Cyan-Eyed

I'm just lost for what to do any more with this, since I bought the game (the first day it came out, been anticipating this for ages after having played the mod since that also came out) it's been continuous problems and I don't know what's causing it or if it's actually a problem on my end. Every now and again when trying to join servers, the game crashes, goes into the oh-so-fun "not responding" mode or just takes a long time to do anything. I've seen people say they're having problems that servers in the server list take a long time to come up, but it seems as though that doesn't happen for me. If I do actually get into a server before it crashes or whatever, then the game just stutters, freezes for at most 30 seconds at a time, then allows me to move for 3 or 4 seconds and then freezes again. Also very often get massive lag spikes despite not having internet connection issues in literally EVERY other game. I get the also-oh-so-fun "no message received for ** seconds" message with the yellow broken connection chain and when I bring up the task manager during this time it tells me that DayZ is not responding, as if I had such bad lag that the game is actually not responding or something. Just seems to be a combination of unusual lag spikes with freezing and stuttering whilst in game and I cannot do anything. I've tried simply resetting my router, un-installing and re-installing the game, disabling things like firewall and antivirus, verifying integrity of game cache on Steam. Nothing thus far has fixed it or even made it in the slightest bit playable. Is this a common problem? Is this a known problem? Is there a fix or something? This explanation sounds very generalised but I honestly have no idea what is causing this whether it's on my end, Battleye, just the games' servers experiencing problems.

I'm not using an SSD, just a regular 1Tb HD. But I'm not prepared to splash out on £60 for an SSD to fix this problem. I fail to see that this problem is caused by simply the HD.

Bump? Still can't play, I've tried empty servers and servers with 15+ people in it, as soon as I start moving, start typing, open my inventory, do anything I just desync, get the "no message received" message and then the game freezes for 30 seconds and goes into the "not responding" mode.

Yep, same problem. In the server listing I see that all the servers I'm trying to join I supposedly will have a ping of 25 - 50 and after I join my ping is actually like that as soon as I can see anything, but then after 2 seconds of moving my ping just spikes to something ridiculous like 2000 and that's when the entire game just breaks.

How is it "unfair"?. It's not unfair if everyone can use it. They should definitely not take out 3rd person until we at least have the freedom to change the FOV to whatever we want. And even then it probably won't help that much.

Yeah but, how many in-game hours is that? And just how careful are you being? Are you the kind that sits in the forest and occasionally comes out to just look at the outskirts of a town? If I logged onto my main hive character, it would probably be like 90 days - which isn't impressive because I haven't played on that character in, well, about 2 months. However I have had multiple characters that have lasted 30 - 50 days whilst playing for a few hours every day.

So then they're even easier? And the term "real zombies" doesn't make sense.

My character on the main hive still has the L85 too, I haven't been on it since it was removed. I only play on private hives now that are usually using different maps. (Taviana is awesome)

Target(s) height x 1000 / target(s) height in mildots. A standing player is usually 1.8 meters. That would be 1.8 x 1000 = 1800. Then if a player is 3 mildots high in your scope, he would be 600m away. (1800 divided by 3) Crouching player is roughly 0.9 meters high (900) Prone player is about 0.3 - 0.4 meters. Just look on youtube.

So I joined a private hive which soon will require whitelisting and would like to continue playing. Whilst I somewhat trust the server hoster and admins, you gotta fill in an application which asks you to give them your GUID. Is it safe to do this? I only ask because I've seen some topics about players having their CD keys and GUID's stolen. This may not be the exact case, but I've seen GUID's being mentioned in these situations.

Okay thanks. Just making sure! This topic can die now.

Last night me and a few friends stole a helicopter, made our own camp and hid the helicopter way up the top of the map. Came on next day to find the helicopter gone, and both tents completely gone. Why do server restarts do this? Rocket may have fixed tents not saving and keeping gear, but now the server restarts just delete the entire tent, regardless of whether the tents were saved.

There's many more spawn points for a helicopter than just Skalisty Island. There's like 5 or 6 other spots. NWAF, NEAF, Hill above NWAF, near Cherno (I think) and 1 or 2 others.

Hmm, odd. I thought that you don't need to save a vehicle to save it's location. I thought that whenever you get out of the vehicle it does an autosave on the location, but to save the gear inside, you have to save.

Hmm, ok. Thanks. Although when you said about unsaved vehicles with loot in will return to spawn with empty inventory, do you mean their intended, default spawn points, or the place where it was last left? Oh, and also, when you said about a second restart should fix the problem, does that mean that my helicopter could be there again after the next server restart? Or just the tents will be there?

Ahh okay, thanks. Ok, thanks. What about the helicopter, though? Will that return?

Awwwh yeah! I love this guys' reviews.

Sometime November/December. And I'll definitely be buying it and playing it a lot.

Which would you choose? I ask because I just found the M4A1 in the barracks at NWAF, and I'm torn between the two. I've always wanted the grenade launcher, but I was probably never going to pick it up because I thought it just came with the M16A2 which came with the horrible iron sights, however I found the M4 w/ Holo. Problem is, the M16A2 is so damn good for long ranges, and it's so easy to hit a target using the ACOG's horizontal 'mildots'. But then again the M4 can go full fire and semi-auto. Whereas the M16 is limited to semi and burst. What the fuck do I pick?

I've had loads of camps and tents with my buddies, they've all had their contents removed countless times by the bug. Although now that it is fixed I'll have to find yet another tent and set up yet another camp. It's just the hassle of having to carry one of these weapons around trying to find another tent.

I have done, at the moment. But I can't give up 10 slots in my backpack for an assault rifle just set aside for medium to long ranges. <_< If I wanted to do that, I'd find a sniper rifle to go along with my M4 holo.

Okay, so riddle me this. If people are getting bored with WWII/WWI games or whatever, why is the same not happening for modern war games? Shouldn't people be getting bored of these types of games set in the future? There is a plethora of popular modern games currently. Zombie games are much similar to games set in a futuristic/modern environment. People like and prefer it.

*sigh* They need to make a god damned farewell sub-forum for this forum.

Who cares if duping is fixed? Even after a hive wipe. Spreading weapons via hackers spawning stuff and spreading weapons via tent duping is both bad. And I can bet that if the duping is fixed, then because of the sheer amount of hackers, they are just going to spread weapons like wildfire. You can bet that within a week, the majority of servers will have illegitimate weapons, vehicles and items... And I already stated why a hive wipe every week is terrible.

Terrible fucking idea. I've had characters alive with legit gear for multiple weeks. Hell, I have 1 right now that's been alive with good gear that's on it's 27th day. And to the hive wipe idea that everyone wants in 1.7.3? Another terrible idea. Like said previously, until the hackers and duping is surely fixed, then there's always going to be duped and hacked in weapons. What's the point in wiping the hive if hundreds of hackers are just gonna come on the next day and spawn crates of weapons everywhere?