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[LoSboccacc]

last year summer camp was at the end of june
http://store.steampowered.com/news/5761/

gentlemen, smash your piggy banks!

[ConscriptFive]

Steam seems to go with a Summer sale of some sort around June or July, I think.

Like most U.S. merchants they tend match their specials to U.S. holidays.  I recall last year's "Summer Camp" being the leadup to July 4th.  So maybe it'll start in two weeks or so?

[olemars]

ArmA 3 is slated for a Q4 2012 release, so I would expect an ArmA/ArmA2 sale at some point before that in any case. But probably not while ArmA 2 is still on the top 10 sellers on steam.

[kg333]

ArmA 3 is slated for a Q4 2012 release, so I would expect an ArmA/ArmA2 sale at some point before that in any case. But probably not while ArmA 2 is still on the top 10 sellers on steam.

If they don't put the entire Steam catalog on sale at some point during the summer sale, it's pretty close.  I'd expect some kind of discount on ArmA soon.

KG

[Baneling]

So, today is hopefully going to be the day I actually manage to survive more than half an hour after going into a building.

I headed inland right off the bat after starting near Krutoy Cap. I'm going to attempt to loot and(hopefully)clear out this castle before heading towards Stary Sobor, where Mechanical is hanging out, so I can help him with the vehicular shenanigans he's trying to set up.

EDIT: Bugger all in the castle except three zombies. Going to continue heading inland.

EDIT2: On the way to Vybor to meet up with a guy, I looted a place. Got a bunch of extra ammo, some bandages, pasta, soda, a hunting knife and a bunch of road flares. Going to try reconnect since I had lag issues and then continue on my trek.

[Scelly9]

There's a demo for both Arma 2 (Free) and Operation Arrowhead. Can I grab both demos and play DayZ, or do I absolutely have to shell out money?

I am about 95% sure that your gonna have to shell out the cash if you want to play Dayz.

[Baneling]

Fairly sure you need to buy them. But I think if you've bought Arrowhead you don't need ArmA 2? I'm not really sure, someone mentioned a while back.

[Scelly9]

Fairly sure you need to buy them. But I think if you've bought Arrowhead you don't need ArmA 2? I'm not really sure, someone mentioned a while back.

Nope. You need Combined Operations. IE: Both of them.

[Tilla]

Yah, do yourself a favor and just wait for the steam sale to get Combined Ops. Arma 2 free is.. uses super ugly low-rez textures, etc.

[Shadowscales]

ARMA 2 Free + Operation Arrowhead = CO Lite
You can play with that, as stated in that Coop game thread.

[kg333]

Damn it.  Posting this here, in case anyone hasn't seen it yet.

A security breach has sadly happened to DayZ, we are sending out a mass email to notify users who currently do not know.

To stay informed please refer to:
http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=9123

A short summary:
Our forum database has been comprised and users are urged to change their passwords.

This is a good time to inform users to do good password practices, if you are not tech-savvy with today's modern age there are various different articles on practicing safe passwords and so fourth, below will contain a link that users should read to keep secure passwords so when security breaches like this happens you are not effected on a personal way. If you are contacted by a person claiming to be with the DayZ Dev team and they ask you for any personal information do not respond to this person and block them from contacting you. DayZ Dev Team will not ask you for any personal information or passwords.

https://itservices.uchicago.edu/page/good-password-practices

Also along with this database security breach our us.armafiles.info mirror (US Mirror) was also comprised and the attacker tried to spread a malicious application to infect users, if you downloaded an application called 'dayz_auto_updater.exe' from early this morning US Eastern time 6-8am on the date 6/9/2012 you should scan your computer for viruses and check your Appdata folder for .exe's containing the file names:

D3D8THK.exe
VSCover.exe

An extensive report by ThreatExpert can explain how to locate these malicious applications:

http://www.threatexpert.com/report.aspx?md5=ead7a55075d5ce1a32353832bed88069

And lastly for server hosts who have provided DayZ with RDP details for their servers are to quickly react on this and to change the RDP's account password and scan your server for any of the malicious software above as your servers integrity is comprised. Please do not contact DayZ Dev Team with new RDP Details, DayZ is no longer requesting RDP details for servers after this breach and hosts will be required to maintain their servers on their own. If a server host is contacted by anyone claiming to be with the DayZ Dev Team and are asking for server RDP details do not reply to this person and block them from getting in touch with you. DayZ Dev Team will not ask you for RDP details.

We cannot express how deeply sorry we are that this happened and are correcting our mistakes where we have went wrong so such a breach never happens again.

With kind regards,
Tonic
DayZ Dev Team

KG

[Scelly9]

God dammit.

[The Mechanical Man]

I'm surprised, but at the same time I don't really think it's that surprising. Something like this was bound to happen eventually. It's just a real shame it did.

[ScriptWolf]

*sighs* :/ its a good thing i had not updated recently, but still common practise to scan everything you download, i always try to use virus total when i can

[The Mechanical Man]

Looks like 1.7.1 is going to go live sometime soon. It will require the beta patch for ArmA 2, however.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pending Update 1.7.1 Details
Rough outline of what to expect in the pending update.

I will update this as more stuff is put in. Changelog will then follow it.

Performance and Optimization

- Reduction/elimination of the new server lag. This is caused by the ArmA2 server expecting immediate response from the central server. Vehicles are the main cause of this, as whenever they are damaged everything stops while the server ensures this is recorded in the database.
- Bugs fixed that were possibly causing very significant netcode overhead (will need mass-scale testing to verify this).

Infected Behavior

- Infected can no longer see/attack through walls.
- Entirely new mocap'd attack and running animations

Content

- Additional Idle Infected sounds
- Revised Attack sounds
- Many new action sounds, including IV, bandaging etc...

Notes

- This update will REQUIRE the beta patch, so it is worth installing this now and getting used to it.
- Read up at the BI Forums about the beta patch install. It's pretty easy.

Current Changelog

Developer's Note:
* Requires ArmA2 Beta.

Changelog:
Changelog:
* [FIXED] Wire Spools, Toolboxes, hedgehog (tank trap) kits not spawning
* [FIXED] Bodies still being deleted too quickly sometimes
* [FIXED] No backpacks or medical boxes spawning
* [FIXED] "No Speaker..." debug report spam
* [FIXED] Infected spawning too close to players (minimum 30m now)
* [FIXED] Infected not spawning inside buildings any more
* [NEW] Infected can't attack through walls
* [NEW] Infected can't see through objects any more
* [NEW] Infected visibility increased (but limited by LOS)
* [NEW] Infected attack range increased (but limited by LOS)
* [NEW] Infected can cause greater damage when they hit you
* [NEW] You can hide from an infected chasing you
* [NEW] Optimized server cleanup routine
* [NEW] Player body exists for five seconds after disconnect (UNCONFIRMED IF WORKING)
* [NEW] Infected see based on eye direction, not on body direction as before
* [NEW] 30Rnd_545x39_AK added to loot table