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1. The cars dont work that way if you can save it (saving the gear within ) you should also be able to enter it but it might be complicated actually to get in the right position for the mouse-over-options. 2. You see only how damaged a vehicle is as long as you are in the vehicle as driver (even if a vehicle is 100% destroyed as long as the game sees it as repairable you will be able to enter it [ the fact that you can save it does mean that the game still sees the tractor as repairable (is that even a word :) ? ) ]. 3.You will be able to get all stuff even without fixing the vehicle (if you are in the right spot ). Note: It might be bugged so if you do not find the spot "to repair the vehicle/sit in as driver/get your gear" you propably do have to wait until a server restart after that it should work again.

It seems you bought Arma 2 OA but not Arma 2 itself (OA is a standalone expansion) so for the HD textures you need not to buy Arma 2 OA but Arma 2 otherwise you get in OA only the free version of Arma 2 causing the bad textures.

Your CD is not used by somebody else thats almost impossible but you should take care that you only join official servers because everytime you join a server with his own database (non hive / non offcial) you will spawn with a new char at the coast.

Did you try to start the game differently ? Like Beta.exe, Six Launcher, Arma II Launcher? If you use Steam and didnt did it yet let it check the Arma files might be there is something corrupted.

This idea is quite common no need for another post. It would not everybody would just turn up brightness and gamma. There are few civilian weapons ingame compared to military ones (caused by the fact that arma 2 is a military simulator ) No need to implement anything the variation of weapons arma delivers is goddamnit huge.

Do you use 1.7.2.4/1.6.2.95417 with the correct battleye version attached to it ? http://www.battleye.com/download.html

They dont even need those just turn brightness and gamma all the way up in addition to a good monitor/tv/whatever you can see even in the darkest arma night everything as it would be day (ok might be that everything is black and white and you shouldnt open your inventory anymore but who cares :) ).

Those two didnt even had the need directly to follow you as you mentioned you left the truck at one spot for a while so i think they just followed the truck through binoculars as long as possible and walked then in the direction they believe your group would now be. As soon as one of them spotted the truck (hide those things were you want they are still annoying obvious) they camped arround the truck and just waited for you (people in this game can wait a really long time check it on youtube and you will see people waiting the whole day).

As far as i know this car here http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t41/h290master/arma22009-08-2617-26-38-15.jpg is in the game and can be found as all other vehicles ingame means you need a lot of luck and nothing more.

The error message is relativly obvious isn't it? Try this : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24872

Delte the @DayZ folder in your arma2 Operation Arrowhead folder and replace it with the @DayZ files of 1.7.2.3 if you do not longer have those files you are not able to downgrade.

No there is no traditional "godmode" but there are hackers so...

thats dayz welcome survivor ...

Get his guid to ban him through battleye if thats possible. To get rid of him i would just recommend to take the server for a couple of minutes offline ,caused by the huge different possibilities to get a arma server you have to check whether you can simply do so.

You can not mix up retail versions of arma with steam versions eather you get both on cd/dvd or both downloaded.

The server admin is asking you for not shooting somebody (no pvp) but actually he can not stop you from doing it (if he does the server gets blacklisted). So it is your choice whether you do want to follow those rules or not. And ofcourse it is nothing bad if the server admin asks for some kindness and friendly behaviour.

Even though you are sure that's not the night there is actually no other solution. The experience with some videos might be nice to have and eventually sometimes usefull but overall there is no situation alike another in dayz. Keep i mind that the dayz night is heavily affected by the moon , the clouds and the stars. Because of that the nights can be nearly as bright as a day or pitch black. Causing you to see nothing else then a black screen. You should scavenge the servers which are working for you right now until you find nvg's with them you might check out those black servers again. By the way those white moving dots are zombies/animals/players they are shown on low difficult servers everywhere on the screen and on high difficulty servers only at the edge of the screen.

They are not rare/worthfull enough to trade with them get some nvg's might be someone is interested in that.

This might be not exactly what you asked for but its kinda the same direction : /edit Larkinto was faster damnit ;)

Some servers have trouble with this map and 50 people how will they look like with whole chernarus and dont know about 500 people on? Aswell the question would be who is gonna create that map and take care that it is playable. A bigger map is something we can surely hope for the future but right now with DayZ beeing a mod and not a standalone game i'm fine with the small part of Chernarus.

Not creative just makes it more complicated to figure out who the hacker is and easier to loot them if he want's some loot. About the teleport stuff guess thats not possible without breaking the rules but maybe you find a boat or someone with a boat. A Chopper would be basically as well a good solution but they are actual out of the game. Anyways i hope you find a way and i hope that hacker gets banned. Happy surviving.

You should not play on a nighttime server without nvg even though on full moon when you actually are able to see a lot everybody who has a nvg will spots you realy easily and will have no problems to hunt you down. So stay at day without nvg's and enjoy the night with them. Happy surviving.

The best engine for DayZ is for sure not UE3,CryE3,or the Engine from Arma 3 you know why ? Just because the best engine would be an engine only developed for DayZ. Wow thats surprising... not! The real question is who is going to develop a new engine or even better who is paying for developing a new engine you? I doubt that. Arma 2's engine offers to Rocket nearly exactly what he needs that means he is already close to the target and Arma 3's engine will be even better and so bring Rocket even closer to the target that means the main developing will be done by BI and they pay the money for developing such engines. Rocket will take what he is given because he won't be able to do the main developing on his own or with the few developers he has with him. The way from any engine to the possibilities of Arma's engines is just way too long. And finally he is employeed at BI and just moved to there headquarter so if you will ever see a different engine DayZ is running on then the Real Virtuality 3 engine of Arma 2 then it will be the Real Virtuality Engine 4.

Delete the beta files in your arma 2 files and then reinstall the beta also while you are doing this you might read through the warnings instead of ignoring them. As you can read in those warnings betas are not downgradable so don't try that ever again.If you have to get rid of a beta delete the folder and then install a new one.

Get yourself some macro keys on your mouse/keyboard ,and create the macros after that you will be able to write words/sentences with one button either on your keyboard or on your mouse. Otherwise there are some common shortcuts which you type in the chat and the game will automatically write them out as far as i know but those are probably more like "enemy ahead" and not "friendly".