JamesButlin

Are you sure you weren't just told it was a PVP server mistakenly and that you and your friends pissed a lot of people off who were just chilling? Seems like it could have been a high possibility..

Have you made sure you've updated Arma II, DayZ and whatever maps you might be going on to the latest version? I find that Arma II version differences can mess up my FPS so I always try to get the latest version/match the server.

Hey guys, I'm sure everyone is as excited to hear about even the tiniest bit of news/next update from the Standalone devs as I am! I came onto the forum today to look for a topic about the standalone development so that I could make a comment/suggestion about it, only to find that the announce topic (which, let’s be honest, is a little full of posts right now - 79 pages) is one of the only (official) topics about it here on the forums. My thoughts were if we could get a Standalone Development forum section set up, to put all news/announcements/updates for the Standalone Development in, maybe stop people from being able to make new threads in here but keep it as a few threads (dedicated to news/updates, questions etc) solely around the Standalone product that people can post in? I’m sure you guys have something in mind similar to this down the line but I imagine it’d help separate it out from everything related to the DayZ Mod and give people a space to put their thoughts without further clogging up that single topic? For what it’s worth my initial question/suggestion was that I’d like to hear more about how the development is going so we can build up some hype :D . Even just the occasional “Looking at humanity system today, what do you guys think to this (include screenshot)” sort of thing? It all seems a bit hush hush at the moment but I (for one) like to see development processes because it intrigues me and helps me get excited about releases! Let me know what you think? :thumbsup:

You do raise good points on keeping it hush hush Fraggle and I suppose smasht but my main point was mostly to draw people's discussion/opinions on the standalone away from the one or two announcement topics so that it makes it easier for people to express their opinion and see others' without having to click through pages and pages of them? Just a thought anyway, graveyard this if neccesary guys :)

Just like to point out all we can see is a blank screen mate, didn't know if you knew. :)

Same mate, i'm hero on main servers but as much as we shouldn't get attached to our gear, at this point in the game's development, I'm not getting attached to my character haha :). With the standalone alpha coming soon we'll all have to start from scratch anyway, should be fun. :)

Play on private hives until the release of the standalone mate? I've had this happen and it was very annoying, I was fully kitted out with ghilli, M4A3 and AS50 and got killed from right next to me with a sniper. Then I respawned and it happened again after 5 seconds. Private hives tend to be a little more vigilant about hackers and if you speak to the admin (some of them have side chat), you can report any hackers to them. :) I'd recommend servers with the Vilayer.com hive because you change change between them and keep your character. Bring on the standalone alpha! Cannae waiiiiiiit!

I imagine (hope) that with the introduction of interiors, the loot that is found will have to have a fair amount of trash OR to be construction related loot, planks of wood, pack of nails, bits of wire mesh that sort of thing (items of clothing shouldn't be uncommon either)? Also a note to the devs should they read this, PLEASE have the loot in openable drawers and cupboards not just placed on the floor, would make the game 100% more immersive finding another player in a room going through the drawers facing away from the door! :D

Damn.. you got me.. I've still not gotten used to getting the capital on "I'm". Bollocks :D

^ What Fraggle said - but without the apostrophe because i'm a grammar Nazi. :)

Hehe, auto cucumber. I pretty much follow what everyone else is saying, remove thermal, maybe keep a (verrry) rare anti-material rifle for taking vehicles down.

My upload speed is absolutely dire and it makes a huge difference for me for some reason. :(

Really?! Bloody hell mate I can't stand anything above 100!

I tend to avoid anything above 40 ping anyway but it could have been server side lag to be honest mate

If the standalone gets product placement from mountain dew that is haha..

I like the idea but you gotta fix the poll mate :)

I meant that they look and sound like babies as opposed to being all mutated necromorph-ey :) To be honest I am inclined to agree with you, it would create a rather lot of controversy, due to the more who would undoubtedly go around slaughtering infected children and try to make a joke out of it.

Love it, this will be fun.

This. I play a lot of private hive at the moment in anticipation for standalone

Well played sir, well played. That video.. lmao..

In Dead Space 2 there are actual babies with glowing backs that crawl towards you crying then explode. :thumbsup:

Yeah man, Well hopefully come standalone, they might be able to improve the hive's performance! :)

Crowbar is pretty much a foam mallet :( Hatchet all the way

Shame it's not UK but nice one mate :)

They are getting global bans which is a little effective, but they then just go and buy new CD keys and do it again.