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the economy is per server. "central" is a misnomer imo. Eugen explained over here: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/223307-central-economy/

Smeone mentioned something similar to Eugen on twitter earlier and click on eugen's twitter to see the full thing I'm not sure how to show full conversation

If you are getting glitch hit the best thing to do is to get right up close to them. Ok you might get hit some more but at least you've got a chance of hitting them. The old circling tactic doesn't work. tbh I've been running or shooting zombies since the patch.

There's much more of them. They don't have radar any more. They are much tougher to kill. 2 body shots from an sks. 1 close shot from a sawn off. 1 shot from a mosin (untested.) They react to hits/shots and theirs friends will also react to gun shots.

Haven't read all the replies but I'd suggest the op stay away from public shards. I moved from 3p public to 1p private at christmas and one big difference was where people hang out and what they do. I play on oldschooldayz and most of the action seems to be in the nwaf and surrounding areas. In fact, every mil area is a pvp fest. Many towns just near to mil bases are the same e.g. stary. I very rarely see the stupid no pant+broom combo running around anywhere.

I switched from exp to stable today. I couldn't see any friends in a server that I knew they were there and when I went to join their server I got a message saying battleye is updating..may take a while. but after that I was able to join them. if you contact battleye they'll help. sorry i couldn't help

reboot your computer and then go into game properties and verify cache. you might have to reboot an other time after that but maybe not. other than that check be is allowed through your firewall.

What's that saying "Don't blame the player, blame the..."? Seriously, this thing where people think none of us sickly pussies would have a problem if we just turned off headbob is laughable. It's not headbob etc. It's a result of the engine and jittering/low frames. Combine a low fov and a low fps and you'll get players getting motion sickness regardless of headbob. The reason it's less of an issue in third is because the brain can anchor onto the visible character on screen.

Most of my time playing 3rd person shooters I'm "I wish they made this as a first person shooter instead." There's some huge games that I played for less than an hour then gave up just because I hated the camera. So it's odd that dayz was such a struggle to play in first. I'd never heard of motion sickness from games before dayz but I found that a narrow fov combined with low/jittering fps almost guaranteed it. Happily I've managed to overcome it through tweaking my settings and buying new equipment so since christmas I've almost exclusively played first person. Before that I had to avoid certain cities and buildings (the tower blocks/any multistory stairs.) I don't know about the overall stats of people preferring 1st v 3rd person games in general but I know I'm an fps player will always pick first over third when possible but didn't, for whatever reasons, pick first in dayz. That's why I find it odd when I see all these threads about fixing 3rd. If you want people to play first don't just change third. Instead make first better.

It's impossible for us to judge from one static pic. Maybe invest the time in figuring out why so many people, like me, who generally prefer fps games ended up playing hundreds of hours in third. The horse may have bolted on changing third person imo.

I've seen ads and people pay more for gear boxes than they pay for the game itself. Same with cheats. It's bizarre to me but I suppose we are living in an age where buying perks is normal enough. I'm amazed it's a viable business at all but it is.

I love the sawn* off at close quarters. I hate the pump. *aka 'sawed' (US, CAN) and in this game.

I've spent more hours messing around with graphics settings/config files in bis games than I have beating other games. I think you should be able to run the games but you'll probably have to research the best settings for your machine.

Have you reported this to the tracker? This is v.interesting intelligence. @OP Yes loot bombs are still a thing on persistent servers

It's a server issue. And usually affects all players on that server. A restart usually solves it. Been happening intermittently for quite a while.

Just seems like a lot more desync. Is it worth us adding this extra flag(and what is it?) or is that just for crashes? Yesterday, I was thinking "wow I'm so lucky, I'm getting none of the issues people are complaining about." but today desync is a major issue. Also I was playing with a pal and he was "this is unplayable atm" but it was fine for me then we switched servers and it was kind of unplayable for me but fine for him. Eventually we found a server that was just right:D but it's bizarre the way it worked. Unfortunately it's kind of hard to formulate a tracker ticket that covers that.

I've been made look like a total noob by lagged zombies appearing 10 metres away and then suddenly being behind me hitting me. Also I had a player run after me then appear to get stuck in a running animation and I shot twice, nothing happened then my friend shot once and then the play was dead. Thing is to me it looked like my pal killed the player but to him it looked like i killed the player. Seems to be a server based thing. I haven't done a ticket to the tracker as it's all kind of vague but yeah you are not the only one. Earlier today I was seeing all the complaints and thinking "wow it's working great for me" but not today. I'm not really getting crashes so is it worth adding that debug flag to the game or not and if so what is it?

reboot your pc, restart steam, verify game cache, try the game again

Same card as me and I had issues too. I was able to play other games fine but I'd play dayz for 20 minutes and then things would start to go wrong. Eventually the laptop would shut down after 20 mins but would be fine when I restarted. What I discovered was the card was shutting down to save itself from overheating. I opened the laptop up and cleaned out the vents/fan and now everything is fine. If I were you I'd open the laptop up, remove and clean the card/inside of laptop and check again. Also my laptop has integrated graphics but you can't use the integrated graphics at the same time as the dedicated gpu so maybe something has happened there. I've a feeling the card is fine and it's a software issue. Try reinstall the card from the original manufacturer's drivers. Meant to add that I and at least one of my friends have had odd hardware issues since the new battleye, corrupt files etc. So maybe the wrong file got corrupted.

I'll tell you what the real problem is: First person players who play on third person servers. The reason 1st person servers are generally barren is because these 1st person zealots don't support the play style they supposedly prefer. I've hundreds of hours in 1p and hundreds of hours in 3rd. They are different games. If you are incapable of seeing that then that's nobody's fault but your own. Dayz is about the only game I like as 3rd as well as 1st. I generally hate 3rd person games. Seems to me that a lot of first person players spend more time moaning on forums about 3rd person than trying to help out 1st person servers by actually joining and playing on them. If you think you have to play 3rd because everyone else is then you are part of the problem. Play the game you want.

I got this for the first time the other night and I too have recently switched to sdd. The sdd cp recommended I lower the pagefile size to min 200mb max 2gb and I believe this is what caused the error message. I have since set it back to windows managing the pagefile and haven't had the error since. I'd recommend you allow windows manage the pagefile (e.g. click system managed size.) The pros are you won't get error messages re memory, the cons are that you will write more to your sdd and therefore lower it's life expectancy.

I find playing in a group of over 4 gets stupid. I generally play in a two.

Tried to write a cv earlier, started typing, ended up with a shit cv...uninstalled word.