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Disclaimer: I read the "read this before creating a topic" post and followed it's advice and re-installed Battleye. Anyway, as the title says, I consistently spend a massive amount of time going through all these loading screens (usually around 10 minutes), regardless of servers (I've tried 20 different ones, all far from full and below 20 ping). Basic Hardware specs: Intel core i7-3960X (Six-core) overclocked to 4.0 GHz Dual AMD Radeon HD 6900 2GB video cards 16 GB RAM (forgot which kind) Either way, I'm able to run the game on max settings with no drop in framerate, so if the issue is my hardware I'll be at a loss. These massive respawn times are the only thing keeping me from playing this game from dawn to dusk! Please help Many thanks :)

I mean, can I be as much of a dick as possible? Can I use racism, scatological references and maternal insults to get someone to come out and leave themselves exposed? In other words, in this no-rules environment, what actually isn't ok? EDIT: What about brutal, awful, nasty direct-channel voice spamming to break down a besieged person?

Sloth, what exactly qualifies as "malicious speech?"

Mitch, don't worry, that was purely hypothetical. I wouldn't push it that far. Thorgold, thank you for the (rather funny) pointers. Though I do wonder... Direct channel... who would even hear me that could ban me? Sounds like an easy way to troll.

So, hypothetically, the following actions are ok? guy 1: "9/11 joke" guy 2: "I lost my family there don't joke" guy 1: "unbelieveably insensitive comment that warrants eternity in hell"

So I'm a very new player and I just need some advice on how to properly play? I spawned in what is called "Otmel" in a server with 47 people and after browsing the forums, decided to follow the general advice of "avoid cities, go north." And I did. I walked and walked. For 45 minutes. I taped down my "W" key. I don't know where the map is so I have no idea where I was properly, but I know I passed an airport and "Petrobka" (if my Russian sign reading is correct). I recalled in another server, someone told me to fortify my position once I'm sure I'm isolated. Thus I found a hatchet near "Petrobka" and harvested wood till I could not carry anymore. And for the life of me I tried to fortify my position with walls, fences, hell even a tiny kid-size fort would have been nice. But because I couldn't build anything (I'd really like someone to explain, as if to an idiot, how to do so) I just lay prone in what I'll assume is the center of the map (can someone tell me where Petrobka is?). And I waited with my mere hatchet for what I timed to be 5 real hours. It got boring after 3 so I'd look around for I guess, the objective? Nothing! Nothing happened! No friendly convoys, no zombie hordes, not even another lost soul such as myself passing through the area. I developed a system of using both direct and group channel chats and voice broadcasts that I'd recorded onto my phone every 5 minutes, in case I happened to find another human. Now don't get me wrong! This game is fantastic, never have I felt so immersed... however.... I spent 6 hours lost, confused, ALONE, fort-less (how do other people get those massive castles and citadels with weapons and ammo galore? Quite jealous.) So, alas, I need help. Right now I believe I'm lying prone right outside Petrobka with 4 wood piles and NO wood forts. The nights are the worst, just staring at pitch black darkness. What am I doing wrong? WHERE am I? How do I get my fortress and how do I befriend better armed people and enlist in their army? Thanks!!

Look, if you think I wrote that much text to troll, I'm at a loss for words. I could add a TL;DR of "what in the holy hell do I do" if that makes it "believable..." Sure, maybe it is pathetic, but for crying out loud don't just gang up on me for that, be constructive. I haven't played Arma 2 before getting this mod, I was directed to this mod by a friend who also told me of this whole "fortifying" thing. If I'm gonna be labeled a troll and not get a modicum of advice then I'll just delete this thread. I'm a gullible newbie, if people advise me to do things when I'm in the game, I'll listen. PLUS I don't even know what the actual objective is except survival. Is this not the "New Player Discussion"? I saw threads of people asking how to turn on flashlights/jump over things, so is a "jesus christ have I been doing it very very wrong" thread out of line? EDIT: THANK YOU Scene, for not making me feel like an unwelcome moron. DOUBLE Edit: dcskill you read me saying "I think I'm doing this wrong" but because I was advised (or at least thought i was advised) to do these things, I figured I'd go into detail so that the thread doesn't come across as "herp derp I'm trolling you by making it seem like i wasted all this time" but apparently even my efforts to PROVE my cluelessness and sincerity were in vain.