire. It's just great all around. If this was pre weapon nerf, I'd say 1911 all the way.

Yes they are, it's just called "Pipe bomb" and they spawn in the barracks. They are incredible rare, more so than say an SVD Camo, or Rangefinder. I've looted one twice since May. Both times it spawned in the northern barracks. But with the duping going on, it's not hard to have many of them.

No one on my server has found a chopper yet, and I've been asking people in admin just to verify that it is spawning. And with the news of it resetting on server resets at Skalisty(most known location), and knowing we check there every day and haven't found one there so far, So either it can spawn ANYWHERE, or for some reason, our server does not have one on it. And I'm getting quite pissed about it now actually.

I've had no problems with Vilayer, and they are pre-whitelisted. Just have to wait until they verify your order and you're assigned an instance id and from there you'll be able to login to your tc-admin panel and configure the server how you want. A little pricey, but very stable in my experience and I have NEVER not once got stuck at the loading screen. The game loads up very quickly. and I'm in the server and playing within 30 seconds of starting to connect, if not quicker. US 1313 to test it for yourself.

I'm starting to ban people for 12-24 hours if I see them do it while in a fight. Longer if they do it, and come back and try to shoot at me. Technically it's not on the list of bannable excuses, but it's been in this gray area because no one has said that you can, or cannot do it and that rocket himself has deemed this an exploit.

Lol I love how you make your post sound like your some ultimate pro at this game. I'd kill you just as easily as I could kill someone who just started up the game for the first time. Good job making yourself seem like a total twatface though. It's one thing to brag about your story, it's another to sit there saying every person you saw was a "dumbass" or an idiot. It's simple. The reason you kill people in this game, and why anyone kills anyone in this game, is because you saw them first. That does not make you good, it does not make any one good. It makes them lucky, because being in the right place at the right time just happens to be the only way to ensure you survive. Like I'm honestly surprised you didn't "like" your own post & give yourself beans with that kind of attitude. Lmao.

He's an asshole for ghosting to get an advantage. You're an idiot for banning a player with server hopping as an excuse. You as an admin know it's not on the list of bannable excuses. If he was hacking, that's one thing and I've banned hackers(verified the scripts) on more than one occasion. I've also kicked ALT F4ers and shamed them in global chat afterwards which usually made them leave the server on their own. I banned ONE time for someone ghosting, and I took the ban off a couple of hours later. Sort of as a "time out". And to prevent him from using that exploit to get an unfair advantage on my squad at the time. Myself, and two others of my squad were killed on our own server today by people server hopping in behind us. We were pissed. And one of them didn't leave the server right away when he saw that he had killed an [HGC] member. I called him out on global, told everyone to look out for him because he's a server hopper, and he promptly left the server and never returned. People don't need to be banned to stay off the server. Once they see their name called out in the open for 25+ other people to see, they tend to shy away :P. Either way, OP: His server isn't going to be "blacklisted". What happened here is a classic case of misunderstanding server operation combined with some buggyness of the game's alpha state. Shit happens.

Thank god for my server having automated restarts. It came at the perfect time. Been trying to access my ACP all day but knew about the problem so I didn't even bother going to TS to ask about it.

M24 in a heartbeat if I don't have access to an AS50 or M107.

I wish I could smack people like you. Back handed.

It's a gamespy issue. The reason being is that the master-servers of gamespy can only show a certain number of results. However, there are multiple master-servers. So basically it's whatever servers it feels like showing. My server does not show up on anything other than in OA and DayZCommander and because of it, I don't see the player population that I should see since the majority of dayz players use Six Launcher. I talked to Lee at Vilayer and he has a plan for at least vilayer servers to be able to choose what master server on gamespy there vilayer server will appear, and will be able to do this until it appears on Six Launcher's browser.

Definitely looks duped to me. Easy to make that judgement when you see 3 or more tents all with the same exact gear loadout in them. I mean down to slots those items acquire in the tent.

I've seen more SVDs than I have rangefinders, so this is all subjective. Besides, all you need to do is turn on name-tags and everyone in the server now has a rangefinder. Yay for stupid features in a survival/mil-sim game!

Take a .50BMG round to the arm or leg and tell me what happens. Oh, that's right. You lose that arm and leg, and without immediate(I mean within minutes possibly less) medical attention, you would die from tremendous blood loss as you would of severing several major arteries in the process of having a limb basically blasted off your torso.

Noticed a big difference for sure. I think they are on the right track, but they are just a *touch* over the top really. Especially combined with the great weapon nerf of July. Put the .45s back to 1 shot zed stoppers and I'd be fine with how the zombies are now. They should see you, but at the distance they do is simply a little too far. I think the behavior should change a little. If you're in there line of sight, but a good bit aways, they should start moving in your direction. Out of curiousity because they think they see something. If you allow them to get close enough to you, say 15-20m, that curiosity will then turn to target identification and they'll aggro and start chasing. Even though they're not "dead" and just "infected" I think a zombie of any sort would react this way. That predatory instinct in us all is the same. Animals of pray don't usually just charge straight away at something. They approach it slowly, identifying it more and more along the way until it clicks in their brain "Ok, that's food. Time to go get it!". If zeds worked in this way, It'd be perfect in my eyes. I have no problem with the guns being as powerful as they are now with the nerf, but with the jerky motion due to the engine and the alphas stage, getting the much needed headshot on a zombie with a smaller caliber weapon, or handgun is pretty much impossible unless they are in a building, or if they are right in front of you already hitting you/munching on you. And with the nature of the game, and the constant threat of players, it's not often wise to bust out a high caliber rifle in a town that can be heard for hundreds of meters. Generally you use a pistol which is only heard within 50-75m in most cases. Although, now I have a reason to use my favorite pistol in the game again, the G17. Since the 1911 isn't the player/zombie stopper it used to be, I run with a G17 simply because it fires extremely fast, has low recoil, 17 rounds per magazine, has great iron sights and is incredibly accurate. Though I like the M9-SD as well for the bling bling factor to be sure. If I find one, and have enough ammo for it, I'll keep it... but most times if I already have a G17, I'll give the M9-SD to someone else who wants it if I come across it.

Personally, It's hard for me to even play the game with the way the graphical bugs are. I hunt up in the north, and considering I can't even approach NWAF or Stary Sobor without being blinded and unable to see, there's not much for me to do. I have nothing to hunt for. I have a ghilie, AS-50/L85A2AWS, GPS, NVG, Rangefinder, Coyote Backpack, All the tools, We have a camp established, multiples actually. Anywhere with dead military personal, aka...all the high end loot spots, are untouchable. Either you get in a situation where you aggro zombies and can't even see to engage them so you end up running into fences or into a horde.. or on the other end of the coin, the sniper who can sit at the perfect angle and not get any glitches but can see you running around like a chicken with his head cut off. And I say this because I've done it shamelessly. There is an area you can sit on in the west forest, where you can overwatch the hangers, firestation and the ATC without seeing any glitches at all. So for any person running around out there blind, you would never even know he's there, even if you had a thermal'd L85 as I do. I was hoping this hotfix would be released today, but I'll accept wednesday(hopefully it'll get done sooner) because these graphic bugs are some of the most game-breaking bugs we've seen so far in my opinion, or should I say that "I've" seen. I'm thankful you're working hard on it, even though my post may come off as negative....don't let it fool you. I'm absolutely pleased that you're busting ass to fix this rocket.

Just a question for vilayer server renters(I own US 1313). Are your servers appearing on the Six Launcher server list? Mine is not, and because of it... I simply do not see the amount of players I feel I should (We rarely see over 14-20 players on the server, and I'm paying for 40 slots because it's the minimum I can run to be allowed on the whitelist. The fact is, at least 75% of users find their DayZ servers through six launcher for whatever reason. Be it convenience since it also applies new betas and patches, and what have you. It can also monitor/install other mods like Project Reality and Invasion 44, etc. It's just really frustrating constantly seeing your server at low numbers during peak hours (5-11pm EST) because it simply won't show up on six launcher. In fact, there was ONE night that our server appeared on the launcher, and the server capped out at 40 players almost as soon as I saw it appear. I don't know if the issue is on Vilayer's end(They blame gamespy) but to my knowledge, gamespy is also tied in with arma IIs in game browser, and my server shows up there just fine.. or maybe the problem is Six Launcher itself? I thought it may of been how my server was named, being US1313 without any spaces.. so I changed it to US 1313 and still no positive results. I'm not here to bitch and moan, even though that's what it sounds like. But more so, I'm here to ask other renters of Vilayer DayZ servers... are your servers coming up on Six Launcher's browser? Or have they simply vanished? DayZCommander shows my server immediately, as well as the in game browser. I just wish the tool that the community was almost forced into using(since on the download page, it's pretty much demanded you use six updater/launcher to install and run the game. I want players on the server, and it's not because demand is low. It's because the players simply can't see it's there.

They do serve a purpose, and it's exactly what you said. You think in a real apocalypse people who found valuable supplies wouldn't block them off so others couldn't come and steal them? Here's a tip, get a TOOLBOX and remove them yourself. Everyone constantly tries to make this game easy in ways that are just ridiculous. Do I need to reference the leave britney alone video?

I think it's a gamespy issue. At least thats what the folks at vilayer told me since I rent a server with them. People had a lot of trouble from time to time finding my server on six launcher, but people running DayZCommander always have it show up just fine. I suggest trying dayzcommander if you haven't.

I've kicked people for doing it. If they come back and do it again, I'll throw a 48 hour ban on em and see how they like it. As long as rocket admits it's exploitation of game mechanics, then I feel it's a gray area and I'm going to do it until I'm told not to. Tons of servers for people like that to play on. Don't come and mess up mine.

When I ordered my server from Vilayer, they informed us that since the instance id was 6000 or higher, it would be a couple of days before vehicles showed up and were added in by rocket and co. It took 2 days, and then I logged on one morning and found an ATV, got on teamspeak and was like "FOUND THEMMMMMMMM" :P

I run my own server and I have no way of knowing really. We just got our vehicles turned on since it's a newer server and we've seen quite a few honestly. I can think of 6 ATVs alone.

You know it's funny. If you goto the various cheat-sites that talk about dayz and arma hacks, you'll see a lot of people crying because battle-eye has been detecting their injections at a pretty quick rate. Only the exclusive, private, money costing hacks have been known to work and they are usually limited to an exclusive few by the developer. Hell, they won't even LINK to where to buy them on sights like MPC or unknown cheats. Hacking is there, and it is present but battle-eye isn't doing as bad of a job as everyone says it is. It, combined with server admins on the ball, are lowering the amount of hackers on a daily basis little by little. There was one big wave of hackers when a private hack got leaked and everyone found out about it. It worked for a while, and battle-eye got updated to detect the script/injection, and now that doesn't work. So the people who are hacking now, will be caught soon enough. No matter what MP game you play, you're going to have to deal with hacking. No anti-cheat engine is unstoppable. The mind is a powerful thing and will win everytime over a piece of software if someone works hard enough.

Those are map-markers. Not waypoints. Only you can see your waypoint.

We need more players! We need more organized squads. People who do raids. Competition! New players! People of all kinds. Bandits & Survivors. Server is very stable, and hasn't crashed once. It's located in northern FL and hosted by Vilayer. No getting stuck at loading or waiting for character to create. Load in time is practically immediate. We try to keep hacking to as much of a minimum as possible (We always have be-rcon running and are scanning server logs constantly for any scripts executing that shouldn't be and once we associate them with a guid, that guid gets banned immediately. Two have suffered this fate already and they were detected within about 10 minutes, luckily before they killed any unfortunate players). Also have a strict stance on ALT F4 or Combat logging in general. Do it once, if you come back in.. I'm going to notice and send you a nice little warning over battle-eye global(which everyone can see). Do it a second time, or if you ghost to reposition to kill your attacker, it's perma ban.. I know I could catch flak for that, since it's not on the list of reasons to kick and/or ban but it ruins the enjoyment of the players who call my server their home and that is of the utmost importance to me. If you're killed fairly, I can't help you. If I kill you, I obviously can't help you in that case either :P. If you're a fair player, who wants a fair experience, come find US1313 and join in on the slaughter. I cannot and will not guarantee your safety at any time :) Also, very important. If anyone who is already playing on my server notices anything fishy, hacking or otherwise.. I strongly urge you to send me an email at [email protected] with the persons name(If you can acquire it via looking at the player-list and narrowing it down, the time it happened(as close as possible to the actual time) and a description of what happened, and I will do my best to correct any issues and also send the GUID of that player to DayZ as well so they can add it to the master ban list if they deem necessary. Server details, for anyone who wants to know ahead of time.. Veteran Nametags: OFF CH: ON (This is subject to change soon) 3DP: ON Waypoints: ON Seeing yourself on the map: OFF Tracers: OFF We have plenty of vehicles to go around now that our instance id(being that it was over 6000) has just received vehicles from the hive(thanks dayz devs for hooking it up) so get hunting! Hope to see you guys there. -KF!eLd