Patrickollo

Will either of these two implementations have any effect on the players themselves? Example: will I have to fiddle with my ports to join certain servers? In my experience, usually only the host has to open ports and all that jazz, but with the Hive server.. not sure. If I have to have access to my ports as a player, I'm screwed and can't play this game (damn I really want to move out of my apartment). Edited because I said "all that jazz" twice. Embarrassing.

Please don't put any of this shit like hockey sticks or cricket bats in the game. I'm all for a pitchfork, shovel, shears, or something like that, but don't put anything completely immersion breaking as a weapon. Please rocket, please.

Lighting is borked. I'm not sure if it's the arma 2 beta patch itself or one of the new DayZ updates, but I've noticed it since 1.7.1.2. Sometimes my vision will just go ridiculously dark in broad daylight, and the same thing happens if I'm using Night Vision at night.

Everyone please stop requesting/demanding for certain tents to not be wiped. How many times have we had tents wiped now? 3 or 4 times? Not like most of the shit all you people pick up isn't junk anyway (every camp I come across has heatpacks, flares, makarovs, enfields, etc) or can't be obtained within a couple of days playing again. I hope rocket does a complete database wipe going into beta so I can bathe in delicious tears. "WHY NOT ONLY WIPE CHARACTERS THAT WERE MA DE IN THE LAST 24 HOURS?!!?!?!"

Hello Rocket. With the newest update (1.7.1.4 and possibly .2 or .3 because I didn't play during .2), your vision dims when wearing NVG inside a vehicle. Sometimes it nears pitch black levels and I can't see where I'm driving, but if I look down towards the floor of the car or right click to zoom in, it'll brighten up. My friend also experienced this while riding as a passenger in the car.

There are other mechanics to counter the "naked respawn" you're talking about, such as zombie line of sight and starting with a flashlight (which means you can play at night now and not be seen as easily by a zombie). I'd get used to it because I'm sure pretty soon you won't start with ANYTHING, not even a bag. You know why your guy wakes up on a shore? Most likely he jumped ship or his ship crashed and he had to swim to land, and we all know what happens when you swim - you lose pretty much all your gear including your bag.

Holy shit Rocket, thank you for this update. I want to die to see just how cruel starting out can be, but I have some good gear so I suppose I can put death off for a while.

Try again champ. My friend periodically goes out into the field for training and one night they had left some rations out that attracted a wild boar. They had to put NVG on to see the boar because it was too dark out. I guess Arma 2 nights really are unrealistic, huh. I also guess that traveling 120 - 150 miles every other weekend at night and only being able to see silhouettes of trees and houses against the sky is unrealistic. Please God, grant me a gamma and brightness bar.

The truth is people have been babied by more mainstream games where night time is practically just day time with a purplish filter added over it and a skybox change. The only reason people DON'T want to use light sources is because they're afraid of being shot. Well big whoop, getting shot is part of the game. As one person said earlier, you don't have to stand smack dab in the middle of a flare after you throw it. Chemlights are also a better alternative if you don't want to draw too much attention to yourself as their light doesn't render after a certain distance to other players (but you can still see a faint glow of the stick). As for flashlights, you don't have to keep it on 24/7; you can turn it on for a few seconds to get your bearings and then quickly turn it off. TL;DR - People are just mad they can't have pseudo nightvision anymore and cruise through the game.

Tents are placeable. Currently, they can be placed about 1 - 2 meters away from small bushes and other similar objects, but the range around trees is RIDICULOUS (it's somewhere around 8 meters). I've been able to place a tent snuggled in 3 bushes so you can only see it from one angle, yet I can't place a tent next to a tree where you can see it from all angles. TL;DR - Tents work as everyone has said, but the distance requirements are wonky.

This is true. Picked up a shiny DMR and some med supplied yesterday from one. Only found 3 helicopters my self but they were all empty... is this confirmed in any thread? PM it to me? =/ I've been to some crash sites and found Enfield Mags and other shitty stuff - someone else just may have beat you to it. Most of the crashes are up north in the Stary/Novy/Kabanino/NW Airfield area and since that's a heavily traveled zone, you'd be hard pressed to find one that hasn't been looted. Although if you don't see zombies spawn around the chopper, then that probably means there's no loot and that could be a bug.

* Server this happened on. US20 hosted by Vilayer.com & CQF * Time that it happened including your timezone. 10:05 p.m. EST * What happened during the incident. 7 of us were running through a field near the Northwest Airfield when all of a sudden about 4 white Hilux popped out of thin air. More and more kept popping up and I immediately aborted. One of my friends entered one of the trucks and it blew up (their in game name is Kimiko, so if it shows her entering a hacked vehicle it wasn't because she spawned it, she was a victim).