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I love how much tougher zombies are now.. But why is my guy made of paper? A zombie breaths on me and I start bleeding. Keep the toughness but at least make it so one hit everytime won't make you bleed everytime, especially straight after I bandage and you start bleeding again. Not sure if it's the update or the server were on, but med's are seem to be non-exsistent aswell. No bandages, bleed when being looked at by zombies, and the bleed not 10 seconds after you just bandaged. Apart from that, I'm actually very happy with how DayZ right now. Please don't take my post as ranting/complaining, just some feedback.. I appreciate having blood being pumped around my body. ;)

I'd much rather pick each part myself and get really good price to performance than having something pre-built (Both Mac/Windows) and not having a lot of control over it. And just to say, my gaming rig costs the same as MacBook. My full size tower with high end parts costs the same as a paper thin laptop. So.. Yeah.

Like last night, one clan and a couple of loners, get into a huge fight all across Berezino. Lost two of my friends and ended up with 9 kills and almost no blood, no supplies left. And I thought Berezino was a quiet place...

Yesterday was one of my best actually, just continuous action. Logged off with my friends near NEAF, spawn in and find some activity in the area. We go down to the airfield while my friend stays on the hill and covers us. Right off the bat we kill two clan members on the airfield, we spot another flanking our guy on the hill, he gets killed. We fell back to the barn behind the NEAF hill, and then ran into about another 4 of them, killed 2, another 2 escaped. Moved onto Berezino. Looking for a tyre, we split up into two's (Four of us). Two of us head north into town, the other two south. We near the tents into Berezino when my friend comes under fire. He gets killed and I run to intercept these two guys, cut in between them, injure one, the other one escapes and I'm bleeding from zombies. Ran behind a wall and guy attempts to jump out and cut me off, hailstorm of M14 rounds comes his way. I then take cover and 10 minutes later kill the next guy. My other friend reaches me after running from Polana, and starts helping me find a tyre. Next thing I know we are again being engaged by another two guys, at this point I'm to 4000 blood with little meds left and zombies all over me. My friend takes one out and I started chasing an unarmed player trying to negotiate in hopes he had meds or even a bandage. He ignores me so after 5 minutes I waste. My friend then gets killed so I'm alone again. 10 minutes later I take out the guy who killed him, and then sit on a roof for half hour waiting for backup. We got the car fixed and found a place to camp up, logged off with little blood left, but 9 kills under my belt in less than 3 hours. Epic.

Screenshot with FPS counter, then we'll take that statement seriously. Given how there is a vast majority of PC gamers who build their own PC's optimised for games on the highest settings possible, the odds would be stacked against you on such a bet. Plus, the main flaw is exactly what you have said. Bootcamped. Its not designed for Mac, not optimised as effectively as it would be for Windows, and it will most likely IMO not be developed for Mac, as majority of the community who play DayZ/ArmA II use Windows.

So here's the deal. We offer you Frankie, and PSI is let free. Fair deal?

Personally, I've never heard of anything like it, makes it worse that its yourself and no one else across multiple servers. Would say to me its a file somewhere missing or damaged causing it but looks like that has been covered, but thats pretty much the only thing I can think of, anything like this where its just one person, it usually points to such an issue. Maybe re-install? Not sure.. Would love to be of more help!

Reading through this it gave me quite a neat idea.. Things like the ACE mod or ZuesAI mod improve AI in ArmA by quite a lot. I use both, not sure if it would of worked but one could dream how the Mod may have been with such things!

It used to work. Now it's too boring to shoot people on sight, so instead we come up with creative ways of fooling people then killing them anyway e.g. Park a car in a field near somewhere like Cherno and just act like you need help repairing it.... Lol!

Who's putting bets on that next-gen will be out before Standalone..? ^_^ (Just kidding people!) We all know there will be a lot to fix once Alpha comes out, anyone here think they will continue to play the mod more than the Alpha during it's first few stages? Kind of like ArmA 3 when it first came out, it was fun.. But ArmA II was still better because it wasn't an alpha. I think I may do it that way, depending on how things go. Play SA for a little bit here and there, keep an eye on fixes, etc.. And then continue to play the mod just while we get the teething problems out the way. Must admit, really enjoying the mod right now. Finally feels like it was when I first started playing last year, I actually have to run away or kill zombies now!

I will play Neutral as I always have. I'll only play with friends, people who I've helped or been helped by. Everyone else has 10 seconds..

About the only point I agree with is DayZ commander. Not sure why some people call it clunky or not very good, it's incredibly simply and easy to use. The turorials and campaigns will only get you used to how ArmA works, the controls, etc.. So in all fairness, yes, you are a rookie at DayZ, it's a mod with a different method of playing, and requires a lot more from yourself than what the core game will. To clarify, DayZ is ArmA II. It's a mod of the game, please do not treat it seperatly. And pretty much all your points seem to be related to the fact you are treating it seperatly as a game. DayZ is a mod, is heavily scripted and has come an incredible distance since it first started.. I mean, they decided to make a SA of it. Stuff like ripping your shirt off or taking an axe from a tree stump is not part of ArmA there for is not part of DayZ. There is only such much the developers can do in terms of scripting, adding new things, making stuff more optimised. The mod is limited which is why the SA was taken into consideration to start with, along with the popularity of DayZ. It also seems like you barely have given DayZ a chance. You will need to go through 100's of lives before you begin to get used and get good at the DayZ,15 is nothing, people go through 15 lives in one day alone. Also, ban PvP combat so noobs can get used to playing? This is why playing ArmA II itself is useful first, get a feel for the game, then move on to DayZ and in time you will begin to get a feel for other players, the enviroment, etc.. Banning combat will only make it worse. New players need to learn the hard way the risk/reward. Want to go loot Cherno? Fine, but you take the risk of being killed. You have ditched the game before it even started for yourself. Can't see you getting on well with the SA if your expectations are that high.

First time I've heard of such an issue, the mod plays completely fine. FInd another server.

Theres a difference between campers though. Of course you have those that sit there picking off fresh spawns, completely immersed in what they are doing, and end up being humiliated by a fresh spawn with a Makarov who took matters into his/hers own hands. Then you have campers that know more than one position, can shoot from any spot, are very aware of their surroundings and are prepared to move when even the slightest threat comes their way. Good snipers know that despite it's height advantage, Elektro is one of the worst sniper points in the game, easily flanked and spotted, and so will use many various other positions from different ranges regardless of what sniper they have. Real snipers/campers don't get spotted nor killed. ;)

- Presume goats are spies. Kill every one of them. - Treat tractors like real living beings. Give them a name. Take care of them. - When you see a helicopter in the air, expect to see several death messages in side chat some time soon after. - Green Mountain will curse you. Do not travel there. Something bad will ALWAYS happen soon after visiting.

AS50 in terms of capability, but looks ugly as hell. My real choice though..? Download ACE mod, get yourself an M109. Blows both snipers combined out of the ball park. Why? 25x59mm round, designed to penetrate heavily armoured vehicles. Use that thing in ArmA, you will be heard from 3 miles away. Just for comparison, the AS50/M107 fires a 12.7x99mm round. Also, again in the ACE mod.. The TAC .50 is an awesome sniper, zeros up the 2000 meters and will deliver up to 2500-3000 meters.

DayZ and Wasteland are far from similar. I mean.. Really? Wasteland - PVP, Tanks, Jets, Helicopters, Vehicles, Bases, Insane Amount of Weaponswith High End's being very easy to find, Teams, Independents, Chaos. DayZ - PVP, PVE, Cars, Helis (Rarely), High End Weapons are rare, all Independent, Zombies, Multiple factors to surviving. DayZ may be PvP mainly, but it is very slow paced, were as I can jump on Wasteland and have 10 kills in 10 minutes and get stuck right into the action. There are still a lot of reasons to play one or the other. Wasteland has done incredibily well for itself, it is great fun and is actually a very good way of learning to play. On a vanilla DayZ server, which many are trying to revert back to and find ways to make it harder to KoS, you will be involved in maybe.. 2-3 fights a day seperated hours apart.

KoS, has always and will continue to be part of the game. If you don't like it, go home. And don't ask Rocket for your money back either. I actually feel some YouTuber's have mislead people into what DayZ is really like. They seem to believe that sneaking up on people, asking them to drop their weapon, or helping someone out and giving them a weapon will help (As shown in a certain YT'ers videos). It's not like that. Expect to be killed. Best way to play DayZ.

Overdose..? :(

So.. Which one will it be? The Blue Pill? Or the Red Pill?

My honest opinion? These things are a waste of money and nothing more than a playtoy. The TrackIR system is cool, but I could think of better hardware to buy for my gaming setup than some of these things.

3570k is one of the best price to performence CPU's out there right now, I have one myself, will handle DayZ easily, and should remain that way with the SA. If you haven't overclocked, or don't know how, it is worth doing so. The 3570k will OC pretty easily given good cooling and given how ArmA is CPU intensive, OC'ing won't go a miss. You should be able to run with majority of settings set to High, exluding Postprocess effects as it looks horrible with that on. Not sure how much the 770 will help, the 700 series is new and I haven't seen much on them, but I can only guess they will handle DayZ fine, given how it is more CPU intensive anyway.

Good tip for anyone, having over 60FPS on a 60Hz monitor with no V-Sync is pointless. If you have a 60Hz monitor, and are running at 100FPS, you will see a lot of screen tearing, because the monitor can not (Simply put) keep up. So if you leave V-Sync on, it will limit your FPS to 60, which is all you need really. You will only notice a considerable difference when running 90-100FPS when your playing on a 120Hz monitor. I run a 3570k @ 4.5Ghz, x2 6870's in Crossfire, and triple SSD's, yet leave V-Sync on and then put all my other settings on High/Very High, excluding Postprocess, and will hit 60FPS solid and consistently when recording as well. V-Sync is your friend, believe me.

Pretty much answered your own question there in a sense. The reason it is flat textures is exactly that.. A massive performance gain (Massive might be an exaggeration though). To be honest though those trees in the distance look no different to how they are now IMO. And that is a fair distance, you would need a high caliber rifle to make such a shot from there, and such rifles no longer exist in SA, so I see no need to worry about that. At worst someone will spot you, thats it.

Cheekily jumped on this morning as had a few hours before work, no one on, and it was dark. Pefect! ;) Any events going? Will start recording/streaming and will upload some vids for you guys!