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Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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How do I chat in this game? I can see other people writing stuff but mashing the regular chat buttons do nothing.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2012 16:29

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# ¿ May 23, 2013 18:03

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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That blurry effect on low blood is hell on earth.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2012 20:05

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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I have an additional wish: A flashlight.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2012 20:35

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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Can you make trenches or something similar?

Even better: take over the airport.

# ¿ Apr 30, 2012 09:25

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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Is it possible to melee in this game or is it guns only?

# ¿ Apr 30, 2012 16:21

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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Pharmaskittle posted:

I'm going to dick around with the ARMA 2 demo tonight, and as long as it doesn't run like poo poo I'll start keeping an eye out for a Steam sale.

How complicated is it to functionally play ARMA? 1-10, with 1 being an actual Roguelike with no instruction manual, 5 being I guess an old Mechwarrior game, and 10 being playing with a dog.

Turn those incomprehensible controls up to 11

# ¿ May 1, 2012 00:29

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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Megasabin posted:

Is there a point to traveling inland? They seem to put all the huge cities right on the coast where people spawn, and that's where all the action tends to stay.

There're loads of villages of barns scattered with goodies in them, I felt much safer when inland than on the coast.

# ¿ May 1, 2012 09:27

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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I dropped my backpack. Yield to me the secret of getting it back on.

# ¿ May 1, 2012 15:36

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Urby posted:

Use the magic scroll wheel, should give you a open and pick up option... you should be able to figure the rest out.

Apparently standing up did the trick.

# ¿ May 1, 2012 15:57

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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A server with both pubbies and goons would be lovely, either of those is not so lovely.

# ¿ May 1, 2012 20:29

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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I picked up a pair of binoculars, which proceeded to empty my inventory out over the floor

# ¿ May 1, 2012 23:18

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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Firing the CZ550 in any sort of town is suicide I've found.

# ¿ May 1, 2012 23:37

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SkopeDog posted:

Some games, despite how difficult they are, pretty much promise that you'll kill dozens of enemies regardless of how well you do. ArmA 2 will slap you across the face if you ask for the same promise.

Welcome to ~~Oz, bitch!~~ ArmA 2! I need to download Day Z, myself. I've always been pretty drat good with helos and it'd be great fun to strafe the undead with Pathetic_BerzerkeR's Hind-A.

You want to do what? Pick up empty cans? Can do!

# ¿ May 4, 2012 18:48

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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I'm pretty amazed there's no humanity penalty for shooting bandits.

# ¿ May 5, 2012 01:08

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Ice Phisherman posted:

4. The LLJK tag will get you killed by other PK'ers. Do it anyway. A few goons have sniped other goons because they weren't wearing the tag. Furthermore, get in mumble. I suspect a few people are using the tag to keep us from killing them on sight.

How do I see this tag on other players?

# ¿ May 5, 2012 10:55

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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Is there a trick to shooting the hospital glass? I tried with a 1911 and an AKS but to no avail.

# ¿ May 5, 2012 13:13

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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My character isn't being saved when I die/logout, anyone else having the same issue?

# ¿ May 8, 2012 14:27

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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I knew that, but it keeps re spawning me even if I didn't die.

# ¿ May 8, 2012 15:26

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astr0man posted:

You're only clicking "abort" right? If you click "respawn" it suicides you and then you respawn

Just abort. Logging in re spawns me completely anew.

# ¿ May 8, 2012 15:34

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Kantoran posted:

It seems like saving on at least a couple of the servers is broken right now. You'll just end up popping back at an earlier saved state if you disconnect or die. I know the United Operations servers are messed up, does anyone know if any of the others work?

It happened to all the servers I've been to, must be a problem along the character file line.

# ¿ May 8, 2012 20:25

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Sputty posted:

I've been reading some of Rocket's, the main developer, posts on the DayZ forums and some of what he's saying is kind of weird.

On one hand he's talking about how he'll never do anything to dissuade pking but he's already put in the bandit system which is probably the worst form of checking whether people are aggressive that could be done.
Then he talks about how he'll never change things to be appealing or mainstream and then talks about how he wants to include a levelling system.

I hope this doesn't become another mod that gets destroyed by the developers completely ignoring reasonable ideas to push their own desires and the requests of a tiny cross section of the community

Also, no ACRE I think Alctel. There's no real radio communication anyway(I think you need to find a radio and it sounds rare

He also said he wanted to remove the bandit thing.

# ¿ May 9, 2012 15:16

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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The spawning thing is apparently dependent on server load, and needs a server restart every six hours or so.

What's really weird is that zombies and items stop spawning, but black body bags and backpacks are in abundance.

# ¿ May 10, 2012 23:23

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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At 29 blood you might as well suicide and try again unless you have loads of beef.

# ¿ May 14, 2012 16:34

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Sultan Tarquin posted:

You can only refill your water bottle at the blue coloured pumps.

No more drinking sea water?

# ¿ May 15, 2012 12:51

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Dr.Oblivious posted:

Winchester with buckshot is pretty quiet too for some strange reason.

Edit: Where is this mumble server you guys keep talking about? There isn't anything in the OP about it.

It's also a shotgun with a 15 shell capacity for some reason.

# ¿ May 15, 2012 22:19

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Lemon Curdistan posted:

Yeah, no.

Here is a tip for everyone not used to ArmA: only ever use semi-auto. The only exception to this is firing at players at sub-25m ranges, and even then you're probably better off clicking multiple times in semi-auto mode.

This is doubly the case in DayZ where ammo conservation matters even more than regular ArmA.

Full Auto. Range 1 meter. Fire for effect.

Eat beans.

# ¿ May 16, 2012 15:15

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Doccers posted:

I'm wondering what caliber the winchester shotgun is as well, because I don't think it's 12ga, seems more to be 20ga or so, which would explain why you can't swap ammo with the other shotguns which are 12ga.

It's still not a shotgun. 1866 is a lever action rifle. The earliest (and only I think) lever action shotgun made by winchester is the 1887, a gun with a magazine that stores a grand total of 5 rounds.

# ¿ May 16, 2012 19:07

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Phoix posted:

Is there a way to fix this glowing?

I've tried a ton of different settings combinations but even with post-processing off it still does it.

It's a weird thing that comes off of antialiasing of all things. The lower you set it the more of the bloom goes away. At 'normal' you can even see the sun and things becomes much less blurry.

# ¿ May 18, 2012 15:30

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Goetta posted:

Seeing this game at #2 on Amazon and Steam is sort of ridiculous. Has any other mod made a game that is a few years old just randomly start printing money again?

ARMA II never printed money. If anything this is as popular as it ever was.

# ¿ May 18, 2012 15:35

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Beatnik-Filmstar posted:

Can someone let me know where the Hell I am?

On the top of a building with this sign. Was previously in a church by the water with a supermarket near that. From looking at a map, I *think* I'm somewhere in Chernogorsk, but don't have a map or compass to tell.

You're on the top of International Hotel in Chernogorsk. Question is if it's possible to get down without dying.

# ¿ May 18, 2012 20:13

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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averox posted:

I can't wait for the bandit skin removal patch but in also scared to log back in by the northern airfield

Shoot everyone, let Zed gobble 'em up

# ¿ May 21, 2012 16:55

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Oberleutnant posted:

Why should he be professional? What service have you paid for here? He's let you play his mod, stop acting like entitled children.

As said it reflects poorly on him, like this post will on you.

# ¿ May 21, 2012 23:01

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Logged in at the airfield to search the barracks for goodies, found two survivors and plugged both with an Enfield. It's gonna be a good day.

# ¿ May 22, 2012 16:06

Boiled Water: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
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No chance for the nice goon to one up him?

# ¿ May 22, 2012 16:44

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concerned mom posted:

I think Rocket needs to learn a lesson from the whole Notch early years and only talk through a PR dude because these guys always seem to do so much damage just saying unprofessional crap.

What's even more amazing is the crowd cheering whoever up as being the best and brightest in the field and can do no wrong.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 21:29

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rizuhbull posted:

Why's everyone being assholes regarding the female skin?

With the playerbase being what it is it will not end well.

Countdown to incoming surprise sex thread

# ¿ May 26, 2012 22:17

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Dr.Oblivious posted:

ARMA 3 trailer is out, think Day Z will make the jump to the sequel?

It might be easy, apis might be similar.

# ¿ May 27, 2012 20:29

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Creepy Goat posted:

I'm not even angry at glitching out and falling through a building and losing all my stuff because poo poo it's an Alpha build. It wouldn't surprise me if characters were wiped prior to official release.

Falling through the floor might be an arma glitch, thinking about it it probably is.

# ¿ May 28, 2012 15:03

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There's no hope of mr. Rockets ego to ever become a reasonable size now is there?

# ¿ Jun 1, 2012 16:40

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# ¿ May 23, 2013 18:03

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40Inch posted:

I didn't see this mentioned, but it looks like the newest Arma 2 beta patch allows mission makers (?) to disable system chat. The connection spam drives me crazy, so this is pretty great (If it gets used.).

Can you disable other channels as well? Imagine this game with little or no area wide chat.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2012 21:00

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