Meepo (DayZ)

Don't even try, TimeGlitch. 90% of the people that play are CoD kiddos who enjoy being bandits so much that ANY idea that discourages banditry is instantly shot down. I agree with greatly reducing the number of sniper rifles. Hell, get rid of them entirely so those carebears camping on hills will actually have to get off their asses and play like the rest of us. And since this game is still in Alpha, I also agree with doing a wipe every once in a big while so everyone starts over at the same level and has to build their way up again.

That's only if you're bleeding. I've seen many people D/C the minute they see another player or a herd of zombies.

Why not? In every thread where someone has a good suggestion for the game, its always shot down by autists claiming, "NO THIS GAME IS ABOUT REALISM. GB2CALLOFDUTY, CAREBEAR" so I think this would be a great addition seeing as how it adds a heavy dose of REALISM to the game. Hell, someone mentioned earlier that there should be buttons for inhaling and exhaling and if you fail to breathe, then you die. REALISM AT ITS FINEST, FOLKS. In fact, if you eat enough beans, you should even start farting at random intervals up until the moment you shit. IT DOESN'T GET MORE REAL THAN THIS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. REALLY.

Cry me a river. ;)

But banditry IS being punished because you're trying to break their equipment. We're not trying to punish bandits, we're trying to DISCOURAGE it.

Do you realize how stupid you're making yourself sound? "IM NOT EVEN GONNA READ IT BUT ITS BAD" Real smart there, kiddo. If you had taken the time to actually read what you're reviewing, you'd see its AESTHETIC. That means its just affects LOOKS, much like the bandit skin used to be. Saying this is an RPG just because it would have a rank indicator is like saying "THIS CANT HAVE GUNS BECAUSE THIS ISN'T CALL OF DUTY". But no, nobody can be this ignorant so please explain how exactly it would "make the entire point of this game irrelevant"? What do you consider to be the "entire point of this game"? I would love to know where you're coming from with these statements, or if you're just overreacting and pulling this out of your ass.

Whoop, nevermind. I managed to solve it after all.

So uh... anything? Its worth mentioning that when I use SixLauncher to start up the game, if I choose "Launch", I get the same "Connecting failed" error but when I try to join a server via SixLauncher, it starts up the game and the screen goes black and says "Wait for host" and freezes like that. It never loads.

It finished downloading and there was a small difference this time around and its that some of the server icons are now green instead of all of them being yellow question marks. I still couldn't connect to them though. "Connecting failed." Here's the RPT file. Perhaps you can find out why this is happening because I took a peek in that thing and couldn't make heads or tails of it. https://rapidshare.com/files/881526369/ArmA2OA.RPT

fixed that for you what the fuck is iksdee I think he's saying "XD" (Ex-dee) but he's just being autistic; disregard him.

Restart steam? Reinstall steam?

Ah, well then I'll be sure to upload it once Operation Arrowhead finishes installing and when the error comes up again (which I'm certain it will).

Porkyham, I couldn't have said it better myself. "Not all change is bad" I see absolutely nothing wrong with having a little "rank" indicator as long as it's merely aesthetic and I think it would definitely keep people playing for longer. Just because it's an idea that's similar to ones used in other games doesn't mean it's gonna turn DayZ into BF3/CoD; calm down. You're all so quick to jump to "NO THIS ISN'T BF3/CoD! DAYZ IS HARDCORE, STOP RUINING MY GAME" that I'm starting to think you don't even consider the ideas. Death would still be permanent and you would still lose all your stuff. Ranking up won't present any sort of bonus skills or otherwise advantages. Purely aesthetic. The game will still be as "hardcore" as it always is.

Is the RPT file something I can open up and look at to understand the problem or is it something I should attach here for someone more experienced to look at?

I only partially agree with the mickeal. These zombies are absolutely ridiculous, running around like kenyans in serpentine patterns. If they were slowed down, then I wouldn't mind if there were twice as many zombies. However, I disagree with starting off with a weapon because I rather liked the idea of being defenseless at first and having to arm yourself. Player killing is an iffy topic because once that whole "call of duty" audience got ahold of DayZ, the Murder count became a Scoreboard for them and almost all traces of co-operation between survivors vanished. But one thing's for sure and that's "slower zombies". I'm not saying reduce them to a crawl but anything is better than the Olympians they are now.

Oh, my apologies! I've been trying to get DayZ to work for days (no pun intended) and in a moment of utter frustration, I uninstalled SixLauncher completely so I'm afraid the application log files might very well be gone. But I do recall poking around in the ArmA installation folder a bit to see if there was a way to fix it. I remember deleting the entire "expansion" folder and then trying it again, but SixLauncher simply remade the expansion folder, along with the .rsync folder, only to show the exact same error again. That was actually the point that I flipped out and uninstalled the whole thing :s

What on earth does this mean? The update button is orange but I'm unable to update because this error keeps popping up :-/