RatherIncoherent

The exact same case here. I updated to 94945 earlier today and proceeded to get waiting for host messages on literally ever server I tried. It was around 15 or 20 servers, at least half of which were actually on the correct beta/DayZ. After reverting back to 94876 (well, updating actually, since my previous version was 94444) the first server I joined worked.

I'm going through the linked videos; here's my opinions. On ACE and Namalsk; I'm almost certain that Rocket is on record as having said that he'd like to make DayZ use the features of ACE and, on a separate occassion, mentioned that the map is easily the most simplistic to change part of DayZ. He followed that up by saying (or maybe it's just an implication I read into, I really don't recall) that Chernarus was, essentially, a placeholder. Seeing as neither of those are comparable to DayZ in their features and are essentially being added on top of the other mods, it seems insane to use them in an argument against DayZ. STALKER... I'm sorry; describe that in words and not videos. I literally have no idea what I watched. I am nothing but confused. As for the final video, I actually asked for descriptions because watching that I didn't understand how it related to DayZ. I watched the first minute, in which I saw a man with bad aim walking slowly and stopping to look at everything, neither of which reflect gameplay. I also saw a man start with guns, and play alone, which led me to wonder how it was being compared to DayZ at all. Watching through the first few minutes, up until he got into the vehicle, I'm left feeling the exact same way. I'd still like someone to actually try to describe in words what these mods are and how DayZ steals from them. Shocking though it might be, an assortment of videos isn't great at conveying points.

Having not played those mods, I really don't have any position to argue about how they compare to DayZ, not that I'm particularly interested in doing so. That said, I would like you to describe to me, in as much detail as you can, what they are and what Dayz is stealing from them. As for the comments about hating... You went to the DayZ forums, shittalk the entire game, imply the unpaid developers are stealing... what, genres? You can't really be surprised that you were insulted when your post was, for all intents and purposes, the exact same as belligerently asking why they weren't just playing Left4Dead.

Wait, did this post actually explain how my response would likely be nonsensical after it told me that the lead designer's primary motivation was frustrating the playerbase?

I'm actually wondering the same thing, mainly because of this: I generally play with a real friend of mine, and a few days we were at the same house, playing DayZ to show it to some bros of ours. Anyway, we're just messing around in Cherno on new characters, getting into shootouts and sniping with enfields and shit, and my friend drops dead. Normally, I'd assume he was just sniped from a distant sniper. Happens all the time. The thing is, when I get wrecked by distant snipers (at least on 1.7.1.5), my debug monitor updates, like 12k blood to on the ground with -7k blood. For him, when he dropped dead (and this was only a day ago, on the newest version), he still had 12k hp. Anyone know what's up? And yes, he did have the newest Alpha / Beta files. P. S. Irrelevant criticism of the new forums - I dislike that I have to open a new page to preview my post. It seems like an irrelevant middle step and we could just shuffle the Preview Post button back to where it used to be.

PDW SD, legit or not? Found it on the corpse of a clan member that was camping the Cherno Grain Silo. Pretty sure his equipment is duped, but not sure if this is just really rare and duped, or hacked in. I'd assume it was totally hacked, but the more I play DayZ the more I just assume the wiki is either wrong or incomplete.