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Usually if you have less than a half a clip when you relog you will lose the clip. If the clip is more than half full it will refill. This is how it works for SD ammo anyway. Been a while since I've used regular ammo though.

From about 10k blood down the chance of zeds knocking you out increases dramatically.

Default to sit is apostrophe ' . Tents spawn more in stores than other places, though I have found a couple in the two story barns. Car parts are universal. To see what a vehicle needs fixed scrollwheel to enter the vehicle as driver and look at the upper left. If something is yellow-red you need the corresponding parts to fix it. (engine "eng" is red= you need 2-3 engine parts to get it green) But if something is orange-yellow it will work, but recommended you fix it asap. To fix a vehicle you must have the car part in your inventory, not backpack. Scroll wheel on the vehicle till it shows something like "repair engine" or "repair lft frnt wheel". Then scroll wheel down to that option and click it. The item to be fixe should show up as red/orange/yellow. Green means the part is fixed already.

Good advice and tips. Keep up the work. Really liked that you told new players alternate routes to find gear.

You have to have the newest Arma2 beta patch installed which is completely different from the DayZ patches. Goto http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php and download the patch from the top BIG GREEN SECTION.

Zed respawn timer is a bit fast right now and is being tweaked in upcoming patches. Keep an eye in the announcements section for patch logs.

Killing blow determines who kill is awarded too. To answer your question, the zed would be awarded the kill.

If you get the murder he died, but by completely logging off the server he denied you his loot. This is a bug that sometimes happens. It can also occur if the person respawns and then suicides for a better spawn point before you get to the body. Doesn't always happen though.

Rocket stated in an interview a while back that the dayz "zombies" were actualy infected by a virus. So yea they are more like 28 Days Later zeds than typical undead zeds.

Only certain old servers have helicopters enabled on them and the number is very few. They have to be enabled by the dev team and modifying the mission code to enable them otherwise will likely get you in trouble. Heli's cause extreme desynch for passengers in them. They also put a heavy strain on the server itself.

Side channel will likely not be back. Group chat can be used during logon only for talking to others in lobby. In game it has no function currently. Direct chat is the only method available on most up to date servers for communicating in game with other players. Voip direct chat is hearable by others up to 40m (recent arma2 beta patch) and is directional. Caps-lock is the default activation key. Oh and vehicle comms is for use while in a vehicle only. Obvious but figured I would include it.

no way to remove the hud

Goat is more or less correct for most things. Except the map on vehicle spawns, it is horribly incomplete as there are roughly 10 other vehicle spawn points I know of that are not included on it. And no, I will not tell you where they are :P.

The LITE versions of those DLCs are included in the full version of arma 2 IIRC. The LITE versions give low res textures for some of the character skins (camo, ghille, some survivor). If you want the full high-res textures for all the character skins you will have to purchase the DLCs.

I am interested if others are using this for DayZ and any opinions on the viability of the program.

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/?d=20071221 Not to funny, but his write-up of his impression on the game is nice.

CAD comics are usually a lot funnier than this one I'll admit. I am not the artist of the comic and the opinions expressed there are not mine. I do not have nearly the skill needed for such a venture.

It is normal. You have to find a map in game before using "M" will work. There are plenty of out of game maps to be found if you use google. When logging into a server, the text in the bottom right tells you where you are. Pay attention to the second line.

If "step-over" doesn't work you really can't get over it. If you have a tool box you can remove it. Target one of the stakes (3 possible to target iirc) and choose to remove the wire.

You need both to play; Arma 2 and Operation Arrowhead.

The orange dots are usually zeds. For anything to appear on the map you must see them first (LoS). Not sure what the range is for things to appear. This feature is not turned on for most servers and is tied into the difficulty settings of the server. I would advise playing on servers without this feature to become used to terrain association to find location on map. Most servers do have "left shift-right single click" waypoints enabled though.

1.7.1.4 has some fps issues when it comes to zeds. Next hotfix (1.7.1.5 ?) is supposed to take care of the issues.

It is for adrenaline/panic. Doesn't really do much currently and isn't anything to worry about normally. If you are shaking while looking down sights take painkillers.

1. Try playing on a day server when starting out. Most servers list the timezone that the game operates on in their name based on either UTC or GMT. Which is often different from actual server physical location. 2. The game operates on real time (24hr cycle). So if it is day in the timezone the server is set for it is day in game. Same goes for lunar cycle. Weather in game is randomly generated as is fog. 3. 3rd person, if enabled on the server, is activated by the numberpad "enter" key. I prefer 3rd for moving and first for shooting. First being r-click to bring up sights. !st person for moving is fine also, but a PITA while proning/low-crawling. 4. Try turning off head bob in options and possibly turning down mouse smoothing. Also probably have to lower your graphics settings a bit as the game is not well optimized and can bring even high-end pc's down to there knees. I play on a 9800GT, quad core 2.4ghz 2200, and 4 gigs DDR2 ram just fine (30-40 fps), but I have almost everything turned off or on low settings. Make sure you have video memory set to default as setting it to high/very high makes the game only use 512 of your memory instead of cards maximum. Not sure of current prices, but just about any card that's been made in the past year or two will be fine playing at high settings with a little tweaking.