sheepdawg

Welcome to Chernarus. Welcome to DayZ. Good luck friend.

What about Texas Hold'em?

LOL very nice.

People say to play on Private servers. Maybe get into a clan/community that has one. I too haven't played in a while but I will recommend Arma 2 - Domination. Arma 2 really is an amazing game by itself and there are plenty of mods that are really cool as well. For instance, it's really fun to use the mission editor and spawn yourself in an A-10 and just fly around. Specially on MAX volume ;p I would also pay more money if I could get that feeling back when I first started playing DayZ. I'll never forget I was crawling around in the dark and saw flares in the distance, Getting closer then hearing and seeing a van go roaring down the road, zombies chasing it. It was especially fun to throw flares AT the person when I finally got the drop on them, lighting them up for everyone else to see.

I believe you install DayZ and launch Operation Arrowhead. Actually you launch the beta of OA. Feel free to use one of the following to make your life a little easier... http://www.dayzcommander.com/ (personally use it and love it) http://www.six-updater.net/ (never used it but heard good things about it)

Perhaps you joined a private server? They have different hive data so you usually spawn on the coast with "nothing".

Would actually be pretty cool if they implemented this. Maybe some of them have "journals" on them you can read a little bit of the back story. Hmm...intriguing methinks.

Just reinstall. It seriously takes like 5 mins max to install DayZ. Its your best bet to make sure it works. Also now you can systematically update/upgrade you DayZ and figure out what happened.

From your above post I see that you actually mean certain skins for certain types of people...not just bandits/survivors. Gotcha Umm...they already had this. There was a bandit skin(whole skin) you got from being a dick. Now its just the scarf. Its pretty obvious the mod in on the back burner right now(I'd rather the standalone right now anyway). Our best bet is to just hope Rocket thinks out the standalone and really makes it worth it to co-op or to be a douche. There is absolutely no benefit to working as a crew now in the MOD because the best thing u can get is a vehicle. And once you get said vehicle, your only a hacker server visit away from losing the hours you spent.

I agree. However it really isnt that hard to get them back. Just another quirk about the Arma engine. If they fall toward you, chances are 70% you wont get the bolt back. When they fall back just keep on rollin' that mouse wheel while hovering over the bolt, you'll get it. I played for like 5 hours one day with only 3 bolts. Killed about ~40 zed. Was amazing, too bad the thing sucks in PvP. You all say you want a quiver, but where would it go? Backpack slot? Sidearm slot? Tool belt? Think about that...Also would it increase reload time? Decrease it? Would you have a chance to lose bolts by going prone? Swimming? IMO...fuck a quiver and just make them stack in inventory.

I mean...the idea soudsn good on paper but realistically...I would just shoot the lock off. Sure I risk aggroing zombies, but still. Basically I like the idea, but there are so many ways to poke holes in the idea that its not really feasible to waste time on. The real problem is that this game depends on ONLY human players, and privacy isn't really what this game is about. Your "locked chest" in DayZ is called a "tent" or a "vehicle". Now if you could somehow take over a bank and store items there, that might be a bit more feasible. Have to defend it from bandits and other people...but random chests with stuff in them? "Protected" doesnt exist in the world of DayZ.

I have had a tent and car be swallowd up. When i went to the respawn of the car it was MIA. I personally think hacker just spend all day ruining people HOURS AND HOURS of work.

QFT. Enjoy it but if you are a decent person the guilt will slowly eat away at you, and you will end up in the ocean or a lake watching your "precious" items slowly sink down to Davy Jones' locker.

No its a pain in the ass. THere are servers my frind can get into and I can not. No matter if i use DZCOM or actual Arma2. I dont understand it and sometimes it poses a real problem. EDIT: Its time i get a new keyboard...clearly.

Standalone will be better...at least a little bit.

1)Greedy admins. 2)Hackers 3)LUCKY explorers. AKAIC, Hackers are finding vehicles(EASILY) and ruining all those legit hard hours u put into the game. Simple as that. I've had obvious tents, and seriously so out of the way(but still in bounds) tents on low pop servers(seriously never gettin above 15 players) and my tent and vehicle(seperated mind you) are BOTH gone? Nah, sorry. I dont believe it.

You have my FUCKING BEANS. While I personally do NOT suffer from this issue(don't get me wrong I prefer to spawn on the west side but make what I can of the situation regardless) I love the actually coherent thread you made about a obviously serious problem.

I like it but how many people do you know that can survive the trauma of an apocalypse and ALSO can repair gun parts? It needs to implemented with some serious thought. Is it for realism or is it for "gratification". At my brothers boot camp graduation I watched blindfolded army recruits tear down and reassemble a rifle blindfolded, in under a minute. Personally I am sure I could dismantle and clean a rifle, but then again i work construction and am mechanically inclined. I cant assume some news reporter who calls a maid to clean their house would be able to efficiently repair a weapon, or much for that matter. I do like the idea of a "Fallout: New Vegas" repair system where you have to be at the actual location to do it, you cant just sit in the woods and clean your weapon with nothing. Love the idea of decay etc. I also love the idea of being able to fill a canteen while it rains, but we will see how much drive Rocket and Co. has in the future.

People hate change. Hacking in this game is actually(what I assume) easier than most. There is barely any fortifications against hacking, and its a mod of a game. THe damn "game" is essentially a hack of the game. So, people are going to doom and gloom. I have blamed hackers for thigns that just dont feel legit. It is obvious when your tent and car is in the middle of nowhere on a low popluation server and then MIA one day, what really happened. It is not hard, nor really secret that hackers run this game. Have i SEEN a hacker? NO. Have i logged into a server thats been nuked? Yes sir. Whos to say someone isnt "wall hacking" in this game. Its really easy to see a youtube video of people doing this and in a game like DayZ..no spec mode, no sort of regulating or proving hacks, it is WAY easier to get away with. Please note that I have never hacked in this or any other game(unless you count game genie a hack lol) but I get peoples frustrations. This game is about surviving, and when you spend DAYS...err DAYZ looting and building something up, and its wiped away while you snooze IRL, its rather annoying, and brings out the worst of emotions in people. Its always something. VAC sucks, Punkbuster sucks, BE sucks, etc. People need a way to vent but on THESE forums, I have to kinda "tie goes to the runner" because it's way easier to believe someone hacked yo shit, than the server took a poop.

Stop being a scumbag on private servers. No but seriously. I killed someone too and didnt get a bandit murder, even tho he clearly had the scarf on. But I did it on public servers, not some private HIVE server.

It funny. People who know everything talking absolute bullshit. Religion for some reason comes to my mind when I think of the media. In any country. Its either sensor the news or adapt the sensationalism model, doom and gloom. Lame stream media is for the loss.

You are really pissed at DG huh? Note to OP: Hackers, glitchers, expliters, script kiddies WILL ruin this game for you. Sorry man. I am pissed too when hours are erased by some loser who cant even play a game correctly, and needs an advantage. Have some beans since you are obviously out of them :).

I didn't read all of it. Not because TL;DR, but because I am pissed at the community as well. The hackers suck dick, and the trolls are just as bad. I just wanted to say, take a break(I know I am after being looted and hours erased by some scripting douche bag) and then come back. I am personally on the brink of not touching this game until the standalone comes out.

I remember when the save state was in the debug menu. IIRC it was about 45 seconds between "saves". I usually lay there for AT LEAST a minute before logging out. I also suggest NEVER logging out in a building because you never know who is coming in, or who is logging in behind you.

I drank it warm.