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I've got a little bit of a story here. First I should preface that I've been trying to stick to low population servers (20 or less)till I've gotten a good handle on things, and as such I haven't really run into a whole lot of players, or killed any. But last night I got into my first standoff with a bandit. Here I am, running around the usual spots in Elektro as the sun is starting to come up, when I decide to duck into the cafe near the grocery store. Just as I pass under the stairs to check the far room, someone starts unloading on me from above with a Makarov. I dash into the room, turn around and keep my Remy 870 on the door, waiting for the guy to pursue. For a moment it's quiet, and then I hear the shuffle of a crouched player. At this point I've yet to see where I was being shot at from, so I'm a little freaked out from being caught completely unawares. I keep my gun on the door for another minute, and still not a peep from my would-be killer. So I decide to quickly patch up my bleeding, hoping the guy doesn't hear it and come to finish me off (though I'm at about 8k blood at this point). After another minute of silence, I start to wonder if the guy wandered off when he didn't immediately kill me. So I switch to third person and crawl over to the doorway. With some somewhat cheaty camera usage, I manage to peep round the corner without sticking my head out. At the top of the stairs there's this bandit just sitting there with his makarov, waiting for me to come out of the only exit from the room I'm in. So I decide to mess with him, and toss a green smoke grenade out the front door. Sadly, smoke grenades aren't great for hiding your position, and all I managed to do was call one zombie that was promptly shot by Mr. Stairs. So I toss a few flares to see if they'll call some more zombies, but none seem to notice. Finally I decide that he's not going anywhere, and I decide to try and take him out. For some reason I thought that trying to throw a grenade up the stairs would be manageable with ARMA's throwing system, and of course nearly bounce the drat thing back in my face. Immediately I run round the corner to avoid a shrapnel sandwich. When the dust clears, I peek round again to find my hunter undeterred by the close range explosion. However, this time he catches me peeping, and starts firing at the door frame. Finally I decide I'm sick of him, step round the corner (and falling on the floor because he apparently shot one of my bones) and unloading a full clip of buckshot into his face. After crawling my rear end up the stairs and popping some morphine, I promptly took his two cans of beans and ate them, and left the rest of him to the crows. I felt pretty good until I got sniped from a hill ten minutes later, while trying to skin a goat. Man, this game.
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| # ¿ May 23, 2012 11:20 |
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| # ¿ May 19, 2013 21:20 |
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Did anyone else see any of those "ghosts" last night? The leftover player's who have no names, just survivor/bandit (and I even saw a Rifleman), and are mostly just standing in place? I saw about 5 or 6 in the server I was in, and I thought it was creepy. Then a few of them moved while I was watching, and I was officially creeped the gently caress out. I got some video of it, and I'll try to get it up later today.
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| # ¿ May 24, 2012 10:52 |
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Mind Spew posted:Yeah it looks like it happens the most along the coast from players killing themself to respawn. I ended up leaving a standing corpse by accident near a base me and my friends est up and we ended up using it as bait since it was facing a wall and any nearby players would run up to it and try to shoot it. Did you ever see any of them move at all?
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| # ¿ May 24, 2012 11:36 |
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I saw one that was stationary, but then it started crawling, all the way up a firestation. Then it just sat there staring into the stairs near the top.
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| # ¿ May 24, 2012 12:12 |
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Chief Savage Man posted:Eh, I tried this and this doesn't seem like any angle will make it work. I found another wood pile so I'll hang onto it to try again later. This is frustrating I want delicious meats. Fairly certain he meant inside the fire, not inside a building. Since there's no fire damage you can literally stand in the fire without consequence.
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| # ¿ May 24, 2012 20:51 |
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One thing I haven't been able to get a clear answer on yet is whether the direct microphone chat works or not. I bound the Direct Voice Chat button, but nobody seems to be able to hear me. As far as I can tell it works sometimes for some people, but I've yet to have any success with it. There doesn't even seem to be any way to tell int the ArmA 2 options whether your mic is working or not. Anyone got the skinny on this?
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| # ¿ May 27, 2012 04:24 |
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Am I the only person that prefers playing at night in-game? Whenever I play in a day server I seem to have a high propensity to get shot, especially by snipers. I just find it so much easier to sneak around at night and scavenge, especially in Cherno/Elektro, which I now completely avoid during the day. EDIT: I also had my first experience using the Lee Enfield today...in a city. I picked it up off a dead guy shortly after spawning, on a whim and to see if it really deserved the name Dinnerbell. Aggroed a zombie by the Cherno northern apartments, and decided it was time to test out the rifle (plus I had burned through all my Mak ammo.) Ducked into the doorway of one of the apartments and fired a round, downing the zombie in a single shot. Suddenly, it seems like there's zombie yells in every direction. I figure at this point I should just run upstairs and take out the approaching horde as the stop to shuffle indoors, taking care to stay away from the walls to avoid clipping attacks. What I wasn't expecting was zombies attacking through/clipping through the bloody floor . So I lead the zombies on a merry chase through the building, picking them off with the Enfield as they git stuck on the walls. After clearing out all 40 or so, I figure I'd taken out all the zombies spawned in the area. About a minute after I downed the last zombie, I hear the aggro yell again. Looking out the window, I see another 30-40 zombies running toward the building from the inner city. At this point I'm too low on ammo to take them all out. I attempt to avoid being eaten by attempting to jump off a balcony, but to no avail. Finally I fall to the growing hoard. But during that fight my zombie kills went from 3 to 68, and buggyness aside the whole thing was a pretty tense affair. Also screw the Enfield. Shadefyre fucked around with this message at May 31, 2012 around 07:25 |
| # ¿ May 31, 2012 06:52 |
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So, last night was absolutely crazy. We/I: -Saw somebody land a C-130 on the coastal highway, without exploding even. -Got picked up by some guy in a Chinook who was saving people trapped on rooftops. -Saw a 3 Humvee convoy driving across the coastal roads, occasionally crashing and having to replace exploded tires. -Got to spend some time in the back of a BTR. -Later saw said BTR shock and awe some guy at the Balota medical tents. It even drove right over the sandbags. -Much later saw the same BTR show up at the NW airfield. It blew up the control tower, which is apparently destructible. The chat was in an uproar. -Fell out of a helicopter and instantly died when I hit the side of it. Sure, the guy was no doubt cheating, but it was cool to be in the same server seeing his crazy hijinks.
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| # ¿ Jun 5, 2012 01:51 |
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:What server? That sounds loving amazing I'm not sure exactly which NY it was. 13 I think. Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:The C-130, Chinook, Humvee's and BMR don't. This was posted about on reddit last night - so I'm assuming it was on the Reddit Server. I don't think it was the Reddit server, unless they weren't wearing their tags. But if it was Reddittors being blown up by the tank then all the better.
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| # ¿ Jun 5, 2012 02:08 |
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So it turns out that one of the fellows on the receiving end of our little BTR raid had the decency to record it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd7xquwvJeQ
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| # ¿ Jun 5, 2012 10:42 |
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Vatek posted:That is a BMP-2. BTRs don't have tracks. I don't know why I keep getting these two confused.
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| # ¿ Jun 5, 2012 18:25 |
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Synnr posted:I..don't think I've ever seen one in-game or even mentioned. This was someone in the thread driving that?! I wasn't actually driving, some pub was. I was just his gunner.
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| # ¿ Jun 6, 2012 01:40 |
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Part two of tank[BMR-2] time:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXT-3ZmjJWQ I wish he hadn't been crawling away when we finally ramped the sandbags.
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| # ¿ Jun 6, 2012 07:50 |
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Nebelwerfer posted:Well you can turn the camera and peek behind corners with it while not exposing yourself sooo.. Yeah, it's also usually much easier to use the freelook to check around you then to actually turn around, especially indoors where turning is super clunky. It's bound to Left Alt by default I believe.
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| # ¿ Jun 6, 2012 08:59 |
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So I decided to try something a little different than the usual lone wolfing tonight. I thought I'd try one of them "social experiments" Rocket was talking about, and set up a blood clinic to transfuse people, despite the obvious danger. So I loaded up my ALICE pack with blood packs, painkillers, and bandages, and headed to the 2nd tallish building across from North Cherno hospital. After informing the server of my intentions to heal people over chat, reactions were expectedly mixed and skeptical. However after I made my case, a few people expressed interest in being healed, and headed my way, which was surprising. Of course, just as my first customers were showing up, so did two geared up dudes with M4 and DMRs. They of course killed me, as I didn't shoot back. They even killed one of the dudes coming for blood. But then another surprise occurred, as the rest of the folks arriving in Cherno for blood hunted the two guys down and killed them. Unfortunately, before I could continue attempting to heal people a hacker showed up with his Littlebird, and blew everybody up everywhere with rockets and ESP. Somewhat heartened by people's reaction, I switched servers to start again. Sadly everybody was killed after a few minutes simultaneously by yet another hacker using a kill-all hack. I'm planning on trying this again in future, though perhaps with some help next time. If any of ya'll are interested in taking a break from eating pubbies, feel free to hit me up on Steam under the same name.
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| # ¿ Jun 14, 2012 08:55 |
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Coming back to this after a week or two, I've noticed that despite doing the beta patch and changing the Steam launch options to launch the beta+dayZ most servers still say I only have 1.60 installed. I'm running the beta patcher right now, and I can't tell if I'm doing it right. It says that it takes a long time, but the bar shoots up to 100% after 30 seconds or so. What I'm a tad confused by is it just says its installing the 1.60 patch, and not the current beta patch #. Am I just not waiting long enough before hitting ok? I'd rather sort this out now that the beta patch is mandatory.
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| # ¿ Jun 26, 2012 23:27 |
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Does anyone know if it's currently safe (by DayZ standards) to use clothing items without it deleting your inventory? I had heard that that was a problem in the current/previous? patch.
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| # ¿ Jul 22, 2012 00:27 |
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Man, gently caress boats. Last night a friend and I were up by Black Lake, on the coast side, when I spot a small boat way out in the water. Having never seen the drivable boat before, I'm wasn't sure if it was usable or just one of the prop boats. After watching it with binoculars for a moment, I decide it might be the drivable one, since it seems to be bobbing in the waves. So I drop all my stuff on the beach, where my friend stays to guard it and lookout for anyone. After what feels like swimming forever, I finally reached the boat only to discover what I had suspected while swimming over. It was in fact a usable boat, and it was completely out of fuel. Cursing my own foolishness, I hop out to start swimming back when suddenly -No message from server- pops up. The server goes down, and we decide to wait for it to restart and rejoin to see if somehow my stuff is still salvageable. When it comes back up, I discover two terrible things: I suddenly have all my items with me, and I spawned inside the boat. For a moment I'm fine, and afraid to move. I decide to look up to see if I can board the boat to escape my predicament, and that's when I get the inevitable broken bone sound followed by death. The moral of this story? gently caress boats.
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| # ¿ Jul 23, 2012 02:57 |
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Bobnumerotres posted:I've had zombies outright clip through walls and closed doors. Can they open doors anyhow? They don't really clip through walls nearly as much now, but they can still open doors/clip through them. The advantage to being inside is that they don't run indoors, they walk. Though I think that was going to get removed in the next patch. Shadefyre fucked around with this message at Jul 23, 2012 around 03:20 |
| # ¿ Jul 23, 2012 03:15 |
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Voyager I posted:Yeah, I'm a little concerned with some of Rocket's design decisions. To be fair, bear traps seem to be quite a bit rarer than barbed wire. I've only found two, and those were both off of people I'd killed.
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| # ¿ Jul 23, 2012 12:50 |
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I must of had Rocket on my side or something tonight, because I found two downed helicopters within twenty minutes of each other. One was just sitting in the big field west of Stary, and I finally snagged my first M107 from that. The other though was smack dab in the middle of the two runways at the NWAF. Surprisingly there wasn't anyone there either, but the chopper only had about 30-40 STANAG mags by it. Still, it felt pretty awesome finding two of them that close together. The server was US557, if anyone else wants to try their luck, though I've no idea if those reset with restarts or not.
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| # ¿ Jul 24, 2012 09:22 |
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Bolocko posted:Hobo storage device. Oh my god, how did I not think of this before? What's the keep time on a fireplace— how long will it stick around with gear placed in there? I have a tendency to make a bunch of fires around me before my friend and I log off, and she says they all dissapear when I disconnect, so I don't think they make great long-term storage unless you stick around.
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| # ¿ Jul 25, 2012 03:23 |
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Davos posted:Today myself and two friends found what appeared to be a debug ammo box in Devil's Castle. It had 25+ of every weapon, ammunition, food, drink, and general supplies in the game. Including some poo poo I didn't even think was in DayZ, such as sandbags and wire fences. We also managed to find a broken down military truck, which obviously proved easy to fix with the tons of parts in the chest. Within 20 minutes we were decked out in ghillie suits with silenced assault rifles, cruising around in a truck filled to the brim with weapons and supplies, going around to view various sights on the map that we would never otherwise bother going to, such as Misty Peak (the highest point on the map) and some giant dam up north. Those are the ammo boxes that hackers use to kit themselves up on a new life.
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| # ¿ Aug 4, 2012 08:18 |
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Coucho Marx posted:Hey, I'm pretty sure that this is more an ARMA 2 problem than Day Z, but the game's performance has gone to poo poo on me overnight. Played 'til late, ran nicely on high settings. This morning? Horrible, even in the menu. Even on the very lowest settings, with the 3D resolution matching the native one, it's a little choppy, and running what I did before makes it completely unplayable. I've changed absolutely nothing on my pc, literally just turned it off after stopping last night, then fired it up again to play an hour ago. Anyone have any idea what might have happened? Did you try a couple different servers? Bad servers can actually make your game run worse, from what I've heard.
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| # ¿ Aug 7, 2012 00:50 |
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It seems I've finally benefited from the wanton actions of a hacker not just using the kill all script. When I spawned into Otmel in a rather full server, the first thing I see is the giant pyre of a burning helicopter right in front of me. Drawing near, I notice the ground all around the heli is littered with bodies, most of them seemingly fresh spawns with Patrol packs, though a few had guns. As I start to riffle through the bodies, I suddenly get shot at by someone from an unknown direction. Assuming the shooter might be on the steep hill directly above the wreck, I run to the base of it and the shooting stops. Realizing I was now probably screwed and having nothing to lose, I charge up the hill to face my killer. However, after a few minutes of running around I realize there's no one around. Perhaps they disconnected? By this point my friend who spawned in Elektro has nearly arrived, following the tower of smoke. Just as I look down the road to spot her, we both notice a friggin bus just down the road. At first we think one of the tires looks busted, but I get in and gun it to see. The bus is in perfect shape. Stopping to search the bodies, we find two Camo SD G36's and no ammo (they're grey listed right?). Happy with this new life, we head off to Berezino only to encounter and nearly run over a fresh spawn (I thought he was a zombie, standing in the road) and he hops on the party bus. We arrive at Berezino, head to the military camp, and I accidentally run over one of the military tents with the bus, and then it gets stuck on a fire barrel. Just as we finally free it, the server goes down. We decide to call it a night. I can only hope that we don't suffer too terrible a fate for being in a vehicle when we got disconnected.
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| # ¿ Aug 10, 2012 09:15 |
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Finally found somebody's little duping tent city up in the north, with all sorts of M4's and AKs, a tractor, 15 or so NVG's, and my very first AS50. Unfortunately when I pick up and wear a ghillie suit it turns my ALICE pack into a patrol pack (?). My friend and I take our fill of the loot, and since the tractor is a one-seater I put a round from the AS through the engine. We run off giggling into the forest at our fortune, and disconnect. Only afterwards do I realize I should have run over the 13 or so tents with the tractor first.
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| # ¿ Aug 11, 2012 09:19 |
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Shumagorath posted:Wearing a ghillie suit resets your bag and truncates the contents. Almost did it to myself last night (although I still have a patrol pack so no problems). All the tents had NVGs and 10 M107 clips in them mixed in with the rest of the stuff. There were also about six placed inside each other and only slightly offset, and a few of the tents had more tents in them. Not sure why they didn't dupe the one AS50 I took though.
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| # ¿ Aug 11, 2012 22:37 |
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Fryedegg posted:PSA: I actually just found one of these Black SUVs the other day (the one without a minigun on top), presumably some post-hacker fallout or something. I'm curious, when the server does its saved vehicle check, will it simply dissapear due to not being in the spawn list? EDIT: NOT IT IS, just its.
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| # ¿ Aug 16, 2012 01:11 |
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It seems that hackers are getting more creative at randomly murdering people. Tonight, a friend and I were the only people on a server we frequent, and met up at the well-stocked tent city that somehow hasn't been destroyed yet. Then one other guy joins, but we figure the chances of him being nearby are small. Then, as we're leaving the tents my friend points out that she can hear an extra set of footsteps out of sync with ours. It clear that someone is there when we hear someone go prone. Then, before we can even determine where they are, the person explodes and a body suddenly appears. Luckily he didn't get close enough to either of us to do damage. Then about 5 minutes later he's still invisible, teleports to us and guns us down. When I point out that he's the obvious hacker, he just smugly replies that he can easily unban himself. DayZ.
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| # ¿ Aug 21, 2012 08:52 |
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Had another "everyone teleported to one place" script happen on a supposedly up-to-date server. It wasn't a thunderdome, just everyone on top of each other outside of Cherno. I managed to return to the scene of carnage about 10 minutes later to loot the bodies of everyone who didn't make it. While digging through the scattered bodies (and under the watchful eye of a standing corpse that turned towards me when I hatcheted it) I seem to have found an odd hacker's toy. One of the bodies had a Revolver gold (uncapitalized like that) I swapped out with my empty Glock. I haven't fired it yet, and I was just wondering if it's any different or just a reskin from like PMC or something.
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| # ¿ Aug 24, 2012 11:21 |
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Could this supposedly useless and rare radio item that people have been talking about have something to do with this http://www.fpsgeneral.com/news/dayz...ysterious-radio or has it already been proven to be a hoax?
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| # ¿ Sep 5, 2012 22:45 |
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Binge posted:The only way this footage would of been cool, is if he got sniped for dicking around out in the open during the day. I was kind of hoping that he would get shot when it said another player joined. Also, it seems pretty silly that in all the demo videos they've shown, they've decided that turning off carry weight is a good way to show off a survival based game. Honestly it feels like they're trying to scoop up the runoff DayZ players who were intrigued by the concept but turned off by the merciless and buggy execution. That said I'll probably end up playing at least some of this when it comes out, though its starting to seem like they won't be able to make release this year, considering they're still showing alpha footage and the beta "coming later this summer" never happened.
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| # ¿ Sep 17, 2012 01:14 |
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And if War Z isn't looking to your tastes, there's another multiplayer zombie survival game of unknown quality going into preorder alpha this month. Its the one I had completely forgotten about, that got Kickstarted (Kickstartered?) back when DayZ was new. http://www.thedeadlinger.com/ EDIT: I may have been foolish enough to have preordered both.
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| # ¿ Oct 15, 2012 23:28 |
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Apparently its still going to be using the ARMA 2 engine.
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| # ¿ Oct 16, 2012 03:24 |
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Apparently Rocket said something to the effect that it's better to stick to the lovely engine he's familiar with than try to learn the ins and outs of the A3 engine. Also it meant he wouldn't have been able to drop an ALPHA V2 before the end of the year.
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| # ¿ Oct 16, 2012 03:42 |
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Anyone else heard about this yet? It's an interesting idea, but like many things in DayZ has the potential to go terribly wrong. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/new...-Cash-For-Kills
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| # ¿ Nov 7, 2012 18:05 |
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So I recently got back into DayZ, playing the new maps as they're added. While hacking has definitely died down, it's still there. At least this one was creative: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAzAX8jePt0
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| # ¿ Dec 19, 2012 08:10 |
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| # ¿ May 19, 2013 21:20 |
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Gooch181 posted:Is the monitor/debug box in those screenshots something specific to the server you were playing on? That Monky Monitor thing is something hackers can turn on in a server. It will even do this annoying "anti-hack" where it will pick someone in the server, rubberband them in place, and say they were caught teleporting. After a minute or two it will stop and do it to someone else.
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| # ¿ Jan 19, 2013 03:59 |
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