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Never tried, but I suppose a worth of a try. Open the game (arma/co) but do not join a game Go to profile and edit your current profile (or make a new one) Change the skin, I suppose there are some changes you can do and get it to display correctly if you already chose the female skin.

Take a little break, and then come back with new found strenght and joy :) We'll hold the Z's back while you are away, don't you worry.

Maybe it is just that all of the women are immune to the infection? Higher tolerance vs what ever is causing this walking Z's (and crawling aaaand those weird jumping ones) :)

Heh, very nice! :) Me & friends have been trying to find a decent sniper as well (for what some may ask, for so that one of my friends can stay back and give cover while me & other friend are scavening. We don't kill people, 0 kills so far on our squad and we intent to keep it that way. But sometime, we are certainly forced to take action sooner or later. So better be prepared and one guy giving cover, right?) Still, gongratulations Tandwan just don't PK aimlessly ;) Oh, you may have my :beans: for the original post

Did that goat survive (like a boss)? :D But still, very unfortunate but funny death

Or to the hack that just literally kills everyone on the server (this happened to me once so far). Literally, everyone. When it happened to me, it was almost full server with 30+ players and I saw everyone just drop & die as I did.

Nice post, you dame, have my beans! Seems like you had courage to stay in the town actually :) I always moved out about as fast as I could and loot around the north :) I hope you show up sometime to drag that zombie train so I can loot around safely for a brief time! :)

Yeah, use direct chat and it is limited in range. I Think Xaiier has the ranges right on his post. Use , and . to change to Direct Chat (white color btw).

Seems that it's not just me who had somebody to drag a bazillion of Z's and run past me... :D

When you get hitted, you might trip over and by that breaking your leg if it was positioned in bad angle. I have seen a toes to break up for a minor tripping and there is no way you could stand after that. There is a lot of stuff that can break in your leg and it does not always have to be a "great" force that causes severe damage. By breaking your leg it does not automatically mean that you actually broked your tibia or femur. There is a lot of "stuff" you can break too. SO maybe the mechanic is that the Z hits you, you fall over and by that caused the damage over your leg and break something.

Oh you people :) This makes me chuckle just because I just read a topic to buff and make Z's more potent and deadly. Then there is this. Randomness is good, you never can count to anything, you can't check out "oh good, I can take 4 hits before I have to worry, now I can do this". The hard punch of the Z's should always be there, not regarding to your current blood. It makes you more carefull and makes you to plan more. This game is supposed to be cruel and one hit knockdowns? They are just that, cruel. Think it as of a strong hit to your head to temple, you will be knocked out by it. But please do not try it on reallife :D You should not let the Z's hit you at all or have a friend who can pull you out of the trouble if you get knocked down.

my good deed of the day was the following little story: me and my friend were playing on some of the DE servers and were scavening around Kozlovka After some time spent over there and not finding anything special, we decided to head to greenmountains (and defy the cursed grounds of it) to check out the tower & deer stands overthere. We started to approach from the SE direction, at the kustryk hills and take cover from the higher grass & few trees while grossing over to the greenmountains, when we spotted two other survivors coming down hill from the eastern deer stand of the greenhill. They did not see us, since we were moving 1-1 tactic (other moves, another one spots, then the spotter follows to the another player) We were prone, hoping that the players would not notice us and move away. Usually we would backout ourself, but on that spot, we had nothing to bacout to. Our current apot was the only that gives some cover on our side. Unfortunately, the duo decided to stop. They did not spot us, the other one kneeled down, while the other went into the bush and opened a can of beans. While we were listening the sound pf eating, and the other one was busy looking with the binoculars, it was our time to act. So... next,,,, I started talking to them. We were only about 10-15meters away. I told them that they both are on our sights, and told them not to turn. I also demanded not to raise their weapons. They responded, and I could hear worry in the voice who was talking to me. he said: Ok.... what do you want us to do?" "I do not want anything, I just want to avoid firefight at all costs" "We want that aswell" "Then please, move away" At this point, his friend on the bushes was moving, I had a clear line of sight at him. I gave a clear warning that I can see you in the bushes, stop moving or I will defend myself. He stopped. We had a brief chat and I told them to move to downholl, towards the city of Pogorevka. They agreed and started running. As they were leaving, and turned their back on to us, I said "goodbye, goodluck" and heard a distant "bye" responding to me. The situtation was over. I was relieved. I still haven't had to kill anyone. I do not want to either. But we could have, anytime. I was happy that this incident was over with just a brief chat over the voice. I hope that these two had a nice feeling after that meeting aswell, even thouh it was very tense. When you have the upper hand, you don't have to exploit it and ruin someones day by it. Too bad I did not learn the name of these two, I would lime to have a few words with them after :) Oh, I suppose the karma was good to us aswell. We found a PDW and 2 clips from one of the deer stands and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENED AT THE GREENMOUNTAIN! ;) Phew!

Hello, something weird happened just a moment ago on server Se 48 (v1.7.2.4/beta 95417) [veteran|3dp:on|ch:on][utc-6] dayzmod.com - hosted by dayz-vikings No fires shot, 30+ deaths at the same time Apparantely there is some sort hack or what actually happened? Trying to log on to another server to check that did I really lose all my items after those long scavening days. Tried to check search but could not find any results that would cover this topic (maybe just didn't think the correct words, what I was thinking was starting with F and S... figure out the rest 3 letters on both words...) Sigh... so many lost hours on gear :(

yeah, all gear lost, ghillie suit & alice pack & lot's lot's other stuff (but atleast did not have a highend weapon...) "Select your gender" was waiting for me when I joined another server.... sigh... But does it really matter? Yeah, it's not the mods fault but it still makes me a sad panda :(

Yeah, as stated few times here, you can put it in your friends backbag, or you can put the food in your own bag and ask your friend to take it from there. Either way works fine. Dropping on to the ground would work fine, but they do disappear sometimes when you drop something on ground

Suggestion for preventing server hopping, but not stopping ability to change server. Now I don't know if this suggestion is plausible solution (coding) but here is something you could think about. Make player "tagged" after joining a server, for example 15min time period. During this tagged period player could only join the same server he just did what caused "tagged" state (or for example not to join any servers if it's difficult to tag to certain server). Players could still leave and join another servers, but not to do it on abusing way.

no, just a little cooldown perioid, the hackers should not be a valid reason to prevent solutions to "other" issues did you regard this for a moment, like combat logging would be affected aswell (meaning that ppl logoff, spawn on other server, move behind your defenses and log back in) the hackers certainly are a big issue, but still not the only issue here yeah, I know, loading sometimes take long times, but think about it, some of the trafic is actually caused by ppl joining and leaving all the time. Hoppers do cause extra trafic which will affect on other people too. I'm not saying that these long loadtimea caused by the hoppers but they are definately affecting it. Just like ppl doing suicides many times in row to get better spawn and caused huge workload on the servers, the ppl jumping around are causing extra and unwanted trafic

nope, 0 bags lost after this. Luck? maybe, but higher success rate than straight equip of ghillie! :D

Ghillie suit destroyed my Alice bag when I found one. Before equiping ghillie suit, I got the following tip from my friend. First drop your backbag to ground and then equip ghillie -> then pickup the bagback. I'm afraid that you just lost your Alice bag just as I did with my first ghillie. Mine got destroyed & replaced with standard coyote patrol bag when I equiped ghillie.

Oh no, you better hide now... it has scent now!

Me and two of my friends were playing DayZ yesterday. We were scavenging Deer stands and isolated buildings between Drozhino and Stary Sobor mainly because we were low on ammo. The evening rolled very decently, but we had bad luck regarding finding something to eat. We were finaly able to find 2 cans of food, but we had 3 bellies rumbling badly, so then we decided that we had enough ammo to try scavenge Stary Sobor. We Roamed around the city and decided to enter the city from west because we could get closer from treeline to get some cover versus other survivors (we had heard some gunshots around sobor just about 15min ago) and then we saw those 2 houses that were next to the little pond of water. We had no luck with these buildings, only some makarov mags was found on those, so we decided to proceed little further. We also had diverted a bit, one of my friends was on top of the hill checking out the Z locations with his CZ550 scoped rifle, I decided to go forward from left hand side (when facing east, so meaning I would follow the road) and my other friend decided to go from the rightside of the pond. After some intense time spent crawling around and still no food found at all (I was already blinkin on food and I was low(ish) on blood, just about 4000-5000 units we decided that we have to take our chances with the market. I was able to proceed from my side, but my friend was blocked (but not detected) by the Z's around there. Luckily I was able to get some directions from my friend uphill and I managed to get inside, completely undetected and safe. I quickly closed all doors I could find and started looking around. The items were plenty..... but no food, not a single can and I was getting very worried at this point. I knew I would start to lose some blood very soon if I would not find something to eat. I picked up ammo, some smoke grenades and a brand new watch on the "safe" side of the market, then I crawled to the more open side to look for something, anything to eat.... I could not see anything (I was checking out the models out first if I could see a can of food) potent... I found binoculars (yeah! very nice!) but besides that, nothing very special.... I started to approach the last possible stack of the items on the supermarket, it didn't look promising, just some flat things on the floor... I closed in, opened the loot and.... I FOUND MATCHES! OMG! A BOX OF MATCHES! I said this to my friend and we ALL CHEERED LOUDLY and HAPPILY! Finaly! We actually can cook some meat! This was so satisfying and I knew that we would not have to worry about the food anymore for awhile atleast! (Meaning I could get out alive of course). We were talking about the whole trip over here and we all were on such a good mood after this very precious finding (we all are relative new to this game, only few days survival behind on all of us) and I had already picked up hunting knife on our earlier scavening trips around Chernarus. I was able to crawl out of there since I had now 2 friends giving me spots and directions (my other friend had crawled up the hill aswell and was giving help with his binoculars) and after a LONG crawling and way too many close calls, we made out of the Stary Sobor wihout a single incident or agro. We ran away from the city and immediatly after scanning the surroundings, made camp fire and cooked some goooooooooooood meat. (Thanks for the sheep&piggy on the way for providing us some raw meat). Satisfied over the night of the game, we decided to log off after a huge success on DayZ TL;DR & Conclusion: I have NEVER been this happy to find an item on a game... and what item that was?! A BOX OF MATCHES! HAH! Oh I loved the feeling over the find and so did my friends! The joy over this lasted over the night, we have been chatting with my friend over the yesterdays scavening and the matches and still have been laughing about it! Can't wait what we can find next! :D

I loved the fact when I started my first game that I had no weapons or any special / rare items. It was definately a good thing on the start and I learned so much from it. The first time I found my first weapon (Makarov) I was so excited over this :)

well, squad can communicate "silently" for the pray, yes. I suppose there is nothing to be done over this, but the prey can also quit anytime and vanish just like that so in this case that the hunters would communicate over direct voice on the game would only cause the prey to logoff.

well, as a starting player, you might want to survive a bit longer, so I would not go to Cherno or Elektro at very beginning, while it is tempting to get a lucky shot to your equipment it is risky and may (and will) cause shorter games. Never standup at start so push X to crouch and move crouched. When getting near something, crawl over there. Agro range at prone position is very short, so you can move around easily. If you see empty cans, pick them up (just a few, not too many) and throw them (push F to select them) if you are in tight spot to distract zombies (if you agroed, it's too late, to move) But yeah, pretty much this: go prone when scavenging, move longer distances as crouched until you learn more about the agroranges.