Grimey Rick

At the end of the day, you ran from someone in a video game.

Lol? Felt sorry about what? You're scary, man! /gasp

I'm server hopping right now. Not for loot, but to kill other players! If I see a bambi, I'll help him loot the airfield. If I see a gas mask or camouflage clothing... pew pew!

I don't think a sense of humor is what you think it is.

Yeah. When I bought my new video cards I was debating on buying a 4K monitor. I watched a friend of mine play DayZ on his rig with dual R9 290Xs and decided against it. Now Battlefield 4 is another story... I still might have to invest in one for that game. <3

Yeah, but I wasn't quick enough. She just told me I'm an asshole then went downstairs... TO COOK SUPPER!

The best part about 2160p in DayZ is that it looks no better than 1080p.

What if he was just camped in front of the door waiting for you to come in? You'd then know exactly where he was. You can't really justify looking through the wall like that unless you couldn't find him using legitimate means. Also, learn to wall peek properly. That was really awkward to watch.

Good stuff, looks legit.

I feel it's just a cheap way to make you work a little bit in order to improve your gun. Of course two plastic parts on your gun aren't going to affect things such as dispersion, but it's something for the player to do.

I'm a huge prick/cynic and even I can find it within the confines of my rotten heart to congratulate them on this milestone. C'mon guys. :3

Congratulations, but you weren't being a hero, you were just helping someone out. People running around chiming in about how heroic they are is ridiculous. Some days I help people out, some days I kill everyone I see. What does that make me? Should I see a shrink? As for the Elektro Peace Walk, watch the video CJ posted and check my reaction time. I was camping the stairs as Death was watching the window. The next thing I know, I was dead. In the video you can see I didn't even shoot. I was crouched there waiting intently, but never even saw who/what killed me. We were both connected to the server you were on with over 200ms of latency, so we were both fucked from the get-go. I killed four or five people from the window and watched them run ten or twenty feet before dying. It was fun, but that whole event was a laggy mess for me and death.

At the end of the day, zombies will never be a threat. Ever. We're not going to have State of Decay zombies in this game. We're going to be stuck with zombies that might stop running through walls, might hit a little harder, might run a little faster. Look at Breaking Point. It's on an updated version of RV and it still can't properly handle swarms of zombies. They teleport and glitch all over the place. The only way "realistic" zombies can ever be a threat in any video game is by their numbers. We're not going to have Screamers or Juggernauts, so individually, they'll never be threatening. If this zombie survival game was actually about surviving zombies and each player started with a particular skill they could apply to a community then we wouldn't be having these discussions. There wouldn't be so many rant threads about other players because we'd actually have a purpose and a common enemy. You'd still have your token assholes, but they'd be few and far between. This game has no consequences and no particular direction. The sandbox label only holds for so long. Who gives a damn about barricading areas and building bases when you're just building them to defend against other players?

"Heroes" in this game are a bunch of idealistic dimwits who run around "saving" new spawns that would more than likely kill said "heroes" if given an instant's breadth.

That's far too much thread necrophilia for my tastes.

If you're losing the game due to zombies, you're doing it wrong.

Also bullshit. I believe the 91 FPS running around up north as I get around that when I'm stalking NWAF, but you don't get 80 FPS in cities. I'm running almost the exact same rig with two 780 Ti CLASSIFIED cards (I usually just use one for DayZ because the SLI fix is garbage) and an i7 @ 5.2GHz, and the highest I've seen in a city is around 40, on both maximum and minimum settings. If you show me a screenshot, I'll rescind my claim of bullshit. :3

Fix the desync/lag. I'm tired of killing someone, then going unconscious five seconds later Implement a proper system to penalize server hoppers/ghosters. We don't want to wait 5+ minutes to play a game Fix the game so that it uses 100% of our hardware. I can run this game just as well on my laptop as my gaming rig Fix the walls so that we can't peek through them. Game-breaking bug hasn't been fixed since launch Fix the walls so that we can't crawl through them Fix .pbo exploiting Fix gamma exploiting Improve BattlEye so that cheaters are actually, y'know, penalized Remove 75% of the military loot in the game. There are plenty of ways to defend yourself in Chernarus+ without filling every military camp full of (supposedly rare) loot Remove third person perspective. It's stupid. If you disagree, you're stupid Increase peripheral vision in first person perspective Make me want to keep Post-Processing on. Currently it ruins the binoculars, long range scope, and iron sights. Why would I leave this on? And when I turn it off, I lose the ability to tell how healthy I am

Razer Game Booster doesn't do shit. http://www.howtogeek.com/171734/benchmarked-will-a-game-booster-improve-your-pc-gaming-performance/ As far as him claiming 137 FPS in Elektrozavodsk... no. I'm suspicious he didn't just press "F12" and upload an actual screenshot. If someone isn't smart enough to know you can screenshot Steam titles with F12, I doubt they're smart enough to tweak their system to achieve 100+ FPS in one of the biggest, laggiest cities in DayZ. With my computer, I get around 25-40 FPS. I have every tweak out there enabled, my processor and video card(s) overclocked like a mother, with everything on maximum. If I turn everything to minimum, guess what? My FPS doesn't fluctuate, it stays the same. The whole issue is that DayZ uses maybe 20% of my video card(s) and 50% of one thread of my processor. The other threads never see more than 15-17% use.

ITT: People unattached from their gear.

For all intents and purposes, I kind of doubt we have any legitimate axe-murdering psychopaths on these forums. I think most people play however they feel at any given moment rather than adhering to a strict gaming policy. There are no consequences in this video game and we're intelligent enough to realize this, so we can take on the role of a delinquent and get away with it without having it affect our pscyhe.

I honestly think that the "pristine" condition should be removed, or at the very least toned down. "Worn" should be the pinnacle of loot's condition. 99% of everything this long after an apocalypse would already be used anyway. I actually have more fun when I find a "damaged" PU Scope and pick up a Mosin. It makes it harder to hit what you're trying to hit. You almost have to decide whether or not using it is a hindrance. That, to me, is representative of an apocalypse.

I don't know about anyone else, but I personally haven't touched a melee weapon since after the first day of the current patch. Two-handed melee weapons are too hard to hit glitchy, teleporting zombies in the head on a consistent basis. I also find that the damage is totally random: sometimes I'll kill a zombie in one shot to the head with a Firefighter Axe, sometimes it takes three. The same can be said about fists. I've killed zombies with one punch to the head from time to time. Usually though, it takes 3-5 punches to the head to kill a zombie. The only real reason I have for a melee weapon is when I'm a fresh spawn in need of a can opener. Strangely enough, the Splitting Axe will somehow open a can of food while only spilling ~20% of its contents. The Machete is also fairly efficient at opening canned food. However, once a can opener is acquired, I promptly drop the melee weapon. It's also nice not having to wait that extra second to put away your gun and then draw your melee weapon in the presence of a zombie/unsuspecting passerby. You can go straight from your gun to your fists very quickly, take care of business, and then switch back to your gun. On top of that, with the recently fixed mouse acceleration, it's much easier to consistently punch other players and zombies in the head. So, with all of that being said, does anyone else avoid melee weapons these days?

I agree with everything said here, I just find it funny how random the damage seems to be. Sometimes you'll kill a zombie in one hit to the head with your fists. Sometimes it'll take ten punches to the head. I agree with the comments pertaining to the Machete, too. If anything, I generally pick one up if I find one in pristine condition. It doubles as a can opener and more consistently kills zombies in one or two hits to the head. I've just never seen a zombie flick where people run around punching zombies in the head like it ain't no thang, that's all. Because alpha?

To think how many wars dumb shit like that has started... /mindfuck