Arnie (DayZ)

maybe remap your keys to any setting you like ? Just be careful where you put it you don't want to shoot your buddy when you want to bandage or bloodtransfuse him.

Arma is a very CPU intensive game. You can always go for a slight overclock on your cpu but thats upto you. I'm running at 3.6 ghz myself and have been for 4 years while using the standard heatsink. Upto you. At 1600*900 it might be too much for your GPU, I'm running it at 1280*1024 so there is a little bit less to process for my card.

Feel free to offer him your services to help him out with the bug fixing. I'm sure your expert coding skills will be highly appreciated. If you can't free up space in your undoubtedly busy schedual then its probably pretty pointless to complain about things. This is an open alpha after which there will most likely be a beta and after the beta comes the finnished game !

Thanks for your constructive criticism.

First of all if I remember reading correctly with the default or even the max video card settings arma won't use more than 512mb of video ram. You need to add a string to the .exe to enable it to use more or you can download arma launcher which enables you to enter a max value of vid ram to use it then adds the strong for you. You can also select how many cores the game runs on in similar way, you'd have to put it on 2 cores. I'm not sure if arma does that by itself unless you tell it to. Personaly I'm using a C2D E8400 @3.6 ghz and a Radeon 5850 with 1GB of ram. I playing at higher settings than you alltho i played at a fairly low res. (you did not mention yours) I experienced the framerate drop after being ingame for a prolonged time so I suspect a memory leak somewhere. It also occurs faster when I alt tab alot to check the map. Exiting the game completely and restarting fixes it for me. Then I'm good again for an hour or 2 to 3. Hope that helps.

Its black, crispy and attached to a wire, what is it. A bad electrician ! Brownie points for those who get it.

Last time I went there I had 2 bandages a can of coke and a flashlight. Some tents will have walkers in them so it really sucks if you are completely unarmed and there is a nice gun in a tent that has a Z in it. Hatchet is recommended. Can kill the Z, patch up if you are bleeding and hope he does not break your legs on the first hit. Then again there is the chance of other players.

Can you do a duped item vs picked up item list. As in 5000 players carry NV goggles, 2000 of those are duped And this for all the the rare loot.

I agree on the TS plug in for submersion, thats awesome stuff, I wish I could make something similar for other games but alas I lack the skills for that :(

Sorry you saw this as a sting, it wasn't its just what it is. Rediculous. Forcing an open channel. Part from a violation of someones privacy unless you made them signed a user agreement where they acknowledge they are ok with having a constant open microphone in their room there is the following. - Background noises - People with shitty mics, resonating, humming, buzzing - People coughing - People chewing gum / eatind, drinking while playing - Bandwith consumption for the server Not to mention its a game, people will get advantages over other players whereever they can its upto the people who run the game where to draw the line. The online maps for instance you can't stop people from using those because you simply do not have the right to tell people they can not use their browser while playing a game. Nor do you have the right to force people to use ingame coms only let alone having it open all the time. Please, don't try to take this as a sting. thanks in advance.

Well he did not hack anything. He exploited by duping hacked items. Still bad but when someone commited armed assault don't put him on trial for murder. I do agree that as a server admin he should set an example and not take part of this. It does not look like he have the moral and ethical backbone to be in charge of a server. So his @hive should be bye bye.

Really, well i know fuck all about programming but with the list of scripting commands available on the BIS website I managed to put something together that does exactly that, and that was after reading a certain "website" for an hour to "educate" myself. (I do add that back in the day I made some single player missions in the original OFP but that was a long time ago.) Tried it on my own server on LAN on a multiplayer mission called firing range and what do you know it works. Now if I can do that imagine what someone who actually knows stuff about programming can do. So whenever I see a hive enabled server without battleeye running on it then you can kinda put 2 and 2 together, no ? If that server is passworded ontop of that and there are 4 ppl in it you know enough. DOUCHEBAGS. Now before you point fingers at me I haven't played this game in over a week because all my friends who played this with me quit after we died under how shall i put it "suspicious circumstances" twice in a row. I might pick it up again but since I like to do my gaming in an honest fashion I doubt I'll be back to dayz unless its ported to arma 3 and player items are stored serverside instead of clientside. To sumarise it. I love this mod. Rocket created an awesome gameconcept and a blend of genres but for now I'm out. Thank you exploiters / cheaters.

I don't like the idea of being able to spawn anywhere but at the coastline. Putting spawnpoints anywhere would just be too exploitable not to mention it would defeat alot of the games intentions. Thats why i suggested the distress beacons all along the shoreline that can be activated and used as spawnpoints if you know the code. eg: My friends and I die. I spawn. Run along the shoreline, Find a beacon. Activate it with my code 666. Tell them over TS the beacon code is 666. They spawn at the coastline near my beacon. Alas, we can head inland together instead of having to run around for an hour to find eachother. The beacon stays active for 5 more minutes then deactivates and can be used again by other survivors.

Rediculous. What's next, people cant open their internet browsers while playing the game because they can use the browser to check the online DayZ maps without actually having a map ingame. ooooo k.

It would not help much unless they start monintoring the servers better. It's very easy to get stuff if you are a dishonest admin. And thats not just for the admin himself but for anyone who he lets in on it. NOT being able to run a server without battle eye enabled would go a very, very long way.

Maybe its possible to change the hatchets item category from "tool" to "handgun" let it take up less inventory slots in the backpack than a secondary weapon, pistol takes 5, hatchet 2 or 3 ? When equiped as a weapon use the fire selector to cycle through the different modes. You know like you'd switch from semi-auto to auto to throw grenade, etc ... If you have the hatchet equipped then that would switch it from melee to chop wood. Just thinking outside of the box here.

Ok, if this is possible then how about my idea. The radiotower jams you if you want to log in - OK Problem with this is friends not being able to log in at "their" base. Solution Give the radiostation a 3 didgit code, if you know the code, you can log in there. Another implementation I can think of is the following. Put a number of "distress beacons" along the coastline Make them work like this. Spawning players still spawn random along the coast. Moving along the coast they find and activate one of the distress beacons and enter a 2 or 3 didgit code for it The beacon stays active for a limited amount of time lets say 5 minutes Players who create a new character/spawn will be informed there is a distress beacon active and if they want to spawn at that location If they chose to do so they have to enter the code, if it maches they spawn near that distress beacon instead of randomly along the coast. This would eliminate one of the most frustrating aspects of the game without sacrificing too much of the gameplay. The ability to start off at the coast with a friend instead of having to find them.

Seriously. Its not a standalone game. Its a mod for Arma II. There is no such thing as a dayz game or even a graphics engine or anything at all. And for the first time BIS is making good profit on arma 2. So yea they'll just make their game free so people can play a mod.

Chicago 52 is fishy. There is a big tentcamp on there made up of about 14 tents at a location i won't disclose. It was completely sealed off with barbed wire and sandbags as in tons of them. The tents had a couple of M4 SD's,M9 silenced pistols, M240, SAW's, the thermal scoped assault rifles etc with alot of ammo for each. It's also the server where my friend and myself got jumped in the middle of the night by 6 people while there were only 8 people total on the server (so yea do the math 2 + 6 ) And no were not near a hotspot. Ofcourse its possible that that was coincidence after all the map is only 220sq km. Not setting foot on that place again. But then again its also fishy that that server restarts every 2 hours or so.

There is no M4 holo in the dayZ database. Spawned through scripting, but I'm sure you know nothing about that since you just "picked it up".

I'm just worried that a fix for DCing will drive even more people to hacking because they can't deal with the game concept.

Unfortunately the perma death and ruining days or weeks of someone elses gameplay makes them flock from the regular arma 2 game modes to Dayz. Because for them its fun to kill someone like shooting fish in a barrel but its even more fun if it causes some serious grief. There is some serious spiting and griefplay going on there, I bet the more stuff the guy they kill has the more fun they think that was. After being killed by an invincible player the other night losing 7 days of gear a friend and myself spawned made it to our tent picked up NV goggles and went to play on a nearly empty night server to get some gear back. To play during the weekend. Hike to the tent 2 hours raiding several deerstands and stary sobor at night 2 hours Hike back to our tent would have been an hour but about 30 minutes out of Stary sobor we got ambushed in the middle of nowhere by 6 people. There were 8 people total on the server. After killing us they did not even bother to come check our gear they just ran off again while it was obvious that we had NV goggles to be playing on a pitchblack server. Result my friends stopped playing.

Some people already have very good bullet proof vests.

Experiencing the same. Exit / restart game helps me.

There is a bandit issue. People who play this game without exploiting / scripting will be bandits or survivors, but in order to become a bandit you need to have survived a bit first. People who exploit / use scripts will ALLWAYS be bandits because there is no point of being a survivor if you cheat. Why loot a town, spawn things. Dupe things. Its these shitheads, excuse my english who only play this game to grief, knowing very well that ther person they are killing most likely spent alot of time aquiring his stuff. And that is "the bandit issue" Basicly all bandits are not hackers but all hackers are bandits.