JamesButlin

Once more for emphasis. Stealth. Figure out how to crouch and go prone (usually X or Z keys), these dramatically reduce your chance of being seen by zeds or other players (you make less noise also). Do not sprint if you are near zeds unless you want to attract attention. If you have a zombie chain, find buildings you can run through, their AI doesn't like indoors, they stop running and simply walk towards you.

Signed, tweeted, shared. Hope they get back home soon.

I'm not talking 50 caliber snipers, I'm talking pistols and shotgun/lee enfield/winchester etc..

Really like those. I would love for distant (loud) sounds in the game to actually sound like they are really far away like how we percieve them real life. Would love to hear a gunshot echo through a valley in Chernarus, followed by screaming/howling of aggroed zombies and maybe a player getting eaten. I want this game to bring chills down my spine :D

I love this idea mate :)

Imagine trying to bandage yourself and it not working, you bleed to death because you don't know how to do up a bandage.. Right off the bat? I think that would put a lot of people off the game. Also yeah, in game books, i'm not so keen on the idea - if I found a sniper rifle in real life and I wanted to learn how to use it.. I'd shoot the blasted thing a couple of times, figure out how the mechanism works! You don't just learn things from books, you constantly get better at things if you're having to do them frequently.. Also not being able to fire a gun is stupid, anyone could figure it out even if they haven't seen a gun before.

I don't know whether it's because you're on US servers and I play mostly EU but you seem to have far more encounters with hackers than I. I've only been killed twice by them and i've been playing for about 2 months!

Nice one mate :)

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Stealing a guy's gun who was more than likely just waiting to shoot you in the face and then killing him with it? Love it ;) Shame about the lag mate

Nice, love it.

Because we don't get attached to our gear, when we die, we shrug and start again. It's half the fun. Besides, at this stage in development, we're lucky the mod is even playable let alone making us want to keep playing it! Many games i've tried in alpha have more game breaking bugs than this one.

I think SystemiK got it. I've seen the bug where the sky seems to be on fire, but it sounds like you ran into a hacker mate, well done for fleeing while staying alive :)

I like the suggestion about using meat as a distraction, that would be quite cool! Imagine if smell attracted zombies towards you (depending on wind) without aggroing them? If they were slowly driven to walking towards you because they caught your scent from far away :P Would be better than just randomly wandering around all the time!

I noticed that :')

IMO, the post processing and anti-aliasing made the game look a lot worth when turned up to full, I have these on a healthy medium/low :)

Yeah that's it haha, but make sure when you leave a server with a well hidden vehicle that you mousewheel over the vehicle and "Save" it, otherwise when the server resets, it might not have your gear in it.

An excerpt from the DayZ Wiki that might help you :) : Will my vehicle stay where I left it? Exiting out of a vehicle will save the location. Using the save feature on the vehicle will only save the gear inside. Other people can (and will) take or destroy the vehicle if they find it. If a vehicle is unused, bugged or left, it will respawn after a minimum of 7 days.

I'm not quite old enough to game with you guys (23) but just wanted to say i'm glad that the DayZ community doesn't consist of just teenagers and kids like a fair amount of other games! And that i'll definitely still be gaming when I do catch up with you all ;)

What are you trying to update? Is it read only? Do you have an instance of Arma2 open (checked task manager)?

You still can, just look at how much colour your screen has & what colour the blood drop icon is. Humanity you should know by the way you play, zombies alive is kinda cheating anyway. Kills and murders you can see on the scoreboard (hold I).. Going from memory.. am I missing anything? Edit: On a side note, i'm glad it's gone, game is much more immersive without it.

I can see how it could be clumsy, but you can tell your dog to be quiet &/or sit/stay. Dog would have to stay at the bottom when you climb ladders!

You sir, have a point! We do seem to be missing any form of law enforcement/emergency service vehicles - we have fire stations and hospitals! Drivable fire engine/ambulance as well as police vehicles could be interesting also? Starving zombies in the prison cells once they introduce the zombie life cycle/health system ;)

I saw one on Lingor Island but I think the server hadn't updated.. Check to see if you're on the latest Arma2 & DayZ patches mate? If you are, post your hardware setup?

Upgrading to 1.7.2.6 did the trick.. Have you upgraded?