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You know it's a quality OP when 20% of what they say is "shut the fuck up."

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Is there any other game out there that comes even close to several hundred characters on the screen at once without performance issues? My guess is we won't see more than 40-50 Zed's in a horde at a time. Even with a strong performance foundation, I just don't think it's possible to expect hundreds upon hundreds of Zed's with today's technology. I do, however, think that 60+ players per server is a very real possibility, along with the good majority of the other things you mentioned.

Ecky, ecky, ecky, ecky, p'kang, zoo-boing.

Oh, hey, look. The OP posted a picture of himself, and a guy just happens to be spreading his legs.

Eventually, I'm assuming the zombies will grow exponentially in numbers, probably around the same time they no longer have the ability to walk through walls. I imagine when this happens, we'll all be faced with situations similar to this - You're a fresh spawn. You look around, and you gather that you're about 5 minutes from a major town. You sprint to the outskirts of the town, and you start hearing the sound of zombies. You crouch down and move toward the sound, and it gets gradually louder and louder. Soon it sounds like a goddamned jet engine...how the hell can zombies get that loud? You turn a corner, and you see it...or rather, you see them. 45 zombies 3 rows deep are surrounding a house in which a single bambi is trapped (and because he/she is a new spawn, can't log out). You haven't been spotted - yet, which means you have a choice. What will you do? A.) Try to get the attention of the zombies and draw enough away from the house to allow for his/her escape, saving the bambi's life. or... B.) Sneak your way through the town, hoping to avoid getting spotted and looting the houses that the trapped bambi no longer has access to. or... C.) Something else?

I can't separate video games from real life. I run around the city of San Francisco dressed in an orange raincoat, wearing army pants and carrying a Mosin with an unusable bayonet attached to the end, all the while looking for long range scopes and complaining about framerates. I want to be cool like the people here than can separate the two. How can I be cool like you?

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You're so cool.

And now, presenting the nominees for most difficult post to read because the OP decided to use dark grey for text color: This guy.

I've logged about 70 hours by now, and on multiple occasions throughout the day, I'll see something out in the world and have an instant DayZ knee-jerk reaction/inner monologue. Some examples are listed below. Real world action listed on the left, DayZ thought creeping into my head on the right. Feel free to add your own! I walk into a room and see two doors side by side --> Looting opportunity! Walk up to each door and wait for the "open door" notification. I see someone walking on the street with a wide, faded green backpack --> Ah, that one holds 30 slots. See someone who recently got off of a bike wearing a motorcycle helmet -> Obviously a newb.

In theory, as long as you're wiling to shell out $30 for each character/DayZ license, and you have multiple steam accounts, the two characters/config files should *not* interfere with each other. Oddly enough, I'm strongly considering doing this, too. I play with friends a couple times per week, and I want the freedom of playing on my own without the risk of killing off my "group" character. I'm willing to spend the extra $30 to do so. I mean, think about it. If you buy a PS4/XB1 game, you're spending $60 plus tax, right? This would be the same thing.