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yes it is. it no longer has any meaning

Fabulous, thanks :)

when do you expect to be able to add more zombies? i'm waiting on that before i get back into dayz, players are all hostile because co-op is not necessary with the current amount of zombies

Personally, i am between worlds here. I put so much trust and hope into dayz before it was released and as of yet i still have nothing to show for it. The game barely works at all, and performance has not improved at all since release. Then they come in with the news that they're gonna make it for ps4 (and most likely xbone too). I don't really know what to think. I feel like a sap for buying it. I feel like we've paid for the console versions to be made. With current progress as painstakingly slow as it is, how on earth could the team currently working on dayZ possibly make another two iterations of the game? Are they gonna take on more staff? Would these new staff be funded with our money?

ah, i was under the impression that you took a couple of months off or something.

forgive me for asking but what amazing updates are you seeing here? it's still a total buggy mess.

again, its just awful optimization on BI's part. it's super duper cpu intensive which almost always ends up bottlenecking it, hence why pretty much everyone has shitty FPS in arma 2 even though it came out ages ago. the story mode barely functions at all. in my opinion it's a total joke of a game, and the only reason it has had the success is the idea behind dayZ.

that people playing dayZ are generally assholes. and that dayZ needs some serious goddamn optimization

i wouldn't think so, they're both pretty horrible for FPS. arma 2 is horrendous so having a mod of that only seems to complicate things! my advice would be to just play other games and wait it out until dayz becomes playable for the 95%. (if that ever happens, it's been out a fair while and the FPS has only got worse :/)

dark souls 2 is really well optimized for PC. dayZ on the other hand is just unplayable on all but the top 5% of PC's at the moment. the system requirements for dayZ are really not accurate at all.

arma: the only game where having a GTX 780 still gives you terrible fps.

you can't deny that dark souls 2 has FAR superior graphics to arma 2. have you played dark souls 2? your opinion seems very vague and as if you just picked it up online. why does it need to render 250km at once? what do you gain from that? the most you can see is like 2km away anyway, even if you're in a helicopter. it's a joke of an engine that barely works on anything. my friend has an extremely high end system that can barely run it on low settings. yes, it's in alpha stage. it's been in alpha stage for a long old time, and it will be for a much, much longer time with how slowly things are moving. my FPS in game has not improved at all since launch, if anything it's actually got slightly worse somehow. give it time everyone says. why? after playing it the other day after not playing it for a long time i realised just how abysmal it really is. the zombies are a complete joke and the game barely works at all as a whole. how anyone can have the patience to play it for prolonged periods of time is just beyond me.

dayZ is made from the groundworks of arma 2, a game that was already so poorly optimised that 90% of people still can't play it with decent fps even today. if you add to that the fact that dayZ is horribly optimised aswell, you get yourself one big lack of optimisation turd sandwich. hence horrific FPS on pretty much all systems. dark souls 2 on PC has far superior graphics and runs at glorious 60fps even on my relatively mid-specced laptop, and that only came out a couple of weeks ago. it's all about the optimisation man

although i do agree that the heavy breathing is over the top, i don't agree for the same reason as you :P

i already addressed this in a previous post on this thread, please read that for my reply to you.

the fact that there's more killing (effectively deathmatching) is due to the players not caring at all about their in-game character. if they had lived for a few days on that character they would want to keep it alive, whereas on these servers with a bajillion vehicles they don't need to worry or stress over the fact that they might lose their items, as they can just regain them within 3 minutes of respawning. generally the audience that has been attracted by these 'let's play's etc wants to play a consistently exciting game, not run around for 20 minutes only to get shot. that's why those servers were far more popular than normal ones.

first i was like then i read this and was like

i agree, but my point was that generally people tend to like to be babysat in games, i'm sure there's lots of people who wish that there weren't hunger mechanics or zombies in dayZ. look at the mod. it started off as a difficult survival game, then it ended up as this absolute mess with thousands of vehicles which players could find within 2 minutes and there were even extra barracks all over the coast. these servers were by a mile the most played servers in the mod. that was my point, i was just using dark souls and skyrim as examples because they're generally similar games.

the fact that skyrim sold a bajillion copies and dark souls didnt sell as many shows us that the majority of people like to play easier games

you do realize it's out right?

yay phyics, yay bows and arrows, yay weather system, yay new buildings. what about the biggest part of all, the performance? why are they still adding all this new stuff, to a game that's already running at super duper low frames even for people with great gaming rigs? are they at max performance now? can't they optimize it anymore? i guess they are running it off a similar engine to arma 2, which itself is horrifically unoptimised and the SA itself is also lacking in optimization. why the hell was there no news on this? the forums are rife with people complaining about low fps and i'd defended the devs for all of last year saying that 'the SA will be better' but they're not even talking about it now, and now he's saying that vehicles aren't far away? what the fuck?! leave vehicles until you've fixed the awful performance before they end up making it a million times worse.

that's because not everyone has money flying out of their ass and are not blessed enough to be able to run games on these settings. that's why so many people disable it. especially in dayZ and arma 2 where the eye candy features like post processing give people seizures.

mel is doing a cameo :D

i can only hope that the sawed off doesnt suck total cock against bandits :P