SterlingArcher (DayZ)

Have you played those games? You die quite fast.

I'm glad to see that you invest your capital wisely. Fucktard is a fucktard. Nice paying job or not, spending cash so frivolously is never a good thing. Before you fire back and say you have enough of a disposable income to keep buying games, let me reassure you that there are always people who AREN'T doing this and are getting way ahead of you financially (I only say way ahead of you because I assume you do other asinine things with your money as well). Just wanted to point that out...seeing as someone with your disposition would get butt hurt over having that brought to light.

Just add to that massive post count. E-pen over 9000! I have the basics down. My friends die. I need to find them. That means I have to leave the north and make my way to the coast. Then I have to find my friend on said coast--before he dies. I should be able to trade my precious gear to play with my friends on the coast when they spawn in. IMO it takes way too long to meet up with friends. When other games make it 1000x easier to do so, it will only lead to people leaving this game for others, which doesn't make them noobs, carebears, or pansies.

I completely understand this. No offense taken. But I wouldn't mind losing all my gear if it meant I could play with my friend for that evening. I enjoy playing multiplayer games for that very aspect--the multiplayer. I don't log into DayZ to spawn near Pogorevka and cycle loot by myself in the middle of the damn woods. Having said that, it's getting harder and harder to convince my friends to play DayZ with me. They'd rather play TF2, Tribes Ascend, or a litany of other games because matchmaking is a walk in the park compared to meeting up in DayZ, especially now.

Alright basement dweller. Let me help you see what your dilated pupils cannot adjust to. Most people don't have their mom making them PB&J sandwiches while they play a videogame during their summer vacation. Over 1k forum posts? and you play this game? You sir have a LOT of free time on your hands. I, along with a majority of others, do not have an insanely large amount of free time to dick around in a game. At most I have 90 minutes to play in an evening. If I want to play with my friends, we first have to find a server with reasonable ping, find a server with the correct patches, find a server that is daytime (havent found NVGs during my limited playtime), and then find each other. If I spawn in Solnichniy and my mate spawns in Kamenka, what is the point of playing that evening? We're better off running to a mutually agreed upon point on our own time and then meeting up later. So what, then we get killed early into our next play session and start this BS all over again?!?!?!?! I've never played a game where it was harder or took longer to meet up with IRL friends. By in no way am I frustrated with DayZ. I spawn, I die, I respawn, I keep playing. But if it's 1000x easier to group up with a buddy in ANY other online game...eventually that's just what will start happening. People will leave.

Thanks for the responses. I'm not really disheartened that I can't have two characters at once. My playstyle would change dramatically if I could get a second character to roughly the same location and gear as my first character creating an extra life if you will.

Awesome! Thanks for the response. I've only been apprehensive because I thought maybe by creating a character on a new profile, my other character would get erased.

Is it possible to have more than one character in Dayz, while only having one copy of arma 2? I forget what it is called but after you launch the Six Launcher you are met with a menu screen and from that menu screen you can change the profile you are logged in to. Is it one character per profile or one character per CD key? Thanks in advance.

The hacking, script abuse, and cheating, alt f4ing and ghosting, can and should be fixed. Why must we bend over and accept these things? Battle Eye can be updated to recognize the changes in the game's code. A timer can be added to logging out which would prevent people from DCing to avoid players and lose zombie trains (this would also deter but not solve ghosting). Perhaps a relog timer could be added to servers to prevent ghosting? You cannot log out of server A, into server B, and then try to log back into server A within a time span of say 5 minutes. This is all very achievable.

Dude. Stop being so emo.

I have to agree with Bad Science. This post is only adding to the clutter that is the litany of anti-hacker threads. Simply stating that things won't change wont stop and shouldn't stop people from discussing what is a well known problem. Silencing the people who would like to address the problem won't make it go away. Just don't click on the threads if it pains you that much.

Add a filter option to the server list that allows for players to search for servers based on their in game time. Some servers advertise this in their name already, which is searchable, but it would be nice to be able to see the time zone to any server before I log into it.