Fraggle (DayZ)

I like it.

The Clap?

Err, Mrs_Murder. That's a cool story and pics but its not hacking or cheating. I did some testing of weapons with a friend and If I shot him from 100m away with my M4A1 CCO SD he could here no gunshot. A couple of times he would get knocked unconcious or have his legs broken by the first shot. I think that's what happened to you. *edit - Actually, that first bit probably is hacking, don't hate me ;)

1 groovy hat = 5 Ghillie suits.

I may be wrong but he might need to update battle eye manually. There was an issue before that after updating the patch Battleeye was stuck on the old version.

Well to carry on my ill thought out metaphor, you can still have your jam or peanut butter in the forms of hundreds of other Mods for Arma. There's RPG mods like city life, a pretty impressive lookng survival mod on the way involving flooding, hyper realistic army simulators like Poject Reality and ACE.. People have been modding this game for years and will continue to do so. Day Z is Rockets mod and was initially just intended to run on one server for him and some friends to test out some different gameplay mechanics. Now it's become popular people seem intent on moulding it into something else entirely. I was attracted to it because of the harshness of it, I'm sick of being patronised by game developers that are trying to please everyone in order to maximise sales. Day Z is almost an anti game in that respect. It's harsh, brutal and unforgiving. People that have been brought up on games that hold their hand and lead them down a prefixed narrative under the guise of an open world experience are having trouble adjusting. Yes there is balance issues, that's why were here, to test it. Rocket has already said many times that in the future, teamplay will be encouraged and assisted, with the game encouraging this element. it won't happen at this stage though so patience is really the only answer to that. As far as I can see, Rocket has a pretty clear vision of what he wants. This may not be the quickest or most elegant way of achieving it but for now, it's his baby, we've payed nothing for it and will just have to wait to see what becomes of it in the future. Oh and it's just my opinion but PVE completely brakes the whole concept of the game for me by removing the tension and risk.

Well I've teamed up with people I've never met and made some good new friends too. Err, why would you want to disable friendly fire? If your not good enough not to shoot your friend in the back of the head then you need to practice more. Having freindly fire is as important as the permadeath aspect of the game.,.

Your groovy hat.

Agreed. The hacking is completely out of the hands of Rocket. It's an outdated system from Arma that is the issue. Bohemia are hopefully working on it with their new found fortune.

i'm pretty sure it's been established that any building of any sort will take place in underground bases in the future. Hydroponics has been mentioned by rocket so fingers crossed.

He doesn't need to respawn, it's in the patch notes. Just quit out, log back in and he'll appear on the south coast but with all of his gear in tact. I tried it yesterday. Also, that's just one issue, not ten.

Yup, that was happening to me and a friend yesterday after we updated. Didn't last long but it's never happened to us before.

Actually, most of the "community" are just busy playing and not posting on here. It's easy when reading forums to get a skewed view of peoples opinions because it's often only the fanboys/girls or people with complaints that bother to post. It's a shame you've taken that view this early on in the process but this mod was never going to appeal to everyone. It's a bit like Marmite, people love it or hate it and the ones that hate it really can't understand why everyone else thinks it's one of the most original concepts in gaming for years. Also , I'm trying not to be pedantic but being sniped from a rooftop is within your control and avoidable. As for the bugs, while it remains on this engine (which it will while the concept and mechanics are tested) then many of us have just accepted that as being involved in part of the Alpha testing phase. I've Alpha tested other games at the Alpha stage that have been far less complete and stable than Day Z. Like I say, if it's not for you then cool. A bit weird how you would sign up to a forum just to have a dig at the community though.

Tinned food should give you 200 blood as far as I know. I don't remember seeing anyhthing about it being nerfed. Soda just sorts your thirst.

i think it's a hacker. I might be wrong but I don't think the helis will be operational until today/tomorrow. There was an issue with admins needing to apply a hotfix on the sever side.

Yup, it's off topic and been discussed at length. It will be dealt with . Patience Grasshopper.

Without boring you with the details, just try to build the most balanced machine you can with the money you have. You can have the best GFX card in the world but if your processor creates a bottleneck then it's pointless. Also, I've found that some of the mid range price cards will keep you gaming at the top end for a couple of years or so if they're complemented by a good processor (quad-core ideally) and decent RAM (4 GIGS will do you proud) Don't be tempted to splash it all on the card. Also, Hold some money back for a decent sound and monitor set-up. It's no good having a bad-ass machine if your watching it on an 18 inch monitor with standard desktop speakers. A good surround sound set-up is pratty cheap nowadays (£100 or less at the lower end) I've built a pretty good machine for around £800 (including speakers/monitor and so on). I just shopped around and found some great deals (second hand monitor and so on). It's a year and a half old now and runs everything on max (apart from crappy ports like LA Noire).

Hooray! Another way to brake my legs. At this rate there's not going to be enough morphine on the planet to keep me vertical.

Bring a Frag next time.

Oh balls, sorry.

Agreed. Probably the simplest way to do it at the moment would be the odd random spawn of a crawler or two just to keep your your toes. Maybe with a nice tweak to the usual Zed sounds just to make people brick themselves.

If I find a GPS in the next hour I'll PM you. Fingers crossed.

Your right! I hate the idea!

I don't like the Slenderman idea but I do like the idea of the forests at night being very scary places. *edit, in fact , i'm gonna go and make a thread about it.

I don't think the weapons will be tweaked too much. The models have been developed with hundreds of hours of military input over the last 10 years.