UbuntuFoo

The answer lies somewhere between this reply and the OP's frustrations. A lot of the knocks on DayZ are slated to be fixed throughout ongoing development. And if the WarZ experience made you a forever-pessimist, I feel bad for you and somewhat empathize....

Its not a novelty. Some people enjoy 3pp and are familiar with it from many other games. The only argument that's defensible is "sack up and play hardcore like a real survivor". By the same logic, logging out/in to a game world, running infinitely, and surviving bullets to the head are unrealistic and downright exploitative. Do you exploit infinite run, Mart? Did you survive damage that would kill a real man? I imagine you never log out unless a server resets on you, because that just ain't real or hardcore enough, right? Also there's a selection of servers for your play style. More are coming. You don't have to play with all the people you disagree with.

The system in place for communication is great. Some people want their fancy feast brought to them on a silver saucer, that's all. Strip away all posts where people flame, go off topic needlessly, and make unfounded demands. Next, delete all posts where people say "heres my beans!" or post a pic of a bean can. You're support is inspiring, but just click the "you have my beans" button please? "Like a sculptor who doesn't keep adding clay to a statue... but strips away the inessentials until the truth is revealed".

Here ya go frieeeeend: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/179198-from-hicks-206-reddit-on-development/

Its pretty random in my experience. When SA released I found random things in them including backpacks, but now its mainly a random food item in a first floor kitchen and sometimes a medkit on a higher floor, but never ammo or clothing. Go and have a ganders fer yerself.

they arent going to spend tons of time optimizing at this point. Its likely more efficient to add some content and tweak other things, then eventually optimize in bulk. There are several DayZ SA guides for FPS boost you can easily Google.

Agreed. There are several other quality battlefield/arma games out there, but few if any other survival sim's with the potential that DayZ SA has. Im not interested in what an OP insta-travel vehicle will bring to the the table. Im interested in fleshing out whats been presented to me already, a game thats already a blast to play.

That's actually pretty awesome. Many people crave an immersive game that has the power to rattle you so. And I can see why hardcore would result in less KOS. More of your player interaction is spontaneous whereas regular mode lets you 3PP camp with guns hot ready to pounce on someone who can never see you coming until its too late. You can certainly do that in hardcore but it takes more discipline.

The content in this video isnt affiliated with BI but for an idea of what premium sound effects could sound like in game: Its a 3 part video series, check em all.

Im pasting this in from another thread because panic is beating reason at this point: If you're a fan of Dean Hall then you respect his decision to leave the game in capable hands - hands of professional game developers with a formula that clearly has appealed to most, if not all of us so far. If you were never a fan of his then you should be relieved to see him walk from the project before 2015. Either way you slice it, its reasonable to argue that this is the best thing that could happen to DayZ. We as a community have more power to make this game into what we want than most realize. Take your finger off the panic button and disregard Deal Hall's questionable choice of wording. The man has other dreams to pursue in his lifetime, why cant he get on with his goals and leave the solid foundation of DayZ with you, me, and BI?

If you're a fan of Dean Hall then you respect his decision to leave the game in capable hands - hands of professional game developers with a formula that clearly has appealed to most, if not all of us so far. If you were never a fan of his then you should be relieved to see him walk from the project before 2015. Either way you slice it, its reasonable to argue that this is the best thing that could happen to DayZ. We as a community have more power to make this game into what we want than most realize. Take your finger off the panic button and disregard Deal Hall's questionable choice of wording. The man has other dreams to pursue in his lifetime, why cant he get on with his goals and leave the solid foundation of DayZ with you, me, and BI?

While your ideas have promise, your post must be in alpha stage. So i will read the rest some day when you've finished developing it.

He's right, so many junk threads washing away posts where people offer test results, links to worthwhile YouTube videos, statistics, other original ideas.... This thread won't work but increasing awareness about crappy post spam is a good start!

Its a double edged sword. Makes playing legitimately in the short-term more difficult but in the long-term this will be fixed sooner from overexposure.

He had high ground, initiative, and the right weapon for the job. Who cares if he didn't talk to him first, let him live, give him a hug. There's only 1 person who you can dictate play style choice to: yourself. SMH at judging and labeling someone based on a single instance of game play that you weren't even involved in. Good job OP.

We could go down the list of configurations and argue about how each is unfair. Gee whiz let me make a thread on resolution settings and why everyone should play on the game default reso. That's the vibe I get from your posts, BadAsh. I for one cant see loot, period, on night time servers without tweaking my configs. I choose not to be shot in the back by a player with good visibility while I spend 30 seconds determining if the tuna can im standing on is lootable, bugged, or just a shadow. If you get a high from doing everything the hard way, good for you. We aren't all that extreme.

"Its true i was inside known bug in the military building" You have to communicate more effectively if you want us to comprehend and you have to proof read what you write if you want anyone to take you seriously. Yes you can shoot through walls in this game. SKS will penetrate house walls it seems. I recommend some testing of your own since nobody has shared data on this yet for DayZ SA.

For those who have had luck with increasing the CPU priority through task manager, try this: Download PRIO, freeware that allows you to make your priority settings permanent with 1 click. I get an extra few frames by running dayz on high. Realtime can be particularly risky , Google it before attempting. It sounds like you may be able to specify CPU priority via launch parameters with "-high" but I haven't tested.

I'm going to test the LRS at >600m right now and report here, because Ive seen and heard nothing about a fix for that. Previously, any quality of LRS above ruined (possibly ruined too, didnt test) was causing a pull to the left that became easily noticeable at 600+ meters; that is, badly damaged - pristine. The pull was the same for each quality.

Its not simply player error, if that's what you're saying. That may be true in some cases but it doesn't change the fact that projectiles ARE clipping grass and other invisible objects. I was crouched on a simple grass slope with a clear view of my target from 30m and my shots were clipping the ground right at eye level, despite my mosin barrel being 3 feet from the turf with no impediments. Its def easier to recreate while prone, but can occur from a crouch as well. Fix is coming though!

Ive experienced this too. Leaving a server, joining a new one and im rolled-back roughly 60 seconds to a former place and inventory. I think any deterrent to server hopping is great right now.. Make people travel, trade, beg, borrow, steal, kill.....

I like it because its a sign that they're heading in the right direction. If I expected them to get it right the first time every time then I may as well expect them to roll out a finished release next month, but I do not... .I respect the process. They are attempting to do some pretty cool and original things with this genre of game and for that it is worth some minor annoyances along the way. And of course "minor" is a relative term seeing as some of you prima donna's demand immediate and impeccable implementation of content. I do feel for the minority that have stability issues, forcing them to suffer the logging penalties more frequently when they crash. All they can do is wait until stability improves,,, which it will... patience... go play another game for a few months...

Retard? Huh? Relax friend. Stability improvements coming as game develops further. Sheesh.

You're bringing me back to memories of WarZ/ISS. Please don't!

Baby carriages + shopping carts (great storage, limit movement speed) Poison (apply to weapons,food) Bells (make trip wire sound traps) Zombie guts (loot off zombie with edged melee, apply to self for reduced aggro radius for 1 day cycle or until clothes reach "soaking wet" status) Agitation stick (used for dog training/animal control. Imagine wrangling a zombie and leading them around the map, at other survivors or simply Michon style from The Walking Dead)