Alpha event on an alpha mod on a game in eternal beta. There are going to be issues.

I'm 1-shotting zombies just like I did before the .45 ammo nerf. Must have something to do with where I'm aiming.

a- I got hacked on a low pop server. b- DayZ is boring on low pop servers. All that said, I don't think the OP has a good point, >10% of players playing isn't a bad figure.

If you have problems with snipers in cherno and elektro then maybe it is time to explore the other 95% of the map. Berezhino has a hospital, military tents, TWO MARKETS, two apartment complexes, an office building, a lot of industrial down by the docks, etc., and three very close deerstands. Best of all? It isn't surrounded by steep hills perfect for snipers.

Same thing happened to me. I was in Berezhino but in 1.7.2.5 it moved me outside Elektro. Rocket said it does this whenever your save location is "corrupt". Where were you at in Berezhino? I was prone next to a rock wall by the military tents.

Every death I've had in the past 2-3 weeks has been from somebody teleporting me up in the air far enough off the ground that I fall to my death. Are you saying that people can do that to other players without cheating?

I read a book the other day by Alan Furst, called Dark Star. It is part of a series about espionage before/during/after WWII. Anyway, near the end of the book the main character is traveling and he drives through some of the areas in Chernarus. Khelm is one of the places he passes through.

AS50 is the most efficient sniper rifle in the game, by a very large margin. If the AS50 I-Win button wasn't in the game I'd go with an M24 for the accuracy or an SVD for the utility. The only real bonus for the DMR is using it with NVGs but I typically don't snipe on night servers so it isn't a bonus for me. If I have to kill somebody at night I use m16a4 acog or sneak up behind them and shoot them in the head with an m9 sd.

FYI. http://cdn.armafiles.info/latest/

Maybe you should just trade for a script that kills anybody you want dead.

My current method of reacquiring gears involves 1-stop shopping at SET (Somebody Else's Tent). Shop smart, shop SET-Mart.

If the false positives are flagged under a certain type of disallowed activity then it would be trivial to lift any bans in a certain timeframe for that certain activity. You'd probably unban some percentage of black hats but they'd just get banned again next time they stepped out of line. This assumes BE keeps more data than, "oh hey, we banned this guy for some reason."

1866 is a carbine, not a shotgun, never really understood why the game goes fictional on this particular weapon.

I spend ~5 minutes hiding in a bush before logging out. That is ~5 minutes from the last time I either picked something up or moved something in/out of my backpack. One other tidbit, don't eat/drink just before you logout. Save it for when you login. ;)

I feel the same way, would even without these ban reports. Last time I check ~50% of the servers were still on 417, no need for me to upgrade.

That is actually a better average than most forums.

It isn't difficult, it is practically impossible without rebuilding ArmaII from the ground up. Why do you think Rocket has been so hot to get this going as a standalone without need Arma II shimmed between DayZ and the engine? You can't just blanket disable client script execution without also breaking arma2 and dayz, they're both made up of any number of scripts that guess what? get executed on the client.

Just because you upgraded arma2 doesn't mean a client config issue---outside of the version of arma 2 itself---is involved. It could just as easily be a communications error in the 95660 client/server communication that only occurs under special circumstances. In any case testing on the client side is impossible because you can't control all the variables such that you guarantee only one variable is changed per test. You'd need a lab environment for that, with your own hive and BE architectures. Basically you're wasting your time outside of the enjoyment you're gaining trying to figure this out. :)

duh.

*417, set to 4 cores, no ban. I think you're making this far more complex than it actually is. If they ever give out a concrete answer for this I'd put even money on it having nothing to do with any configuration option on the client.

Which is next to meaningless in DayZ. If you can do mildot math in your head---and I would hope that most of us can---you can rangefind quickly with any mildot scope in the game. Like I said, the real world advantages of an SVD don't exist in DayZ, except for its use in close-range engagements. Even that is nullified in most cases by the ability switch to a second primary with a few inputs. ...and hey, I like the SVD, I'm just talking about the mechanics of DayZ.

It is crappy in comparison to any rifle that has adjustable zeroing and kills with 1-hit anywhere to the body. There is a reason that 99% of the l33tsnipers are running around with AS50s instead of SVDs and it isn't because the SVD is hard to find. The practical reasons that would make a person pick an SVD over an AS50 in real life don't exist in DayZ. For instance, in real life the SVD weights 9.48 pounds with a scope and empty mag. An AS50 weights 27 pounds with no scope/sights and empty mag. Which do you want to carry on a 100km hike? I prefer the M24, SVD or DMR if I'm going to snipe but if I want to be the most effective sniper I can be in this game I'd have to go with an AS50. That is why I'd like to see the AS50---and any other 1-hit gun kill that isn't a headshot---removed from the game.

Can't tell you. I saw no need to try other ways to script it when I had one that worked perfectly fine. Sure you can but that method will use more resources and take marginally longer. Just don't see the reason to create a new way of doing it, a new way that isn't as effective or efficient. :) YMMV.

This is one of the dumbest quotes that appears regularly. Let me ask you a question: If you flip a quarter and it comes up heads, do you believe it will always come up heads from that point on? If not then you're insane by the logic of your post. By your logic only a crazy person would expect that quarter to come up tails at some point. The problem with the quote is that it is only valid for actions that only have one possible result. Few systems are that simplistic.

In terms of reload times any mags in your main pack area are taped together. The majority of the time spent on a mag change is lowering/raising the weapon and charging it. You're not spending any time unbuttoning an ammo pouch and fishing out a new magazine.