vetrox

In b4 "just play the game for what it is" because thats exactly what i do atm. I miss my noob days where I would be very fearfull of zombies. Currently you can outrun the zombies infinatley which, although noob friendly, allows you to just run around everywhere willy nilly. This makes them more of a pest than an actuall threat. I expect this has been thrown about before but... Can we leave the current zombie characteristics the same and just make it so they are faster than you? (they pretty fast already though) but keep it so you can loose them in buildings etc. Im hoping the current "zombie not catching you up" is by design and not because the zombies melee script doesnt allow it. Maybe have some servers with harder zombies and some servers without and you just use dayz to change you game version depending on what difficulty you want your zombies. Like i said. When I first played (and i expect when everyone else first played it) zombies were scary guys! I would play night time servers purley for the scarey factor (and zombies are a bit more stoopid in the dark) but it doesnt take long to work out you can just run to wherever the loot is, thus turning the game in to a pure pvp with zombies as decoration.

I dont know how coding works. Can you not just have a disconnect timer like in wow. 30 seconds regardless of connection status. EG. Client looses connection, server sees lost connection and begins a 30second logout timer before the character is logged out? Dayz commander should have a sign up system where you sign up for a char name. That way you wont get duplicate char names and you could have Dayz commander not allow you to log into a new server until your char has finished the 30 second dc/logout timer. However I expect this is probably isnt possible due to ARMA code rather than being dayz code.

I like the ARMA gun mechanics

IS this whole *realism of in game weaponss* still going? ...wow Better also bitch and whine about how none of the guns need maintenence and dont ever jam and there are plenty of magazines for these guns just lurking about? Chances are, if you get shot by any sort of firearm where the bullet actually penetrates you (giggidy) and its the zombie apocolypse then you are going to die at some point or another from infection or blood loss or just plain shock. Oh i just got shot! i will just bandage that and drink some blood, all good. You put anything onto a pc thats supposed to be realistic then you are going to have to make some sacrifices. Please go play arma before bitching about the mod. zomg .50 weapons shouldnt all be lurking about with people all shooting at eachother. Do yourself a favour and play arma and whilst your at it, go get hold of operation flashpoint cos the campaign in that was by far the best. ARMA2 IS a game. its more authentic than the others on the market but that doesnt mean it is any less of a commercial product at the end of the day.

Played a few nights ago and logged out near cherno. Logged in yesterday and it spawned me near solinski (with all my gear) Traveled down to cherno and logged out. Logged in today and it spawnedme on the coast nearish cherno (with all my gear) Changed server to avoid night time, logged in. Got some total random gear. some shitty double barreled shotgun and some wood lol. Kinda puts all last nights efforts to waste

I read this part of your post and made my reply cos i just assumed it would be another rant on sniper rifles. Thats why you got a sarcastic reply from me. Thought i would clear that up now before hate came my way

search forum for various fixes people find work. One of them will work for you. personally I find that if i log out when im close to the artifacts and log back in (IE exit ARMA completley) i dont get the artifacts in that city any more.

why? because video game why again? because game code why some more? go play zombie apocolypse irl if you dont like dayz OH YOU CANT

Im currently on a work pc and cant see images but if its some sort of fire (like the first post said) then I too would like to know what it was. I saw it and left my server thinking hax was about to happen to me (then proceeded to get banned on another server for server hopping)

I get my RPG/Rambo on and go to town on those zombies!!!!!1 I aint having some scumbag zombie think he can take my town THIS IS MY TOWN BITCHES!!!!!111!! YOU CALL THIS THE ZOMBIE APOCOLYPSE!!! I AM YOUR FUCKING APOCOLYPSE WWWWAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH PEW PEW PEW. Anyone here find hand grenades and stash them/leave the on the floor? NOT MEEEEE!!! KAPOW BOOOOOOOM aaaaannnnd so on...

WOAH!!! OP has got a serious case of the "too much time on the internet-itus"

I like this idea and tbh when I first saw dayz i thought this was the case. Maybe on the more hardcore servers. As it would encourage teams to have slick teamwork and tactics. "meet back here at 0800 server time...if im not back by then...you take the jeep, and you come find me!" Or maybe some sort of in game loot such as a comms pack or something which if you have you can choose to radio another player...or some crap like that. But i like the idea of it being forced on constantly. +1 from me

OP: "ZOMG HACKER!!!! I KNOW YOUR HACKING AND IM GOING TO WRITE A STRONGLY WORDED LETTER TO YOUR MOTHER IN LAW ABOUT THIS!" HACKER: "hahahahahahahahahahahaha finally my hacks made someone rage. Im gonna do this some more and see if I can get anyone else to rant on forums"

I learnt that the hard way. "pizza delivery for I.C Wiener" run downstairs for pizza come back up Brains are being munched on....DAFUQ ZOMBIES!?!?!?YOU AINT PLAYER!!1

If there was a hacker then I will let you off the d/c But if you did it just cos you heard gunshots...then your kind of ruining the game for everyone (including yourself) Part of the thrill of the game is hearing gunshots and thinking "Shit...gunfire...ACTIVATE NINJA MODE!" Even when I was a newbie i didnt d/c just because I heard gunfire. After a while you will learn how easy it is to get supplies after dying and you wont get so worried about it.

Achievments in specific games are a waste of time. Diablo 3 has achievments...why? Other games are the same...why? It kinda works on the xbox somehow (i dont know why) NOTE: the above is all opinion. Aint no facts in this post

Wtf? Is everyone in this thread a buttplug? Op is venting his (justified) anger and your all whining at him cos he is using a sniper rifle? Welcome to the internet i guess. @OP Welcome to dayZ. A friend of mine did this to protect his precious weapon and I gave him no end of hate for it. If someone starts beating on me with a sniper rifle I will make a point of trying to find him and steal his beans. It takes 30 minutes or so to get some sort of half good weapon in this game so I just battle it out to the end. (sometimes if you hide long enough, the player will think you have quit the game and show himself muhahaha (it has only happened once so far :( ) ) ATM I just sit at NWAF and farm zombies in the hope that my gunfire will attract some players to try and take me on but havent had much luck yet :( taken down 400 zeds so far and I bet when another player comes to find me but i get the drop on him, he is more than likely going to alt f4 himself.

I got nothing against sniper rifles (been killed by them myself a number of times) One of my most exhilerating moments in dayz was me and a teamate running through an open feild and hearing sniper rounds fly past us. I managed to take cover behind a hay bale (yeh they stop bullets) and my team mate thought it would be smart to turn around, stand still and get his binoculars out. Fortunatley the sniper didnt realise there were 2 of us (some how) and as he came out to loot the body I managed to down him with a hefty wall of akm rounds. If someone wants to spend their whole time on dayz on top of a building waiting for someone to come along and stand still so they can get a free kill then by all means do it...Its kinda what sniper rifles are for.

So been doing a spot of brainwork. I dont see hackers very often but the few times I have are always at really awkward points in the game (just found a good gun or just repaired a car) I have been looking at ways other games deal with hackers. I recall seing a counterstrike system where you download a piece of their (third party) software that checks to make sure none of your game files are altered in any way. (I dont know how this works though) Then I had another Idea. Could we charge people (Say $5?) to sign up to be able to use a server, or group of servers? So for example Im vetrox. Im sick of hackers. The generic gaming clan has 5 servers but to use those servers you have to pay them a few bucks and sign up to their forums to get it?. Sure the odd hacker may have $5 to ruin someones day but is he going to keep spending $5 each time to teleport me across the map. Its quite late (and im still aware this is still in alpha) but maybe some sort of system like this for the more die hard guys. Maybe profits could be put towards development of the game.

Had a good firefight with some guys earlier. Both sides lost men...then their side decided to bug out and quit, thus saving themselves. The best solution is something that has been posted above. If you logout then you are still left ingame for 2 minutes? Theres plenty of woodland thats safe to log out in. Then if you are logged in on one server then you cannot log into another etc. Dont know how easy this is to put into action however.

If you have the hatchet equipped you need to pess the " ; " key (colon?) to switch to your secondary weapon. I have never had a problem with the flash light Also it will only work at night.

Or if your laptop is like mine and without a numpad then you should be able to use the "fn" key to access your numpad. The default bind is "*" numpad asterisk. On my "15 alienware is "fn+p" to get the numpad asterisk. Hope this is of some comfort

Wow, thats a good idea. Beanz for you!

I hate this. Whenever anyone mentions a rig they have made its always "I CAN RUN CRYSIS YEEEHH". Crysis isnt the benchmark anymore. If you're building ar rig then get the best you can afford. If you can afford a big high end rig then get that. If you can only afford a $700 then my advice would be not to bother and save up a bit more and get something beasty. If you build it just to play DAYZ then you will get dissapointed when you want to play games in the future. My idea of a new rig is $1300-$1400 minimum (converted from GBP£). But thats just me. I cant bare having a rig that when I get a new game I have to think to mysel "I hope my computer can run it"

YOU GOTTA RELOAD THAT HATCHET OLD BEANZ!!!!! I found a friendly group of players in cherno after a fresh spawn. One of the guys gave me his hatchet and shouted that down the mic. Made my day.