sirfluffkillington

It's just Hueys in DayZ isn't it? Assuming so (based on time in Arma 2) 5.56 rounds and lower probably won't be much use against the body of the thing, you could try to put rounds through to kill the pilot but I reckon you'd be wasting time. All I can say for sure is anything firing .50 rounds will damage the body, and can penetrate the windshield to kill the pilot.

More like Arma PvP with zombies. The attitude is pretty typical lol. However, there's a lack of anything much else to do unless you're a mountain man, and of course there's always the fact that people are people. All the time. It's not quite there yet, but it probably will be nigh on fully fledged by the time stuff that might counter this gets in.

Had some nice ones, always seem to end up with ol' faithful hatchet. However, I hardly ever fight at range so a decent sidearm more than suffices.

'... being assaulted by a hooting, shrieking, sprinting bush'. Sold!

If it was the AWS variant I hope it was removed. Jam the acog/susat in there - job done.

It's alpha - now's the time to find out XD Do it!

Only thing I can tell you for sure is that the fire's just an Arma bug. Was the cause of much panic in warfare games XD No idea about the rest though.

That's a pretty good idea you've got there. Actually it's damn good.

Careful lads, f*** the tiger - there's a bush with a gun in the middle of the screen.

Mmm don't think you'll get amazing performance no matter what, but there's a few tricks to eke a little more out. antialiasing and post processing can both be disabled. Shadows too if necessary. Playing with the other video settings can give interesting results (couple of lads reported frame rate DROP on lower settings if you can believe that). In addition if you go to Documents\ArmA2 and open up the cfg files (use notepad or notepad++ or something), change the value GPU_MaxFramesAhead='x' to something much lower than 1000 lol. Try 3 or whatever the GPU_DetectedFramesAhead value is. That's about all I can think of really.

I can't agree that it's unplayable. It's insanely hard when you start out, that is true. There's very little margin for error, but I much prefer this end of the spectrum to the other. Even running around like a numpty for a day with a crowbar because there was not a gun to be found. Either that or some bastard had nicked all the mags. It can make you rage, but it pays off in adrenaline in the tough spots, and massive reward when you find something you really need. As for broken this, broken that. It's to be expected - you report it and keep on keeping on. If you can't do that just cool your heels with something else for a while and come back fresh.

Can't remember when but at one point I had the camo faces available in my profile settings in game - switched to them when I got bored of my custom faces (including fluorescent pink for ease of recognition, and sheer stupidity). I'd be surprised if they were suddenly disallowed.

Longer version elsewhere. Still think it's possible. Temperature: drops? If it stays too low for too long you get hypothermia: intial shakes (or none since you stop shivering), then weakness - after a while can't run, can't lift a gun or at least shoot it accurately. Too long like that you go into shock (could just do fall over unconscious) and, shortly after, die.Make it reversible right until just before the end. Achieved by proximity to warmth (other player sets up fire next to affected player) and/or a direct item (blanket of some sort'd do. Regaining temp occurs slowly over time, and you're forced prone or sitting for the duration. If you DO recover you're infected (current infection mechanic) anyway and you're gonna need antibiotics too. Wounds: Get shot you're in trouble. Shaky aim at least. Preferred: legs = forced prone, arms = shakes when aiming, torso = walk only. A person can minister to themself to prevent imminent death, but retains the problems (always prone, shakes, never-run) until another player does a 'full heal' using item: medical toolbox, like a bloodbag works only on someone else. Will stop all the problems and render the injured fit again. Chance of infection to that mechanic, meaning lucky patched up gunshot victim now needs antibiotics. Survivors aren't surgeons in sterile conditions. More tears, more profit.

Great if you object to people shooting you in close quarters - insta drop. Sadly I get the occasional attack of conscience that means I drop the zombie creeping up on someone and then run away...while they're still trying to work out where the bolt came from XD

Crosshairs and nametags are crap - spacebar scanning anyone? 3rd person I can take or leave...

Yeah but when not an insult, it's just easier than 'faced-paced-arena-shooter-type-playstyle where you kill ALL the people.'

Having had the dubious pleasure of inheriting a clan's arma server, and learning the basics really effing fast (whut? windows has a remote access tool?), I figured something like this was the case. As such I've been joining, waiting 5 minutes and if no joy moving to another. I figured it was along the lines of when we'd left warfare running too long. Cheers for the information. Seeing that 'x has disconnected', 'x has connected' spamwall made me thankful I don't have to deal with it...*prays* You guys need a medal for patience 'cos I'd have deployed the thermonuclear ban wave by now. Will try and spread the word for what good it'll do...

Yup - Skip to 3:19. Only included 1 instance of going after players, but every time is the same.Do it! I've been shot a couple of times now, by people after my beans, but good old crossbow has meant I got the last laugh. This is my go to weapon now... It's also meant far more contact with players - you don't need to worry who they are or what they're carrying.

Ctrl x2 - put the barrel of that damn winny down and we can talk. Shooting first to prevent maybe getting shot is laziness. Don't want to have to do that? Pay attention and do your best NOT to let it happen. You will have to deal with the occasional psychotic murderface. If you run into another player with your gun up, having not made yourself known, saying nothing chances are you will be the engineer of your own demise. Whatever - if you want things to be different running around like a numpty shooting at everyone is not going to achieve it...

Yeah direct working will be nice. OT: I'm not a bandit, and much of my work lies in arranging matters so that other survivors don't see me. However, if a guy doesn't have the courtesy to lower his weapon or at least not point it at me I have no reservations about dropping him. Thankfully that hasn't happened much, and the one time the other guy opened fire I was a dust cloud and he was being eaten.

Aimed more at the folks who never played Arma and then end up wondering such things as 'How the hell does the inventory work?' with timecodes in the description to find specific explanations. YMMV Will of course be updated to reflect new changes, so it'll probably end up as a playlist. NB: This isn't 'how to destroy on DayZ', just barebones 'now you may live a little longer' content.