Bubbajones

your upload is 6x higher than down? i used to host a 50-man mumble clan server on my server in the basement - that's like a Keg of internet.

upload speed is important. if you cap that, doesnt matter how much download you have, it will bottleneck. i am fortunate to live in a region that is very innovative for internet services. 60 Mb/s down and up

60Mb/s connection shared with a boy on watching cartoons on netflix, a girl streaming music in her room and a wife constantly watching youtube. no problem when i play dayz. internet quality is more important than the speed they advertise.

Tips for town: do not use guns on zombies! use an axe or crowbar. aim for the head. most times a head hit is 1 hit/1kill. always crouch in town to reduce noise signature use shadows - it works. keep your distance from them and stop moving if they get close. watch the path they take, they follow a route back and forth, plan your movement accordingly. keep a couple of tin cans on you and throw them to direct the zombies away from where you're going - it works. when in a building, use a tin can as you leave to draw zombies away before exiting. *flares and chemlights work too, but aren't abundant like cans.

what did the server host say? you probably want to talk to them first. not much you or anyone can do if the host has set limits on your bandwidth, which is probably the case.

lol, how many 'murdering sprees' should one be allowed before being considered a bandit?

Yeah dropping the primary would be the only way to switch to hatchet unless you had room for 2 rifles (20 slots total) free in your pack. i make it a habit to be in hatchet mode at all times. i keep the rifle stored and have my trusty sidearm.

great video! yeah, if you play like before patch, you're in for a world of hurt. i don't want to preach to anyone as many of you have logged many more hours than I, but the only way i found i can prevent being swarmed by Zeds after patch is: 1. don't stand unless you want to fight them. always crouch/prone when navigating zombies 2. use crouch and shadows, unless you want a swarm. they seem more sensitive to light levels now and can be lost more easily if crouched or prone in shadows.. 3. Keep a few tin cans in your inventory AT ALL TIMES and use them to distract and herd them. it works wonders. even if they are coming at you you can throw a can and prone immediately, there is a good chance they turn around to go after the noise. throwing a tin can off the tower would have drawn them all away. before entering a building and before leaving one, i always throw a can in the opposite direction of my escape route. 4. AXES not GUNS. do everything humanly possible to NOT use guns on Zeds...you're ringing the dinner bell. most times 1 good hit with axe/crowbar kills them i cant stress point 3 enough...the cans are there for a reason and they WORK. good luck

day/night and sun/rain already affect body temperature in the mod. low body temp can lead to infection and the shakes. i would assume the standalone will have a similar system. Rocket did mention on one blog that clothing would be a factor in protection from the elements and you may have to make a choice between freezing and getting sick or wearing that bright orange winter coat you find.

zombies make those sounds when they fall, get caught in barb wire or take environmental damage. they seems to have some npc human sounds from arma II left in. i find it hilarious when a zombie falls out of a tower in the balota tents and says, "gah! sheesh" .

just assume type O is the only blood in game...problem solved, feature enabled.

you are only supposed to take damage in enclosed vehicles after the windshield is broken. they can also pull you from non-enclosed vehicles ( atvs, bikes, etc..) did you read the patch notes?

Went through several cities on a new character last night, love the new difficulty. TIP: to navigate cities, throw empty cans to distract and clear zombies out of the way. (always keep a few in my pack)

when you log off you disappear from game as you are no longer there.

if you are DSL, try reducing packet size from the default 1500 to 1495 and go down by 5 until the packet loss stops.

hehe, i wasn't once referring to the US (or any other country for that matter) in my post, nor was i talking about the current global economy; i was talking more about how paper money began. its like a preprinted check - "Hi i don't have anything right now, but if you contact this bank, they will give you X coins in exchange of this promissory note." point is, from an apocalyptic perspective, money means nothing if there is no government to back it. Imagine what the real world would be like if ALL governments ceased and anarchy ruled. No amount of paper money would buy you food, arms, or shelter. Sure, you would have people who still think a backpack full fo the shit was valuable, but they would soon realize that they had a better chance of bargaining by kneeling in front of a zipper than with dollar bills. You could have bills drop as loot in the game. it would add another level of meta gaming but many people would soon realize it was only good for starting fires, unless some form of government - Player or NPC came in with the promise of honoring the bills in exchange for goods.and/or labour. Either way, unless Dayz becomes dupe and hack free and people cant farm low pop servers to horde masses of bills paper money will be just that - paper.

To the Op: my previous post was not to the validity of your complaint, but to the way it was presented. 1. You never reported the first server; only the second.(you don't want the first guy to get off scott-free, now do you?) 2. You didn't take any screenshots, fraps, times of day or anything that could help the developers investigate the issue. if you are intent on helping - submit proof, please. Although i completely believe you, anyone can claim hacking when they die and lose their gear - hoping the'll get it back somehow. (there are a lot of vengeful people on the inter-webz) I completely understand the frustration you feel. However, if you are serious about contributing to the development of the game/mod, a little civility goes along way to being credible and not trolled.

Currency cannot work in a system such as dayz for the simple matter that this game is hosted by thousands of private servers. currency would be duped, or hacked - flooding the "market" besides, money is only toilet paper unless there is a vault somewhere backing it up with gold - and then again, you can't eat gold so i don't know what it wold be valued at. Dayz would best be served by simply letting players meta-play the barter system. Perhaps, later in development, when there are larger maps, players will be able to build guarded outposts that permit organized trade.

If so, he has no business on this forum or this game. If he thinks he is old enough to play a mature game with adults, then he can hear a "fuck off" and not be traumatized. If you don't think he is old enough to interact with adults in a game rated mature, PM him and give him the lecture.

You will often see messages aimed at other players trying to join the game. The whole server gets the privilege to see them fail.

There is a difference between feedback and whining. Feedback offers observation, criticism, and suggestion to improve. "I'm sick of this shit" is whining and lacks constructiveness of any kind. If the Op has looked at ANY other posts in this forum he would have seen OTHER THREADS he could have contributed to instead of starting another thread filled with the Diarrhea of the 'must have now! waaaaaaah' generation. What i know: 1. i bought this game, like 1 million others to help test an experimental and ground breaking mod. 2. Arma II and battle eye are 2 different companies - you're complaining to the wrong one... 3. Playing Dayz now with the attitude that it is a finished product and then complaining about it with no constructive feedback is like bitching to Ford that your concept car, still on the drawing board, handles like shit... 4. If i am unhappy, i can shelf the [unfinished alpha] game and wait several months for it to mature more. What i believe: 1. I believe there is a lot of hacking 2. I believe it will get worse before it gets better 3. i believe Rocket is very aware and is going to work on it. 4. Sending your detailed information/proof about the hacking to http://www.battleye.com/ is the proper way to report your discontent. Perhaps give the actual designers/owners of the anti-cheat engine the task of making it work.

Raise your hands if you know this is alpha and should be playing as if you were testing a FREE game MOD in development! *raises hand*

and that is why you are dead.

Are we talking about Alt+F4 only or aborting (esc, then abort, then disconnect) as well?