Psychobob

Nice. You could have kept it, It was my fault for being afk. I was going to give that blue van away but I forgot something and ran back up to my camp then had to go AFK. Lol. Desync found the URAL this morning and I moved my camp, someone else took the blue van. I kinda thought that someone had to have seen me park that van. After it was gone my group went north where we thought it was and FrostedWheaties ended up being killed. Lol.

That m16 ACOG is mine, I will kill-on-sight anyone I see with one.... /glare

Server appears to have gone down for some reason. I can't restart it, I assume Vilayer is running some sort of updates or something. Server control is out of my hands right now. Desync is back and will have more information tomorrow.

Whomever Killed Me while I was AFK and took my URAL...

I never understood why my gun can Zero to 1600m but you can't ever see that far, 1000m is about the max.

Nearly 20 people on at once, pretty awesome. Seems like we get more players every weekend. People are becoming more dedicated and bringing in their friends. Spread the Word! Invite friends and recommend the server!

It's going to suck, just like every other console game. Lol.

Actually... I believe it's mine now...

So much for any new players.

All you should need to connect is the Server Address. If you see me online, I'm usually in a private channel, just poke me or open a text chat. US23.ts3dns.com

I like the Pie chart on the right. My favorite map is also DayZ.

I'm not sure what the issue is. Try deleting your @DayZ folder and reinstalling it using Commander.

If you use Six Launcher then it will auto update back to 1.7.2.5. If you don't use it then I'm not sure what the issue is.

I'll check right now, i'm sure they're just not loading properly after the restart. Indeed this was the problem, it's fixed now. It's some bug, sometimes after the scheduled restarts vehicles, tents and barricades won't load in properly. Just have to restart again to fix it.

This is exactly right and it's what Rocket wants. He wants the players to be responsible for their own survival and not have the game do things for you. Nightvision and Thermal are pretty much the game doing all of the work for you. This is why I say it goes against the theme of the game and it's a major reason why they need to be removed.

You guys are only focusing on one issue at a time. There are several reason why they need to be removed. 1. They are constantly duped and no longer rare at all: Duping obviously needs to be fixed. Someone will always find a way to cheat the system. Making them rare always won't fix this. 2. They make it far to easy to survive at night which goes completely against the theme of the game: The game is supposed to be difficult and frightening, give players NVGs takes away much of the fear and difficulty of playing at night. Thermal Removes almost all of the threat from other players, the exception being players who also have thermal. Making them more rare also won't fix this either. 3. They are completely unneeded: The game has plenty of other systems for seeing at night and the flashlight mechanic can be immensely improved to make for a fluent and balanced Nighttime gameplay. 4. The final, which is mostly my opinion, is that Thermal and Nightvision remove a lot of the fun from the game. Thermal takes away all of the challenge and fear of other player during the Day and Night. Nightvision removes the eerie atmosphere from the game as well as giving a major advantage over players using Flashlights, Flares, etc. It also removes any challenge of playing at night by making it nearly as easy to see as during the day. I personally find it much more fun to play without Thermal or Nightvision but I can't do-so because other players will have such an advantage over me, challenging to a level that it is an unwinnable situation. Making them more rare won't fix this effect either. The Flashlight system could be easily improved to a standard that would allow for new player to not be discouraged about playing at night. It would still be difficult but much more possible than it is now. Allowing players to find some sort of Headlamp or Hands-Free Flashlight is just one solution. Allowing players to use their starting flashlight with ALL secondary weapons is another. Players should be able to walk and Jog without the flashlight flailing all over the screen, sprinting should still cause this effect. Flashlights should also be regulated by requiring that your find fresh batteries to keep them working. The Rangefinder Binoculars should be the only item that has nightvision. This should be the case because; You can't attack with the rangefinder, You can't travel efficiently at night using the Rangefinder's nightvision and the purpose of the device is to be used for scouting. This being the case, you are not given such an advantage over other players that you are near invincible. At most you would only be able to see other players until you stopped using the rangefinder once you stopped, your only advantage would be knowing for sure that someone else is nearby. The Rangefinder should also use a rare battery that regulates the use of the nightvision as well as the range display. Obviously the battery would hardly drain at all without the nightvision active, when the nightvision was active it would drain at a much more rapid rate.

I think to get it to work with steam you've gotta copy the ArmA2OA.exe from from the beta folder and replace the original. Just go to "Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead/Expansion/Beta" and copy the Arma2OA.exe from there into your main Operation Arrowhead folder and replace it. Then In steam, add a non-steam game and select the .exe you just replaced. After it's added, right click it and go to properties and click "Set Launch Options" and enter these launch options at the end of the Target box. -beta=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion;CA;@DayZ -nosplash Then rename it to whatever you want and launch it from steam, it should work. If that doesn't work. Try looking for a tutorial or using DayZ commander to launch the game.

Thanks. We've had a few cheaters and even hackers but we generally catch them pretty quickly. If you find any hacked in weapons just drop em out in the woods or whatever. We won't ban people for having "illegal" weapons unless they continually ignore our warnings to get rid of them. Do be afraid to kill us, Lol. We don't mind having a fun gunfight every now and then.

When you downgrade that pretty much happens every time. You should still have all your gear.

The only real loss when downgrading to 1.7.2.4 is the humanity skins. The next update we'll have is 1.7.3 whenever it's released. 1.7.2.5 was a terrible patch, it caused more errors than anything else.

My group has been battling over vehicles pretty much daily on our server. This is what happened today. Enjoy! Here is the forum post regarding our server: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/76684-us-23-come-join-us/

Well here it is!

People are generally on during the day, not so much at night. They also tend to play more on weekends. We password some of the channels to keep the trolls from bugging us constantly. Just send a message or poke and we'll reply most of the time. My group tends to help people a lot but we have also had a few good firefights.

Damn! Too bad I didn't check the thread sooner, I would have come down there in a heartbeat.

They're supposed to be rare but duping makes them common. Making them really rare doesn't fix the fact that they make it far to easy to survive. We just need to have the flashlight system improved and remove them completely.