Caius Argentis

Had the same thing happen on a seattle server...3 i think? I dont go there anymore...

It's a cool idea that would fit within the concept of the apocalypse but it will NEVER work with the current mechanics. You or someone else will just use it as an opportunity to grief.

"Do not allow servers to turn pvp off. The first thing hunters would do then is join a non-pvp server. Go to cherno, get the best gear they could find, load up and hit the hardcore pvp servers and hunt people all day. When they run out of supplies/die in the hardcore servers they would just return to the care bear server to stock up and go slaying everyone again. Not a good idea." Hmmm, seems like we could come up with a pretty simple fix for this. Make the characters incompatible or something? And yes, I know the character server is massively overloaded atm, so this is reaching...but we are in an alpha. In the end, there is gonna be a lot of players who want to escape the pvp, if only for a game or two, for the incredibly emergent cooperative gameplay that this mod is capable of as well. Servers should be able to set up however they want, that is the beauty of the highly flexible Arma engine. In the end the players will go where they want. If that means you run out of noobs to shoot at, deal with it.

Quote: 1. Not willing to accept that the vast majority of people like the mod as it is. It's cute that you think you speak for the "vast majority," you don't. The vast majority probably isn't sharing their opinions at all, they are typically silent and will move onto the next game if they don't find something they like here. I do however agree that the negative feedback ideas like popups and bandit skins are not the way to go about it, you need positive incentive to make this game more than a lone wolf FFA with zombies.

I agree there should be some more incentive to work together, forming groups for actual strategy and tactical pvp instead of sneaking up behind some guy and shooting him the back while he loots the guy he just did the same thing to. The guy that thinks there is some great "tension" in not knowing is full of it. From what Ive seen you can practically guarantee than unless you are on VOIP with them, they WILL shoot first without asking questions...It gets real old after about 3 kills, anyone who thinks that this is entertaining pvp needs to slap themselves. And as far as the engine goes...Tom Clancy thinks you have some wonky bullet physics and glitchiness...

Arma II is a terrible engine for PvP, end of discussion.

Did exactly this with no result (with retail version.) Any other ideas?

Same problem, put the latest copies of the battleye client and server in every folder I could find listed. Still no dice. Unknown Version on every server...

Big thanks to Polly, as that guide helped me get as near to playing as I have been yet :P After having completed all that I am still running into one more issue, upon connecting to a server and seeing that my character is being created, I get the message "You have been kicked off the server. (Battleye: Unknown game version) and I am then returned to the server selection menu.