Death By Crowbar

They're really not that hard to deal with. For fun on a low pop server I went to Elektro, fired a shot in the air near the market, and with a garden hoe dispatched 6 of them and only got hit twice. You cannot ignore zombies, they're a more significant part of the game now, but in now way truly difficult or impossible. Also filter out any servers where you have a ping greater than 90. I'm facepalming at how many people are having trouble dealing with the zombie changes, they're not that bad. If the server I logged out on last night was high pop and I just auto log in the next morning, even with hardly anyone on the server I'm kept busy with the new zeds, it's rather nice. I don't have to server bounce to whatever is currently high pop to find fun and challenge. In summary: Strafe or circle the zombies, never fight them toe to toe. Aim directly for their center, of if they're moving slightly lead them. You can't just wildly swing in their general direction and expect to hit them anymore. Axes, Hoes, Pick Axes, etc still easily kill in 1-2 shots to the head, there's really no difference there. There are more hoppers now, and this is important because they behave differently and have some known navmesh/pathing issues and are less likely to respect doors, fences, etc. The zed respawns are important now, you're unlikely to find a town cleared out. Zeds are your friend - they're a great early warning system that other players are in the area if used properly. Have fun with the new navmesh stuff and lock them up behind doors, it's honestly a fun and easy way to deal with them. Don't think running upstairs in a 2-3 story building will help you - they'll come right up after you now... meaning unless you've got a ladder to retreat down or you plan to lock them behind doors running into buildings to escape zombies can be a poor choice.

So - about the zombie condition in DayZ... My understanding is that Rocket has stated that these zeds are the "infected" type and not the "undead" type. Thus I've been trying to hypothesize about the nature of their condition, ultimately in the hopes of finding a cure and averting the apocalypse. It would seem the DayZ "zed condition" has commonalities with the following diseases or medical conditions (ganked off Wikipedia):Rabies (/ˈreɪbiːz/; from Latin: rabies, "madness") is a viral disease that causes acute inflammation of the brain in humans and other warm-blooded animals.[1] The time period between contracting the disease and the start of symptoms is usually one to three months; however it can vary from less than one week to more than one year.[1] The time is dependent on the distance the virus must travel to reach the central nervous system.[2] Early symptoms may include fever and tingling at the site of exposure.[1] This is then followed by either violent movements, uncontrolled excitement, and fear of water or an inability to move parts of the body and confusion followed by loss of consciousness.[1] In both cases once symptoms appear it nearly always results in death.[1] ... this all makes sense and explains why they're so aggressive and don't seem to need to drink but will attack violently. Osteoporosis ("porous bones", from Greek: οστούν/ostoun meaning "bone" and πόρος/poros meaning "pore") is a progressive bone disease that is characterized by a decrease in bone mass and density which can lead to an increased risk of fracture. ... this explains why they die falling down hills so easily Tourette syndrome (also called Tourette's syndrome, Tourette's disorder, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, GTSor, more commonly, simply Tourette's or TS) is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by multiple physical (motor) tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic. These tics characteristically wax and wane, can be suppressed temporarily, and are preceded by a premonitory urge. Tourette's is defined as part of a spectrumof tic disorders, which includes provisional, transient and persistent (chronic) tics. ... this explains a lot of their noises and mannerisms.​In conclusion, I argue that the infection is some sort of a rabies variant that has additional debilitating side effects that align with the ailments described above. Thoughts?

In cities there are times when I'll be looting and hear/see someone nearby and will make strange noises. There were also times I'd hide in bus stops and run out at people screaming. It could very well just be someone messing with you. When you heard it where were you running and how long did it last?

Any time Shrub Rocketeer ™ posts I get short on breath, because for whatever reason when I read I sometime time breaths where periods and normal conversation would allow it. With Shrub Rocketeer ™'s posts it's all one big giant run on sentence and by the time I'm done with it I'm about to pass out from not breathing and laughing at the same time...

Was this stable or experimental?

Killing zeds is much more satisfying with the ragdoll effect that went live on stable. Sweet! Anyone else enjoying this? I need to test gun and other weapons on zeds (and maybe some people).

Wow, getting pretty fiesty with the mods! Since the patch I've taken on 4 zeds at once with no issue - you absolutely MUST be accurate with meelee now. Before the patch so long as I was generally facing a zed I would hit it, now I must be spot on and even lead the target a little it seams. It took some adjusting but I wouldn't in any way call it broken. I think it's better to be honest, it's almost as if the game assist mode has been turned off.

Oh wow... and if you thought you could run up stairs and avoid zeds you're wrong. I'm assuming it's the navmesh kicking in, but every time I try to avoid zeds upstairs or on the roof of a hospital they find their way up. They don't do ladders though... I also managed to get a bug where I couldn't swing meelee, happened right after I killed someone. That was a problem because I was dealing with a zed as well and I tried to flee the zed up some stairs (2 floors worth) in a hospital and it came up both flights after me. I ended up on the roof with a problem on my hands.

I noticed this today. Come on Bohemia, this is not a safe way to handle a machete! My poor avatar is going to slice his damn fingers off holding it that way!!!! Let's please exercise some better weapon safety people.

Well oiled palms... hahahahahaha!

You've gotta be super accurate with those hits. I can hit them nearly every time now, but you've gotta lead the target and be super accurate, that's what I've found. I took on 4 at once in Elektro and managed to get out of it without bleeding, I did get hit once when I got impatient. I've been using a pristine garden hoe lately.

The gear disappearing when in water for a while is a known bug. You've gotta get your head above water, look up if you can. I once had it blinking glitching which sorta sounds like what you have, I think it was very cloudy and possibly night out. I logged out and back into a server where it was about noon (daytime) and it had gone away. Survive!

I'm noticing more hoppers, and slightly greater numbers maybe. Can't speak to respawn rate though.

Dude - double tap. Always double tap.

Yep, they're back. Found a pair in one of the fire stations in Elektro. I missed them!

This is just another fishing tactic. Set bait, and wait. It's the same as placing gear in the road, or cuffing a bambi and leaving them in the road, etc. All of those situations should scream either "approach with caution" or "stay away something smells fishy".

I've never seen it on stable before today.

This is a step in a good direction imo.

I had this happen 3x in a row. Log in - server reboots. Log in - server reboots. Log in - server reboots. It's bad enough I'm hoping they do an emergency patch of some sort.

Trying to figure out if I'm in the twilight zone tonight or what happened. Tried to keep the story short... So I'm in Elektro on a roof top with a mosin scoping things out, when I get shot at maybe 3x. At least one shot hits me, my screen goes very grey, but I'm not bleeding and still alive. I go prone and eat some food when - wouldn't you know it, DayZ crashes. Like, completely crashes. This happens every so often for me, and I've reported it. Ok, well - I figure there's a chance I'll come out of this. So I fire DayZ back up and log back in... only I'm now a bambi near Dolina. Ok, well, that's fine, I accept it and progress towards the police station over there. Literally 20 seconds later I get the red chain and red numbers counting - it's obvious either the server rebooted or I lost connection (don't think I did) or something. Bad luck streak, it happens. My filters are set for roughly mid-pop server numbers, and the previous server i was on doesn't come up at all now, so I pick one that looks ok and log in. Now things get interesting. When I spawn I'm now under a bridge somewhere (I think near Berezino) and completely naked (absolutely no clothes other than default white shirt you can't remove and white undies you can't remove, nothing in inventory), yet somehow I'm fully hydrated, engergized, and healthy. Woah... what in the what? I was on Regular and Stable the whole time. Sound familiar to anyone or am i just having a rough alpha type night?

I shall head East and loot like a beast... but wow, what a weird night. Almost trippy. 3 other servers I'd logged into before all this went down had "apparently" rebooted within maybe 5 minutes of me joining. I was in log in, time out limbo for a while.

Check here, especially the "can I run it?" and support sections. http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/forum-78/announcement-6-read-before-posting/

The i5 is fine imo. I have i5-3570K @ 3.4GHz. You could run perfmon while playing to see how your CPU is performing (or just run dual screen and have task manager off on the right side). Any i5 should be fine, but your graphics card is definitely very low end. You can see how you roughly rank here. Also make sure your antivirus isn't undermining you.

Your graphics card looks under powered, way under powered. I'd wager that's your whole problem. Here's you: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+GT+555MHere's me: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+650+TiI paid $95 for mine, so mine is still low to middle-low end.

You should try the Arma forums. You're on the DayZ Standalone forums.