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I don't do this anymore since I'm usually the one ambushing (i love night time servers). But just about 10 minutes ago I shot at someone close range and he actually surrendered, never saw that happen before. Of course our group still robbed him for his medical supplies but he could walk away with his guns and tools. Surrendering or typing "friendly" doesn't help you in all cases though, I shot three guys before that one. Like many others I shoot first anyway and chances are you are dead before you can type anything.

I don't see a problem with that. Admins should be allowed to lock their servers and if they do, the server has no access to the HIVE. If the server's unlocked, HIVE is available again.

Sir, you are fucking insane. You've got your beans. That's just inappropriate.

Then name me another game which has all those things, including a giant ass map free to explore and a built-in editor to mess around and create your own scenarios. I'd happily buy that game, really.

The lack of infinite ammo for legit players will probably reduce the spawn killing in the south, since the mags for all the fancy AS50 rifles can't be obtained by rejoining anymore. So some newbies or recently killed players might survive a little longer instead of getting instakilled. But the north will be an even bigger mess, since the guys who want to keep the higher grade weapons need to get the ammo for them, so they travel up and clash with the guys like me who already set camp in the north. I'm happy with it, more things to shoot.

- And in every shooter the bullet flies straight for 1000m and than disappears into the land of magic, sometimes there's an exception like Battlefield but those physics are "meh" at best (and I like that series) - What kind of mistakes? ARMA2 is a military simulator designed to add different modifications with the same theme, a zombie apocalypse MMOFPS is a little bit out of focus, but still possible - AI routines include more than simple "attack" and "die" commands, reacting to sound and visibility is one of that. Sure many engines have that, but in DayZ those ARMA2 basics are used, so ARMA2 gets credit for it - The Netcode is still based on the ARMA2 engine, don't see the problem there

Bullet physics, all the weapon & ammunition data, general moddability of the engine, the netcode, all the assets like textures, meshes, sound, AI routines. Basically everything except the HIVE is based on ARMA2.

Poor guy, probably died of a heart attack. Best thing to do in DayZ is looking for a fire fight at night between two groups (well geared with NVG) and start popping road flares, bonus points for doing it in crowded cities.

True, but that's less the problem of the hacks but simply the consequence of the different games. In CS the worst thing that can happen to you is that you have a K/D of 0/100 or something and get called a newbie (or worse, it's still the CS community after all). DayZ is more like Diablo in Hardcore mode, you spend days or weeks "grinding" your character and if you lose, you lose the time you spent on that char. So since death has worse consequences in DayZ than a normal FPS like CS, death by hackers is way worse than it would be in your standard frag fest. The more you lose, the harder it is to accept defeat. If the defeat comes by something you can't fight, something unfair like a bug or a hacker, it hurts much more than it would otherwise. That's the nature of the game, and the more hardcore it is, the more people get annoyed by hackers. The only thing the community can do is trying to relax, if it doesn't bother people that much when they die by Thunderdome or stuff like that, the script kiddies will vanish once it gets boring. Real cheaters always tried to stay under the radar (compared to ESL cheaters and public server ragers), they will stay but they don't really hurt the experience. Or simply put: don't feed the trolls, they have a big tommy.

Wrong, ARMA2 does exactly what it's supposed to do.

Counter Strike is probably the most hacked game since quite some time, you do have to consider the fact that the type of "hacking" is very different. To hack in DayZ you need a Bypass to execute scripts which are possible within the base game ARMA2 anyway, in CS you have Wallhacks & Aimbots, the latter don't use stuff that's already implemented in the HL engine. The *** is more obvious because it may contain stuff like paratrooper cows and Masskill, while in CS the peak would be wallshots in the head. But to this day many people pee their pants as soon as ESL's Aequitas busts another wave of CS hackers, probably more people than the total amount of players DayZ will ever have.

All hail the beans! And this will hopefully never change, since the ARMA series, and to some extend OFP (part 1, not Codemasters' abomination) need this trusted client stuff to be as awesome as they are now. It's bad for DayZ as an MMOFPS, but on the other hand the mod can rely on some great functions which aren't present in other engines.

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One might add that Alphas are normally not released to the public so we basically have "early access". Hell, open betas are generally riddled with bugs, even in comercial titles, and this Alpha works pretty stable. You received some beans btw.

I've seen a guy patch up another guy and then he got shot for it. I can see why this would be a nice feature for the Wasteland medics or similar groups, but for most people it's just a "kick me" sign.

Obvious bandit trap is obvious? To attack the guy with the broken leg and probably several wounds? Make room for Captain Courageous over here.

To make them an easier target? Every bandit would instantly know that they can easily get the first shot on those guys.

Sure, but stuff like that is just funny and I appreciate the change of tone from time to time. Nothing's better after a tough fire fight than getting killed by airborne exploding cows. The teleporting stuff is stupid though, it's just annoying and if you don't die from it, you have to walk for half an hour to get back to your buddies.

First of all, if you see Jesus on a daily basis, contact a doctor. Moving on: It's not a good thing to do, but seriously? That's hilarious, I'd like to see that, seems almost better than the cow paratroopers. And Battleeye wasn't created for something like DayZ. Scripts are perfectly normal in ARMA2 since they help to control the game, kind of like a dungeon master in a P&P RPG.

The gear I've got now is the "best" (i.e. most useful) for me: M4A1 CCO SD PDW NVG + Rangefinder All toolbelt items Coyote Backpack filled with food, water and medical stuff Ideal for patrols between Stary and the NW airfield where I have to take out every enemy silently. Since I almost always play during night time, I can waste all those campy snipers or the guys who try to sneak past me to get MY BEANS.

Please tell me you fraps'd that?

You've got more balls than I do in this aspect, I have to admit that. ^^ I'm worried about corporations or the government influencing the internet too, but that goes a little bit far. I don't think the lack of mods in message boards would encourage anybody to regulate the internet. And one does not simply skip over Bob Chipman.

Just to clear that up: The name "sniper" is assigned automatically to every player wearing the ghillie suit, since the model used for it is that of the ARMA2 sniper. The full nametag for a normal survivor is normally "Rifleman PLAYERNAME" while wearing civil or camo clothing. If you put on the ghillie, the nametag will be "Sniper PLAYERNAME". Oh and don't worry, ghillie guy with AS50 on the coast is a camper anyway, next time you see him, take the gun and shoot him in the head.

I completely understand you, but please remember, it's the internet. The magical place where everyone is a homosexual male, according to outside sources, but apperently still slept with my mother, multiple times. You can't change this, not even by setting a better example, some things are just not possible. All we can do is trolling the trolls, leading to a trollception.

I would agree, but since he killed me... I guess he was doing the right thing. I got laughed at for an hour or so by my team mates though.