WitchZero

Bandit's on the large servers. Survivors on the small ones. Works for me. I would love to see the zombie population on a 100 man server.

Some servers will do it while some wont. It may be related to server uptime. As in they haven't been restarted in a while. I was on Chicago 5 last night. I had no problems getting in. I got in game in maybe 1 minute. There were 12 zombies spawned. Most guys sat at the Waiting for server to respond. Things to try. Sometimes I abort, disconnect, now at the slot selection screen (Blufor), then hit OK again to DL the mission and recieve data again. I've had it work and not work so i would just try it once then move on after too long of a wait. Make sure you start Steam as Administrator. Or run ARMA:CO as Administrator. Update your Battleye .DLLs.

I know Zombie count error and I'm more than happy to test with it. This is just feedback. Zed Numbers: The number of Zombies are actually pretty good. I approached the structures SW of the Airfield and the Zombie count went from 15 to 27 (lots of ppl stuck waiting for server). I threw a flare ahead of me and sure enough I could see 3-4 wandering around. This isn't too bad. More were spread out around the area. Zed Spawn Rate: I found a big pole barn structure made of tin in Stary Sobor. It had a nice catwalk around the top near the roof. No zombies. Initally. They wated until i got up on the catwalk to spawn. I went through 48 rounds of Makarov ammo and they were still coming. It seemed like every one I killed another spawned. I don't know the specifics of the spawns but I killed 20 zombies easy and there were still plenty. I had to log out. I came back on another server and GTFO. Luckly there were some military tents near by and i got some more ammo and a primary weapon. So I think the biggest issue guys run into is the rate at which they spawn not the spawn numbers. Bugs I ran into: Primary weapon (AK-74 equipped) and ammo disappeard when I looted a AKM. AKM Ammo disappeard as well... Dropped the AKM before looting a M1014 and it worked fine. AKM was on the ground. M1014 and ammo loaded correctly in my gear. (i think this is known) Summary: Played all night (US east coast, night time) and worked my way up to the Airfield from Novy Sobor. Face pulled a couple Zombies. M1014 thank you. Glow sticks are adequate for normal movement. Flare for Recon. Had a wonderful experience...at night! It rained a lot on server last night. I Kept thinking about the Thermometer as was skirting towns and running through the countryside. Thanks Rocket, Keep up the good work man.

The biggest issue I see most working adults play at night, even on the weekends if you have kids. I would love for the servers to have shorter day/night cycles (odd number, like 3 or 5 hours) or change their server times so it wouldn't get dark until midnight.

A Power Grid would be quite the undertaking. But a smaller generator using fuel from a Jerry Can could power a few lights at a specific location. Just have a portable generator and some portable lights set up at the medical tents or have a backup generator that provides power to the lights at the Airstrip, etc.

I nearly hit a zombie last night with a bottle and he just kept on walking. I threw one almost at his feet. Is there a slow lumber towards the sound? Maybe it just took a while for him to work his way there? (1.5.7) I was so excited to try this mechanic and I couldn't get it to work. I'll test some tonight.

How hard is it to realize the zombie numbers/rate wasn't exactly part of the intended patch. Even still, it is a chance to test crazy zombie numbers. Its times like this when you find out the balance between speed and numbers. I care less about the numbers than the fact that I can't seem to use flares or empty whiskey bottles to distract the zombies. I'll test this some more. Instead of getting your panties in a wad, try to provide some constructive criticism and help the boys out. May Day Zombie outbreak of 2012. Balls required.