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Bandits are crying tears. I hate bandits and all,but this is so unfair.

Thanks for answer. Its kinda silly that matches never run out.Would've make you think even harder when to make fire.

Dont kill more survivors.Avoid all contacts.Kill bandits(?). If you have a friend,use bandages on them whenever they bleed (+20);You'll slowly get your humanity back thanks to passive regen. Oh,and good luck.Its great to see someone becoming a bandit(even if it was self defence) and willing to stay on the civilised side of survivors.

Are matches infinite?

1 question : How are you going to know who you should attack if representatives of the clan have the same skins that other players do have?Im pretty sure it'll end up in you attacking every group of 2-3 guys you see nearby.

Launch Arma2 then Operation Arrowhead; Launch Combined Operations beeing administrator.

I think that currently it would be very hard to implement so many "random events" to make them feel "random". Besides,personally i prefer that all events occur because of players' actions.Its such a huge relief after a stream of scripted games,so to make it interesting they should be varied,realistic and make common sense.At the current moment I dont think its worth it,but if we'll imagine that it is future and mod is in beta and getting closer to release,I'd say that the game is better without them.

My first hours were not as fun =/ First of all I've spent like an hour trying to connect to any server. Then I've been sneaking around zeds,trying to find any enterable building in Komarovo. It appears there is only 1 I went to the docks on the coast and I saw someone's legs through a hole in the concrete wall on the shore and thought "meh,a zombie,gotta be carefull" and then a sudden realisation striked me that legs were moving fast and I was hearing footsteps! I immediately prepared for a gunfight,went inside,saw a player with his back turned to me and typed in chat "dont move!" while aiming for his head.The same second person flips on it's side and dies.I guess he was too busy bleeding to death to answer me or react,although I didnt see bloodstreams.I checked him out to help him and heard flies. So I got x2 ammount of supplies right of the start while not beeing an asshole,I mean bandit. I found an alice backpack nearby,and the second I've switched to it ,got all stuff from old backpack there, server went down."Ha"-said I-"I got my loot faster than you crashed"- and logged back in to find out that my backpack which had more than 15 items was empty and could not be opened. I raged,but continued onwards.Found Lee enfield and because of it's loud shooting I had a small skirmish with 4 ninjazeds,nothing fancy...Got bit,but its ok!Im an "always be prepared for the worst" kind of player,so I had like 5 bandages to make it up for me beeing unexperienced with combat against zeds.So I stop and scroll mouse wheel only to find out that I dont have any bandages because they were in my magick backpack apparently. A short spasm of rage has ended soon.I felt so helpless and shocked that I couldnt even write anything in chat.I tried to run inside the closest building,only to find that it is the same building where the first guy I've met died from bleeding.How ironic. I went out and went to the pier because my blood was already like 900 and I knew that nothing could save me.I've decided that I will reach the end of the pier at all cost.I've dropped in the middle of my path but got up and I've managed to look at the grim,colorless sea and sky once more before firing a shot in the air in the futile attempt of letting anyone know where I am and then falling down again. ...It was unfair.And now its so cold.Its so cold and dark.Go away...

As it stands now some(maybe even most) part of community would like to see slow but numerous zombies which could be killed by headshots only. I've read somewhere(maybe it was even rocket saying it,I dont remember) that its really hard for Arma engine to support AI for multiple zombies and its the main problem behind adding more zombies. So here is the concept of technical realisation : make 1 AI per group of zombies(from 3 to 10,depending on how much zeds you need and how fast/damage resistant they are).This way you dont need as many resources for AI of hordes. Basically there is a "leader" - a zombie who is actually controlled by AI and other zeds just copying his actions and trying to stay as close as possible.A leader looks exactly the same as other zeds and is essentially a common zed : he just chooses what action his "group" performs.Whenever he is killed other zed from the same flock becomes a new leader and it continues untill the whole group is destroyed. I do have basic knowledge about proramming,but I dont have any idea if anything that I've said is actually viable so if its a silly suggeston dont bash me too much for it. ^^ And discussing if slow,but numerous and hard to kill zeds are a challenge or not should be performed in different thread.

And the winner of Darwin award is...vivalarazala! Congratulations.

Not a fan of M1 garand(I mean not your work but weapon in general) But this is so well done that I allready feel bad about writing that sentence before.

If you are willing to help devs out so much just buy Arma2 CO copy and gift it to somebody,I bet that you have a friend who is interested/can be interested in it. If all your friends are not into survival or gaming at all , gift it to a complete stranger who is random and awesome.I know for sure that I have a friend or 2 who love STALKER type of atmosphere and would like to play it if it wasnt so expensive...And Im random and maybe - who knows? - awesome.

I cant imagine how aiming with 360 could be at least on par with a mouse.Especially when it comes to sniping on long distances,where you have to move your scope really carefully. If you are doing good with controller I bet you'll be even better with mouse and keyboard.

To be honest the same second I've thought about making/joining clan I've imagined some sort of Chernorussian military forces leftovers,so this idea is pretty close to it.After I'll set up the game I might join you. What nationality you guys are?English is not my native language.Although I have no troubles with using it,yet I'd be more comfortable cooperating with people of the same nationality as I am as well as timezones.

Provide a screenshots and possibly a video of you dying from that bleeding - Im pretty much sure it is a bug and devs should be interested in fixing it up.

Solid argumentation - much better than "you are playing wrong,learn to adapt" thing that goes here and there.I dont currently play the game(Im currently downloading freshly bought Arma CO ^^) but from what I've seen in Lets plays , the ammount of zombies even in a small towns really breakes the whole risk/reward system.When its so easy to get swarmed in big and small towns its better to go into the big ones - and you might stumble upon a dead player with decent gear! All in all,great post.The only thing I'd like to add is that a lone zombie wanderer in the forest would spice things up while not ruining the pace.Currently forest is a "safehouse" from zombies which somewhat makes sense,but you still should not get your guards down even there.

Someone really needs to bring up that car suggestion if it wasnt brought up before. A gun on top of the car would not be insanely overpowered since the operator would be easy to target and shoot(unless car zig zags like mad,but it makes harder for operator to shoot you as well). Oh,and shame that there were no zombies.Next time you see a wreck like this , memorise it's location and use it to get a free kills on zeds if you are beeing chased down

Does 4 step program for bandits invlolve putting a bullet between their eyes as a first step and looting their corpses as second? :P

1).The idea about feral dogs is just brilliant.Its realistic,fits DayZ,adds a new type of enemy.They should be scared of flares light.Imagine a situation when you are low on ammo and are trying to get out of woods at night beeing surrounded by feral dog pack while waving around with a flare in panic.Nerdgasm. 2).If the "the horror of the woods" would end up beeing some sort of elite monster it should be either stealthy but lethat(think bloodsucker,hello STALKER) or extremely resistant to damage,bulletsoaking damage sponge which would be somewhat slow,but really dangerous up close and extremely stubborn(regenerator from RES4 but faster).

Hello. What are my chances of running it smoothly(even on lowest settings)?I totally dont want to buy the game(and I buy it only for playing the beloved mod) and waste money(pretty costly for me). -2 duo , 2.33 GHz -ATI Radeon 3800 -2.0 GB RAM I've tried downloading Arma-2 Free Demo and got 39 fps on lowest settings and 29 on med settings for 1-st CPu test mission(the one where you dont play but observe).29 fps for 2-nd mission on lowest - lots of smoke and explosions. I'd say that in general game ran great during training mission even on high settings(because it was a tiny map I assume) and pretty ok during first mission available in demo,I've tried it on lowest,low and normal. ...Or demo of vanilla Arma 2 is not as picky about hardware as Arma2:CO+DayZ mod? Thanks for answering and sorry if I've posted it into a wrong section of forum.

Thanks for all the answering! I've just discovered that I've installed x32 bit OS instead of x64 which means that neither my duo core and 4gb ram(shows as 2 Gb for whatever reason) were used to it's fullest.I was surprised to say the least. So if I've managed to play it on gimped OS,then Im pretty sure it'll run ok on new OS. Again,thanks for answers. P.S.If anyone will post your hardware list as well on which settings do you play comfortably it would be great,but otherwise thread should be closed.

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