Our tent & bikes were still there

We've found plenty of those, they're nothing special

So I installed DayZ on my laptop today, but for some reason it isn't booting properly. Installed ARMA2, ARMA2OA, ran both, installed SixUpdater (just like on my desktop). Now that everything supposedly is in place, I tried to join the server that my friends were on to continue where I stopped yesterday (on my desktop). I join the server, DayZ screen loads, recieving, waiting for character to create and then I get stuck at loading for some reason. As of writing I already spent over 10minutes on the loading screen, while the other screens pretty much finished instantly. Now admittingly, my laptop isn't exactly the best (far from) but I was able to play regular Arma2 OA without much trouble. I don't really know what is causing this & any help would be appreciated :|

Yea it seems like it's related to the amount of ppl on the server. I logged other servers w 5ppl just fine, the one my friends are on has 28players. My poor laptop cant handle it :( Solved

I used sixlauncher, it's supposed to automaticly do everything necisarry no?

I've been at the loading screen for 16minutes now. When I loaded ARMA2OA missions to test if my pc could actually run the game, it loaded instantly. The server works for sure since 3 of my friends are playing on it along with 20 other ppl.

I think the idea of infection is cool, though both the antibiotics n the chance of getting infected are so rare that it's more annoying than a cool mechanic. Increasing both the chance to get infected (or maby introducing more ways to get infected) and the dropchance of antibiotics would be neat imo

Ironically, you are to dumb to realize that the majority of the players hanging around nwaf/stary are bandits, thus meaning that he's camping spawnpoints like a little bitch.

I know there are many problems with server restarts and vehicles, but I havn't read about this happening before. Friend & me found a hilux yesterday, we almsot fully repaired it & only needed engine parts and 2 more wheels. We found those, but the server restarted. We came back to the hilux n it was completely broken again & everything we stored in it already was gone even though we saved it for sure. So we didn't care that much & tried to fix it again. We found the other parts pretty easily (luckily) & got going. We drove around with it for about 5 hours. Then we saved it, logged off & went to bed. Few hours later, we come back & it's gone, back at its spawnpoint completely broken without our gear :| We checked some other spawns & every vehicle was back there again aswell. So is this a known issue? Or is it something that's probably related to the server we were on? We didn't have this issue in the past with vehicles.

thanks!

105 murders/5bandits So basicly you're a little bitch who camps spawnpoints, where players have absolutely no means of ever killing, let alone finding you, because you're to much of a bitch to go to the NWAF/Stary and you're actually proud of it? It's more of a challenge shooting down the rabbits in this game or playing the snipertraining mission in ARMA2OA than what you are doing. They should add a forum section called "Kid's Corner" for people like you, who pretend they are bandits, but shit their pants of the thought of sniping at NWAF/Stary, where you can actually can get killed yourself. I honestly don't even get why people do this lame shit. Spawncamping in DayZ is just as much griefing as it is in any other FPS title. The thrill of being a bandit comes from the paranoia from those long drawn-out battles, the insecurity, the thrill of the hunt. I really hope this shit becomes reportable someday.

Serverjump on: 1) new servers (high serial like de 1040) 2) on spawnlocations at the edge of the map 3) that just rebooted (briefing/setting up on server browser) I found 3 toyota hilux, 2 urals, a bike & a bus like this. Toyota's were on 3 servers out of the 6 or 7 that i tried. Urals were 2 out of 3 servers. Bike was next to the ural on a server. Bus was hidden in the forest behind the ural spawnpoint. As long as you keep these 3 things in mind it'll take you 10mins max to find a vehicle. It's pointless to try and find vehicles on just any server. Servers that havnt restarted recently and that have clans on them will have no vehicles at all on the spawning points actoss the entire map. You can look forever and still wont get one.

i did actually buy arma2 just for dayz, but i knew what to expect

Authority...? I guess you meant to ask how i would know that. Because there are plenty of examples that illustrate my statement. A) Goldsource engine, cs 1.6, VAC protected. It's piss easy to hack in cs 1.6, yet VAC does a great job at keeping servers clean. B) cod4, punkbuster. Modern engine, hard to hack, shitty anticheat, countless hackers everywhere. These 2 games are the shining example of what i said earlier. On top of that, VAC is extremely userfriendly, other anticheats like battleye and punkbuster are a pain on the ass.

And why would that be. It's irrelevant how hard it is to hack in a game, as long as the prevention is executed well enough.

So you basicly just pulled a general bad forumtroll routine. 1) Commence random trollpost 2) Spew more complaints, ignore anything logical people are saying. 3) Once driven into a corner, start flaming the poster that did so. 4) Post that you do not care anymore & are leaving the thread. Being a generic forum troll 101 right there folks.

From a technical pov the engine may or may not be the issue, i don't know how easy it is to hack it is. I do however know, speaking from a prevention pov, that battle-eye is a terrible anti-cheat mechanism & pretty much the worst I've come across in many years of gaming. It even manages to be exponentially worse than punkbuster (and everybody who ever used that knows how hard that is).

Why exactly are you flaming me now? I believe I didn't flame you at any point in any of the posts I made. I merely gave you reasonable & likely solutions to the problems you seem to be having with this game. You simply can't find any way to circumvent a logical answer anymore & resort to flaming? How sad & typical.

Why are you so narrow-minded when it comes to solutions. Break down your problem: Hacking in ARMA2 is pretty easy, why? The problem is battle-eye, it's a terrible anti-cheat mechanism. Now think ahead, DayZ has already been rumoured to become a stand-alone game. This is very real to happen aswell, just look at some similar stories of mods that boomed (DotA, Counterstrike). -> How could this impact the hacking problem. -----> Standalone DayZ might be able to use different means of anti-cheating then DayZ bound to ARMA2 can. ---------> Example: Standalone DayZ could be bound to VAC, which, in my opinion, is the most effective anti-cheating system currently in online games that are server-based. Instead of complaining, use your brain for once & think ahead about what may happen.

I honestly don't even get what you are trying to say here. Are you complaining about a malfunction in your spawning location? Then instead of whining about it here, go post it in the bug reporting forum, so that it has a chance of being fixed. Whining about it in this thread is gonna achieve nothing at all. Posting it on the bug report forum might actually get it fixed.

You are only contradicting your own argument. It's a GOOD thing that the alpha exposes so many hackers already. Like this all the possible hacks can be adressed way before the actual release. By doing this, the game can be free of hackers by its release. Even despite the hackers, it's still very possible to find and report bugs. I personally have found many bugs & reported the more serious ones. I've been playing this game for a month now & I've come across exactly _1_ hacker aswell. As long as you stay away from the 50+ servers, you won't encounter as many hackers.

So why exactly should it not be public? Just because you can't enjoy it in its current state, doesn't mean many others can't. What you are basicly saying is: You want to deprive hundred thousands of people of fun, simply because, apparantly, you cannot resist playing this free modification that is in its alpha stage, even though you despise it in its current form because of the many bugs and instabilties, which are natural to this stage of the game? Feel free to correct me where I went wrong, but this is how your "argument" appears to me, and judging from the majority of the replies to this thread, to most people.

Unlike what you might believe, your personal opinion isn't anywhere close to that of the 900k+ people playing this mod. We got the point, you can't deal with a buggy version of a game & you don't seem to comprehend that you didn't pay 30 bucks for this mod, but for arma2. Most people that play this game are actually really happy that they can play the alpha version of this game, even though it's extremely unstable & buggy as fuck. Yet again, there isn't anybody forcing you to participate in the alphatesting of this mod.

You didn't buy this game for €30. You bought ARMA2 & ARMA2 OA for 30 bucks. Then you downloaded a >free< mod that's currently in ALPHA. Alpha stages of mods/games are barely ever released to the public & are defo not made to support almost 1million players. If your fragile state of mind can't deal with the shit the alphastage of a game has, uninstall the mod & download it again when it's finished. Nobody is putting a gun to your head & telling you to play a bugged, far from finished state of a free modification.

Sniping in cherno/elektro is pmuch the lamest shit you can do. Shooting off unarmed people, you can just aswell load the training mission of ARMA2OA and you'll have more of a challenge. Atleast man up n snipe at NWAF/Stary. Atleast the OP is cleaning the little bitchkids up.