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Was playing DayZ and I respawned in (fully geared) to that little shed east of the NWAF. Before my eyes was a guy crouching. He looked at me and then a loud sound and my display driver crashed. I could still hear the game and control my character, but I couldn't see anything. Quickly I used my memory to move out of the shed. I restarted the game and waited the whole 250 seconds to spawn. I knew I was dead. I had to be right? I spawned in and guess what, I was alive, and what was even weirder was the guy was still in the shed. He sat there for an hour. He wasn't afk because he was moving in the shed. Strange things in DayZ (especially playing at 4 am).

I don't understand? If the excuse for the road signs being in Russian is for realism, then why are the books in English? I know some of the books (if not all of them) say printed in USA, but that still doesn't make sense why there were printed in English. I looked it up, and roughly 10% to 15% of the people in Russian even speak English. I would assume Chernarus would have similar statistics, or even lower than Russia, based on Russian influence and proximity to Russia. If one were to argue, it is just a game (get over it), then why not just make the road signs in English (it's just a game get over it). Little things like this annoy me. Anyone else annoyed by this?

You don't need rarity. I agree with Demoth's idea, read his idea: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/174024-personal-feelings-of-military-weapons-and-future-weapons-in-this-game/

Do not read too deep, all creators see their creation as fundamentally flawed (on some level). As an example, just look at J.K. Rowling's thoughts about her book series..

DayZ = Walking and Hunting Simulator

Surprised no one suggested a text to speak app. You can get one for your phone, and put it up to the microphone. Super easy. Although most apps I found, sound a bit robotic. There are some very realist text to voice pc programs, but I dunno how you relay those over thr mic (unless you had two PCs).

I use a gamepad and my experience has improved vastly over the keyboard mouse combo. Use JoyToKey and d-input (not x-input, aka xbox controller). I can give you my JoyToKey profile. You do everything except the 0-9 hotkeys and zeroing.

I have before when I started the game with startup parameters. Removed parameters and it went away.

If the road signs are in Russian shouldn't the books be as well?

Frankie is a lot like Derren Brown, a master of blending reality with illusion. The guy who played Morgan had me cracking up. So funny!

FYI, i use the GTS 250 2gb for my GPU, and it can handle this game (as well as every I have thrown at it). Sounds like a bad driver or possibly a bad card.

Your specs are fine (more than fine). I bet you have 4gb of ram too. Update your graphics driver. Go to nvidia's website or use steams graphics updater.

OP is forgetting one thing! DayZ is not only a survival game, but a walking simulator. As a walking simulator it rocks! All that empty space and neat looking towns. Better stock up before going on your hike, you might get hungry ;) Honestly, the zombies, looting, and PvP are just a backdrop to the true meaning of this game: walking. Though, I guess when they add vehicles it will be a walking/driving simulator. Don't believe me, check out the tags the devs used on the steam page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/221100/

Oh I forgot to mention that once animals are added to the game (I read on the forums somewhere that they can do about 300 animals without causing server issues), starving will not be an issue. The scenario will go like this: Collect water from stream, and kill animal for food. Then light a fire, and boil water and cook food. Thirst and hunger gone :) I assume that the devs will lower food and drink spawns when the cooking and hunting systems are implemented.

Agreed. Iarfur I am the opposite of you. I think the solution is not lower military gear, but make a wide variety of military gear so that you may have an M4, but no ammo for it. Like a STALKER scenario, where you have to mach up the ammo with the gun. In my apocalypse scenario, you will find an M4 and leave it knowing that the chances of finding the right parts and ammo are slim. Now I think military should be lowered a bit, but I dislike the idea of improvised weapons being the replacement. As far as I know, you will be bale to craft a bow and use it like you do in Skyrim. That is crazy, the skills it takes to make a bow (let alone master it), would be a kin to late game rather than early game. What is going to happen is that server hopping kiddos are going to be fully geared while you an me are going to be walking around with a spear.

Only unconscious.

I think we all agree about the zombies. For a game called DayZ, the zombies are a bit of a let down. My other fear is hearing about this weapon crafting. It sounds like we will be able to craft bows and spears that work perfectly, and that these craftable items will replace the guns so that guns are ultra rare. I also hate the idea of underground bases. Like how in the world is that even in the realm of reality. The engineering skills and man power to create a safe unground base is beyond an average survivor. What I am going to need a 40 person clan to dig out my entrance? I guess the sum of my fears is that this game will become a Rust or 7DTD alternative.

Can't wait for horse armor DLC for $1.99

The developers are talking about turning down gun spawns. Therefore, I am almost sure that tanks are a no.

Yeah, it would be cool to find hiding places, like haystacks. I wonder if the backpacks will disappear if we die? I also wonder if the backpacks will be server dependent or will it be in the hive?

I think the introduction of "low end" items (bows, spears, etc) and the decreasing of military gear will just make server hopping more prevalent. I mean if the military gear is rare, the only way to insure finding such high gear is to server hop. I guess I am a repeating record (if you have read some of my other posts), but "low end" gear in my mind is not a solution. It will just mean that server hoppers will be the the ones with fully geared out characters while we will be the guys with crafted spears. This is the solution. If Dean implements a dynamic spawning loot system where loot respawns are based off a time/rarity table and not off server restarts, then serving hopping would be useless. For example, at server restart their is a chance that a barracks with have good loot, okay loot, bad loot, or no loot. Then the time/rarity table will spawn loot based on the table, and the chances appear random to us players. I walk into barracks at server start, and I find a soda. Window Licker comes in fifteen minutes later, and finds a M4 and a helmet. General Zod comes in an hour later and finds ammo for his FNX, a magazine for it, and a pink shirt. In this case server hopping does not grantee that you find good (any) loot. Now, the devs would have to implement some type of anti-camping, like loot wont respawn if a player is within a 100 meters of loot spawn.

Haven't played since last night, but I was fine last night.

This might have made my day :) I have no more space for my character to carry anything.

Yeah... I can pretty much be geared up in an hour or two. Remember though this is also a walking simulator (checkout the steam page if you don't believe me). Therefore, go for a walk. Take a walk to Devil's Castle, and have a soda on the top of the tower. I am half joking and half serious. I sometimes I just enjoy going for a walk in my virtual world. Cannot wait till they add animals!

Wouldn't it be funny if the melee system is not fixed, the devs make weapon crafting, then lower guns spawns, and the game becomes a giant zombie/player pinata simulator?