chris_heyward

Your in-game chat idea is awesome. I don't like the fact people can use Teamspeak to co-ordinate. I don't know if you can call it insanity or loneliness. Whatever you want to go with, it should make your character laugh/giggle for insanity until it is fixed (like an infection) or have you cry if its loneliness. Talking helps this. This combats the people that do not talk. Also, have it so that you DO need someone there to talk to for you to fix your problem. And if you are talking with no-one there, it makes you even more ill than you currently are. It would come in handy but it also has a downside... It will force people to group together and some people like lone-wolfing it. Your second idea maybe in it already. Im not sure but I did read somewhere that this feature was in ARMA III and the DayZ engine is like ARMA III's but its modified. But it is also useless to have in DayZ as people can use Teamspeak/Vent/Mumble to call for help. The only way to remedy this is to make DayZ crash whenever Teamspeak is open but rocket wouldn't do that and its easy to bypass if he did anyway

Yeah some admins are like that. There are alot of immature admins. I ran into one that sounded and acted like he was 14 and he was being a dick to some guy all because he had a Russian accent. He then banned the guy and then anyone else who stuck up for him. But what do you expect when half these servers are being run on daddy's PC. **edit** Just noticed something else you wrote. Private servers have no rules. The rules are decided by the admin and not anyone here second edit** I did watch the whitelist video for Balota Buddies (guy above me) and if I remember rightly, one of their rules is no combat logging so you should be safe there. DevilDogGamer's servers also have this rule and will ban you for it if caught

Have you installed all the beta patches? you need to start the exe located in "Program Files (x86)\ArmA 2\Expansion\beta\arma2oa.exe" and not the arma2.exe or arma2oa.exe in the root directory. Also make sure the "@dayz" is checked in the expansion section of the main menu

I have never heard of Play with Six. It may be something to do with SixLauncher but not sure. Either way, never use SixLauncher. Use DayZ Commander. Other than that, the only other way to do it is to manually put DayZ into your install files

You are missing files. Some servers have custom content. You need to ask that admin what you need or Google it. It may just be as simple as you are trying to connect to say... the Taviana map when you don't have the files or dont have it activated in the expansion menu

Did you torrent your game? and you dont need to delete anything. You never read it properly. It actually stated that you were missing files

These requests have no point anyway. Like I said earlier, the majority are already going to be in standalone including the diving (that is if the DayZ SA engine is an altered version of ARMA III's engine)

You ran onto a server where a hacker ran riot. The server admin is a derp and noob and decided to ban all the GUID's that were online at the time of the incident because he cant read the log files to see exactly who was hacking and decided he didn't want the hassle anymore so created a whitelist. To get on that whitelist, you have to speak to him via forum or email if you have it. If not then find another server

All I can say is read all the legit posts made by the dev team and also the notes on standalone features. Half of what you put in there is already in standalone. Also, quote who you took the ideas from. **Edit** Also, that is way too long. I gave up after the 3rd line and just skimmed through Oh and you can erase the penalties for being a bandit because that won't happen. A dev mentioned earlier that Rocket doesn't want to penalise gameplay

Agreed. Ghillie suits should not be removed. If a real apocalypse came, I can guarantee you that 90% of the survivors would find a way to blend with surroundings. I like Stubbies suggestion. A real sniper is not going to carry a big huge backpack like that and hide it under the Ghillie. RL snipers have bare necessities. Basically the rifle and a few clips and some rations. Its normally the spotter that carries the gear

Change server. That is a hacked server

Hey guys. I have a few suggestions for the standalone and/or mod if the Devs have time to do it. There are alot of issues right now that I see as unrealistic which need to be rectified. To my understanding, I believe the devs wanted this game to be as realistic as possible yet there are alot of unrealistic things. I know some of these things such as ammo and weapons lying about must be allowed or it would break the game but there are others that can be safely removed/changed and it wouldn't change anything on a big-scale. Below is a list of things that I think would benefit the game and make it a little more realistic: Changes: 1: GPS apparently runs without batteries. Same as NVG's and NV/Thermal scopes. Do you see power outlets? These items should have either a limited life or you should have the ability to solar charge its power source. (Solar charger available as rare loot) or find spare parts such as batteries. 2: People should spawn anywhere. Including houses, woods and cities as far north as you can go. This would of course make Cherno and Elektro a little quieter but it would make the other towns/cities more usable unsafe and populated. You should also spawn lying down as if you just awoke from being passed out but that's just my personal opinion. 3: All these broken vehicles but none have electrical issues. All the car batteries and wiring seem to be in immaculate condition even though the rest of the vehicle looks like it has been hit by a train. You should have the vehicle damage include electrical systems and also add a vehicle battery as loot. Maybe also have gunfire and crashes mess with the electrical systems and set off the horn/alarm. 4: Backpack sizes need to be updated to match their visual size. 5: You shouldn't spawn with a backpack or at least make it random. 6: Weapons need to take up less room in the backpack. You can stick an M24 in your pack and it takes up alot but in reality, it wouldn't fit in there. You would have to have it sticking out and therefor it would take up as much backpack room as a 2 Litre bottle of coke. 7: Updated in SA This is my biggie. If nothing else gets added but this, I would still be happy. As you have probably heard before, Zombie movement needs updating. You should be running from slow-ish, brain-dead beings instead of intelligent Olympic Kenyan marathon runners that have only one single memory from their living days and that was the Matrix Bullet-dodge move. Make zeds slower with an increased number. Maybe have the movements like these zeds in this video: . As you can see, they move quite fast still but not OTT like they are now. Right now you can flat out run into these things and rarely need to dodge them as they run at you doing their Matrix moves. If they moved slower then you would have to zig-zag and move around them making them more of a hassle. Maybe add a feature where they can grab you and you have to spam say the fire button button to get loose. Right now zeds are nothing but a hindrance and this needs to be updated.----------------------------------- Additions: 1: Use other vehicles as spares or repairs and removing parts especially the wheels including the trashed ones just lying about. (There is a vehicle near the Stary tents that looks like it would be up and running with a little TLC. I have had dreams at night about driving her with that sexy red interior.) 2: Make the dressers/wardrobes in standalone lootable and that's the main place where you get your clothing from. 3: Namalsk, Panthera etc. etc. map import. 4: Map Editor. 5: Updated in SA TrackIR support for standalone. 6: Realistic firearm effects. Jamming, rifle cleaning. (Did hear it was a confirmed feature but couldn't find the official proof). 7: A movable fuel truck needs to be added. (Primarily once DayZ gets the bases option) Have is so that you have to find a "Big Rig" and travel to its location to hook it up and move it to another location. Also, while it is static, others can syphon fuel from it like it was a standard tank. Anyways, sorry for the wall of text. Could go on all day with features but that would just make this post more of a troll/hater magnet :)

Yup. They have already implemented the scavenge through shelves/drawers system. Shouldn't be hard to add batteries to that list I think that may have already been suggested mate. You could try making it an official suggestion in the forums but search for it first

I just copy pasted what the report said but you get the idea. The company basically banned anyone that wasn't American or British.

Correction... I think that was a main feature in WarZ am I correct? Never played it so not sure of its gay'ness...

ARE YOU KIDDING? If I was in an apocalypse and I saw a tin of beans 2 ft away and a box of Jaffa Cakes 30 ft away through a gauntlet of zombies, I'm turning Gladiator and getting me some Jaffa cakes... Are we thinking about the same Kilts? I'm not familiar with a biscuit named that. I only know it as a piece of Scottish Apparel and if that's what you are on about then YES. Just imagine being KO'd and a zed in a kilts walks over you.... ewww... lol

All these have been suggested before countless times. Lrn2srch before posting

Well there is a game out there that has actually banned entire regions/countries from playing due to the fact that those areas are where hackers are notorious. They banned Asia, Africa, China, Japan, Korea, Russia, the majority of the EU and the entire Middle East.

Well I can tell you're female with an arsey response like that. If you are male then... Oops.. Yes you can change the values but why would you change them? They are realistic values in a military simulator. If you want to change to unrealistic values then I want the rocket launcher to have a 100 missile magazine and I want it to shoot every 0.7 seconds and have no drop...

And I guess you want a name change with that yeah? DayZ TVTE? DayZ - Taliban's Virtual Test Environment 1? Sorry. In a troll mood. I think they may have already put this in or are thinking about it

I don't see a problem with it. If they run the server, they should have whatever rules they deem worthy. If I was running a server, it would be an English-speaking one only. The reason being, people clutter up side chat and comms with a language no-one can understand. Then again, you may not get this in SA as the server files apparently wont be made public. That means No kicks for being Russian, Dutch, English etc etc and all servers are the same minus the odd 3rd person view and cross-hairs option. No more of this 3000+ vehicles and starting with an AS50 or BS mySQL injecting admins with a God-Complex

Seems perfectly fine to me. Agreed. I do feel like Chernarus isn't actually in Russia. It feels more like South Africa because all those zeds seem to all be Olympic Kenyans Are you sure you are not playing DayZ+? They hit like Mike Tyson in DayZ+ but in regular DayZ, I can get hit like 40 times before I die (if i dont bleed)

Yup I agree but then if you think about it, these zeds are just infected, they don't need to be dangerous... lol. And yes Dayz+ has made it alot harder. I like that the zeds hit you like they were Mike Tyson but hate that they still run as fast. The other day, I got stuck in a doorway and suffered a 1 punch knockout and dead 3 seconds later. I was like

The prices have changed a bit but sure. Bear in mind that I bought all of these when there was an offer on them so I got them cheaper than normal. Doing a price check now and I converted it to Euro for you. Specs are: CPU:..................AMD Phenom™ II X4 975 Processor Black Edition, ~3.6GHz (€150. This is normally the most expensive) RAM:.................8gb (2x4gb) Corsair Vengeance (€40 for 2) Graphics Card:.....NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 (I got mine off eBay unused for £30/€36 but brand new you are looking at close to €90) Motherboard:......Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 (€91) Also, looking up now, I may have exaggerated £150... lol. Just went through the receipts and its around the £210 mark (roughly €253). This was a year ago and by the looks of things... prices have shot up big time :(

I think the main reason you are getting such serious lag is your integrated graphics card. Integrated GPU's aren't really built for gaming whatsoever and its normally cheaper to buy a motherboard without a GPU and a separate card than it is to go integrated. Your CPU is a bit under average too but if you had a better graphics card, it may not be as bad. But still, if I was you, I would save up and buy parts from the internet and make your own PC. It doesn't have to be an expensive high powered PC. I paid just under £150 GBP for my setup and I can play ARMA II on full settings minus anti-alaising. Oh and don't run FRAPS when gaming unless you have a powerfull PC. FRAPS is a killer. Plus BandiCam is so much better once you get a nice PC. It doesn't fill up a terabyte HDD in seconds like it does with FRAPS lol