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Bah, everyone blowing everything out of proportion! All-aboard the drama train!

As long as it fits the game and effort has been put into it, I think it will be fine - DayZ is a game where a very simple UI will do more for the game than a complicated one. DayZ is in a good position where the HUD is already going to be very limited and a simplistic take on the main game UI will be good - I do think that the menu area good have a bit of work done to make it a little easier for the less.. technically inclined players. As long as the flow is good and you aren't hunting for stuff the interface won't be a problem, DayZ already has a good colour scheme available to use black/dark grey/light grey/red/white and the art direction would go very well with a minimal/slightly grungy theme. I really hate tacky looking blood and crap - a toned down version of the theme used on the dayzmod.com domain will be good - it screams 'DayZ' but could go for a little cleaning up and toning down of some elements.

If I was to try and explain it using words it would sound a little strange, the only way to truly understand is by watching this video. This is me making my way to Elektro last week:

Not really, only a few minor changes - h3l1x pretty much covered anything remotely interesting. Eating/drinking is now over time rather than instant. A ridiculous 'choose where you spawn' thing was implemented. You can sift through this for some of the bigger changes with 1.8: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/148010-dayz-mod-18-update/

Just ignore the troll. He was marginally funny at the beginning now it's just getting tiring. Bethesda games always get a.. specific set of modders that like to pump out content. Check any of the nexusmods websites and you'll work that out veeeeeery quickly. http://newvegas.nexusmods.com//?

A lot of new mods. If you want a decent game that actually tries to emphasise the survival aspect go for the vanilla, original DayZ or DayZero. The new popular mod at the moment is DayZ Epoch, it's all about trading and base-building and the vast majority of servers have safe-zone areas and a bazillion vehicles if you're into that sort of thing. Nothing totally major has changed other than that, really.

Some of the first mods and biggest mods are female nude models. Happens with every game like that, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, New Vegas. Welcome to the Internet.

Which is fair enough, that's a downside to using your weapon frequently. The whole 'mentally insane' part is just punishing them for killing other players and not really fair - if the zombies are a lot stronger and there is limited ammo to waste (along with the equipment degradation) it will become too much of a hassle for a lot of players to just go shooting constantly. Hopefully the infection mechanic is a big enough pain in the ass too that you don't even want to risk some infections.

Naw. We use the word 'fuck' in place of commas - the rest of it we just don't get taught in school, too busy with all the caber-tossing. You'd be better just jumping into a server man and seeing how it goes, try http://mustygaming.com/Forum/ a decent bunch of lads and lassies and you always end up finding someone to kick about with. The zombies.nu DayZero servers are also brilliant fun and more like vanilla DayZ rather than all the silly million vehicles and weapons servers.

People shouldn't be punished for killing on sight - that's just silly. It should just be that constantly killing on sight is rendered useless and more hassle than it's worth - the vast majority of normal players aren't going to bother if they aren't getting anything from an encounter and just wasting their ammunition.

It's Battle Royale.. it's a movie. Basically Hunger Games copied the whole idea behind it - a group of people start in the beginning - only one survives. They start surrounding an area with gear and weapons, you can risk getting them or more likely being killed or you can run off to get a head start. Pretty awesome.

Not even looked at the video and you've spelled 'impressions' wrong on the still image - it doesn't make a good first impression.

I'd like a focus (especially when concerning the 'low' end) on Soviet weaponry. As long as there is a believable reason (UN Troops attempting to control the outbreak, yadda yadda) then I don't see why there wouldn't be various foreign weaponry around although it would be a lot more limited to more military-oriented areas in comparison to weapons like the Mosin Nagant, AK and other super mass produced weaponry that would be commonly found in the area in homes and businesses.

You just sound amazingly butthurt and clearly have no idea what you are talking about. OSX is a brilliant OS, rips the arse out of Windows for daily use - people do actually use their machines for more than just playing games, y'know. Yes, people install Windows through bootcamp for games.. and?

What country are you located in - pretty helpful if we know who you will be able to order from! :lol:

Now, now - simmer down there February. The great thing about a forum is that it doesn't all disappear, if there is something you feel like contributing to there is a magical search box up in the corner that can make all your wildest dreams come true. Cannibalism wouldn't really be much of a priority considering there is still plenty of food kicking around. Everything has been submitted a million times over and the horse has already been long beaten to death, at this point it's now just a pile of horse powder.

What a load of nonsense. I am not personally developing the game, whether I can wait or not has no bearing on the potential release of the Standalone. I'd rather they release a proper stable build rather than rush it out to satiate the whiners - it will be released when it's ready to be released..

As long is it does actually get released, I can wait a little longer.

Aye, the higher-end ones are pretty solid. The entry level one is pretty crap for the price considering the long-end cards that come with it - hopefully the BTO models will be a bit better. I just picked up the high-end Macbook Pro with Retina Display - looking VERY forward to it, been stuck with a 1.6GHz i7 - 4GB RAM - HD Radeon 4670 for about 6 months, cannot wait to actually be able to run things :P

If you've been banned, you've been cheating. It really just sounds like either your computer is infected or you're dumb and haven't changed your CD key properly and just bought an extra 4 copies for nothing. Either one is nothing to do with us here on the forums, the bans are issued by Battleye. I'm going to go for cheater though, mainly because you annoy me and Battleye doesn't just ban for nothing.

Can I ask what the point of the ban list is if you are unbanning players that have openly admitted to cheating? I'm probably totally missing something but why would you remove them from the list if they are cheaters - isn't that the entire purpose of the list, to stop these players?

Just a little FYI. Apple released their new Haswell Macbook Pro with Retina Display and the new highest end model comes with a 750M - not too shabby at all. Getting mines in around 2 weeks. A lot of games tend to run a lot better in Windows anyway, developers would need to spend a bit more time optimising their games for OSX. If you also haven't already, Apple released OSX Mavericks for free last week too - it should get you a little bit more performance if you haven't already updated.

People are dicks. Don't trust people unless you know they won't shoot you (Even then, don't fully trust a stranger).

It just doesn't work when comparing clock speed in GHz, there are far too many differences in architecture for it to make any meaningful comparison. My new laptop has a 2.3GHz quad i7, it can tear the arse out of 3GHz Sandy processors, for example. Another point, your definition of 'Integrated GPU' is completely incorrect, these have nothing to do with the motherboard. The Intel integrated GPU Chips (HD3000, 4000, 5100, 5200 etc are all on-board the CPU). The new Intel Iris-Pro (5200) are integrated and more than capable for a lot of games and is by no means sloppy - it alone has completely destroyed the entry-level GPU market. (Especially since it comes with nice 128MB eDRAM) It's very hard to create a list like this and would have to be VERY in-depth to give a better answer, the 'Can I Run It' thread is definitely a lot easier, especially for those that aren't very technically inclined.

What the hell are people even talking about. Windows 8 > Windows 7 for gaming performance, there is literally no debate on the matter. The only reason people moan about Windows 8 is due to the interface, even that isn't that much of a problem if you're not a moron.