D0CT0RB00M

I can verify this. I drank a Mountain Dew while running through Elektro with my Makarov and Winchester. Hadn't seen or heard anyone the entire time I was there. Me and a buddy headed out toward to Dobryy (sniper hill) to check for tents. Then, out of nowhere, a guy (not a bandit, as far as I could tell) with an M4 CCO and other decent gear pops out of the trees. He proceeds to kill me and wound my buddy. My friend kills my attacker, but, long story short, both the friend who was with me at the time of consumption and another friend who was running to meet us were killed within 10 minutes. Immediately after I respawned in Three Valleys (with the hero skin--hoping people would realize I DON'T shoot on sight because of this), I came upon another survivor. He had a Winchester. I had absolutely nothing. Not even an axe. Dude lays down like I won't see him. I walk over, say, "Look dude... I don't have anything. If you're going to shoot me, just do it." I wait for a few seconds and start to walk away. *BANG* Dead. Thanks, buddy. I believe it takes two lives to satisfy the Curse of the Dew, as things have returned to normal since then.

Same for me.

I have 4970 humanity and it hasn't kicked in yet. I assume it happens at 5k, as others have said.

Yeah man... I don't think that was us sniping you, but it might have been me the first time after R3GNAD died, since I was kind of out for vengeance. I may have killed a guy with an AS50 or M107 near the road leading into Elektro next to Dobryy (the one leading north beside the fire station), as he'd just shot and killed blake_2. Never got a kill for it as far as I remember, and I never saw blood when I shot. Not sure about this Quiche guy, though. Perhaps he was the one doing the shooting? There was also another guy whose name was Squirrel-something that racked up quite a body count. We couldn't get a shot off when he was exposed, though.

I was with those guys. (My in-game name is D0CT0RB00M, in case you want to track my server movements in your spare time, as well.) We were actually up there counter-sniping when R3GNAD got shot. (He never fired a round the whole night, I don't think.) There were a ton of dead fresh (or nearly fresh) spawns on the opposite hill, but me, R3GNAD and blake_2 had nothing to do with that. We were actually after one of the guys who seemed to have been doing the killing. I did not want to impede the survival efforts of anyone but geared bandits, who were likely doing exactly what you are accusing us of. I personally let several survivors walk right through my crosshairs simply because they weren't geared, and thus, were not yet a high threat to anyone. We did server hop because a bandit with an axe appeared out of nowhere and tried to kill R3GNAD. It seemed odd that we didn't see or hear him coming up, so we thought he may have been a scripter/ghoster. I'm really not a fan of either, personally, so we changed over to 2141 Dallas just to try to escape an unfair death. With the rampant scripting as of late, I think that's pretty fair. I ended the night with three (plus one unconfirmed--possible Alt-F4) bandit kills and 0 murders. Each of them was an imminent threat to me or my squadmates. Blake_2 had one murder that I know of, but the slain survivor was a threat to R3GNAD as he was running back to meet us. (He had an MP5, and R3GNAD was getting ready to run into his field of fire.) I refused to pull the trigger until he made an aggressive play, but I believe blake_2's action was justifiable. R3GNAD had exactly 0 kills and 0 murders, as far as I know. Though he was killed once or twice, for all the trouble we went through trying to save survivors from griefing bandits/snipers. I hope somebody found the guy that was killing all the noobs over on the hill in front of Dobryy. It looked like he racked up about 5 kills over there, but we never did find him!

By using this mod, we all signed up to test an alpha build of a piece of software. The devs write a bunch of code, do some minimal testing, then release it to us to test. If things are broken, we report it, and the devs (eventually) do something about it. That's how alpha testing works. Honestly, we're all lucky the mod is as stable as it is. Lots of alpha builds are terribly buggy to the point where you can't even begin to truly use the software (hence why most devs don't release alpha builds to the public).

I've been running Win8 since the consumer preview (now running the Release Preview), and DayZ works great. No driver issues at this point, as Windows Update seems to do a pretty decent job of making sure things work, and nVidia has Win8 drivers on their site. (Side note: If you have an nVidia card, I suggest the 304 beta drivers.)