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Me and a friend also have FPS issues in cities. There is something seriously wrong in the DayZ code if CPU is limiting FPS. 1.7.1.5 should address some of these issues, looking at the release notes.

It's an alpha, OP is giving feedback about new features and directions. That's what you do as a user when a game is in alpha. You play the game and you give feedback. Offtopic: I hate all these little kids on this forum, screaming in agony and polluting threads with short replies as "GAME IS IN ALPHA". Yes we know. This is a forum, it's meant for discussing topics. Now please take a look at the arguments that were mentioned by OP. Because no one cares about your all-caps one liners, we're trying to figure out how to improve this game.

Stealth is too risky as of 1.7, as zombies can see you from really far. This works well for me: Run around like a headless chicken, aggro all the zombies. Run into a barn or house with two or more doors and make sure most or all zombies follow you inside, where they will be slow. Make sure they follow you to the middle. Run to another building, loot it. If you're lucky, zombies didn't find you in the new building.

Friendliness is also different per server. I mostly play on European veteran servers, and my experience is that players on these servers are less hostile than on US and Russian servers. Although you will still get shot occasionally.

I like 1.7.1 so far. People are teaming up again!

I think this is a good idea! Headshot should always be a one-shot-kill though.

(Red Alert 1 voice) REINFORCEMENTS HAVE ARRIVED

Thanks Dallas! Now I safely can continue walking :)

Add -cpuCount=3 to the launch options. Sometimes after I respawn, I have huge FPS issues. I can only solves this by restarting ARMA.

How could that nononono guy have survived all the time? His loot wasn't that bad!

The other day I found a tent and the dude had makarov mags which I needed badly, in return I left him nothing.