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I agree with OP and tip my hat to Rocket and crew, they are true artists doing this, and are really doing something special. Been gaming forever too, this is one of the best alpha release mods of all time.

You guys can try my new site in my signature. It is only in testing right now though so it's a secret... SHHHH!

We can do this all day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer%27s_dilemma

I am posting to YOUR post, not OP. Trolls gotta eat too I guess huh?

It used to happen to me a lot. Have you EVER played DayZ? Or is this the first try to get it running?

Tons of good info posted on my guide here. Most of what Op is saying is true, good tips there, just be careful. ArmA is going to make things worse if you set some things too low like others have said. Try a few more here: Ultimate Tweak Guide for DayZ

Added about 5 or 6 changes yesterday. The link to my blog is always the best way to get this info, I can keep all the changes up to date that way.

To be honest with you, I changed the FOV right after I bought ArmA 2 OA, a couple years ago I think. Basically every time I buy a new game the first thing I do is change the FOV. So I don't know how it is stock, but you are right the compass numbers are very small.I am going to add something in the post about that to warn people. So I have never read the compass numbers. I was a boy scout and I was in the military so I kind of just know the numbers. It seems for DayZ you will never need to say anything beyond NSEW or N by NW for example. If you figure something out, let me know and I will update.

I think mine are set to zero. Ultimate Tweak Guide here.

Admins can look at the logs and see who is logging, etc. They just look at a text file as far as I know.

DayZ has shifted all the way to mostly KOS right now. The game is VERY young, this is a whole new genre, and I don't mean zombies. No one has done a persistent FPS that I know of. Maybe Planetside, I haven't played it. Anyways don't let it get you down. Rocket himself has only killed one player and I know that he wants more survival/team play. Think of it like this: it can't get anymore dickish, violent, or unfair than it is right now. Once hacking/alt-f4/hive stuff is fixed up more they will start adding content. I have a feeling this it going to be a different game in 3 or 6 months. Much more refined (even if it is still a mod) and geared away from KOS, although that will ALWAYS be the MAIN MODE of this game. It's hardcore PvP. The zombies are just part of the environment.

For the cost some of those guys paid you could probably get a nice used Glock. That's just me though, more power to them. If airsoft was around when I was a kid I would have wet my pants. We just had bb and pellet guns, and yes we shot each other. During summer we would wear our winter clothing jacket, hat, snowboarding goggles. Then the rule was you could only pump the gun ONCE. haha yeah right, fools were blasting each other.

Search those 2 groups I posted, they will help.

This is cool. I prefer real guns or paintball myself, but it sure looks fun. When you get the whole thing ready please email me the link I will write about it on my blog. I am a tiny bit jealous... Have some beans.

Oh man I laughed on that one. Literal lol... +1 man

Things were getting crazy long before the Steam Sale. My group includes a 13 year old kid (oldest is like 38) and apart from some slight spazzing every so often he is perfectly normal, and just fine at DayZ. It's about how you were raised, not your age.

Dr Wasteland or Reddit Rescue Force.

Trust me, I don't play on regular servers. A couple days ago it seemed ALL the servers had everything on. My home server admin was saying he didn't change anything but they sure were on.

I know Rocket is just playing with settings right now, but I hope when it's done it's easy enough that people will play it, but hard enough that I should be able to dominate using a squad, sound tactics, and proper situational awareness. If crosshairs, tags, 3rd person, markers, and all the rest were patched out and never came back I for one would shed a tear of joy. Been playing shitty games my whole life to get good at a game like this. Not to mention home defense, target practice, paintball, SHTF prep, etc. As it is right now derp with a Lee from 3 hills over can see my tag, finds me in 3rd person, then uses his crosshairs to kill me. EDIT: I am not saying I play on regular servers. Just saying that is the way the game is set up. I do appreciate the variety though.

You guys realize there are over 2,000 servers right? And every one of them has an Elektro. The chances of this being on the same server are very small. Also, OP if oyu are new to this game then you haven't found out that getting killed legit and getting killed by hackers is usually totally indistinguishable from one another. Now if everyone on the server flies a klick into the air - that's a hacker. You dying in the DARK, in ELEKTRO. That's legit man.

Nothing like the sound of your own leg breaking for no reason. I heard my arm break in real life once, but it was during a violent snowboarding crash so I was not surprised at all. DayZ gives you that "did I really just break my own leg WTF" moment.

I am shocked they haven't been sued by Cokie and Pepsi yet honestly. Some how I don't think the deals are as bad as OP says, but of course his evidence supports it. Just 2 quotes do not make the whole truth though. My educated guesses: someone is going to make 30 million somehow. Don't ask me who. I think I had just calculated 1 million sales times $30 I know that is off, but some people paid $50 or even $100 for this game. Don't forget that. When I started there was 100k players, now it's close to 900 thousand. You do the math. I assume that Rocket makes a normal (average) developers salary. BIS seem like good folks, but they are (were) tiny really. Rocket should be seeing a nice bonus for Christmas this year. Beyond that I think that we will see either ArmA 3: DayZ (mode or DLC) or DayZ will become a standalone and at that point hopefully Rocket will have broke every major "rule" in gaming and might have made a real masterpiece. DayZ is a HELL of a start.

It makes the game harder. That's why. Don't try to quantify it. Harder = better.

I love that it does not tell you. I also think death messages, tags, 3rd person, cross hairs and while you are at it just get rid of the hud (would need some way to look down and see what firing mode and how much ammo ). But that is all stuff for the standalone I am sure. Anyways you died because you were not careful. Don't think I am talking down to you, because I am not. I die all the time and every time it is because I was not careful enough.

I love this post, it is so true. People actually expect they can just waltz right in there, maybe they got lucky once or twice. I am here to tell them though, if you go to Stary and make it out without any contact then go buy a lottery ticket because on a full server Stary is just as hot as anywhere else. There is only two ways to do Stary. Fresh spawn, patrol pack and (hopefully) and Makarov (I have done this, it's fun). The other way is have a sniper on overwatch and at most 2 people at the tents. Done it many times, I have never died at Stary.