From the 0.49 dev blog update they are talking about Vehicle component design. Does anyone have an idea of how they will implement vehicles? I hope to death, that I will not be able to find a brand new car and drive off. I sincerely hope that you will need to find parts for it to work. At the very least you should need to find gas and oil, maybe tires. But more components would be nice. Like with guns, that you can add elements to it, to work better. And I want them to break down, and be fixable, but also possible to ruin.. Thoughts?

The game is hardcore enough as it is, I don't need these crashes to feel vulnerable. About 90% of the times I die, its because of a crash near a zombie, not having enough time to get off the server, and not enough time to enter the server before im dead. Only way is to play with a friend and be close all the time. Freeze crashes are so common, I wonderwhy I even bother. Especially the 1 hour runs, and deaths upon arrival in front of a zombie. Ridiculous. Good night.

Ive been freezing up since yesterday every time I entered a stable branch server. I have been trying alot of different things, and have come across one thing that seems to fix it. (after hours and hours of trial and error) From what I can see I think it is a battleeye issue. 0. I set everything back to normal graphic settings (don't think this did it though) 1. Access the Dayz folder through steam 2. Copy to Desktop the Battleye folder, and delete it from the Dayz folder. 3. Restart game, and it wont enter any servers because of failed battleeye initialization. 4. So you exit game, copy the battleeye folder back to the Dayz folder (accessed through steam) and restart game. For some reason it will now REINSTALL battleeye, and this fixed my freezes. Cheers.

Impretty sure its an update problem.

Someone talks about a backup file that can be deleted and playtime is up to 5 mins.. but then freezes are back.

I think its widespread, I got this too starting last night.

Same. 5 seconds of game time and it freezes up. Tried to reinstall and play with settings. Still freezes.

Since yesterday my game now freezes up 1-5 seconds after entering a server. Tried the following: 1. Reinstalling 2. Tried with several new to older graphics drivers 3. Settings to disable/low Same, no changes, crashes/freezes after very few seconds. Unplayable. Will go play Diablo and whine.

And you ruined that guys day. Say hallo, check if he is friendly, if not, kill him. Don't just walk around killing people. It takes no skill whatsoever to sit in a location and wait for a guy to come by, and then backstab him. If he was a serverhopper, the story is quite different though.. Still, KOS is for pussies.

I think we all have come to experience taking out an ammo box (or your backpack) putting it on the ground, to get from it what you need, only to run off and leave it there, forgetting all about it. I did just that. At the far NW corner of the NW Airfield, I dropped my ammo box. Realized it on way my back to Star Sobor. There was so much ammo in it, that I simply couldnt leave it, and had to run back. And sure enough, there is was, on the ground waiting for me. Love that stuff! Now, I was lucky enough to find two rifles on my last Airfield run, so I was actually carrying a rifle on my back and another in my hands, wanting to bring the second one to a friend. And so when I started to run, I accidentally tapped my water canister into my hands, and dropped the rifle in my hands as a result. Now, I had only run about 10-15 meters. But it took me a good 20 minutes to find the rifle again! Perhaps alittle too difficult. Its like they almost dissapear in the foliage, or look smaller on the ground or something. Now, a happy camper again, I started to run off. And just when I met my friend somewhere between the two Stary's I froze out. And ofcause when you dropout/in you drop everything you have in your hands. So there i was running, with zombies after me mind you, and I froze out. When I came in, rifle was gone, and 3 zombies were in the place that I left. So I ran a few meters, took the other rifle, and gunned them down. Returned to the spot, no rifle. So IF I dropped it on logout, surely it should have dropped where the zombies saw me last? But no, nothing. So I thought "alpha..." But still my friend and I searched for about 20 minutes or so, and right there on the ground, not too far from where I dropped out, the rifle was on the ground! Just loved the fact that FOR ONCE the items werent lost to some annoying bug, but were just good old fashioned hard to find. Cheers.

Few times in my life have I ever experienced a night as dark as the darkness in Dayz. Sure in the middle of the Amazon, it gets damn dark, also at the bottom of the sea. But rarely this dark, and hardly every night. Rarely will you be in a night so dark you can't even see your own hand. Love the nights, but its like playing in a jar full of tar.

Most zombie lore has it that if you get bitten or otherwise come in contact with a zombie, you will become a zombie yourself. So why not have players become zombies, if they are at least killed by a zombie? Imagine having all this zombies running around, that used to be players!

Op actually has a very well thought through idea that you kids should listen to or go play one of your useless little games, that the market is full of. Meeting people deep in the wild, and saying "hi" to them, would rarely result in a gun fireing rampage from the message recieving party. KOS has nothing to do with reality, killing other players sometimes does. The KOS in Dayz is very unreal as it is now, and other players are seen only as loot boxes or possible threats to iliminate. There is no insentive what so ever to let another player live, yet in real life you would have hundres or thousands of good reasons. Let me name you a few if you are still 12 and havent grown up yet. 1. The fear of going totally insane from killing other people (Go read Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment if you want more in depth wisdom on how this might affect you kids) 2. The fear that you just killed the last human being on earth, and now you have to live with the zombies 3. Company. If you have been in the wild for weeks, you would never ever just shoot someone down, you would very carefully try and make contact. 4. Grouping against zombies. This is one of the things I fail to understand. In an apocalypse, you would be desperate to find people with whom you could group up with and fight off the zombies, not so in Dayz. (maybe if they made the zombies a real threat, they are pussy easy to kill right now) 5. Empathy. You see a guy bleeding, dying, and you shoot him in his face to take his gear? come on, you may be 12, but this is insane behaviour that hardly exists in real life, even considering an apocalypse. Empathy is one of the main drivers of human evolution. Point is, in a game with no real consequences for killing other players, it will be just end up becoming your every day lousy and super boring and immature first person shooter experience. The OP is not talking about taking the HARDCORENESS out of the game, but to make it more real, more mature, more like real life. Kids go back to school please, and stop ruining our otherwise fantastic apocalypse simulator!

Easy, serverhopping. The less pop a server has, the more serverhoppers it will also attract.

My setup is my brothers old computer, which not that long ago was a beast of a machine! It was a crowning achievement in gaming, and today, probably wouldn't even sell for 100USD. Windows XP 3gb ram (the 4th malfunctioned) 2.13ghz dual core Geforce 8800 GTS (I guess, this is what's holding it all together) 17" TFT screen (the most painfull part of the setup) Now I crash every 60 minutes of gametime in Dayz, which is bearable. If I alt tab to desktop I crash. I have plenty of freezes, just plain CTD's and a few blue screen of death's, but all adds to the emersion of the game.. playing on an old beat out, battered and left almost for trash computer is good fun. B) I can even put most of the config - Video on high settings, and it will play with little lag. I do go for Normal or low settings though, with clouds off and shadows low, and it runs amazingly well. Only the highrises in Dubky makes me lag hard and long. Now, its not that I can't afford a new build, I just havent cared to do it. Dunno If I should get a Desktop or one of those nice Asus ROG gaming laptops.. Here is a screenshot from normal settings on my setup that runs remarkably fine (clouds disabled and shadows low, other is normal) Would I experience significantly better graphics with say a 1500USD setup?