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so... what's with the Z's being like super nija's now, got attacked while laying still in a clump of trees... was this the plan or is it a bug?

This is to report server US 327, attempted to join the server several times, only 2 players were on, names in sshots, one had "Admin" tags, was kick every time I tried to join, sometimes I would get past the sever file download, sometimes before I could even get to the lobby, manage to take the sshots below, had to be quick. Not sure what was going on, but my friends also tried to join & got the same kick treatment, apparently they were kicking anyone who tried to join. browser/server view.. lobby view, player names & who was the Admin.. message received half second later.. again, I tried multiple times & so did my friends, no one could get on.

It works CONFIRM! This worked for me also, thanks! :D

wow, I never noticed what the ingame message said, I was to busy trying to take a sshot, not sure who these guys are, but they apparently have no regard for the DayZ server rules & how they must be managed.

great, I like the fine tuning, keep up the good work.

the hotfix almost killed me.... earlier today when I logged off, I was in some trees, my health was at 11k. I got back on the PC, see that another update has been released, so I get it & log on just to make sure all is installed correctly but not to play as I'm about to go to bed. The server I got on was running the latest patch, it's dark & raining, the moment I spawn in my character falls prone, I have a broken bone & I'm bleeding out so fast that before I can apply the bandage my blood goes all the way down to 3k, my heart beat is so strong that it's shaking the screen & I logged off after taking a morphine for the broken bone... I never moved, there was no one or Z's around.... what the heck is going on!

so, I got done playing earlier today, been offline for the last few hours, come back to the PC & see that a hotfix is now out.. great! I update & hop on a server, not to play but to make sure I got everything install correctly & I did. When I logged off I was in some trees, so no one around, my heath was a bit over 11k, so all is good. I got on a server running the latest version, it's dark & raining, the moment I get ingame, my character falls prone, I have suffered a broken bone somewhere... I'm bleeding out so fast that I go from 11k down to just over 3k before I can get a bandage applied & stop the bleeding, my heart beat is shaking the screen & I logged off.... What the heck is going on!!!!

so... infections stop at 9999? Mine never went below that number & it counted down from 11,8?? it was over that mark when I first noticed the ticket bleed, just wasn't aware of infections only going to 9999 & stopping on it's own. Other ppl I've been around ingame who were infected, their character would cough, passout, ect.. I did none of that, nothing on any icon stated I had any problems.

tomato - tomato...

NO To hard for all those new players who bought A2 just for this mod & have never played A2, it goes way over the top. This is better suited for hardcore servers. I've been playing the Arma series sense the beginning & I'm getting frustrated more & more, the fun factor keeps taking a hit. I would beat that if you provide a choice of this on hardcore servers & the previous load-out on regular servers... you would see the difference. Careful not to bite the hands that made you so popular, they are the ones your must appeal to.. not the hardcore few who don't care about anyone but themselves.

To much for newbies, better suited for hardcore servers, newbies that put A2 top seller, wont play this.

To respond to feedback... be it negative or positive... with the customary, "it's an alpha, don't complain" is the dumbest response I've seen. Of course it's a alpha.. it's an OPEN alpha, open to the public, open to criticism, open to feedback both positive & negative, ect.. So it's not the communities job to only report bugs they find, they also need to post thoughts, complaints, ideas... ect on the direction of the mod, after all, without the community, the mod is dead except to very limited few.

same problem, and it's not an infection as it stops at 9999 every time, the first time I noticed was after a Z attacked me & I got away, I killed a cow to cook/eat get my blood back up. After eating a few steaks, I noticed that the meat (which normally gives 800) was only boosting a few points.. like 2/4 & my blood started counting down slowly. I too thought it was an infection, but it stopped at 9999, this has now happened twice, seems I can't get my blood all the way back to 12000 anymore, so something is a miss.

awesome, thanks to Rocket & the entire team!

This game provides so much, for those who are new to Arma2 & have only played the DayZ mod... you don't know what your missing.. play some of the other stuff to.. then hurry back to DayZ when your done, lol. But seriously, Arma2 is a huge game, with so much more than you can do in any other game, it is the ultimate sandbox, just check it out!

ppl new to Arma2/Chernarus who are playing it for the first time may see the map as too large, but keep in mind that the map was not built for the mod, but the other way around. The game world of Chernarus is perfect size when you play the base game as it was designed & Arma 3's game world will be almost twice as large, so those hoping for smaller maps in A3 are in for a shock. Now there are custom maps made by the mod community that are smaller in overall size, some have a more desert look/feel, others have a more tropical terrain, ect.. perhaps at some point there may be a DayZ version on those custom maps, but seeing that we are only at the Alpha stage, it will be sometime before the full release of the mod & any possible custom changes. Personally I'm glad the Dev's haven't gone the ACE route were you literally have to download gig's of files to play ACE, instead they have kept it to one item to download in order to play, which is the best route to go, but I wouldn't mind downloading a custom map also if they went that route, just don't want to have to download 37 & each server be different.

There's actually 2 different pieces of software, Six Updater... used to keep the mod updated & Six Launcher, which I have to agree doesn't work.. at least not for me & possibly others. However Six Updater is a very good & useful tool, you can delete the icon to the launcher if you like as there's no way to stop it from installing, here is a short guide to follow. Use Six Updater to update your mod by clicking on the Mod tab, scroll down to @DayZ & right click on it, hover over Updater actions, then click "Install or update mod". It will scan your current version of the mod & update as needed, you only need to do this once a new version is released, then close Six Updater until the next release. Now to launch the mod & the beta patch, you can use several methods, the best way I have found to run the mod + the beta patch is to use Arma2 Launcher. It's a simply program that lets you set the parameters for how the game will start. Once you set it up, you only have to click the start button each time & it turns everything on for you. If you need any help getting it all working, just drop me a PM & I will be happy to help, we can hop on TS & I can walk you through.

probably the only small wooden bridge on the entire freaking map & I decided to crawl under to take a look & hid from a Z close by, I was crouched instead of prone, smacked my forehead on the bridge support & knocked myself out, was not able to regain conciseness before a Z ate me... true story.

It might help for ppl who are completely raw to Arma2/DayZ/alpha type mods, to have an ingame message come up at start.. like the Domination missions or other missions have... a sshot or text at the load screen that basically says, "This is an Alpha build, expect errors & bugs, the Developers are working on the mod daily to reach full release." Or something along those lines, that way ppl who just bought A2-CO because of the buzz from the mod, wouldn't be caught off guard & make post because they don't fully understand, it would cut down on the sticker shock effect that some ppl have. Veterans of A2 & modding that complain, should be taken out back & flogged repeated as they know better, just my2cents.

I do seem to recall that the last time this happened, I had been shoot by a person & this time it was after I was killed by a bandit I believe. However I didn't leave the server, I was able to rejoin, but as I mentioned had some type of gfx problem going on, so I restarted my game, it was then that I got the hour glass fall over & die slowly. It did this twice today & I stayed on the second time to let it run it's course.. it took about 5 mins for it bleed all the way down, and funny thing, once it finished, I was able to stand up & everything was back to normal. I also mentioned that the server had crashed. I kinda put this on the data server backend not getting my character info updated as fast as things were happening. It could be related to a PvP kill or the server crash or possibly a combination of both plus all the data server is trying to keep up with. All in all, after it corrected itself, I was able to play for over 4 hours without a problem, so it's not something I'm seeing all the time, just a few times now.

same... The server I was on was NY3, server had crashed & I rejoined after it came back. Spawned back & was killed soon after by bandits. Respawned, came in at Chernagorsk & noticed that I was getting some image issues, possibly my gfx card, so I left the server & restarted the game. Got back on the NY3 server, but upon respawn I was immediately unable to move & got the hour glass, which slowly drained then I feel over, again unable to move. Disconnected & rejoined only to see the same thing.