Gigagator

Hi all, Not played DayZ for a good while. Logged on today but Ive only got really odd servers with bizarre server names available to me. They seem to be mostly private hive servers and they're mostly from faraway countries like Russia and Thailand. I'm in the UK and I used to have loads of UK, FR and EU servers showing up, now I have hardly any. Does anybody know how I can fix this? The only thing I've got in my filter is 'dayz'. I browse for servers in game under 'Multiplayer' as I install the mod files manually etc. Thanks

Sadly I don't have any screenshots or video proof here but I am genuine as I have come straight from the game to report this player here. The offending player is called 'Paulie Walnuts'. This happened on server 'UK123'. Incident occured at approximately 00:30 GMT (real life time). Me and a buddy were running through some woods when suddenly 'Paulie Walnuts' spawned in a GAZ right next to us. He got out of the car after about half a minute, which is when me and my buddy unloaded 2 shotgun shots and multiple AK rounds into his head but he did not die, and proceeded to kill us both, ruining a wonderful evening on DayZ. Obviously hacking. Ridiculous. Deserves a global, permanent ban from the game. Thanks.

Well said. The great thing about DayZ is you play it how you want to play. I personally prefer to avoid confrontations with other players at all costs. It's not that I doubt my ability to come off best, it's just that I would prefer not to get into the situation in the first place. You won't catch me running around laying bullets into everyone, you'll find me in the shadows, in the long grass and amongst the trees, watching your every move. I refuse to stoop into that 'shoot-on-sight' group of players that has swarmed DayZ in the past couple of months. Staying out of sight and keeping a low profile is an especially good tactic if you don't have such great gear too. When you find some better kit, then you can start trying your chances and popping some players. The more you play, the better you'll get. For me, the experience DayZ has given me is like no other game. There is an immense sense of satisfaction when you've found some nice gear. It's also very satisfying to sneak into a city like Cherno, find some great items and then bounce out totally unnoticed. When you come up against hostile players, or you know they're nearby, the heart goes racing like in no other game. I guess it's because you know that one shot could potentially mean you're going to lose everything and start from scratch. But then again, I enjoy looting and scavenging, so I don't mind starting from scratch all that much.

Thanks for confirming guys, I'll just keep looking. Been checking the supermarkets but will check again. Anybody noticed an increased spawn rate of Makarov mags too? They're in nearly every loot pile I come across in standard buildings. Its pretty crazy.

Hi all, Just wondering if boxes of matches are spawning correctly in the latest version of DayZ? I used to be able to find them all over the place but seemingly since 1.7.2.5 came out, I haven't seen a single matchbox. I spent hours looting buildings in Cherno and Elektro today but didn't find a single box. Yet I found other 'rare' items, a few compasses, maps, so many binoculars I couldn't count. It's the only thing I'm looking for now so I don't have to keep heading into populated areas in search of food. Can anyone confirm that they are indeed spawning.

I personally don't shoot unarmed or newly spawned players on site. The only thing you'll achieve from that is ruining a chance of theirs to experience the great things in this game. Your own personality dictates the way you behave in this game more than you think, I'm sure of it. The only time I've ever had weapons and gear worth fighting for, I was hiding in a bush next to a heli crash site - two well armed guys pull up in a truck. I had a great (hidden) position to take them out, but decided to try and steal their vehicle instead. I failed. The point is, it would have been easy to kill them as they had no idea how close I was, but I chose not to. I kind of feel sorry for players when they get shot because they've spent real life time getting where they have. On another note, I've played in an empty server previously, and while it was a great relief to be able to sprint through cities knowing I wouldn't get a head full of lead, the sense of excitement was also gone. Knowing that the only threat to you are computer-controlled zombies dampens the on-edge excitement of the game. As such, I think ruthless players that will kill zombies and players are an integral part of the game and we shouldn't complain. Killing unarmed and new players is pointless though.

Rather than start another thread about this, I'll just post here and hope somebody has a solution. Been playing DayZ for months now and never had this problem 'til today. Joined a server that I was playing on a couple days ago (for about 5 trouble-free hours), and I got kicked due to BattlEye not responding or something. Tried again, actually got into the game this time but was kicked after about 30 seconds of gameplay due to 'BattlEye failing to update'. I'm running Arma 2 patch 94876 and I'm only joining servers that say 94876. I tried quite a few different servers and have had the same results. The strange thing is that I've changed nothing since I last played the game, in fact I've barely used my PC since I last played. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling BattlEye using the uninstall and reinstall things in the game folders. I tried manually copying the .dll files into the folders as suggested by some people. None of this worked. I tried reinstalling BattlEye through Steam but I can't. If I try this on Arma 2, I'm met with a message that tells me the game is currently unavailable. If I try it on Operation Arrowhead, I get '!!! MISSING STRING'. Is there actually a real solution to this as I've searched various threads and spent a while looking up the issue and nobody seems to have a definitive solution.