If it's connected to the hive then having a password on it isn't permitted and is enough for it server to be blacklisted and blocked from accessing the hive.

That isn't all the helpful since you can log in to servers that don't have access to the official HIVE. Look for servers that are named Location (mod version/beta version) [difficulty][time zone] dayzmod.com - <who ever is hosting it> eg. NZ 15 (v1.7.2.3/94945 [VETERAN][uTC+8] dayzmod.com - Histed by ON3 Network That is the required server name for official DayZ servers so all should follow that format. Other than that if a server isn't on the hive then once you join none of your progress with saved for when you join other servers and will only be saved on that server.

Just get http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4639/?snr=1_4_4__topsellers from steam That is both the ArmA 2 and operation arrowhead that is needed to get the mod working The mod itself it free and if you get that pack above you will not need to pay for anything else.

When I play to avoid people I feel I'm missing out on a chunk of the game. Coming across other players is what gives me the rush in this game that makes it unique. Sure I could gear up on the small towns but I don't find it as fun.

Yea being one hit is the biggest advantage of the AS50. One day I will be lucky enough to upgrade my DMR for an AS50 :(

The DMR is also unable to be zeroed in making, not a big drawback. The AS50 would also have faster bullet travel than the DMR I would imagine. Also the AS50 is supposed to have a lower actual sound making it harder for other players to pinpoint your location.

. . . on the forums.

I am pretty sure pushing restart kills you and makes you restart over again with nothing. Use abort > Disconnect > Disconnect. The server saves everything you do to the hive so all your progress will carry across all the servers that are connected to the public hive server.

Way I see it is (and I guess a lot of others) is I have spent the last 12+ hours traveling the map gearing up. I don't want to lose it all just because I decided not to kill the person I have a clear advantage over. Any person who comes within my sight I will kill, even if they are running away from me I may come across then in an hour or so and I may not be the one who has the advantage next time. Killing people is also a great way to gear up. My friend killed 2 guys trying to come into the building we had stopped to loot in Berezino and one guy had a coyote backpack and M4A3 CCO with 9 mags. Also got my friend a DMR by killing a guy on the top of the factory in Cherno who was trying to kill people in the city below. I pulled off a 750-800 meter shot I was rather proud of since this was on a veteran server so had to guesstimate distance using mildots on the DMR I was using.

Currently at 13 murders 0 bandit kills. I plan to increase that number when I play again tonight

Whats with people liking their own posts? Is it some bug that is done automatic when someone makes a new thread or are people that hard up for some sort of public approval that they like their own post?

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/22386-admin-abuse-what-you-need-to-know/ What admins can and can not do in game. Also it would have made it 10x better if you had taken screen shots showing the guns they had.

How is that nice or lucky? It removes any challenge or emotion from the game, now getting killed means nothing since he spawns back in with everything. To me the whole point of playing is for the rush you get when you get into a fire fight or come across other people and need to react to survive or die and lose hours even days of work. Also OP, this sounds like something a dev will need to look into and correct for you.

I disagree, I was playing on a server with a friend, it was pretty late at night and the server had less than 10 people on. So we came across a crashed chopper and after scouting it just in case we go into loot it, once we are done and moving away a car comes in with two people in it. I the middle of the map with only 6 or 7 other people on and we still come across another 2 players.

This is what you're after http://i.imgur.com/BuY29.jpg

This page gives a lot of info on vehicles in DayZ http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Vehicles

Sounds like they both DCed before they died.

The only channels that should be enabled are direct, group and vehicle. Some servers have changed the mission files to enable side chat again and technically this isn't allowed as it states in the Server hosting agreement that a server admin is not permitted to change anything in the mod. I have yet to see or read of any servers being punished or warned for this though.

Pretty much just forced to move on, its known and the dev team is working to implement something that will stop people for being able to do this. With out a name tag it is pretty hard to find the person and just based on the large number of people who do it, it would take up a large part of an admins time finding out and banning people who did it.

If you mean the little cirlce with a cross through it in the map then just double left click the location on the map you want to place the marker. To delete them mouse over and push Delete. Also other people can sometimes see the markers as well on the map, I think it has something to do with the channel you're in. I think if you're in direct chat everyone can see, but in group only you can see. Not 100% on that though As for smoke push F until you see the top right change to smoke grenade.

Do you have your weapon raised? I had that problem the other day by accidental pushing the button that made my guy lower his gun. Couldn't ADS and took a few minutes to figure out I had lowered my gun lol

I've never used six updater I don't think. I just open six launcher and let it do the updating and patching, although I have just changed across to DayzCommander and really liking that over six launcher. It does show a tab for downloading the latest patches and updates but I haven't used it to update the game yet. I recommend it over six launcher though http://www.dayzcommander.com/

I think being banned based just on using the weapon would come down to the admins discretion. If a new player managed to stumble across a hacked weapon on a dead player and used it without knowing it was hacked, I don't think that deserves a ban. But an experienced player that finds a weapon they know is hacked in and still uses it is deserving of a ban. I also recommend you report this to this thread http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/forum/32-cheat-reporting/ providing the server, time is happened suspected hackers name etc and hopefully the admin of the server finds the post.

As far as I know that weapon is not in the DayZ mod. Not 100% sure though and am going mostly off the guns listed on the DayZ wiki http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Weapons I would suggest noting down the time your friend killed the players, the server and the names of the players he killed if he managed to get it. This will make it easier for the server admin to check the logs if the decide to follow up on this.

Yea I found some tonight, took me a lot longer than normal though but I got some from a supermarket in one of the central towns. I think some drop rates might have been changed because I don't remember them being that hard to find in the last patch. I also remember having a hard time getting an ALICE pack last patch but in the latest patch have come across 4 within 3 minutes, 2 of them being in the same building lol