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I'm still plugging away at this. Now I'm having trouble reinstalling Operation Arrowhead. I'm almost positive it has to do with one of my kids starting up my Steam account on another computer during the download. It didn't just pause the download on my end; it appears to have finished it somehow over on that computer (and mine was put into streaming mode? I'm not sure exactly...) but anyway now OA will not start up on my computer, no matter how many times I download it. It downloads completely, but then seems to reset and forget it ever downloaded. So I'm in the process of trying to figure out why it's doing that. Frustrating, lol!

OMG I want to play it even more now, lol! I will show the error if I get it again... Arma 2 installed overnight and now I'm putting Arma 2 OA back on. I did try to do the fix on the Battleye website, but I may not have done it correctly. Wish me luck this time!

Good news and bad news... good news, I installed the DayZ Launcher and was able to find the server I used to play on the most! Yay!! But... bad news is my battleye still can't be initialized, whatever that means. :( I think what I'm going to do is uninstall arma and reinstall it. Maybe something went wrong and battleye didn't install properly for some reason.

Okay so I loved... LOVED the DayZ mod for Arma 2 OA. But then, stuff happened... I got a new computer, didn't install Arma or DayZ Commander on it... got into some other games, etc. etc. I did buy the DayZ alpha and tried to play it, but... it's just not the same. I found I really wanted to play the "old" DayZ again. So, I reinstalled Arma 2 and Arma 2 OA. I reinstalled DayZ Commander. I'm having an issue now with Battleye. I did not ever have an issue with Battleye before and I'm at a loss. Battleye always seemed to have been one of those automatic things that happened... well, automatically. I don't remember having to do anything special with Battleye before. It's telling me that Battleye initialization failed. What do I need to do? Thank you!

Hi all, I'm back playing DayZ after a two-month break (I got a new computer and didn't bother installing Arma on it as I was thinking the standalone DayZ was just around the corner; however I got tired of waiting and missed the game, so I finally broke down and re-installed lol.) Anyway, I was told I could see my humanity... sort of... if I keybound the special action #20 and used it, so I did. It brought up a little journal type thing, but on the Humanity page it didn't give me a number... it showed a deuce of hearts playing card, my character's picture, and the word Hero. Well, I knew I was a hero, but what's with the deuce of hearts? Does it ever change? If I get more humanity, will it eventually turn into the Ace of Hearts or something like that? And what about the other suits; do they mean anything? Are bandits spades or clubs, or whatever? It's quite possible the suits of cards don't mean anything and that I'm reading too much into it, but I thought it was a cute little feature and wanted to learn more about it. :)

Thank you! I'm going to check it out. :)

Oh my... It'll be like the sims, won't it? Like, if we don't make our character go potty he'll start waving at us and doing a little "gotta pee!" dance, and then if we don't take care of it he'll soil himself and then cry about it for hours. :( Sigh.

<3 Sula! I've never killed another player either, even though I've died probably hundreds of times. Keep the faith, sister! It's good to know there are others out there like me. :)

How does the humanity work on the private hives? I've seen people with hero and bandit skins on them, but if your humanity resets every time (as I've heard it does) how is that possible? I know it's a small thing really, but that's my only problem with private hives (and in the standalone game I think that's going away anyway, right? So why do I even worry about it lol.)

Seems that it doesn't matter what server I play on... hackers are everywhere! Sometimes it's amusing in its own way though, I'll admit that. The other day I was turned into a rabbit. :P

And you know... to be honest I don't think I mind the true bandits. The non-hacking bandits. The guys who see you have a better backpack than they do and they actually take it off your corpse. Or the guys that have a stash of food and supplies in a shed and shoot anyone who comes near. That's as much a part of the game as killing zombies in my opinion. There's going to be people who team up and protect each other and there's going to be other people wanting to take what they can from people any way they have to. That makes for a good, exciting game. I think it's the hackers that bother me. Well, they bother everyone. The guys that teleport right to where you are, crouched in a building in the dark, and shoot you in the head with a silenced machine gun before teleporting away again. That's... that's not a bandit. Not really. I think all true players in this game, heroes and bandits alike, would agree with me on that!

There's something I've been wondering about... in the no-pvp areas, is friendly fire disabled or are people just on their honor to not kill each other on purpose? A no-pvp (or reduced pvp) server sounds like heaven to me. I've never killed another player ever, but after seeing some of the things I've seen in this game I can't help but think that a server that advertises less or no pvp would attract people who want to grief other players. How is that sort of thing handled?

Thanks guys! It was a fun time. :)

I happened to have Fraps running while I was playing yesterday and caught this little adventure. :) Hope you enjoy!

Eh... I like horses as much as the next person, but as far as DayZ goes I'll have to take the opinion my father had. "A four-wheeler is so much better. It still takes your butt from A to B and you only have to feed it when you ride!" Still, I hope the SA game does incorporate more "mounts" as it were. And hopefully finds a way to make them at least semi-permanant (you can still have it stolen from you, but if you log off with it you will log back in with it... that kind of thing.)