CptSpank

Most servers are good at letting you know if they allow 3rd person in the server name. If you see "3D:ON" in the name, then it's a pretty good indication that it will work. Servers that make no mention of it are fairly hit & miss, but I find most expert (EXP) servers have this option off. With the Veteran (VET) servers pretty 50/50 on it when they make no mention of the 3D:ON option in the name.

Like BertieJ said. Your basically the sports star that uses a drug that's not yet been picked up and banned. So whilst it's not on the list you'll just exploit it to your own ends until it is. I'm not one for name calling (that's for trolls). But that isn't the intention of that option, especially with your admin mate doing the same. As an admin one should at the very least be setting the standard to what is the spirit of the game and not that of poor sportsmanship. The Hero skins was created for one simple reason. So if you want to be a bandit, awesome, go be a bandit. I'm all for PvP but by using that exploit your simply just undermining the game and invalidating the whole reason for the Hero option.

I find most of the AU & ANZ servers are hit daily now. Best times although still not immune, is late at night (2am+) on a week night when the script kiddies have school the next day. I know it's sad, but it's really the only time it potentially has less hackers. Still recognising this is an Alpha test I'm confident a fair chunk of these issues will be removed once it goes standalone. Heck I memember similar issues like these back on the Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942 before it became Battlefield.

A little like the Fallout 3 / Skyrim maps, with the points of interest auto adding to your map as you travel about. I'm surprised such a feature doesn't already exist. But this is Alpha so much yet still to be changed and added.

I know this is a bit old. But ANZ7 has been getting hit a bit lately. Same issues with the flames in Electro happened on that server again tonight. That and some guy was spawning choppers. Same guy even exited one of his choppers taking shots at me (mostly missed), only to ghost in front of me on top of a hill after outrunning him. It's a shame because it's predominantly a good server with a healthy mix of PVP & genuine random stranger team ups. Those kind of actions just ruin the servers rep.

Yeah I've seen this a bit since the last update. If I refresh in the Arma client I'll get a different list each time. I sometimes have to refresh 3 or 4 times just to find the servers I'm looking for. Even if I filter just to find the AU or ANZ servers, I need to refresh this a few times just to see them.

Shout out to DrRobertMuldoon thanks for making the way out to Green Mountain to patch my legs up. Much appreciated. You saved my bacon...literally. Happy to help meds out on supply runs if after a pack horse. Cheers.

Hey gang, Shout out to any Aussie or NZ medics floating around Green Mountain for morphine. Got legs broken and wasted all my clips holding back zeds when investigating the area. Very quick respawn rate. So was taken by surprise when what I thought was a lot of Zeds was actually another wave coming through. Needless to say I'm up the creek without a paddle (well no it's a communication tower actually) with my trusty hatchet of awesome. Normally on around midnight AEST on any number of Aus or ANZ servers pending slots available. So if your about pop me a PM on here or steam (same steam name, also found in the Aus steam DayZ group). Also happy to team up with who ever helps to run a medic resupply mission or two.

Nope fairly normal. Smoke grenades do more damage to buildings than an actual grenade (particle effect issue). I've done this throwing smoke grenades in a building only to have the walls fall down around me.

I've come across two instances so far on AU servers, one with the 'everyone drops out of the sky and dies' & 'all players suddenly dropped in the ocean'. But I guess this is more a hack than a dirty cheat who spawns gear to save them the journey. But then as much as they maybe robbing the time it takes to get the gear, they are equally robbing themselves of the journey and the OMG stories that take place just trying to find stuff on the map. You know... the real players.

To put it simply I think the interaction is fine. It's the choice of each person on how they interact let alone the situation. However some players see the murder count as a goal, so having this encourages banditry in this sense. To counter that a reward system of equal merit is needed, such as a counter for transfusion/1st aid for everyone you help. This in turn will encourage players to choose one of two paths more openly instead of the one path a number of players tend to go down, some more voluntarily than others.

I love how open the PvP is. It just adds to the risk. Perfect example; I had my legs broken outside Balota airfield only to crawl all the way pitch black to a petrol station & get attacked by Zeds. Opening fire I see another player from the muzzle flash. I had a choice to shoot but thought what was the point, he's mobile & I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere. He offered to head to Cherno to get morphine for me (I never asked he just offered straight up). I noticed he only had a flashlight so in good will, I offered him my AK since it was of more use to him than me now. He then had the choice to gank me, but no. Instead he ducks off & 20 mins later is back with the morphine. We ended up teaming for a bit and I let him keep the AK as thanks. He later got ganked by Zeds whilst we tried to meet up with a friend of his back at Cherno hospital. Was a fun run too. As much as I hate being ganked by other players it's those rare moments that make the game all the more worthwhile.

If they are running the Steam version get them to run a varification check via the steam program. I doubt it will fix anything, but it's worth a shot. I had to do this to knock out some of the bugs, especially after following all the install instructions when 1st getting my hands on both Arma:CO & DayZ.

I thought it was DayZoolander. Which might explain how I kill Zeds with my Blue Steel glance. :P

I run this off an old lappy. That said it's a Toshiba Satellite A200 2gig Dual Core cpu 4 gig ram ATI HD2600 Settings I get away with good frames on low specs Not bad for a 4 year old laptop, back in the day it cost me just over $2k. Same specs now you could grab for under $800 I am in the midst of throwing a quad core system together (just chasing a 1tb HDD), but since the lappy runs Skyrim on medium to low this will do for now.