There's nothing challenging about the nighttime. It's just fucking boring, and the sooner the DayZ team realizes that and stops listening to the idiots preaching about how hardcore the game should be (no daytime, no weapons, no ammo and so on and on), the better. It's no fun to see nothing but black, white and grey all the time. The timing of the cycle is also terrible. By the time I get home from work there's little or no daytime left at all...

I completely agree with the OP and his points. A system like this needs to be implemented in the standalone.

Sounds perfectly logical to me. It would be illogical to spend time playing a game in a way that you do not enjoy.

On many of the public hive servers almost every vehicle is hidden out of bounds. They won't. Vehicles out of bounds will only disappear if they are not saved every 24 hours.

My ARMA2 OA keeps crashing when it has finished loading ~90% on the first screen (the one with the picture). This happens both in DayZ and ARMA2 OA, so it's not just a DayZ problem. I have reinstalled my ARMA2 OA aswell as reinstalled BattlEye by replacing and removing the BEClient.dlls (in my ARMA2 OA folder and in AppData\Local\ArmA 2 OA\BattlEye). I would really appreciate it if anyone can help me. I'm getting desperate and I'm worried that I might not be able to play DayZ at all tomorrow when I have a day off work ...

Hi, I'm a Swedish player and I have more or less stopped playing on the public hive due to the rampant cheating and exploiting going on, and most of my friends have started to play less and less. It's getting pretty boring to play alone much of the time, so I'm looking for bandit players who: Kill for fun and don't mind shooting even freshly spawned players. Don't combat log or dupe. Have Skype. 16+ years old. Are polite. The server I play on is European (French) with 45 maxplayers, veteran difficulty settings, 40 vehicles and any vehicles stashed out of bounds are automatically deleted upon restarts. If you are interested, please send me a PM with your contact info.

Still looking for more players to team up with on private hive servers. If anyone is interested, feel free to PM me your username on Skype.

Thanks for the offer, but I think that I will be fine. Getting too tired to play now and I will probably be able to gear up pretty fast the next time I log on.

Me and Remkoe recently trashed that camp :P. Too bad someone killed me shortly after that. I had an UAZ, a rangefinger, 4 GPS, a Coyote BP and a few guns with me :(.

Anyone?

Vehicles don't just explode. You must have crashed it into something, had a player shoot at it or a zombie hit it.

I only use it in CQC myself, so I wouldn't say that's a problem. For me it's more important to be able to quickly take aim at a target close range, than firing accurately at ranges above 100m, and in this regard the M14 AIM is superior to the FAL. I suppose it depends on what you are going to use it for. I for one dislike the M4/M16 variants because of their low stopping power. It's frustrating to put 5-8 bullets into someone's upper chest without him dropping down, and then get killed. I will only pick a M4/M16 variant over an AKM if I'm going to actively loot towns for gear and need the extra ammo and firepower to quickly dispose of zombies. If you are already well-geared and play as a sniper you won't need much more than 3-4 clips for it to defend yourself against other players.

Try to play on a server with side channel. There's more teamwork between random players when they can actually communicate with each other without being within a 50m(?) radius of each other.

The M14 AIM has better sights and a better rate of fire than the FN FAL, so I would say that's the best close to mid range weapon.

It doesn't look like much of a hacker camp to me. There's not many high-end weapons and there's alot of basic items, which I highly doubt that a hacker would bother to spawn in.

You will probably lose the gear you looted from the backstabbers, since the restart/crash occured while you were looting, not giving the stored items time to save properly. If you didn't save the car where you most recently had it, it's possible that its location didn't save either, so you might have to backtrack to find it.

As others have already said, you won't risk a global ban for using it. The worst thing that can happen is that some server admin might ban you for it, but on most servers you won't get banned for using it. So enjoy it while you have it. Easily spotting and killing players with this beast will make you feel like a big man.

Control freaks or not, admins of private hive servers actually tend to be responsible with their power and even friendly, unlike the admins on the public hive that only seem to be hosting their servers to use them as gearing up grounds and kicking/banning anyone that gets in their way. The private hive admins actually have a good incentive to administrate their servers well too, because they won't have any use of their servers if there's no one playing on them.

I play on a private hive server. It is actually possible to play there when the server is full for longer than 10 minutes without getting killed by a scripter. The admins on it will also rollback the server if everyone on the server gets slayed or teleported into the air. There are also other benefits such as exploits being less common (you might get banned if you dupe or combat log), and since it's a private hive, there's no ghosting or serverhopping. I understand your point of view, though. The public hive is beyond playable by now in my opinion. Even if you have an alternate account for duping it is a waste of time because it will likely take a longer time to suicide and run to meet each other to do the duping than the time you will survive on a full 40-50 player server without getting killed by a scripter.

The skin morphing is annoying like hell, but the problem you are experiencing can be solved by relogging once you have respawned. For some reason you are always at 0 humanity for the first time when you are on a new character. If you relog you get your actual humanity, though. I would recommend to always join a low pop server that's loading fast as soon as you die for this reason. It's not fun to relog on full server where it takes 5-10 minutes to get into the game.

It's not exactly fun to collect weapons when a scripter can ruin your progress in the blink of an eye.

Hackers are cunts, but I'm at least happy that they ruined the game for the off map hoarders here.

It obviously depends on what you are going to be doing. As a sniper I rather have a reliable M14 AIM than a pea shooter like the M4A1 CCO SD for when I need to kill a hostile player up-close. For me the pistol is usually more than enough to deal with zombies anyways.

The M14 AIM is the best primary for CQB in my opinion. It has two disadvantages to the FAL, and that would be that its wooden stock stands out more when you are using a ghillie suit in the forest and that it's incredibly loud, but those disadvantages are by far outweighted by its userfriendly aimpoint scope.

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