Grimey Rick

ONLY eleven times in five and a half years? Jesus dude, you were knocked out twice per year. I've taken jiu-jitsu since I was in first grade (29 now) and while it's not a striking martial art, I follow it and other martial arts very closely and am a huge fan of MMA. Are you talking actual knockouts, or technical knockouts? If I was knocked out that often, I'd be taking a long break. >.>

Thanks for the detailed explanation that the more processes a server is handling, the more lag is created. I hadn't realized that. /sarcasm The point of the thread is that they weren't like this before. This is new within the last few days. I was asking if anyone else had noticed this, not looking for someone to tell me "dat da moar kinnektinz on a servar teh mor lagz!!". I think we all know by the time we hit junior high how bandwidth works.

Do you treat players depending on what clothes they wear? No, I don't treat anyone but my wife. (:

Unfounded, ignorant comment. The servers never used to lag like this. They're borderline unplayable now, and it seems to be hit and miss. Sometimes they're "fine", other times the same server seems to take 30+ seconds to process you trying to eat food.

Sarcasm > rage +1

My hardcore character has been alive for a long time now. I dunno how long, but I can't remember the last time I died. It's gotta be encroaching on a couple of months. She's still sporting the pre-patch gas mask/ballistic helmet combo that so many people love to hate. I've been skulking around NWAF sniping people tonight, and for the first time in a long time, I've been paranoid as hell. I feel like every pine tree I use for cover has someone in it. I feel every bush I duck behind leaves me completely exposed. I feel like I have a massive, glowing aura emanating from me as I sneak about. So far tonight I've got three kills. I don't need anything, I'm hunting purely for sport; I don't even loot their bodies. But I gotta say, I'm super freaked out. What's wrong with me? I'm not normally like this, lol. :3

Care to elaborate? Hunting at airfields is great fun. It's not like I'm out killing fresh spawns on the coast. I know the odds of someone being everywhere I go are very slight. I generally don't feel like this. I PVP very aggressively and without pause most of the time. But for some reason, I really don't want my hardcore character to die. She's been alive for so long. I don't care about her gear, I can replace that. There's just a little bit of sentimental value at this point.

The M68 and RV1 red dots are garbage in my opinion. If I can't find a BUIS I don't use anything. For me: BUIS > no attachment > red dots. Obviously the ACOG is a necessity for mid-range shots. I keep one in my bag at all times.

Okay, so I went to play DayZ Epoch tonight, and I keep getting error messages when trying to connect: I haven't changed any settings at all in my DayZCommander. It's always worked fine. I did notice, however, that my Arma 2 version seems to be newer than the "current release". Mine is v1.63, and the "current release" is 1.62. Is this what's causing the issue? I am confused. This was a pain in the ass to get working after my last format, and I don't want to go through all of the possible problems all over again. I just want it to work. I am attaching pictures of all of my DayZCommander settings below: Any help sorting this out would be greatly appreciated. EDIT: This is the error message I get when I choose to update the Arma 2 version in DayZCommander:

You can drop the piece of clothing containing the glitched item and put it back on. That'll fix it.

I killed a guy from a skyscraper in Chapaevsk as he was running into the western-most barracks the other day! 850m or so... *** WARNING! MY E-PEEN IS GETTING DANGEROUSLY BIG ***

Just my pristine can opener.

I actually just did some testing with a buddy of mine who has a server, and it seems that the first person to connect to a server as it is restarting has to wait a ridiculously long time to connect. We restarted it four times just to be sure (relax, there was no one playing on it). On the first and third attempt I connected first and had to wait a good sixty seconds to connect. The second and fourth times I let my buddy connect first, and he had to wait a minute or so before he could get in. I connected right after he said he was connecting both times and got right in. TL;DR: Don't be the first person to connect to a server that's just restarted.

The server reset, I didn't ghost them...

Hey, can I borrow your LRS? (;

Sometimes when I hold my hand over my PC to channel any negative emotions away from it my bandwidth increases, too.

Everyone dies in DayZ. There's a very low skill ceiling to combat in this game, as well. Once you've memorized the towns and popular sniping areas it becomes rinse and repeat gameplay. Other FPS games have a much higher skill ceiling as they focus more on reaction time and aim rather than environment. DayZ would rather focus on clunky, "realistic" (lol) movement and spatial awareness combined with forced mouse acceleration. Also, that guy was blatantly peeking through walls... 0 credibility. If you call that skill, you must LOVE watching videos of people using third party cheats!

Has KOS stopped in the Mod?

You must be referring to the Sporter. ;3 The M4 is DayZ's BFG.

I've been hearing a lot of talk of future optimization that's potentially coming to DayZ:SA. I certainly hope we see that, as it's common knowledge that ARMA in general suffers from excruciating misuse of CPU and GPU resources. For myself, I've always tried to keep on top of my hardware to provide close to, if not the best experience possible. I can't stand sitting down to play a game and having to tinker with the settings for an hour before delving into its content. I want to be wowed when I play a game, even if graphics aren't the game's selling feature. Thus, it's unfortunate for me that I've become a die-hard ARMA and DayZ fan. DayZ:SA has the potential to be really stunning: it's got great landscapes, the sun rays are starting to look beautiful, and the character models are coming along nicely. There is no doubt in my mind that when this game launches, it'll look really good; I just hope it doesn't only look good in still screenshots. I don't have the best computer on the block, but it handles itself quite well. I'm running the latest games like BF4 on Ultra and never dropping below 150 FPS. Tomb Raider is eye candy à la max. Don't even get me started on Titanfall... whenever I play it I revel in its buttery-smooth goodness as it drops some of the sexiest visuals I've seen so far. When I launch Titanfall it makes me want to immediately go romance the wife. ;3 But then I launch ARMA 2, ARMA 3, DayZ:Mod or DayZ:SA and my computer feels like a mighty tiger, the alpha of natural feline predators... trying to thread a needle. For me and many others out there, we need that eye candy delivered at a respectable frame rate to be able to fully appreciate a game. Games have evolved so much in the last twenty years that delivering an amazing game without amazing performance and visuals just doesn't cut it anymore. Graphics wise, even the simplest of titles (think Frozen Synapse) deliver satisfying visuals. It's necessary. I just hope Bohemia Interactive has hired NASA-trained, genetically modified programming ninjas in order to pull it off. So I pose to you two questions, fellow gamers: Does the Real Virtuality engine have what it takes to satiate our hunger? Will we ever get amazing performance on an engine that only really uses a single thread of our processor and not even 50% (in most cases) of our graphics cards? Are you satisfied with 40 FPS? Can you get by with 20? Or do you require 60+ FPS at all times?I'm very interested to hear from you all on this!

You only made one mistake: you forget to make him watch you bang Carl before killing him.

I would've kneecapped him and then teabagged him. You're too nice, Aradia.

This. Let a zed hit you.