bad_mojo (DayZ)

I am fully aware of people feeling sick from motion on their screen. Shaking the screen is just about the most basic thing a video game could do to disorient a player. If you can't handle looking at a shaking screen on very rare occasions, a game like DayZ that tries to scare disorient and horrify the player using visual effects might not be suitable for you. If I had seizures every time I saw flashing lights, I wouldn't play video games that had flashing lights and suggest they remove the flashing. A colorblind friendly HUD removes nothing from the non-colorblind players in the game. If you can't realize how that is different than changing the shaking effect, then I feel sorry for you.

Tweaking the HUD to allow color blind people to use it better is not similar to changing a visual effect because people don't like looking at it. Fact is, that shaking effect was put in place entirely because it's unpleasant to look at for any extended period of time. I myself might even get a headache or feel sick after looking at it for too long, but I don't know yet because I don't like to put my character into a position where I don't have an ample supply of painkillers. If I found myself in a position where I had no pain killers and the shaking was becoming unbearable, I'd simply hit the respawn button. I wouldn't come on here and suggest the game be changed so I wouldn't get a headache or feel sick. People here are acting like having no painkillers and seeing the shaking is a huge important part of this game. It's not.

I didn't say I wanted DayZ to be made less tolerable. You're not reading my post correctly. I said changing the shaking/pain mechanic to what has been suggested in this thread would make DayZ more tolerable. The shaking is there to simulate discomfort, if it was toned down, that discomfort would become less apparent. As for the people who get motion sickness. Imagine your at the fair or an amusement park, if you walked up to the guy running the ride and asked him nicely if he could put the ride on the slowest setting, because my friend here gets sick on fast rides. What do you think would happen? Your asking for everyone to sacrifice immersion, for a relatively low number of people with disabilities. I don't agree with that logic. If you can't play video games without getting sick, maybe don't play video games? Some people can't go on boats without getting sick. Some people can't go on long car rides. Some people can't handle stress. We all just deal with the hand we're dealt. Saying stuff like "I don't think that a real life disadvantage or disability should play any part in whether anyone on this earth should be able to play DayZ." is extremely naive(or ignorant). What if my mentally retarded half cousin wanted to play DayZ but doesn't understand the zeds aren't friendly? Should we change the game for him?

This is a MOD, arma2 provides modding. Most games out today, do not. If you're going to condemn this game engine and suggest Rocket move to another, perhaps you'd be so kind as to point out which mod'able game he should take it to? There aren't many games that provide such a huge open sandbox environment for someone to build their game on top of. Second, I had the same problem you are having. Had a 2.8ghz quad core, 8800 ultra with 768mb, etc, etc. Trying to run it on 1920x1200 made it unplayable on all settings. And who wants to run it lower than what their monitor can handle. My fix? I built a new computer. I know that's not what you want to hear. If you do want to build a new PC or upgrade yours, I've been told CPU is the thing to focus on for Arma. You can have the best graphics card out there, but if your CPU is holding your system back, you'll never get a good frame rate.

Razor as an ultra-rare loot item, right click and select shave to blend in with the newly spawns.

There were about 4 other people agreeing with DC'ing having to go before this can happen. Guess YOU didn't notice that :) Anyway, I am glad to see some people sharing my opinion on this.

This^ Do you also wait until your surrounded by zeds to go find some bullets? And perhaps some people can be knocked out and broken leg from 1 zombie hit, but not me. I almost always get back to 12000 blood prior to battling anymore zeds. So fuck that, no excuses. If you can't handle the shakes, click respawn, you failed at surviving. I understand some people might become sick from watching the shaking, that sucks for you, but please don't remove a part of our game. Any suggested changes would make the shakes more tolerable, which I think is going the wrong way in the spirit of this game. Disagree all you want, this is my opinion on the subject.

What does everyone like my suggestion so much they're reposting it? LOL This is the second one today. http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=21316

I also suggested the same thing. http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=21316 Got pretty much the same BS story from people too, they think if people exploit glitches they should get the unrealistic kill confirmation. People will find anything to justify their own wants. Its sad really.

Just stand clear of the doors when using them. And walk down stairs. I've hurt myself from both, but made it a point to not shy away and just be smart about using them.

DC'ing is like pulling a gun on a school yard bully. The bully is just doing what bullies do. He killed you? In a video game....?!?!? No.....can't be. Pull the plug, somethings wrong here.

jelous

I believe you just create a new profile in the main menu of the game.

It's in bad taste, but to each his own. Logging out in the barracks is pretty douche'y thing to do in this game. You know you're going to log back in and find new loot, weather or not you do it 30 times or once.

I jam a pencil above the W and under the 2 key.

It's sad that this needs to be said on these forums. Two wrongs don't make a right. Example, someone hits alt-f4 to avoid being killed. They justify their dc'ing by saying people hack, server hop, or dc themselves. And the community dies a little inside. Why do people think their own actions are justified because other people are horrible? It's a vicious circle of bullshit ruining this community. -Shoot on sight because other people do it. -DC because people exploit glitches. -Dupe because a bug killed them earlier. -Server hop for loot because "someone else did it and cleared all the loot off my server". -DC to gain position in PVP because the other guys do it too. This shit is getting silly.

What makes this even worse is that people will just assume that stuff is happening to them. "If the loot is gone, it must be a server hopper." If someone has NVGs and other high end gear, they must be sniper bandits. If they're standing in the middle of a field and die suddenly...HAX! And crying on the forums about it constantly is getting old. We know it happens, the devs know it happens, you're not blowing the lid off a conspiracy to keep this all a secret. It's like freaking out at the blackjack table in Las Vegas, ranting about people counting cards. Speak to the manager if you have a specific complaint, but the rest of the customers don't want to listen to it. If you focus on the bad too much, it's hard to enjoy the good.

They aren't used for killing zombies? WHAT?!?!? You're doing it wrong.

I've heard ping bad can cause slower running in Arma. Also I think it depends if you have your primary or secondary weapon out.

You gotta watch out for PETA.

Come on guys, cut him some slack, I mean he seems like a HUGE asset to this community, he knows better than Rocket what stage of development this software is in. He seems to be the only one to notice some flaws/bugs in the mod. I don't think we can afford to lose this guy.

Yeah Joaby! You wouldn't to sound like yourself. @OP cry us a river about the bugs in this Alpha.