CJFlint

OH Crap! already, I was hopping I would have a few more patchs....dam it all anyways.....welll guess its time to craft a leather vest that only has 10 slots vs the high caps 12.....lol I needed the extra can storage...... Its not that bad. I only played 3 sessions so far in the new patch, dam near have the gear I had when I left off in .52. Its not that bad....hey there's apples, and cans of bacon in every house lol

Well its not a bad idea you have. I think for some what solo players to have a place like that, would be good. A drop site like your saying. But trusted circle of players. Persistent I think when it gets better longer last, it would happen regularly. From what I understand now it works but its kind of wish washy so prob best not to try to store valuable items.In fact right now I'm considering using persistent servers to temporarily store items as well as having a improvised backpack, because I gathering peices to make a ghillie suit. At the minimum I want to use improvised back pack which can be taken apart while equipped with the suit. I also was considering leaving a hunters pack stashed maybe that I can put on every Tuesday night that has a limited amount of supplies. But is it really worth it? I guess I will find out. Last patch I did have a build like that, but did not to test some methods out so this patch I will. I wouldn't mind experimenting with persistents a little more. I am definitely slowly getting into using persistent, only less valuable items.

What you mention is kind of possible now, but will be even more possible when persistents is more a permanent thing that doesn't reset every wens. I'm sure of that. Players are already getting into trading. Another reason I like currently playing in lose groups now, is just the state of the game right now. Its still very much in development. There's many players that really only play a couple weeks after a patch release then are no longer that active til the next patch. So its kind of wish washy. To me there's no need for a huge group commitment yet. Although there's some clans that play multiple games together. I for one don't blame people for not playing all the time and taking breaks. Lets face it its a corky alpha. Some get frustrated by that, I say simply except it alpha and take a break.So I think lose more laid back groups are really just better in day z even more so that its alpha. To me being at times lone wolf player, makes it even better. I self contained I can take care of my self. I like the immersion and enjoy the challenge. I enjoy the freedom of it. Once I learned the map I am completely fine, one my own high pops, low pops what ever. There's places you go and don't go. You will never see me running through electro on a high pop, shooting into it from long range....yes possibly. I basically live in the wood solo. Really for me I like TS for the company and mind meeting up with people, but what I hate is being sucked into a train wreck. Its all good though.

Your right, polished zombies and hoards of them could vary well change the way we approach the game. I think vehicles were only seeing the beginning of. There is now a prison island, which is def a hint boats will be put in possibly. The have stated late in there will be aircraft. The vary reason people play could change sure. I think when it hits beta we will probably have a cleat more clear idea of what its going to be like. One thing I have noticed is many who play, play just after patches then stop til next experimental hits or patch. That's just an observation. But once it becomes more complete it will be interesting to see how every one adapts. I hope it allows for many different play styles. I pro game freedom. One thing I know for sure we have ARMA 2 & 3 hard military simulators. If I want hard military simulation I will play. There great for what they do, but DayZ is different right? DayZ I think should set it self apart as a apocalyptic survival simulation, were pvp is just one aspect were survival plays a huge role.

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I want to see immersion and realism. I am primarily a lone wolf players, but I it is pretty common for me to run both ways. I find I don't like super organized groups in dayz I learned this over time. This game is all about freedom. Other games I enjoyed organized groups, not at all in day z. I am just being honest. The post apocalypse is about chaos, this is a game that simulates that. Why in the fuck do I wanna be told how to play by someone or criticized in a game were there really is no right or wrong way to play. There is nothing that drives me away quicker then video game politics. If anything I want a laid back group, if anything or just run lone wolf. I don't want to see day z turn into a pvp exclusively were your expected to play grouped game. Fuck that shit. I like playing lone wolf and really play in groups for the company. I don't want to have to be required to play in a group. Immersion, realism and survival. The rest is up to the player or player group to decide how they want to play. Complete freedom When I say survival, pvp is lumped in with that. Oh and really dam gritty too, I want to see hobo beards, and those citys need to be way more run down...

I have been playing .53 allot on lower ping servers. I have not noticed anything different about them this patch. There the same half hazard broken ass meth head zombies as before. I just kill them asap. No problems yet, at least not any new ones lol Is there more issues really? What's new? LOL

I think that the most crudest parts of the Sa now are the zombies and a close second trucks. I'm almost 100% sure it will not be like that forever, there working on it. In the meantime I guess we have adapt to the acceptable level of bugs during development and know what look out for. My policy with zombies is to deal with them as quickly as possible, unless I am certain I can out run them. Smart players know when theres zombies agroed theres a player near by. I prefer to axe them, I normally circle them to the left and hit them, normally a one hit deal with the fire axe. Ice axe axe is a pretty BA weapon to use against them too I noticed. I don't like shooting them some of the time because it just agros more. NWAF is one of the worst places to agro zombies. Seems like they come out of the woodwork there. To me there a pain in the ass pests, but make good target practice I guess. Nothing more that I hate then to be in my inventory screen, have one come out of the either and start hitting me. By the time its over some of your gear is damaged or ruined. Its annoying. So one must keep there guard up in areas were they lurk. They also go through walls and you know the rest. So lure them out in the open and kill them quickly I say if you hear them skawking. Don't wait just kill the asap, once there agroed they ain't going away. I noticed killing them out in the open is far more ideal then having the chase you into a narrow hall way or something like that.

That would be Fed up lol...ha ha Imagine all the food you would have to consume

If you wanna be healthy you have to have both the hydrated bar and the energized bar to bright green. It will then go to healing then to healthy. It takes allot of food and drink to get it, but once you do it becomes easy to maintain. As a fresh spawn it can take a while, your avatar will become stuffed before healthy. I norm will try to get it in moderation, avoiding being stuffed if I can help it. Its def one of my 1st goals spawning in. Being badly injured or sick....it takes a long time to get back to healthy status from what I have seen. Were talking grey screen with broken limbs or seriously sick. I noticed playing some players don't care about there avatars health. I think its really important if you intend to survive for a long period. It also means you can take more hits before you go down.

I am sorry to say I am noticing the same thing. It seems to be off by 90 degrees. Seems to be more of an issue in .53. Although once I figure what direction I really am going in I still can use it some what. It seems to be consistent in which way it points at least. In .52 it seemed hit or miss if it would work or not, now its almost always not working. But theres bug reports filed, they know about it, so at some point it will be fixed.

The survival mechanics are def getting there. Pretty cool. I still need to make my self the new leather vest. Currently Im trying to get as used to living off the land as posible, or it least knowing how the mechanics work. Becuase I have a feeling at some point maybe food will become more scarce same with all loot. We will see though. I know loot drops at some point there going to adjust. Then DayZ really will be a survival sim even for more exp players, less off the COD get geared up to die type of play. But who knows really, wait and see, so far so good. I like the idea of having a new way to start fires, used flints or sticks.

Ohhh the Toyota pick ups last so long, sorry to here that yours finally died. Top Gear had a ep were they tried every thing to kill a old toyota truck, they finally droped it off a building, that killed it. The thing kept running through some pretty serous abuse, but the drop off a building killed it.

Im still yet to climb that tower......So freak n high :o

In RL they come in stacks. I think maybe its a balance thing not really sure why they do it that way. Soon I want to see the crafting of sand bags too and craft a bullit prof structure.

I think we are mis understanding each other. " as even desync or not being able to use hotkeys is in no way connected to the frames", I said were caused by server realated issues. To me anyways. I could be completly wrong. That is what causes it, what is the real cause of that? As far as what I said about FPS, I should have included refresh rates when talking about video games its major and thank you for sharing that video.

I did not say ping did effect frame rates, for me it dosn't. But its does for me cause, droped frames or glitches that seem like droped frames, dsync and other issues like not being able to use hot keys. Im pretty sure anyways, sure seems that way. Becuase most issues I have seen were on high ping servers...Its seems like since I have. Or is it something else, like bandwidth? Most issues I have seen in Dayz seem to happen server to server. Some servers are good some are not. For me 60 fps is plenty. I will watch the video. I sure games prob do need a higher FPS then standard video.

Ok can someone exlpain to me why I have a 2 1/2 year old CPU with SLI GTX 570s (Old) and my game runs fine? Anyone? Its becuase I check server ping and I only play on 70 ping and below servers. Pref 40, to 50. You can have the most beefed up pc in the world, but if you got bad connection the game will run like shit. It has more to do with what server your playing on then your graghics cards. Also there is a crap ton of mis consteptions on the this thread. We are all aware that sandard TV and movies are in 24, 25, and 30 fps. In fact most movies that are at 59 fps are dup framed. Right? So if your getting over say 30 fps your not doing that bad. 60 your doing awsome. 120, lol your brain isn't going to be able to notice is so fast. My god people.....spoiled kids lol. I would say anything past 60 fps your brain prob can not process other then it appears smoother. We only have human eyes which cannot pick things up so quickly anyways lol Maybe if you were an owl you would notice 120 fps. I keep hearing this 120 fps lol I am a video guy, that is number a really over done retarded fast number, a bench mark you will never notice. In fact the highest I work on is 59 fps. I have seen the new 4k TVs, there great. Thats probably pushing the vary limits of your eyes. Your just not going to be able to process anymore.

For me dayz really only gets frame drops in citys like Novo. Also much of the glitchyness players have more to do with server ping then the game it self. If your say from the UK and play on US servers with high ping, your prob going to see issues. Zombies hitting from 10 feets away, dsync, droped frames, death bugs ect ect. Much of the time issues are server problems. I try to play on servers with less then 70 ping, I find it helps a great deal. I hear people on the Forums complaining time and time again about things that are server related not game related all the time on here. They blame the game, when its not really what the issue is. Much of it is just the fact that there playing on a bad server. Once you see the dsync, weird droped frames, strange zombie behavor get off that server and play on another one. Consider beefing up your internet connection not just your CPU. When persistants started in this game, I had a 2 week period were I was having major issues with dayz out of no were. Sometimes the game worked fine, sometimes it was really glitchy. I figured out by reading and talking to people it had allot to do with ping, and connection issues. It can cause really bad problems while playing. Not shit n ya! Simply by checking the ping before logging in helps great deal, the lower the better.

I figured out what works well for me, and I pretty much do the same thing every time now. 1st thing I do is put together a basic kit. Knife, matches, compass (broken), stone knife, 1st aid, food, canteens, fire arm + ammo and axe. This take me about 20 min to an hour. By having these items, I can survive for a long time. Having a fire arm, axe, matches, gives me the abilty to hunt and cook the meat. Which means I dont really have to worry about going into towns or worry if theres no food spawning. Also there are apple trees and berrys. Farming, fishing and even digging for worms. So that basic kit, is important. The reason I say this is becuase even if they lowered, having a good basic kit, there you would still be able to survive just fine. After I get the basic kit, then I go for higher end loot, military items or rare items. I norm have a idea of what I want to do and go after it. I am not a helicopter hunter, I already played with the M4 and got board with it back when they a common. This process takes a couple days, give or take. Once I hit a certain point I stop looting. I am not greedy, I get what I need I do not hoard. The reason is endless looting gets me killed. So I just get enough to have a good kit. Its pvp and surviving after that. But low loot counts do not worry me, there plenty of natural resources in game to survive. You just have to work to get it thats all. I will still travel the map, maybe even more so if loot counts were loots. Maybe my reasons for it would be different.

You sly old dog you....hmmm. This brings up an important question. What if you use the canteen to fill a truck up with gas, can you ever use the canteen again for water use or is it forever tainted?

mu shu pork is awesome! That sauce...alone and those flap jacks filled with goodness!

They def had ships and boats in arma 2. I can see it happening here too and hope it does. Its probably going to take some time. Because even though it is the same engine as ARMA 2, they are apparently redoing vehicle mechanics. So we will see. I predict the finished product will have it, the question is when. I really would like to see it and a few more islands too.

I asked a simple question...you don't have to bring up you x girlfriend that I stole...lets keep it day z...em k And what it gods name is a padwand? Your driving to drink heavily! But yes I will brave those waters then.....When are they going to put rafts in this game

Interesting. You have to swim there? If you do do you lose items like in arma 2, or do you just get wet?