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Exit Chamber

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Yeah, that's a pretty accurate summary of his play style. He's clearly a talented fps player, but some of his kills are so cheap it hurts, shooting people who have terrible gear and would no doubt just keep moving if left alone.

Its frustrating because I'm sure we've been on the receiving end of that kind of shitty play all too many times.

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Cheeko

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Just logged in to see if our SUV was where I left it. Sadly not but there was an offload land rover there instead so I just headed out to have a nosey about on the dark. Get to the NW airfield and there are zombies spawned so somewhere there are players. Turns out it's one guy in the middle on his own next to a crashed chopper. I drive right by him, then right up to him, headlights in his face and tell him to get on the floor and drop his guns. He hits the deck and starts dropping all his stuff all around him. At this point I just tell him I'm joking and drive off leaving him gathering his possessions. Then turn around and give him the vehicle. He can't believe his luck.

It was like that scene in Fight Club, his breakfast will be the best he's ever had.

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roskelld

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Just blasted through the last few hours watching the Frankie series. He certainly gets into lots of antics. Probably a good way for a new player or potential player, to find out what the game is about. He does, to me, seem to kill too many people though, it's a choice, sure, but I'm the type of player that will only shoot if shot at, and if I can get by without being seem or shot, then that's the way it goes. I find his preemptive strikes a bit too presumptuous at times. Stil a lot of fun to watch.

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martingee

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Just blasted through the last few hours watching the Frankie series. He certainly gets into lots of antics. Probably a good way for a new player or potential player, to find out what the game is about. He does, to me, seem to kill too many people though, it's a choice, sure, but I'm the type of player that will only shoot if shot at, and if I can get by without being seem or shot, then that's the way it goes. I find his preemptive strikes a bit too presumptuous at times. Stil a lot of fun to watch.

Its certainly a tough one. Too many times have i given someone the benefit of the doubt only to be shot in the face when i had the drop on them.

If anyone is still playing on public servers but is becoming jaded with it either find a private, whitlisted server like the one Strat, Cheeko et al play on or start playing the Namalsk map.

Namalsk is effectively a PvP map which combines the type of gameplay you find in Cherno/Electro/NWAF with faster gearing making lives a little more disposable. It might not be what people want from a standalone DayZ (myself included) but if your tired of running the full length of Chenaraus, finding a decent weapon only to get sniped from someone half a mile away then Namalsk maybe for you. For me its about scaling down the time from newly spawning to been able to survive a PvP encounter, which Namalsk does.

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Padaxes

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New patch is out

Build Notes:

* [NEW] class Mi17_TK_EP1 Now Unbanned. (Mi17_DZ)

* [NEW] An2_TK_EP1 Now Unbanned.(AN2_DZ)

* [NEW] AH6X Now Unbanned. (AH6X_DZ)

* [NEW] BAF_Offroad_D Now Unbanned.

* [NEW] BAF_Offroad_W Now Added.

* [NEW] Fully Removed Save button from action menu.

* [NEW] New combat mode icon (G17) thanks Alexander.

* [NEW] Gender section screen thanks F0rt.

* [NEW] You can no longer place tents in ponds.

* [NEW] Disabled greeting menu .

* [NEW] Disabled radio messages to be heard and shown in the left lower corner of the screen.

* [NEW] General speed up of the login process.

* [NEW] Street Lights now active in towns. (will be removed in hotfix)

* [NEW] (*.2 Hotfix)Added some Anti-cheat.

* [NEW] (*.3 Hotfix)Added local copy of cert if it cant get one online, version checks.

* [uPDATED] Combat Logging "Fired Near" checks are now limited to 8 metre radius.

* [uPDATED] Combat Logging "Projectile Near" Have now been removed while we look for a less intensive way to track projectiles.

* [uPDATED] Combat Logging is now removed on death.

* [uPDATED] Corrected legs and hands fractures they must be set with actual value.

* [uPDATED] (*.1 Hotfix)Updated hive .dlls to fix a reconnect issue with prepared statements.

* [uPDATED] (*.1 Hotfix)Increased m107 loot chance to 0.02.

* [uPDATED] (*.1 Hotfix)Lowered As50 loot chance to 0.01

* [Fixed] Adding checks for female skin humanity/login.

* [Fixed] Adding female skin to variables.

* [Fixed] Fixed Parachute so jumping out of choppers won?t kill you.

* [Fixed] Event Handle for wrecked choppers this should allow the smoke on wrecks to work all the time.

* [Fixed] Event Handle for Vehicles this fix's problems with local vehilce damage calls..

* [Fixed] Remove objects from DB by objectID and objectUID only. (Should fix Deployable problems)

* [Fixed] Debug menu options are no longer editable.

* [Fixed] Locked Singleplayer Menu

* [Fixed] (*.1 Hotfix) Players with high CharacterID weren't dying properly.

* [Fixed] (*.2 Hotfix) Fixed 2nd Parachute removal issue.

* [REMOVED] Damaged logging to .rpt removed all traces of dmg to a player.

* [REMOVED] An2_1_TK_CIV_EP1 Got removed during testing devs felt it lacked perpose in the game.

* [REMOVED] An2_2_TK_CIV_EP1 Got removed during testing devs felt it lacked perpose in the game.

* [REMOVED] MV22 Got removed during testing devs felt it lacked perpose in the game.

* [REMOVED] S1203_ambulance_EP1 Got replaced during testing to a hmmv class vehicle.

* [REMOVED] BAF_L85A2_RIS_CWS From Loot table.

* [REMOVED] UH60_wreck_EP1.

* [REMOVED] HMMWV_Ambulance_CZ_DES_EP1 Removed due to its heal abilty.

* [REMOVED] Dogs Removed while we rewrite the hud and correct a few other issues. (attak, Getin/out of vehicles)

* [REMOVED] UH60M_MEV_EP1 Removed due to its heal abilty.

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roskelld

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I really need to find a set of players over here in Canada. I had another game last night and it's just not the same as playing with others, or at least with others on the server that you know you can trust. Those Frankie videos make it look like there's mad cap antics around every corner, but I'm mostly seeing people get shot on sight without any desire of conversing or buddying up.

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martingee

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I've watched way more than i should of http://www.twitch.tv/tombombman/videos. He's lives in LA and regularly does 24hr streams which i have on at work. He's actually a cross between Farnkie and Sacriel, he gets up to all manner of stuff mainly cos he's on all the time but because he plays just as 'aggressive' as Frankie, will play with randoms and viewers but also has the tactical knowledge of Sacriel.

He runs into alot of hackers and stream snipers but again thats because he plays alot, the odd 36hr stream isn't unknown of.

Loading times have been a lot faster for me but the patch's are just bug fixing and not that much of it tbh. Has there been any kind of date set for the standalone other than by the end of the year? They really need to get a shift on if there to capitalise on the current interest, people are pretty much starting to make their own games up, his standalone will look like a pale reflection when compared to other people servers/maps etc.

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roskelld

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I had a pretty woeful game last night. I joined a server that forced me to start a new character, I didn't mind that so much as my last one died with a bullet in the back of the head after just seeing Mammas Boy being eaten alive.

So I headed on up to Rog Castle from the coast after a quick scout through Elektro. Found a map, compass, watch and hunting knife. Things were looking up. I just needed to sort out the gun situation. I think I found an enfield for a start, but I knew I'd need to get something better.

Then things went sour. I logged in and it was totally dark. Next thing the admin, at least I think it was the admin, appeared in front of me and started up a conversation saying that a hacker had been on and messed up the day night cycle. So he flicked a switch and I was no longer in the dark. I carried on for a while working my way north west in hope of finding matches, hatchet and maybe a vehicle. My character started moaning, no idea why I wasn't bleeding or had any issues. A quick google suggested that it was bug and could give away your position. So I logged off and on, which fixed it. I was back in the dark though. Without side chat I couldn't signal the admin and had to proceed in the dark. Not so bad I thought, i was crossing fields and woodland anyway.

Then the server crashed and didn't come back online. So I found another server and jumped in there. New character again, this one however started with all tools. Nightvision, matches, map, toolbox, the lot. Plus a rife and side arm, food and drink. I wasn't happy about that, where's the earning and the progression. Side chat was active too, as was voice side chat. It seemed that the population of the server were twelve year olds playing Call of Dayz. I quit out.

The other server came back after a few minutes more wait. I was back in along with about 20 other players and it was day time again. Sadly with the server crash I'd lost all my food so that was first priority, apart from a quick trip to a deerstand just ahead. I ambled up the deerstand went to look at the loot and received a sudden smack in the face. A zombie had shuffled up the ladders and sucker punched me. I was out for the count. Fuck. I came to and shot the fuck out of the heavy weight slugger. I bandaged myself up, took some pain killers but it was clear that my blood was shot. The world was grey.

Food, hatched and matches were now a much needed find. I needed to get my blood up and it was easily going to take more than a few cans of pasta.

Fast forward over the next few hours, I went from town to town all the way up to NW airfield, then down to Devils Castle and found fuck all. Few scraps of food, millions of tin cans, empty crash site, hatchet, but no matches. Every hit I received was pushing me closer to death. If I could find a vehicle then I could head back to the coast where there's more chance of finding stuff, but every spawn point was empty, I must have tried about 10 spots. By the time I reached Devils Castle I was collapsing every few minutes. There was nothing there to help me out. I could have probably built a tank from all the tin cans I'd discovered. I ended up logging just outside the castle, food running out, blood almost non-existent and fully dejected. I would have happily took a bullet to save the pain.

All the while I'm thinking back to Frankie's videos 'Oh look at that fully fueled vehicle behind that tree, oh there's another one. I've got so much to choose from, how do I drive all these things? Maybe I'll ponder it all, whilst juggling this arsenal of weapons'. I am not he.

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Are there any "secure" servers that are easy to join. I'm currently downloading ARMA again, just to play DayZ. I gave up a couple of months ago due to the amount of hackers that ruined the game, but I've heard rumors of private servers\hive servers that makes the game worthwhile again. Any suggestions would be great :)

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Mammas_Boy

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If anyone is interested.

There will be no stand alone this year (pretty obvious with it being the 31st). Dean Rocket has decided to go back to New Zealand to take a break. I think he's hoping to now get it out in January but I don't even think he knows anymore.

Ah well, i'd rather it came out later and be less buggy etc.

We are still playing as the Team Clusterfuck clan and if you are interested in joining in then get to our Dayz forum - http://teamclusterfuck.co.uk/forum

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Sorry cluster ive activated your account

At the moment we are mainly playing the Arma II Wasteland mod , which is great fun.

A bit of a change while we all wait for standalone....

Thats cool. Am just waiting on a new Graphics card so I'll be joining you guys next week If thats cool. Really wanted to play that game aswell, its the same map isnt it? as DayZ, thats always helpful.

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