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have to admit the fun pimps are certainly pumping out the updates on 7d2d. Bloody fun game to what would you call it dayz meets minecraft/tower defence. Low budget game that still manages some great audio ( i have jumped a few times at zeds inside houses). Dayz is moving slow but i still hold hope they will pull it together when they have finally fixed the core( gotten the navmeshes in changed to 64 bit the new renderer etc) then it will be time for some mechanics and content. 6 months to go basicly before end of the year lets hope it is a more productive 6 months than the first 6..

Beans not that you will need them with all the fish your catching. Well done entertaining and informative a rare duo specially here...

Yeah its all over the place but luck plays a big part sometimes you get lucky and find tons( yesterday i found 3 20 rounds boxes in the mil base at zelengorsk and another 2 boxes and 3 piles of loose sks ammo through the rest of the city. Big question is why do you need so much ammo for unless you killing zeds with it ?? my current character has been alive for 23 hours and if i took out all the ammo i wasted on zeds( because i had just to much of it so figured id use it) i have fired 20 to 30 shots give or take in PvP based combat..

Whats this truth you speak of??? and who is playing what game ?? am i play testing an early release alpha not a full game yeah sure and i play the mod and i play alot of other games while i wait more content. All i am hearing from you is a lack of knoledge of what an alpha is but hey you dont like the game go play something else check back in at the end of the year see if it is more interesting to you. Brains and common sense they really seem to be the rarest loot in Dayz currently...

WOW 1000 in 6 months on a alpha which is what 30% feature complete ? your going to burn out a break may be in order we are going to need some decent bandits when the game finally goes gold.... ( i have barely crossed 300 and i got it day1 but i have slowed down as i want to crank it out when its feature complete lol then mod the hell out of it " looks around dont burn me at the stake yeah i am a modder but also a purist dayz player lol.

Seeing as this game will never be great in regards to hand to hand or melee combat you will never get a trully amazing system but then its not the sole focus of the game like say one of the UFC games for hand to hand or say Chivalry for weapons etc. But i do feel they could add to it slightly for the better. Some examples could be a ready state eg you see someone coming in for the melee( you should probably shoot them but lets say you missed etc) by the simple push of a hot key you character enters a ready state/is prepared for the punches thrown and as such takes less damage from them. 2 a simple block system that is timed ( eg you hit it at the right time to block not hold down to block all in coming punches. This still then allows the sneaky player to easily knock someone out but gives the defender a more reasonable defence... But other than that punching is not OP its just not as counterable as it would be for me to class it trully authentic.

Im revoking your forum membership , i am sure its against the ToS of these forums to display thought and valid ideas here.... Your only allowed to express regret in a wild i rage quit kinda way , shame on you for actually being reasonable.. Seriously though i kinda agree with you i keep saying stop following the game builds and upcoming works , just put the game down for a few months and come back fresh to be taken by surprise... I am to weak i keep checking up on there future works and although my playing has slowed i still manage 6 to 8 hours a week lol.. Beans for you..

There is a clear difference between the prone stance and dead but then if they cant see you clearly you could get away with this. I have infact been killed by a man playing possum, i did my usual stalk of the player declared myself and he drew his weapon , so i fired. He went down after a short delay ( quite common for a short delay before drop ) and was laying in long grass blocking my view of the upper half( his head position being what will most give away being prone rather than dead). i went over to examine his body more carelessly than i should and wore 2 or 3 .357 shots for my trouble ( i am usually carefull as i have had guys merely knocked out to come to on me). Why i was so careless not sure it all happened rather fast but i felt sure i had put 2 sks rounds in centre mass . This will be impossible to pull off once rag doll is brought in though as there will be a big difference between dropping dead and dropping prone,,,,

What ??? you serious?? are we playing dayz or arma?? dont get me wrong i LOVE arma ( still want them to put the stance system from arma 3 in dayz lol) but i dont really want to turn Dayz into arma with zeds..

Different yes totally not really it is complete and alot of optimizing has been achieved ( honestly has been BIS best effort at optimization thus far fingers crossed for Dayz). One large notable difference though is the amount of active items in Dayz vs Arma 3 (i am assuming you tried a showcase or campaign mission) even with there network bubble there is a very large amount of items both in your area and across the map ( i say across the map because your performance is heavily limited by what the server performance is also, thats why alot of there current optimization has been aimed at server side performance.(ofcourse to gain themselves resources to add things like more zeds in the end aswell.) Perhaps try a mod for arma like breaking point as it is a dayz style mod and then compare results with what you achieve in Dayz SA. But for your original post yeah CPU is vital on any RV engine game..

Well i commend your incredible senses then guess the rest of us must be deaf its just strange that humans have used dogs for hundreds of years for hunting ( in the wilderness with no planes etc flying over head) For warning systems as our senses are not all that great sure you get a rough idea of where someeone is ( and if they made sound trully directional it would give you almost exactly what you would have in real life thats the point of directional sound work ). Evenblind peoples hearing is not pin point directional i have tested the theory years ago when i lived with a blind guy( he would know i was there but he turn back and fourth trying to pin point my direction.)

why do people have the belief that human senses are that acute they we are all like the comic book character dare devil?? if they work on sound great if you hear them that will roughly tell you were they are not some artificial ghost view...

Actually that is a fairly common problem in online FPS games and one of the things BF4 is dealing with now how many times a second info is bounced back and fourth server to player and back to register a hit base rate now is 10htz there testing 30 htz. You might automaticly think well if 30 is better than 10 make it 30 or higher ( counter strike has standard 60 htz but can be pushed higher). Problems though 1 the higher you make it the more CPU intensive it becomes ( RV engine games already pretty intensive CPU wise) 2 the fastly larger amount of info already being sent because of all the different bits of gear we carry that the server is checking for all the time( and if its hit damaged etc etc) guess what it leads to your favorite problem DESYNC. These sort of problems are not as easily fixed as that game doesnt do that why does this one yada yada grumble grumble. As for melee as people have stated its where the model hits the records the hit not were your on screen cursor is but saying that i believe hit boxes are getting a revamp its one of three jobs the new team have hunting animal zed AI and hit boxes....

I have seen( and play on it as one of my normal servers) a server that lists it kicks for pings higher than 250. Dont know if they actually do or not it is merely the server message you get when you log in (perhaps to scare away high ping players. Really if possible stick to the lowest ping you can get with the population level on the server you can get ,is it playable beyond 200 sure but it aint great throw in being wireless connected to boot and i can feel some rage in a CQB shoot out happening. It can ruin your experience and it can even effect those inside your network bubble.( but this usually only happens with extreme pings) the game even sort of tells you your quality level below 100 its green above 100 its yellow and not sure at what point it lists pings as red ..

Ahhh id say you saw videos either on the mod of dayz( which has been around since earlish 2012) or those who have illegally modded( and usually having pirated the game to sad that it happens) dayz SA to include vehicles hellis from the mod . These will be added in time and with higher polycount models and better textures and also far more depth to the repair maintenance systems( i hope but pretty sure they will seeing they taking there time with them.) Modding will be allowed in the SA once it is released as a game( or there abouts mod support is a listed coming feature) so really there will be an endless supply of content and play styles available. Early days honestly people asking me about dayz is it any good i reply it will be EPIC but do not buy yet give it time to flesh out more its still very early dayz(pun intended.)

2 solid posts of info i have read in 1 day your in the wrong forum here we spread bull and rumour LOL. The op graphic card will handle the game fine on medium ( dayz is not all that graphically intensive) Trully it is your CPU that will be the biggest factor on how well it will run( that and server choice helps) The ssd will aid in stopping stutters caused by a bottleneck from the harddrive( the game constanly streams from your drive) and will also solve alot of pop ups and slow to render the higher level textures at close range ( eg low texture from distance and you draw close it loads the better texture slow hard drive then you will have noticable change over of textures which can be also the GPU but the 560 will handle this game well enough.

This ^^^ many patches ago is was possible to bleed out and not die just lay unconcious till aided or respawn but now when blood hit 0 it gives your health 1 final kicker and dead. Its awlays a good idea to keep some what upto date with current game as the method you speak of has been gone for atleast 2 months now easily..

Your title of the thread is this seriously the whole game answer early release alpha so no its not its merely the start. You say you have reasearched the game well the answer to many of your um questions are already well known . Will there be more zombies yes when they fix the navmeshes and AI and optimize to allow it to be so how many who knows the devs dont till the figure out how much they can squeeze out of the engine( i am sure they have an idea of how many they would like). They have already tested higher population numbers on servers so yes eventually it will have more than 40 people( depending on the server that people rent and several other factors. Not seeing people hmm depends where you are i can bet you if you hang around berezino you will see plenty ( wouldnt advise it unless you want high pvp though) but um yeah it a zed apoc were 1% pop is alive and its on a rather large 225km2 map so it will at times feel lonely as i imagine being one of few survivours in a apoc would. Holding w for 1 to 3 hours??? hmm strange it takes me no more than 30 min or so to get from any point on the map to another point but i guess i know the map pretty well it has changed a fair bit but in essence it is still the same basic lay out it was 6 years ago with more towns added and many MANY more enterable buildings. In the end you will be fighting zeds players starvation illness and weather to survive everything you asked by using the search function would have given you answers that or having a look at the video on the development road map.....

Well done now if you had just spent 1/10th of as long reading the alpha warnings on the game you wouldnt have needed to waste so much time on this post. Also some reasearch into a game( or in this case an alpha of a game) before buying is always a smart move. But hey dont feel bad you will fit in with the huge amount of other people not reading the warnings and making complaint posts oh so often here WELCOME..

Strange you should say that thus far in 280 hours of playing the shotgun is the only weapon that has failed to fire on me( when loaded and still in pristine) although i am pretty sure it was a bug ( one that got me killed as i had snuck up on a sniper and went click click and in the rush of trying to kill him my brain switched off completely and i kept going click click trying to get it to fire while he wasted me.. But yeah i agree with your idea of some malfunction/maintenance/cleaning system showing up the reliability of older tech weapons such as revolver ( which is my go to side arm go the python....)

I have said this all along if /when they add helicopters TOH style is a must ( seeing the game is actually built on the TOH version of RV3 rather than arma2 version of RV3 and it was the developers original intent) when coupled with the enormous amount of work it should take to fix/maintain/fuel i dont think it will be op specially if they stick to civilian or un armed versions. Really unless you have played TOH there wont be to many flying heli as if its as hard as it should be to get fixed in the first place will you really risk this asset to john doe who has never played TOH. Just the starting procedures will stop many would be fliers and thieves and allow plenty of time for small arms fire to ruin there day lol..

Hmm i thought once you put your goods for sale on steam , steam had control over the prices to a fair extent there are several other early release /alpha build games that have gone to special in the last year i hardly think its a marketing move by BIS more a sales thing of steam to keep there profit share rolling in now the sales of Dayz have slowed. Hey i could be wrong but i recall the devs of Assetto corseta ( racing sim) explaining this very thing to there fans when the game when on sale still in alpha( which its not out of yet ) and they seem to care alot about there fans are on the forums almost everyday ( probably everyday but i cant prove its everyday so better to understate lol) and they had stated the same pricing model of dayz and arma 3 eg cheaper in alpha price going up at each stage.

Definately to pick up chicks when i saw the custom clothing options i thought this has to attract ladies!!! Seriously to support the development started playing the mod in may 2012 and always thought they could do more with it if it was its own game so i am here to see what they do with it and enjoy the ride..

Officially no but easy to transfer across using am3p mods work (hence why i put no link up (personal use so i dont believe its against the rules i hope lol) The lighting really is perfect for the setting and strangely i get 70FPS in arma2 on the map i get 130 plus in arma 3 with it win win i say ..

Bah have you tried cranking the alive mod up on the lingor map?? there is just something about arma3 lighting thats perfect for jungle warfare lol..