Window Licker

As for the money, that goes to BIS and they decide how much goes to DayZ or something like that anyway, I like the ambiance running thru the woods and just hearing the bird's chirping, granted it ruined by zombie growls and the rest of those sound bug's, However when your running about and you hear the crack of a Mosin and mixed small arms fire, well that's a whole lot of what do I do now. Other then that perhaps try playing at night time, granted the gamma exploiters make it hard to enjoy but good lordy it has some tense moments particularly when your trying to sneak into a place to find a good gun. I feel your pain at having shitty frames, I got a $400 "gaming" PC and still haven't gotten around to switching out some of the parts, I'm gonna take a guess and say you have already modified you .cfg files to boost fps?

Aww I really wanted to see how many people went with that :(

Bloody better be random or I'm writing a strongly worded letter to Dean, hell I might even think about sending it.

I didn't write anything about residential or vehicles as they are (imo) too far in the future to be overly concerned with, but that's just me. Considering the time and effort that's going into this product and the "stupid" design decision as far as the deathmatch with zombies crowd goes I say he's on the right track and isn't going to ruin this project at the last minute.

In a slightly longer and more detailed fashion there is a few thing's that I would like to bring to your attention. While the optimization is a pain and as was pointed full optimization isn't done until it is about to hit beta, there was several things that where bought to the dev's attention about the way the GPU's are rendering the game, they also found the reason why cities where lagging. When I first started playing I experienced low frames in cities, I no longer have that issue and have been able to bump my gfx up a bit as well. The catch is that this is all on the experimental build, the experimental build is close to being pushed to stable and will be done once they fix the last bugs that are "stopping" them. There was a bit of an uproar when they pushed a buggy version to stable so now they are taking extra care to ensure it doesn't happen again. Custom maps won't happen until after they release. That's about all on that Deans from New Zealand so if you want to get on his good side you'll be serving your dick with Watties Tomato Sauce not ketchup. Bonus answer: no music makes the game more atmospheric imo, you could always just turn the radio or have winamp running in the background.

Good story, I like reading about adventures in DayZ breaks up the forums and shows that people are loving the game!!

I wouldn't say drastically, but it does need a nerf starting out is pretty simple and as stated the feeling of panic as you run trying to be careful at the same time knowing if you don't find something soon your boned, there's infected about and you might end up in a fight with them, there might be snipers or armed players about but you don't have much time you need food now. Had to beat 3 zombies to death with my bare hands once to get some food, your out of trouble right now, but you have to plan your next move. It's fun love it.

I'm all for this idea provided that we get our GOD DAMN BEARDS!!

I was going to come in here and say hey use the sporter .22 if you want to take forever to kill something. But due to this terrible habit of reading I concur that non-lethals would be fun I'm not really sure about their use in that "part of the world" the second concern would be the griefers, load up on non-lethal's and camp new spawns laughing as they crawl away with broken legs, the irony would be lost when someone shows up using real ammunition I feel. Currently the complaints about the materials and supplies required to repair broken legs are fairly low, and this could cause that to skyrocket.

Flaw in logic, no Flaw in implementation, probable due to the extra traffic from when you come online and having to communicate with a central DB to tell it where you are, find your friends and make a damn coffee for you. Flaw in money, probable BIS would lose out because players wouldn't have a great incentive to select a server, however you only said for clicking the play button and I would conclude that people would still be able to go to the serverlist. Over all it's a good idea but I rate it's chances of being implemented as rather low currently things might change tho. Edit: Based on something you clarified I now lower the chances, people wouldn't rent a server if they didn't connect to them by default, BIS would lose a lot of money.

*calmly cleaning Mosin* Okay that's just fine by me, I always have a plan B he he he

Indeed, but here's another one for you, in the walking dead series it's also a virus that is responsible it "kills" the infected person then reactivates some part of the brain, it's in season two, sorry I can't recall more details. Afaik Dean has said it's a rabies like infection, which would explain both the speed they move and the blind rage they exhibit. On a more personal note, I'd like to see things like newspaper articles, journal's and diaries from the time of the outbreak and even some more mundane ones a from people before any of this happened, I feel it would add immersion to the world. I can also understand the reluctance of the dev team to actually put solid dates etc around the event and where in time we are playing from there. This would result in more discussions and people getting upset about thing's like oh the grass is too short/long this item/object should be rusted out, this one should be in much better shape and the like. Personally I like to think that 3-6 weeks after the outbreak occurred I was a hand on a research vessel sent to anchor off the coast to examine the progression of the virus as it was the site of the initial outbreak. The attempts to combat the virus have failed on a large scale and it's becoming wide spread throughout the continent. While there are outpost of civilization the question has become how long do we need to survive before we can start rebuilding? infected where captured in containers that where then bought on board for close examination of the subjects. I don't know what happened exactly all I know it I was awoken by screaming I pulled my jeans on and walked out into the corridor, the screams where coming from a lower deck. I knew something wasn't right, people where sealing bulkheads and the order for general evacuation was given I turned to return for some warmer clothes but there was one already in the corridor I turned and ran, there was no other option some took exception to me shoving past them I can only assume they figured it out or became one of those things as well. The evacuation turned into chaos no-one wanted to be at risk getting infected people started shooting it was madness I had no choice and opted to leap, we where a distance from the shore but I knew my chances where better then if I stayed on board. Then I woke up somewhere randomly on the beach.

Maybe?

none taken, with the influx of new players there has been several misunderstanding's and a lot of people simply not looking in the right places, I enjoy this game a great deal and while it has a long way to go, I want everyone to have the best possible experience even if it's broken in some fairly interesting ways.

This is the third post I've seen on this today, granted this is a full transcript and well laid out. http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/180621-things-are-looking-good/ http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/180613-regarding-future-updates/

I'd also like to see loot threshold system in place where they will spawn according to the number of people on the server, while I understand that BIS get's the ongoing money to fund DayZ from rentals I would like to see steps taken like this to counter people just kicking everyone from their server and it would make server hopping less of a draw. From iBane's post that would be a bit difficult to pull off if I understand it correctly. Loot not respawning does not break the game and it is most certainly playable there is a guide in my sig that is very detailed and might help you out if your having trouble in that area, or you can PM me with a specific question and I'll do my best to answer it. I did a search and most of the topics on the subject degraded fairly quickly so maybe make a new one?

how about a shitty town? I could move to tulga and I wouldn't need to barricade or hide my stash backpack's.

But their food hasn't run out because I'm there and their menu just went from alright to outstanding. There is no real reason that they'd still be alive after an extended period of time, but there is also no official (actual official) time or date for the event or how much time has passed. It might have been last week that patient 0 bit someone, as was pointed out even in 28 days later they eventually starved to death and I doubt there is any "good" answer to why they are alive, what they eat or if they eat as we simply don't know when everything happened.

Maybe, The environment with them being infected, while still affected by it the changes caused by the infection allow them to ignore it, something like when you have your "beer jacket" on, it's cold but you feel it less. Food, they are eating the delicious survivors that unlucky enough to make poor decisions (read: firing a gun at night near a city) the human body also contains a large amount of water, but maybe they do drink at night or something, it's a pretty primal drive and I doubt they'd make the distinction between clean and dirty water. Maybe this could be a factor in determining where the roaming hordes go when they get implemented. Sleep, Lack of sleep causes insanity, those infected are clearly not able to be reasoned with I tried to chat up the blonde, when she tried to kiss me, I think she slipped and bit my neck open... several times. While we need to sleep I don't see any overly good reason for them to have to they have lost their minds and humanity. Edit: Dean has said "or so i heard from another reliable forum user" that he doesn't want a back story. If you are interested there is the DayZRP forums and I seem to find myself referring this to a bit, a user posted it and I'm gonna go scrounge about and see if I can't find it again, it was fan written but did a great job of covering events starting from day 0 / patient 0 Please note that when they say's "official" it's the official story and therefore the basis of all roleplay in that community. http://www.dayzrp.com/t-dayzrp-official-background-refined-edition

City Folk

This has got me pretty excited something to do after looting, anyone down for a hunting trip, I'm thinking black forest?

Yeah but it will be a change from what they are currently bitching about. Those fire's look sweet and the covered fireplace muhahaha ninja fire!!

Actually when standalone leave alpha state the price is going up, we get a large discount for investing and testing their product.

Yes I think they need a throw spaghetti button, but then it would be like reddit with trollish downvoting. As said above it's not an issue when you know where to look, on a life before I found a gun before I found food it's just a matter of practice/experience. Here's a tip, Don't use DayzDB for a loot map. Check every building all the time until you are 100% sure that a building doesn't spawn loot. Lately I've been seeing a tread where a building with say 5 spawn points, will only spawn in 2 of those at random so have a really good look around and again check building's untill you have a solid idea about what spawns in them.

Yeah remember when rain first started making you wet in addition to the text notifications the was an audible "ding" every time you got out of the rain. Was glad when they took that out.