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I've taken to not playing this game anymore. That's my personal response to the amount of hacking occurring in this game. Personally, I do not find it fun having to spend an hour or two equipping your char just to wander off and be slain by a hacker. Folks who consider this type of "gameplay enjoyable must be masochists. On top of the hacking, there is the camping of noob zones by well equipped players who just sit in the "newbie towns (i.e. Cherno and Electro)" and pick off unarmed noobs like lambs going to slaughter. They (the DayZ developer(s)) made a big mistake by removing the starting weapon from game. Every starting player should start with an Enfield (or some other common rifle of the time) and a small amount of ammo for it. Period. The entire premise of this "mod"/game is that we, the player character, have survived thus far through the "Zombie Apocalypse" so why, on Earth, WOULDN'T WE BE ARMED TO START THE GAME?

I'm torn on this subject really. On one hand, I like the current format where all we have is a color bar and we do not know exactly what level our health is at. This, for me, creates a sense of "urgency" if not outright "panic" when playing if I find myself with a blinking red health bar. I know my goose is cooking... but do I have enough time to reach a hospital... to get help... to extract myself from virtual peril. On the remaining hand, I miss the old statistics "health bar". This was convenient to have as we knew exactly where our health level stood and thus knew exactly when shock/unconsciousness/death would manifest themselves.

Nothing is saving correctly is my guess. I purposely died in-game after a fresh spawn just to see if I could spawn in a better "noob" location. I spawn a noob in and what do I find? My "noob" starts in a brand new location but he's got a broken leg and is bleeding out... WTF? I just uninstalled this game. I wish you the best OP as I'm off to pwn noobs in GW2 where I can log in a level 1 noob and immediately go PvP with a max level 80 char and all its skills! Woot! Go Go GO ArenaNet!!!

LOL! I DL'd all the new patches/versions after taking a month off from this game (due to me being perturbed with all the gameplay/coding bugs and hackers too). I log in today and play for an hour only to find out the loot tables seem to have been changed (i.e. not as much "good" loot it appears).

ROFL! I feel your pain but coming in here and venting is not proper I don't believe. EVERY TIME I HAVE GEARED UP IN CHERNO/ELECTRO I have met a quick end at some hack or some leet-squad sniper outfit who relishes pumping led into noobs from ~1,000m's out is more fun that fighting equally equipped opponents. So I'm with you on your sentiment OP but not in the location in which you elected to vent! ;)

Wait for the DayZ stand-alone version to be released later this year. The current DayZ Mod for A2 is crap because of all the damn hackers... and I mean A LOT of hackers.

I quit playing this game/Mod due to the amount of hackers. It's pathetic... especially when one stops to consider the ramifications. It's not the game which sucks... it's Humanity which sucks. Humans did not reach the top of the food chain by being honorable, moral, and principaled. Humans reached the top of the food chain because they are cheats, liars, cutthroats, murderers, and otherwise vile. Keep that lesson in Humanity in mind when playing virtual games and you may be better able to stomach the hacks which proliferate in this game/Mod.

Have you been healed? If not I'll help you. It will take me a while to reach the NWAF though...

Only time I get aggravated with dying is when I'm at 9K+ health only to catch a bleeding wound and then go UNCONSCIOUS FOR FIVE GODDAMN MINUTES during which I bleed out and die. Seriously, one of two things needs to change. First, either reduce the unconscious timer to 3 minutes or so or second reduce the rate of blood loss. Seriously. I was lowcrawling into a building and caught Zed aggro just as I broke my legs (due to the faulty game code) and then the Zed bit me in the arse and gave me a bleeding wound. So I shot Zed Ded and then passed out unconscious and died from the blood loss. Talk about pissing in my Cheerios. LOL!

How are you folks communicating with folks in-game? Via chat or the regional voice comms? An external voice comm's server? I can't get my mic working so I can't communicate via in-game voice comms... and I'm told I can no longer use a global chat in this game as it was removed in one of the more recent updates/patches.

I seriously doubt this mod's developers are going to devote much (if any) more resources to this mod. They're hard at work at developing for release the stand-alone version of this game/mod. If they do bother to invest more time in this mod I surely hope they remedy this out of freakin' control hacking that is going on.

Fair enough Melted. Your pseudo-apology is accepted. ;) I wholly understand your frustration when folks levy accusations against people without having the wherewithal to first contact the accused and hear it from the proverbial "horse's mouth".

Take a damn chill pill. I am a FAR BETTER writer than you ever will be and I'm not close to being 10 years old. My post asked a question ABOUT YOUR SERVER it was NOT an opinion about your server. I DID offer my opinion on the state of this game and the amount of hacking afflicting it though. If you, or anyone else, thinks this level of hacking is acceptable you've got another thing coming. Furthermore, DayZ's standalone will be using portions of the ARmA II engine so don't assume it will be free of hacking. If they cannot quell hacking now there's no way they're going to quell it come standalone time. *** Edit *** Lastly, lashing out with indiscriminate personal attacks (after being accused) wreaks of guilt. Maybe it is YOU who should be looking in the mirror and not the rest of us.

lol Scuba Steve plays this game? Epic!

Yes. However, swimming is what I consider to be painstakingly SLOW!