JonEllisDee

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I'm against any kind of moral judgement of the actions of the players, specially in a game that takes place in an enviroment of anarchy, morality shouldn't be something to take into account, every player is a monster that tries to survive other monsters, it's the survival of the fittest in all its glory, it doesn't matter if what you do is 'right' or 'wrong', it only matters if you survive or not. No one should have advantages or disadvantages based on the morality of their actions (which is different for everyone), in my opinion one of the goals of this game and an ultimate success, would be making players to do things that they don't want to do. Players that kills on sight makes sense in this game, you shouldn't care about anyone else but yourself, your friends are not going to be there for long.

Personally I don't torture people, I play as lone wolf and if I have to kill someone I prefer to do it quickly and get the hell out of there. I think that 'propa torture' needs of a group to be fun, what's the point of me finding someone, restrain him/her and perform a rectal exploration with a zuchini if there's no one but the victim to share a laugh? Also, I think that some peeps are taking the issue too far, you can't do Guantanamo shit on DayZ, we call torture to force feed a rotten fruit, making someone drink desinfectant, break someones leg and make the call for Z's dinner, it is a role play thing and personally I don't have any problem with it, it adds a lot to the game in terms of immersion, in my opinion it is just another stress factor and this is a 'survival horror' game. Also, anyone that have played Skyrim have done worse things, any daedric quest is good example.

Best advice I could give is... play ArmA 3.

This is something that will be fixed when they implement DX10/11 and be able to render HDR night time, it will closer to how nights looks in ArmA 3.

Try going prone and vaulting close to the walls of the room, hopefully you'll find a sweet spot that you can go through, fall off the building and die.

It doesn't but you can force it to use ArmA 3 compatibilities bits via Nvidia Inspector.

Your edited images looks far more pleasant to me, I'm a sucker for that kind of ARs, I also like your edits your sky looks quite better. I usually try to do all of this via shaders avoiding any edit when it's possible, if not PS is always a good friend This is my setup for Dear Esther, wish I could make something like this with DayZ https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8121/8693040213_0df2130d6d_o.png https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8278/8699632408_c47b9cd326_o.png

Nice images and lovely aspect ratio,are you rendering using this AR or cropping the image?

Ermmmmm... Dark Souls 2 is not a good example of anything dude, it is PS3 port, a highly underdeveloped one, the textures resolution is lame, the enviroment art is terrible, you see blocky geometry everywhere, there are areas with so obvious texture tilling that makes you wonder if they had any kind of art leading in the project and we better don't start talking about its prehistoric shading. In a PC visual context, DS2 is one of the worse examples that could have picked up, technologically speaking, it is lame.

With so little information, I'm afraid we won't be able to provide any advise, 'Can't launch DayZ' is a quite vague description of the problem, also, we gotta guess your setup, we only know it's win 8.1 The best way of dealing with this is using the bug tracker http://feedback.dayzgame.com/ Read this first http://feedback.dayzgame.com/how-to-user.html

I think that devs disabled the use of the 'other profile' and the changes made at DayzProfile makes no effect. I was playing with a view distance of 3000 but the game is showing not more than 1000 at the moment.

Servers goes down for maintenance every wednesday from 7 AM to 10 AM GMT. Don't freak out, you won't see online servers for some hours.

In DayZ FXAA uses a sharp filter that makes the borders more noticeable, imo SMAA looks more precise but it is a matter of taste really, they perform almost the same, so testing and decide which you like best is all you have to care about, best way to notice the difference is over foliage. Messing with Control Panel is safe, if you make a mistake you can always load the default Nvidia profile clicking at the 'Restore' buttom at the right of the programs list.

Awesome man! I'm really glad that you figured it out, enjoy the game and see ya in Chernarus :)