soapmak3r

The problem is Six Launcher...It is updating all it's users to the latest beta patches when all the people who did a manual install still have 94876. Now there are servers running 94876, 95954, 95099, 95168, 95170...and more...It's a complete f**king mess and makes finding a working server needlessly difficult. Six Launcher has updated it's users to 95168 today. There are very few servers running it....I am starting to think that the people that make Six launcher are just trolling us at this point...pushing updates we don't want or need.

Yeah...F**k griefers. The game should be made a living hell for them. You know what the sad thing is, if you removed sniper rifles from the game, all of these 'bravery of being out of range' folks would leave instantly because they don't have the balls to have a face to face confrontation with anyone. Cowards, the lot of them.

Yeah...This isn't Battlefield 3! :P

I haven't died in ages, and have plenty of high level gear and supplies. I have passed up on sniper rifles and I have had plenty of people in my sights that I could have easily killed, but didn't. I don't shoot unless I have to, so most of the time no one even knows I am there, or could have killed them. They are happily unaware and I am happy to leave it that way. I am aware that there are a lot of murderers out there, so I generally avoid contact with anyone that isn't in my group, unless they get in our/my way, or get too close, then I warn them and they usually disconnect because they had no f**king clue we were there and freak out. 99% of survival is psychology. Watching a lot of Ray Mears Survival taught me that. ;) Seems like 99% of the people playing this game are CoD and Battlefield kiddies with no survival knowledge or training so they just hang around populated areas and deathmatch or go inland and murder people for sport because they have completely missed the point of this mod.

...and that's the bravery of being out of range.

I'm having plenty of fun with some friends, and I haven't killed a single person since starting to play the game, yet. The odds are, most people never even know I am there, or we are there. It's supposed to be the f**king apocalypse, why would I kill the last surviving humans? To ensure the species dies out or that all the offspring are inbred genetic mutants? It's f**king dumb... If you are protecting unarmed players from those with mental deficiency, then fair enough, but otherwise, grow some balls. Killing other players in this game is the only easy thing about it. Go and hang out in the Northwest airfield and ditch your pansy sniper rifles if you want a challenge...Bravery of being out of range and all that. ;)

The game is about survival, what is the longest that you have survived? Most of you guys 'deathmatching' don't live long by the sounds of it, so it seems like you have missed the goal of survival completely. Try staying alive for a change. The game is all about the psychology of survival. You are missing out on the greater part of the experience if you just play this like it is a deathmatch game.

So that is your idea of fun? Sniping pretty much defenceless people while they are either searching for loot, or in their inventory's? That's pretty sad and unimaginative. I think I am gonna have to learn all of the favourite sniper spots on the coast and get all my friends together to troll the absolute sh*t out of you guys. Watch your backs! ;) Might even donate your gear to the needy! :D

Haha...it is just like real life. Give someone inexperienced a gun and accidents happen!

Can we please get the majority of the servers all running the same DayZ and Arma2 beta patch version? It is making finding a server to play on needlessly difficult and basically a complete cluster-f**k. Last night the majority of servers were updating to 95054 because Six launcher was updating all their users to that version... I had a manual install running 94876...Manually updated to 95054 and the game started to crash every time I joined a server. Then I could only play the game if I launch through Six launcher, otherwise it crashes every time I joined a server... I load up Six Launcher today, and now it has updated me to 95099 and the majority of servers are still running 95054 or even 94876... Why the actual f**k are the beta patches not backwards compatible with servers running the previous beta versions? Why are there so many beta patches? Why is Six Launcher pushing the beta updates for DayZ when 94876 was working fine and there has been no announcements from the DayZ devs about updating the ArmA2 beta version? The amount of different beta patches is really f**king the server browser up. It's a complete mess! Is it too much to ask that we get everyone running the same f**king version? F**k...Rant over.

I had been running 94876 on a manual install since 1.7.2 until last night when my friend said his Six Updater had updated him to 95054 and he couldn't play on the same server as myself and my other friend. So, we left the server, had a look about the forums, saw nothing about updating to 95054 and said to our friend that we weren't going to update to it. Next thing, we tried to join the server we were just on and it had literally just updated to 95054! So we both manually updated to that...Which broke the game. I reinstalled battleeye, verified integrity of the game, reinstalled the beta, reinstalled the 94876 beta etc...Nothing worked. My friend even reinstalled the whole game from a back of of his steamapps folder and it still crashed for him... The only thing that worked for both of us was launching the game through Six Launcher. Everything else resulted in a crash with out fail, even with DayZ commander.

The only problem that I have with PvP is that it is impossible to know if the other person is friendly not. If I know someone isn't friendly, I'll shoot them and have no problem with that. If I see someone kill another player to loot them, I have no problem killing them. If I see someone camping somewhere with a sniper rifle and killing people for pleasure, I have no problem killing them. If I shoot some guy out of fear that he might shoot me, but I don't know if he is actually hostile or not...I wouldn't be cool with that. Mostly I just watch people and keep them in my sights. Most other players will never even know I was there.

Maybe learn to f**king read a post before you respond to it. My install was manual and worked perfectly, but all the servers were running 95054, so I MANUALLY updated to 95054 and after that Arma2 crashed without fail, every time I successfully joined a server. I had to update to that beta in order to join the servers that had all changed to that version. The only way I can get the game to launch without crashing now is with Six Launcher. I have no f**king idea why. My friend has exactly the same issue. At the end of the day, it is completely irrelevant how we update or launch the game. The main point is that there should be consistency in the versions that are being run...At the moment, there is none. It seems to me that Six Launcher is to blame for the problem because they are pushing beta updates on their users beyond the one officially recommended by Rocket (94876). All I am saying is that it is f**king annoying and needs to be sorted out.

I never used Six Launcher until last night. I was FORCED to start using it last night after manually updating to the 95054 and after that the game was completely broken...Crashed no matter what I did... Now it ONLY works if I launch through Six launcher...

The first time I was at the NW airbase, we all lost connection right outside the barracks due to a server reset (or something)...When we spawned back in on another server, there was 1 more of us than before... My two friends were nosing around the guy, who was AFK, while I tried to convince them to just leave him alone and get out of the area. He came back, and opened fire on them and killed them both, then turned and shot me as I was leaving the area because I wanted nothing to do with what the other two were doing. I managed to get behind a tree and bandaged myself as the guy had brought every zombie in the area down on himself so I had time to escape. I toyed with going back and killing the guy, but it wasn't my fight and if they had listened to me they wouldn't have been killed. After that I realised that this area was a very bad place to spawn (not that we had a choice). The air base in general seems like a horrible place to be, even if I did get an M16 and 120 rounds of ammo there. After escaping the air base...I was down to 2000 blood, my friend that I met up with was down to 260 blood...We somehow managed to find a cow, pig, sheep and a goat while half blind and replenished all of our blood...I am still alive! Nothing about it was easy. Chin up!

Are there any other more experienced survivors that would be interested in banding together to police the coastline? Basically, what I am suggesting is that groups of survivors who have made it inland (or not) and gotten well equipped, hunt down murderers, share info on where people tend to camp so they can kill others etc. Maybe we could use this thread as a way to alert each other about murderers that frequent various servers and roughly where they are, what they are armed with etc. It would mean mostly staying hidden and using stealth. Observing, and seeing who the murderers are. Then hunting them and putting them down.

Yeah, just something that can partially refill your health so that if you are lost in the woods, starving, at least you can survive till you reach a town/village.

I'd argue that you are doing it wrong...Or you aren't learning from your mistakes. If you go into a larger town/city looking for loot, you need to expect there to be bottom feeders there. You need to use stealth, avoid any and all contact, avoid firing a weapon if you have one. Use the axe if you have one as it is quiet and you can stand your ground against zombies. I haven't killed a single person since starting playing the mod a month or so ago and I am now one of the top survivors on the servers I visit. I have an M16, M1911, ALICE pack, plenty of food, water, ammo etc... I rarely shoot my weapons. I conserve ammo for when I need it, and I try my best to never reveal my position to other, potentially unfriendly players. Basically I am playing cautiously, using stealth, using situational awareness and most of all, trusting in my intuition. If I feel a situation isn't worth the risk, I won't risk it. If I am going to loot a town/village and I hear gunshots near by, or see any strange activity, I will avoid it, or at very least make sure the coast is clear before making a move. You can't just run into Elektro or Cherno, start looting and expect not to get shot by people suffering from mental deficiency. You should totally expect that, and act accordingly. If you want an easier time looting you should make a break for the tree line, head inland and loot smaller villages there. Places where the meaningless conflicts don't tend to exist and it is much easier to avoid detection from other players.

Game purchase only. Otherwise I won't be able to continue supporting the game. Rocket, you should make this a poll so it is easier to gather the statistics.

Cherno is 'the coast'...If that is where policing is needed most, then that is where we should go! :P

I'm perfectly chilled. I just don't suffer immature, xenophobic idiots gladly. Also, trying to rationalise your dickish behaviour because "the exploit/glitch is there, so it's obviously part of the game..." doesn't really cut it.

So you are hacking and ruining the game for others? Hilarious... Also, you sound (and act) like a bunch of girly goblins...So you probably shouldn't make fun of other people's accents. Thanks though. Everyone knows to avoid your server like the plague now! :)

Hmmm...I have survived longer than most, and besides not having NVG, I am fully kitted out with the best gear, with tons of food, water and ammo. Most people don't seem to understand that murdering other players for their stuff is 'easy mode'. That isn't surviving. Not really. I haven't killed a single living person since I started playing DayZ a month or so ago. Based on principle, and it hasn't been easy going. In fact. I have half a mind to go back to Cherno or Elektro and start killing anyone I see killing other players and dedicate myself to policing the coast.

I was kind of looking for a straight forward way...Naive of me, I know...Considering this is an ArmA2 mod and nothing about the set-up or controls is intuitive.

With the latest patch, the zombies aggro for no reason...Spawn 10 feet in front of you...They still come through the walls...They still teleport all over the place...They are basically more broken than they were before :P