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My bad didn't realize another thread was started on the 12th in regards to this.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!.................................................................. oh wait your serious?

Link to the video on the escapist. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6276-DayZ Funny stuff

Looks like it is down for good. Bummer I liked this server.

Out of morbid curiosity. Have any of the people still getting graphical issues actually turned off AA in the game? It completely cleared it up for me on 1.7.2.4 . I will double test this again when I get home and Fraps the video and upload to you-tubes.... So I am clear as to the setting I am refering too, Not Atoc, not anistropic-filtering , but anti-aliasing filter.

in update 1.7.2.4 What finally completely cleared graphical glitches for me was to turn off anti-alaising. Haven't played with 1.7.2.5 yet will check it out when I get home from work.

Along the line of thought of this thread. You would need to remove the range finders, and NVGS , and any weapon with a nightvision scope, as they all give massive advantages.

Aug 8th, 2012 Character: [WS_Sgt]DocHoppy Server: US20 I woke up in the barn I had taken refuge in, and chowed down the last of the fresh meat I had. Prior to winding up here, I had made my way through Balota Airfield, and Cherno becoming moderately well equipped. I decided to make my way up to the NWA to see if I could find a cayote back pack. I decided to take the long way around, and it the north barracks first. Crawling toward the barracks, I notice the door is closed, but I hear flies. I open the door and find some poor soul lying dead on the floor. I quickly check his body, he apparently hadn't been there long, but did appropriate his alice back and compass. I checked the barracks and find an m16a203. I pick it up and drop the m4a1 I was carrying. I found nothing else usefull and made my way to the hangers, again nothing usefull, same with the southern barracks. I decide to vacate the area and head SE. shortly after leaving the airfield I come across a helicopter crash, and lady lucks graces me with an DMR and one mag. I decided to see if the local Clan that runs the server has a base out on Skalisty Island, this is a fairly long trek. As I am making my way across the map, I come across a lone tent, not well hidden but just there. I take a look and low and behold there is an L85AWS. I decide to leave the DMR and take the L85, since it shares mags with the m16. Happy with my new toy I continue on my trip, get to Krutoy cap and stop. "no boat",I think out loud. I decide to take a chance as there was only 1 other person on the server and leave my pack and everything on the shore behind some rocks, and swim with only my g17 and magazines plus a bouyant can of sardines. I explore Skalisty but find no camps. I do find a boat, and make a mental note of that. I continue searching the island and find a quiet fishing community with a boat house, and a few formerly known as humans. G17's are great if you can get head shots, but that wasn't happening, I hoof it for the boat with a little over a half dozen "Zeds" chasing me. I make it to the boat and jump in, luckily it is in good shape with half a tank of gas. I make my way back to the spot I had dropped my items and reaquire them. I decided to use the boat for what it was worth, (Very slow) and head up the coast, I jump out ditching the boat near solnichny. I found a warehouse and found a spot to call it a day. August 9th 2012. Server UK 197 I am awakend by engine noises, I look and all I can see is a dust cloud. I leave Solnichny, I headed in land a bit and ran west along the road trying to see if I could see the car. I trail all the way back to Kamyshovo but dont find him. I head back to the shore and as I am coming back up on Krutoy Cap, I catch a climpse of blue near the trees back off the road, I also see someone swinging a hatchet. I had hear stories about a crazed hatchet fiend and decided I shouldn't take any chances. I was 150 meters away and this person hadn't noticed me, I went prown and zeroed my scope on the L85 for 200 meters. I take the shot and bam head shot clean kill. (Sorry Shapka (I think)) I make my way to this pretty blue mini van and quickly take stock. The guy had not had the van very long. Van is in good shape, I decided to head the the north east airfield. As I am cruising along, I see fuel is getting low. I know there is a jerry can in the back and decide to fill up at the airfield. As I am getting fuel, I suddenly here the crack of a round coming really close to my head hitting the bus, I hear glass breaking. I jump in the bus and back up..and take off across the air field. The shots do no real damage, and I figured out where this guy was. he was in the top floor of the ATC tower. I pull about 500 meters away and jump out. I sight in, seeing him lying on the roof. I don't fire, I see him get up and run down the stairs, as he is going down the steps I have a shot through the window...again I don't fire. Zeds are running toward the ATC tower, I hear frantic gun shots, non coming my way, I decided to leave him to his zombie party. I make my way to the gas station near Gorka, I jump out and begin to refuel the van. I walk over to refill the jerry can, and nothing. (desync bug I think). I decided to quit playing for the day but want to try to blow up the fuel tanks, by parking the van almost on top of them, and Blowing it up. The van explodes with a lovely orange fireball, but the fuel tanks dont. That is all for now.

Here I thought CQF was anti-banditry, with there posting in the survivor HQ thread and all. But with there members killing new spawned players then Alt-f4 ing? Sad. FYI they have been seen on US 20 as well.

Maybe bans would have more meaning if it affected Arma 2 it's self. Hack Dayz Get banned so you can't play regular Multiplayer Arma 2 either?

Enable groups, and group chat. That would help eliminate the need for TS.

Not a terrible idea, however, I would say they should not be able to be looted. If anything, maybe a small stash like at helicopter crash sites, when you destroy a vehicle or an entire military group.

I Think you just found a use for the crowbar.

ATTENTION: Wolf Stalkers is recruiting like minded players who want to join a group styled for military play. Looking for mature people to Join. Also Looking for Co-C.O. to help Handle Night time ops during the week. Looking for players from any time zone. Our Code of Conduct: Wolf Stalker Members: Be honorable in your conduct. Work together as a team Will not engage unless fired upon, or engaging known hostiles. Follow Rules for Comms (Team Speak). Will render aid when possible to survivors including but not limited to: Medical Food Water Other supplies if available. Escort Recovery Will not engage in racist,sexual or extremely foul language. Cheating or hacking will get you removed from the regiment, and reported to server admins. Currently our Team Speak server is up. Website is up and in a constant state of construction. http://www.wolfstalkers.net Direct Forum Link. http://wolfstalkershq.prophpbb.com Please send me a Pm with your interest and go to the website forum and post under Recruitment Section

Still looking for other people mature people to play with on regular basis.

Rocket- Can we get some ACRE integration? or something like it?

Rocket, Have you had any further thought on some type of radio system like ACRE? Would be possible to make the changes so ACRE could be used with DAYZ? I think the communication aspect is one of the most frustrating ones.

Hit me up with a PM. have a team speak server up and running.

Shameless Bump. There have to be other players wanting to form a mature group to play with. I am looking to form a group that can trust and rely on each other.

Gutted an animal, flashed that 5 meat were on corpse, then would not let me loot the 5 meat steaks. Possible Bug.

"Enhance your calm john spartan...." If you are just not enjoying the game....don't play. The zombies need to be a threat. It IS possible to sneak past zombies, through an entire town of them. You crawl a lot, use the alt key to look around alot. (more so on a veteren or expert server where 3rd person is turned off...). Also a great pair of headphones is almost a must this game does make great use of directional sound. If you can get the timing down, and learn how to use the hatchet, zombies should be more of a nuisance than a threat. I will say the insta leg break power the zeds have is annoying. Other players can be jerks, I have ran into a lot of them. It's part of the game play. Your rant sounds more like a someone saying "It's to hard...turn easy mode back on....." Dunno just sayin....

One response so far. cmon lets start something!

June 27th Character: Doc Hoppy I manage to find a hatchet, and made my way slowly into elecktro. I encounter a few zeds, and manage to take em out with out getting hurt to badly, nothing a bandage can't fix anyways. The town is quiet, almost like it is just me and the zeds, but here and there I see tell tale signs of other survivors. I manage to fill my patrol pack up, found a map, compass, hunting knife and matches to go with my hatchet. I grab a water bottle as well. I make my way to the church, and find nothing, from there I head to the nearest store to see if there is anything left after being picked over. Fortune smiles on me, I find a m1911, now at least I can take care of zeds at a distance. I make my way to the northern power station, Somebody has begun fortifying it, but are not here, a wire fence is across the entrance to the stairwell. "Good thing I found this tool box.." I mumble to my self as I break out a pair of wire cutters. The fence is down in no time. I make my way up the stairs on the first floor I find some stanag magazines. 3 of them, but no weapon. I grab them in case. I make my way to the second floor, nothing. On the third floor I find my prize, a basic m4a1, no frills but will do the job when asked, along with 2 more magazines. I find a couple of more magazines for the 1911 as well. I quickly make my way down the stair well to the bottom floor again, and freeze. I can hear voices, distant enough to be feint, but close enough to be heard. They are talking about just having survived some zeds and they are going to check the fire station, the building I am in. I make my way quietly to a door and out of the building. I wait untill I hear them make there way up the steps, and quickly break away to the north. I travel for a while, and come across an old barn. I duck inside looking for some old feed grain, anything that might be useful. "Ho ho? whats this?", I pick up the slightly scratched up binoculars, they will definitely come in handy. I check the time, 10 mins till 6 am, according to the watch I am wearing. I break out my map, looking over the lay of the land, to see if I can a likely source of supplies. I make note of a pond north and west, and decide I need stop there to refill the water bottle. I have a light breakfast of sardines and pepsi. The sun is climbing in the sky as I head out. I decided I am going to head to Stary Sobor, I have heard there is a military outpost there, and maybe help, if not, perhaps I can find a bigger pack. My route takes me near the town of Mogilevka. I wander a bit and come across a deer stand, dead soldiers near by, I rummage through the remains and collect 3 smoke grenades. Smoke grenades are great, a thousand and one uses, and the infected zeds love em. I remember a while back, tracking a couple of bandits in Cherno, and following them to an office building. It was getting dark, and there where tons of Zed around. I tossed a smoke grenade into two of the entrances, and watched the ensuing carnage. As soon as the smoke started, gun fire erupted, an AK and an Enfield, followed shortly by the sounds of bones being broken and the bandits screaming as the mob of zeds slowly tore bits and parts from there bodies, like kids scooping candy from a jar. As I think of the past, I see a wild boar in the distance, what luck! All this traveling has made me hungry, and think it would be nice to have some pork bbq with my baked beans. The meal hits the spot, and I pack the extra for later. Hours later, I topping a hill south and east of a village called Vyshnoye. I see smoke coming from something in the field, it looks like a downed chopper! I dash to the wreckage quickly rubber necking around to see if I see any other survivors, no one is there, it is desolate. I close on the wreckage, spirits lifting and suddenly crashing down, as I approach, I say to my self,"What was this the garbage shuttle?" There are empty cans everywhere. I decide to see if there is anything I can scavenge from the bird, on the other side low and behold I see a weapons crate, dumped out on the ground, but two remaining guns are visible, FN FAL, but no ammo. Looking closer I see a a rifle that reminds me of an Steyer Aug, but it isn't. I read the lettering on the side L85A2 AWS, and it looks like it accepts stanag magazines! I shout an dance a for joy, then swing the weapon up to my eye, looking through the scope, I nearly blind my self. It appears that night vision scopes do night work well in broad daylight. I fiddle with a switch and get an IR mode. I scan around, and see the bright glowing heat signature of a rabbit running through the field. I dance with joy, this is a god send, and will make my nights much better! To be continued.....

Ok the whole server hopping get good loot come back to server kill newbs thing, while valid because game mechanics currently support it, could be curbed with a simple solution. Make items server dependent. Every time to "server hop", on the new server you start out, well new. in other words, you can't take gun A from server A to server B. You would still have persistence, per server, but not across all servers. Like this. Character save file to specific server? = yes spawn with last saved items. = no spawn with new spawn items. just that simple. Just an a thought, that would be fair to all parties involved.

I duct through an opening in a brick wall and find a corner I can defend from. I un sling my Ak and check the mag, 30 rounds. I wait, moments later I can see a figure with a long gun of some sort come through the opening, I am shaking badly I fire, striking dirt on either side! The image swings the gun around my direction, I can hear Zeds responding to my gun fire, everything slows down. I aim for the middle of the fussy out line, firing again and again, this time hitting solid, I hear bones break and the cry of a survivor as he falls over. I wait, 3 zeds wander in, I quickly kill them off, 5 rounds left in the AK mag. I search the body of the survivor. Two cans of beans and some makorav Mags. I grab those and scurry back to the tree line...I stagger and fall, as I fall I hear the sound of another walker running toward me, my own scream is the last thing I hear as the zeds teeth tear into my stomach ripping the flesh from my body, I pass out, then see black. SIDE NOTE: The survivor actually tried to let me know he was friendly but had startled me to the point that I felt I had to shoot. I did miss hitting on either side of him at first, but when that shotgun swung around, I opened up on him firing untill he went down. June 20th, 2012 character: DocHoppy Ah Elektro, big city of many broken dreams. I have dreams, dreams of finding some beans and water, maybe a gun, and getting out of dodge. So far I had manage to avoid zeds, and bandits. I made my way to an office building I thought may have some supplies. I crawl in, in the distance I hear gun fire. I searched from ground floor up, some body left a makarov laying on the ground with a couple of mags. "This day is looking up already!", I whispered to myself. I search some more and come across a watch and a couple of cans of soda, 2 bandages and a box of pain killers. As I am crawling around on the third floor, I hear a couple of zeds, chasing some one, I can hear their desperation, and it sounds like they are coming my way. I quickly duck back in the building, make my way to the second floor, only to see a man with a double barrel shotgun crouched and looking my way. "Crap!", I exclaim as I back pedal into the corner. "This is no good!", I growl to myself. I quickly duck past the shotgun weilding citizen and out a door to the second floor roof. I duck around the corner hoping he doesn't follow. Seconds later, I see the barrel of the shot gun swing around the corner aiming my way. I wait for a second hoping that maybe this stranger is friendly. I get my answer seconds later when he lets loose both barrels, grazing my shoulder and neck, barely missing my head. I unload the full magazine from the makarov into this guys face, reload and keep firing, he falls to the ground, dead. I struggle to keep upright, step forward and fall down into semi unconscious. As I lay there bleeding all I could think was why?