TheHappyPeanut

I know there are threads that critique the lighting at night, so please refrain from telling me to use the search function. I'm not here to argue about the lighting, because it's realistic; when the lights go out, it gets dark and that is perfectly understandable. What I am confused about is this: Why would you begin survival on an island with flares as opposed to a flashlight? Both are basic survival items and both serve different purposes; flares shine brighter and also serve as a beacon whereas a flashlight has a small beam of light but requires you to holster your firearm. But a flare isn't going to help you at night when it comes to traveling. You obviously can't drop a flare every 100ft because there aren't that many and you would look ridiculous. I find it really weird that new survivors do not start with a flashlight, which is what most people would include in a basic survival bag. At this point my friends and I don't even enjoy playing at night. Who would want to play when 1) they couldn't see 5ft in front of them and 2) had absolutely no way of constant light? When it comes down to it, you have to look at this: When you are starting out, you have no map and no compass, so you have absolutely no idea where you are. Then you add in the factor of no light and you have absolute chaos; you don't know where you are and you don't know where you are going, so essentially it is best to wait for daylight to come, which means you can technically only play during certain hours of the actual day. And before you say "well, that's realistic." Well, when I'm trying to find my friends and I continuously die because I cannot see my own hands, it's gone a bit too far. You can flame me all you want for my opinion, but that's realistically how things go.

Everyone plays on daytime servers because no one wants to play in a server that's pitch black with absolutely no way of seeing other than stationary flares. It's pretty pathetic that I have to go to a Russian server at night just to play on something I can actually see.

- Game purchase - Studio developed

Thanks. They fixed it last night :)

That's no different than the current challenge, which is not being able to see your own hands.

I guess I will just wait for the devs to look since I don't want to mess it up.

Yeah I don't know why this isn't working but it's annoying.

It's spamming "read from bank" and yes I got a unique ID. What about the part that says: //reportingIP = "arma2oapc.master.gamespy.com"; Is my IP supposed to be there

VPS.net. You'll be able to scale your cloud server when necessary as opposed to physically upgrading your dedicated server. They're also cheaper than dedicated servers for the most part.

Fixed that error and logged on to my server and it says something like Waiting for Host, but the hiveAuth still isn't saying anything different

What do I do about this error when I try to start the server... "The program can't start because X3dAudio1_6.dll is missing from your computer."

From what I have read, the devs have fixed it on servers before. I'm not sure why they haven't told anyone what they did to fix it.

My friends and I would like to play this game, but we are confused on a few things. First off, are we going to spawn together or at least near each other or will we have to find one another? Secondly, how long do maps last? Are there server restarts or is the game 24/7 constantly running?