Grimey Rick

Was just playing with the wife and a friend. We decided to quit for dinner after making our way from Berezino to the north-eastern airstrip. We ran to some pine trees in the field just south of the airstrip, waited for about a minute in-game, then logged out. Upon logging in an hour or so later, my character appeared just in front of the prison on the hill in plain view of basically everywhere. The first sounds I hear? The FNX popping off, followed by, "You are dead". Yeah. Fucking awesome. This isn't the first that this has happened either; it just happens to be the first time that I ended up taking bullets to the face because of this terrible system. I definitely waited long enough. We were there for at least a full minute. Fuck. I agree that we need a valid logout system to deter combat-loggers, but this is not it. I've seen negative feedback when the World of Warcraft logout system has been mentioned, but... why? Find somewhere safe, click exit, a countdown timer appears, after the [20] second countdown, your character is logged out where you fucking logged out. Not ten feet from where you logged out. Not a mile from where you logged out. But exactly where you logged out. Crazy, right? I'm posting a screenshot of this system from World of Warcraft that I just took in case there's some confusion:

YOU ARE DEAD FIX: 1) Exit game. 2) Launch game. 3) Make a new character (seems to have to be a different model than your current character). 4) Change in-game name to something different (bottom-right corner of the main screen). 5) Open server list. Choose a different server than the one you died on. 6) Cross fingers. 7) If it didn't work, try it again. I've had to do it more than once a couple of times.

ROFL

THE ACTUAL FIX: Launch game. Look in inventory for items that have flickering icons. Drop them and get as far away from them as possible. This has worked for both of my characters. The only downside is if you come into the vicinity of another bugged item. I did a test run through Cherno and Elektro with random FPS drops that I found were caused by running into the vicinity of another bugged item or player carrying a bugged item themselves. Predominantly bugged items: 1) Head Lamps 2) Weapon Attachments I'll add to the list as I encounter more. Cheers.

Hello, ladies and gentlemen. After messing around with the new patch this morning, I found a few new items that I couldn't resist adding to my outfit; they really make the character that I was going for, but couldn't quite seem to finalize. I'd like to present to you Walker, Texas Ranger (the African Canadian version)!

My headlamp is flickering in my inventory. It's in pristine condition, though. I didn't get a chance to toss it away before I froze last attempt. Now I have 228 seconds remaining before I can try again. I'm such an evil server-hopper!

This didn't work for me. On either of my characters. It made my attachments look grey, but that's about it. I still slowly lagged until my game froze.

I've noticed something kind of strange with the reported frames per second drops since the patch hit this morning. It seems that whenever I play my hardcore character, I slowly lose frames per second until my game locks up. Reportedly, this is due to a memory leak. However, when I play my regular character, the game runs fine. My hardcore character is currently logged somewhere in the vicinity of the north-western airfield, and my regular character is currently running around between Chernogorsk and Balota. I can run into Elektrozavodsk as well without this issue recurring. I'm currently making my to the north-western airfield with my regular character to see if the issue is isolated to that area. Is anyone else experiencing this?

I took a Mosin round square to the chest earlier from maybe 50 yards. Screen went grey, character grunted, I ran. When I was safe I check myself out. The only thing that was ruined was my red flanel shirt. It had two SKS quick loaders in the pockets. One was still pristine, the other was worn. Go figure.

Both of my characters lag now. I was able to run around with my cowboy this morning for almost two hours lag-free. But now he's lagging too. Woe is me.

Hell yeah! ;P Skip the machete, though. Worst weapon ever. I just kept it for aesthetic value.

I hope he lags like a bitch the entire time.

I don't begrudge them their weekends, I just wouldn't have dropped a patch on a Friday for this reason. Patch days are better off dropped at the beginning of the week as more people are working and at school, and the developers are, well, working. Now we have three days with no game. It's a bad day to be an addict. :T

Latest challenge: Survive the lag in post-patch DayZ.

When a Regular server has 3PP disabled, it shows up on the server list as Hardcore, even though it's not. It's pretty frustrating at times, especially now with the new server-hopping penalties. Oh well. Hopefully it gets addressed.

While I agree with you, the fact that they're leaving the game like this on a Friday is pretty bad.

Yeah, they're going to be looking into a potential memory leak on Monday. That's definitely what it seems like. I'm just wondering whether or not said memory leak is somehow tied to certain areas of the map.

fix't That's what me and my buddies say, anyway. xD

I didn't even notice that, hah. I'm not sure... I think it's just the default stubble that he spawned with. That'd be sweet though. An epic beard and a brown leather trench coat would complete my look. :3

Yep, same. :3 November '04, baby. Warsong US PVP! (And, erm, Medivh US PVE too... -_-)

This won't actually improve your frame rate. It'll decrease load times, but that's about it. I went from a 2TB W.D. Caviar Black HDD to a 240GB OCZ Vertex 3 and didn't notice any difference except the load times, as it should be. I agree with you about cities being very laggy, though. They have yet to be optimized, as far as I know.

Thank you for the advice. I will make sure I run at least five minutes at a full sprint before I next choose to log out near an airstrip.

Nah, still stuck at "Please wait..."