[mainframe]

So GAF server down??

first time trying to play.

[Woo-Fu]

Funny how there was a battleeye patch yesterday, and now there are more hackers than ever.

That patched battleye is probably detecting a significant portion of those hackers. Expect a global ban wave in the near future.

[holdbrillanj]

That patched battleye is probably detecting a significant portion of those hackers. Expect a global ban wave in the near future.

I wont hold my breath

[Doppelganger]

Probably hit a million uniques today, maybe tomorrow. I remember when it hit 10k, it's only been a few months.

[TommyT]

Well, since you're a fan of stories: ZenVolta and I were heading from the new coastal GAF base to an island that might have a chopper on it. Things took a turn into the the strange during this run. We suddenly see 10 or 11 people die on the lower right corner of the screen and realize a hacker is on the server. We keep running. Then we see two random zombies spawn near us and Zen thinks a Hacker is doing it. We swim across a bit of ocean to chopper island and as we get close I get shot in the chest by an invisible person on the island shore. I'm barely alive. Zen stays in the water and watches as the invisible Hacker pulls my bleeding body to the shore. I lay there helpless while Zen pleads with the hacker to not kill me and seduces him with his irresistible wit. Next thing I know the hacker is healing me and telling us there is no chopper on the island. He says we're dead if we fire one shot at him. We obey the rule and he tells us to follow him. We're nervous but decide to see what he has in store. We walk for awhile and he says that he's tired of walking, so he makes a car appear. I tell him that I am impressed by his god-like abilities. He is amused at my lame conversation and takes us on a trip. We drive for a bit and then teleport to some random area on the map. I'm still thinking he's going to kill us both. Then he tell us to get out and makes a chopper appear. We fly around the map while the hacker tells us he is going to build a base. He starts doing backflips and barrelrolls in the chopper. Then we land somewhere outside of the map and he tells us he needs to restart Arma to get his mic to work and he'll "brb". He says he's sorry. I wonder why. Zen gets shot in the head. Oh... now I know why he said that. I get shot in the head too but this hacker wasn't the one shooting us. A different hacker came running up the hill and tried killing all three of us. I lay bleeding and watch a hacker vs hacker fight break out. I die. We spawn back in and run around for a bit. The hackers are all gone. Zen, TommyT and I decide to meet up and loot the Balota airstrip. We talk about the hacker, wonder if we'll ever see him again. We're searching near a building when we suddenly hear a car honk behind us... we turn to see the hacker is back in a shiny black car. He tells us to get in and we are off on another strange trip. He teleports us to an area outside the map. We all get out and he loads us up with a ton of gear. Then we all can't move. Everyone in the mumble, on the server, say that they can't move too. The hacker tells us that he has locked everyone in place so hackers can't attack us. He allows Zen, TommyT and I to move again but everyone else on the server can't move. MOB starts to get pissed about this. Shit get's glitchy and the server freaks and dies. We're not sure if it was this hacker's fault or if the other hackers were trying to stop him and ruined the server in the process. The GAF server has been missing ever since.

I'll continue from the last bit:

So we server hop to find another sever, each one of us choosing different ones. We all end up where we expect, outisde the map, and being to run. Turns out JROCK and I lose everything in our packs, all the AS50 rounds, and have nothing in the way of food/water. We plan to head to an old GAF base. Decide we can't make it as water/food begin to turn read. It's agreed to check out Petrovka in hopes of finding something and killing zombies for food stuffs.

We log into the same server an spookily enough, EXACTLY the same spot which causes a mini freak out. In town, we try to shoot zombies with our M1911's... not good, they mob us. So we try the slow/sneaky hatchet and it works. We both get drink. However we end up passing out several times, bleeding a lot, breaking legs, etc. JROCK logs with drink, can of food, and 350 blood and bleeding. I run off into the woods to kill a rabbit for food as I'm down to 4k blood. I amass 3 sodas, finally get a piece of food, and manage to scrounge a bandage for JROCK. We wait for Zen to reach us with blood from his 'lucky' spawn in the NW Airfield. He does, patches me up JROCK logs in and I bandage while he loads in leaving him at 200 blood. He's transfused, we hunt for some last minute food/drink and are on our merry way.

[JackEtc]

I've owned ARMA II for a while, but finally got all of combined ops a few weeks ago during the Steam sale, and have been playing DayZ since. Been having a blast. I didn't even realize there was a GAF server.

I'm on vacation right now, but I get back Saturday, and I think I'd like to start playing with some fellow GAFfers. Read a few of the most recent pages, and seems like there's a lot of drama and relationships already formed between some members in the server and mumble. Hopefully I'm not too late to the party, and can join in with everyone.

Only thing is, I'm still not very good at the game. I'm starting to get better at recognizing cities and things like that, but my average life span is still probably only around an hour or so, usually getting killed off my bandit snipers or something. I also have only rolled solo in the game, never really in a group.

Is me being LTTP and my lack of real DayZ skill gonna be a problem with you guys?

[WedgeX]

I'll continue from the last bit: So we server hop to find another sever, each one of us choosing different ones. We all end up where we expect, outisde the map, and being to run. Turns out JROCK and I lose everything in our packs, all the AS50 rounds, and have nothing in the way of food/water. We plan to head to an old GAF base. Decide we can't make it as water/food begin to turn read. It's agreed to check out Petrovka in hopes of finding something and killing zombies for food stuffs. We log into the same server an spookily enough, EXACTLY the same spot which causes a mini freak out. In town, we try to shoot zombies with our M1911's... not good, they mob us. So we try the slow/sneaky hatchet and it works. We both get drink. However we end up passing out several times, bleeding a lot, breaking legs, etc. JROCK logs with drink, can of food, and 350 blood and bleeding. I run off into the woods to kill a rabbit for food as I'm down to 4k blood. I amass 3 sodas, finally get a piece of food, and manage to scrounge a bandage for JROCK. We wait for Zen to reach us with blood from his 'lucky' spawn in the NW Airfield. He does, patches me up JROCK logs in and I bandage while he loads in leaving him at 200 blood. He's transfused, we hunt for some last minute food/drink and are on our merry way.

Crazy survival stories. This is why I love dayZ.

[Beads]

Still a problem for me. I was just on yesterday and it took a long time to get in. The first server glitches up to hell and we couldn't see anything thanks to crazy polygons. After that we couldn't find a single working server and gave up.

To fix the polygons, try

For the giant polygun bug going on right now try this tip from gamefoo: Got those giant shards and artifacts making the game unplayable? Fix is here: Go to Documents/ArmA 2/playername.ArmaA2OAProfile Open file in Notepad Search for “sceneComplexity=;” Change to “sceneComplexity=100000;” Save changes and exit. Launch DayZ with preferred method. Also you can make this tweak by setting “Object Detail” to “Very Low” (thx again to Szalent)

This worked for me.

[paperboywriter]

Dayz reached 1Mio unique players today. should I make a seperate thread about this?

[TommyT]

Dayz reached 1Mio unique players today. should I make a seperate thread about this?

New thread for new news.

[ZenVolta]

New beta patch is out. Not sure if its worth installing but I did just for the sake of not having to do so later.

http://www.gamefront.com/files/22088749

[McBradders]

Not played in a couple of weeks after losing some awesome gear to a really dumb decision.

Man, it's still as thrilling as ever. Sneaking in and out of Elektro just now made me so nervous. Still GotY.

[holdbrillanj]

New beta patch is out. Not sure if its worth installing but I did just for the sake of not having to do so later. http://www.gamefront.com/files/22088749

Changelog:
Improved: VoN now uses the same port as the game traffic, should make VoN more reliable.
some crash hotfixes
some memory leak fixes
some small tweaks
some networking issues resolved
BattlEye support status: supported



http://forums.bistudio.com/showthrea...62-MP-build%29

Judging from these comments, i stay away from the patch for now.

[Atomski]

Dayz reached 1Mio unique players today. should I make a seperate thread about this?

Probably just more hackers.... QQ

[ZenVolta]

Probably just more hackers.... QQ

That does bring up a good point. I wonder how many of those are cd-keys bought from third party sites.

Edit: I see they had time to update the DayZ website. Good for them

[holdbrillanj]

I think the hackers are all Russian, and are purposely targeting US servers because lag does not Mather in this game (and even less when you are hacking). Is that a fair assumption?

[Bread]

I can't find the gaf server, is there an ip i can use to join?

[FACE]

Dayz reached 1Mio unique players today. should I make a seperate thread about this?

Sure thing.

[ZenVolta]

I can't find the gaf server, is there an ip i can use to join?

Gaf server is MIA

[wwm0nkey]

Did anyone make the 1 million player thread yet?

Seriously though its VERY impressive.

[Photolysis]

Password protected servers are severed from the Hive.

So they say, but they're quite lax about enforcing this stuff.

One server in the EU region runs a script that kicks almost everyone off the server aside from the admin and their friends, and which has been reported multiple times for this with evidence. It's almost always empty even at peak times.

A month later and it still isn't banned.

[TommyT]

I think the hackers are all Russian, and are purposely targeting US servers because lag does not Mather in this game (and even less when you are hacking). Is that a fair assumption?

The hacker that we dealt with last night just sounded like an older (40s) American guy.

[WedgeX]

Did anyone make the 1 million player thread yet? Seriously though its VERY impressive.

Someone had better make it before I get home from work!

[wwm0nkey]

Someone had better make it before I get home from work!

still nothing,

[EmCeeGramr]

I have completely fallen out of the DayZ loop.

What are the best videos to come out in the last few months (other than the Days Ahead ones).

[holdbrillanj]

The hacker that we dealt with last night just sounded like an older (40s) American guy.

There goes that theory...

Honestly i know its a alpha, but these hackers are just ruining the whole experience for me. I fail to see how the game can be so open that client can spawn server sided stuff. I mean CS is probably the most hacked game of all time, but NEVER has there been hacks that can control server sided things. How hard can it be to limit what the client can do without a password? In any case removing the craziest hacks wold be a start. I would actually enjoy just dealing with wallhack/aimbot/teleport/speedhacks instead of instant kill, godmode and b52 bombers.


Look at HoN... completly removed the whole maphack problem with simply limiting what information the client gets. Wonder of something like that could work for dayz.

Bleh

[Disheveled_Zen]

The group I play with finally found a heli, took 3 of us about 2 and a half hours to get it up and running. Luckily we found the PBX which made getting to the island 100 times easier.

Flying that thing is so much fun, especially when you start banking like crazy when you see SAW tracers flying at you from the ground.

[Woo-Fu]

I think the hackers are all Russian, and are purposely targeting US servers because lag does not Mather in this game (and even less when you are hacking). Is that a fair assumption?

Nope, that is a bad assumption and some misinformation to go along with it.

Most of the servers in the game will kick you if your ping is 150.

[J-Rock]

I have completely fallen out of the DayZ loop. What are the best videos to come out in the last few months (other than the Days Ahead ones).

This isn't an interesting gameplay vid but it does has some interesting info.

Interview with Rocket (DayZ creator) talking about the future of the series:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jECuS7NSEcc

[WedgeX]

Someone made the 1 000 000 players thread before I got back from work!

[Double_Helix]

ive had enough with the game at the moment

will wait till final release

[Disheveled_Zen]

And server ate our heli, damn.

[Woo-Fu]

Why do people edit scene complexity by hand when the setting is already in graphics options? Sure, it has a different name, but still, lol.

[Beads]

Hahaha oh wow. Day 14 of my character, just successfully looted the NW Airfield barracks. Aggro'd a zombie, get swarmed by 10 in the barracks. I manage to kill all of them, but I dropped to 5300 blood. I began the trek back to the coast so one of my friends could give me a transfusion, all the while looking for crash sites. I climb in the Veresnik deer stand, look through my binoculars... BANG, dead. I'm not even mad somehow, finally dying gave me a hell of a rush.

[Hylian7]

Well, since you're a fan of stories: ZenVolta and I were heading from the new coastal GAF base to an island that might have a chopper on it. Things took a turn into the the strange during this run. We suddenly see 10 or 11 people die on the lower right corner of the screen and realize a hacker is on the server. We keep running. Then we see two random zombies spawn near us and Zen thinks a Hacker is doing it. We swim across a bit of ocean to chopper island and as we get close I get shot in the chest by an invisible person on the island shore. I'm barely alive. Zen stays in the water and watches as the invisible Hacker pulls my bleeding body to the shore. I lay there helpless while Zen pleads with the hacker to not kill me and seduces him with his irresistible wit. Next thing I know the hacker is healing me and telling us there is no chopper on the island. He says we're dead if we fire one shot at him. We obey the rule and he tells us to follow him. We're nervous but decide to see what he has in store. We walk for awhile and he says that he's tired of walking, so he makes a car appear. I tell him that I am impressed by his god-like abilities. He is amused at my lame conversation and takes us on a trip. We drive for a bit and then teleport to some random area on the map. I'm still thinking he's going to kill us both. Then he tell us to get out and makes a chopper appear. We fly around the map while the hacker tells us he is going to build a base. He starts doing backflips and barrelrolls in the chopper. Then we land somewhere outside of the map and he tells us he needs to restart Arma to get his mic to work and he'll "brb". He says he's sorry. I wonder why. Zen gets shot in the head. Oh... now I know why he said that. I get shot in the head too but this hacker wasn't the one shooting us. A different hacker came running up the hill and tried killing all three of us. I lay bleeding and watch a hacker vs hacker fight break out. I die. We spawn back in and run around for a bit. The hackers are all gone. Zen, TommyT and I decide to meet up and loot the Balota airstrip. We talk about the hacker, wonder if we'll ever see him again. We're searching near a building when we suddenly hear a car honk behind us... we turn to see the hacker is back in a shiny black car. He tells us to get in and we are off on another strange trip. He teleports us to an area outside the map. We all get out and he loads us up with a ton of gear. Then we all can't move. Everyone in the mumble, on the server, say that they can't move too. The hacker tells us that he has locked everyone in place so hackers can't attack us. He allows Zen, TommyT and I to move again but everyone else on the server can't move. MOB starts to get pissed about this. Shit get's glitchy and the server freaks and dies. We're not sure if it was this hacker's fault or if the other hackers were trying to stop him and ruined the server in the process. The GAF server has been missing ever since.

I'll continue from the last bit: So we server hop to find another sever, each one of us choosing different ones. We all end up where we expect, outisde the map, and being to run. Turns out JROCK and I lose everything in our packs, all the AS50 rounds, and have nothing in the way of food/water. We plan to head to an old GAF base. Decide we can't make it as water/food begin to turn read. It's agreed to check out Petrovka in hopes of finding something and killing zombies for food stuffs. We log into the same server an spookily enough, EXACTLY the same spot which causes a mini freak out. In town, we try to shoot zombies with our M1911's... not good, they mob us. So we try the slow/sneaky hatchet and it works. We both get drink. However we end up passing out several times, bleeding a lot, breaking legs, etc. JROCK logs with drink, can of food, and 350 blood and bleeding. I run off into the woods to kill a rabbit for food as I'm down to 4k blood. I amass 3 sodas, finally get a piece of food, and manage to scrounge a bandage for JROCK. We wait for Zen to reach us with blood from his 'lucky' spawn in the NW Airfield. He does, patches me up JROCK logs in and I bandage while he loads in leaving him at 200 blood. He's transfused, we hunt for some last minute food/drink and are on our merry way.

So I'm going to guess that the island you were referring to was the one I found the base on, right? I'm guessing all that loot is gone now? I logged out there...

[McBradders]

Wait, so what happened to the GAF server?

[RyanDG]

So, I've been restocking my camp lately with my private stash of Beans and Hatchets. Kind of a time consuming process, but I like to have a central area I can go to get the handful of necessities that I need before I go exploring a lot of other areas (or go to get myself killed with the GAF Mumble group which inevitably seems to happen). With the GAF server down and my camp out in limbo, I hopped to another server today to play a bit. I had one of my L85A2's with me and started making my way out of the grocery store in Vybor towards the Northwest Airfield. The server I was on was lowly populated, so I didn't expect much trouble and when I got to NWA, I didn't see any signs of activity or zombies so I thought I was good to go give it a look.

So I was minding my own business, going through the hangars and mostly just scrounging for ammo when I got a bit to close to a couple of zombies. I evade them quickly, not to worried since I had 12,000 blood, and one of the first zombies got a near perfect hit on me as I made a turn around one of the hangars. Unfortunately for me, the sound I hear was my bones crunching and my guy immediately collapses to the ground. All I could think was dammit. Why the hell did I bring my L85A2 up to NWA anyway.

Anyways, I decided since I didn't have much to lose, I was going to go ahead and make my way towards the barracks to see if there was the small chance that I could end up with a Morphine injector. I crawled for an excruciating time, while avoiding zombies as much as I could (and taking out those I couldn't with my SD pistol, despite my dwindling ammo supply). Unfortunately for me, someone had noticed my activity and I ended up hearing and seeing a shot hit only feet in front of me from somewhere across the air strip. The second shot hit straight to home and ended up knocking me out and taking my blood from the high 11,000's down to about 4400.

Whatever weapon the guy was using ended up attracting nearly every zombie on the airfield (DMR maybe?), so it at least cleared my path to the barracks. I was fully expecting a third shot/kill shot to come at any time, but to my surprise it didn't. After about 45 seconds or so, I finally regained my consciousness and quickly bandaged myself up with less than 2000 blood remaining, shaking, and my vision blurred with a color blindness. I made the final path to the barracks building.

When I opened the door to the barracks, I saw my salvation. A morphine injector was straight ahead of me. But my hell wasn't over yet. You see, someone had put up a wire fence right in front of the door to the morphine injector and I was too far away to use the gear menu to get to it. I started to lose hope as I couldn't come up with a way to get the remove fence option to come up with my toolbox. I kept on trying to reposition myself and because of my limited movement capabilities with the broken leg, it started to become an effort in frustration.

I heard a few gunshots down the way. And heard a few more zombies move towards the noise. I didn't know for sure where the guy was, but I knew he was coming up on me quickly. My character's breathing was overwhelming a lot of the other noises in the game, and I started to share his sentiment. Finally, the remove fence option came up in game and I was able to crawl my way to my salvation.

...

So, you know how I said earlier that I lost my vision and became color blind? As I switched over the gear menu, the morphine auto injector that was supposed to allow me to save myself, turned out to be a fucking epi-pen.

I quickly glanced through the rest of the barracks rooms and I didn't have the luck to find any morphine injectors. With the other guy somewhere in the airfield, my only hope now was that I could get the jump on him and hopefully be lucky enough that he had a morphine injector in his pack.

Preparing for the final show down, I laid down in the room, pulled out my L85A2 and waited knowing sooner or later my hunter would come for me.

I didn't have to wait long. I hear the guy running into the barracks. As he comes around the corner, I pull the trigger. The spread on my bullets is all over the place because of my shakes (with no painkillers). I don't know how many times I end up hitting him, or if I took him out as well, because in the end, all he needed was one shot from his pistol and everything goes black with the taunting "You Are Dead" message.

[Tweedy]

Well, I had my first full night on DayZ and loved it, started out with running into a barn and looking a Lee Enfield and 3 mags, water bottle and soda, and then leaving to look for more gear, I head down a hill towards another barn area and I see the zombies acting wierd, realising they were aggro'ed by someone nearby, I hit the deck and readied my rifle!

Upon gazing down my iron sights I catch a glimpse of a guy run into the barn, so I lay in wait on the hillside. Watching. Hoping the guy would come out with decent loot that I could get from him. Still nothing. So I advance, I scout the barn and when I look up I see him laying there. Dead.

Turns out he had no loot on him. Later on I'm having so much fun, and I've ran around quite a few places I figure I could run through a town and look for buildings to loot (thinking to myself, "I know how to break LoS on zombs now, will be easy") how wrong I was... Ended up dying with the best loot I've had in ages :/

DayZ....

[The M.O.B]

Gaf server back up.

US 38

[blitzcloud]

Btw i'm pretty much done with the mod as of now. I'll play on the next revision when they fix the respawn button and all that...not to mention that hackers seem to be able to teleport everyone to the sea, kilometers away. Talk about griefing lol.

Just saying it in case anyone misses me in mumble. Not likely.

[TommyT]

So I'm going to guess that the island you were referring to was the one I found the base on, right? I'm guessing all that loot is gone now? I logged out there...

No, we were warped to the off the map past the North West corner. Something like 000, 999.

[NFreak]

Wow, met my first actual friendly survivor today. I was with my friend and the dude had an AS50. He just popped out of nowhere and asked us how we were doing and if we needed any supplies. He could have shot us if he wanted to. We had no idea where he came from. My friend and I both had our crosshairs on him if he did anything crazy but he gave me an NVG and my friend a Ghillie Suit. I'm not sure if he was a hacker or not but he had only one ghillie suit on him. I wish there were more friendly survivors out there.

[mainframe]

sigh been crawling for a hour in chorno.. no moprhine anywhere :-(..

[Mafro]

sigh been crawling for a hour in chorno.. no moprhine anywhere :-(..

None in the military field hospital near the eastern entrance to the city?

[mainframe]

None in the military field hospital near the eastern entrance to the city?

kinda new to this, so im right by some big clock tower, with a statue with 3 ppl on it.

[WedgeX]

kinda new to this, so im right by some big clock tower, with a statue with 3 ppl on it.

Head northeast. There will be a hospital and north of it are military and medical tents.

[mainframe]

Head northeast. There will be a hospital and north of it are military and medical tents.

K hope im heading the right way ! lol

[docbon]

Btw i'm pretty much done with the mod as of now. I'll play on the next revision when they fix the respawn button and all that...not to mention that hackers seem to be able to teleport everyone to the sea, kilometers away. Talk about griefing lol. Just saying it in case anyone misses me in mumble. Not likely.

i miss you blitzcloud

[cametall]

The hacking is getting really bad. Two servers in a row hacked, medium (less than 20) population.

[Photolysis]

So in a ridiculous stroke of good fortune, I logged on tonight and managed to snag myself yet another M4 SD. Technically still Day 0 for this character and I'm pretty much back up to full speed with my M4 & SVD.

No sign of any NVGs but if my luck with the spawns holds up, it can't be long!