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What I've noticed recently is that especially in big deathmatch towns on the coast the game nearly feels like CoD or Battlefield. A major aspect of this are the running-animations in my opinion. I think that therefore the sprinting with a raised gun-animation should be removed, the newer sprinting with a gun in lowered stance-animation should be revamped back to the old one (it's a bit slower) and the new sprinting animation should be changed back to the old one (who the hell runs like that?; the old one seemed much better and much more realistic). DayZ doesn't need to try to be and shouldn't be like CoD or Battlefield, at least movement-wise. What are you guys' thoughts on this?

I'm going to update my original post. I think there should also be at least one Ashwood tree and maybe a river originating from a rock at the highest part of the island for fresh water if the well's are broken/not availible.

But they we're oon experimental hive for a few weeks so i thought the testing was done there.

Exactly; there would be no point for the deer stand if there wouldn't be any animals.

So currently, nearly everyone, except for players with high-grade military loot is carrying a drybag. They've got more slots than a small taloon backpack and are even waterproof. I think that because of this the drybags are very special and shouldn't be that common, maybe only spawn very rarely in civilian buildings and commonly in military buildings. I still remember that finding a small taloon backpack shortly after spawning was one of the best feelings in the game.

Of course it would make sense. Animals are crossing over in the winter when the water is frozen and then keep living there.

If somebody wants true survival, Skalisty isn't a good place yet. In my opinion, there should be animals spawning on Skalisty and maybe some more houses/structures to loot, especially in the south-east part of the island. I think there should also be at least one Ashwood tree and maybe a river originating from a rock at the highest part of the island for fresh water if the well's are broken/not availible.

As you guys know, there are plenty of bugs on 0.50 stable, for example all items being pristine, drinking from wells isn't possible and loot quantity on non-persistant servers is seriously way too high. So is there any news on a hotfix/update coming soon? To me, these are gamebreaking bugs and should be fixed as soon as possible.

So my First Person character was logged out at North-West Air Field. None of my Steam friends were online playing DayZ so I decided to roll solo. There wasn't much loot in the fire station so I quit NWAF. and moved to Grishino with the intention to quickly check out the new half-finished town Severograd. I was going around Grishino, avoiding it to try to find some animals though (I didn't). Whilst doing that I'd noticed Devil's Castle up the hill and decided to check that out because tents spawn in castles. When I got to the castle tower I'd noticed orange light originating from the top and got surprised because there are not much players going to Devil's Castle but also frightened of losing my gear. At the top I found a fireplace with no one near it. They had also left a piece of burnt meat and a ruined frying pan there. So I realised that there had been players there. Still, I continued making my way to Severograd, at first in a completely wrong direction, straight to the North. Then I looked at my and turn west seeing a completely random deer stand in the wild far off the main road. The location of it: DayZ Standalone Chernarus+ Map - DayZDB In it there was only one item of loot. A spray can with only 75% left! This indicated that other players used it before me and had to have been there before me. This is quite surprising because of the randomness of this deer stand. So probably the players from devils castle had taken the exact same and wrong route that I took. I continued to Severograd hoping to meet these players. When reaching the heart of Severograd, the WW2. monument I saw both players in military outfit standing close to the wall near the school. I shouted that I'm friendly and that they shouldn't aim at me; still both of them moved closer to me whilst staying quiet. In panic I decided to climb to the top of the school. After lying down there for a few minutes I noticed one of them scoping out the area looking for me right on the balcony below me. I took the shot and killed him. Whilst I was looking for his friend his friend suddenly popped up behind a green building hitting me. I killed him though by getting a very lucky chest shot on him. Both of them had cooking and hunting equipment on them indicating that it was the players whose remains I'd found at Devil's Castle. This is such an awesome story because usually stalking people and locating them by their remains is very hard to do and uncommon in DayZ. But this shows that it's very well possible which makes this story so awesome and one of my most epic DayZ moments. In my opinion, this is perfectly described by DayZ's motto: "This is DayZ, this is your story."

My real problem are the huge lagspikes though! If I'm in a city i get around 30-40fps and then i suddenly drops down for a short time to 20-25. And the same thing in the woods and everywhere else just with higher framerates.

How should I tweak my settings? Also you probably get frames that good because you're running it on an SSD.

Wow. DayZ really sucks in terms of performance.

So I've got a new computer only to play DayZ. The specs are: i5 4690KMSI GTX 770 Twin Frozr Still, the game is barely to unplayable, especially in cities. My fps drop to about 25fps in big cities on pretty low settings (GeForce experience settings). I also get tons of random lag spikes. For example i go though a smaller city with 30fps and every 20-30 seconds i drops down to 20/25fps. It's really annoying because i only got this computer to be able to play on the highest settings at decent fps. I'm so sad right now. :( So is there anything wrong with my PC or is DayZ just so unoptimized? And if have you guys got any solutions for the low fps/lag spikes?

I've got the exact same card and I've got the exact same problem.