moofactory

I had one a few days ago on me, But when I tried to use it I think it dissapeared because I got some error come up saying they cant be used with females yet. Not being a woman EVER AGAIN!

I had an interesting session... which resulted in me loosing all my gear. It all started when i was in churno on the roof of the Firehouse. a noob was in the tower bleeding with zeds comin up "Please dont shoot me" he calls out. I shot the zeds to help him out. he was unarmed. Over at the end of the roof looked like a dead body. (strange camo gear on) I go over to loot it... I prone as its day and 45players on. cant loot it... weird.. Then I see his head move and in a panic I pumped 5 rounds in his head with my AK. Ok now I can loot it. After looting 2nades, 2 charges, Radio, GPS and a set of NVG's I realise why it was just laying there.. he had set a tent out on the road as bait and waiting for someone to come along. Anywho.. time to get out of dodge. So I move towards the supermarket... spot a player in there... again I hear "Please dont shoot"... Lol I know that voice.. same guy. We have a bit of a chatt from a distance, he mentions something about a revolver in there if I want it... I have a chuckle and stupidly say na its cool Ive got an AK. Well.... he all of a suddin wanted to tag along .... "hey wait up" With all this shit on me, I have every peice of equipment!... I really dont want to take any chances. I make a dash out of there not before he catches up to me. Hes armed with a crossbow now and hes talking to me... which is fine but im a little wary... Then he shoots me. This Gives me the shits as I helped him out earlyer and at the same time Im thinking what an idiot shooting someone with a crossbow when they have an AK pointed at you. So I let fly.... It was completely pointless. So annoyed at him for even trying. SO then naturally I aggro ed and had to get them off. Im down to 5000blood, from 11000 most of the damage from the zeds not him... had 7 on me. After that was over I bandage and just as I finish I hear a chopper. Then I see it flying over in the distance to my right on fire! It gett out of sight presumably behind the trees then I get a DC! Either the server crashed or my connection screwed up but either way It seems a bit weird that a chopper is even on 1.7.5 with the latest arma 2 patch. Thats all fine and dandy... until I log back on. I have nothing. Everything on me is gone... even my backpack and handgun. Im naked, Im also in a slightly different spot... not where I logged. Ive seen simiar bugs like this happen before and if I log out and on to another server ill be fine again. Nope, Im ok now.. but my shit is definitely gone!!! ARRRG. anyone have any idea how I could be stripped without dieing??

Frankly anyone with stuff off map doesn't deserve their stuff. Nuke it all now. In fact Id like to see a radiation barrier around the edge of the map. You get too close you get blood loss and eventually die unless you get back on map.

Bear gills style. Pee in it

30 second time no damage delay after disband. Give them time to run.

Hell Yes to this survival mechanic. Make cans very scarce. Boo to the "eww no thats gross", bugger you when your starving to death with nothing but a player you just killed laying there next to you. I think this is an IMPORTANT mechanic to put in the game. No I dont want your beans..... I want your drumstick!!! om nom nom. Without changing the animal/food mechanics, you would gut the dead player like normal. and the rest of the food process and requirements would be the same. However if we can change the animal/food mechanic this is what id do with dead bodies. You can drink the blood off players that have just died, you can gut the meat off ones that have not already been gutted, However if you drink the blood or eat the flesh not cooked your head texture changes to one with blood around your mouth like a zed but with the player head skin. Also you throw up every now and again causing noise and movement pause for about 2-5 mins. This actually would increase player killing.. so may not be a positive effect on the game. But an awesome thought. Another thought would to actually be able to gut a zed and cook their meat... but "infected meat" would cause a 50/50 risk of infection. HUGE risk and downside.

One thing I do have to say about the runners speed. I opened up a zed model in the armory, they run a hell of alot faster than players. Like twice as fast, WAYY too Fast. I think this is what I think is the cause of their jerky running patterns when running strait. Like if you run at full speed and they chase you then when they catch up just behind you they suddenly fall back then run up again, rinse repeat. It seems like there's something coded into them to periodically stop running when ever they reach a player then start again. (collision detection?..causes short pause stand then run again) If this was slowed down to the same speed as a player model, You would still get them chasing you the same but no more start stop running. As for the jerky running in directions, this looks like they try follwing the player's running path but can only run in a strait line, hence the zigzag patterns and sharp snap turns. As for slower chasing in general, I guess it depends on the zed type, the runners are really the only ones I think that need tweaking really. Having said that, some things you said raise interesting thought. Your damage impact on how they change stance or animation. All zeds that can run do so at about 10%-20% faster than standard player run. Can turn in a fluid curve like a player can. To kill any zeds they need a headshot. (insta-kill any gun or melee x2-x4 hit) x2 Body shots will make them kneel stance move (ie hoppers or on all fours in that creepy Grudge crawl/run) x4-6 body shots or x1-x2 Leg shots will make them prone crawl (broken legs) This would not apply to military guns that already do 1 hit kills. (anything that in real life would blow off a limb or a hole as big as 4 inches or more like a 50 cal) My thoughts on this are due to the fact that we cant blow off limbs in Arma 2, legs arms heads. to compensate for this, we give insta-kills to high powered weapons when they hit the torso. I guess x2 hits for legs or arms. (zeds could potentially still attack you with no arms, pull themselves along the ground with no legs, Sit there like a meat sack moaning with no limbs) just my 2c :D

Ive barely even needed to use my guns most of the time, its only ever when I screw up and agro, which isnt often... or I get spotted by another player. In about 5 hrs I fired only 1 shot on an aggro-ed zed the other day. Had to drop 1911 mags because I had too many! If you know how to work around the zeds you dont really need a gun at all. Its only for protection if you screwed up or get ambushed by players.

I have no problem starting with no gun. Im usually geared up with a gun within 30-60mins if near churno/electro. Op Just not adapting to change play style.

Look pretty good, I wouldn't mind taking a crack at playing around with some re-textures myself. Id like to see if bone and muscle/organ exposure can look realistic on the existing meshes. Stepping that up, I dont see why texture and mesh updates couldn't be community driven and voted on. Them being put in is another story. It raises an interesting point about the graphic modding community. Which I'm sure there is afew here to make improvements.

I've been camping/shooting in national parks and I can tell you, if its cloudy or the moon is not out. It's pitch black. It highly depends on how full the moon is. The moon light should be the decider on how visable everything is.

funny thing I saw yesterday. A z decided to climb a deer stand and hide in it. I didn't think they were smart enough to do that without chasing someone. weirdest thing ive ever seen them do so far. was near the tents along the road in front of the west airfield on the coast.

just played 1.7.1.5 A few interesting things. At night, prone move causes 1 bar in sound but crouch has no bars in sight or sound, In grass. It still doesn't feel balanced right yet, running only 2 bars, really? Churno is a loot wasteland. Plenty of junk, few cans of drink and food.. I think its fair to be scarce where it is except should be far more food/drink in the store. watches and torches are too common. shotgun and 1911/revolver amo is plenty, mabye too much... not sure.. feels a little spammy... could be more a variety of items in the 2 story building type. feels like way too much junk or bare rooms though in alot of places. (oh and the 1911/revolver amo swap option is an awesome idea you put in there) Cant really comment on anything else yet.

All I can say is suck it up whoreders. You are part of an ongoing development stage of a game to help test and refine to contribute to an end product. Be thankful your playing at all, most games in development are closed to the public to test in alpha. Even then most open to the public are closed beta's. Tents, vehicles and anything else that is persistent other than players should wipe with each MAJOR version update. (ie, 1.6-1.7 not hotfixes that update within 24 hrs like we have had with 7.1.1-7.1.5.) Untill we reach beta. No one should be hoarding tents and vehicles in or out of map without expecting to loose them during the alpha stage. Your a test subject, nothing more..playing is a bonus.

has the food and drink spawn issue been fixed... or improved at all? 1.1 I starved to death because when I logged in my drink was flashing then my food. Ran around like crazy in electro looking for food/drink in the usual places. nothing.

Last time I played I was on 1.5.7 and things were fine. Tonight I realize there's a new patch and I download the 1.5.8.4 torrent from the download page. Now every game I try to connect to, as soon as it links up gives me. "you were kicked off the game" Does the torrent have all the files required? (do I need the others also in the list on the download page) Could the anti cheat software be out of date? Im confused as to whats going on.

window mode is giving me the shits. Ive tried all the tricks to fix the black load screen issue. Nothing ive tried so far works. Im on a win7 64bit setup with x2 460's in sli. Im using a steam install of CO. mem limiter via msconfig on boot, done.. maxmem 512 on shortcut, done.. refresh is even right, config and monitor both at 60. all I see is a black screen and the in game cursor. So frustrating. any of you guys have win7 64 and find a fix that works? I cant see anything else to try at the moment.

I was doing what was told to do to fix a full screen bug with 64bit win 7. nothing to do with performance. Anywho now its fixed.. but for a while there I was getting a black screen in full screen mode because the game cant handle more than 3gb ram allocated.

I just updated to 1.5.8.4 from the torrent download on the site about 5 different matches ive attempted to join i get all the same message as soon as I get on. "you have been kicked from the game" There's a bug in the newest version. I played the other night on 1.5.7 and I didnt have a problem.