leftfield

I wanted to try dayz out so I used my friend's steam account to install arma 2 and arma oa, then installed dayz and the launcher. I tried it out for a few days then decided, ok I want to buy this so we can play together. I only had to buy my own copy of arma 2 and arma oa on steam and that was it, I was playing on my own copy and had my own character in dayz. Nothing else to it. My friend came over and we both played dayz on the same ip as well, on two steam steam accounts with two copies of arma 2. On a side note, you can copy paste arma 2 and oa to your own steam folder saving you from having to redownload. Just make sure you "verify integirty of game cache" once you've done that by going to: games > games library > right click arma 2 + arma oa > properties > local files > verify integrity of game cache... You may not have to do that but I needed to for it to work as it was missing 1 file on both.

EDIT: Double post glitch, yay for my fail interweb.

Invisibility seems to happen because of desynchs as well as bleeding without yourself seeing youself as bleeding. Playing with a friend of mine, he disappeared right infront of me as we were running into Cherno. It just so happened he was sat 3ft away from me and I could see his screen and yeah, he wasn't invisible but I was also invisible to his screen! I've also had the odd desynch where it looked like he was bleeding on my screen and I had to ask him if he wanted a bandage, but on his screen he wasn't bleeding at all. Odd glitch but it can happen so I wouldn't be so fast to cry "hack" to either of those. Flying... not so much but who knows for sure. Said you were invisible but could see you to shoot you? Yeah, makes no sense, put it down to trolling but it's still interesting that desynchs can cause invis to each other.

I was there and got it recorded. I was on a new life so it wasn't a big loss for me but I totally failed the thunderdome challenge :'(