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Don't these fences already have spaces that are cut open that you can sneak through? Usually it's never more than a 10-15 second run to find a gap.

Ah.. good to know. Thanks :) Glad I stumbled onto this thread this morning in my hungover state haha

kill or be killed. Spoils to the victor.

I don't get it... what happens with a ghillie suit and a female char?

If they ran at Crouch run speed, there would be no sense of urgency in trying to get away. You could simply just out run them every single time, make them lose interest. I agree that it's annoying that you can get knocked out in 1-2 hits, but that adds a serious fight or flight element to the game. You either stand your ground and kill the infected before he gets to you, or you run away and try to lose him in one of the many ways there are to lose a zombie. What you are suggesting is too close to the "fish in a barrel" scenario, which would really make the game too easy. It also leaves lots of room to exploit it. team of 5 people goes into a town, one person runs in, shoots a shot in the air while his friends hide, and runs all the infected around in circles while friends loot the town dry. There is no real risk for the person doing the kiting, except maybe other players.

I want to trust you, but how can I ?!

I want to trust you... But How can I?!

there are boats in this game

Sounds like you need someone to watch your back so that things like this don't happen... also, sounds like you need anger management. Getting killed is part of the game.. at least you see repairable vehicles.. I've been playing this game for a LONG time, and the only vehicles i see are the ones that are being driven by other people... Take a few deep breaths, and start again. It will be ok.

Date/Time: 7/10/12 9:30 pm - 10:30 pm. What happened: Infected aggro from extremely far away. Where you were: Niznoyhe / Solnichny What you were doing: i was crouched, in the field, a good distance out from the buildings to safely get to solnichny to scavenge for supplies. The infected would aggro from very, very far away. I would be in the crouched position to ensure that my visibilty was lower than running while standing. *Current installed version: 1.7.2 *Server(s) you were on: US 90 TX *Your system specs: GTX 580, i7 2.66, 6 gigs corsair dominator ram. *Timeline of events before/after error: long and short of it is, i was running well outside the boundaries of the town to safely get around to solnichny to scavenge for a particular loot set, and infected would become aggressive from entirely too far away. i would say 4x as far away as they have in the past. I searched for patch notes stating that they were more aggressive and couldn't find anything... I just wanted to know if this was working as intended, or if this is a bug that has come as a result of the recent patch. After they aggro, i would run very very far into the woods to dispatch the infected so as to be sure not to alert others to my whereabouts.. Altho, one would see me, and it would turn into 3-4 infected. Thanks

This kind of post is hardly constructive.. If you don't have something to contribute, keep your trap shut. No reason to be a jerk. As for further comments regarding the aggro radius, I haven't had a chance to test our the newest patch yet, but hopefully tonight I'll be able to see how the patch has altered their agro Behaviors, Will post back for sure with more comments. When posting in this thread to include as many details as you possibly can so that the dev's can get a better understanding of what we are talking about. (If you record your play, and have video footage of abnormal zombie aggro (from hundreds of meters away, behind buildings, etc... (Edit: RECENT FOOTAGE (from the current beta patch)) post it here so that the dev's can see what we are talking about)

Backstory: Steam was installed on a 100 gig HDD. I recently added a 2 TB internal HD to my rig. I wanted to install games to the new HDD, turns out, steam doesn't allow you to install to where you like, only to where steam is installed. I uninstalled steam, and reinstalled on the NEW HDD. Ever since I did this, i can not get DayZ to work.. I have never had an issue BEFORE i did this, but now, i have had one headache, after another in trying to get this mod working. Currently, the error I am getting is "Arma 2 OA has stopped working" This generally happens at the loading screen (the one with the hangers and the tanks), when the loading bar is about 80-85% complete. Things I have done so far: Uninstalled Arma 2 and Arma 2 OA, and reinstalled (twice) Downpatched from beta 94997 to 94876 Used tutorials on manual install, and six updater install All of these things get me to the same end result, the game crashes and i get the windows error message at around 80-85% on the load bar. I have followed every guide available, my battleye is up to date, i've tried various different versions of the beta patcher, I've tried Six Updater, manual update, running as administrator, launching combined operations from steam and selecting a game through the multiplayer menu.. NONE of it works, and I am growing increasingly frustrated. I've scoured the forums and can't find anything different to try, so I come to you all humbled. Please, help me. I have tried to take screenshots of the Arma 2 Load screen so you can see how far I get on the load bar before the game crashes, but for some reason whenever I hit my print screen button, and i paste it into paint, the image I get doesn't even show my game, it shows my desktop as if the game isn't even there. Again, I've tried using the guides that are listed by the admins to get the game up and running, but nothing works... I will try anything at this point. Edit: the Error message i get from windows is 100% vague. it doesn't give me any explanation as to why it crashed, it simply says that windows will tell me if it finds out why. (Tried to get a screenshot as proof, but it wouldn't even take a screenshot of the error message.. I am completely and utterly baffled at this point). Edit 2: I have verified Integrity of Game Cache through steam, this doesn't help, as it caused a "Bad Serial Number" error to appear (which I have never seen before)

If anyone is having the same issue that I was having in the OP, try this thread that Atlon linked.. It is time consuming, but it worked for me (after 2 days of trying every other fix i could find online, and reinstalling twice). Thanks again Atlon, You have my beans!

I give credit to the person who didn't alt F4.. That's a cowards way out, and I still stand firm in that there should be at the very least a 10 second logout timer, where your character stands up or at least crouches for the duration of the timer, so that you can't lay down and log out while someone tries to get a bead on you.

Well.. I tried Atlon's link's suggestions. I uninstalled the BattlEye from both directories, and then I tried to launch the game. was met with an error that said "Error Creating Direct3D 9 Graphical Engine". Currently tryin to validate files to repair the game, so that I can continue on with the steps. :( Well.. ever since I followed those steps (even after reinstalling BattlEye), i can not even get the game to launch because I keep getting that error... Extremely fucking frustrated. edit 2: After i fixed the above error, I continued on with the steps listed in that link, and THEY WORKED! Thank you so much! (it took almost an hour to get everything done, but it was totally worth it.. Now i don't want to go to work today!)

sounds like you need to find some other people to play with

I think a better way to do it would be the standard 15-30 second "camp" time to log out, that you see in so many MMOs.. If you Alt+f4 to get out quick, it begins that countdown.. This ensures that a) You can't just run away from a firefight, b ) people aren't using this an exploit to aggro 20+ infected, and log out to clear the entire area, making it safe to log in, and C) you put a sense of fear into the player because they know that there is a real chance that they can die. edit: (my B turned into an unintended smiley)

You answered your own question. You are running the newest version, and the server is not. You cant join that server, because it is out of date (grayed out in your six launcher)

You do realize there are hundreds of servers, right?

I haven't had a chance to play, since my home server (with my camp) has been out of date since friday. I will report back if they ever update it and I am able to play.

You have to stand still long enough for the bandaging to complete.. it's not instant. and if you get hit while bandaging i believe it cancels the process

Honestly... no one is going to trade you. Just being real.. If i were you, I would try to find a place where you can kill her, and then have her run back to you quickly to reclaim all of her items. Antibiotics are pretty rare, i've only ever seen them twice and i've been playing for a long time and raid the hospital on a daily basis.

all text chat is disabled, You need to use caps lock to use voice chat, assuming the server you are playing on has voice chat enabled.

Z = Crawl... do it often ;)