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I was playing the mod for this game, DayZ, and saw this. I didn't really think much of it at the time, and shrugged it off as just an auto-post by the server. But now I hear that it is a sign that FADE/DEGRADE is slowly destroying your game?

I bought this game on steam 100% legit, and play DayZ via SixLauncher, so I don't believe I've done anything to warrant such a response. I just don't want to have my aim go to hell, and turn into a damn bird. If I can get any help on this, it would be appreciated. I've already turned into a bird once, but many people on the server were, so it may have been a bug/hacker. Just very confused... Any help will be appreciated.

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If you're playing with 50 people and 1 person is using an illegal game you all see the message, you should only worry if your game becomes affected by elements of the anti-piracy protection.

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yeah, if your game fades you'll know it, wont be able to hit the broad side of a barn, you'll have the "death rally shroom" effect, arma logo big in screen and that kind of nonsense.

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  Placebo said:
If you're playing with 50 people and 1 person is using an illegal game you all see the message, you should only worry if your game becomes affected by elements of the anti-piracy protection.

Aha. Now that's news. This might explain why some users who claim they are legit are seeing this message in MP.

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  Tankbuster said:
Aha. Now that's news. This might explain why some users who claim they are legit are seeing this message in MP.

Last weekend we played a little session on our server (1.60, no beta patches),

clients were using 94444 beta, one or two maybe older beta or 1.60 release patch - and we all got the firckin degrade warning (which never happened before :oh: )

One of those moments where you just gotta pull through pretending "yeah, that´s normal, armaaa hates us" ugly.gif

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Please vote for a better message/system:

Feature #36677: Improve 'degrade' message in MP (Warning illegal copies may degrade) or 'degrade' system in MP altogether

https://dev-heaven.net/issues/36677

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  PvPscene said:
Please vote for a better message/system:

Feature #36677: Improve 'degrade' message in MP (Warning illegal copies may degrade) or 'degrade' system in MP altogether

https://dev-heaven.net/issues/36677

Voted green.

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The whole chat/information system is insufficient and looks like a pre-alpha placeholder version.

"you cannot play/edit this map because it is based on content that has been deleted.chernarus"

Spamming such phrases to everybody in the chat window is annyoing for those people and the person who is actually affected, can not deal with it at all. "Huh? I've never deleted anything.", "What does deleted.chernarus mean?"

Instead of spamming non-understandable lines of text in the chat window to EVERY client, the affected person should receive a local dialog (not in chat area) with a proper explanation:

Example:

"You can not play this map. You need 'Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead' to be installed on your computer". (exchanging the missing content in the ' ').

That insufficiency also counts for the whole connecting/disconnecting informations:

disableChannels[] = {0,1,2,3,4,5,6} is a beginning, but by far not enough. Also the decision between having 1.) no system messages at all or 2.) have system spam annoying everybody isn't that good.

Instead of spamming 2-6 lines of text to every client, there should only be a single-line serverwide

information when a person has actually made it into the game: "player x has connected". Done. And not:

1. player x is connecting

2. player x has connected

3-5. you can not play/edit...

6. player x has disconnected

Nevertheless Arma is a great game, BIS is busy with more important things... and no, I can not do it better :o

Edit: Lol, up to now I even didn't get the meaning of those degrade-messages:

"Illegal copies may degrade"

"Legal copies do not degrade"

I thought it to be something like "Go and buy a legal copy. Don't be afraid - they will not get off (like milk outside a fridge or whatever)."

Didn't know that this message means "illegal copies will suffer graphical punishment during gameplay"...

Edited by RogueTrooper

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