colekern

Rocket only posts when he's absolutely sure of something. He can take a while to figure out whether or not to put something in the game.

There is already a system in play that distinguishes bandits vs. regular survivors.

Private hive, buddy.

I posted a topic a couple days back, talking about how I logged out super-quickly because the server was mass-teleported. In the replies to it, I was called a coward, a combat logger, an Alt+F4er, and a couple of other things. I don't know why, but that just kinda stuck with me. I figured that maybe in my quest to become a hero, I'd become a combat-logging coward. I'm gonna list a couple examples below of my past actions, and you guys decide if I'm a coward or not. 1. I was showing a couple of my buddies DayZ because they had never heard of it before. I logged on into a barn with my M16a2 and some other gear. The first thing they wanted me to do was shoot a zombie. I went out of the barn and shot at one. As soon I shot, the zombie charged me. At any other time, I would have stayed on, but all of the sudden, there was a massive amount of lag. I'd never experienced a lag like this. Everytime a zombie moved (keep in mind that I'd never experienced this kind of lag), my game practically froze, making it impossible to aim. I logged out right as my leg was broken. 2. I had just re-spawned on a server. After collecting the basic survival kit (the game glitched and spawned me with literally nothing) from an abandoned trap, I heard gunfire coming from the distance. I realized no-one was shooting at me, so I moved along. I came upon a big hacker trap. It was a boat on dry ground, surrounded by six dead bodies and a hack box (you know, one of those boxes with every time in the game in it.). I ignored the hack box and looted the bodies. Suddenly, everyone was mass teleported to to a small island by hackers, who quickly started shooting everyone.. I logged out quickly and kept the gear I got from the bodies. 3. I logged out when zombies were chasing me because of a family meeting. 4. I logged out when zombies were chasing me because there was a barn nearby and I could easily lose them in it. 5. I saw a player and watched him for a bit but had to log off because of a family meeting. 6. I met up with some random players and hung with them for a while but had to log off because of real-world reasons. Other than that, I've never logged out when someone attacked me or zombies attaacked me or when I saw a player. So thanks for your answers guys. If I am a coward, I'll try to do better.

Hestaine.

get a zombie skin and offer medical attention.

Part of my reasoning is that if I've wronged someone, I wanna make it right. As for your other question, pretty much everyone. If you were in a firefight with someone, and he logged out right before your eyes, then he logged back in at another location and shot you in the face, wouldn't you be mad? And finally, I want to be a true hero in this game. If a "hero" is logging out everytime someone shoots at him, or is cowardly, I wouldn't consider him a hero. So this is basically a morality check for DayZ.

That's not what he meant. He meant that there are lot of legal issues between steam and Windows 8 right now.

Friendly as possible.

Man, that sounds somewhat weird now that I think about it. Anyways, I am a ninja. Anyways, the story. I had just joined a server (I can never remember which one) after finding, like, 50 others that side-chat enabled. I hate side chat. It took me a second to catch my bearings and figure out where I was, because when I spawned, the only hint I got was "wilderness". Turns out I was down on the bottom left corner of the map. I started heading east. to reach a nearby town. On the way, I saw three tents and a body on the road. I figured it was a trap, but I didn't care because I somehow spawned with literally nothing. I got a basic kit from the body without getting shot, and checked the tents. Empty. POWPOWPOWPOWPOW!!!!!! I looked around, only to realize there... no one there. Weird. I moved along. As I approached the town, I saw a boat on the bank (someone must've been really bad at driving) surround by at least six bodies. Human bodies. I walked up to it. It was at this point that I realized it was probably a hacker trap. I still had nothing to loose, so I went for it. The first body a found was a hero's body. I looted it only to find rangefinders, an ALAS pack, NVG's, GPS, Mountain Dew, (which I did not touch) the list goes on. I looted him and went to check the other bodies. As I neared, I saw a cardboard box. Yep, definitely a trap. Oh well. I went in. I looted the other bodies, but I figured I should loot the bodies first. Why? If it was a trap, I could at least get some good gear from the bodies and run. If I went to the box, I'd have to fumble around in it for a while to get what I needed. Basically, I was doing it for my safety. In the end, I got some blood bags, bandages, and the stuff from the hero dude. That's when the ninja fingers came in. My screen went to patter of blue and black for a second, only to pop up in a group filled with everyone on the server. The hackers started shooting. I paused. I hit abort. And the last thing I hear before I disconnect is, "SCREW YOU HACKERS!!!!!". I'd made it out with all my gear, thank God. So yeah, fun.

I don't combat log. At all.

P.s. The boat was a trap set up by the hackers.

Oh no. I found a sniper rifle, but it wasn't a legit sniper rifle. As tempted as I was to take it, I didn't.

You scare me.

Oh crap! Mt. dew curse! Anyways, charging a hacker who was more than likely in godmode with nothing more than a hatchet seemed like a bad idea.

Actually, the only other times I've logged out in a fight was when it was zombies attacking me. My reasons? Every time a zombie moved it would lag like crazy.

This might help a bit: Go into steam, right on arma 2 oa. Click properties. Click set launch options. type in cpucount=# of cores. Go in game. Go to options, video options, advanced. Set VRAM to default, turn off post proccesing.

It could also be the AMD processor. Arma doesn't like those.

I was on... some private hive server, but I can't remember for the life of me what is was called. Anyways, I spawned it the middle of nowhere with a pistol and no ammo. I then remembered I'd played on the server once but let because side-chat was enabled (I hate side chat). I don't know why, but I stayed on this time. I took a right and started down the road, only to run into... Electro. well, that's convenient. Considering this was a private hive that had side chat enabled, I decided to take off down the street like moron. I arrived at the office building. There was a man on the second floor shooting zombies with his pistol. I ran inside and dropped my makarov to show that I was friendly. I walked up the stairs, only to have a clip of his pistol unloaded in to me. Fortunately, his pistol sucked. I survived and bandaged. "Ow. That's not cool, dude. I even dropped my weapons for you." He just looked at me, puzzled as he reloaded his pistol. I just stood there looking at him. Now, at this point, I'd like to take a moment to describe the situation: I was an unarmed survivor, who had deliberately dropped his pistol as a show of friendliness. This guy had pistol (with bullets, by the way), and what looked like a sniper rifle (it was a cz550, or a lee enfield. I couldn't tell.). This guy wasted more bullets on me in five seconds with a semi auto weapon than I ever have (well... maybe not) into me. I survived, and remained peaceful after that. So we have two... no, three options: 1.This guy was a newbie and was scared out of his mind because he saw an unarmed player. 2. He was a Jerk (and a jerk without a bandit skin). 3. He thought I was a hacker and had godmode on. That was when I saw in side chat,"hes gonna kill you". POW! Did I mention I was unarm- nevermind. I typed,"well that wasn't cool." in side chat and logged out. Lesson learned. Don't run up to random armed dudes. So yeah. I just posted this for fun. What do you guys think about it? Ever convinced someone you're a hacker?

Why do you think I said, "I once heard someone say..."? But yeah, his says "In a world full of monsters, you have to become a monster to survive." I said was gonna disprove that.

Don't bother posting this if you don't have proof.

Also, run both of the games before you install DayZ.

Dude, your massively overreacting. Just because you can turn your brightness or gamma up to get an advantage doesn't mean you should. When it comes to resolution, however, that's not a cheat. You're simply playing the game the way it's meant to be played.

Try port-forwarding. It might help a little bit.

I'll be impressed when someone gets 1,000,000 humanity.