flawlesssoul

Changing clothing appears to reset killcounts/murders, and reload all magazines. It's not the act of wearing a ghillie suit, it's the changing to it. It happened to me a few days ago, after I looted a ghillie suit off a guy in cherno (he wasn't wearing it when I shot him). Had the server not crashed a couple of hours later, which for some reason erased both mine and a friends progress for the night (we'd journeyed up north together) I'd still have it and be able to test it. I'm currently trying to get another.

You want everyone else to suffer on servers you connect to because you won't choose a server near you? 500ms ping hasn't been acceptable for over a decade. 10 years = 1 decade. You are living in the last century, honestly. 15-30ms is a good ping. 30-100 is entirely acceptable. 100-150, time to stop downloading, or pick a different server. 150+, you're trying everyone's patience.

I find that smoke grenades sometimes makes zombies start running - occasionally at you, most of the time just randomly. It can be quite scary. Flares don't seem to do this unless you're really close.

And threads like this simply fuel their little engines, to be perfectly honest. TL;DR: The OP died to a cheater in an alpha where his items could have disappeared at any second, anyway, but for some reason he is taking it as a personal insult and raging to the max. No big deal. Would I be annoyed if I died to a cheater in DayZ? No moreso than if I died to a zombie, a player, or a damn doorframe. And so far, I've died to all four at least once. GL&HF? No. KC&CO. KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON.

But first you have to find and loot a glove.

Road flares are definitely the easiest way to open up a crash site for looting, although other players will notice from a far greater distance than if you were to kill the zombies. You could, if you have the balls, crawl in and out without disturbing the zombies. It's scary, but possible.

I've seen a few packs of matches over the last few days. All in supermarkets.

The server admin of LU131 is, as you may have gathered from the thread title, constantly kicking any player that attempts to join. I attempted to connect a few times, as did others, only for the entirety of the group to get kicked one by one.

@OP - get them to the northern airstrip, and see if you can find a satchel charge. Pop it down behind them when they're sniping, one day, and then manually set it off. Your sacrifice will be honored. The only thing I've found out about my friend so far is that he sucks at reading a map and navigating. Like, really sucks! Hopefully going to get better at that, though.

The admin was sitting in the game. Any player that joined the lobby, and got as far as loading, was kicked. Anyone sitting in the lobby, got kicked. To test whether it was a loading/Battleye issue, I joined and sat in the lobby doing nothing. Kicked after about ten seconds. I rejoined, sat there, he took about thirty the next time. The time after that, only a few seconds. Whether or not it's the actual server admin, I do not know. It may be someone that obtained access without the real admins consent.

It's a satchel charge. It may have been set by the hacker.

I found these - did someone in this thread lose them?

I died up north last night due to a low doorframe killing me (-20k health when I went from prone to crouch). I'd been scouting for food for a friend who logged off about a mile east of where I died. I respawned a few times trying to get the nearest spawn, but ended up just going to cherno and grabbing supplies, then hoofing it for about an hour to get back to my body. It was still there, flies and all.

There's an issue on your end. Try uninstalling Battleye and reinstalling it (you can run the 95054 patch again to do so). I've been playing on a few servers, as have my friends (who updated exactly the same way as me - just by running the 95054 patcher) without issues.

Some servers have different weather. On a moonlit night, you can navigate. If there's cloud cover, you're going to need a torch or NVGs.

I'm doing it exactly, this is the best way. Same here, and works every time flawlessly. > Look at the new backpack the ground, and use your mousewheel to select "Open <backpack name>" > When your inventory opens, the list will show your gear with numbers on the right of the list indicating items in your main inventory. Left click your current backpack image on the right, and select Open Bag below it. (Alternatively, double left-click on the backpack image). > The list on the left will now show any items in your current (old) pack, with numbers to the RIGHT of the list indicating how many items, and images of the items on the right. Numbers to the LEFT of the list may indicate items in the new backpack you're taking, though all backpacks that spawn in the world spawn empty (Players may leave items in theirs if they upgrade to a new one and drop the old). > Move all of your items from your old pack to the new one, by clicking individual items in the list followed by the arrow on the left of the item name. When done, all the numbers will be on the left for the items you moved. > Exit your inventory by pressing G, or escape. > Looking at the new backpack on the floor, use the mouse scroll to select "Take <backpack name>". It will equip it, and should drop your old one in its place (Since DayZ is in alpha, it might NOT drop your old pack. Ensure you have removed everything you wish to keep first!) I've swapped numerous backpacks this way, since I keep finding new and improved ways to die to the environment (only been killed by zeds once, players twice, and have died over ten times).

My issue was apparently solved when I stood up under a low doorframe (the building was about 4 feet underground, and I crawled in) and died. Two hours later when i finally got back to Gorka, the 1911 reloaded fine.

I've been having this happen to me with my M1911 since 95054, and my friend with his revolver is fine. Not a server specific issue, nor is it an ammo issue (dumped my ammo when I found some more for it, tried reloading, but same deal). The gun just doesn't pick the fullest mag anymore, if it even tries to change mag at all.

I killed a player from ~10 meters - he was sitting on the first landing of the apartments north of cherno, looting, and looked up at me as I was aiming - with two M1911 shots. First shot missed, I am positive, and the second shot killed him immediately. It really does depend on your latency, their latency, and how bad a day the server is having.

Sure. You'll need to reinstall the beta version for each, and then possibly upgrade/downgrade (either way, uninstall and reinstall) Battleye, each time. Or just stick with 94997, and use a true 94997 server. No reason to go back to 94878 unless you have stuff on a server that is being lazy at updating.

Clarification: You're about to buy ArmA II. Then you'll download DayZ and never play another game again. :) If you're looking for groups/help, be sure to post which timezone/server region you play on.

I usually stand on a tower in Cherno and light the entire town up. Zeds just don't know what the f@#k to do.

For those who are crashing after updating BattlEye - use the Uninstall BattlEye links on the Start menu (Should be under All Programs > Bohemia Interactive > ArmA 2 and ArmA 2 OA folders). Once ALL copies of BattlEye are uninstalled (you can search for the DLLs in your ArmA2 dir to be sure), then run the 94997 beta installer again. It will reinstall Battleye, and then you need to copy over the updated DLLs again. If you're getting deleted/missing file errors when starting ArmA2+DayZ, make sure your shortcut/launcher/Steam is running the correct target - it usually happens when the path is incorrect in the shortcut. (I use ArmA Launcher - http://www.armaholic...age.php?id=8241 - and it has the option to create a shortcut based on the settings you select. I set it up so that it didn't load splash screens, auto-loaded chernarus, and started the beta version with DayZ. Then I used it to create a shortcut on my desktop.) I played quite happily solo for about four hours - went from Cherno to Elektro on foot, and back again. Would have been nice to have a vehicle! I didn't stick to one server, but used two or three over the course of my journey (logged out twice to take a break, picked a different server on return). Everything seemed stable and smooth - had some desynch, but never a disconnect. Movement at night does seem to alert zombies more easily, or maybe I wasn't being cautious enough.

http://dayzdb.com/map#5.045.051 Perfect overview!

Know what really sucks? Travelling halfway across the map with a friend, having obtained M24, M16A2+M203, along with gearing both people up. And then the server crashes, and when you reconnect you're back to where you last logged in. As in, an entire evening wasted, for both of you.