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how do they find out unless they have a boat ( its suicide to try and swim there)and travel out there for no reason at all ( back in the mod days my longest lasting tent was out on an island unlooted in 9 months) Now any where on the main land no matter how remote you think it is will have people travel over it ,specially when they up the number of people in the server . In the end its always just a matter of time regardless of where it is ( minus those whop discovered glitched spots where you could put tents underwater in rocks etc)

Id say the best place would be on one of the small islands with no loot no one EVER goes there ( well more than once)

Alpha.. To be honest i expected there to have been more wipes during this phase ( we have had what 2 i remember) and having played alot of experimental branch i am pretty use to being wiped ( for a while there it was pretty much every week lol ). People get so attached to there gear though so id expect the usual out cry, but we seem to forget we are play testing an alpha not playing a completed game....

Thats the thinking .. Nothing wrong with having this type of weapon just add rather large problems that go with it (certainly make the ammo very rare so it becomes the unicorn sort by clans ,maybe even possible to mount on a civilian vehicle etc. I am not against adding much if it can be done in a semi realistic and balanced manner . By balanced i dont mean fair i mean game mechanics wise...

I wouldnt go as far as calling using an online map cheating but i would say your making your experience easier... So if you like easier in whats already a fairly easy survival run thus far by all means go ahead ,its a slippery slope once you start down the path of making things easier for you, before you know it you realize somewhere along the lines you stopped playing Dayz and some how your on a epoch server with 24/7 days and 1000's vehicles lol..

Damn thats bad i didnt think it was that bad ( reminds himself never to mention frames again ) Oh i use a SSD for all my games specially RV engine games that are constantly reading data of the drive (cant say it will help the FPS unless the game is bottlenecking waiting for data to load but i doubt it ) but it does make it so much smoother no micro stutters and no texture pop ins i dont know how anyone can play this game on a HDD i watched my mate doing it and the pop ins were so distracting it wasnt funny..

You get around 50 fps where?? if its novo then thats understandable. I say this because i also have a 4790k ( clocked to 5ghz though on water) and use a titan black which is weaker than your 2 760s and at near max ( i say near max because i use low pp as i dont like there pp effects much and i only use 125% render on a 3440 x1440 screen) i get 60 to 70fps in many cities, 80 to 90 in small towns 105 to 130 in forrests 140 to 170 in wide open areas.. Novo being my worst location at low 50's The game is far from well optimized no doubt but it shocks me how bad many people say it plays on there rigs ( i mean thats worse than my wifes rig which i also built it has a AMD 8350 also clocked to 5ghz and a single gtx 770 and that plays the game nearly maxed out at better than that between 40 and 100 fps. I sometimes wonder if people know how to maintain there rigs to be optimized for playing games ( or through neglect they are turning them into potatoes with flashy specs?? or is it just plain random bad luck ??? not sure if this classes as heavy rain but it was visible as splashes on the ground so i dont know but it was running well pretty well..Crappy pic i know i just booted game jumped server 2 times to get a rain and thunder storm and snapped this running in the forrest near the apartments by cherno.. Edit i do turn hyperthreading off though and use the cpu profile i did just for dayz (pushing the one core the game uses as hard as possible)so i have a little set up time but it makes for a much better game experience

If the they expect to get this to run on PS4 , this will end up having to be the best optimized ,multi threaded title BI have produced. I guess time will tell do they optimized or do they tear the heart out of the ps4 port to make a dayz looking shell??

I cant remember his exact specs but as i recall its an older i7(2700??) clocked to 5.2 ghz and he has 2x sli gtx 780ti's cant remember how much ram or the mobo he uses but what i mentioned are the main features needed for performance. Not sure why he gets such bad performance my specs are almost same as yours ( different gpu though i was dumb and got a titan black lol thinking of swapping it for sli gtx 970's) same cpu but i clocked mine at 5ghz on a custom water loop more ram( which makes no difference as far as dayz goes lol) and my worst spot is novo and i still manage 50 fps there...

Yes they can kill each other .. try it out get 3 zeds or more ( 2 is enough but results will be shown quicker with more of them ) stand infront of them and and just before the strike circle around ( you have to time it so the strike will still happen ) now if you circle in a manner to draw the zeds into a line they will start striking each other trying to hit you and sooner or later with you doing nothing more than moving they will start dying from each others hits ( the last one you will have to kill yourself.

Please no rocket launchers!! It would be the last thing id be grabbing in a zed apoc , a heavy generally single shot weapon that would be awkward to carry around long term (imagine humping that thing day in day out for months to use it on what ???) Its not a great weapon against infantry (i wouldnt imagine against zeds either) an d would make sure every zed for kms would come running so basicly a death sentence. Please no mortars these are horribly effective against infantry so much so with good placement the amount of death destruction you could rain down would be near unstoppable. If you added them they would need to aid something else to counter it and so on and so till we are playing arma... When i want to play arma guess what i play arma its a great game for military style pvp...

It should be still in your hands when you return, I havent actually had a tent in my hands during a reset but i have had a second rifle in hands and it stayed there i have had a secondary melee weapon ( had 2 fire axes) and that stayed in hands after reset so id say the tent would to ( but by all means someone who has actually held the tent during a reset confirm or prove wrong this statement.)

Yeah it was Novo and that is a real frame killer... how do you feel about overclocking?? its just the game in current state is really only using 1 of the 6 cores you have so 3.3 isnt world crushing id say you should be able to get 4ghz out of it easily enough which would up your fps a bitt maybe enough to be playable( or wait till optimization starts as they are porting to ps4 i am expecting there going to have to dig in and really work on the multithreading to take advantage of the ps4's many weaker amd cores.

Not sure you need an ubber intel chip to do that, a i7 4790k does me quite well with my worst areas being novo and patches of the apartments i still get low 50 fps.. As for the OP strange my performance has stayed roughly the same through the last couple patches , is it your heading into the newer city of novo which is a real fps killer..

I selected other as really the only map i rely on is the map in my memory ( way to long playing on this map in arma even before dayz) , sure there new towns etc but they are pleasant surprises and actually make navigation easier( the north use to be so much empty space and bush but i liked it that way lol . In game i do collect all the parts of the map as i like to play by house rules and collect the things i believe a survivor would want in strange country in the middle of an apoc lol. This means i even carry around useless tools like pliers and ductape as in real life there pretty handy for many situations( i love and use the old saying if you cant fix it with a can of WD40 and a roll of ductape it cant be fixed!)..

A very cool idea mate. Ill be keeping an eye on your youtube for future works . (beans and youtube like from me lol )

I cook meat on fires all the time without the use of stones although you have to be carefull and quick because they will go from cooked to burnt in seconds. Perhaps some one can confirm that if by using rocks it slows the final stages of cooking allowing you to easily cook all your meat without burning some??

When do the devs act like we should be honored by the work in there patch? i find there more intent on watching our comments and collecting there in game data to see how there patch is running, i have certainly not seen any bow before our new amazing patch type reactions from devs ( a few remember its alpher moments ). Strange i think the game has come leaps and bounds in the last couple of patches, the survival feel ( although far from complete) has certainly raised its head. It really seems a case of you pulled the trigger on buying Dayz to soon they warned it was going to be a long alpha , Hicks even said that usual development time was 3 years and they were going to try and shave 6 months of that . So the finish line is still quite a ways off. But meh there is plenty to still keep me interested but each to there own i guess.

I wish i needed some method of navigation other than memory.. But sadly having played on this map for quite a few years i know it all to well. Sure there are new towns so a few small surprises but in general it has actually made it easier to navigate with no aid as up north was really the only place to get lost in the wilderness and now a town a road is never really to far away. So basicly there may be 2 minute patches where i am not totally sure were i am pick almost any direction run for a minute or 2 bang a road a town and soon i know exactly where i am . I miss the fear of getting lost lol ...

Id say there is still a good chance of being KoSed on a first person server but i do feel it slightly less than being on a 3pp server. 3pp really gives a huge advantage to the camper allowing to be completely hidden and with the cameras elevated position a very good high viewing position ( in first person you need to actually go to a high spot to get a high view which can make you visible). So although camping still gives great advantage in first person ( camping always will 3pp or 1pp) i feel the restricted view seems to premote you to move around more and as such while moving through cities its quite likely to not even spot people who would easily have been seen in 3pp( eg over walls etc) Now those of a mentality to KoS will still do it in 1pp but now there job of spotting a victim has been made harder by reduced situational awareness. Harder to stalk someone and shoot them in the perfect spot with a much greater chance of losing sight of your prey. That leads to one of my theories ( and it is a crackpot one) KoS is so popular ,exciting action in general and that is why 3pp is so popular with the increased situational awareness much easier to spot people so the chances of a kill or a gunfight is increased ( basicly much more chance for some arcade fun which is understandable many people play for fun and 3pp gives them the action quicker more often than 1pp).

Why not get a powerline adapter?? its not quite as good as cat6 (but not that far from it, if you house has good quality wiring) no need to drill holes in your wall. It would be a hell of alot better than your current wireless connection and is almost as mess/fuss free..

Axes and machete's although its only from badly damaged to damaged (unless that has changed since the hot fix for .49??) i havent tried to sharpen a knife with them yet has anyone done this ? does it work on knives also..

Chickens !!! i have not seen one and i have been looking for many many hours ( didnt even believe they were in till someone showed evidence lol) i have seen 1 rabbit since they became a lootable animal ( due to they make one hell of alot of sound while moving.) I like to hunt in real life and thus in game i have shot every animal in game currently (minus the chicken)and even though chickens are hardly a worthy prey they have been the hardest thing i have ever hunted ( in real or in game lol ) my unicorn the elusive chicken....(over 100 hours spent looking for them and still hunting)

Hmmm by moot which definition do you mean ?? is it that its open for debate?? if so no because thats a tactical vest as was seen in the game earlier this year. It has a different model (which if you were observant you could easily see the difference in the model ) it also had a different amount of storage to the the assault vest which was also present at the same time. If we were to follow your brilliant lines of deduction there would be no reason to call any pants in game anything other than just pants regardless of if the model is different or carries more or less storage as they serve the same basic function ( or guns for that matter) If by moot you meant having no practical relevance? then why did you ask to see the difference between them ?? But i can say your input to the thread is definately moot( and in this case either definitions would be correct ).

Nope not a name change as i already stated it was its own item and i believe taken from arma 3 (as it seems identical to the tactical vest from arma 3)and it was removed due to clipping issues (including partially blocking view when in prone position)