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mZLY: Really? Maybe it's because I turned AA off and AF at the lowest setting and I left shadows at medium, but I get 45fps and have everything running on High on this with stock settings and a rez of 1650x1080: QX9650 780i SLI GTX280 8GB DDR2-800 Standard 7200rpm HDD That system the OP put in there, I thought he was just bragging... that should have ZERO problems playing Arma2/DayZ. And yes... I hear Arma 2 is VERY HDD dependent. So, using a SSD should be awesome.

Are there space limits on vehicles that I'm not seeing? I found my first UAZ today, and I loaded it up and noticed that, some gear, after putting it in the UAZ, made other stuff disappear? I hope my stuff's still there when I get back... :( I also unloaded a tent, put all the stuff I had in the tent into my UAZ, then I went back to pack up the Tent, which packed up, but then I couldn't pick it up. It was right in front of me. I saw the bag of the tent there, but no moving to-and-fro, exiting and going back in, etc. let me be able to select it to pick it up... :( This was a terrible update I think... a lot of people don't like it. Starting with NVG, Range Finders, GPS and Weapons... a MK48 Mod 0? Really??? That just takes the fun out of starting up. Just as I feared... my UAZ is gone and so is all the stuff in it... luckily I kept some food and ammo on me.

Thanks mZLY. I'd be interested in seeing some more details about the standalone, i.e. more concrete information, such as system specs and what not. I'm excited for everyone about the standalone, but also curious if my aging system can handle it and whether the excitement is warranted for me... xD

Being a brand new player (started this Sunday) I can say that DayZ is just simply amazing. What makes the game "fun" for me? Well, like it was mentioned above, it has a certain "je ne sais quoi." Take this for instance: ----------------------------------------------------------- I start during dusk, someplace near Kamenka. I have nothing. A bandage and some pain killers, and it's raining. I know I must find shelter. Worried that zombies might find me, I run east near the wood line by the road observing for any people that might be near me. After a brisk run, I see some buildings and some people walking in town? Are they friendly? Are they bandits? Worse... they're zombies. In order not to be seen I must crawl my way into town... hopefully I'll find some matches and a hatchet. I must make a fire soon. Found a warehouse near the waterline in town. It's crawling with Z's... I seriously hope I can make it to the door of that warehouse. Once inside I can probably close myself in. Crawling towards the building I realize that lying perfectly still probably makes me appear dead to the zombies. Maybe they go off of noise and motion? After playing dead several times and about 20 zombies later I make it into the warehouse. Seems to be a lot of trash... :( Oh wait, what's this? A toolkit? Might come in handy later... I also come across a fuel tank and engine parts... wonder if they could be used to fix a vehicle up later? After crawling around Kamenka for another 20 - 30 minutes I manage to find a hatchet, a heat pack and a can of sardines. The food will definitely come in handy. Seems like I picked the place clean though, I think I'll continue on down the road and see if there's more stuff. I really need better weapon. Someone could hold me at gunpoint or kill me outright and this hatchet won't do squat... As I'm heading down the road I use my radio and broadcast on an open channel to anyone out there that there were some engine parts and an extra toolkit in Kamenka... maybe someone will hear me... Seconds later a guy called Shadow comes on and tells me to be careful. Bandits might try to take advantage of the broadcast and try to take me out. Sound advice, glad I already thought of that and was on my way to the next village... I thank Shadow and tell him I'm new to the area and don't know where I could find some matches and some food. He mentions that a supermarket might be a good place to start looking, however those may be few and far between, or could be camped out by bandits. Well, at least it's dark now, and the rain subsided. Man... I'm getting mighty thirsty... :( What's this? Komarovo... looks like there's a pier near the waterline. Let's go check it out... After some time of crawling around the pier area I find matches and a revolver. I'm sure this'll come in VERY handy. Not much ammo though. 18 shots... ugh. I convo Shadow on a private channel and he mentions to me that he was heading south to meet me. Well...! That's a surprise. This guy doesn't even know me, yet he's dropping everything he's doing to come meet up with me... he says he's got some steaks but no room for firewood and so can't cook the steaks...? Well, I have plenty of room in my pack and I have a hatchet. Guess I'll meet him... I have a gun now and am not completely helpless... I tell him that I'm north or Komarovo and that I'm near the edge of town. Meanwhile I'll aim to get some firewood... I position myself to overlook the road from the woods and hear him come on the radio telling me he's there. There's a road flare over there! I wonder if that's him? I think I see him standing there... He's not looking in my direction. At least I'll get the drop on him. I wonder if he brought anyone with him... after looking around for a bit, I don't make out any other movement near him. I move closer and say hi and startle him. I'm a bit tense myself. Who is this guy? Why come from wherever to meet me for firewood to cook some meat? What's his motive? Shadow suggests we go up the hill on and deeper into the forest to make the fire. As we head off I keep looking over my shoulder to make sure he doesn't use that fancy rifle of his on the back of my head. I wish I could read his mind right about now... *sweat* What if he's got his buddies waiting for me out there and they rape me like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas raped Indiana Jones...??? I'm really uneasy right about now... After we get further away from the town and into a thicker part of the forest we settle down a bit and I start piling up the wood to make a fire pit. I keep my eye on Shadow... who knows what he's capable of. I get the fire started and he proceeds to cook some steaks. He tells me he's got some morphine he's willing to share. He says to reach into his Alice pack and get it... that's mighty trusting...? I could put a bullet into his back right here... no one would know... I could take that nice lookin' pack, that rifle looks pretty powerful. Man!!! Blood bags? This guy must've been out here for some time already. He seems trusting enough though... let's see how this goes... He hands me a couple of steaks... they sure taste better than that old can of sardines. He says he could take me to a place to go find a bigger pack, maybe find me a map and compass and a better weapon than that revolver, but we'd have quite a hike ahead of us. I figure right now I have nothing to lose... might as well... We start running to our new destination... ----------------------------------------------------------- Well a couple of days later and a blood bag spent on me, the newcomer (me) has pretty much indebted himself to Shadow. He's been instrumental in teaching me the ropes of DayZ and even though I do more than enough running and crawling, I find it's a blast. My next objective is a spot for our camp, maybe we'll reinforce it and even try to fix up a vehicle. An ATV would be nice... Setting myself these small objectives: find a scoped rifle, find a tent, a GPS or NVGs, etc. gives me something to do. DayZ gives me the freedom to follow whatever path I want, to complete those small objectives. Whatever the bigger goal at this point... I don't know. Will we build up a massive camp with tank traps and barbed wire? Are we going to get more people into our little 2 man show? Who knows... but that's the beauty of this game to me. I would prefer if you could actually kill all the zombies of an area and not have them re-spawn so quickly. I wouldn't feel like I was entirely wasteful with the ammo. Considering the fact they just re-spawn rather quickly while I'm in the area makes shooting the walkers not such a good idea and does produce some monotony by the constant crawling and could be one of the reasons people lose interest. I wouldn't mind being given the ability to clear a town of zombies and maybe have them respawn a half an hour later. As it is now, it really make shooting zombies useless. Otherwise, the exploration and suspense factor of the game is really fun, to me anyways.

Being a newcomer to DayZ, I'm curious... will this mean development on the Mod side of things will disappear and it will continue to be in an alpha state or will updates continue to happen? Second question, what precisely are or will be the differences between a pay-for package vs the mod? What will drive me to BUY a product when I can play a mod? What are the benefits over mod vs pay for product? Will the stand-alone run just as well on older hardware (in my case a QX9650 on a 780i SLI with a GTX280 and 8GB of RAM) like the mod is currently? Might be nice to put that information into the OP as to actually inform people of why it might be a good idea to invest. All I'm seeing right now are a bunch of people that are, please don't take this the wrong way - no disrespect intended, fanboys, and are willing to put money down without a concrete idea of why they're even buying the product. I get it, I've been there before myself with other games, however, being that I'm new to DayZ (and do really enjoy the game) I'd like to know why buying (aside from just giving some cash to the devs :) ) is a good idea. I would like to say in response to: Post Hoc makes a valid point, albeit maybe stating rather offensively... Me being relatively new to DayZ, the OP did not provide much and was pretty much just "fluff" and not informative at all? If a thread is worth an "announcement" it might behoove the owner of the thread to give some more detailed information? It has nothing to do with "expecting to be entertained" or being "ignorant". It's an announcement thread, it's supposed to be used to provide information about a topic. There seems to have been enough threads about a "standalone project" that it was pretty much a given and assumed that we knew a standalone was due. However, announcing that it will have a price point and not releasing more information ABOUT the PRODUCT we are BUYING or are being PRESENTED TO BUY, that's rather passe/ignorant on the original thread starter, wouldn't you say? Not very good marketing in my opinion...