LetLiveEverything

Soda has calories. Calories give energy. That's a pretty good reasoning for it. I can't say I've ever felt particularly satisfied when drinking a soda while hungry, but it does seem to impede the hunger from getting worse sometimes.

You mean the mushrooms? That's the only thing I can think of. They've always been there.Of course, I haven't played the game since the latest patch since I want to make sure they fix all the server issues.

I wish I could meet legitimate friendly players. Where are you when I play, seriously? All I ever get is people trying to instantly kill me, or people who think they are comedians and obnoxiously jump around me in their underwear telling me to kill them (Which one time i did. It was a stupid trap. And I mean STUUUPID. It went "Hey, hey, hey, kill me! Hey, kill me! Do it! Kill me!" *Kills* "HE'S A BANDIT! HE'S A BANDIT! SHOOT HIM NOW!!" And three guys came out of nowhere shooting at me. Yep, I'm clearly a bandit even though the guy begged me to kill him. Real "clever".) I also get people shouting incoherently at me and when I stand there doing NOTHING, they kill me. Seriously, some people are serious morons playing this game.

The zombies are still buggy, so there's really no real tips to give on combating them except trying to exploit their AI. I just continuously run around in a circle around them and hit them in the head. I rarely get hit. Doors stay open for quite awhile, so most of the loot may be gone, but if you're desperate for supplies it might be worth a look to see if they left anything behind. More than a few times I've found very useful stuff despite all the doors being open. And I do believe that loot resets when the server resets, however the map is big enough that traveling to different towns should provide you with enough loot for your play sessions.

I used the search function this time, so if there is another topic like this somewhere already, I apologize, but I would like to reset my character on purpose. However, is there a way to do so without waiting for someone or something to kill me? To me, starting completely fresh is the most fun part of this game right now. I love feeling a little bit helpless. However, I have never once experienced my character being reset. I always keep my stuff, and even if I change servers, I'm in the exact same spot with all my equipment. Sometimes, it gets a bit boring being fully equipped with not much else to do except look for people to kill, and since I don't want to be made out as a bandit, I'd rather avoid doing that. So is there a way to reset my character that I'm just not seeing? Something that doesn't involve changing my Steam name?

So far I've only played 28 hours of Standalone, and I've survived all of it. I've technically died 3 times, but I did that on my own so I could get the thrill of starting with nothing again. I'm hoping when more zombies are able to added and their AI is changed, the game will pose more of a challenge other than other players.

I think it allows you to talk to someone over a far distance if you change voicechat to the appropriate channel? I never found one myself to be honest, however if you already use something like Skype to voice chat with friends, there's little point in using it except for immersion.

It takes quite awhile. Just yesterday (after annoyingly being ambushed by a zombie a floor BELOW me), I was bleeding with a grey screen. It took a LOT of food and exploring to get to healthy and to get my color back. I'm sure the healing system will improve over time, like everything else about the game inevitably will, but for now eat until your character claims he is full, then drink some water until grey text says "healthy" or "healing" in the menu.

so, recently my graphic settings have been a bit weird. For the most part, they are fine. I have textures on high and most other settings on normal or low. However two options have been giving me a bit of a problem, as well as the AA option at times. For one, the ability to change Alpha to coverage has completely vanished. The menu drops down and only has the "off" option, both in game, and in the main menu. Second, my ambient occlusion keeps turning itself off. I can turn it on just fine, but everytime I leave the game and come back later, it's always turned off, and since I like ambient occlusion always on (as it doesn't effect my framerate AT ALL), it's a bit annoying to keep toggling it all the time. Finally, Anti aliasing doesn't not seem to make any difference, and it sometimes turns itself off as well. I know what AA does, it smooths out the edges of objects, but it doesn't make any difference at all, no matter how high I turn it up.

My votes were a little contradictory. I said kill on sight was wrong, but banditry was part of the game. Just because I feel something is wrong doesn't mean it isn't integral to the experience. I'm not a bandit myself. I'll either run from confrontation, or try to communicate before I take action, however I understand not everyone will play exactly like I do. Sometimes it would be nice if they did, but if everyone did I'd imagine survival games like this would be very boring.

I've heard somewhere that they can sometimes have weapons, but every time I go out of my way to visit one, I have always found nothing. Do they even have loot? Or maybe that was just in the mod version? Also, how many different guns are in the mod so far? I've only ever found a M4, but I see shotgun shells ALL the time.

To get a CPU capable of running DayZ, you'll need a new motherboard. Almost every generation of CPU uses a different Socket type. Assuming your motherboard was made around the time that the Athlon series came out, then you'll definitely need an upgrade. Considering all this, you'll almost need an entire system upgrade, and if you don't have a lot of PC knowledge, I'd recommend just buying a new PC. However, I'm not stupid. I understand that a whole new system for one game sounds like overkill, and I can agree. However a new system can go a very long way other than just allowing you to play one game.

I played the DayZ mod once or twice for about 15 minutes each. However I've played about 25 hours of DayZ Standalone, more than enough for now to get a good feel for the game. You'll find the environment a bit repetitive at times, not because it doesn't have variety, but because it tries to be realistically scaled. It's supposed to feel like open, massive countryside with small towns and cities scattered around it. The coast is filled with the most cities and towns in close proximity, while the forest and hill areas have towns spread further apart. Yes, right now most game interaction is player based, rather than zombies, which sounds odd for a zombie survival game, but it's more because of optimization limitations rather than bad design. Zombies are rather easy to deal with. Have a weapon, and run around them as you hit them in the head. The off chance you run into multiple zombies might be a bit more of a challenge though. After about 20 hours of play, you might find gameplay becoming repetitive as well, as there's little more to do than run around, find loot, and kill other players (or work together...to kill other players), though much more content is planned to be added within the next few months to a year.

Laptop upgrades are almost impossible, at least as far as graphics go. Unless your computer used an APU, you probably have integrated, which is permanently on the board. No offense to you, honestly, but I can't understand why people who plan on playing PC games think it's fine to just play them on standard laptops.