Irish.

# you win :P

" Mixed Research on the Effects of Video Games Research conclusions point to the belief that playing violent video games, particularly those where gamers take on the persona of the game character, can increase a person’s aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behavior. [Dill, K. E. (2000]. In addition, there’s a connection between playing violent video games and impulsivity, and the inability to maintain focus. [Gentile, D. A., & Swing, E. L. (2012)]. " So, maybe there is something to that research after all. o.O

Because its part of who I am.

For some reason.. I sort of think they may have had a meeting or 2 about zombies over there at BI.. I dont know though. Im just Irishjake.

I like to think of it as a mini game of freeze tag. # its a feature ?

While this is fun.. Im just going to stick to playing the game and seeing what BI does. Since they don't pay me to speculate and what not. o.O

So first off, I know about that optimization. Ive been playing this game for what feels like forever, which basically is true, so Im not discussing anything along the usual lines regarding performance and FPS issues. What Ive noticed is there are very random areas on the map that seem to be FPS deadzones, where my FPS drops from steady 40-60 down to a stuttering 5-10, and not in cities but out in the plains and forests of Chernarus. These areas react the exact same way on each and every server I play on.. to the point where now on several of these spots I know exactly where my FPS will drop and where it will "kick back in" as normal. I find it odd because these are not the usual spots where one would expect to encounter FPS drops, and it makes me wonder if others experience this same thing? One of the main spots Ive noticed that others may know of is here:

No need to report. They are on it as usual. :)

Imagine if you could smell it as you walked up to it....

No. And no to selecting spawn areas like certain older mods had. The single greatest thing about dayz is the fear of death. If you make it easy to meet up with other players, and choose where you will spawn, then perma death starts to go out the window, and along with it fear of death.. and then you just have one giant clusterfuck of a game. In my humble opinion at least. ;)

Or the fact that anyone can 2 punch knock me out.. ..there are a lot of mini Mike Tysons running around Chernarus.

This unfortunately is not nearly as fun as growing tomatoes. Ive tried. :(

That was so much more polite than your last responses... :/

Next time cover more than just adjusting your video settings..

http://imgur.com/a/wtR6W

Everything you could need that is not rare heli crash gear.. Tons of food, ammo, magazines, clothing, odd necessities. etc. All I took was a box of ammo, 1 of their Winchester rifles, and I swapped out my LRS for one of their pristine ones because I have this need for all things to be pristine.

I have to do some guessing here but... If its a public server and for some reason you log in as a freshie ONLY on that server but other public servers you are fine with your geared character.. Id say that server is not connecting to the central hive properly and its possible your base is gone. But you'll never know unless you log in to that server and run to where your base is. Id say its not worth trying. Just keep your geared player and find a new server to play on .....or start over on your old server.

This is exactly what I was thinking about.. some type of mistake where these areas are trying to display much more than what you are simply seeing. I wonder if the devs know about these areas, and if they are repeatable for them like they seem to be for us (Ive now had several people confirm places on multiple servers, empty and full)

This is precisely what Im talking about.. there is literally a line in the game, a well defined line, where the FPS drops drastically when you cross over it and immediately returns when you back up. But there are several spots like this throughout the map, and Ive been almost everywhere.. If I spent enough effort I could probably make a map of all of these "deadzones" but I am not up for that task at all.. lol.

The OP prefers private servers. /thread