sausagekingofchicago

I like playing with music but not when I have my team trying to communicate with me.

When you die, disconnect from server before respawning. Reconnect. When you do, you should get the option to choose the female skin. Not a fix but it'll work until they patch it. The lack of a can opener is not going to stop me from opening a can of beans. Not having any type of fire starting tools will stop me from starting a fire.

I thought he meant they were charging players to access their whitelisted servers.

Everything should be harsher. Everything.

You can't hide anything in this game. At all. Ever. Anything of value will be taken within a couple hours most of the time. It'll be lucky to last that long on a public server.

What part of ALPHA don't you understand!?!

I'd like to store bolts on the crossbow itself rather than the inventory. This would free up inventory space of all kinds and give players another reason to carry one. Sights are a must, even iron sights. As for retrieval, maybe the hitbox (?) to get the pick up option could be a bit larger but I like having to pull it from the body rather than finding it in the inventory.

Slingshot - easy ammo, low damage, quiet, good for rabbits, distracting zombies, and breaking windows. Perhaps a good alternative secondary?

Everything I posted happened on public hive servers. The only hacks I've seen on private hives were passive hacks. Map hacking is hard to spot as it takes an active admin with spectating or someone with a map hack to spot the tell tale behavior. There are other hacks as well that are not as obvious. Ever have your pilot dc shortly after you team opens fire on some players? Yeah. Then there's the guys that teleport near your location and go right for you. Yes, finding a server with good admins makes all the difference but those are few and far between. The scum buy keys for a few dollars from shady websites that probably stole them from fools or bought them with stolen credit cards. The hacker websites also have a tighter community than us. The minute an update comes out and the bans start rolling word spreads and then they wait for an updated hack that comes out fairly quickly. I pray the SA can stop a lot of this. I really do. I love this game but as it is, the fuckhead used douchebags have ruined it.

That's awesome for you. Day one, new patch. Logged into the public hive for first time in months. Instantly teleported along with entire server and got mowed down by hacker with SAW. Cool. Next spawn, new server. Same. Next spawn, new server. "friendly" hackers let me live when they saw my hero skin. Next day, new server. Only three guys on server. Spawn in, bam, three guys next to me. Even on the whitelisted server I play on people are using map hacks. If you don't think they're using them on your server you're sadly mistaken. :( "find a better server!" That's as easy as finding legit NV goggles without cycling loot.

But is DayZ about scores?

I really want to experience that feeling again but the map hacks and hackers have really ruined that part of the game for many of us. Even on private whitelisted hives you'll catch people using map hacks so there isn't really a safe place to play with legit players to experience the game as intended. It's really a question of when someone will bee line their way to you rather than if you'll stumble into someone. It's now guaranteed rather than a potentiality. In that encounter, the odds are stacked against you as they already know where you are, what direction you're going, and in some cases what guns you have, what vehicle you're in, and if you have any friends nearby. Got a bit off track, singleplayer wouldn't be bad if there was more to do than collect guns and vehicles and if the zombies were about 20 times tougher than they are now. Not much point to it right now unless we can create custom scenarios for DayZ with the mission editor.

Which is why alt-f4 and abort should be available after being teleported across the map even if you're under fire. Hopefully they'll consider this and find an effective way to do it.

This has been explained quite a few times in the main thread by the guy that initially wrote the system. If your friend is near you and knows you're trying to log off but decides to start shooting at rabbits, you simply can't log off. Ask him to stop. If he does, 30 seconds later you can log off. If he refuses to stop because he thinks its funny, shoot him in the head. 30 seconds after you dome him you will be able to log off. There is a timer displayed on screen. If you close your program through other means, you will be flagged as a combat logger in the server logs and a message is displayed to everyone on the server. The admin can then decide what to do with you. You will not die as that part has been removed from the update. You will just be shunned and hopefully banned if you attempt to combat log.

I posted that in the main thread. I only suggest this because I did see the option to choose the female skin after I was killed by a hacker, quit, and went to a new server to respawn. Each death after that forced me into the male skin. Worth a shot. Hope it helps.

I noticed this as well. When you die, don't respawn. Go to anther server attached to whatever hive you play on. When you join you should see the option to choose the female skin. Looks like it might just be a bug.

Yes, for 30 seconds. You might need to ask your friend to stop trying to cut down that tree if you're trying to log off.

Could alt-f4 can be enabled for a period of time after a sudden location change, regardless if you're being fired on or not? This would help us avoid mass teleport deaths while not really giving combat loggers or hackers any extra advantage.

I like this system. Could the humanity system tie into it to help determine self defense kills? Keep up the good work and don't mind the rippers. The people that matter thank you for your hard work.

The combat system could also help identify self defense kills. Let's not overlook that. edit: could also help prevent skin changes when a horde is chasing you.

Once you know how to lose them and how to avoid them then they cease to be a threat. I try my best not to hide in a tree but I occasionally find myself doing that if I'm in really bad shape. I do still try to zigzag through trees and find other ways to break their line of sight rather than abusing the mechanics. Even then, running into a building to lose them or pop them with a silent weapon works for now. Once they can run through buildings and see stationary targets in trees, things will change. I'm looking forward to that day. The game needs to be much harder. :) :)

I'm willing to suicide myself to avoid being griefed by a hacker if it means cowards can't alt-f4 anymore. Don't get attached to your gear folks.

I never alt-f4 but my targets occasionally do. These fixes sound good to me.

If you're strapped for cash right now, I suggest you wait. In the meantime, there are tons of active streamers and tons of videos. You can literally watch non-stop streams and videos of the game until the standalone comes out. When it does, you can be sure there will be plenty of streamers showcasing the standalone. Watch some streams, read some reviews, and then decide if you like what you see.