Xykotic

Ive had hackers spawn tanks ontop of inaccessible rooftops and such, quite funny to watch while passing. I also wouldn't mind doing a thunderdome once, just to experience that (assuming they follow the rules and dont just wipe out the winner)

So? Aslong as they've got an icon they're good to go. Not like they're absurdly overpowered or anything, the ammo is rare as fuck and it deals little to no damage to the chest. But why would you give up possibly the best handgun (if you're able to score purely headshots) for a useless radio? :P

Found 2 camo clothings in the office/school whatever in elektro yesterday. And they definately work, even if they seem a bit low ress compared to the regular suit.

Who would want to carry that? especially when in a firefight, you'd stick out like a christmas tree to a sniper with that.

Players (snipers specifically) Never died to zombies, they're more like a big neon sign telling other players you are there. And while we're at that subject, zombies really need to be static and not just be there to reveal other players (unless you've aggroed them)

Am i the only who feels bad about taking other players lives? Every time I've tried the "hey man, friendly here... want to travel together a bit?" I get shot (this has happened 4-5 times now). So now i have to shoot on sight, otherwise I'm gonna get shot myself. Its a vicious cycle of mistrust and assuming the other person is gonna shoot if they don't do it first. Is there anything i can do to be more friendly? I'm not willing to take the risk of moving in a massive circle around the spotted players just to avoid them.

Happened to me aswell, but has only occured once. Finally found an m24, and i lose it 10 minutes later when i went for lunch :(

I saw some guy putting on a camo right infront of me today, left civilian clothing. He might have carried it for a while and just not put it on, not sure. Tried shooting him but ofcourse the guy alt f4'd after the 1st shot (only hit him in the arm or something)

So, for those of us who go play solo, what do you do during the day/evening when the gangs start showing up? Do you just go for the villages? Farm deer stands? Looking for worthwhile stuff to do that doesn't involve running into gunfire (all military areas)

Well, im plenty capable of staying alive and avoiding hot spots, but its quite boring just going about without a destination, and deer stands have been sadly empty lately. Almost hoping for an honorable death at some point so i actually have something to achieve by going through towns :P

Haven't found one myself, but I've only been playing for a week or so. Certainly want one, but i wouldn't recommend wearing one (your character doesn't save if you wear it).

Depends, if they only have a handgun (no rifle on back) and im at a safe distance i won't shoot unless they're directly in my path.

Me and my friend had the lightning strike the ground about 100 meters away from us.. Didn't do anything to the ground but got a discussion going on whether or not lightning would do anything to a player. Ive also experienced bleeding, shock, knockout and bones broken from crawling through a building when i just started, didn't take any shots or anything... Just got all the effects.

After the game froze in loading and me having to cut the process i get "Arma 2 OA has stopped working" upon trying to either join a server through the launcher, trying to do install, update and join on the updater doesn't work either. The game is on steam, ive verified the files and launched both of them to make sure they're functional, ive also redownloaded the mod and done the whole process again. Noticed ive only got version 1.60 all of a sudden... The Launcher isn't updating it and the updater doesn't either... Anyone know what i need to do here?

Reinstalled, and it seems to be stable now, forcefully exit a few times just to try and break it... Thanks for the advice given, while it didn't work for THIS issue it may work for an issue in the future.

Reinstalling again, the fix seems to be to never turn off Dayz and just remain ingame forever, atleast that way the game wont break itself.

I don't see any tanks before crashing, rammfisch :P Tried that aswell, didn't work. Ive tried so many supposed fixes now its driving me crazy. Looks like ill have to reinstall today aswell.

Reinstalling worked, and i could play for 2 days.. now after leaving a game in a normal way, my version is fucked up again and im not sure i feel like reinstalling again..

Well, i like the presistant character design.. not being forced to a single server. An idea would be that if you're currently considered "in combat" you cant log out (think mmos and such) With an added 10 seconds logout time you'd have to lose any zombies. People would still be able to jump from server to server if they're in the middle of nowhere where no zombie has heard them though, no idea how coding player vs player into this "combat model"

my guy pretty much exploded when i tried vaulting over this low barricade on a stairwell on the balota air strip.. Just heard a massive crash, as if every bone splintered into dust and i broke my bones and died. Didn't have anything in terms og equipment, so not that fussed.. really scared of stairs with shit in them now.

Kinda like Jesus? In the way he told his followers to murder and steal in his name? Sounds like a bandit to me, shooting on sight.

Reinstalling atm, hoping it'll fix it.

Bump. My PC is plenty capable of running this and is not the source of the problem. (People often jump to that conclusion)

Someone's gotta know, im bored out of my mind here :(

Bump... Im thinking the patch is the problem, how do i go about changing the 1.60 patch to 1.60.94444? It seems the launcher thinks i have the right patch, yet operation arrowheads server browser shows me with 1.60 and wont let me join.