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I spent the majority of yesterday camped on the Elektro Hospital roof, overlooking the school, with my stocked-full-of-shit tent at the main entrance to the school, I am armed with an M14 AIM and around 10 DMR clips (yes, I have been stockpiling for such a session). I am currently sat on 19 murders and 6 bandit kills, so it DOES work. I have only been spotted once, but due to the superiority of the position, the unfortunate hero wasted many bullets and gave away his position to me.

This is truly THE zombie survival game, I highly recommend it to anyone I talk to about gaming. As previously mentioned though, there are a few issues at the moment that need clearing up, but I guess thats the fun of being part of something new. The first time you will play the game you will not have a clue what to do, and you will probably run to the nearest town and either die from zombies or run straight into another player, players are like spiders btw, probably more scared of you than you of them, so expect to be shot on sight, unless you can talk to them before they have the chance to shoot you. Anyway, persevere and you will pick up the controls in no time, and be immersed within the game. If you have headphones I highly recommend using them, it adds to the suspense and thrill. If you want to see more about the game, there is plenty on YouTube. A personal favourite of mine is PsiSyndicate: http://www.youtube.com/user/PsiSyndicate Plenty of how-to's, mythbusters, highlights and unedited game footage.

Rocket seems quiet. Hope in this case that no news is good news and that he's formulating something to fix this problem we are having. I like the new features but would much rather see the more exciting areas of the map become playable for everyone again. I am still getting major tearing at military outposts, literally the only places I am going lately is Elektro & the NE airfield.

Battle Eye banned you because you were cheating. Seems pretty simple.

Great posts. I really hope Rocket or one of his team read this, maybe some ideas for the standalone. Who knows.

If you install the manual update and then launch the game via SixLauncher, you can pretty much guarantee that you will be reverted back to 1.7.2.4. Get: http://play.withsix.com/ Works in a similar way to SixLauncher but there are way more options and it WILL bring you up to speed. As Rocket said, 1.7.2.5 isn't released on the SixLauncher yet because he's unsure whether its an upgrade at all, answer: not really but it makes the game more playable and will allow you to experience the newer features in the patch and for some, it will fix the graphical glitches.

They were never saved on the hive, they are saved locally on the individual server.

That's really cool, especially for the newer players!

I accidentally rolled off a roof and fell to my death. I had some seriously nice gear but when I got back to my body, it had all been taken by some nearby git. I had a quick sniff around and managed to locate the aforementioned git, only to be shot by the same sniper who had shot him. Facepalm.

You trustworthy? I have some of those items and am interested in procuring a DMR with a few clips.

Indeed. If I head for a medical run, I will grab morphine, bloodbags, and maybe an epi-pen if one of my team are being afflicted by the annoying 'collapse-on-login' bug. The anti-biotics usually stay in the box. I'd say donate em too, or dump em.

Alot of people play in low-res anyway, to avoid FPS issues during intense gun-battles. It's still a very enjoyable experience.

Spawn camping is the lowest of the low, but I guess with all this relocating to the beach, the rewards are alot greater than just killing ungeared fresh-faced noobs. With bugs, come abusers. You were unlucky.

I haven't seen my humanity yet, but I assume mine may be similar if it persists through death. Some people just can't be saved :(

I've noticed this on a couple of servers. Seems weird, but I haven't had a ban, so meh.

Haaaa, like a boss. When I was 10 years old me and a friend did something similar. We were walking down the street when we saw some kids we knew coming our way. On the spot, without thinking, he ran to a hiding place which was in their path, and I ran to the other side of the street ready to make the distraction. As they approached my friend, I began jumping up and down, shouting their names, and as they carried on walking but looking in my direction, my friend jumped out from behind his spot, scaring every single one of them half to death and reducing one of the group to tears. It was one of the greatest moments of my life, and you just reminded me of it.

That is really really really not true, you probably don't like the work. The work is what defines the game, spending hours looking for a decent setup, being careful not to give your position away, taking risks when you feel there may be a decent reward. The adrenaline will pump, the heart will race, but you have to put in the time like everyone else. Eventually there will be no way around it, you might aswell get used to it buddy. Server hopping, spawn hopping, all take away from the game. I don't condone them, and I'm disappointed someone who seems so eager to help new players thinks that these are legitimate ways to play. Lets make a new topic showing new players how to use scripts ingame too :P Just to sum up by the way, your video was good, I appreciate the time you took to make it, and hope that more people play the game as a result. I just think some of your methods are a bit misguided.

Works on mostly all servers, there are only a handful with 3rd person turned off, but yeah, they are generally veteran servers.

Heat seeking missile. Or a truck.

I don't like this idea. It would literally make the game a minefield, they would be EVERYWHERE, people would figure out how to put them inside walls, rocks, vehicles, nowhere would be safe. Staying alive is gonna be hard enough when they introduce dogs to the already acid-jumpy zombie population, and the trigger-happy survivor population.

I like it. If I didn't play solo I'd take that no-BS policy in a flash.

It's because Arma 2 was never meant to be a zombie survival game. You mess with the code and you get bugs.

I can confirm that I too am being afflicted by this annoying bug. I'll be hitting the forums to see whats happening as the patch settles in, but I feel that I may be continuing my love affair with Skyrim for a couple of days.

My two cents, for what its worth. I have noticed a few glitches so far, the first and worst by a long way is the 'loading' bug, I have spent the best part of a day looking for servers which aren't keeping me in limbo, and when I manage to find a server that will let me play I log in to be confronted with starting somewhere completely random. The first time this happened I managed to find some half decent gear before being kicked for a high ping (100), pfft seriously. So on I went in my fantastic journey of finding another server. I found one eventually and used my one AKM clip to polish off a couple of friends who were meeting up at the coast, one had just a hatchet but the other was armed to the teeth with high-end gear, so I walked away with NVG's, rangefinder, and some serious firepower, nice. The next issue I encountered was something completely retarded and may be totally unrelated to the patch, but it happened anyway, and I feel I should report it, I aggro'd a zombie from what must have been 100m whilst crouch running, I can deal with this, I have an M9 SD from my previous firefight and was able to headshot him before he even got close, problem was, another zombie was headed my way (now a good 200-300m away from Kamenka, the nearest settlement), he managed to hit me and knock me to the floor with a single swipe, and as the egg timer dwindled down to nothing, I awoke with 6k blood left on the board, which should easily be enough to stand back up and deal with the one zombie problem, however I couldn't move, I couldn't use my guns, I couldn't stand, I was literally a sitting duck. I had my brains eaten. Fun :) I did have some luck in respawning at Kamenka, and running for maybe 1 minute to reclaim my gear and log out safely, god knows I needed it. I feel it may be a couple of days before I log back in, so the shitstorm can ride a little. I had originally wanted to log in to report if the dead body glitch had been fixed, as I had logged out at the military camp on the soccer field in Berezino. Unfortunately I didn't get even remotely close to there today. I know it's probably a pain to fix all the bugs floating around at the moment, and deal with the upcoming standalone, so you have my patience and understanding.

I'm stuck on loading on every server I try. :(