Day Z mod for ARMA II

[Weren]

15th day alive and counting.  I have DMR with 13 mags, uzi, camo clothing and elite coyote.

I wish my tents wouldn't disappear after few restarts, though, and that I would finally find some vehicles.

[Molly]

I found a motorbike yesterday!
Unfortunately I havent had any fuel and couldnt find any when I looked around. I used the "save vehicle" thing but tbh I dont know if or how it works so I guess I wont find the bike when I log back in.
To0 bad. Looked like TT600R I gladly would have risked my death for taking that thing for a ride 

[Malaclypse]

I've come across a few Tractors (already fixed, so I'm assuming I stole them from someone), a fixed Bus that drove by me playing Q Lazzarus's hit song Goodbye Horses over direct (I wish my system wasn't already so outdated so I could reliably run fraps full time), and a broken GAZ that I wasn't even going to try to fix up by Gvozdno since they re-added vehicles.

[Formaldehyde Junkie]

lol wish I could have seen that.
I finally died after days of looking for anti-biotics (character was on day 14)
Character decided to stand up randomly while crawling through a horde of zed.
Bones instantly broken, eaten alive just a meter from the hospital.
the horror

[Butan]

wow nice survival count 

my PR at the moment must be like 6 hours of play.

[Overdriven]

Interesting:

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These are Kronzky's words:
"It is NOT a full-scale SP conversion, but just a hack, to activate the ModZ code for SP"

From the reddit discussion:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/v0...s_dayz_sp/

"How many times do I have to explain this?

Kronzky initially released it without asking me, and I discussed it with him and asked that he wait because it was causing an issue for the development. I was receiving large numbers of reports and bug requests because the system isn't designed for single player. It was distracting from the main effort.

We came to an agreement, and I gave him access to my source repository so he could begin researching to develop the single player version but I required him to discuss and work with me around timing for releasing it and how it was released. He didn't do this, and just did whatever he wanted.

So I terminated my relationship with him, as this was a complete betrayal of my trust as far as I am concerned.

From Kronzky's own site: "Please DO NOT MIRROR any content from this site." and "I appreciate your contributions to the community, and the fact that you are spreading the word about new content for ArmA, but having outdated versions is in nobody's interest."

The same is true here. I don't want confusion, I gave him the option of working with me and even gave him access to my private source repository and he abused that privilege. As such, I made the necessary arrangements to have it taken down.

1. I wanted a single repository of download, version sync'd so that there was no confusion.
2. Security issues were greatly increased. A known hacker site was using Kronzky's version for testing of their hacks prior to using them on public servers.
3. I think he was being disrespectful, and he betrayed my trust with his actions.
4. Single Player was not the focus of the mod. I was prepared to work with him to develop this in future but I wanted the timing to be right.

I haven't made ONE SINGLE DIME out of this mod. I could have made a shitload out of it. It really disappoints me when people make assumptions without checking my side of the story, especially here on reddit where I generally find people try and balance both sides. I made plenty of forum replies about this - but new threads keep poping up that continually post the one side argument."

and a very telling reply:

"It's really easy for a few sensationalist or heated posts to get a subreddit (or even most of reddit) into an uproar. It's happened time and time again, and this is no different. When someone can convince redditors that they've been wronged, it's just a snowball effect from then on. It's just the hivemind at work. I know I don't represent any bit of reddit or this community, but I apologize for the entitled middle school drama in this thread. I think for the most part that this situation has been handled, but it may have put you on a tight rope that you don't deserve to be on. My only fear now is that a disgruntled chunk of the community here and at the DayZ forums may be waiting with bated breath for you to "mess up" or make another "corporate" style move, and then this will all happen again. I've seen it happen before and it's all too easy to happen again, but really hard to recover from. It only takes one hole to sink a ship."

So even if this isn't totally related it seems there has been a massive influx of hacking very recently. The cheat reporting forum is being flooded by threads about it. Hope they do something about it.

Also:

Due to constant and sustained hacking, the central server has been dropped to prevent any further degradation of service to DayZ players, and safeguard any corruption of player data.

It is now being bought back online. BattlEye is processing an update for all servers.

We're sorry for the delay, and the problems people experienced.

[Life]

Interesting:

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So even if this isn't totally related it seems there has been a massive influx of hacking very recently. The cheat reporting forum is being flooded by threads about it. Hope they do something about it.

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sooo..... this means hackers are gone?

[Xant]

A good deal of them, not all.

[Darkkarma]

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This guy was spawning these on the coast for quite a while. Also, Some guys were spawning choppers and gunning our group down at our camp sight about a week ago9We still have no idea how they found us.) It was pretty rad.

[SchokoSchaf]

I spawned outside of the map. I guess I'm in limbo.

[Xant]

Run south-east for 2 hours to get out.

[Malaclypse]

Tyrell was just going to leave that tent alone. It was at the bottom of a hill in the middle of the forest, and anything in it had probably despawned anyhow. Because he went to check it out, just in case, I wound up with 15 more magazines for my Mp5SD. Jeeeze, I was getting ready to bail on the thing.

[Xant]

rocket made a couple post on the forums that the hackers mostly use.

You know, I have a lot of respect for someone who codes their own mod-apps, who learns their way through a system. There is something natural about that. It requires a level of thinking that I don't think many people can achieve. You have to figure out how something works and take the time to learn and understand the base systems around it, usually without guides. Trial and error, check and try again - balacing a lot of variables in your head.

But what happened today, and over the last three days. What the fuck was that? Are you trying to break me or something? Show me how man you are? How clever?

Well fine, you won. Congratulations. You ruined a free project. Well done. What an amazing group. You destroyed someones work. Want me to post a picture with a shoe on my head? Want me to post to everyone and tell them how awesome you are because you destroyed something that's free? Want me to tell everyone how you're right about how shit everything is? Want me to give up, realizing that it's pointless to do anything against such senseless hate.

Look, yes - I am a dick, and who ever said the mod is really anything amazing. But what you guys did, is just fucking cruel. That's not mod-apping. That's not a challenge. It's not exploiting a weakness so that people don't produce crappy software. I can't even describe what that is. It was just so senseless and stupid. You did it to each other too for christ sake. And if your aim was to destroy the project, fine - you have. Bulls-eye. If your aim was to make me feel like shit - fine, you've done that too. There was no sport in what happened last night, none at all.

I feel no "victory" in the "bans" that were handed out. It just buys some time before the project dies. What you think I'm supposed to ramp it up here? Is that it? Declare war on you and make all these accusations about how safe everything is? What do you think I am? Just what resources do you think I have? You know (well, those who are actually making the tech) the situation with this just as well as I do. There is no war here because it can't be won. It's been lost.

Congratulations

You know how many people got banned because of this. People who only have the choice of getting another copy. Do you win there? Is that a win for you? They buy another copy? You've really ruined their day, more than anyone elses. I get to deal with their butt-hurt emails and I laughed for a start but I'm not laughing now.

I made a great mod?

You destroyed it.

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[Nessaj]

Sad stuff.

[Overdriven]

Pretty hilarious reading the forums. Basically bateye has globally banned a ton of people for hacking, and now lots of them are coming on the forums going 'zomg we werent hacking'. But the only way they could possible have been globally banned by bateye is for hacking with scritps.

Bit sad that a bunch of kiddies felt the need to hack a alpha mod and then rage over the fact they got globally banned from the entire of Arma 2 for it.

The hacking got so bad I ordered the complete shutdown of the system until BattlEye update was released. Luckily that shutdown was very brief. If this BattlEye update hadn't worked (and indications are, it has worked exceptionally well), the server would have had to remain down.