Fraggle (DayZ)

It'll be interesting when people start playing the SA. There's thousands of new players ATM who's only experience if DayZ is starting with a custom gear and playing on maps with 400 vehicle spawns. Modding and private servers have always been important to BIS, luckily though the SA will be locked down so people have to play it as intended. I too have enjoyed most of the modded versions of the milsim games since OFP came out. For that type of game, heavily customised servers work well, that's exactly why BIS make their games so customisable and even give you the tools to do it. However this isn't a milsim game, it just happens to be using the same engine. Once it get's tweaked too much it loses everything that made it special to start with and that's exactly why the SA won't be modable in the near future as well as the security implications of making the code public.

Well you say it isn't fun for a new player but all of us here were new players at some point and we all started without NVG's and DayZ became very popular as you know. It's your server and you can do what you like but this trend of private server owners trying to make the game more accessible is just a personal bug-bear of mine, I'm sure many disagree with me though :) . DayZ became popular because it's challenging, frustrating and hard to learn. It's not supposed to be catering to the lazy or casual player. It's because of this that the sense of reward is so much greater when you achieve something or manage to find that super rare item. Anyhoo, it's just my opinion and I'm sure you disagree I just see so many private server owners starting to miss the point of the game now days and forget why it became so popular to start with.

Welcome and have fun :)

Lol, that's less reliable than wiki, read the comments at the bottom. I think they're taking the mick.

Make sure you check out some of the WarZ reviews on Youtube before handing over your cash :)

IMO if you take away the night you take away a big part of the game but that's just my personal opinion.

We are like ninjas ;)

Commander will update everything you need including the beta patch to the latest ones being used. You can also download and install all of the new maps from there.

That's a really good point. Both of them are going to have to do all they can not to be accused of pulling the same trick. Obviously that won't be the case but after the WarZ shitstorm both parties need to be seen to be completely up front and clear about what it is they're selling.

Also take a look through the changelogs in the announcement section for a more detailed idea of what's changed, there's quite a lot including new vehicles and weapons, new maps available, a mechanic to stop combat logging and many other things. Welcome back.

I think after the WarZ scam fiasco on Steam it's safe to say that no chances are being taken in that regard ;)

Looks like a generic zed to me.

Damn right!!! This forum is now full of win. Well done devs.

>conference call it is then!

There's hundreds of things I find annoying about DayZ and always have. Luckily, the overall experience is greater than the sum of it's parts. That's what stumps people that don;t enjoy it, they just can't understand why we tolerate this buggy but brilliant game.

Protip: Good satire doesn't need a disclaimer at the end explaining that it is indeed satire. Don't call us, we'll call you ;)

No probs. I've PM'd a guy called Amber Helios, he's more knowledgable than me with this sort of thing so it's worth a shot. He's offline now but he's around a lot so you shouldn't have to wait too long :). If he doesn;t come back on tonight he should be around tomorrow, I've given him the link to your thread, good luck!

WTF, never seen that before. I gotta go soon but I'm gonna try and summon some help for you by a couple of dudes that are more clued up than me. Hold tight.

You can just copy and paste, as long as it's the same file it should be ok. Not sure about the read only thing TBH. Also, read this first, it's a fix I found that was posted a few days ago: "Ok i managed to update it somehow, here is what i did. Hope it works for you to, so first navigate through your arma 2 folders to find battleye uninstall program, uninstall it, and then go to dayzcommander, and reinstal the latest patches for both arma 2 and dayz. Now go into the game, try to join a random server, and when it says updating exit the lobby (before update succesful), and then rejoin again. It said updating, then updating succesful and finnaly initializing battleye 1.186 "

Ok, try this. Make sure the new BE files you downlaod to update it are placed in the "ARMA2 > BATTLEYE" folder AND the "ARMA2 Operation Arrowhead > Expansion > Battleye" folder. I think when you update it manually the same new file has to be placed in both of those folders. Worth checking. Edit, Also check your anti-virus software isn't stopping it. Are you using Avira by any chance?

Regarding your firewall I guess it's worth a look. I'm honestly not sure on the finer details of how it works but it's worth a go.

Will do ;)

You need to contact Battleye support. We don't issue the bans nor can we lift them. As Smash has said, there is no way you can be banned by playing on the same server as a hacker, that's just not how it works I'm afraid.

I'm not sure what to suggest if you've tried all of those steps TBH. I had a similar issue once and I'm desperatly trying to remember the fix I used. I think I had to start up DayZcommander and change one of the settings. The problem I had was that DayZ Commander was rolling back my BE version on startup so even if I manually updated as soon as I started Commander it would roll back to a previous version. The solution was to change the settings, then manually update and then start Commander again. I'll have a look now and see if I can find the setting. Edit - I've had a look and can't find the option, it was a long time ago and things may have changed. The only other thing I can think of is to check your Arma installation file structure and double check that when you manually update BE it's placing the new files in the right folder. Other than that I really am stumped :/

Once we get testing it will give the devs a much clearer idea for a release date.