wolfgang784

Whenever someone rages really bad in chat after being killed by my group or me, I just say "I needed the beans." and they flip out usually rage quitting.

.:The Bandit Survey:. .: So why have you chosen to walk the path of “darkness"(was it for the beans =p?) The majority of the other survivors cannot be trusted. After playing for a few days without murdering, and being shot in the back of the head every time I joined a group of players, I decided to kill everyone on sight except for my group. .: Lets talk about tactics, what are yours? Mostly we travel and kill people out past the coast, where they likely have some good gear. Safe traveling is key, and its best to stay a good 15 meters apart from each person in the group and not in a straight line. .: Do you prefer to hunt alone or in a pack? In a group. We usually have at least three, and upwards of ten when everyone is online at the same time. .: Your preferred hunting ground(s)? I prefer sticking to the forests of the north, venturing near the airfield every now and then or heading into a good city like Zelengorsk or Stary Sobor. Most of the group prefers CHernogorsk however so we are often there. .: What are your weapons of choice? The weapon that I have used the most and the longest is the M16A2. We were lucky enough to find an ammo crate with 1200 rounds worth of stanag clips, so each of us that could use it took all we could resulting in about 500 rounds each for the two of us. The others had different guns or snipers. .: Your greatest strength as a Bandit? I am very good at spotting people while they try to stay hidden, and hearing the small sounds of someone walking in the forest. .: Now how about a weakness of yours, come on everyone has one? I not the best at sneaking around, but am good enough to survive. I cannot win in a straight firefight with multiple people. If it is a 5v5, I am always the one to die. I might take some of them, but I will likely die. .:Lastly, how about telling us your greatest moment(s) as a Bandit of Chernarus? I guess that would be my current character with 400 rounds left for my M16A2, a g17 with plenty of ammo, food, water, basic tools, smokes, blood bags, coyote pack, everything you could want and most of the group is outfitted just as good and all together right now. Each of us has killed about five survivors and a few bandits on these lives and one of us managed to get ten survivor kills at one point, died, got his stuff back, and then got another six kills. We are pretty completely set right now and even if someone goes down the others can reclaim the loot or kill the guy.

I don't have a screen shot, but we do have some nice large campfire groups sometimes. I hope that the temperature feature is mostly just for rain use and swimming. There is no snow on the large mountains so I hope we don't get annoyed by temperature changes up high too much. Should be interesting though and it might make campfires even more important. I wonder if the dogs will be implemented at the same time? I can't wait to kill some people's dogs. Seems like they will likely be a bad implementation because without an AI better than any I have seen before dogs are always a useless nuisance. I hope otherwise of course, but either way it will be fun to watch people's reactions when the dog drops dead next to them a second before I fire on them.

As I said Honelith and WWWallace71, it currently is broken and everything just says unknown name and cause. Its a useless feature at the moment till it gets fixed but when it does I enjoy the option of seeing how many of the dozens of bodies in Cherno and Electro are from sniper.

I am not sure if it has been mentioned somewhere in the last six pages of comments as I do not have the time to read all of them at the moment, but I feel that it is important that I mention this in case someone else has not. The zombies chase you forever currently. Literally forever with no limit, and no way to hide. If it is 100% "I can't see which gun I am holding" dark you should be able to go prone and hide from them in a bush or something. Some way to "possibly" escape rather than being required to stop, throw a flare, almost die while throwing it, and proceed to run backwards and fire within the flares light. They should have some sort of trouble finding you or following you through the dark woods or streets so I can make a quick turn into a building, throw a can, and have them think I went that way and reverse course. To kinda summarize this up for the people who do not wish to read all of this, pretty much it comes down to the current zombies speeds are awesome but there needs to be a way to hide prone in the dark and possibly throw the cans to divert the aggro when they cannot see / hear you. A zombie encounter should not 100% of the time lead to a death match.

When the feature was first implemented it worked perfectly. Told you if they died from gun shots, where the shots hit, if they died of blood loss, or unknown if they respawned. I assume it will do the same when they get around to fixing it again. I think it broke two patches ago, maybe three.

I very much enjoy the new zombie count. My entire group is learning exactly how close we get can get to zombies while prone, the right spot to throw a tin can or a flare to attract zombies either in the day or night (flares still attract, but much much worse, gotta do it right) and generally the game has become all about sneaking around the zombies rather than rushing in and murdering everything in town, which with multiple automatic guns and around 700 bullets for them combined we can easily do even with the new patch if we were to hide in a building.

Just because you did not cheat for the gun does not mean you will not be banned. My group found a dead bandit with a hacked in gun and one of my friends picked it up. He immediately was kicked from the game and banned for ALL dayZ servers. If you check Rockets list he is on there for being auto banned by the server and explaining to Rocket so far has done nothing. So seriously, if it has no picture don't pick it up.

I do feel the pain of the lone wolf as my party is not always here and I am left to survive on my own sometimes such as yesterday when the patch came out, but it really is amazingly more fun as well. I play with a large group of people because it is easier to take down bandits and other survivors alike, and the zombies were incredibly easy with 8 people. The only danger to clearing an entire town was that players would hear and get a lucky shot on someone. Now though, we had to take a good while planning out how the attack would go on the starry sobor military camp and what we could do. Eventually it came down to using flares in the daytime to lure a few away so that we could split up into a few tents in groups of 2 and then start shooting. Took down 20 zombies each when they started coming from the outskirts of town as well, and we still nearly lost one member. The only advice I can give someone who is still lone wolfing it at this point is good luck. With the new zombie density sneaking by is not usually possible and when it is, it is very hard to do. Remember that if you go prone you can get within a few feet of zombies without them seeing or hearing you.

The blood bags give 10k blood. We tested it several times, and I have tested it on myself.

Decided to try to play the game as a survivor for a while, but every time I met another survivor I got shot to death. After a good ten deaths I decided "Fuck it, everyone is going to die.". That led to me spawning, quickly murdering the closest person for the medical supplies and ammo I knew I would need, and then I headed into Cherno and got a shotgun from the grocery store. With a now nearly 1 shot kill weapon that zombies would hardly hear I went on to kill a few more people before dieing somehow. I don't really remember how but likely I died in a gun fight. I advanced from that to my current character having 5 murders, 2 bandit kills, and 70 zombie kills. Also, I only stayed a survivor for the first two days of game play lol. Been a bandit for around 3 weeks, keeping my humanity around -20k.

I haven't been back to Elektro/Cherno since, but last time I was there I could hardly tell what was on the screen most of the time. I got out with my compass and by listening for zombies as if I was traveling at night. The tearing was really terrible though. Giant gray and black polygons everywhere, some larger than mountains. If you change any video settings, they got away for a few minutes before returning as bad as ever.

Just don't think of bandits as players. They are the smartest AI in the game, and the most dangerous predator. You need to make it past them to the rest of the world, and learn where loot spots are other than those beginning cities along the coast. If there was no pvp this would be terribly easy to survive in. The threat of pvp makes player interaction stay very low and people stick to small groups or by themselves. Even people that hate pvp would get bored and leave the mod eventually without the added threat.

Wolf even if he cannot administrate it well this mod needs as many servers as it can get. The amount of servers has tripled since I started playing, and it is still not nearly enough to allow everyone on at once. I would host if I could, but my bandwidth is not up to the challenge.

That must be why my screen has been so fucked since the update. As soon as I popped into the game after I put the new files in, there are as you said, infinite polygons EVERYWHERE and I can hardly play. Good thing turning on Vsync made it so they only show up sometimes now, although when they do I can't play anymore. Entire cities turn into grey and white shapes.

I have been trying to get this to work since I bought the game last night on Steam. I have the newest versions of both ARMA II and OA since I bought the bundle option. When I start up the game I get: "No Enty 'bin\config.bin/CfgVehicles/Citizen1.scope" at the main menu. After I go into expansions and enable dayz I get this when I restart: "Addon 'dayz_code' requires addon 'CABuildingParts'" After the restart gets to the main menu the first error appears again but the mod is enabled. When attempting to join a server it starts to load, I get welcome messages and such and website info then it kicks me and says I am missing: "deleted.chernarus". I have tried on several different servers with the same luck, since it is an installation error on my end. The Dayz version that I tried is the files linked in the downloads page on this website. I have installed those files in: arma 2 oa/@dayz/Addon/files arma 2 oa/Addon/files arma 2 oa/common/files common/Addon/files common/@dayz/Addon/files arma 2 oa/expansion/addon/files expansion/files expansion/@dayz/Addon/files arma 2/@dayz/Addons/files /AddOns/@dayz/Addons/files AddOns/Addons/files, AddOns/files Dta/@dayz/files, Dta/files Most of those locations also have the original zipped folders in them as well with the files, however none of that worked. Which leads me to believe I am missing files rather than having installed them wrong, but I just got the files last night from the downloads page. I am currently running the game (I launch OA) with the settings: -nosplash -mod=@dayz If you need anymore information simply ask and I will post. I cannot wait to play this and was hoping to for a bit before school, but that wont be happening now I guess. Oh well, hopefully someone will have an answer here by this afternoon. EDIT:: After 2 and a half hours of fixes and various hopeful attempts and having read nearly the entire support forum, I cannot see any way that I am missing files as the game keeps telling me and will instead post my system specs in case the error lies somewhere in there, and if so I can try this on another computer but I would like that as a last resort. CPU: AMD Phenom II x6 3.3ghz (6 cores, single threading) GPU: Dual HD Radeon 6870's 2GB ram version running in crossfire RAM: 8GB crucial ballistix 1600 MOBO: ASRock 990FX eXtreme3 AM3+ Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit

^^ As the above said. Also, you are not meant to be taking on loads of zombies by yourself. Zombies should be fucking your shit up until you get an 1866 or something. Get some allies to help, and don't aggro zombies. Stay out of range, crouch, shift walk, and avoid raiding an area entirely if necessary. It is about surviving, not killing. So if you avoid them as much as possible and only end up fighting a few zombies as you should, until you get better at aiming you can find plenty of medical supplies to keep your character alive after each encounter. Head to Elektro or another city with a hospital and you can get blood packs for allies to give transfusions as well as every other medical supply.

Thanks for the server man. Me and all of my friends finally managed to get into the same server last night when yours popped up. Not very often that a server restarts or six people leave a server so we can all get in, but now there is yet another one to lessen the load on all of them.

Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this? He can connect to any server for about 10 seconds and then battle eye kicks him for cheating because his ping is too high. The only servers he managed to join for longer were the french ones which he had 500 ping to, but was kicked when it spiked up to 1.5k. As for the US servers, he gets around 2k, even the ones based within a few hours drive. He can play normal matches fine, as in vanilla Arma II and Operation Arrowhead. He doesn't get kicked for his ping in those, but when trying to join any DayZ server he does. There is nothing we can do about his ping as he has satellite internet out in the middle of nowhere. Is there any way that someone knows about to allow him to play without being kicked?

Yea thats what I figured. He was getting unusually high ping in teamspeak I noticed as well today, so maybe it will work tomorrow. Right now he closed steam and teamspeak, the only other things with an internet connection, and is testing to see if he can play. There is a way for servers to set the maximum ping that someone can have before they are kicked, but I doubt any of the servers would increase it for him....D=. Depending on how the servers work for this game one person with high ping might lag everyone. He tried to get internet on the ground, like through the phone line but there is not a single company that can get the signal to go far enough so he is stuck with satellite.

I just died a few minutes ago on an undated server with an updated client (1.5) and I could not do anything but look at the screen. Had the end the process and re open in a new server the same as I had to earlier today and last night with the previous version (1.4.23).

Try using the Sixter launcher. I tried that and it downloaded a bunch of files and folders for CBA mods which then prevented me from playing on any server and the game crashed if I tried to remove the files. However, I kept doing the option to install mods, install bjikes, and launch the game as well as updating my dayz files as new ones came out and it eventually just worked. It might take a while, and a lot of tries. Its not all in here since I was on other websites as well talking to people, but I tried many many things over 8 hours never stopping trying and researching. If you really wanna play keep at it, and you will get it eventually =P.

Yea, that is where I have been stuck. I am up to almost 7 hours of searching for an answer and trying hundreds of things. I am on another site as well talking to people, but nothing seems to be working and nobody has replied on here for hours. Remember to check for updates frequently by the way. 6 have been released this morning alone. http://www.dayzmod.com/downloads/

I had that error earlier and from what I can tell and have seen in other threads, it is a pretty easy fix. If you bought the game on steam, right click operation arrowhead and click to launch combined operations. If you bought the game on disks or something, you need to use a special launcher that launches both Arma II and Operation Arrowhead together. I cannot remember the name, but you can find it if you search the support forums. Just check all of the threads until someone mentions it.