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Worked for me also. Thanks Pete ya da man! I was using the executable in the beta folder instead of the other one. Works fine on most the servers...though I see a couple servers running 93040 instead of 93030...wtf is up with that?

Dieselhead: I've never been able to get the beta patches working either by the arma launcher or by the command line option. No idea whats going on with it. I've pretty much given up.

Don't use a sniper rifle anywhere near a town. They are extremely loud and with zeds' increased hearing range now you will most likely... well you found out hehe. I would practice right after I had died. That way I have nothing really to lose. Pick a town, but not someplace heavily traveled. Get on a hilltop a couple hundred yards from the nearest zed. Make sure you have some concealment and pick a zed or a spot on a house. Fire away. You will die with this character quickly most likely, but the purpose of that character's life is to practice and not necessarily to survive.

Just got finished playing on 2 different servers. Both had zed counts a little over 1k with near full/full player capacity. This was actually more than I was seeing the past 4-5 days. Respawn timer did not seem bad to me, but I only killed some outside of small villages. I spawned on my second server at the northern part of the NW airfield. Took about 1 minute for zeds to start spawning there. None spawned on top of or near me (within 25m approx.). I could already see some zeds at the southern end. I moved to the northern hangars and had 2 zeds (regular technician types) spawn at the back of one of them as I was going in. Weird to say the least. Those two moved out, I collected a nice m24 and worked for the next 5 minutes trying to get out of there. Zed count seems good to me.

Make sure the food is in your inventory and not your pack. Right click the icon. Left click "eat food" / Drink. Works fine for me. Make sure that you have both the hotfixes (1.5.8.1, 1.5.8.2) and are playing on a hotfixed server.

If this turns out to be true, black list the server and ban whoever used it.

I found the scroll wheel fairly easy to use equipment with and intuitive. The inventory and pack system is what I feel needs more of a change.

It fine playing at night when the moon is bright enough. Right now though it is a new moon so its dark as fuck. though in 5 or so days it will once again be bright enough to play at night.

I would venture a guess and say from the numerous logging areas and cut down logs. Maybe from the dead tree in some forest areas. Will be interesting to find out.

Rocket's doing great things. I love it. The tears, while getting Rocket drunk I'm sure, help me to sleep like a baby. This isn't some run and gun find loot fps game. It is a sandbox, zombie apocalypse simulator based on a very unforgiving TACTICAL fps military simulator. Best game/mod I have found in over 20 years of gaming. Edit: that drop percentage for antibiotics is actually 0.22% chance to drop and not 2%.

Its just you.. I connected to a number of US servers just fine.

Wanna test land nav skills? Play at night without the gamma turned up using the map and compass. Had me some fun times last night moving from Zelengorsk to Devils Castle. XD

He may have. And the facepaint is selectable when making a new profile. It is called W. Wallace.

Two main things I found that needed mentioning: The change of negative humanity to a bandit skin will be going away soon. May want to mention that. And the alice pack is not the largest. The coyote backpack is the largest pack in game with alice being second and czech being third. The coyote backpack is different from the newbie coyote patrol pack. Otherwise nice guide. :)

Well you can do that already to some extent. Problem is the information isnt there. Most of the time you get "Unknown was killed by Unknown." Having the information you are suggesting would be nice and add a bit more to the overall suspense of the game. I know I would be more worried finding a body at the airfield or in a small town that was killed 5 minutes ago by a gunshot wound. While being more relaxed by finding a similar body killed 30 minutes ago due to gnawing.

I tend to go solo exploring/scouting usually keeping to the edges of towns unless I really need supplies bad and barns have not been generous. I make the occasional mission to an airfield just for kicks. I've ran with a group once and it was fun. Hit NW and NE airfields no problems then move on Balota. Was good times.

I believe Rocket commented that in patch 1.5.8 the darkness setting will be adjustable by server admins. Can not for the life of me find the post though. I know its buried somewhere in some topic on the site....damn my lack of search-fu.

Check the in game options. I do not believe you can at this stage. I could be wrong though.

Decent start to a video series. Some constructive criticism now. 1. Have a run down on specific topics you are going to talk about and in what order you will do so. Do not deviate from the list while recording. Bullet list with sub-points works well. 2. I understand why you recorded at night, but it makes for a poor video to look at. Unless you are covering playing at night exclusively, record during the day. Having scenery to look at and being able to see far helps engage the viewers in what you are doing. I would hold off on a night video till video 3 or 4. Plus video quality during the day is just better. The video looked to be low quality even though I watched it at 720p. Not your fault I know, but it was a result of recording at night. 3. Be more enthusiastic while talking. Your voice was very monotone and unemotional. You obviously love playing the game so let that show through while recording. :) I liked what you are trying to do here and thought about doing something similar myself in the future. The information (other than the lost video file) would be extremely helpful to new players. Keep at it man. As others said, the more videos the better.

thats what the knife is for... lol ohhh so evil

As per an interview by rocket, the zombies in Dayz are the result of a virus. The bodies are still alive and functioning on some level. edit: It seems though we do not know how the virus itself originated. hopefully rocket will include more info at a later date as findable files, memo's, audio recordings, or something. Would be cool to have those in and search around for all the pieces to figure out what happened.

Nice write up. Great to hear stuff like this going on. :D

Interesting. Group I was with last night found one as well. Guy who has it logged off though before we had a chance to try it on anything really. will have to give it a go on a building or something.