Zak_Prestor

I have screenshots! Story: I join the server - got kicked. Join server - kick. Join server - restart. Join server - kick Join server - managed to write in group chat. Russian admin and his friends were repeatedly restarting servers motivating that they wanted to play without cheaters, buggers and bandits. As soon as get home to my PC, i'll post some screenies.

I costs 10$ if you buy CD-Key for ARMA2:OA

Kamenka is a good spawn point for experienced players that head straight to Zeleno and Stary/NWAF next.

Cheaters! They have any stuff they want in 5 minutes, they have maphacks that show all players, vehicles and maybe tents on the map. They can spawn vehicles, tanks, helicopters and tactical bombers with nuclears missiles, they can become almost invulnerable (shoot head or neck), they can aimbot you, they can instantly teleport for 200m in 1 second. They can break legs to the whole server, kill everyone or give anyone AS50 with heatsensor. They don't care about their gear, they are "hunters" and we are "prey". They can spawn anything they want and go kill the whole clan in it's camp, they like to hoard all the vehicles from the map in 1 specific place. But they'll get banned sooner or later. They'll pay 10$ again and again, untill get tired of this gameplay and quit. The second category is much meaner and more dangerous: Seasoned clan members buy 1 account for cheating, use it for 3-5 days to track vehicles, clans and maybe tents on all EU/DE/UK/RU/LU/SE/US/../FR servers, spawn and dupe any weapons they want and then fight "fairly" against other clans/squads, but one hacker in their team can have maphack turned on to show all disposition of the enemy. One account gets banned in the same 3-7 days, but they buy a new one for the entertainment. Both categories almost don't care about loosing their gear, thy don't need anything from killed players and the penalty for death is only 10-30 minutes until they are picked up by their clanmembers. Shoot on sight? Sire, debug monitor shows player and bandits killed, so the more you have on your counter, the "cooler" you are. So violence brings only violence, eightfold killed n00b will kill any1 on sight after 9th respawn. So di I. I was a cheater. I spawned ammoboxes with all the stuff I needed, I used maphacks, teleports and spawned vehicles to hunt other cheaters that hunted me when I was helpless or simple players when I wanted to train myself with specific weapons. I got banned in the first wave back in June, and now I play without any cheats. But the core of community is crippled already: no penalty for being a murderous bastard, no global chat to warn people about a camper near Devil's Castle or even carma penalty in your debug monitor.

I'm a 2-meter tall with 112 kg of muscles (i'm not kidding) that felt a considerable recoil from common SVD (IRL), firing common AKM in bursts of 4-6 bullets also is not as easy as it seems, but 50-cal standing? I don't even imagine how much endurance one should have to simply hold 20kg rifle in their hands for a few hours.

IRL you will never be able to shoot 50-cal rifle while standing or sitting because of its huge weight (15-30 kg) and recoil after shot. No living man can effectively shoot 50-cal rifles without.lying down. So the simple change is to make it possible to shoot from any 50 cal rifle only while lying down. I'm talking only about realism, not balance issues.

No, no and NO! So you want to lie down in bushes with zombies all around you and kill any survivor on sight? VSS Vintorez is one of the best assassin's rifles in the world, but it can only be found in KGB/FSB arsenals, which I doubt existed in Chernarus. M110 silenced is another matter: it's just too powerful to be added to the game.

up =(

up...

- Game purchase with Monthly fee - Community and Studio developed. - Kickstarter -- sure! Game purchase with moderate monthly fee will give developers more reasons to work at their best to earn solid money. Community is what makes a game's ecosystem viable. I guess it would unrational to refuse voluntary help of skilled modellers or designers for example. Kickstarter is a good option for raising starting capital =)

While I would prefer Winchester or CZ550 over AKM/AK-74 or basic M16/M4a1, I'd say that Solnechniy bandits are mostly fresh-spawned players that got fine civil weapon and camp for uncautious noobs =) Berezino has no military loot spawn except 4 military tents on a very well observed place and hordes of zombies up there.

I have a solution for almost effortless map size "increase": Just add more mid- and top-grade russian weapon spawn locations to the eastern side of the map. Simple as is =)

Anyone who lives in Eastern part of the map is a newcomer: 1. It's very hard to place a tent in a secluded area because of a huge amount of roads, which means most players walk in treeline. 2. There are no interesting places except Polana supermarket and some barns. Berezino and Krasnostav are constantly populated with 1 or two snipers, which makes any visit there a perilous risk. 3. There is no PvE in this game, because any1 skilled enough can sneak past any zombie spawns. PvP is what makes this game so refreshing. And don't forget, that there is a Far-Northern part of the map beyond Petrovka and Pobeda Dam, where lots of wild animals wait for their hunters =)

I do like the current player distribution on 30-50 ppl servers too, but let's be realists: when the average server cap reaches 80-100 ppl, you would feel much less comfortable. My implementation of new weapon spawns and firearms will increase the map capacity dramatically without any serious efforts from developers. Simple and effective sulutuin, like AK-47 or even SVD =)

IMHO if a survivor or a group of survivors can hold a place for hours, then they deserve the spawned loot. Holding southern barracks, camp at Stary or supermarket at any city foe any considerable amount of time requires a lot of coordination, discipline and tactical skills. Especially considering serverhoppers, cheaters/hackers and dc-ers. So cheers to OP! :thumbsup:

I'll store in my tent: I didn't like it's scope (holo), and i'm a sniper anyway =)

I'm greatly disappointed in absence of new weapons in 1.7.2 build. I already have about 5 tents on different servers full of guns, cars are tracked by cheaters so i see no point in collecting them and i see no fun in sniping newbies in Cherno/Electro with my AS5/SVD/DMR with NVG, rangefinder ang ghilie suit.

We've looted about 7-10 heli crashes last two days, but haven't found any new guns: 2 AS50, loads of Bizons-SD with ammo, tons of FN-FAL, 1 NVG and 2 Rangefinders... I have concrete doubts in legitimity of M4A1 Holo M203 SD Rocket, you promised some new weapons, including melee ones in 1.7.2!

Sorry for missinformation, the actual weapon is: M4A1 Holo M203 SD

I will, but only when (or IF) any officials confirm the weapon is hacked. If this weapon is legit, I guess I can trade it for some very and very good stuff =)

Maybe, but i have offloaded half a mag to kill one person in a distace of approxymately 100m, and only managed to injure him and let him Alt+F4 I guess so too, but I'd like an official confirmation. Not me, unfortunately =) But it would be nice of Rocket to add some new weapons, especially that of Warsaw Pact used.

Я смотрю, что ты ветеран пЕраток ВоВ/Ла2, где подобное является закономерной нормой. Я резко против: я неделями фармил северные регионы, бесчисленное количество раз умирал в уг-шмоте во время фарма казарм (нормальный шмот в палатках), чтобы набрать себе топ-эквип. Если ты бомж, недавно начал играть или ничего не достиг, то это не повод равнять себя на других. Eng: I see a veteran of WoW/La2 private servers here, so the fact of regular wipes and rollbacks is pretty common to you. I'm against of any wipes because of the amount of my time I have invested in scavenging northern regions and NWAF barracks. I Died countless times in my crappy gear just to accumulate some decent gear, collect all types of weapons. If you are a n00b or you haven't achieved anything, you shouldn't try to equalize with others by wiping all their stuff.

I have been brought back to Cherno from that freaking Wilderness! Thank you a lot for saving me from death of starvation and dehydration and for all my precious loot I had been farming for weeks (died countless times but kept most valuable pieces in tents). Thanks again and again, folks! =))

Name: [A7x]Zak Preston ID: 2922308 Location: East of Petrovka (I guess) Problem:Spawned in Wlderness with no food and no compass, but I have a lot of valuable gear on me (SVD Camo, NVG, GPS, Ghillie suit, M9-SD and Rangefinder), which took a lot of time to gather. Please, spawn me anywhere in the North with all my hard farmed gear =) Thank you in advance.