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Alrighty. Will just keep trying to find a server that will let me stay on long enough to get rid of it.

Hmm. I don't think anyone is saying the concepts within DayZ are original. More, the experience of playing DayZ is unique.

I haven't played DayZ in a while. I took a break from it, left off a couple of months ago before all the private servers became so easily available due to the rampant scripting. I finally, today, decided I miss it enough to log on and see what I could get into. Since the majority of private servers now require a whitelist, I decided to first just log into an official hive server (Dallas 303) and re-acquaint myself. Setup completed I loaded onto my old official hive character still packed to the gills with the gear I left off with. I barely had time to get my map open before I was kicked with the message "5 minute ban due to invalid items L85_something_somethingsomething". So anyway, to get to the point, I'm curious what's no longer "legal" as far as gear goes. I really have not been keeping up on the mod updates because I've been sitting on my heels waiting for standalone. And if I am carrying items that used to be legal when I was playing before but aren't anymore because of whatever changes, how do I get rid of them before I'm kicked for "hacking"?

I clean my system up regularly. Doing this, again, makes no difference to this problem.

Thanks for the speed fan tip. Temp started at around 70 after loading up the game and steadily climbed to around 85 with a couple of bumps up to 89. As soon as I window out - and I do mean as soon as, as in immediately, the temp reading drops back down to 58. I've never known the temp of anything to drop 30 degrees in literally .5 seconds. So.. I'm not real sure how accurate this program is but there's the readings it gave me anyway.

I honestly have no idea nor do I have a way to check.

This is new for me and I don't know if the game has finally just killed my poor little CPU or what but it's hurting me. On the inside. Point to note: I know I need a new PC. Very much so. As soon as I am able I will be doing so but for now, and for the foreseeable future, it is simply not an option I can wiggle into my budget in any possible way whatsoever. When I first started playing DayZ (end of May/beginning of Juneish) my PC handled it pretty darn well for it's age. I could keep up just fine with other players and did not have an issue with aiming or shooting weapons or moving around in the world and I would often be with or in the vicinity of other players, sometimes many at once. Sure I had to turn my graphics settings down but other than a few less detailed textures, things still looked and handled great. The problem is, now, as soon as another player gets near me (I have no idea the exact radius) - my FPS dumps to a literally unplayable point. I lag on *everything*. It takes many seconds to line up a shot - assuming I don't overswing it because the camera is just not responding. In fact any action (looting, moving the camera to look at things, even moving my character) pretty much becomes unbearable and.. well pointless. And if there's more than 1 other player int he area? Forget it. Slideshow. What confuses me is this never used to happen. I noticed the graphical lag starting to ramp up around, I want to say the beginning of August. Since then, I haven't played as much, so the degree and times of it's downward spiral I can't be sure of. All I can be sure is as of right now - I can't play the game anymore (unless I am the only person playing). So I'm wondering what anyone suggests (other than buying a new PC. I know. Working on that lottery ticket, really). Or if anyone knows why it would be other players entering the area that's causing these issues for me and what, if anything, can be done to help. Really miss playing this game. :/

Down for all but the 1st person only. I understand the arguments for it but I just can't do 1st person only. It totally fucks with me.

Looks interesting and I like a lot of the ideas you're working on/with. I'll keep my eyes on it. The major turn off for me: "attempt to force" - into specific roles. I'm guessing it's the military sim/shooter aspect of ArmA II that puts people in that military squad is required mind set with DayZ. I totally agree that within a survival scenario, survivors and groups of survivors that band together would indeed need to take on a "be ready to kill/defend at any second" mindset and even take on certain roles given a specific moment. But if I'm leaving my camp/base with a big enough bag - damn right I'm going to carry as many different weapon types as I'm able to shove in there - because situations change - not because I decided I'm going to be "the sniper" or "the spotter" only. That and one of the most appealing things about DayZ is a Sandbox to me is I'm not forced into a specific "role" - and I am not even forced to be a squad member. I can lone wolf it. Maybe hook up with another survivor for a short time, or join another group long enough to get into a town and grab some supplies and get out and then go back to lone wolfing it again. Just my 2c/feedback :)

Yea I just don't get the draw to this map. I guess for the players who just want to chase each other around shooting? I don't meant hat to sound as snarky as it's going to in text on a forum. I'm just not seeing the "world survival" aspect of some of these new maps. They appear to be being set up more for death matches/war.

Not sure if serious...

Yes.

Yep. Same graphics you'er looking at now with better animations, a simple ragdoll, and better lighting.

5 months is the longest Alpha you've seen? You haven't seen a lot of game alphas then. You are, indeed, ill informed. You are very unaware of the reasons scripting is so easy in this MOD. ArmA2 was designed to accept these scripts. It was not designed to be a persistent world survival apocalypse MMO. What you are playing was not made to be anything more than an experiment and to function like the many other mods that were made for ArmA2. As well, tools have been released to aide server admins to combat the scripting. There are 2 particular servers I play on regularly and the only scripting related activity I've seen on those 2 servers are the announcements of a global ban issued to someone who attempted to execute a script.

The reasons are totally understandable. Completely. At this stage, communication with the community here is also something that needs to be considered extremely important. The announcement for standalone was made and then... silence! (except for 1 update patch that didn't work and a reddit AMA). You guys really need to consider hiring a community manager. Little announcements posts like "Dev Team headed to PAX Next!" filled in with even just a couple of sentences about spending the weekend there and then back to work... or some such, While there's a lot of us that understand what is going on, even just a few sentences go a really long way to help keep people feeling well about what's going on and plugged in. You've got over a million players hanging on right now. Give them someone "official" to talk to.