Easy_Tiger (DayZ)

The ACOG in the game is the v1 and has the correct recticule, you are referring to the recticle in a newer version http://www.trijicon.com/na_en/products/product3.php?pid=TA01 < for original ACOG recticule pic

Can the engine even support dynamically changing all the terrain textures to snowy versions?

lag, sounds like you hit him just not as many times as your client told you

As mine, It did a hell of alot of talking to all those fresh spawn lemmings endlessly sprinting one after the other to Elektro yesterday evening :P

Cheers, Good point on the clouds I think I have them set at v low. I'll turn them off and test this evening

I replaced my 4 year old PC on saturday with the following: Intel Core i7 4770 8Gb 1600 DDr3 120 Samsung EVO SSD GTX 780 3Gb 1TB SATA drive outside cities = 60fps (capped by vsync) inside big towns / cities 43 - 53 fps (heaven! I can now play in cities > 20 fps :D ) I get the occasional brief stutter down to 30 fps regardless of where I am on occasion If you can just upgrade your hardware and save yourself the stress of waiting for optimisations, I have a feeling they are way down the dev list of priorities and probably wont appear until beta

Same shizzle happened to me at the newly enterable mil building at the sw corner of NWAF, but it was a grey headtorch that finished me off, just looking at it resulted in 2 moans from my character then black screen of death! No thirst/hunger/bleeding indicators, no text to indicate I was sick in any way

This was my tactic for a long long time when I played the mod. Its currently pot luck in the SA how far you get unless the server has literally just restarted. Last night I spawned in Komarovo, I died / became unconscious just east of Pavlovo after attempting to get to Zelenogorsk (looting every building I found otw) which was a bit frustrating to say the least. Mos1ey's hit the nail on the head, more food / drink is required OR making the health system more realistic i.e not dropping dead because you havent taken on any liquids / calories in 2 hours

Yea that accents apalling didnt sound irish once just really bad scottish accent with random welsh slang thrown in for good measure, the english dudes voice acting / accent is borderline. The 2 yanks are spot on though. Apart from the dodgy accents and dialogue from the 2 uk natives its an excellent bit of production.

I was really looking forward to 1.7.7 sadly the admin of my fav server and 99% of other server admins (judging by the amount of 1.77 servers i saw listed on dayz commander) couldnt / wouldnt man up and update. I think im going to just not bother playing until SA comes out with official servers, then I wont have to worry about all those admins with their little 'protests'.

man up and play on vet servers

Will the log files help identify the problem I am experiencing?

retrying authentication, retrying authentication, retrying authentication, retrying authentication, retrying authentication, retrying authentication, retrying authentication, retrying authentication, retrying authentication, retrying authentication, retrying authentication, retrying authentication, retrying authentication, disconnect. That sums up my 1.7.7 experience to date..

Those screen shots look far more fun than my current experiences of retrying authentication, retrying authentication, retrying authentication , retrying authentication,retrying authentication, retrying authentication, retrying authentication, retrying authentication ,retrying authentication ,retrying authentication, disconnect...

Christ I hope that was sarcasm if not you are a grade A moron because guess what? THEY ARE DEER STANDS (or more correctly deer hides). As for the OP I wouldnt go as far as saying they are useless, especially if you are a new spawn and need everything you can get. True I havent seen any military weapons spawn since the patch but I have picked up some AK and DMR mags from them since the patch. Saying that though unless im desparate for some military magazines I generally cba to check them.

No thanks the cold is enough for me, damn its fecking annoying being stuck in the woods with no antbiotics coughing and spluttering like a old man

From what i inferred from Deans interview I suspect that a select few (i.e streamers / youtube) will be playing by the end of next week and steam keys will probably be available to the rest of us (in a limited amount) by the end of this month provided their server hosting infastructure is holding up

And theoretically now SA is client/server (and im assuming building destruction logic has been removed aswell) that should mean that performance on low bandwidth connections should be improved

In terms of pomp and marketing, for sure but thats about it imo.

Mein jacke ist auf dem bahnhof! Oh und ich mochte bon bon (ich habe nicht Umlaut :( ) sorry couldnt resist. As for the OP, I only drop my gun if im certain I cant shoot my way out of the situation ;)

Dude I feel for you , up until 6 months ago I was in the same boat as you with a pathetic 512/256kbps adsl connection. As others have said it looks like it'll be a steam download only, one option is installing steam at work / friends house, downloading the game, copying the steam cache onto a usb HDD, take it home , paste it into your steam cache and do a 'verify local files'. You will still have to download some stuff but not the whole game. You will probably have to do this for every big update that gets released in the future.

I agree, this is why I always move around as if a sniper always has me in his sights i.e lots of random movements and changes in direction every couple of seconds. Its a tactic ive used since OFP and it makes you very hard to hit even < 100m. I find that it actually dissuades most snipers from even firing a shot as the probability of a hit is so low also they may not have much ammo and may not wish to waste it. The problem is too many clueless noobs rushing about running in straight lines all over the place oblivious to their surroundings. I do look forward to the introduction of wind direction and its effect on bullet trajectory though, I miss the challenge and feeling of accomplishment of pulling off a 500m kill with crosswind adjustments.

Ive overlocked my gfx card and it didnt really make much difference, what I did discover a couple of days ago though was the stuttering (for me) was caused by battle eye. I did a steam file verification on Arma:OA to fix the usual 14 BE files and I havent had a stutter since!

[NEW] - Wild Spawning of zeds has been redone and readded. Anyone know what this means?

Look for my nickname when ur on the server (same as here) and i'll join you xD P.S you know admin also put a barracks at NEAF?