Some of your guys are absolutely easy to take out haha. I think I have destroyed 4 or 5 of them by myself several times. I have fought against 1 guy that was decent and he has killed me a couple of times, can't remember his name though. Tulpy has probably died the most by me, followed by Comradez. Na we don't have a heli :)

Basically we were both on it and my game crashed, when I jumped back in I told my mate to hope back on the ATV as we had a better chance that way than on foot (he had crashed it into a tree but it was still driveable). As he went to get back on he stuffed up, must have been out of range of the ATV and thought he was using the menu to get in the vehicle but shot it instead :(. We also stole your V3S that day as well I think - one of your mates was looking for stuff in the industrial area on the east side of elektro and we managed to take him down. I think he was looking for stuff for the heli on skalisty (to repair). We headed out east and were met by someone with a UAZ and being fired upon. My friend was pretty new and drove back towards Kamyshovo and he didn't know that you couldn't drive... through... stuff. Busted the two front wheels and we were being AS50 sniped by someone. We tried to find wheels to repair it but there were none so I did the only thing plausible - grenade it. If we can't have it, neither can you!. We found one of your guys again on the hill and managed to kill him, thinking he was alone and me spotting the chopper on Skalisty we started to swim. We both got AS50 sniped :(

Hey guys, wondering if you had footage from a couple weekends ago chasing a guy on an ATV with you chopper? About 30 minutes prior we had shot at one of your mates riding a bicycle to a camp that had sandbags around it. There were two of us on the ATV and my game crashed, then my friend decided to "attack your chopper" as you were firing on him. I logged back in and said stuff it get back on the ATV. As he tried to hop on he clicked fire instead of get in ATV and we both exploded. This would be great if you had recorded footage of this.

Got sky dropped and logged out ASAP while falling. When I logged back in I was in the middle of the ocean... have 8000 blood. Not bleeding or anything. Everytime I spawn I go unconscious for 5 minutes. Have no way of killing myself and have been stuck for 2.5 hours or so trying to go into diff servers (I remember ctrl+alt+deleting out during loading sometimes used to reset position). Any ideas?

What happened to your server fellers. I enjoyed hunting you guys and having battles for vehicles :)

Just died because of de-sync :(

Have been spawned on the coast again 3 times _b (Items remain)

It's pretty much out of control at the moment and verging on unplayable... In fact: there is probably not a single thing that could be added to the game that would improve it at this stage, without fixing the hacking situation. I'd like to point out that also that I DON'T CARE IF I LOSE ALL MY STUFF (unlike most of the people here it seems), however, it is frustrating as fuck to run around for an hour or two only to be teleported back somewhere and die, having to repeat those 1-2 hours again when I have made no mistake. Completely and utterly different to getting killed legitimately because the hours preceding are not wasted because at least it had some meaning / learned something / had fun.

You can't really complain about this stuff, it's the design of the game. It isn't meant to be easy. If you don't enjoy it then you probably need to play an easier and more casual game. Also, you need to learn more before making these comments. I think I died about 2-3 times before I figured out basic survival and am now on the same life from 3 weeks ago...

Guys I rolled back my version successfully. Basically just renamed my Expansions/beta folder to beta1 (keep a copy). Then install a previous version of the patch from the Arma 2 Beta Patch site (just google it and grab the 2nd latest one). From here you will get an error about deleted content and something else - I just copied my Addons folder from Arma 2 into the Arma 2 OA folder and it fixed. Am not using Sixupdater as it will just update to the new version thats incompatible again. I am using Dayz Commander to connect to games now.

Also have this problem and now can't revert to previous patch?

Myself and 3 friends went here in search of a vehicle... it almost ended all of our lives. This was just at the start of the 1.7.2 patch and were the first Zs we encountered. We opened the front gate cautiously and immediately we had 8-12 Zs on us. We ran back to the main road leading up to green mountain and proceeded to down the Zs. After they were all down, a second lot seemed to come from within. We kept firing, almost everyone was bleeding and about half life... then a third wave spawned. Instead of fleeing from the site we decided to run into the jaws of the beast, to the main tower. One of our heroic comrades stood in the doorway with his axe out and killed the Zs as they single filed towards him. Zs kept spawning but we managed to secure the area and have a look around. Not a single fucking loot spawn, nor any vehicle in site. We left green mountain running for our lives, out of ammunition, low on blood and without a vehicle. We will never speak of this place again.

Agree entirely and have a whole post explaining this on a previous page (25 or 26). Nobody should be able to argue with that, it has nothing to do with being noob or pro or whatever. If it's not fun you are going to put people off...

Assume that 1.7.2.2 just includes changes from the 1.7.1.2 patch? Haven't seen any discussion of Z behaviour from devs so assume they want to keep for longer and see if people adjust.

Ok here's an attempt at a constructive post. Bit of a story / background incoming too: I have been playing this game with a group of 3 friends for about 2 weeks. We don't play that often as we only play when we are all together. We had a big LAN over the weekend pre this patch and were still fairly n00b. Over the course of about 10 hours we learnt how to use the map, where to go and not to go and how to loot areas without aggro as well as what to do when you do aggro. By the end of the LAN we all had basic weapons, geared from hospital in Cherno and about half way to the Airfield (our prim goal is to obviously get decently geared in order to PvP). We were teaming well enough that we could pass through entire towns with minimal aggro through stealth and efficient + silent Z killing. It was great fun. We continued our adventure tonight for about 4-5 hours. Our first stop was green mountain in hope of finding transport. This is where we encountered our first new Z. Understanding before playing that the mechanic had changed (more sight than sound based aggro) we walked up to the gate and opened it... 8 zombies instantly ran at us. In a panic we ran around like headless chooks and started firing. We downed the 8 odd, then a second horde came. This horde was wasted and then we could see another wave coming... We decided to run into the comms tower thing and kill them 1 by 1 in single file. We tried to exit the place without aggroing but ended up doing the same, as there is no place to lose Zs around here we just headed out to the forest and finished them off. As far as we could tell, Zs would have just keep coming regardless of how many we killed. We wasted a lot of ammo, bandages and general supplies. Now from these two paragraphs you have two VERY distinct playstyles and as the night progressed it became obvious that what we had learnt on the previous outing pre-patch had to be thrown out the window. It is clear that stealthing doesn't work anymore. This poses two problems: 1) If it is assumed that Zs WILL be aggro'd no matter how careful you are, you need to be ready to engage them in any area that you are looting. There is no point drawing 1 away from the town / whatever to kill them and trying to stealth back in. You need to deal with it then and there. At the moment we are using hatchets as it is silent. I guess I am ok with this to some extent, though it is annoying that you are pretty much guaranteed to aggro a Z SOMEWHERE when looting. However overall this mechanic is not fun compared to the previous mechanic when looting. 2) If you do decide to take on Zs within the area as a group, regardless of weapon choice, be prepared to have to fight off potentially an endless wave of Zs. This is not from aggro from a distance necessarily but due to the fact that the Zs seem to keep respawning? This means that fighting a big group of Zs in a town / city / wherever is actually pointless unless you draw them away. As mentioned above though, if you draw them away then they have respawned anyway and you WILL aggro them going back to that place if you haven't looted it, basically an endless cycle. I also do not think this is a fun mechanic. Overall, I think the change in Zs behaviour has probably taken a bit of the fear factor out of the game, certainly taken some skill and teamwork away (people spotting and covering as you sneak past several Zs to gather resources is great) but most importantly killed the fun factor with this aspect of the game to some extent. I also feel less inclined to explore areas given the Zs are aggro'd from ridiculous range and sometime seemingly randomly. The game is by no means bad with this style, as you essentially have the same objectives /end points outside of PvP. It is just a bit more tedious and less fun knowing you are going to aggro Zs no matter what you do. Will leave at that for now. Please no flames / telling me how to play the game. This is just an opinion of one alpha tester and nothing more :)