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If it's a punishment what if we're logging out due to contact with a hacker? Me and a friend being asshats top-mid Cherno. Eventually hacker brings us all to one location and bombs it, Lots of deaths. I survive and alt F4, there's no reason for me to be in that position. Now, I'm getting 5-min knockouts upon login... Awesome

Jex, you've helped all you can, I appreciate your efforts.

I promise you, what I speak is what I see. I dont use steam. Arma 2 will load. Operation Arrowhead or combined operations will not. It gives me the Direct 3D error.

Jex, if you're a company hoping to go mainstream and get maximum profits you can't possibly expect the majority to accept that they have to learn about how the game works to get it to run. However I am willing to learn but my attempted at googling yielded no fruit. I'm sorry to perk your tail. Certain things like tinkering with mouse software to get 1:1 movement within games is something I've tinkered with but it was totally of my own intrigue and desire to improve my performance and enjoyment of a game. Jex, is there some comprehensive source of information that will allow me to learn what I need to know without convoluted explanations and unecessary technical jargon? Maybe BIS isn't intending to be a mainstream entertainment vendor but with DayZ's release there is a much higher demand for the knowledge or simply a solution to their problems.

No, I avoid steam where I can and I bought it direct from BIS (was also cheaper than steam, lol) Have tried reinstalling directx 9 (don't see how it would help as DayZ and Arma2 manages to load to menu) Also tried running as administrator. No difference.

Oh Okay, Thanks for clarifying what Vanilla means. However, that is what I've already been trying to do. Running CO results in directx error. DayZ and Arma2 (NOT CO) is fine. Dafuq?

"Error creating Direct3D 9 Graphical engine" What IS Vanilla?

Vanilla Arma 2? I want to use that firing range map I linked so my friends can gather there. Not just play single player. No Beta Loaded? I don't know =/ Should I? Or should the game just work like all others (or at least have a clear solution to 99.9% of problems) (appreciating the attempts to help me dispite my rage-filled OP) I just find it amazing how the community already has programs that keeps day Z running without a hitch and the only user-intervention required is to open six updater once a day.... Yet trying to do anything else with arma results in frustration.

Never had a game requiring a change in launch options to run... It ran when I first installed the game, however I like many others bought Arma2 for DayZ. Six updater keeps DayZ running fine with no issues. Really don't wanna be the asshat top-mid cherno with L85 Thermal. AdmiralGreene: I load DayZ using RAMdisk because of terrible optimisation within the game.... only DayZ and Arma2 is working... not OA

So I wanted to play http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=14616 so I can get some target practice. "Error creating Direct3D 9 Graphical engine" Despite the claims from many fanboys that BIS deserves our money for this game, I've found it to not be true and as such I will be contributing to the problem and all you fresh spawns can be my target practice instead. Sincerely Mad Bitter (Don't give me solutions that would take 3+ hours to execute, it's a laughable concept for something I paid a non-minute amount of money for)

If there was a guy who just found a downed chopper that was discovered by a group of 5, that was me and my crew. Bit silly of you to open fire on us. Well done for not alt F4-ing. Good fun. Thanks for the experience. oh yeah, on server GB 234 As you know you killed our sniper. You shot me once for 100 blood. Another guy you knocked unconscious with one of your shots. J had visual on you from the start and i just zig-zagged towards your position until I saw you. I lost visual and in the end it was J that killed you. Better luck next time =]

DUDE. Stop playing point-man. Most people posting in reply to you have valid points. Fact of the matter is is that you've let yourself in this situation with these people. Personally, if anyone threatens to Murder me I'll try and take the more dominating role in the friendship and if that doesn't work you make them think twice about approaching you leave a paper trail in case the feds decide they wanna get involved. Saying that I had a friend that threatened to kill me multiple times when we were teenagers. That's behind us and I can safely say he's a good guy. Anyway. I would just ridicule them, there is no need for you to feel like such a bitch... cause that's exactly what you're doing. Balota? all the time? Really? I mean that is ridiculously lame, not only are these 'friends' of yours corner-cutting cunts they're also incredibly absent minded if they're really that occupied with Balota, there's a huge map out there to explore, learn and have LEGITIMATE PvP. They are trashing their own experience of day Z...They will get bored soon enough don't you worry... Either they quit or they explore, if you want them as your friends play with them but like someone said. 'grow a backbone' because you're an ickle door-mat my friend. You sound like you're at a very similar level in knowledge and experience as my team. We'd enjoy meeting someone to rolling around with us.. so if you play GB, UK, DE, NL or any FAR East-Coast servers. Add me on Skype: Heafmo

I hear starting a sentence with 'And' is what all the Grammar Nazi's are doing nowadays, can you confirm?

So I was one of those people that complained when I first bought Arma 2 for the sake of Day Z. Whatever I complained about I was just not happy having such a hard time finding a weapon, everywhere I went it felt like chances of survival was 50-50 at best and without a gun, I had to take the long meticulous approach and most of the time I ended up dying with crap loot. I had got my friends interested and they bought the game too. So, being shit-scared of EVERYWHERE we decide grouping up is the best thing to do so we spend hours to form something that looked like it came straight from the film 'A Kung Fu Hustle'; two point-men with hatchets and one guy with a lee-enfield. LOOOL So for the next two days we spend a lot of time dying, trying to get back on our feet as wannabe PvPers we're still relatively new so still exploring the game and currently shooting anything that moves as I don't have a clue how to get any practice in using the map editor. So after raiding balota numerous times (yeah we cheesed it, held out the parimeter and sent in one guy to loot every now and then whilst we were making dinner and boiling our kettles) we decided we were going to make our way to Berezinho. We get there, more Equipment... we go NE airfield... More EQ.. we decide to go to Starry Sobor and we even find an unlooted downed heli site.. MORE EQ so were a 3 man squad. One with ASblahblah Sniper Rifle, One with M14 AIM and another with an M16. This is the first time we've EVER been this armed, we feel like pro's we're on top of the world. F1: "Let's go NWAirfield?" ME: "We'll probably die..." F1: "Isn't that the point of this game?" Whether or not that's the point, I was convinced! We weren't unarmed, weren't too far away and there was the allure of a possible downed heli and the fabled NWA looting spawns. It goes well. We have the whole NWA to ourselves... we're absolutely astonished with the overall size of this place... feels a LOT bigger than it looks on the map. We'd never been to the area before... After looting the whole way along the airstrip, we get behind a building and buried into some shrubbery and 'Abort'. After more food and boilt kettles we come back and decide that we're going to loot NWA -again- in the -hopes- that all the spawns have refreshed and there's more phat loot to be had.. However, first we notice a dead female body out front of the building we Aborted behind.... We don't let this phase us however, we keep looting, trying to keep a low profile. We make our way back along the airfield to the downed chopper at the other end and I wanted to check it again (it was the first thing we hit in NWA). Being my idea I'm the guy that goes for it.... loot hadn't respawned so I start to walk back to my team in the treeline. *PSHHHHEWWWW* ME: "Taking shots from far end; presumably from behind the chopper you're looking at" (I go prone and roll to the nearest bush) F 1+2: "Can't see anyone" -silence-... *more shots* I'm eventually hit and made unconscious, I try to explain where the sounds were coming from,I get shot again and my role in this story is over,... a pretty pathetic, 'sitting duck' kinda story, I need to change my drop and roll tactic as it has NEVER worked. So I take the 2-min walk to my friends house to see the action unfold. Our designated sniper is probably the worst guy for the job but we let him do it anyway for his enthusiasm of being able to kill people from a long distance without being seen... However, in saying that, he didn't do too bad. He ended up pulling in a few kills before he died (in a VERY questionable position, he must have been really desperate for an angle). So he now comes over to my friends and we're both watching the last of us try and fight it out of NWA.... I start explaining how we were just taking a ridiculous risk when we all knew deep down inside there wouldn't be loot respawns and despite it being our first visit we know that NWA is not a place to be stuck around for lols (unless you have a camp so you can re-equip immediately. I explain he should just loot what he could from our bodies and leave NWA so we don't lose everything but he's not happy with that, he wants to stay it out and fight on. Basically we're all noobs, The last of us sits there in pretty much the same spot that the other 2 of us had died. We witness him take out one player before shit gets crazy.... I don't know whether it was one team, it all happened so fast, -See movement in treelines to the right -hearing 2 different caliber sniper rifles from god knows where -getting suppressed from other directions -see one guy crawling his way towards my friends position in the wide open. I hope you enjoyed, this isn't a story but more of an account of my experience in Day Z so far. If I had advice for any group of noobs starting up it would be that communication is paramount, tell your team where you are, what you're doing, when you're doing it HOWEVER you should have a good plan that should be stuck to. Also I learnt to play Day Z with a group. It did make solo survival a lot easier but when I teamed up with my friends my 'lone wolf' habits I had gained overnight created some nasty situations... Later at night, the same day of the NWA shenanigans was when I learnt to go it solo. Before I slept I messaged my team to say I'm camping Balota Forests with AKM and all necessary supplies to go north... they tell me to meet them at the Military camp with 4 deerstands, I cautiously cross the airstrip towards the road, taking cover at every washing machine and truck. All of a sudden I see two people on the road, 'holy shit, guys is that you?', 'where?' 'On the road?' 'Yeah... well... we're like by the deerstands'... I take that as a big NO, so I line up the shot with my AKM. One shot in the head, dead, I had already consulted my muscle memory and switched straight to the other target and start letting off other shots.. whilst I'm killing my friends one of them starts screaming realising that I killed him. I stop firing on my friend, realising what I had done, apologising profusely, bandaging him up and trying to calm the guy I killed. So we eventually regroup, Dead friend re-stocks.. back to where we were an hour ago. So we head north and hit the deerstand east of kozlovka. We aggro zombies and end up in a CQB in the middle of a field. I get fed up with the amount of flack I'm taking from the zombies as no one has made the call to make a run for it. I'm crouched, I turn to a zombie hitting me to my right, I unload quarter of my stanag clip into him, I hear some confusion over skype, looking over the dead Zed's body I see another body behind him, that of a survivor... I've killed my OTHER friend now.... So I'm feeling really bad and like a complete noob, I'm wasting hours that need not be wasted.. I'm also throwing my friends patience out the window as they're the ones sufferi*BANG* I'm dead.... Matey I killed earlier in the morning shot me in the head out of principle alone. We spend another hour or two trying to recover equipment from our bodies... one team mate helps his brother set up his laptop so he can join us in day Z as our 4th member.... he didn't Abort, Our sniper guy forgot to cover him and I went around looking for zombies to kill cuz I had 7 1911 clips and needed some food. So he ended up getting munched by a singular zombie over an extended period of time without any of us noticing resulting in more rage/tension between us and a decreased will to live. So it's clear we're not coming across any crashed helis nor are we going NW or NE airfield or Starry Sobor. All on a fresh spawn we all agree to loot on the way to electro and what followed was an epic 3-4 hours of constant PvP action in Elektro... more silly blunders resulting in my death. Our sniper sniping from ridiculously open spots and other team-mate constantly being let down by my lack of teamwork with him because I'm scared of dying... but it was lots of fun. We ended up getting outclassed by two guys who swept the floor with everyone, all this fighting went on by the firestation that is next to the power plant. On my respawn I managed to flank the whole city and come up behind them with my hatchet... but I'm on 400 blood and I didn't have 2 shotgun slugs to take these guys out. None-the-less I approach the guy with sniper in hand, guy with binoculars can wait a second, I start hurling obscenities thorugh Direct Chat whilst hacking away at this guy... he turns around and shoots me before I get off a 4th swipe and I die.... I do the same thing AGAIN, manage to sneak up behind them.. I see them again.. same place, one guy with binocs, other with some pretty nice sniper however I don't even have a hatchet... I see ALL the dead bodies lying around... all the action had pretty much ended and my friends had logged off... I crept to my bodies right under their noses pretty much and looted back the equipment I could find, AKM 1911 etc... I look back and both of the guys had gone, I can only assume they disconnected. Now I'm awake at 6:30am because this game has completely gripped me now I've got over the initial OMGZ I press A and I don't become Awesome? phase. I need to sleep so I can continue to kill my friends in the morrow =D I look forward to more NWA action but for now I think we're going to continue with elektro pvp.

Butcher Pete HAS to be there. No questions.