Rayth

It amazes me the amount of sarcasm, cynicism and negativity on these boards. Thanks for a post confirming my opinions, and I'm sure the opinions of a lot of other people. This game rocks, no matter what bugs or glitches or whatever are keeping it from being perfect... it's still a whole hell of a lot better than anything else I've got to play.

You're an idiot.

Ok, yeah you may be right. There's just such a proliferation of that attitude here. I don't get it sometimes. So... my bad. Didn't mean to jump your ass Tamsen.

This is one of those moments where one member of the 80% douchebag population of these forums posts a nasty response that doesn't even make sense. Quit feeling like you need to respond to threads in hardass mode all the time. It's not fucking necessary.

I personally choose to play on a server where this does not exist. I don't know what the 'tag' given for that type of server is, however... whether that means it's a veteran server or what. But you can spot vehicles, tents, and people from over 1000 meters away with that little trick. I don't mind being able to spot things, but I'd rather not be spotted. Makes sniping super easy though. No guess work when you don't have a rangefinder.

You will lose I think 20 (it might be 10) blood every couple of seconds until you die.

So the guy you were fighting tossed a grenade and then instantly logged out? Wow, what a weakling.

Breaking their line of sight is SO MUCH EASIER now than it was before. If you aggro, get behind a house/tree/fence/car/pile o' rubble... he'll quickly forget why he was chasing you.

Ok, so when I first started playing DayZ, it wanted me to use my computer's login name (which is lame)... so I made a new profile. I recall having logged into the game under my first profile, and I've since only used the second profile I created. My question is this... can I have two characters? I only have one copy of Arma 2: CO. I'm not asking about multi-boxing or anything... I'm asking about having two playable characters with separate gear from the same computer. Any help is appreciated.

So basically having that second profile is just an easy way to switch between character names/appearances? But apart from that, they're only going to be one character?

The part that finally got my game to 'click' and work properly again... after reinstalling the beta patch (I used 94444), I went into my Op Arrowhead folder and copied the ARMA2OA.EXE file from inside the beta folder and copied it into the main Op Arrowhead folder just like I did the first time I set the game up to play. Once I did that I was able to log into games just fine. Good luck to you.

Right now my tent only has 30 STANAG magazines plus 15 other items, like bloodbags, morphines, cooked meats... all single slot items. There is a single M1911 in there also. It is already spitting out items when I try to put them in there. How is it full already? Around 50 slots? I thought they used to be around 100? What am I missing here?

That's right around when I noticed the change, so I guess that makes sense. Damn man, that's really just not that much gear. Oh well. Roll with the changes. Thanks for the reply.

It's in the changelog... Rocket implemented what is now being referred to as 'ghosting'. As long as you disconnect from the server within 60 seconds of being attacked, either by zombie or by player, you get a 'freebie' life - i.e. 6k blood and a broken leg, but you keep your gear. Enjoy!

I'd be fine if a zombie apocalypse dropped on the planet. I do just fine at hiding out currently, so I'm pretty sure I could do it some more with zombies around, it would just mean more expensive trips to Wal-Mart (or not expensive, as the case might be... looting and whatnot).

Seriously, this community has so many WHINING LITTLE BABIES. Almost every single thread posted gets a couple of jerkoffs condemning it as "not worthy of a thread", or "qq more, welcome to dayz", or "horrible idea, keep your shitty thoughts to yourself". So many egotistical video gamers playing the same game it's amazing. I think this guy's thread is awesome! Considering we all play on the same 225 km squared map, broadcasting the specific server these bandits are on is fair game as far as I'm concerned. Bounty hunting. Just one of many scenarios that can be made possible when a game like this gets really interconnected on the forums. Lighten up people... you're playing a video game.

Don't give up man. Find a better server. I tend to only stay on ones where there's a greeting upon login. It tells me that the server owner cares about the content of his hosted space. Simple things like that seem to be helping.

I thought this thread was going to be about 'glitched' looking aviators on your survivor's face, because they're all sparkly and white at night. They look weird. Anyone elses aviators like that? lol

Are there any? Because if not... I just met my demise on Seattle 61 to a silenced sniper... again.

It's alpha. Everything is rampant. Glitches, bugs, hacks, CoD-based newb pvp deaths, bean war rage, non-legit weapons, server wipes, etc. But on the positive side, this game is fucking awesome. Glad to have been a part of its early development.

1000 meters?? Really? Do you know that no gun EXCEPT sniper rifles can shoot that far? That's what I'm saying. No gun EXCEPT a sniper rifle could have made those shots. And it was silenced. Hence, my first post.

I'm getting pretty sick of spending hours collecting my gear when it appears that there are plenty of people who just 'spawn' it in. I'm not saying MOST people, I'm just saying that it's happening quite a bit. One downside to being on an alpha under a not-so-commercially-huge group like Bohemia.

I hear what you're saying. But there was a missed shot. And there was no noise except for the quiet 'ping' noise of a silenced rifle. Weapons are being hacked in... for fucks sake, I found a KSVK in Stary Sobor tents just yesterday on Seattle 100. So I found one yesterday, and got owned by one today.