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Paraplegic....saying to break someone's legs? Brilliant, mate. +1 Out of curiosity, those of you who complain about things being too easy, I'd like to ask, do you run solo or in a squad? With just two people, it was extremely easy with coyote backpack + alice pack - he had med supplies out the ass, and I carried 10 steaks. However, a couple days ago, I found an MP5SD6 and an M16A4 ACOG, so having a gun in my bag limits my space a bit. Last night my buddy found our first Sniper, so now we're limited on space (We were lucky enough to have found a ton of DMR ammo right about the same time as the rifle) - so now he's got a rifle, 5 blood packs, 3 morphines and 2 epi-pens in his bag, whereas I have ammo and a couple things of water/food in mine. It works out fine for us. If I was solo, with a second primary in my bag, it would be pretty difficult to keep any amount of ammo and still be able to carry all the necessary supplies (medical, food, drink, etc) without having to constantly return to a hospital or a grocery store on a daily basis. However, as it is, I have 8 clips for my M16 (Only because my buddy dropped his own M16 for the sniper) and 3 for my MP5 because I ended up using all my own morphine from glitching out of deer stands... It took us a good 5 hours to come from having no ammo to speak of to having some ammo - between the NWAF, Cherno, Balota and Deer Stands - 5 hours of constant searching, hauling ass through cherno to find heatpacks whilst being chased by 30 zombies we didn't have the ammo to kill, etc. When you have no supplies, it can get pretty brutal. If you're that worried about it, just go to Zelenogorsk or something and just start lighting up the zombies. Take out the whole town. After an hour or so of that, you won't have too much in the way of supplies if you piss off enough zeds. :)

I've recorded hours and hours of video of my buddy and I playing in the last couple weeks. We decided to try a night server (because our normal daytime servers were being mass attacked by hackers, like one an hour or so!) and we haven't looked back. We'd rather not deal with 40 bandits if we can help it. Playing on a recruit/regular server at night as long as there is a moon you shuold be able to see just fine most of the time. Sometimes however, clouds move in, and it gets so dark you can't see a tree 3 feet in front of you, let alone zeds. That's when you switch servers. :D In short, playing at night offers a different kind of experience. It's as dangerous as far as players are concerned (I, at least, am more paranoid about running into players at night, than during the day when I can see and react) but definitely far less dangerous in regards to zombies - they have sight issues at night, :)

I would agree on the not being able to run forever thing, but only if you have SOME manner of defending yourself when you spawn. Give you a stick, like a wooden stick. that has like....12 uses and takes 4 hits to kill a zombie, that would give you 3 possible zombie kills. after 12 uses, it's gone. Because as things stand now... if you LOOK at a zombie they will aggro you from 400 meters away without any hesitation while the one 20 feet to your left just grunts and hops around happily. Not being able to outrun stupid crap like that, or them hearing your breathing through a wall (happened to me at NEAF) while being perfectly still while waiting for it to pass so you can get into that building with the possibility of finding MAYBE a double barrel or POSSIBLY a Makarov if you're lucky? Sigh... While I agree the survival aspect needs tuning, and would love to see some sort of endurance system brought in that's more than what currently in the game (the longer you run the longer it takes to get your breath back, and you do slow down a little after running for a while) unless there's a way to protect yourself, i'd have to disagree at its addition. --> On the topic of sticks. I think you should be able to "loot" a bush, or maybe one of those small evergreen trees would be better, for a stick that has a small number of uses but is *SOME* way to defend yourself. Perhaps even just one zombie kill with it. Crack a skull with it and it breaks too.

It may be a DayZ Commander thing, I'm not sure as I do not use it... Is it possible for you to pick a server from the in-game multiplayer menu? If it requires you to join a server, and sticks you into the lobby, you can then disconnect and go to the games menu, if that helps... I ask because it may just be the dayZ Commander doing something wrong.

I'm at that point as well. The point where I watch people very carefully and communicate with my partner about movements and possibilities. He's always itching to kill someone ever since he got shot in the face by a "friendly" bandit who we were giving some free med supplies for helping us out of a sticky situation... I won't shoot people if they will leave us alone, but if I hear shots nearby, I'm on full alert and KOS mode. If there's a building I can hole up in, I will do so and start screaming over my mic that following me would be a deadly mistake... Most people heed the warning, but 3 poor souls in the past week haven't been so lucky. One even had no gun - a sad mistake brought on by paranoia. :( But I just got my hands on an M16 ACOG and I'm itching to test it on something other than the deaf, dead, and ugly. Got teleported to cherno from NWAF, so that time may be very, very soon... We shall see.

I don't think so. Or, at least, I hope not, because occasionally, my PBOs go "missing" and I have to reverify the cache through steam and reinstall BattleEye so I can actually play. I actually once loaded in and couldn't see a single building. THAT sucked.

lol. I must just have bad juju then in regards to such things. Most people who shoot at me even with a handful of people usually tend to Alt-F4 when I start shooting back.

Well, those reasons are certainly valid... but here's my thoughts: The FN FAL ammo can only be found at Heli crashes which in and of themselves is pretty rare. I find M249 belts quite frequently in my deer stand hopping all over the map and in fire houses in cherno, etc. In short, while the FN FAL does indeed do more damage.... It is hard to get ammo for unless you can find a few crash sites and get lucky.

Sounds similar to what happened to my buddies and I around the same area, just north of the dam. We crossed the road (We were headed to Mogilevka to meet up with a buddy) and some guy just starts shooting what I am pretty sure was an M16 of some flavor, and then we heard the cannon go off. After we headed into the woods and up the hill a bit, we waited em out until they crossed the road right where we came from. Unfortunately for them, we were actually decent shots, and I managed to take out the guy with the M107 with my AK after some maneuvering - but the guy with the M16 alt-F4'd like a baby. At least those guys you were dealing with didn't Alt-F4. :)

Tried the batch file already. For some reason it wouldn't work. I suppose I could try again, but I don't know what difference it would make now. Appreciate the offer, mate, but as I said I'm in no real hurry to update, lol. This is simply a product of an old hard drive that has crashed too many times and has too many OS's on it. I'm used to it (As I said, I couldn't get skype to work for a year after i installed windows 7, and TeamSpeak still refuses to work). I'm sure if my steam directory was on my storage drive with the rest of my games it would work just fine. But... I'm not reinstalling 22 games.

That's just it. There's 6 of us who play. We all did the same freaking thing, it worked for 4 people, not all of us. We tried other methods that came to mind, and as I said I had a friend of mine who's good at fixing shit like this (Stuff not running, or running incorrectly, etc.) and he (who also plays) couldn't figure it out either. So, I've given up on getting it to work on this machine at the present moment. I'm not complaining that I can't update (I'm perfectly fine with not updating, the regular servers I play on are all still on .4 - no rush here), I simply cannot stand the fact that some people think that just because something works for them means it HAS to be a solution for everybody. Then again, my system has been running funny since I got windows 7. Took a year for me to be able to install Skype, and I haven't been able to use TeamSpeak at all. Even Rosetta Stone doesn't work properly on this pc when I had installed it on my OS drive - works on my storage drive just fine. I think I need a new HDD, and a fresh install of Win7, but since I lost my job in Feb, money's way too tight to warrant a purchase like that. Also, for the record, I use the Six Launcher only to launch the game, I don't use the server join thing, cause I find it inaccurate at best. So, what I'm getting at is that it's not that I"m doing it wrong, cause I've done everything a half dozen times at least (aside from complete reinstall, only did that once) and it still doesn't work. I'm also not saying it's the game's fault, or the mod's fault, or even that it's Joe Shmoe's fault in Jersey. All I'm saying is that SOME of us cannot get it to work regardless of "solutions" that are available. In my case, I'm 90% certain it's my 10 year old Hard Drive. So please don't be so quick on saying that someone's done it wrong. :) On another note, from a few pages ago, someone mentioned: My buddies and I also believe it is a memory leak issue, as when we logged in (first time in the day) at one of the affected areas, it doesn't occur for most of us (One of our guys is using a very old vid card that only has 512mb vram iirc) for the rest of us (using 1gb+ vram) if we log in the first time at one of those areas, we're good to go most of the time. As long as we don't get teleported to the beach at kamenka when we log out at the NWAF. That has happened four times today :( I also noticed that it gets progressively worse the longer you play. If you run into it within an hour or two of playing, it's got artifacts, but it's still playable if you're careful, and point your camera straight up or down (and don't have to shoot anything!). After about 4-6+ hours of play, these white boxes start spazzing out all over and no matter where the camera is pointed, if you're within x meters, you can't see anything but epileptic squares and polygons. BTW, we're on 1.7.2.4 because - as mentioned previously - not all of us can update. This is just my own non-professional experience and opinion on the matter. Wire doesn't seem to cause problems till the 4-6+ hour range as well for me. Just the corpses from what I can tell.

Some of us have issues doing manual install for one reason or another. Myself and another friend of mine both cannot launch Combined Operations without the use of Six Launcher, no matter WHAT we try. So, for some of us, it's not that we can't INSTALL it manually, but it simply will not RUN manually. Period. Even had an IT friend of mine try to do it for me, and he gave up after a couple hours of trying some different approaches. So, no need for you to get all pissy when some of us have legitimate reasons for waiting for Six Launcher.

That's how it is here in america, TheMachine. Mostly. I do know some Canadian ISPs have plans with limits on data (Such as Rogers, if i spelled it right) but as far as I know, there's nothing in contracts from Comcrap, time warner, or Verizon in regards to data limits - those are the ISPs I've used, and I've not had any issues (in regards to data limits). EDIT: Okay, previous comments seem to have proven me wrong. However, perhaps I just run more expensive internet plans? :D

I've done this.... When I find something better IN the tent, and need to drop some slots for it, :P

Eating sounds aren't disgusting. Ever gutted an animal? THAT is a nasty sound!

Sounds like more stress on the hive to me. Although I do like the concept you're going for. Found a dude sniping outside of cherno, he was moving around quite a bit, looking for better angle or something, I'm not sure. I get within shooting distance and begin to light him up with my AKM, and the little jerk leaves. I sit around for a few mins thinking he may come back and I can finish him off. Instead he came back in somewhere else and started sniping at me (An AWFUL shot, too...how do you miss a stationary target?). Anyway, it irritated me, almost getting killed by a douche like that.

On the subject of children and mature rated games... I was playing Diablo (the original) when I was 9 years old. I knew the difference between a game and the real world (Due to a traumatizing childhood, I knew ALL too well). I turned out just fine! /twitch twitch

It puts too much stress on the Hive right now. It's peaking enough as it is, or so I've seen devs say elsewhere in the forums. Therefore, since it's already peaking, adding extra (technically unnecessary) queries doesn't really make sense. They had to lessen the load somehow, that's how they chose to do it. You and the rest of us are having to deal with it, but I'll tell you what - I'd rather have no leaderboards than be unable to play.

I can't imagine it being THAT difficult. At one heli crash sight I found both a Bizon and a FAL NVScope just outside of Stary. Went into Stary a couple days before that and I found a DMR (no ammo), M16A2 (1 mag), M14AIM (1 mag if you consider the DMR mag near the DMR), and an AK-74 (with 8 mags!). Needless to say I took the AK-74 since it actually had a supply of ammo. But I really wish I had taken the M16A2, since at the Heli crash I mentioned earlier was a 5.56 crate with 30 stanag clips. Oh, well, win some, lose some. That was in 3 days time I found all of that. Not hard to imagine finding a few decent things, especially if you raid the Airfields (I managed to only find an AKM during a brief trip to NWAF, but no complaints as I love my AKM) a couple times or find a tent.

A major contributor of the lack of players in these areas is the graphical artifact glitches the majority of the playerbase is currently dealing with. I have made a run from stary to NWAF, and did another with a buddy of mine on two mid-pop servers, I even lit up a ton of zeds in stary cuz I couldn't see them and aggroed them (stupid artifacts) and didn't run into a soul. I suppose hearing a full auto rampage would be enough to scare off some people, though.

Similar thing happened to a buddy tonight. We were teleported to thunderdome... I instantly logged out, he wasn't so lucky. He had just found an AK-74... spawns into elektro walks to firehouse, finds Kobra, Coyote Backpack, and a G17. He was using a czech pack and a makarov pre-death. Win for him. The glitches are crazy and annoying, but occasionally end up on a positive note.

But then you can't play on the servers that require those patches, right?

detly, it hasn't worked for me as well. The only way I can play is via SixLauncher. The only minor issue I have is that I then cannot have the Steam overlay, but that's minor. try downloading the sixUpdater/Launcher and it should work.

In the last few days I've noticed a similar thing. Using Fraps I clocked my FPS at around 20 on High settings, but every 1 second or so (It's pretty steady, like a metronome) it "spikes" and drops down to 3-5 frames for half a second. So in all actuality, it's like I'm watching a slideshow with the occasional 2 seconds of clarity or so. I've tried a dozen different servers, thinking maybe something on the 3 servers I normally play on could possibly be causing it, but it isn't. Every other game I play has no FPS issues at all. For the record, I'm running on an AMD Radeon HD 5850 card (Which will hopefully be updated in the coming months). OP, are you running an AMD card as well? I ask because I have 2 buddies I play with, one uses nvidia and he doesn't have issues, and the other uses a like 6700 or some odd AMD and doesn't have issues. I haven't had these issues until this week. Been able to run Very High with around 40+ FPS in most situations until now.