slartibartfast (DayZ)

I wasn't aware of a 'root problem' in battleye. Pray tell. Educate the slightly differently knowledged.

That. ^

Wow. That's a bit harsh. I bet you aren't the school counselor.

Skiddie doesn't google.

The cynic in me has to agree with you. Apparently there have been in the region of 20,000 global bans in the last month. Now I am not saying that they would all come back, but at $15-$25 a pop for a new key. There is certainly gold in dat der hill of beans. If you were a software developer then you wouldn't want to make it too hard for the skiddies to return.

But it would still add another step for the morons to consider. I imagine the majority are just kids with nothing better to do than sit on a hill and execute players from 800m. Surely if the consequences of a global ban included your IP, MAC address or even the serial number of your motherboard and other hardware. Then the extra effort of paying for a VPN or some other piece of software to randomize these things would make the actual hacking for the hell of it very expensive. Just my tuppence worth.

Having just read this thread I need to comment. DayZ isn't a game. It is a mod. Everybody playing it is actually testing it. Coming on here and whinging about bugs that the entire community is aware of just reinforces one thing. It has been said time and again. The sense of entitlement this current generation have is astonishing. If you cannot cope with the fact that this is an ALPHA, and by definition broken, then you should hang your as50 tws over the fireplace, put your beans back in the cupboard and go play CoD.

when we were learning how to throw grenades there were two very important points. right hand = grenade left hand = pin. PULL! look at leftt hand and make sure pin is there(remember this point) Look at right, make sure that grenade is there. (hands are interchangeable(grenades and pins are not) throw grenade For the game. press 'F' make sure that it says the thing that you want to throw/fire(top right hand corner) press left button. let left mouse button go. repeat ad nauseum. if it says 'throw' and a number that means you have trash. if it says m67 - guess what you have? if it says g17...........shoot!

it is called survival. healing then finding a safe place to hole up is as valid as any other strategy. You can speed up the process. But I really should let you work it out for yourself, as the folks that run in clans and scour the map for goodies will hate me for telling you.

it is also very similar to the Ilse of Man flag - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man it would seem that you have struck an overly sensitive Mod here. I have had a wee think about this and have to say that it is censorship at it's absolute worst.

So you are only a big man when you are hanging with your homos. What a coward. Mate in Glasgow we have a word for people like you. Tim.

Nothing wrong with weapon maintenance. Regular use of any type of firearm requires the cleaning of it. I would suggest that weapons should be cleaned EVERY single day. From a light oiling for unused to a major cleansing if you have been used in a firefight. degradation is a different thing all together - weapon(and vehicle) parts are designed to last for years of use. I had an L1A1(fn fal for all you fanboys) that was older than me when I first joined the Army. Admittedly the stock had been changed and the mechanism had been changed and the gas chamber and the barrel, but the gun was still decades old. ;) I would suggest that cleaning is essential.

Shopping Malls could be 'Instanced' - no way to get in, or out, without being in a co-op group. But there might be more than one group in there. You really never can tell. dead players should attract a small herd of zeds for a long time. That body is gonna be warm and bloody for a while - this would get rid of the need to turn players into zombies - sorry infected. BTW - if you camouflaged your long wheel base like that in my squad then you would be on stag for the entire night.

apparently if you drink it then you are cursed. Just saying.

Every time there is an update this needs to happen.(like with 1.7.3) Take us back to day one. Everybody starts again. No camps. No stocks of weapons. Every single tent deleted. Every vehicle reset. when the hackers start to hack again then there will be another 20,000 bans(as there have been since June). The dupers will lose their ability because the tents only seem to dupe if they were set in 1.7.2.4 and are now used in 1.7.2.5 therefore all tent dupes would be erradicated in one fell swoop. I know that they would start again somehow - but at least there would be real rare weapons and not 100,000 as50 heat seeking snipers.

All fantastic ideas. I had one I cal the drop bear zombie. It hides out in buildings only making itself known when you start to loot. Dropping down from the ceiling or springing out from a darkened cupboard. I like the idea of a sniffer zombie. If you remain in one spot for too long(or an area of say 100m) then zeds are automatically drawn to the spot. It would certainly make the life of a griefer a wee bit more interesting.

Seriously dud. Read what I am posting. I have told you what causes it. I have told you the solution. I visit half a dozen servers every night and may only be on one for a few minutes. I change between dayz versions 1.7.2.4 and 1.7.2.5. I also change between the various arma2 versions. I use commander to install the various versions as I require them. Yes, you can chop and change your installed versions of the software. I make sure that what I have installed EXACTLY matches the server versions. It isn't rocket science. The issue is caused by NOT having the same version of the software as the server. Sigh. Now away and have some bitty.

It would also present the perfect target for these skiddies who would take great pleasure in sniping your bright orange face. I have to agree with you though. There would be absolutely no point in even trying to add a game mechanic that would have to deal with smoking and drinking. Just let us do it in the real world and imagine our zombie slaying, bandit slashing alter ego is just too much of a hero to poison himself. ;)

I have to admit that I enjoy nothing more than raiding in WoW whilst my toon is inebriated. The fuzzy screen and vomiting always make great YouTube material. I'm not sure about the drinking in here though. I mean, would you really cut loose and party hard knowing that in the next 5 minutes you could be on the wrong end of a fire fight or staring into a random herd of zeds?(which need to be introduced) This is hard core - death is not a run back from the nearest graveyard. I have played this game shit faced and I have to say that my decision making has cost me more than one reincarnation. ;)

Nothing worth reading here folks. I'm off for a ciggie and to play in traffic.

Nope, can't see why people who play, talk about and moderate on a game that is essentially encouraging us to shoot each other in the head from hilltops and firestation towers would be offended by a fictional symbol that represents nothing in the real world. Given that there are hundreds of posts on here with players boasting about the murder of other players. There is no moral high ground here. Unless it is a copyright issue. But then again, how many of the moderators have permission from Heinz to use the imagery in their signatures and avatars?

The stuff I smoke increases hunger and removes the ability to care whether zeds see me, or not man! Woah, is that a dragon? Cooooooool!

BB was the Boys Brigade. A kind of scout group in Britain. please do not call it BI. Seriously say it out loud in this sentence. "Yes, I'm in an anti bandit group. We are BI." How about the EMB. If you translate Bandit Death Squad into french(escadron de la mort bandit) this is very rough French btw. Or even BDS. I could wear either of those badges.

Honestly??. And here was me thinking that the mutations caused by smoking in your body could happen on your first fag. So do you have a number for the fags I can smoke before I get cancer? Or is it something that you just made up to troll? Let us not even talk about the reduced lung capacity and skin problems and eye problems and mouth ulcers and smelly clothes. Given how much valid information there is in the real world about the dangers of smoking, your view worries me. Yes. I am an exsmoker. I was in the Army. I could run in full combats with all my gear(including an SLR, otherwise known as the L1A1 or the fn fal in game). How happy was I when we changed to the rifle 5.56mm(SA80)?

The bizon is just utter rubbish. The only heli crash I have ever found and looted - I am a complete loner most of the time so you can imagine just how tough that was - had a bizon. I dropped my trusty akm and picked it up. 20 super quiet rounds later I was in a deerstand dropping my bizon and picking up a 74 because ANYTHING is better than that weapon. Seriously, the SMG that I first used in the 80s was a potato gun, but the bison, well you would be better throwing the ammo at zeds. Now I just have my g17 for close quarter zed eradication and the cco for sitting in the flats and popping zed's heads for kill count. 401 in this life. 306 head shots. Good enough for me. ;)