Mr Zee

Best money I've ever spent, much much better than that Diablo 3 crap-fest

After a couple weeks of playing DayZ I've been killed by bandits, zombies, back-stabbed, shot by snipers and that wolf in sheeps clothing who says he's friendly but really wants to take your shizz. I've had some awesome gear, at one stage I thought I had it all, actually pretty much had it made up north, living off the bush and scavenging around, got a little too stupid though and gutted a cow in the middle of the north-west airstrip & BAM sniper killed me, but hey, we all make mistakes right?! This game loves to punish you for making mistakes such as; 1: "I know if I climb that ladder to the roof of the hospital someones going to shoot me in the ass, but I'll do it anyway because I want easy Morphine" = I get shot in the ass :P 2. "There's a cow right in the middle of the airfield strip, I know its risky, but I should be ok I haven't seen anyone for ages" = Shot dead by sniper as I gutted it. 3. "I'll just go out the front door of the grocery store, I've scouted and don't see anyone I should be ok right? = Shot dead by someone watching the store 4. "I know if I cross this hill (hill before the north-west cherno hospital) a sniper will make easing pickings of me, but the chances of one actually being there is slim right? = Shot dead halfway 5. "4hours fixing up a car in Stary, phew I'll just sit in my car to avoid these zombies, actually I'll log out for the night = Upon logging back in, car crushes you to death. I've asked myself why do I subject myself to it again and again and again?! Why do I create another character when I know that i'm just going to lose it all again anyway probably in the next 35mins (lol). The answer is simple, we enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the thrill of the risk to losing it all, we love the way the game abuses us and punishes us, we come back for more and more, because its a different type of 'FUN', its a sick twisted fun, DayZ makes the player become attached to their character, a strong bond and will to live exists in this persistent world, you experience a paranoia like nothing before, your literally living the game! You'll experience a paranoia & fear that far exceeds Amensia: The Dark Decent. If I had a chance to meet rocket, I'd tell him he's made the game we've all been wanting for years! I hope other game publishers look at what has been achieved here, all other games are now shelved, its all DayZ from here. One DAMN fine job guys,

I used my G17 to kill them (http://dayzdb.com/database/g17) - I made sure that there was no one around for at least 100 meters, the gun can only be heard from 58.2meters away, which isn't very far. I was a little worried though as all the animals were along the roadside between Komarovo and Kamenka, someone could have seen me (wasn't far from Komarovoa tbh, could have easily been seen from the port), luckily no one seen me. I do usually use a hatchet or silent weapon like you suggested, I spent about an hour looking for food though and couldn't be bothered dropping my AKS7-4U (http://dayzdb.com/database/aks74u) to take out the hatchet, I needed food, I needed to get it quickly and get out of there. I don't recommend shooting animals though you have a very good point, I could have EASILY been taken out if someone heard that shot (was at 3.6k hp), if you can use your hatchet, do it.

The feeling you get from a near death experience, and then comming out on top somehow. I'm talking about zombies beating you to within an inch of your life, and then you finding a chicken, cow, 2goats and get back to full life, fkn awesome!

I like it, too bad its quite costly, I'm quite happy with ALT key atm.

ouch bro, I feel the pain lol

We've all been there man, I feel like that alot lol but hey, at least you cost that muppet some ammo, and hopefully another bandit spots him and knocks him over. Keep at it! If I can do it so can anyone.

I (and others I play with) are still noticing at intermittent places FPS will just randomly drop for no apparent reason, though the issue has subsided somewhat since the latest beta patch (95054) I can run through the big cities with no FPS issues and a zombie train behind me as I run to loot buildings, so I know its not my PC being a piece of shit.

I just had to give you some beans for those leet skills lol.

Does anyone know the respawn times for vehicles in servers? I think it was mentioned at six hours though this was speculation from a post I read aaaggeess ago. Also, do cars always need to be repaired before you can drive them away? or are there some that need a fix up but can stil be driven. Sorry for the nooby questions, I'm just needing to move onto end game stuff now, already lived up north off the land etc so need somthing new to do.

No worries, bro, here is the server ip 66.150.164.82 GO HARD! (port 2302) I'm not going back to that server, ping is like 300 for me horrible. And it survived the same spot for like 8hours when i went to bed, should still be tehre. Edit: Yeah I know other players can steal the car before I fix it and drive it away, probably why I've NEVER sucessfully taken a car anywhere

I just updated beta to 94997, god what a mistake that was. Now I can't play on ANY server, stuck at waiting for host. Tried what was suggested a few posts up, didn't work so I re-downloaded the battle-eye again to see if that was the cause, still stuck at 'Wait for Host'. I'm checking the versions and none are running 94997 yet it seems, could explain why I can't connect (was happily playing earlier on 94876. In short, DON'T UPDATE TO 9499 (Got into a server, you have to check your using the same version, i've only found one and thats a multiplay server)

Try finding boars in the forests at night with no night vision, thats fun.

@ OP I've seen this before too, it looked like someone ran through the city with a 'fifty cal' lol, tents everywhere in electra and I went into a house and there were 5 dead people in the room, all fresh players me thinks coz they had no gear.

And they are still spawning in solid objects and hitting you for superman damage (8k blood) in a single swing. This also brings up room for another issue, zombie rubber-banding, and how difficult it makes to take out a zombie with a gun. I.E: I watched a zombie chase a player accross cherno the other day and seen the zombie rubber-banding, I doubt this was my connection as the ping was only like 36ms (playing on my ISP servers).

LOL careful bro BSM will come after us with their sticks if we out them :P - here have some beans, the rest of the community knows BS when they see it, don't feed the trolls the beans tho kk? its for you

Truer words never spoken my friend, here have a can of beans B)

Got headshot in the airfield just now and lost my day old characetr, he had all tools and could live up north in bush easily living of meat. I was gutting a cow in the middle of the strip in stary which probably wasn't the smartest idea but i hadn't seen a player in so long thought i was safe. Long story cut shrt, stay the F** away from airfields, there's always a sniper around.

Yeah had similar experience, in short don't trust anyone unless your a fresh spawn.

A quick search of these forums should reveal the solution. In short though, you need to run Arma II on its own, to the main menu then exit, and then do the same for Operation Arrowhead, after that you should be fine. The bad serial number at setup is caused due to the serial codes not being loaded into the system registry until you start Arma 2 & operation arrowhead at least once.

@OP You think the map is too big? LOL I think that its too small, I mean you'd think the chances of bumping into someone in a map this size with 49 other players is pretty slim, but its actually really common to bump into people up north, making the map smaller is just fail. Go back to COD lol

More and more people are noticing the game, its a fact, about a week ago the total unique players was about 430k, now its up to 600k+ How many people keep playing after purchase is another question entirely, but I'd imagine if you manage to get through the rigorous installation process that players would stick with the game, patience is key here don't expect a COD Black Ops zombie styles, your going to fail. This game rewards skill, and not quick scopers

I'd have to say that someone strafing around you zeroing in with a hatchet swinging is much more dangerous than someone with a gun.

CPU is water-cooled, premium thermal paste, and GPU never gets about 62c but lets not turn this into a hardware discussion thread. Background programs? Nope, nothing new. Updates for hardware/software? uhhh I'm not going to comment on this one, its completely irrelevant to the scenario. Like you said it could be anything, I'm going to put it down to server at this stage. I'm happily playing now Edit: I know my system very well, I built it from scratch, I am ruling out any kind of hardware or O/S related causes for the purpose of this thread.

I should probably clarify that switching servers resolves the issue of FPS, so I'm linking it to the way we comminicate with the server and vice versa, maybe it just wants us to logout then back in lol