IkaikaKekai

This is probably the closest we'll get to a 'cannon' answer. DayZ takes place in a branching timeline after the Events of Arma2, possibly even indirectly caused by the events in Arma2.

Someone's gonna be picking 7.62 outta their teeth.

In the middle of Berezino, believe it or not helis often spawn there but they despawn if you're holding a weapon. You may have to wait 20 minuets for each hop for the heli to spawn in though.

There are dams spread around Chenarus, they would get their water from these sources rather than from a desalinization plant. I'm not sure about water treatment in other parts of the world, but since Chenarus is rather 'lackluster' in infrastructure it might be possible they lack modern sewage treatment or water treatment plants as there are even outhouses in big cities like Electro. It could also be possible that they are located 'off screen' since we do not play in the entirety of Chenarus. There are some industrial buildings that could pass as water treatment in cities like Cherno and Electro. Larger factories would probably also have their own treatment systems on property suited to their needs, if they even need treated water, which usually won't go anything beyond distilled, which can be met with a simple still. Placement of sewage plants is important, as most places in real life don't just plop one down where it fits. They usually try to keep them fairly close to urban centers while at the same time keeping them away from residental and comerical areas (no one likes the smell). Speaking from an Urban Planer's point of view, if there wasn't one in the major cities, they would probably have them between major cities, such as Cherno and Electro, near the coastline, possibly in or near Prig (no one gives a shit about farmers, so they give the shit to farmers). For the East coast I would probably have one at Riffy on that little jut of land near the shipwreck that would serve Novo, Berezino and Svet. Most of the other towns are small enough that septic tanks/outhouses would be more economical.

100+FPS? I smell bullshit, and that's ignoring that you said it was on a Mac.

Just because every home in this rural country doesn't have a iPhone or 52' 1080p LCD TV doesn't mean it's set in the past. I can go down to my local school (which is in America) and find an old CRT TV and or monitor.

Ah, I miss the days of rolling around in one of those and fixing up cars just for the fuck of it. Hope we get to repair one eventually.

You're over thinking this. You are in Chenarus, a Former Soviet Republic that is (mostly) Democratic. It boarders Russia, and the terrain is made from satellite images of the Czech Republic. You can find the exact area on Google (forget the town name), they just took the northern half of the map that was divided by a river. They signs are in Crylic, which is used by many languages, not just Russian (kind of like how many languages use the latin alphabet). The books are in english because that's what the source material was, there's a lot of books with french titles I haven't bothered to read so I would think they are in french. When localization takes place these books will be translated (hopefully) to your local language.

Pretty sure it's modern day if not VERY near future (Like 2015 near). Lack of modern cars can be explained away. Cuba is only now getting some new cars but their expensive as fuck. And it's not like there's a Ford (Sorry, 'Gord Motor Company') dealership in Electro. And it is a poor country.

Macs have servers?

Think it was just recently mentioned that they plan to open it up so Linux can run the game, I would imagine this goes for servers as well. Might have been part of the DX11 talk.

You'd be surprized what you can make poison from. You know Ricen? The plant it's made from grows in thickets near my old high school.

Holy Fuck! That thing looks like it's heavier than the gun it's mounted on.

I think that's sort of the plan for the Vest, they mentioned it being modular and that you could add the pack to it to increase inventory. A modular system would be pretty cool. Say they add belts you could add the same medkit pouch to your belt, along with a gun holster or tool belt.

They have said in the pass there will be means of infecting others with different diseases. Say rubbing a canteen or backpack against a zombie that was infected with cholera and putting it down in a high value place is one means of doing it. Simply stabbing a dead zombie at random wouldn't do it though (we're immune to the zombie virus). In the mod shortly before SA released they had 'infected' zombies, ones that were tougher and more 'grimy' looking, they had a high chance of infecting you with a sickness. I'm sure it'll be something similar when diseases are added. Either certain zombies will spawn 'sick' (cholera, gangrene, typhoid, smallpox, ect) and through contact with them (being attacked/attacking), certain items would/can be infected (that raincoat you picked up at the hospital might not be as clean as you think), or even environmental infections (drinking from an infected river, screwing around near a mass grave, ect).

Yes it's a hacked mag. If you're feeling adventurous I'd take the mag out and find a body to put it on and hide (I think zombies stick around for just long enough to place an item)

This forum has nothing to do with Battle Eye bans, go talk to Battle Eye.

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/207499-ps4-announcement-and-faq/

did they add in 'horticulture' yet?

There's no way to 'hack' new items into the game, at least on legit versions of the game. If they're wearing it, it was made by the Devs. There are many many items in game currently, and they try to add more with each patch. I've yet to find an AK or Longhorn in the game, but they exist. People running around with matching clothes is possible they used a glitch to dupe the gear, but they could have farmed it as well. Most of the 'high end' gear spawns in military areas only, with the biggest usually being PVP areas or places where snipers camp. As a loner I try to avoid these areas, though sometimes I do get lucky (snag a magazine for my guns in vehicle wrecks away from bases).

The OP mistakenly believes that the Mod and SA share severs. They do not. Anything you see in game has been added (or is a hacked in Item, such as infinite ammo). More detailed is needed however.

The current respawn is NOT going to be the final. This is just a placeholder to prevent 2 people from clearing the server of zombies 20 mins after restart. The PLANED (last I saw/read) respawn mechanic is suppose to go like this: Players have a 'bubble' around them (forget the exact numbers but lets just say 1km). Players A & B enters a town (lets say Msta), and starts killing zombies and looting the town. Player A decides to move on while B decides he wants to barricade a house. Zombies won't respawn in the village as long as Player B remains within 1km of the town, but any wandering zombies may still enter the 'zone'. Now everything is subject to change, but the simple respawn we have now is just for testing purposes.

I don't give a rat turd either way. As far as I can guess we're not gonna be able to play with the Console versions anyway, and 'within 3 years' sound more like 2 and a half years, so it's not happening for a while. I would like to think that only people with low end PCs that have a Console would buy it because of some idea of better performance on the console, so we won't 'lose' that many players to the console version. I also see it being similar to Minecraft, the Console versions will lag behind update wise. All this does is open up the audience a bit more. That can be good, or it can be annoying. I can just see all the old 'suggestion' posts coming back for the PS version.

To paraphrase Mr. Burns...Release the Horse.

I'd say not, http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/207292-reddit-eugenharton-sorry-guys-no-experimental-tonight-last-minute-issues/