Psyl3nt

Any game is "easy" to cheat in, especially when it's popular because the scripters sell their shit to people to use, and the more popular a game is the worse the problem because there are simpy more people overall.

Pretty hard to say here, on one hand, there is simply no excuse for cheating, on the other hand, if it's actually used solely to catch / ban other hackers .. . .. . I guess it's a trust issue, what's to say that the player who uses these "hacks" for good, would not also use them to protect themselves, it would be very easy to kill others and just say "oh they are probably hacking anyway", and could get out of hand fairly quickly.

Oooooooooo ....K.

Hopefully all the server admin do this kind of posting, mainly so that they can all add this GUI to their bans.txt :) good job spreading the word

I go inland immediately, it's only once I have a shotgun / hatchet that I go towards places like chero / elektro. Start with raiding the farmhouses, once you can defend yourself then it's all systems go :)

same thing on NZ 03.

Duping can just "happen", I would not have thought it true, but yesterday I was at a water pump (filling my water bottle), and it just came up and said "You fill 6 water bottles" and there are now 6 water bottles in my inventory, same thing happened with jerry cans, only had one, put it down (working out how to refuel motorbike we found) and when I picked it up it gave me 4 jerry cans. Not sure if this was due to lag or whatever, but the game just seems to dupe items all by itself, and it's fairly annoying. had to sort out what stuff I had dropped in order for the water bottles / jerry cans to go into my inventory. :(

Right there : wanted posters ? Could there be perhaps a oh.... nope didn't think that one through, all our faces are the same . . . dammit. I would like "something" to either identify for a short time or at least show that there are bandits around. When joining the server you can see the OpFor team and the other one, how about when you player kill you get moved to the "other" team, without killing you of course, and this would allow players to get a feel for the "tone" of the server they are on, while not actually identifying anyone particular.

Went so far as to delete re-download and re-install both Arma II and Operation Arrowhead, still the same glitches in the same spots (Balota AF, Green Mountain, NWAF) there are more spots that do this, but yea. Others I play the game with have the same issues in the same spots. Got killed at green mountain because my screen was just a mess of black and white "shapes", had zombie aggro and just could not see anything, is very frustrating.

Of course the stand-alone will be more stable ... that is the whole point of making it stand-alone ..isn't it ? I would expect when the release is ready (full, not alpha,beta, etc) that it would be totally stable on most systems.

It's not useless, you still have Arma II combined operations, you still have the FREE DayZ mod that you can play with it. It is in no way shape or form a bad thing to pay for a stand-alone game. Why not try to play some Arma II, it's actually a decent game when you give it a chance. I'd say at the $30 I payed for it, I got a great deal. And I look forward to paying for the stand-alone which I also think will be a great deal. Please don't try to make this community seem like a bunch of ungrateful asshats who have entitlement issues.

Not all, have to say in the past couple days I have come across more friendly than not. One person (thanks to whomever you are) actually escorted me from elektro to cherno hostpital for a blood transfusion. In all cases I was carrying a AK-74 (think that's the one), and they also had automatic weapon. I go by the rule if you say "friendly" and do not get an answer then it's all guns blazing, but if they answer "friendly" then at least give them a chance.

Really ? - it's not Rockets fault that you only like DayZ mod, and not the rest of the Arma II game. You bought Arma II, you got the mod free. Charging for a stand-alone in no way "screws over" anyone, you made a choice yourself, and now want to blame someone else for your choice, either that or you just want stuff for free. I for one have no problems paying for the standalone : and you know what ? - you can still play Arma II and the DayZ mod after you have the standalone, or don't buy it and just play the mod for Arma II. . .

The price point looks good, often I see games for $100 or more and think... really ? For me the $50 AUD mark is about my limit, I just don't see how a video game could be "worth" more than that, and I rate DayZ to be worth more than most :) I understand that there is a hell of a lot of work going into it, but when you multiply the 30 or 50 by 1 million, it's still going to make a fair amount of cash.

Only 3 ? ? ? -- must be a good shot. The makarov was taking a full clip to kill them. (8 bullets)

Laptops are never the best option for gaming, a lower priced desktop would be better. To run dayZ you need a Tesla (mini super computer cluster) that is liquid nitrogen cooled, well not really, but it sure would help :P The problem is most likely your graphics card (or lack of) - an onboard graphics chip will not suffice for this game. And to be honest a lot of the mobile versions of good cards are no longer "good". The 32 bit in regard to your monitor is to do with colour depth. (8,16,24,32) My suggestion if you can afford it is to get a desktop, if you really want a laptop for gaming then look at alien ware laptops (don't buy one), but they will give you an idea of the specs needed to have a "gaming" laptop.

Cheating is not a "Bug". . . . . that is all.

Such a fine line, I wouldn't be giving the admin too much grief on this, they have explained themselves in a manner that shows they are not asshats, should be more like them. The war with the hackers is unfortunately one that we as a community are losing, it gets very frustrating I can imagine to admin a server like this. In CoD and most other games you can go into a "spectator" mode and watch certain people if you suspect them, but not in this game, it's a bit of a guess at the worst of times, and there are bound to be mistakes, it's unavoidable. Edit: On a side note, posting "bullshit" just makes YOU look like the ass not the admin. . . .

Perhaps it could be an item that generates food or medical type supplies (at a slow rate). That way it's valuable enough to "want" but not so over the top it makes them impossible to kill.

Sure a realtime tracking database connected to hundreds of servers globally in constant states of read / write. No, not expensive at all . . . . . You seem to have zero knowledge about networking and serverhosting if you actually think your words are true... (yes, that is correct, you do seem to have zero idea)

Not such a bad idea, there is a lack of endgame in this. Only thing is there would have to be some kind of timer for when the "ruling" group has to be on, otherwise they could dominate a server and just not go back there, and there is nothing that the other players could do until they log back in.

Yea on NZ 03 yesterday there was some douche going round demanding everyones backpacks. He was unkillable, saw him in multiple spots getting ganked by about 20 zeds, he didn't even acknoweledge them, just kept doing what he was doing. Ended up killing a number of people on the server including myself. He was talking with a kiwi accent which would explain the server choice, I just wish this game would show who killed you, so at least we would know what his in game name is.

Is one on there right now, is invincible, was watching him setup his camping spot while about 20 zeds are beating into him, he appears next to me tells me to give him my backpack, I told him to go fuck himself, and of course he shot me. I saw the same person at green mountain, I unloaded a full clip in burst into the back of his head while he was laying in the grass in his ghillie suit, and he got up, turned and killed me..... It is getting a bit beyond a joke, not sure what can be done but if any of the admin are around and just happen to see this thread at near the time above then have a look.

I'm %100 certain that lag / bad aiming was not a factor. When I shot him with a full clip (semi-auto, short controlled bursts) he was kneeling in the grass, and I walked up behind him, I am pretty sure he knew I was there and did not care, my muzzle was in "irl" relative terms about 30 cm from the back of his head, after the 30 bullets had been in him (there was blood and the sounds "arrgh" and so on), he slowly turned and went "bang" - I am now dead. Another player on the server also saw this same person (he made the same demands "give me your backpack"), I was in elektro and they where at green mountain, less than 2 minutes had transpired between both of us being killed by the same person. Upon re-spawing, he appeared nearby again and that was when I took off running around him telling him he was a noob hacker and couldn't hit shit even with the hack and other assorted insults. He did however get me eventually.

Not sure if I was just having a bad run but /semi-rant engage. : It seems extremely difficult to find food and drink now, Weapons no problem, ammo, hunting knifes, toolboxs, everywhere. But heaps of empty houses / barns and simply no food. I actually died last night due to having no food or drink. At one stage I was just charging from town to town running through all the buildings and nothing ? I've never been unable to find them before, so was it just a case of "bad luck" or has the drop / spawn rates changed or something ? (and zeds aggro from miles away still, have to get screenies / fraps before I go the rant on that one though).