DayZ, a zombie mod for ArmA2 - Now standalone on Steam Early Access

Well, you said "Can't tell if what if we taking are dupes or originals", implying it matters when it does not.

 

Not sure what we are talking about but:
I was talking about avoiding taking duped items, nothing to do with item ID database or being found with a dupe item.
If you have 3 L85, duped 1, gave 1 to me, do I have one of the originals or a duped? I can't tell. I can say I took an original and hence not an exploiter. Or I can say I took the duped item and hence be an exploiter.

 

Pretty quick edit there about blacklisting pussies like me and anyone who plays with me VOTS.
We aren't playing much now so it doesn't matter, pretty much done with Dayz. The heli is the only thing left for us now (and I have already been on it), unless we want to go PvP against (duped and non-duped) players.

 

Is that a no? You're breaking my heart.

How about we go at each other, then? One of the smaller towns. Side arms only. If you get me, I'll destroy all of my stashes.

 

I got challenged by a cheater exploiter on a computer game forum to a duel for telling someone whom I have played with not to trade with a duper if he wants to avoid exploiting since he can get an l85 from our own stash free.
Then spend 1/2-1 hour to meet up so we can shoot each other and if you lose you destroy half of your duped stashes?
When 85% of people I meet in game will shoot me anyway?

(Diplomatic rejection) No, but I may co-op if you go clean mister. Is it that difficult to not cheat exploit? Esp when the developers have stated they don't want players to mass dupe and other exploits?

 

So after a several months and 35 pages people are finally realizing that BIS are retards and their games unplayable shit. Well fuck I told you that on the first page. Should listen to me next time, noobs.

 

Butthurtjohn detected

It's people like me who help improve the game. The rate with which bugs and exploits get fixed depends on their epidemiology. As certain behaviours become a wildfire, it forces a reaction. "We don't want players to do this and this" is a lame bullshit excuse. This is an alpha. Players are supposed to play the shit out of your game to the point of breaking it where possible. That's how you move from alpha to beta. So, stop being carebears and enjoy the ride.

 

So they should stop banning the hackers as they help improve the anti cheat measures?

 

No man, what he's saying is that it's not possible to fix stuff unless you stress-test said stuff for possible weak points.

 

It's obvious he has no idea what he is talking about, mixing up hacking, cheating and exploiting.

But I also think that, yes, banning hackers in a motherfucking alpha is fucking retarded and reeks of butthurt. The only reason a number of hacking vulnerabilities were fixed or are monitored is because of those people. Without them, fewer people would be doing it in subtler ways, still gaining an unfair advantage. Players are doing the work of Q&A stuff and being punished for it. Retarded.

 

Have you actually contacted the devs with information how the duping was done so they can fix it?

 

I thought it was obvious I was joking.
Fags.

Also, they get rightfully banned. They aren't doing the work of Q&A. They're not testing it for the purposes of making the game better, they're doing it to gain advantage / ruin other people's fun.

 

Others have. It is known.

 

What I'm wondering about is what the hell you actually do ingame, when you practically skip over 2/3 of its contents. It's not like the endgame is really long or existing, for that matter.

 

It's good to know that PA are playing this game. The possibility that I might have killed either of those morons will make every kill that much sweeter.

 

Despite all of the hackesr, dupers, cheaters and exploiters I still get a kick out of DayZ.

On the other hand, I'm finding the default Operation Arrowhead campaign to be extremely frustrating. The AI is amazingly retarded at times to the point that it breaks missions and makes me want to kill the developers. Maybe not the developers but the fuckheads that created those missions. I suppose that should be in another thread.

 

Aren't the hackers exploiting ARMA vulnerabilities, which are nothing to do with DayZ and the DayZ guy can't do anything about? As I recall those accounts were banned by BIS from all ARMA servers.

 

Yes, yes, no. He added some safeguards to the DayZ code to prevent hacks to my knowledge. No, they were banned by BattlEye. BIS people + Rocket say that they trust in BattlEye and tell people to take it to the BattlEye about bans, which unfortunately isn't fail-safe.

 

The most fun ive had so far in DayZ is after death when I have to regear and get back to base. On the server I started with I was spoiled with a group with vehicles who would make runs down to starter towns to pickup recently deceased, playing on a server where we have one vehicle makes each respawn much more interesting. My favorite part so far is creeping around towns after sunset with a hatchet checking for gear/food whilst hitting the zombies that get in my way. If my potato rig was a bit better I might be able to handle some PvP where im not the one getting shot to pieces.

 

Got both the rangefinder and NVG from a guy. Got shot at by his friends, at least three of them as I heard three different sounds. Ran like hell, escaped out of there. When I decided it was safe and I wasn't being pursued any longer, I switched servers to dupe and store stuff and voila: stuff was gone. Version conflict, I presume.

Was there a global tent wipe? All of my tents. Are gone. All of it. Everything. Fuck this shit again.

 

All that duping gone to waste huh?

 

I still love it. Cannot wait for a standalone version. Been mass server killed 2 times now, battleeye is a piece of shit software.

 

Don't you worry, I'm up to speed again. Thanks to cheat gun, killing people is easier than ever and I quickly got back on track on hoarding equipment.

edit: oh, they all came back along with my bike and bicycle. Yay. Loss of the latter was what distressed me the most.