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Yeah dead players you wouldn't pick up the sound. Bandits would take the dog tag sound down, so killing them would reduce the noise. Its an early idea, just popped in my head. :)

Just like to report that while playing on DE_4 I randomly shot about 50ft in the air and died. So did everyone else on the server...we all died. No idea who it was obv.... Lost my range finder, silenced M4 and M9......:( Happened on 15/06/12 at around 12:30am GMT. Hope you catch these guys. Also, we shot a Russian dude the other day who was armed to the teeth, and we picked up a grenade we had never seen before. My friend has it in his inventory...no idea what its called but he says its egg shaped. Is this a hacked nade....should we ditch it? We don't want to get any bans through this. Thanks BreaK

Here's one I'll share. Me and a mate were on UK22 server one afternoon and were busy looting stary after a quick run to the NWAF. After grabbing bits and bats from the tents we ran north, up into the tree line to make a quick exit. As soon as we reach the edge of the trees, I noticed a player at the deerstands, across the open fields around 700m away. I yell "get down" and we both observe him with binoculars, our M4's at the ready. We debate what to do, he's way out of our firing range and "normally" were friendly guys and let players go on there way, so we watch him scamper up into the treeline and eventually lose sight of him. We lay there, debating weather or not to go check the deerstands for any loot when I hear a bullet fly over my head and thud into something. My mate yells "I'm hit" and I stand up and run into the bushes. Meanwhile his blood has dropped from 8000 to 400 in a matter of seconds, and we manage to bandage up the wounds and give him a blood transfusion. During the melee, I saw the nametag of the sniper and asked if he was friendly....he told me he shot because we were aiming at him.... I explain they were binoculars and we were just observing from afar. Anways, he ended up apologizing, and offered us a blood bag in exchange of some M24 rounds I was carrying, he even started a fire for us so we could cook our meat as we were both without matches....we both went on our merry ways and vowed to not shoot at each other if we ever crossed paths. Coming into Arma 2 as a complete noob, and mainly having a background of CSS and Battlefield, that was one of the best freaking shots I've ever seen, and the sound effects were amazing. I literally crapped in my pants! Plus going from shooting someone, to then helping them out is totally unique to DayZ, one of the best gaming moments I've had. Great stuff. :)

NO. I did like the bandit skins....BUT after playing w/o the skins I prefer not knowing if someone is friendly or not. It gives the game a unique quality, with a constant sense of tension and unease....Adding a mechanic to work out if someone is friendly or not will take this away. Its all a matter of chance, if 2 friendly players meet, great! If 2 bandits meet then....oh dear. You should let the game play out they way it does. Its kinda like natural selection. Although I don't like seeing baby seals get torn apart by killer whales....its the way it has to be to keep the world regulated. :) Long post sorry. :S

Might be a stupid question but.....is the server you're trying to join running the latest beta?

Me and a friend got to Devils castle on a motorbike we just spent about 2 hours repairing....climbed up to the top of the tower got to the edge, instead of pressing C to crouch I pressed V and casually vaulted over the castle wall and fell to my death.... Had a camo m3 cco, coyote pack and pretty much everything else you want. Plus a motorbike....

Yeah all the people I play with have the exact same problem. (4 of us). I was playing today fine from about 11am till 5pm GMT with a friend. We had a couple of de-syncs but nothing huge. Tried again about 10pm GMT, and its awful. Its taking about 1/3 minutes for our positions to update. The player will just run and run although their actually stood still. This is why people are just dying " for no reason". Your lag is getting shot while you yourself are in the middle of nowhere, your lag could be legging it through cherno. :) Seems like its during peak hours its at its worst. Also its totally HORRIBLE if you're in a vehicle. I was on the back of a bike, still with zombies around me but actually we were doing 40mph down the road. TBH i think vehicles should be removed until properly fixed. I'm running the latest beta 93666 and 1.7 version of Dayz.

Here's some I took the other day. :)

Yeah happening to me too. Any news on this?