L.T. Smash

My buddy and I were doing a night time run of Stary and as we approached the supermarket we noticed that the front doors were already closed. We cleared the building and then moved to the apartment, I was experiencing a huge amount of weird lag and I was moving at less than half the speed of my friend. I told him to wait up and when he turned around to look at me he noticed a survivor less than 20 meters behind me that neither of us noticed before because of a combination of my bitching and general loose butthole behavior. The survivor opened up on us and killed me before I even turned around. My friend took cover behind a bush, but was quickly taken out as well. The guy had a silenced m4. We re-spawned and were going to run back to our corpses and pick up what our killer couldn't take with him. I just logged for the night because I was lagging so hard that my full sprint was slower than a crouch walk and it would have taken me the rest of the night to get to stary from cherno at that pace. My teammate got back to our bodies and the guy must have been really well equipped because all he took was my m4 cco, ammo and food/water. He left both of our alice packs and my buddy's gps. He also left an AKM behind. We absolutely had this coming. We were lulled into a false sense of security by the low server pop, and more concerned with zombies than with the fact that we were in a high pvp area, also I should have bailed out as soon as I started lagging like I did where I did.

I was playing with some friends and my character was moving much more slowly than theirs. Their crouching run was faster than my standing run. My latency was only at about 30 so I don't think it was lag. My game files are current, but I had this problem before and after updating and on multiple servers.

I start a fresh spawn just west of the crane in elektro. I make a pass of the buildings there and come out with a hunting knife and not much else. I'm moving towards elektro when I see a flare light up the church. I'm describing it to my buddy and we realize we're pretty close to one another. While we're trying to find eachother in the dark I get aggro'd by a zombie, and with nothing to lose I take off at a dead sprint, bleeding, towards the flare. When I get into the city I realize that someone has thrown three flare's into the middle of the street outside the fire station, and there they are standing straight up on the first teir. They take one shot, I don't know if it was at me or the zombies behind me, but I pick up one of his flares off the street and book it back over to the grocery store where I drop the flare and take cover in the back room. Inside the grocery store are two dead survivors with a TON of bandages and 3 empty water bottles. I also pick up a hatchet and a watch.

I was thinking it would be fun to try setting up some sort of gladiator arena. Get some good gear and medical supplies to use as the prizes. Post guards around the perimeter, hand out axes to the gladiators, and the last man standing gets the loot and a blood transfusion. The main stumbling block would be policing the spectators, making sure that everyone knows that there is a large overwatch that will take out any spectator that draws a weapon. If (when) this happens their gear will go towards into the prize pool.

Maybe if you find industrial parts and Gerry cans in other buildings you can use them to temporarily run a power plant, lighting up surrounding buildings for a few minutes. I probably wouldn't use this to light buildings I was planning on entering, but as a distraction. It's like flares. I've never once used a flare to light up an area that I'm trying to loot. It's always been to move zombies or as a red herring to slow down other players while they investigate and I loot someplace else.

I guess this is as good a place as any to post these custom faces I made. They're both based on the Whipman template. The first one is just a camo and the second is the ultimate warrior. (google it.) http://i.imgur.com/YFpxV.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zqOi8.jpg

Han Solo's need not apply.

I thought the game was supposed to be what we made of it. I think that the challenge of gathering prizes, organizing security, clearing the venue of zombies and maintaining order during the event is exactly the sort of thing this game was meant to accomplish. Plus, in this situation the only people dying are a few volunteers rather than a free for all map wide death match. Blood sport has been popular since forever, and I think that a zombie apocalypse where there are no longer any formal laws and a majority of the population are hardened killers this is the sort of entertainment platform that would arise. That's what the security force is for. Also you could just set it up somewhere that the only sniper locations are already occupied by friendlies, a wooded valley maybe. Or if you do use the city, cordon off an area with barbed wire except for one side and train in a bunch of zombies and the contestants must kill them all with melee and or very limited makarov ammo. probably, but it's worth a shot... also GO WOLVES!

what?

Just looted a grocery store and alt+tabbed to check an online map. Going back into game my gun misfires and lets off a three round burst. Every exit is swarmed with zombies so I fight my way out the front door using up all but a few rounds to get clear of town. I lose the remaining zombies in the woods and cower under a pine tree for a few minutes before moving on. Moral of the story: If you alt+tab out, alt tab back in instead of clicking the taskbar.

I gave this beans not because of the actual statement, but because you're name is a reference to My second favorite Heavy Metal segment. Fun fact: The voice of Hanover Fiste is Roger Bumpass who is also the voice of Squidward from Spongebob Squarepants.

okay, I figured out how to change your secondary profile's face. In your documents folder (windows 7) there is a folder called other profiles drop the skin file you want in the folder inside that folder with the profile name i.e. Documents>Arma 2 Other Profiles>L%2T%2e%20Smash (Mine looks weird because of the periods and space in my name. This is an alternative to fully installing another mod.

cool. I'll give that a shot. I tried doing the method where you just drop "face.jpg" into your arma folder, but it only allowed the custom face on my first profile, which is not the profile I use to play DayZ.

Awesome. Thanks. Ride the Tiger.

I was on a fresh spawn that started west of Kamenka. So after picking up some food and water there, I went north to the nearest hunting tower grabbing up an m16 and a couple of clips. Moving east I passed north of komarovo (This was at about 12am server time.) and as I get closer to balota I see that someone has popped a flare directly on the runway side of the control tower. I laid prone in a bush watching 4 survivors running around in the light like chickens with their heads cut off, and at least 10 zombies aggro'd and more on their way from town. As I'm watching the flare suddenly goes out and almost immediately four death messages pop up. I skirted wide north and came in through the broken fence behind the control tower there were still too many zeds around to approach the bodies but I was able to get in and out of the tower and both the hangars with some more soda, a G17 plus ammo and an empty water bottle. Not a great haul, but considerably better than what they got.

Those guys were chumps. You were fully exposed standing in that field for like 30 seconds after they got out of the truck. If they had known what they were doing you would have been toast.

I just read in another thread that you could load in custom skins. It did seem to take a shitload of hits to take him down though.

My policy is generally if I see someone and they don't see me, keep calm and carry on. If attacked return fire, and if there's someone already at the loot spot when we show up it's a case of "That's OUR stuff."

I've seen people in videos with face paint and such, but I can't find the option for it. I know in the ARMA player profile screen you can switch between the different faces, but they're all just regular faces or zombie faces. Was this something from a previous version that has since been dropped?

This is something I was wondering about as well. I was on blinking dehydration last night for probably close to 15 minutes with no ill effects. After about 5 the blinking became erratic and I thought I was going to drop dead any second. I'm glad to hear that you'll lose blood instead of just passing out and dying. I would have also thought that prone movement would be more draining than standing or crouching seeing as how in real life I can make it about 50 feet on my belly before I'm completely wrecked.

This is my one major gripe with this game. Not knowing whether it's going to be day or night when you spawn in. I work 3 to 11's so I pretty much only play at night, and sometimes it's day, sometimes it's night. This is on servers in the same time zone as me. I'd just like there to be a way of knowing BEFORE I log in whether It's going to be day or night.

Alright. I've read through four pages of this thread and would like to address what I beleive to be the core issue of OP's problem with the game. He's mad that there are too many psychos who play fully KoS,and that is ruining his sense of imersion because he doesn't believe that this is how it would go down in the event of a real zombie outbreak. I think he's mainly over estimating the benevolence of human nature. 1 in 10 people are sociopaths. That's in every day non-zombie land. Among business CEO's the rate of sociopathy increases to 1 in 4 because the cut throat personality of a sociopath is ideally suited to the competitive world of business. In a zombie infestation those most likely to survive are those who have no emotions to cloud their reasoning. I can see where OP is coming from, but I also think the rate of insane murder junkies would be through the roof. We can't rebuild society in this game. We're just faced with an endless struggle for survival, and through the eyes of a sociopath any other person is just another mouth eating food that could be theirs. That's my stance on the whole situation. (How's that for a first post?)