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Yeah, when we lost side chat, we lost a good number of friendly encounters.

lol aleksandr is correct for the most part. Sometimes though, people shoot a new spawn for no reason. Its pretty annoying. For example, a guy I met earlier only had a pistol out, no other visible gear, we met in the church and I said "Hi, I just spawned outside out town." He looks at me for a second without moving, so i think he heard me, then he shoots me 3 times with his makarov. I run, but im slowly bleeding, so he chases me for nearly 4 minutes wasting his ammo missing, until we get enough zombies around us to where he has to back off. When I finally bandage myself, im @ 2600 blood, so I ran into a pack of zombies and let them finish me. I wish side chat was on so I could ask him "WTF was the point or that?" We're both under geared, why not stick together for a while. It's more fun and easier to survive....lol I stopped playing for a while cuz its so annoying. Gonna play again though, im loading into a server right now. :)

lol. I want to go in, I'm well supplied. Know where the campsite is? You can pm me if you want.

when I get on a hacked server I usually just fall from the sky and die. At least this was amusing for a couple minutes. lol. But still BS.

FOR PEOPLE GETTING BAD SERIAL: You have to run ARMA II and probably OA through steam before launching sixlauncher. I tried this method and it works but I got the bad serial as well. Running both games first solved the issue.

I saw this thread earlier, just tried and it works. Had to re run arma II and OA before playing DayZ, I was getting a bad serial error

One thread suggested uninstalling Battle Eye and re installing through steam. Didn't work for me, but maybe it will for someone else..

Happened to me twice this week. First we were all falling from the sky to our deaths. Second time we all appeared on a small rooftop for a shootout.

Where do we do this? I get kicked from any server I try to join after the update

Steam was updating when we were getting that error message. Once it finished, I could join a server but I would get kicked right away.

same thing here. Steam updated ARMA II and now I get kicked from any server I join...

same thing here as well. Once I was also TP'ed into the sky though and just fell to my death. At least with this, we can go out in a blaze of glory.

Hi Guys, Im semi new to the game, been at it for about 3 weeks. This last week, I've been having a lot of problems. I'd like to know if these are due to hackers, server admin playing "games", or maybe just a server reboot. On Saturday, I had played for about 3 hours in one game. I was doing very well, even had a silent survivor(side chat pls!) join me for 45minutes. We're coming into a town, and all the sudden we are in the sky, falling. Soon after the whole server dies(death messages popping up), and I just left. Last night, I had recently spawned and found an axe. Decided to go Apesh*t and mow down some Z's.With only a bandage, I got 51 kills. Found my first gun, getting ready to reload, when all the sudden I can't move, then I appear on top of a roof with the entire server population shooting at each other. So are these things due to hacks, or just a menacing server admin? I'd like to avoid certain servers if that's the case.

Thanks for the quick answers. Figured that was the case, but wanted to mark down the servers if it was an admin. Really ruins the experience.

Lets look at the situation for a minute.....He wants to live longer.....but hasn't found a gun......hmmm.. The place to start, might be finding a gun, so he can....live longer! Its crazy I know.

If you're just starting out, I'd suggest opening a map in google for when you spawn. I usually go for the big coast cities, stop by the airfield, then proceed inland. My first 4 days of DayZ consisted of dying without a weapon. But once you find one/ get used to locations, its easy to get a weapon. Don't count out the hatchet, I had 51 kills with it in one life, no blood regen'd, used 1 bandage, no guns. Lol, I was happy until the server was hacked(?) and the entire map population of people appeared on a rooftop for a final shootout to the death. I assume thats a hack, and not some playful admin ruining our experience I completely disagree. When spawning, you SHOULD run, and should go into coast cities. You get a weapon much faster. No point to crouch and hide when you first spawn because you don't have any gear to protect. Thats a good way to spend hours before ever finding a weapon. Once armed, its a different story completely.

like others here, I just use the loot map to navigate, because its the only out of game map ive found. I mainly use it when I first spawn, to get my bearings. In game map works fine, but I haven't been seeing them nearly as much as I used to.

I do have a mic. But not everyone else does. They don't always hear me for some reason. This is the problem....It is kind of douche-y to tell everyone they have to have a mic in order to play, when there's a global,side,and direct chat line readily available. I prefer mic as well, but when I play solo, i've only ran into maybe 5 out of 100 ppl that actually tried to communicate via mic.

First night-time experience, not much of a story. You've been warned. So I played my first night time game last night. Pitch Black. After about 25 min of roaming, I find Kamenka. The first building I go into I find an axe. Kill a few zombies, and head towards Komarovo. Almost out of town, I find a guy flashing his light everywhere as he runs from zombies. I finally intercept and kill the 2 chasing him, which he hides in a bush. I can only tell because of his nameplate. I kept flashing my light on and off at him to signal friendly, and eventually he came out. We ran together for a good 2 hours, finding another axe for him, and eventually a makarov in the city of Komarovo in the process. Newly strapped, we decide to head towards the airfield.Nothing. No guns, not even tin cans in the airfield, so we proceed to head to Cherno, has to be something there, right? Almost entering the town, I get randomly sniped while walking about 15ft from the guy. Try to use direct chat to no avail. Eventually, the guy shines his light at me to see what happened, and instant death for him too. All in all, I played with him for 3 hours...See, if I could communicate, I could of warned him about the sniper, and maybe he could of survived long enough to hold my gear till I got back. Not really a story, but it was my first nighttime experience, which was ruined by lack of communication. Edit:spelling

All I ask is that we get some kind of *working* chat option back. direct is fine, if it worked properly. Played 5 hours on a night time server yesterday, met up with someone in the first hour and stuck with him throughout the night, even though we couldn't communicate. We would flash our lights in different directions to point something out, often times giving up our locations. Finally, I got sniped about 15ft away from the guy, since we cant communicate he got sniped as well. He didn't know what happened so decided to shine his light at me, revealing his location.....There's talk of adding a com radio, which is a great idea, but we need side chat or something back until its added to the game.