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Once again brilliant. You ought to be a team leader somewhere in this world - you have the coherence & drive, the gift, and the humanity (.. you ain't one is you?) xx

I agree 100% with the points made above. So: this is probably a stupid suggestion (scuse me guys) -- but have you turned off your antivirus live checks? or looked at your AV settings? Antivirus softs - if they are set to real-time-live-scan - will verify each file every time it is opened. Any file with a strange suffix is probably NOT ignored by default. This can cause hell to any game (= hundreds of small files used repeatedly) and can produce a burst effect as files are scanned before "release" (duh..check the tree, OK, check the bush, OK ..). Some AV settings may also scan files on closure. Big waste of time. I use antivirus on my ethernet connection in and out (interenet, other PCs) and run manual antivirus when I want to, and keep all "live protection" disabled. Or I turn it off completely when I'm playing and run a scan afterwards. Easy to test and might make a difference? xx

yes - IMO that's why OPs fifth video shows no hit - the one titled <<...and moments later...>> ? I wouldn't bank on shooting anything through a wire mesh fence * BUT as everyone knows - IRL if you shoot someone from 4-6 feet away with a shotgun, he WILL BE definitely seriously messed up. Even if he is totally bomb-proof-vested plus helmet and faceplate - the dude will not stay just standing up (and less penetration = more force transferred) ALSO the idea that you can't tell if you are on target when you pull the trigger ?.. with a shotgun ? .. nah.. With a revolver or rifle perhaps.. but a shotgun at close range? IRL you can TELL if you are pointing at the guy or not - it is extremely difficult to miss unless you do it on purpose. And - especially a sawed-off - IRL it is (lol) more important to make sure that you are standing Behind it, than exactly what you are pointing at in Front of it. OK there are hit box and lag difficulties, but in close-range combats the game should not encourage everyone to go for automatic weapons and spray-to-kill IMO The game would be more interesting to have more variation in close range weapons effectiveness. So maybe add a wider 'spread' to shotguns at short range, say just to 9-10m? (30 feet) only, or even less. At short range a one shot, body-hit, shotgun SHOULD be a winner over totally everything else. A player even uninjured by a shotgun blast should at least fall down. This is a difficult compromise between pure weapons realism and what actually happens in gameplay.. Gews is the reference on weapons realism, but I think (at close range) you also must take lag and hitbox parameters into account, as they are in the game ATM, to end up with a more "realistic" gameplay effect ?? ====== Note: Stevens 12g mod.77E shotgun <<With the United States Government's involvement in the Viet-Nam War early reports came back from the troops in the field asking for combat shotguns.>> Why ? Really, why did IRL on-the-ground combat troops want to exchange their M14 or M16 for a pump gun ? xx

tokkotay13 - Do you have 2 people with different Steam accounts on your PC ? I think sometimes this can make problems ??

I use tinypic.com - I size the pic before I upload it, then it comes out as I want it on the forum. If it's too big or too small, I resize the pic by x percent on my pc, send it up as a new pic, change the link on the forum and the pic shows x% larger or smaller as I want. This gives good control. Also it's rapid and easy through tinypic.com. I guess there are limits if the pic is "too large", but this method works if you want to fill say between 20% - 80% of the standard page width. I indent the link 4 or 5 spaces to center the image better (kind of) .. I guess image size is limited in the forum-frame to save upload time and avoid sliders on smaller screens? xx Still - good work and looks good as it is. Nice layout, and also if the images are not "too large" you don't loose the storyline. 0r try editing one pic to 1000 or 900 (about 70%?) see what happens. [edit: I've got 1920 resolution here, but I see the same thing as you - and same happens to me - so I assume it is a set forum parameter, - ie the forum has a fixed width; If you mess around with resizing you can "fill the screen" ]

Nice perhaps pics 'could' be a little larger but the layout an storyline both good, probably optimum. looks great. Good tale! beenz and beerz (human beenz) xx

I was brought up in that town < sob > Look what they did to my granny's house... look what they did to her chickens ' aint no respek no more good to see a local boy standing up to fight in the 'hood xx

set the tv image settings back to "factory settings" make syre the PC graphics card settings and windows Desktop are all standard too, in case you altered color, alpha or something else. it's hard to see much from your screenshots, but normally its wont be a PC problem, just a settings prob or maybe a nogood TV.

IMO try setting the resolution of your graphics card to the same as the natural resolution of the screen - for your screen's natural resolution" you have to check the manual that came with it, or check that make/type on the web - you find for instance 1920x1080 (or whatever) - then to set your graphics in windows resolution, I guess you know how to do that - for instance in windows 7 do it in - Control Panel / Display / screen resolution while you're there, check that you haven't set your refresh frequency to something your screen can't deal with. Doing that stuff should work the same for a PC screen or for a modern TVset screen. If you use a TV, read the manual see what it says about PCs. Follow their advice. If you think it's a problem with your TV (maybe its a not-very-hot TV?), try connecting a PC screen to your PC and check that it is ok. Borrow one for an hour. I'd be surprised if it is a fault in the PC. I haven't tried plugging a PC in to a TV recently. I don't use TV for anything anymore. So I'd blame the TV. Myself, I've never seen anyone who had a very good image for reading computer TEXT on their TV. The few I've seen always looked fairly lousy. - But a good modern HD TV is 'supposed' to be same-tech same-standard as PC screens ..er.. right people ? xx

Please - Which server hosts the finals of the 1pp Truck Racing ?

OK this is what you do: 1 ) Don't buy the game 2 ) WAIT till it comes out as a full price FINISHED PRODUCT 3 ) Say " Oh WOW a NEW GAME!" 4 ) Buy it xx - If you already bought the game OK this is what you do: 1 ) Hide it away and don't play it 2 ) Wait till it comes out as a FINISHED PRODUCT 3 ) Say " Oh WOW a NEW GAME! " I must get that ! 4 ) Give it to yourself as a present. 5 ) Say "WOW, dude, thank you." 6 ) You just made a friend AND saved yourself some money. xx

Nice - very nice ! damned cannibals xx

Can other playes hear this crying ? that would be nice

^ not astonishing - the same people voted again as last time

Yes, I understand your point ..; but you decide to log in to in a post-apocalypse death-disease-wreckage-war survivor situation with rabid zombies and starving desperate people trying to stay an inch in front of their own horrible death in the ruins of a totally collapsed civilisation so unless you can convince them to be decent human beings again - you might expect people you meet to be.. perhaps "not very nice"

^ Yes BioHaze very true it was the hackers killed the Mod for me; it ended up there was just no way you could actually play it anymore. Also as Jexter says, when the Mod came out it was a completely new different game with a new feeling, so no one can bring that back it didn't matter much how 'crazy' or messy it was - just being in the game was geat at that time - it was groundbreaking. Then to make the SA they had to start fresh, even just to deal with the hacker opportunities built in to ArmA and the Mod. so now IMO - the SA does not want to become a kind of minecraft where you combine 5 objects to make one object, and combine 2 of these to make another of those, etc etc (as Synystr says) - it does not want to become a CoD on a large map where you log in to PvP, so "gearing-up" is a pain in the neck (or just part of the PvP); there are better 100% PvP games if you want only fast action. So it definitely needs a big zombie threat - maybe a combination of not-very-smart "almost -Mod-style" zombies to make up some numbers PLUS some more interesting and dangerous better AI zombs to increase risk and danger - that combination could keep down the processing power needed, and also populate the map with a good number of interesting zombies ? Also the game definitely needs plenty of loot-searching and survival aspects. But making complex equipment or survival gear should not be totally 'unavoidable' - just "useful" - Then if you want to get into 'complex' survival - you can do, but you don't need to, and if you want to go looking for PvP you can do, but you don't need to.. and bothways the zombies will be around to mess you up sooner or later. For me, one big interest of the Mod was how unexpected the incidents and events were in any game session - you never knew what would happen next. This was the excitement and I guess this is the best balance to keep. - example : no one can say eg Minecraft OR CoD are full of "unexpected" events, they are both games you know exactly what gameplay to expect, that's why you log in. so orlok's: "a survival sim, leaning towards realism with added infected and the occasional PvP" seems right to me as the core of the game, so long as you can still go to one extreme or the other (if you try), and live in the woods or fight in the city, as you like. It's the mix of possibilities - and the mix of players - that makes the game exciting and iteresting. Encouraging cooperation is good (part of the original concept) but encouraging "team-play" with (what are in practice) CoD style teams on TS3 is sad/bad IMO. In fact that discourages in-game cooperation. Unfortunately, out-of-game comms are standard now, so there's not much to do about that?. Most ( ALL ) of recent games are weighted towards team and buddy play. IMO this is boring. This means weighted towards private servers, closed-team play, and reducing the possibility of "meeting" other players in the game.

OK This photo is (typically) a 'caption lead-in' to an article inside the paper; can anyone read the caption (anyone? ..<Whxbla's 'thxis' girl ?>) - guess I could clear it up if I went into it - but most probably the article it points to is either: " Africa gets Hip" - the London Fashion Week spring collection 2002 or: " Racial Adviser Blames Crime Rise on Black 'Moral Vacuum' " (lol) It's a standard technique with these newspapers to mix and match headlines and bylines with juxtaposed unrelated photos to give you a first "impression" something's going on that isn't. What do ya expect from journalism? - truth ? All the printed articles from the edition for Monday 18 February 2002, without photos or cross headers, are at: https://www.questia.com/library/p5729/the-evening-standard-london-england/i2888704/february-18-2002 So you can make your own choice of which text goes with the photo And if you a nerd enough you can chase back the byline name and the quoted names until you find the people or other leads further back, trademarks, etc and follow THEM and the photo will be there, eventually.. I have an idea this is a lady called Sally Story from Kwa-Zulu Natal, or one of her models, but it's a first guess.. ie she could also be PA to designer Marcus Lupfer (but not in his style, right, he's kinda TopShop ?) or a fashion student from Glasgow, for instance..Note: A 25 year old fashion designer from 2002 will be 40 these days (so probably even more interesting..hmm, kids). Pay me 3 days and I'll get you a good digital, pay me 14 days and I'll locate the original .raw or maybe the negative (wooooo... pro photographer 2002, a negative might exist, right? ); I'd also go for the fashion designer side because of the lady's stance, and undergrad design students were present at that fashion event, showing their ideas (partying) And doing 'design-studies' around London, year 2002 might later get you into graphics and games more easily than into Madonna's next tour-wardrobe. Maybe someone in BI should own up ? .. so who was studying fashion/art/design/graphics in London in 2002..? Glad to see you got out of that absolutely fabulous non-stop clubbing life and into a decent job (did ya mention it on your CV?) xx

[edit] Yes - I verified that the OP image shows the front page from the printed edition of the London Evening Standard of Monday 18 February 2002 Interesting that this reached chernarus. While I researched the origin of this image I discovered another possibly amusing London Evening Standard article related to bananas: - quote: London Evening Standard Nov 26 2013: << Researchers who questioned more than 15,000 adults aged 16 to 74 found that for a large proportion sex is now an almost lifelong activity ..//.. Teaching a teenager to put a condom on a banana is no bad thing >> xx [ http://www.thepaperboy.com archives only go back to 2011 but if you want a good link to daily rubbish this is it ] This is possibly famous editor Max Hasting's last front page before his 2002 retirement and knighthood ? The London Evening Standard newpaper is owned by Russian businessman and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev and his son.

This thread is about how to encourage 3pp players to join the 1pp players, so they have an opportunity to find out how much fun it is. We live with a world mass gaming market, to say 3pp players are "casual" is really old fashioned. This is a consumer democracy, not a dictatorship. You can't force people to play a video game when they do not want to. How can we encourage players into 1pp? Insulting 3pp play because the "spirit father" set a Law saying 1pp players are "better" than 3pp players is not going to work - it will not bring more players into 1pp. IRL the fundamentalists and the national front use similar "personal superiority"arguments but remain a tiny minority. So how to attract the 94% players who are 3pp to try out with the 6% who are "hardcore" 1pp? This is a problem Hicks is trying to figure out - and he is not a naive, inexperienced person in DayZ. I guess he has some knowledge of the economics, the game dynamics, the possibilities, the technical and emotional aspects of gameplay - right? I think if 1pp players were more fun to be with, more 3pp players would be interested to join their servers. So far on these forums, players like Tatanko are the best ad. for 1pp play I have seen. So what can you 1pp guys do to attract players to your servers? xx

yeah the rock was flat and had pages in it : The writing was all - flat and 2d, dificult to describe, is that 2dd or p2d or pp2? - or what you call it ? For some reason I get the most IMMERSION out of reading this flat 2d stuff.. emuthreat explains it's impossible I must be really sick he talks like an AI he's fun to read - it's like getting sick from eating pizzas I'm getting immersion from the wrong stuff But still fighting it - I'm not getting sucked into Minecraft because everyone in there got Total Immersion and they didn't come back. I think some of my friends got 2pp Immersion in there, and some got 1pp or 3pp Immersion but no one came back anyway. DayZ would be more realistic if when you got killed - You Are Dead - and you can not play again ever. xx yo B4GEL I like the cave painting of the guy holding a banana is that you bro?

Hey dudes.. Lets all go over to the Minecraft forum and have this argument about 2-door and 4-door over there - oops sorry, I mean about 1-PP and c3-p0 The Ghillie dudes are all gonna go nuts if they can't take photos of themselves. xx love ya all

I found this on a bit of rock while I was digging in the garden to catch food :

OK thee are "not your opinions" I understand - they are (lol) "facts" Can you fit these "facts "is into games like - say - Minecraft and Chess.... so I can uderstand why the hell 1pp is more IMMERSIVE than 3pp..... In "FACT" 3pp is MORE IMMERSIVE than 1pp and always HAS been an it is JUST exactly as fair... and the HISTORY of the WORLD proves this, and ALL games prove this. And that's a Scientific Fact. Why do you think the USArmy is flying DRONES instead of using human pilots ??? (because it's an exploit? ...) please choose the banana, folks Soon there wont BE any "official" servers anyway :) xx

Ok I understand now Doom3 had 3pp so Rust is more of a Doom-like than Doom but DayZ has 3pp so it's less ? - well I didn't vote but it would have been for the banana is the end of the thread soon ?

(sorry B4GEL, I chose the banana) Ahh, so that's why Doom3 had no 3pp view - I always wondered - I thought it was just easier to program.