malau (DayZ)

Yes, if Rocket really is altering their AI pathing so that they CAN run inside buildings WITHOUT adding proper stealth to allow a player to avoid being seen, then the Zombie annoyance level will go through the roof. Even allowing the player to prone and play dead should at least be an option to fool zombies.

It runs on XP perfectly well - which makes sense as Arma 2 is a DirectX9 game.

As someone who has never encountered a Hacker, and thought Battleye must be the dog's bollocks, it is shocking to wander into this section of the forum and see all these new reports of hacking. How come it is happening ? I thought the new Battleye blocked any and all scripts that could possibly be used for nefarious purposes ? How come Admins are having to do all the banning and Battleye is catching squat ?

How the hell are all these people getting past the new Battleye with something so blockable as teleport scripts ?

I've never ever ever found a single vehicle in the 2 months i've played the game. Mind you, i've never seen a single hacker ever either.

I don't know if Rocket is changing the near utter darkness that exists on Alpha to a more subtle one in Virtuality 2.5 ? If not, then if the Zombies had glowing red eyes in the darkness it would be pretty damn scary when the chase is on.

Yeah, HDR and Gamma up allows you to play at night (until it rains), but I would play with 1.0 gamma if the zeds had red eyes. If reflections in animals eyes are explained by the density of blood vessels in their retinas, maybe the 'realism' explanation could be that the virus causes an exponentiation increase in the density of blood vessels on the retina, which reflects even the smallest amount of light.

1a - Will Standalone support XP (64) ? (On the IGN chat, Rocket said that the engine would be Arma 2 with bits of Arma 3 code appropriated - which suggests continued XP support. However on the forums, people say it will be DirectX 10 and 11 ONLY. Which is true ?) 1b - Will we be forced to use STEAM for Standalone ? Steam takes up 200mb of precious, precious RAM. 1c - Will Standalone finally break the 2gb barrier ? (as Arma 2 cannot use more than 2Gb of RAM (-maxmem 2047) 2 - Will Standalone have the same 'absolute darkness' that Alpha has ? Or it will it have varying degrees of darkness ? Can you give the Zombies glowing red eyes at nighttime ? (Maybe the virus has caused retinal bloody supply to exponentially increase, reflecting even small amounts of light as a red glow ?) 3 - Will underground cave complexes be introduced to the many hills in Chernarus+ ? And the underground military viral research centre at Green Hill, will it be implemented in Standalone ? 4 - Will there be other constructable sources of light - such as torches (wood + rags + match) in Standalone ?

It would be cool if there was a devastated Cheyenne Mountain style underground complex at Green Hill, as the place where the virus originated as part of a Bio-Weapons program that went wrong. Either in complete darkness, or just the flickering dimness of red emergency power lights. Also afew more minor underground military complexes, such as at the main airfield and Stary Sober ? Also, why not put natural cave systems under alot of the hills ? Some of them leading all the way from one range of hills to the next.

Arma 2 is a beautiful work of art. There's no other engine (except the future Arma 3's) that can power 225sqkm of such diverse and natural terrain. Getting to run around Chernarus playing DayZ really makes you appreciate how beautiful it is and how much work Bohemia put into creating the world. And on top of all that it is running physics modelling so accurate that it is used by the US Army for training. If you don't like Arma 2 SP then it's because the genre is not for you, not because the engine is "broken". It is NOT COD, run and gun, jump and shoot, it is the nearest thing to a real war simulation you can get.

NUDE PATCH !! NUDE PATCH !!

Every 1,000 zombie kills you get a FREE RESPAWN PASS, so when you are killed you get to respawn with all your kit.

Here's just some of the more obvious realism issues with DayZ if we're going to be nitpicky. * You can't drink from a lake unless you have a bottle, you would sooner die of thirst than drink without a bottle ? That's not realistic. * You can carry a couple of car tyres, a tank trap, a tent, a roll of barbed wire and 3 guns - and run (never mind even move). That's not realistic. * You can drink and eat as many cans of food/drink as you can carry in a row and then sprint without puking ? That's not realistic. * You can't eat raw meat - you would sooner die of hunger than eat raw meat. That's not realistic. * There's no virus (nor will there ever be) that makes people both physically disintegrate AND yet super humanly strong. That's not realistic. * I can't remove barbed wire with a bandage wrapped round my hand ? Why not ? That's not realistic.

I only read page 1, so apologies if it was already suggested - but what about a killcam for the player who shot the bullet rather than the person who got it in the head ? Imagine that 800m sniper kill from 'bullet cam' - beautiful !

When will the specs be released ?

BIS should move over to an anti-cheat company that isn't 1 man working alone in his mum's attic. Battleye is just Bastian Suter on his own trying to protect 1 million people against the hordes (and failing). It's time to call in Punkbuster(s).

After self updating, BE announced (onscreen message)that all the new global bans were caused by the update and that they were really, really, really sorry. AND THEN it kicked me Script Restriction #94 !!!!! Won't let me back in again. They better fix their shit soon ! BIS should kick Battleye ! It is a one man operation and doesn't have the resources to deal with a major game.

Has there been any official word on it ? Didn't rocket say that standalone combined the best bits of both engines, and that if you can run Alpha then you can run standalone ?

Sounds great, but wouldn't want to get a global ban for an "incorrect checksum" on the PBO file or whatever it is that pops up all the time with other people. Has someone PM'd the dev team ? Can you PM from this forum ?

Will there be a DirectX9 (XP) version of Arma 3 ? The specs in post #1 says it will be DX10 and 11 only. Please, not an invitation to tell me XP is 10 years old, XP is <insert derogatory phrase here>.

I dropped my backpack in the Control Tower at the NE Airfield to pick up an ALICE Pack, and doing it broke BOTH my legs ! The dropped backpack (containing morphine) disappeared. Can't crawl down stairs, used the ladder. Made it to Berenzino only for the military artefacts glitch making it impossible to go there. On to Cherno, break the hozzy window, raped by Zombie, try to ABORT out of server only to accidentally click on RESPAWN !!! Arrrggghhhh !!

I just logged into the following server......... US#500 - Multiplay:: A zombie killed my BAYBEE! 74.209.160.98:2902 And instead of loading my game it just showed me the grey screen and said 'Malau has been killed'. It then took all my weapons and kicked me back to the beach - same kills score, same humanity - so basically the server just stole all my hard earned gear and lied when it said it 'killed' me. Why ? How ? What happened ? Is it a hacked server ? Or did I have a corrupt save file ?

I just wanted some opinions from others who might have experienced the same thing. I decided to carry on, and made it from the respawn at Komorovo, via Balota, Cherno, Bor, Drozino and Green Mountain all the way to Stary Sober without finding a single weapon in all the Deer Stands along the way (not even a Makarov !) - just an axe. So, it is exciting again. Even without my 2 thermal image rifles and gizmos.

Thanks for those replies. I don't think I was killed legit. I always logout in random forests far away from anyone. So the chances of this ONE other person (SirFartsalot, with a ping of 237) happening to be on the same random bit of forest, happening to spot me in my Ghillie suit, prone under a pine tree, whilst the game is loading - is infinitesimally small. And like I said, I still have my stats. You guys can imagine how it feels to lose some SERIOUS hardware (and I never, ever murdered a single player with it). It's killed any urge to go back to the game and start over. Especially when I don't know what happened here and that it could happen at anytime again.