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I only play in 3rd person because it's much safer to do so (looking around corners etc). But I'd love the 3rd person to be removed. It would add much more tension into the gameplay cause you actually need to watch around corners with your head exposed.

Just some hours ago, me and a friend wanted to do a quick Cherno raid, like sneaking in, grabbing some stuff from the firestation, supermarket and hospital and sneak out again. As we finished collecting the stuff we needed, we heard a snipershot from one of the towers which you can only climb by the ladder. So we decided to sneak up on him and take him out. As we arrived and just started wondering how we could make it up the ladder without him noticing us, we suddenly heard a scream, bones breaking and a death message in the bottom left corner popped up... The sniper we just wanted to ambush, fell from the tower and "landed" right next to us. :)

I just got killed by a hacker or better say script kiddie on Fr 129. I was near Stary Sobor when he was flying over me in his helicopter. I shot a few times on him with an AS50 (with NATO rounds). He then landed near me an got out of the heli. I started firing at him and i hit him a few times, which would have caused his death or at least should have knocked him out. But he ran straight towards me, and when he was right in front of me he shot me. Death message said "Aranthir was killed by a zombie or committed suicide." That was like 15minutes ago and he's probably still playing.

Most people will tell you to stay away from the two big towns on the coast (Elektro and Cherno). But I'd suggest you the opposite. You have nothing to lose when you freshly spawned. You can get the basic equipment there, like a bigger backpack, a proper rifle (from the firestations or the school building), some medical supplies (from the hospital), some food (from the shop) and some tools (axe, knife and box of matches) for hunting animals once you get out of the town alive. After you received all that (which should be done quickly) just run straight out of the town and to the north. Now that you have some basic equipment, survival will be much easier.

I just saw Frankies new video and I wondered how he jumped over the fences. It looks like he's actual jumping and not like stepping over it. You can see him jump over the fences at 42:47 and 43:36. How is he doing that?! :-P

As far as I know, the one who rides the bike is the only one who can hear the bell. Tested it a few months ago with some friends when we found three bicycles. Not sure if it got fixed since then.

I just started comparing the new maps and so far I really prefer Namalsk over all the other maps. I think it's a big advantage of those island maps that you can't hide tents and/or vehicles at the edge of the map.This makes it much more likely to find tents and vehicles and people have to be more creative when it comes to hiding their stuff.

Kamysharo? Maybe you mean Kamyshovo? If so, just follow the coast to the west (water to your left side) and then you should run directly into Elektro, one of the major cities. There you'll find plenty of pistols in the residential buildings and the supermarket and maybe some Lee Enfields or Winchesters. If you're lucky you'll even find a military rifle in one of the fire stations. But be careful in the major cities. They are full of Zombies and aggressive players. And if you stand still for more than two seconds on any rooftop or the open street, you might get hit by a sniper.

Hello fellow survivors, I just played on DE5 when I got teleported next to two guys, one of them with soldier clothing (not camo clothing) and turned me into a sheep. I have no screenshots or video as a proof. Date: 13. August 2012 Time: ~ 03:30 UTC+1 Server IP: 46.4.85.72:2300 Maybe this will help if an admin wants to read out the server logs. Edit 1: I relogged into the server and just saw that they spawned three helicopters next to Chernogorsk. Time: 03:55 UTC+1 Edit 2: Got teleported again and managed to get the hacker's ingame name which is B4NGBUS. Edit 3: They spawned an aircraft carrier next to Chernogorsk in the woods and started to spam explosions. Shouldn't be too hard to find out who the hacker was if one reads the server log files. Time: 04:30 UTC+1 Screenshot: http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg864/scaled.php?server=864&filename=de5hacker.png&res=landing

Why do you need NVG's? You can't even use them while scoping your AS50.

Hello fellow survivors, Since I started playing this mod (about one month I guess), I had three vehicles. I lost every single one of them during server restarts. So my question is... what happens to my vehicles? For example I had a pickup truck once. The server was about to restart in 10 minutes, so I parked the truck next to my camp and saved the vehicle. After the server restart it was gone. Same happened to my bike several minutes ago. Did the vehicles just despawned and are completely gone now? Or were they reset to a previous savepoint? Would it make sense to retrace my route to find it back?

How the hell did you managed to get all this high end gear (M4A1 CCO SD, NVG, Rangefinder, GPS, Ghillie Suit) but still wearing your Patrol Pack? O_o

TLDR version, please.

All he had to lose was a hatchet. So why shouldn't he take the risk and try to get a bike, a FAL and whatever high-end gear which was in your backpack? If I was him, I would have probably done the same. :)

Some weeks ago I read that you can get high resolution player models if you buy the "Private Military Company" DLC. I like the idea of having better looking player models, but before I buy the DLC just for some models, I want to know how exactly they'll look like. So I searched google and youtube but I didn't found a single link, picture or video where I could compare the vanilla models and the new high res models. So my question is: do you know where I can find pictures to compare the models?

Thank you DoctorWrongpipes... I feel kinda ashamed now. :D

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx Search for Arma II Operation Arrowhead.

Follow the mainroad out of the town and watch out for a sign with the town's name. The name will be in russian so you'll probably need a map like this (http://dayzdb.com/map) to figure out where you are.

So what? Even if it is faked, the effort to do this whole thing is still incredibly high. What makes you think that it's faked anyway? But I don't even think that you're serious anymore... you're just trolling us, right? Once again, what makes you think it is fake? They picked up new respawned players from the coast. Therefore they had not much to lose besides maybe some low-tier weapons which you can find nearly everywhere on the coast. Some of them might be so freshly spawned that they didn't even had a weapon anyway. That is called roleplay. People do that to have fun, you know? And if you watch the video closely you'll see, that the "victim" didn't believed what he heard cause he was laughing about the speech all the time. BUT he was entertained enough by these players to stay in the bus, dropped his weapons and play their little game. Cause it was entertaining! Do you really think that all this happened during their very first try? I bet dozens of players just alt+F4'ed and they had to repeat and search "victims" over and over again until they finally found some, who don't disconnect. But of course they just uploaded the video where everything went for their favor and not the other ones with the disconnecters. And as I already said, those two players didn't disconnected because they had no equipment to lose and they where entertained enough to stay. Roleplaying.

Those people who complain about the video are probably KoS kiddies who don't even know that you can actually communicate with each other in this game. Please google the word "roleplaying" and then watch the video again. Can you explain that, please? Why should these actions cause the game to get banned? Cause I see it exactly the other way round. These actions will get the game some good critics cause it shows what kind of opportunities you actually have in this game, this video proves that there are nearly no borders to your creativity.

Idiots? Damn no. This is the most amazing DayZ video I've seen so far. Those people surely spent a hell of a time to prepare this whole arena thing and getting the bus etc. THIS is the so called "endgame" what so many people claim to miss in the forum lately. Just be creative like these guys. Of course you can just grab a sniper rifle and kill unarmed players in Cherno/Elektro, but this would be something you could do in every other first person shooter aswell and so it's not quite special or entertaining. What these guys did was jsut really creative and unique.

As far as I know this server-rejection-thing happens if your Arma runs another beta patch than the server you try to connect. I recommend you to download the DayZ Commander which Adjta already mentioned above. With the DayZ Commander you can see which version you have installed and you have the option to manually update your beta patch etc. Once you know which beta patch your Arma is running, you can just put it in the filter (for example: 95208). All listed servers should work for you then. That's how I handle it. If there are other/better methods, please let me know. :)

I installed the new update today via SixLauncher. Unfortunately I'm not able to join a server since the new update. Some servers are stuck at "Wait for host" while other servers tell me something like "BattleEye initialisation failed". Did I do something wrong? Or do I just have to wait until the servers get updated?

Thanks for your help... but SixLauncher just updated itself and now everything seems to run perfectly again. So all I needed was just a little patience. :)

I had a similar bug. When I died, I respawned with my Lee Enfield and some medical supplies and food near Elektro, no matter which server I tried. It happened about three times after I got killed. After those three times I was able to spawn with a new character again. I dont know how the bug was created or how it ended.