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That would be nice but i would prefer to pick one up off the floor or something. It's just too easy to run to a tent :P

The humanity and skins seem to be a bit bugged at the moment. Whenever i log in i start at 0 humanity and have the bandit skin but after 5 minutes of playing, my screen flashes and i go back to the civilian skin and 250 humanity.

What is the fun in duping all your gear? The game is about searching and surviving. I would get more satisfaction from finding an M249 on the floor after half an hour of searching than running to a dupe tent and finding NVG's, ghillie suits, M4A1's and a shit ton of ammo. People who exploit bugs just to get their gear back in seconds just ruin the game...

No thanks. I prefer my items legit. not exploited by a bug -.- shame on you.

So i struggled to get around cherno enough with these stupid blocks of white and brown popping up everywhere. Now i'm about to rush balota airfield but as soon as i get close to the airfield, these bloody while and brown walls just spam my screen! i hope this gets fixed soon. I'm considering giving this game a break until the next update when hopefully this will be gone. rant over. :D

I'll give those methods a go after work :) Thanks for the help and sorry for not searching up on it before ranting :P

Has this happened to anyone else in game? I was looting around for food when i came across this house (was not in a town), there was a can of food on the floor along with some other stuff. As soon as i clicked on the gear, my game closed and i got the message "arma 2 has stopped working". At first i just thought "Ok i'll just log in and everything will be alright". As soon as i logged back in, i went to the death screen. i had some decent items so it kind of pissed me off. But to top it all off, i respawned in a massive open field with a dead soldiers body on the floor... Is this the work of a hacker? Or did my game just bug out? I would appreciate your suggestions :)

Oh ok. It sucks because i was the furthest in land that i had ever been and i had an M249 SAW and some nice gear :( Ohwell

I've always played solo on DayZ and now it's becoming a bit boring. I want to find a UK server with a nice group of people to hang out with. The only problem is that for some reason i have the bandit skin. I have only killed 2 people through KOS in my whole dayZ gametime, and it was because i thought they were going to kill me too (heard them talking on mic saying that they can hear someone) It would be nice to have some people to survive with but i'm worried about trying to meet players in game due to my skin. So if anyone needs another survivor then please let me know which UK servers you're on. P.S i currently have an M249 SAW with 3 clips, an M1911 with 2 clips, all the standard surviving stuff and i'm near one of the castles ( i thing it's called zub? definitely begins with a Z)

I'm glad that humanity stays with the account and not just the character. Makes it easier to tell who is most likely to shoot you and who could possibly just walk away. unfortunately i am stuck with a bandit skin so i am trying my best to avoid main cities. Also, if i see another player i just walk in a different direction. The chances of a survivor accepting my help in a bandit skin is very low, whereas the chance of them blowing my face off due to "self defence" is very high. My advise is; if you want the survivor skin to help people out and/or increase your chances of survival, then avoid towns and don't shoot any players. Don't bother wasting your time if you just want the skin to fool others into thinking you're a helpful guy.

I love bandits in the game. The thrill of being shot at by somebody you can't see is so fun! Without pvp this game would be boring as hell. Some people may disagree but if you want a sandbox co-op zombie survival game then you should play dead island... Bandits make this game what it is :D

So yesterday i logged into dayZ as usual. Went into third person and i had a head wrap around my head. i thought it was a bit strange so i searched the forum until i found out that it was a bandit skin. I thought "how am i a bandit? I've only killed 3 people in my lifetime on this game!". I went back on to check my humanity but it was on 0... Then third person forced me back into first person. Pressed enter again. My skin was back to normal. Today i logged in and i had the bandit skin again, only this time i was a male character and had -8100 humanity. I'm not sure what i've done for my humanity to go that low but i'm slowly getting it back to 0 :) STORY: So i started a new character yesterday. Luckily i spawned outside cherno. I decided to go straight to the supermarket to grab some supplies. A few painkillers and bandages but nothing else. I knew that somebody was around after seeing that. I decided to search around the town carefully. I could hear the sound of a rifle going off every now and again. The fact that zombies around me were running toward the sound told me that this person was close. So i turned around and went towards the army tents. In the army tents i found a nice little shotgun. After around 2 minutes of silence all of a sudden i hear a loud barrage of bullets then silence... I knew the firing had come from the fire house so i snuck in there to check it out. Two bodies lay dead on the floor. One with a ghillie suit, and the other had nothing on. I watched carefully in case anyone else appeared and lone behold, a new player comes down the stairs with a lee enfield pointing right at me.... I did not shoot first in case he was just an innocent looter. i soon found out he was more than just a looter. He fired a shot of his rifle at me. Completely missed. So i rush towards him emptying shells into him. He drops straight to the floor. I ignore his body and go straight to the ghillied up player. I take his supplies and a nice M249 SAW with 3 mags. There was no more point in being in cherno so i ran like mad to the hills. After getting my bearings on the map i travelled north east. I saw a strange set of buildings on the map that i wanted to check out. 15 minutes had past and i was finally in the area. But i couldn't see anything apart from a normal town. My character was starving and luckily, a tasty looking boar was walking past. After the obvious happened. I lit a fire and cooked the meat to restore my hunger. I thought to myself "someone may come to this fire looking for me! i better hide up on that rock for a while". Little did i realise that the odd looking image on the map was actually a castle... After climbing the rock and seeing it i thought "oh crap!" i entered the castle very carefully as i had heard stories about great loots in there. Unfortunately, today was not the day for me as all that i could find was a few beans and a pistol mag. Edit: After killing that guy, the server kicked me for some code problem. When i jumped into another server, that's when i had -8100 humanity but no murders or bandit kills (maybe killing him is what dropped my humanity?)

I know that a lot of you will disagree with me here, but i find that having to run for about 30 minutes to an hour just to find your friend, only to be killed 10 seconds later, quite boring. Being able to spawn relatively close to a friend would be quite helpful for players who just want to survive with a friend. One problem i can see with this "spawn with a friend" option is having 10 friends spawn close to each other and dominating lone survivors, but maybe you could set the game so that when you spawn with a friend (the friend would have to accept some sort of message to avoid random spawns), both you and the friend are not aloud to be spawned on until you die? Also you should only be able to spawn near someone who has only been alive for 5 minutes to avoid people spawning inland and instantly getting the best stuff. I personally see this as a good idea, but let me know what you guys think. Would this make the game more fun? Or would it ruin the survival element of the mod?

Hmmm, Not sure about spawning together with 5 friends. I just literally wanted to spawn closer to people, not have all of you spawn in a massive circle.

Can you link the press release please? I'm finding it hard just to find this thing :s Nevermind lol thanks for link

This topic was fun to read :D I'm not sure what you were hoping to get out of this post. A free copy of the standalone? a refund for buying arma 2? or just to troll the forums like mad? Either way, the same replies have popped up countless times. If you don't want to pay for a game, don't. If you are that angry that the dayZ team want to move on from being a mod to being a fully released game but at the same time think that this idea was amazing, then you have problems. Paying $10 - $20 for the standalone will help this game become more successful than it already is. It will also help these guys with any future games they have in mind. If you personally believe that this game will be buggy and rubbish, then don't bother contributing. I, on the other hand, will gladly pay for the standalone

I completely agree with you there. I hate playing games on my own. It's more fun when you're having banter with your friends. Also, i'm quite busy most days so spending an hour just to find someone and dying is a complete waste in my opinion (some people may find it fun and i'm ok with that lol)

I think my first post was a bit misleading. I don't want to spawn right next to my friend. I agree that having that feature would suck. But i would like a way to be able to spawn and know that i won't have to run for hours to find a friend. Being able to choose to spawn north or south sounds like a great idea. Not too specific and not it won't make it too easy to find each other :)

Yeah, i agree that it's fun to meet up with a friend. When i think of this spawning idea, i think of spawning each other close, but not so close that you can instantly see each other (if that makes sense haha)

The problem with making tents spawnable is that new players will not experience the scavenging part of the game, most people will just spawn on a tent, get their friends stuff, and run around fully geared. But it would be a fun idea haha

Finding a friend isn't the boring part. The boring part is when you find eachother, get killed by a bandit within the first 10 minutes of finding eachother and then having to do it all over again.

After 4 days of surviving on my last character, i finally died. I thought that i would be searching for weapons and supplies for hours. But i had quite a good start. I started at one of the spawns and instead of running across the coast like i usually do, i decided to run over a hill. I spotted a fire station and ran straight into it. I found an AKM (i think that's what it's called) and a nice amount of ammo. Within 5 minutes i found a town and looted the supermarket for binoculars, a watch, an ALICE pack, and some food and water. When i found a cafe, i walked upstairs and to my horror, i found a dead player. This instantly made me think to get out of the town ASAP, but i had not searched any of the other buildings yet. Determined to find items but worried at the same time, i slowly moved into each building expecting to get a clip emptied into my face. I went back to the supermarket to double check if i had missed anything. As soon as i looked out the back of the supermarket.... Another dead body. It was now time for me to leave this town, seeing as it was the luckiest start i have had while playing this game!

That is a crazy way to die haha! The strangest way i've died is when i was in some kind of building. Searched the hell out of it, found a winchester with one clip. Seeing as i thought the area was free from any players, i shot a few zombies. Doing that was what caused my unfortunate demise. A guy comes running round the corner. I luckily got the first shot off and killed him. When i went outside past a room, at the last second, i see someone in the window with their double barrel pointed at my head. It was too late for me to react and my brains splattered across the floor. The guy i killed must have been his friend....

Ok, that is an awesome start :P

The only problem with trying to stop hackers is that, in most cases, the hackers win. Once a patch goes up to stop current hacks, new hacks will be released a few days later. The only problem with removing ALT+F4 is the amount of threads that will be posted due to not being able to escape a hacker. For example, guy with amazing loot gets teleported to a field by a hacker, tried to ALT+F4 to escape, nothing happens. If this guy uses the forums a lot, he will instantly come here and rage about not having a way to protect his stuff against hackers. Any way you look at this, the community will just end up divided as usual :/ Maybe you could add some way to instantly DC someone if they travel a massive distant within a certain time (as in teleporting) and add a delay on which they can rejoin the server just to protect them from being killed.