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This whole thing is getting way out of hand and the fact that there are countless threads like this continue to baffle and confuse me. I am an admin on Dallas 24 and I have been accused of all sorts of things that I have no power to do, like spawning zombies on a player who supposedly killed me and looted my uber 1337 gear even though he didn't know what my name was. I don't have the power to spawn zombies on anything, let alone target attacks like that and I never cry about dying. I smoke a cigg and get on with my life looking for the next good loot spawn. Contrary to popular belief being an admin is more of a hassle than a privilege, because on top of watching out for bandits and finding loot and vehicles and the like I also have to keep an eye out and make sure no one is mucking about in chat (they usually are), or spamming voice channels and lagging the server, or dukeing it out in chat like everyone does here on the forums. It is a game man. I understand that it is extraordinarily good and that you love it intensely, and I do too but you can't let that lead to you acting like a spoiled brat to everyone that is trying to help you out; and it especially doesn't help when you call the people who are making sure you have a place to play/express your thoughts and opinions on the game out and say they are not doing their job. Most of what is done administratively with this game is volunteer work and things are blowing up quickly in a way no one could have foreseen so the system is stretched to capacity and sometimes things slip by. This isn't administrative negligence or the devs or mods condoning this type of thing, it is people who are over stressed and working hard trying their best to keep up with the incoming amount of work. Next time you want to post a thread like this on the forums instead you should go grab a beer/smoke a bowl, go outside, look at the stars and relax for a little bit because this really isn't as big of a deal as you are making it.

Yes, I was referring to night vision as a whole when designing this suggestion. There is no counter aside from chucking flares and chemlights all over the place and that's just not something that is effective or plausible. Something like I suggested is plausible. There is absolutely NO way to counter NV without your own NV equipment. The guy with NV will win absolutely every single time because of how dark the night is right now (lunar cycle) and even when the moonlight is brighter it's still always NV being at a huge advantage. There is no other equipment in the game that so boosts your effectiveness like NV. It is arguably the most sought after equipment par vehicles and it's not hard to wonder why. If something's that desirable you really need to assess its balance down to the essentials regardless of rarity. And the essential question is does anyone who doesn't have this have any sort of chance? Examine other things in the game. There's plenty of different kinds of guns, some better some worse, but at least you can always shoot another gun with any gun and kill him, so you have a decent chance for survival. Night vision? There's no way you'll ever be able to counter night vision without your own set of night vision equipment, and that's the problem I have with night vision.

I was really intrigued by the amount of detail the environment of ARMA in general gave when I first got the game for DayZ. I didn't believe my friend somewhat when he said that servers used realtime clocks to make day and night. I also recently read that the game also copies the lunar cycles and day times which is extremely neat to me. I don't know if it does it yet, but I would really like to see snow and frost effects as well as things like wind condition and more adverse environmental effects. It would make stealth and everything else really interesting in the winter as well as making things more interesting in the summer; mosquitoes and other kinds of pests could be added as a detriment to player health and heat exhaustion could be a constant factor. It would also add room for things like generators to fortify buildings and keep warm. Water could even freeze and helicopters and vehicles could be hampered and require more maintenance to upkeep. These are just a few suggestions, but I really don't care much about the specifics. I just want to see a more intricate environment for the game. It's really unique, fun and interesting in that aspect to me.

BI built 3rd person originally because of the vehicle usage' date=' primarilty aircraft because there was no real feasible way to "simulate" global awareness of your vehicle. That in turn translates to global awareness of your person. Mil-sim doesnt mean restricted views, it means realistic interpretation of applied skill sets. [/quote'] I must have missed where I mentioned vehicles.

Vehicles, cars, planes, helis, whatever. Id like to see a system where you can tether ONE, thats 1 vehicle to your character. So you have keys, remote, whatever. You get one that will follow you from server to server. It can be stolen, it can be destroyed, it can be sabatoged. You get to do whatever you want with your vehicle. Run it into the ditch, hide it, blow it up. You can unteather your vehicle from your character at any time. The vehicle would then be subject to the server code so if its goes unclaimed during a reset it will poof with all the rest. This would allow people to at least have one vehicle that they can rely on consistantly. It does not remove the danger of using one, or the cost to fix/maintain it. If you want to swap out, just unlink from one and link to another. This could also allow you to have a mobile stockpile, if you are bold enough to leave your loot in your vehicle. I do not think you should be able to lock or otherwise secure this vehicle any more than the way it is now.

someone named dr. medic (or something like that) was spawning vehicles like choppers in our server, I saw a flash of a message on my screen with his name (was too fast to read though), other players and members said there were planes carpet bombing Cherno, and vehicles spawning everywhere. here is a screenshot of the chopper that spawned next to me. and another from 1 of our other members

General advice for tents: Don't leave anything in them you can't bear to lose. Besides people looting them, tents have been known to disappear off servers for no apparent reason. Some bug with the server not shutting down properly or something and tents/vehicles disappearing. I've had tents that lasted multiple patches up to the tent reset and I have tents that disappeared after one server restart. Right now they are kind of finicky so only place stuff that you won't mind losing.

Hi, Me and my friend are both currently critically wounded and require medical assistance luckily we are both near each other at the airfield near bolota at east most hanger my steam is bobby784 please reply we want to play and have great loot including vehicles thanks

PVP is an essential part of the mod... disabling it would completely ruin looting/vehicles/etc.

sethliopod: Yes, it will. I believe you can set up VOIP which is locked to direct in the control options, but I use your method because I'm a lazy bum. The same goes for vehicles. If you switch to the vehicle channel while in a car with your friends, everyone in the car will hear you talk. Regardless of what channel you're in, there should be a local sound that anybody near you can hear.

I do love finding random vehicle parts laying around the town, but I'd I'd like to see a wrench/spanner added to DayZ. I did search for a few keywords on the forum but I couldn't find anything like this - please point out other suggestions like this if I've missed them. [align=center] --- Ladies and gents, I present to you... the wrench! [/align] This is a beautiful piece with a stainless steel finish. Magnificent craftsmanship, hand-made and carted to your local Chernarus supermarket all the way from Saint Petersburg in the deeper parts of the motherland. Having this baby in your arsenal means no more crawling around and scuffing your combat vest or those nice moccasin shoes you thought would be a great first impression when you met up with your buddies to take on this nightmare. Now I hear you all saying "But tiggy, I'm not a mechanic. I'm a post-soviet country civillian with a gun and my final can of beans - I don't know the first thing about cars." Now let me tell YOU something, bucko; you're just a post-soviet country civillian who doesn't know the first thing about cars, so you're bound to make some mistakes. Grab the wrench, bash the car with it a few times and hope you get something out of it without sounding the dinner bell for all your infected pals in the immediate area. TLDR; -Vehicle part spawns are removed from warehouses and industrial areas. -Wrenches are now found where vehicle parts previously spawned -Wrench sits in accessories slot like hatchet/matches/knife and on another suggestion tangent, doubles as a horribly inefficient but violent melee weapon (this is not the thread to discuss melee) -Broken down vehicles contain parts -Smack them with your wrench to get parts -Loud noises of your attempts at car mechanics attract nearby zombies -Obvious chance of getting no part whatsoever or in some extreme cases, chance of wrench breaking -Also makes sense since you can't just attach wheels, engine parts and scrap metal without some sort of tool

Hi, one of the best ways to practice and test is to go into the editor. 1. Press F1 and double click anywhere on the map. Press OK. Now you have a player placed. 2. Double-click near the player and choose "Empty" in the drop-down menu. From here, select Ammo or Vehicles depending on what you want to test. Choose different ammo and weapons boxes and place them near your player. 3. Press Preview and go look through the boxes. Shoot away!

Well, what about the consideration that this mod takes place AFTER the events of Arma2's Cherno missions... thus why there are a lot of US weapons. I think the number of MILITARY style weapons should be smaller though, and the number of civilian type weapons (shotguns, pistols, hunting rifles) should be higher [than military weapons]. I agree we should be able to fix all vehicles, but maybe the parts to repair a Hummer would be much more rare than parts to fix a regular car. Just a thought.

SIDE CHAT should only be accessible by a repairable CB radio that can be found in game at sites such as radio towers, broken down trucks, found vehicles, etc... GROUP CHAT should only be accessible by a new grouping function and by having a equipable walkie talkie that can be found by looting. ALL other chat should take place in the direct channel. I love side chat, but it detracts from the feel of the game. Make it part of the environment (such as broadcast radios/CB radios) and I'm down but running around with magical telekinesis that allows you to magically talk and type to everyone on the map...nah...this aint WOW.

@Saul A2 with all its expansions provides *A LOT* of content. Hop into the editor. Place a player, then place Unit > Empty and look through all of the Weapons Boxes and Vehicles.

I don't know much about guns and their origins, same with the vehicles, but I'll assume you do. Good find.

Hello, been playing Day-Z for a bit and lately quite a few of my friends haven't been logging in.... we've been doing pretty well, Coltan (a member of my previous clan) and I would get vehicles like the camoed Military Offroader, and we had five or so tents, a weapons tent with random weapons, ammo for them, hospital tent, parts tent, generic loot tent etc. Well, if anybody was willing to make an offer, I'd really like to join a clan or team, or whatever you may call yourself for this mod. I have a mic, TS3, and I've been playing Day-Z for more than a month. Currently I'm in the north (won't say where just yet) with a Winny, plenty of bandages, food to keep me going for a while (donated my revolver to my buddie's tent) a Czech backpack, and other random tidbits. Just one catch, and I know what people are gonna say: I'm 15. So if you don't mind a young member, thanks.

Bored, waiting for some friends, googling dayz out of boredom to see if anything interesting comes up. http://flmsdown.net/games/1252740-day-z-v1711-arma-2-mod-2012multi2.html WITH FEATURES LIKE - Realistic "Zombies" with its own animation - former human beings who have hearing and smell, but the visually impaired. They use motion captured animations for walking and eating breakfast your wounded body. - New weapons and vehicles! - Its system of medicine. - Constant server - spent many hours working towards the goal, or looking for materials and server crashes, losing all your progress? Well with all the stats server Dayz is stored in our external database. - Tons of new objects - We just added ouzhie, we are proud that we can find things such as water, canned food, garbage and spare parts, etc. - Hunting and Survival - Food and drink is an essential part of gameplay. I lold @ the broken English. Now, don't quote me on this, but I think this might be fake!

Having just sailed the full length of the coast kamenka to furthest point north (near north east airfield) . I spotted 6 boats on my journey. all just sat along the coast. some bobbing in the water. some (the dingy ones) were on the beach and thery refused to get back in the water (so i killed them with my mighty axe!) what happens to boats when destroyed ? I destroyed every boat i found as it was put to me some time ago that each vehicle *anytype* fills a vehicle slot on the server. each server has a limited total number of vehicle slots and by destrying boats there is a chance to respawn a car in it's place for example ? is this correct ? only i was also under the impression that vehicles respawned wherever they were destroyed,, like for like ? confused.... destroying boats with an axe is hard work and I for one do not recomend it to anyone sane. :)

Problem here is that most of the regulars probably play here for the reasons you listed or they would play some where else. I doubt people are coming into the forums looking for this thread and most of the posts will just be people adding to it who probably don't play there or even really care. On a side note, the GPS is still useful for driving vehicles and having a mini map up. I already know the map and the current settings just makes gameplay less of a hassle. Not sure why someone would play on a server they don't like the settings.

Could we have rare ammunition spawn at deer stands/barracks/hangers? (bizon/svdcamo/fn fal/M107/Rockets/M240/) The weapons are rare enough, but the ammunition rarity makes those weapons disposable or not enough of a conscience choice to pick up and use over a more common available weapon such as the AKM or M-series assault rifles. 2 more issues if you don't mind, I drive around a vehicle and rush and drop off right outside a supermarket but nothing spawns except zeds the moment I step out. Unless I stop the vehicle 100metres or further away do items spawn in said supermarket making the vehicle more of a hindrance than help. Last thing I have a problem with is vehicles are incredibly fragile...a Truck with 6 wheels travelling at 2kmh and touching any 'trash barricade' would result in engine and 2 front wheels critical damage yet I can with the same truck knock down a tree with impunity. I've cleared out entire forests with my truck only to have some of the trash on the roads and those low stone walls scattered about the wilderness break my truck. Land vehicles are incredibly fragile and need to be rebalanced. I also wouldn't mind if I could use spare scrap metal to to add 'armor' to my vehicle. Engine parts to turbo charge my vehicle giving it more offroad capability at the expense of fuel usage. Fuel tank parts to increase the size of my fuel tank up to a certain limit. Maybe if it is possible, allow my teammates from inside the vehicle or open top trucks to be able to shoot while inside. Edit: I know I am asking for A LOT here, but a slight nod to this post would mean much to me and my friends as we actively search out vehicles very hard and try to make it a bigger game rather than a run and gun and kill the crap out of everyone we meet situation. I also understand this will probably take alot of time to complete.

Looking good so far. With all these fps optimizations and vehicle damage model fixes in previous patches, perhaps the time is right to reintroduce the huey in all servers. Maybe even consider adding the antonov an-2. Myself and probably many others have been waiting patiently on any news regarding aerial vehicles. Keep up the good work.

it was pacific time. I would guess around 7 or 8 pm. I did not take note of it. There was a message saying vehicles spawning curtousy of doctor medic. or something like that.

Last night me and 1-3 friends raided one of their camps (7th ops). Got about 6 L85s, 5 FN FAL, Many variations of M4's including the HOLO SD, AS50's, 10+ NVG/GPS, 15+ ghillie suits, etc etc. As my team was loading up a vehicle I watched as a couple of them met up and observed the damage before restarting their server (they didn't get anything back). When it came back up I waited until they left, stole their vehicles, shot out all the tires, ran over their tents with a URAL and got kicked. Now they have a new server message about stealing loot not being in the spirit of the game and how it won't be tolerated. If I'm allowed back in again I'll be sure to fraps it should I find their new camp.

Mine plays it at very high at 1080p with no problems. But even at it's best looking, Arma2 is an ugly, ugly game. Except for the vehicles, they are rendered quite nice. Compare it to Skyrim HD or any AAA FPS and the graphics are pretty low par, but the gameplay more than makes up for the lacklustre graphics.