Shitty way to die (moving through objects)

[wolfsburg62 66]

Date/ Time : 5/18/2012, around 6pm

I pressed “V”, the “step over” command to try to get on a train station platform and my character got stuck inside the platform and died..

I was somewhere on the south eastern coast of Chernarus

Now I can understand if the game won’t let me mount a train platform as it is very tall (taller than standard fences you hop over) but I don’t think it should kill the player. It’s kind of a shitty way to die for this game after killing bandits and zambies :dodgy:. I know this is probably a problem with Arma II itself but what the hell, maybe you guys can fix it.

Version 1.5.7

Server EU5

[korzinski 1]

I proned next to a tree, the graphic of my face passed through one of the low hanging branches and I broke my head and died.

Stuff like this needs to be addressed immediately.

[Neon (DayZ) 1]

I went into my tent and rolled to make place for my partner, and I died. :(

[seamuscameron 1]

I crouch moved up to the roof of the tower that you get up to by wooden staircase in Rog, got stuck on the tower wall remnant, stood up to see if it would fix the situation, and fell through the wooden staircase broke my legs and died.

[ZombieTechnix 3]

Wow, found this by Google searching as the same exact thing just happened to me, and omg am I furious.  I mean, a good two and a half years after this thread was even made, and the problem STILL exists!?  I'm new to Day Z, this is my fifth or so day... and until things are ironed out, I think I may just shelf this game.

 

Was playing on WalkingDead server... had a large gunbag with tons of space, had an m290 with 200 rounds of ammunition for it, had a shotgun with several rounds, a .45 revolver with tons of ammo, plenty of food, soda, and water, 15-20 bandages, 5-10 painkillers, several morphine, etc.  Even found a cool rebel uniform skin I was using... managed to heal myself from 6000-ish blood back up to 12000 (max) from proper eating and bandaging when needed... my kill-counter on zombies was at least 50, maybe closer to 100... was finally figuring the game out; I was ready to hang it up a couple days ago, because the game didn't feel deep enough or didn't feel like it have enough point to playing it... but was finally figuring it out, exploring around, having a blast, finally getting into the groove... exploring, having a blast, surviving longer than I ever have before -- seeing more than I ever have, learning the lay of the land and the landmarks... come up to a city/town with a train-station, see an opening in the wall on the far platform, decide to vault the platforms to go straigh there... and what does me, a !@#!ing train platform!  WTF!  Vault up, clip through the surface, both legs break, and get something like -60,000 blood!@#!

 

Ironically enough, had read all the horror stories about KoS'ing and such, which is what initially kept me away from the game... but finally broke down and got the Arma 2 complete-collection on a killer sale... over 100gb of space for all the mods to day z, along with arma2/expansions/dayzmod... ironically, playing as equally on PvE servers as PvP... never been killed by another player, and never killed another player... but to have all that lost and forced to start over, because of a glitch on a !@#! train-platform.  That's some serious !@#! for a mod/game that's been out as long as it has.  Too broken to even bother recommending this to anybody I know.

 

<_<

 

PS - It's kind of mind-numbing that zombies can clip through walls/doors/etc to get at you, and take absolutely no damage as far as I can tell while doing so... but Lord forbid we clip through a surface, it's not just instant death, it's enough damage to kill us several times over. *facepalm*  >:(

Edited December 7, 2014 by ZombieTechnix

[melaw 18]

That's just the way ArmA works. Do you think it's out of lazyness that is hasn't been fixed in all those updates?

You'll learn what not to do in DayZ quickly, even if you die to glitches a few times more.

Avoid water, ledges, tight gaps, castles, rocks, crawling under objects, vaulting vertically in general. You'll be fine^^