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well still cant join any of the latest current version servers stuck on loading screen. sigh. going to revert back to the working version til this issue gets sorted.

so im new to arma and this six launcher....... me friend rented a hfb server we see a couple of updates, Dayz 1.7.2.5 HIVE 0.7.3 and 95819 Beta Patch FIXED and then Dayz 1.7.2.5 HIVE 0.7.3 and 95883 Beta Patch LATEST i am going to go with 95833 with hive .7.3 dayz 1/7/2/5 is the version we should have on the server. my question i think might have been answered above but i want to make sure im not breaking anything ether on the server or my client. we install the latest update for the HFB server? im going with yes here and then i copy the torrent files from the main update topic(done) into my add ons folder overwriting the files there?(which is the normal way to do it) i ask as they do not over write and i end up with double the amount of files in the add ons folder....the ones originally in the add ons folder have .gz extensions and the news ones do not. so do i delete the older pbo files and what not or add the 15 new files there? this includes the silly cherno/nw airfield/balota graphix nightmares fix right?

i better put my issue in here as well. i was killed in the back room of a supermarket, went thru the you are dead screen, abort etc, spawned in around pridgoski or w/e on the beach half in the water. been a day now hourglass was halfway down, after 7 hrs then i relogged and it refilled. locked out of the game entirely just sits there. is frustrating but its a alpha right? player id# 52044422 would love to play or at least admin the server as im the admin on duty today ;( EDIT: well it seems i went away and came back and my character died. natural causes. game master causes, player responding to my pleas? i dont know/care/ i re spawned and looks like everything is good/ thansk to what ever who ever or however its fixed. a proper death seems to be a common theme in correcting this.

Help im having the same problem as the rest, except i dont server hop. US 2008 on the beach near pridgorski or something like that in between cherno and elektro. some one execute me, i let it sit all night long and the hourglass was not even halfway. then i logged out to go do some errands and logged back in the hourglass is full again and now all my icons are purple/red red red and blinking but the 354 health i have isnt going away. my issue began when i was murdered in the cherno supermarkets back room. as i lay there in the you are dead screen i put on global chat " WHY?" and then the abort/discon/ok/respawn thing. but somehow fell on the beach with a broken leg and absolutely no intereaction with the game. no chat, no gear, etc. as it loads in i am able to see my bag sometimes if i am fast, and it still has stuff in it from when i died. i see people post the player id number and ask for a reset, i too would like a reset. Player ID #: 52044422 US 2008 please fix my guy kill him burn him with fire exorcise the demons within and fry those bugs and let him be reborn unto the shore one with teh sand and the ocean, and hurry before winter comes please and thank you. EDIT: well well either someone put me out of my misery. or the kind game gods fixed my guy, or i finally passed form dehydration/hunger/pneumonia/bloodloss/shock/broke leg. will report back if it happens again.

dont even feed the troll. trolls are bandits who alt f4 everytime people get the upper hand, they just enjoy bitching about people complaining about thier cowardace. i havent found ANY downed choppers in any servers in any of the spots ive seen people put onto many maps. just luck i guess. you stumbled upon one nice find. i stay away from airfeilds and cities like elektro, not worth losing all my hard gathered gear and hatchet. i hate the guns in dayz rifles i cant carry a crowbar and a rifle? ridiculous. i stick with hatchet and a sidearm its more than enough for zombies and unless i step on someone in a camo suit, theres no pvp i aovoid it if at all possible.

spawn on beach. get to the trees. find farms, small houses. stay off the roads, stay off the tracks, everyone you see will kill you on sight or say friendly and once you turn your back dead. this might not cover all people playing but since you cant tell the difference anymore between bandits and regulars....100% of the people you see will KOS. thats the best way to go about your days in dayz. its not a problem or a community issues either. its the game, its supposed to be freedom of play. you want to kill someone and take the gear, well what do you think might happen in the real world if society collapsed. thats right chaos and mayhem. stay away from cherno and elektro. or novysobor or starry sobor. they are hot spots for bandits. trust us on this. youll find gear in the country side. walk off the road a couple dozen yards. dont cross open fields. if you have a good understanding of the lunar cycles...travel at night with a good moon. get a knife matches and a hatchet and water bottle, thats all you need to survive everything else is bonus, painkillers and bandages are needed but not to survive if you dont get chompped on. morphine is nice i once craweld for almost two hours in game from the hills north of cherno to the hospital. to fix a broken leg. and shortly after i went to the curch and got killed by someone with much better gear.....its the silly no consequence style of the game, there is no penalty nor distinction for being a murderer. so people kill just for lulz. thats not the dayz i started playing. it has gotten worse the more popular the mod gets. sad thing really as if more people banded together there would be more organized groups defending towns or points of interest, making supply runs anderadication the countrysid eof zombies, instead its twitch kids with mommy issues killing people just to kill them and then lol about it on team speak to other degenerates. i personally dont find it a fun aspect of the game to kill lesser geared people. or to kill at all, i am perfectly capable of surviving in the wilds with my wits and hatchet. but you might want to start on low pop servers really low pop 3 or 4 or 5 players, get off that beach quickly and stay in the treeline. look up soem tactics for military cross country marching. military crests are a must to adhere to, that means staying near the crest of a ridge or hill not ontop so people on both sides can easily spot you. tree lines are your friend, you can crawl from the trees into a little berg and loot and crawl back without being seen. and yes its a hard curve, but thats whta makes this mod great, its sandbox, and its your personal choice where to go , what to do and who to do it to. id rather snatch some med supplies and tool belt items and hit the hills, plenty of tree stands less zombies(tho i hear htat might change) and less chance of someone else just waiting for you at some random tree. binocs are a great find you can spend all the tiem in the world in a bush above a town on a hillside and learn all kind sof things. dont just assume its empty save soem zombies, there might be another player already on the other hillside doing the same thing. also learn to check your six, behind you every couple of minutes, you might catch someone following you. i have. lost them in the woods and circled behind, turning them into the hunted for aq while then i proned out and logged out. could have easily killed them, but they didnt holler out or say anything so why should i? but i refrained from murder even though i had a reason. (following someone into the woods quietly is indictive of a bandit not a friendly) what ever you do please think about how many layers this game has, you dont have to follwo any quest or story line, all you have to do is live for as long as possible. im on 10 days and counting, but before i would die after a few hours. i have a couple friends we are traveling east to west north to south whereever our fancy takes us. we found a castle last, night had a bunch of stuff we didnt need, we just left it all for the next person. dont see the need to barbwire the place or sandbag it tank traps on the stairs etc. coz id rather someone else who needs a map or those ammo packs or bangdages use them. if you have steam there are a few steam groups for day z. you might find a few people willing to help you go into a big town and gear up. thats the wonderful thing about day z, you cna get a helicoptor going and make supply runs from rooftops, you can get a truck and go around gathering supplies, or a bus and pick up people. i personally like the bicycles. quiet and fast. boats are slow but a lot of fun as you realize youre on a boat and theres no zombies lol finding a port thats safe to fuel at thats the hard part. so yeah, thatsmy pro tis for the day...... hit up the dayz wiki for more info.

haha great topici had similar experiences as others here, in elektro, i went into the northern church i think there was a broke down bus in the doorway. i went inside, i had a good amount of stuff, food, waterbottles etc...no gun though, just a hatchet on my belt and a crowbar. went into the church, as i am looking around i had left the doors open, i see them close, freeked me out. then they opoen and a green haiered shaggy thing shambles in raises some laser rifle looking space gun and shots me. just like that 2 hours of crawling fighting hand to hand and poof asshat deluxe. but it balances out as i respawn in cherno, and i make for the church there, and i of course am in a respawn hurry still chapped about that dipstick that had no need of my gear. and i attract zombies kind of forgetting i dont have any waepons. so i start vaulting fences and vigourously looking for anything a smoke nade or a sharp stick a 2x4 or a rake a shovel any of those kinds of things you would expect a homeowner to leave behind in a zombie outbreak. sigh but i stumble onto a crowbar in a shed, YESSSS. i kill take damage and evade all but one little hopper. i duck into the church couch and as im turning back to the door to deal with this hopper and maybe any others following, i catch what has to be a player or a hopper in the pews, no time to banter i kill the hopper close the doors and before i turn around...i type " hey im not a bad guy, friendly no danger to you just hungry" guy is talking to me i can hear him but i cant make out the words clearly to low, so i type im gonna drop this here no weapons can i come in and eat?" he types "YES!!!! COME IN!!!" so i drop my crowbar and start eating a can of pasta and scavenging what i expect to be a empty church. and before i can ask the guy if hes thirsty, i got a six pack of soda.... hes gone . find a few things and grab my crow bar and moved on down the road. oh in case someone reads this, thanks to the guy who didnt run me over in that truck , and then left it and gifted it to me.... you warned me it needed gas and repairs, i tried to fix it but when i went to stash it for a minute i was shot in the back as i was pulling the AR and ammo out the back. it was real fun running over zombies in the dark and blowing that loud ass horn it was a blast. right up until i realized i most likely attracted every player in the area and maybe the truck was stolen in the first place............ love this mod. want it to become a full game polished and tuned.

theres are a few terms used to name zombies or infected undead. zombie, Z, Zed, deader, walker, undead, meatbags, rotters, infecteds, stinkers, inflicted, morts from latin "mortis-" Them, virals, wormfood, lurkers, biters, roamers, sickers, slimes, uglies/fuglies . i could go on and add more but these are a few ive ran across and maybe a couple i just made up ;) stinkers i never have seen or heard used so theres a new one. fuglies i had to add to uglies as they can be seriously f&^king ugly. but Zed and Zombie is one and the same. unless you are in the pulp fiction universe, then in that world Zed is dead baby, Zed is dead........ if you step back a second and think about what they do to people or how they look or how they came to be living dead.... then apply what people would describe them as in the real world i bet each one of us can come up with 5 new names..... for communications sake, in text Zs would be best used, if on a voip zombies is a pretty distinct word to call out, gets peoples attention, as in "ZOMBIES BEHIND US GUYS LOOK OUT!" call them what ever you want really, i call them lost ones if im writing about them sometimes, and various other terms to keep it from getting stale ;)

Hello all. im a noob here, been playing the mod for a couple weeks now and just wanted to add a couple suggestions. first off i looked around this board for topics that may have covered this but i didnt read them all nor did i read all the posts therein... that being said.... is there or does anyone else think a melee option from spawn is needed? I do. a punch or push please. i think once you equip say a crow bar you cant use the melee action. or maybe still can. at least a punch nothing powerful just something unarmed. if a zombie can knock me down and ive knocke dthem down with pistol rounds why not a punch or push with fatigue cooldown for repeated use not unlike l4d2, but totally not overpowered just a punch a zombie in the face 25 times to kill it or something i unno, discuss. this would free up loot spawns for other added things or more guns or bigger packs, batteries. i can see where this mod can go. if there is going to be new things like a crafting thing similar to the fire, if there already has been talk of this im sorry i missed it im new here. but for instance MOLOTVS. i see bottles i can fill a canteen in a pond.....i can imagine using bandages, lord knows theres enough of them laying about, as a fuse and matches or a ZIPPO. see molotov glow, see molotov fly, see zombies burn, burn zombies burrrrrrrrnnnn. also more enterable structures in the wilds? and just prop the out house doors open static, we dont fit inside proper and its just silly to break a leg on a flimsy door. cant i use a stove in a house if i got a jerry can? or wood and matches? or a ZIPPO. i see what looks like wood stove appliances in some places. safer way to cook something at night. and of course after slamming a crowbar or splitting heads with a hatchet 80 times i would think my toon would not be as freeked out by a little ole hopper all by itself next to a dog house. why not lessen that chance with kill count or something? i have no idea how to implement anything like these things, nor do i have more than a passing knowledge of how things get programmed or added or modded, mostly map making in source or in a couple of other editors. i understand and im not a doof, but i couldnt apply for a job at a game company making a game like this thats for sure. and to conclude my first post, is there any plans for the water or for expanding the area? IE: yes i mean making it bigger or at the least a shard to another smaller sized island via a portal on the water in a boat, and by portal i mean like when you are traveling in some rpgs, you walk into the mouth of the cave, screen says loading and then you are inside the cave, like that but to another island. on a personal note,, this ALPHA mod of this game is simply amazing. the application of it and its unique experience each time you spawn, and by unique i mean, how you spawn different places, and theres different stuff in teh loot spawns, and of course a super market is a super market. and you will die, happens all the time, but im talking about maybe one day you sneak into the church and a guy is in there, and you say "hey im friendly", and "im just hungry looking for food, look im going to drop this crowbar right here k?" and the other guy says " ok, come on in!" and dosent shoot you in the back of the head while youre slurping some beans outta a can. while the next day you may sneak into the same church but this time some green haired monster with some space looking gun comes in after you and says nothing just shoots you. lol i love this damn mod. i bought combined ops just to play it. one time i find myself hunting cows and what ever else i can to replenish my blood. and the next im raiding a town. today im hoping i still have my gear on what ever server i end up on, and i really hope the sickness/coughing mechanic stays. the shakes from being cold etc the transmission to others is fking brilliant. so all in all THANKS ROCKET! and thanks to all those who have played this and have contributed to its glory. and thank you to that guy who gave me a truck the other night with the woodpiles and raw meats meds and the AR and 8 mags for it. you told me it needed fixing and gas and i tried but some asshat shot me when i was looking for a gas can..... was fun for the ten minutes i had it. please keep up the awesome job you are doing, you guys on the "team" peopel are buying new or upgrading PC's just to play this ALPHA mod. thats fking amazing to me. its the sandbox you let us play in man and the tense atmosphere youve created. this mod soon to be game, is almost what me and my friends have been talking about for a few years now. almost a lot of things needed to fulfill our/my wishes but this is damn close as close as its ever been for us to THAT game. dead island, it was there in concept, but the mutated zombies kinda ruined it a bit not to mention all the bugs and fighting mechanics. but you gotta admit it was a helluva a romp across that island. and it was polished and worked on for years by a team. had tons of money behind it, yet one guy with a dream, made this DayZ people are just dying to play. ALPHA MOD man that just gets me lol and then i stop and think holy shit what can DayZ become with a professional team behind it? with the polish and art style custom textures for items etc...and im like holy shit!!!! its going to be glorious.