Kiro (DayZ)

Question: is there a way for admins to effectively protect their servers against hackers? I mean, appart from banning them AFTER they killed everyone, can they do anything else?

First you're saying you have FPS issues. Then you're talking about something unrelated: shoting at someone who doesn't take any damage. That's either server lag or a hacker. Then you say "I lose out because I just can't coax my character to move fast enough.". That's not FPS nor lag, that's something else. I lag online and in single player but it doesn't make my character "slow". Anyway, try this: http://pastebin.com/BiSnmAj7

Yeah awesome suggestion, DayZ also needs NPCs who give quests to players, a class system, new races, and the PvP should be removed from the game. You're asking to turn a survival game that takes place on a 300km² map into a capture the flag. I hope you're trolling.

I tried playing Arma 2 single player. The AI is funny. My teammates prone, crouch, prone, crouch, run 2 meters, prone, crouch, run 2 meters, crouche, prone etc... Or they just stand there, doing nothing, with the objective 10 meters from them. Or they tell me to get in a car, drive to a point, which I do, and then nothing happens. Thank god for multiplayer!

First result on google: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=beta+patch+95208&oq=beta+patch+95208&gs_l=hp.3...920.2585.0.2663.12.8.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c.7zf0Wk_FC4Y&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=783677770c4845cf&biw=1366&bih=640

You can already use ; to sit down and ' to do some "hand on your forehead" stance (I don't know how it's called exactly). It doesn't solve the shot-on-sight, personaly I would still shot on sight someone who's doing that, simply because he becomes a threat again once he cancels the animation.

It's always the same at each Arma 2 and DayZ update. You'll just have to wait until tomorow to play. Go play Arma 2 solo :)

There will never be any missions or quest in the game. Rocket said it in yesterday's interview. And it's a bad idea in the first place. To have missions you need invulnerable NPCs, to have NPCs you need safe zones (or people will just camp these npcs and kill everyone that approach), and DayZ will never have that because they're terrible.

You just lose the equipement you had in your inventory. You can put a tent and vehicles in a safe place (ie the forest, far from towns) and hoard a lot of weapons and equipements, you won't lose these when you die.

Get all your inventory and not just your food. It is, and you didn't survive Good luck, you'll have a lot of fun with a group :)

There will never be any safe zone and never any NPC. Rocket said it a billion times. EDIT : I just noticed you said "PNJ" instead of "NPC".

Yeeess! I never played Eve Online, but I'm sure it must be a lot of fun defending and upgrading your capital ship. I played a bit of Minecraft on a full PvP server, and it was really exciting that a few players could destroy your entire base if you weren't there to defend it. I only found 2 vehicles in DayZ, but these were the best hours I had in-game, they were like moving bases and my team felt so powerful and awesome with all our gear. Once we have huge servers with 100+ players, building bases, raiding towns to get supplies, huge clan wars, it's going to be awesome!

Maybe it's a conspiracy to make us play the Arma 2 main compaign while we can't join any DayZ server :)

There was an explosion and an admin online, so it must be the admin who did it? Maybe everyone died on the server because of some hacker.

Look for a clan on the forum, nobody ever try killing a small group of players, the risks are too high.

Permadeath full PvP without any safe zone is "generic pvp"? Can you give an example of another game with the same model?

There should be a merchandises online shop, I'd buy the hell out of DayZ T-shirts.

What? Right now there are 150 servers with 3 people on. There are 80 servers with 5 people on. Your story doesn't make any sense. Even if you "check server population like a hawk", you can't know on which of these 150 servers they are.

I don't understand how hackers can do that just by "running scripts". That's the first game I ever play in which players without admin access can have MORE powers than the admins. Why isn't there a protection against that in Arma II? Why don't you need the admin password to run these scripts?? I hope they'll upgrade the game/BattlEye soon to prevent that.

Hi As you all know there are a lot of threads from players who complain about PvP: "it's unfair to get killed when you just started, it's unfair to get killed for no reason, people shot first and ask question later, the shot-on-sight mentality is ruining the game" etc. etc. etc. So my question is: why did you buy Arma 2? Why did you play DayZ in the first place? How did you find out about the game, what motivated you to buy Arma and dl the mod, and what did you think it was about before buying it? Did you know it was full-pvp and that you could get shot at any time by anyone and lose everything? Was it clear enough on the websites where you looked for information about the game? I think it's interesting to see how the information is freely available everywhere, on the forums, youtube, tons of website, and yet some players didn't know what they were going to experience in-game.

There are some small white fuel tanks, these aren't the right ones. These are the ones you have to use : http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Jerry_Can

Can you give an example? What feature couldn't be implemented if murderers aren't punished? He said there will be no safe zones, ever. If you build a base, your own clanmates have to defend it, or else it will be destroyed. There will never be any punishment against murderers, and the world will always be unfair to new players, and will always be dangerous. At the end of the video he said he doesn't like server-sided events like plagues or tornadoes because they're not players-created. He wants most things in game to be the result of players interactions. If a player is punished, he must be by the other players, not by some hand of god coming from nowhere to punish his moral choices. EDIT: what he said about punishing people for disconnecting too many times is really disappointing. It doesn't solve any problem, it will maybe create new ones. I disconnect often, if I'm afk more than 5 seconds, I log out, and there's no way to know if I logged out to avoid death or because I was going afk; and I often change server to find the right one (mainly to find one with the correct timezone, sometimes because of hackers) I don't understand why he didn't say anything about adding a disconnection timer? It would be much more simple and will eliminate the problem.

http://pastebin.com/F7Q8Ne2i Also turn on HDR during night time to be able to see.

Rocket said no. If you want a safe zone, make it yourself with a 10-players clan.