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Admins can't actually ban you for disconnecting to avoid death, no. You just take a screen of the guy disconnecting (works best if you see nametags on that server), and report him. Quite hard without nametags though.

I hate how people come with the 'Oh god he hacked in an internet game I'm sure he could murder someone now and he's a complete douchebag now oh my god wtf!' approach. Seriously? It's a video game. Fact is, yes, the admin hacked. Cool. He's most likely going to get banned for it, the OP and his friends will get their stuff refunded (I guess) and it's over with. Atleast try to be a BIT mature when it comes to reports and try not to make assumptions of how much of a douchebag the guy is IRL and how much you want to see him dead because he hacked in a video game..

Will get you banned quite easily though.

I liked lethalwalou's post, it summed up pretty much everything I originally wanted to say. But one thing: Most of us are not here to -roleplay- survivors. I know how fun roleplay can be but I'm not roleplaying in DayZ. Why? Because a- It's impossible due to most players shooting you on sight, whether you got loot or are any sort of threat or not. b- Tbh DayZ isn't exactly made for roleplay. You could possibly roleplay in DayZ but the social interaction involved (if it is involved, depends on the situation obviously) is more on a personal level (which means you don't exactly roleplay your character beng afraid but more that you personally have some sort of fear and are on your guard). I haven't really encountered any roleplayers in DayZ, have yet to find somebody doing that, however I feel it is very hard to even establish proper roleplay if the other person isn't following you on the track, so to say. As I mentioned reviously, the social interaction in DayZ is completely on a personal level and not necessarily on a roleplay level unless both parties know eachother and desperately want to roleplay.

Well, sadly, not everyone thinks about the zombies nowadays. I once went through Cherno, found an M1911, and continued to walk. So, I hear shots and decide to check it out, turns out there's nothing there. I just see up to 10 zombies infront of me. I successfully sneak past, checking my surroundings before trying to enter the building. As soon as I managed to take the first step I got shot by an Enfield, in the back. I died instantly. Turns out the other player died too due to all the zombies he attracted in the middle of Cherno..

Well, not everybody has access to knives or so either. Not to mention that those are completely useless against zombies. Spawning without a weapon actually requires you to think, but some players can't even do tat ,they just sprint through Chernogorsk in the hope of finding a proper weapon, ignoring the 20 zombies behind them.. But yeah, originally you should think alot more when entering towns and actually have a plan. Dieing is part of the game. Just retry.

Sorry but that's just not true. You won't find any good sidearm except a hatchet, true, but once you find a hatchet you're supposed to head north for good gear.. I mean, really, 7% chance for any Shotgun / Enfield (In barns or factory-like buildings that is) is good enough. If you can't even be bothered to be patient and feel like running through the middle of Cherno just to get to a possible loot location faster ,this may not be the game for you.

Well if you can remap them why not. You can always use Mouse 4 and 5.

The hatchet isn't exactly silent to players, nor is the crowbar. Once you use either of them, others will hear the sound of a gun (Hatchet has a more proper, suppressed sound, whilst the crowbar sort of has the sound of an M4, atleast regarding how loud it is). Zombies can't hear it though. It's hard to tell when you should trade your hatchet for a rifle or vice versa. Just yesterday I had this situation where I had 5 zombies in Novy Sobor after me, and I found a Lee Enfield with 2 mags. I decided to trade against my hatchet because the Lee Enfield will be much handier once I could get to the NW/NE Airfield. Okay, so, I got this brilliant idea of shooting the zombies with this Enfield, since I can't use my hatchet anymore (I tried dropping the Enfield and picking it up again to switch to my hatchet but it just disappeared, so I had to pick up the second one which was closeby).. Bad idea. Instead of 5 zombies chasing me I had the whole town after me and ran out of ammo since I only had 20 shots, but 30 zombies chasing me. I switch to a double-barreled shotgun in the hope of being able to use it with slugs, but no.. I still got out of there though. But to be honest, never switch to a rifle if you ONLY have zombies after you. Instead, kill the zombies by going into a building and hitting them with your hatchet, then sneak / go back to where the rifle was, pick it up and get out of there.

With all my respect to you PK Richie. Yes, Days is mode is Alpha. I know, this is the new trick how to get money from people and have no responsibility for nothing. There is more titles which are Alpha, but you always has to buy something. This thread http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=23085 is the thread when you are right now. I know about this thread since yesterday and I alredy gave to Vipeax my ID. I sent him also my ID via PM. Yes I know that when ID contains letter he will not help me. But, my ID has numbers only when I am using manual installation and also my ID has letters and numbers when I am using the Six Launcher. No words about this possibility from Dayz staff, so? Ok, I will pass this all. I am done for now with Dayz. I go play Secret World. @TR!PLE, thx for help. Cya later, maybe! You're the most impatient person on earth I ever came across. Smartcommenting in a thread about how 'alphas are just a way to earn more money' which makes no sense at all (since by buying Arma X you don't directly help developing DayZ) and saying how you already PMed the staff with your problems numerous times won't work. It's just a fact that you can't play DayZ right now because of some bug with the Arma X edition (if I didn't get it wrong that's the cause of all this), and the DayZ team is fixing it. Be patient, don't go around boasting about how shit DayZ is because it just helps BIS earn money. You don't necessarily fund development of DayZ by buying Arma X, and even if you do, be happy instead of being so hostile against it. After all, you're possibly helping Arma 3.

"Quote:If this contains anything but numbers (say 123456ABC) it means you are running a version that we don't support yet, but it's an issue that has a high priority and will be fixed very soon." Your Player ID contains letters.

All I have to say.

I think it's best if you contact the Dev Team about it. Not sure if they hand global bans out for that though. ;o

Might be a bit offtopic; I hope DayZ doesn't get PVE only servers. As mentioned previously, you could get good gear real quick, and to be honest: Zeds are easiest thing to bypass. I've once had lived for 2 days straight and was roaming around towns, but I never attracted a single zombie. Even with the increased sight and hearing range of the zombies it's still easy to bypass them, it just takes patience (i.e, took me 20 minutes to go from the coast to Elektro's docks which were 5 minutes away if I would've ran to the docks, carelessly). Now, ontopic: I do shoot players on sight. But I really feel bad about it. Just recently I have had an encounter with a small group at Balota Airfield (I wasn't aware they were playing together at the time being). I watched them from the tower, they didn't seem to notice me. Only one of them was armed. As he went up the tower, he stood directly infront of me, and I shot him instantly. It felt like I didn't care t first because he would've been a potential risk, but as soon as I went downstairs, his other 2 mates came around asking if I was friendly or not, and then I realized I pretty much destroyed a whole group. I felt really bad about it -_-.

there's a point where "realism" is just another word for "game mechanic". I submit to you good sir' date=' that this is one of those times. If you want "realism", you shouldn't be able to carry an engine block in your backpack nor carry heli blades on your person and still be able to maneuver normally. [/quote'] I think you misuderstood my point. The OP wants broken bones to recover fully after some minutes or so, but that's just nonsense. Carrying a rotorblade in your backpack can be counted as balance issue really, because how are you supposed to carry it otherwise? Realism has to be put aside for balance at some point, but that point does not start at broken bones healing automatically.

Keep it realistic.. Broken bones just don't go away after a couple of minutes IRL.. The damage from infected is being fixed in 1.7.2 means they will NOT be able to break your bones with one hit anymore.

Guns aren't any rarer as far as I can tell. You will just never find a sidearm since those have a (personal view there) extremely low chance to spawn. You will mostly find primary weapons. Even in dire situations. Just today I came across a Lee Enfield with 2 mags in a house as I was being chased by 2 zombies. Even though they can't walk through doors, they can still open them, so I died. :< Look in barns, at the docks and in houses. And, for bigger things, the airfields (Balota, NW, (NE), (Cherno)).

Make sure you are using the latest beta patch. It's obvious you cannot join 1.7.0 servers since they aren't the same. 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 are 2 different versions and not compatible with eachother. About the spawn in the middle of nowhere: Did you 'exit' the map as you were playing the previous day/week/month?

That's called the debug forest. :P Simply click Abort - Disconnect - Disconnect and then Okay once you are in the class selection screen and try again.

Nope. Night right now is absolutely insanely dark, already at 18:00 I can't even see myself. At 18:00, it's still day here (I live in Sweden), and I play on European Servers aswell. Also, even if it's 1 am in the morning, I'm still able to see myself in a somewhat dark forest.

I'm not sure what I should think about infiltrating groups and shooting them afterwards, since I'm not really the guy to break someone's trust, even though I'm sort of a bandit. I enjoyed reading though.

I've always tried to not shoot people because they got important stuff. I've always tried to stay friendly, help other survivors and be the nice guy. But various encounters made me go for the way of being a "semi-bandit". Before, I had spawned various times in Progorodky, and I always got killed by bandits acting friendly. Eventually, I had to make a decision; Kill others on sight, kill them for good stuff or kill them if they won't respond? I decided to go for everything except the kill on sight. So, as I respawn, I spawn at the factory outside Chernogorsk, and met up with a sort-of friendly bandit. We team up, and organize ourselves. He had killed a survivor before and was friendly enough to leave that survivors gear for me, which consisted of a CZ. a map, a compass, a GPS and everything else you could imagine. Now, as we decided to step down and get into Cherno, he had attracted a trail of zombies. Unfortunately, he died, as I could not support him with my CZ. Two other survivors (I was a friendly survivor back then) approached. My companion died, and they approached his body. Eventually, one of the survivors got up to me. He seemed friendly, but new. The other survivor wasn't, as I thought, with him, and he had my other companions gear. Thoughts went through my head.. Lose a good companion and let a randomer stroll off with good gear (My companion had an M4, map, compass etc), or kill the randomer and let my companion grab the gear? After some time of observing the randomer, he tried to attract zombies. Before he could do that, I fired. One.. two... three... Three shots in the head just to be sure. I had enough magazines in my CZ. He died. The other survivor next to me was waiting and watching. For a short moment, I thought about giving him my spare 1911 pistol with 1 magazine. In return, I got a Makarov with 6 magazines. As we waited for the other companion to show up, I saw a guy with a Winchester attracting a horde. I felt extra generous, and offered the new guy a Winchester. He agreed. So, I took aim... One.. Two.. Three.. Three shots once again. However, only two hit. I was sure he bleeded out inside that house, but apparently ot. He shot the last few zombies with his Winchester. He didn't have much time left though. As my other companion arrived, we wanted to move out... Suddenly; No message recieved for 5.. 10.. 15... 20.. 25... 30... 35... 40 seconds.. I was like "Noooooooooo, not now, come on! I'm having fun!" and eventually I lost connection to the server and decided to stop. Sorry for leaving you, August and Joint. :( But, it felt fun killing two players for important stuff. A mix between generoousity and cold blood killing seems to go well.

Oh, I never actually looked at that and the thermometer since that doesn't play a huge role right now, I suppose.