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Wouldn't work out in the wilderness. The security lock would require either electricity from a generator, or batteries. Battery powered I wouldn't expect it to be a very secure system and batteries would have to be changed frequently. Generator, well that'd make a bit of noise, and you'd have to regularly come back and put gas in it. In either case, it would present a few major drawbacks. 1) Having a powered or locked house will make it a beacon for people who want to get it. Mechanics for doing such would need to be implemented (Ie Kicking open the door or chopping it down with an axe 2) A Lock in the apocalypse isn't really going to stop anyone. Locks are really only a deterrent now because there are either people nearby who will see you kicking in a door, or they are tied to a security system that will alert someone if they are opened. With no society and survivors constantly having to make life or death choices about whether to kill a man for a couple cans of beans, there's nothing stopping everyone from breaking every locked door they find in the hopes that it's got something better. 3) Houses like that would likely have to be bound to a server, and it would likely have to be attached to pre-existing houses. in the mod we had tents to store our things in. Sure they were placeable anywhere but they weren't secure. You could hide them but they could be accessed. The trick to them was that they were small and didn't take up a lot of real estate on the map. A house, on the other hand will take up a good deal more space, have more polygons to process and so on, so there would have to be a limited number or they would have to utilize pre-existing locations. Essentially, a locking system would neccesitate a lockbreaking system just to be considered fair in my book. Nothing is truly safe in DayZ unless it is guarded by people, and even then it's only safe so long as the bullets last. In your defense though I think a locking system on any door in the game would be great. I just think it should be all inclusive and come with a system for breaking those locks/doors. And perhaps repairing those broken doors later on.

My Gf is able to play games like that. I've seen her roll around at 15fps desyncing and lagging to hell (We attempted to get apb to run on a shitty laptop) and not complain once about anything but getting motion sick after a couple of hours. Personally I get antsy if my fps hits 40, and get frustrated and angry at about 30-35. Ping wise my upper limit is usually 120. Anything higher than that and It really begins to affect my gameplay and stress levels. That said, getting above 30fps in dayz is a trial and I've learned to accept that much. Ping though I wouldn't trust playing an fps with a ping that high. Sure you'd be fine wandering around a quiet server, but even a zombie could be deadly at that, by the time you pull the trigger that zombie or player is going to be one second ahead of you. I find Dayz impossible to play above 200, and you really start to notice it at about 140-160. For reference, there's 1000 miliseconds in a second, so a ping average 600+ means that you pull the trigger and it takes more than a half of a second for your gun to register on the server that you fired your gun and discharges the round. If you want an idea of what it will feel like, download apb reloaded off steam (It's free), play on the furthest server from you, find an instance with a lot of people and try to drive a car. A half a second of lag will send you into the nearest building every time you turn a corner or change lanes.

Actually...it's going to be almost a full year until the game is IN Beta, though that timeframe may be moved up seeing as how the Pretty much doubled the team currently working on Dayz

So when you read the patch notes, you didn't Read ALL the patchnotes about them syncing clouds and weather on the server now instead of on the client. That solves the rain issue.

Not sure about the rest but the sounds are coming. Sales for dayz went so well they hired an external source to do all the sounds in the game all professional like

Actually, I could see how removing grass would get you banned. Since grass isn't just there to be filler, it's there to give players cover. Say you are coming to kill me, my weapon has range and yours doesn't, or doesn't have the range that ine does. If you want to get me, you're going to have to catch me off guard. Problem is, we're on opposite sides of an open field. In order to get me, or to hide form me, you have to use the grass as cover. So there you are, crawling slowly through the grass, praying I don't see you until you can kill me or escape, except I can see you the whole time. You see, I got this nice little thing that removed all the grass from my client, so that big bushy tall grass that you are sneaking through doesn't exist for me, and what I see is some poor dumb, SOB creeping across the ground at me with a pistol. He doesn't know I can see him, I shouldn't be able to see him, only the grass bending as you crawl through it. That's why you got banned. Grass is a mechanic, not filler and eye candy. You can't remove it.

the best zombie stories are always the ones where you aren't really sure where it came from or how it started. Sure, we all love 28 days later and the Walking dead and I am legend, but the truely great zombie myths never really explain it away. It just happened. The living dead series, best they could come up with was 'I guess there's no more room in hell...', The Revenant, they don't even bother to ask. Warm bodies, even the zombies don't know why they are zombies, Arrr starts to go into it at the beginning of the movie and says he's not sure how it got started. You don't always need an explanation of what kicked off the apocalypse, sometimes half the fun is wild speculation and the air of 'So, the dead are coming back to life, anything can happen at this point.'

i'm not firing bullets, they're love taps from an m4

def got fixed for me. I'm actually running slightly better than I had been in previous patches. Able to get the same framerate as I was getting before, but I've actually got things like clouds and shadows turned on, and texture settings up to normal

/facepalm You know there are going to be more maps, right? They are focusing on Chernarus because that's what people know, that's where the game started. they're adding more stuff inland and in the northern areas, as they have already done twice. The coast is where most people have always been since mod, so it was the logical place to start. You think they're just going to leave a bunch of empty towns and be done just utilizing the coast? I've seen plenty of varied terrain exploring inland. You got forest and hills and mountains and fields and bases and tons of towns if you'd bother looking around. Hidden landmarks, a frakkin castle, and a shipwreck. They don't have time to build a new map right now. Let them get the meat and the potatoes of the game finished before they have to start trying to implement things into a new map. Friggin babies, geez....why do people complain that an unfinished game isn't finished.....

Um...realism? In Chernarus? You know that Chernaraus was made from satellite images of a real place, right? So real, in fact, that some of the devs actually went there and posted real pics of the place a few onths ago on the blog.

What are these, headcrab zombies? Last thing we need is a horde of stenches shuffling around screaming 'Yeah Buddy!'

Will this run on Kit-Kat?

Good CPU...that is the key to this game.. YOu can get by with a 5770 or higher video card, but your limiting factor is going to be your CPU. Right now DayZ is very cpu intensive. I'd go for at least 4 cores, 8 threads running at 3.8ghz or higher. The higher you can get those three things the better. People with good i7's or a good 6 core AMD seem to be the ones running everything above low or very low settings. Every patch seems to creep me an inch closer to that level, and I've been gradually able to turn on or up things I couldn't before. Also, ignore integrated graphics. It's shit, always has been and will for a good long while. a 7770m isn't going to be close to a 7770 dcu or ghz edition, hell, it's not even going to equal a low end 6000 series. Also, don't buy a laptop unless you plan on shelling out a good chunk of change. A thousand dollar laptop isn't likely going to cut it. You can either spend $1200 to have portability and playability, but it won't be that great, just passable, or you can spend $700, lose the portability and get something that's going to play well...anything at fairly respectable settings. I've said it in a dozen posts now, but I'm running a 4 year old desktop (with the exception of the video cards), and can play most games at very high/ultra settings and not drop below 45 fps. DayZ...well that's another kettle of fish, but I get around 30-55 fps depending on where I am. Here's an idea of what you can do with a 4 year old desktop and a single 7770 (Can rebuild the whole thing for about $600) This is with an old gigabyte board, a Phenom II 955 black edition cpue (4 core 3.2ghz, oc'd to 3.7ghz) 8gb of shitty ram and a single XFX 7770 ghz edition 1gb, set to factory OC settings. Recording the whole thing in native resolution of 1680X1050 in avi with mirellis action!

In b4 stupi...awww...too late...OP, why don't you submit a bug report rather than complain about having the ability to fix your ruined clothes. I actually got enough of an fps boost that I can turn clouds and shadows back on AND record video with Action! Though I haven't gone into a major city yet so we'll see. Only downside I've found to the last patch is that all servers seem to be running on a second and a half lag, which makes trying to jump over fences really confusing. I'm glad you can't trip over them or I'd never get anything accomplished.