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    Best Price-Quality headphone/mic ratio?

    I am personally very fond of the Creative Fatal1ty headphones. The edgy name aside, they are comfy, nice quality overall and best of all, they are really cheap. The mic is also detachable so you can take it off when you don't need it (eg. when eating with the headphones on). I've already bought these twice and never came to regret it.
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    BattlEye investigation

    BattlEye will obviously not explain what triggered the ban as that information could be useful to hackers. If false positives are found (which happens very, very rarely) BattlEye does lift those bans. Even if the ban was somehow caused by someone else on some other machine, it was still your account for which you are responsible. Saying "oh no, my account got hacked" is not a valid excuse as that would simply be your own fault.
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    Comparing DayZ to similar games.

    You are right and for what it's worth I apologise. I didn't realise I was merging Danmyr's post as well. That was indeed an error on my part and it's been already pointed out to me.
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    DayZ:SA in dire need of optimization

    Did I remove anything you said? No, I didn't. The guideline you did not follow is the basic of any internet forum. Search before you post. Therefore your post was merged with a relevant topic. Every single sentence you said so far is in this thread several times already, therefore there is literally 0 need for a new topic.
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    DayZ:SA in dire need of optimization

    Oh no sir. It will be handled according to the rules and guidelines you fail to follow. :ph34r:
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    Just like the old days

    Seems to me you're the one with a dirty mind :lol:
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    Cannot access dayz?

    Are you running Steam as Administrator?
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    Add more colors of spray paint

    It is though. Quote from Chris Torchia, the DayZ Art Lead. Question was something along the lines of "will we see more colour options for spray paint?" I know my answer will not be popular but I personally hope not. It will quickly result in an exponential increase of game data and work. As it is in the worst cases, for every item we make, we need 3 diffuse textures, two specular maps, material configs, class names in the cfg, etc. Imagine if we had 100 items which could be colored with the 7 primary colors. We would need almost 1000 more textures and material configs – all of which needs generated by artists, transmitted, and stored by servers and clients. On the other hand, doing this dynamically is expensive on the performance of our game and for something which is nice to have, but not core, its probably not worth the cost. Please understand, I'm not saying we won't continue with this feature or expand it slightly, but its not going to extend to all items and many colors unless we can invent the tech to do it dynamically with an acceptable performance hit. It is true that my knowledge of programming is fairly basic, but I don't see how you can code the items' textures to change patterns or just small areas of the texture (eg. changing the green in the green/black texture to orange).
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    Add more colors of spray paint

    I believe the devs are a bit hesitant to add more colours. The problem with spray paint is that you need to create separate textures for each item and colour combination. Currently, with two colours you have 4 different textures for each item that can be painted - standard, black, green, black/green. If you add any more colours than this, the amount of textures (and work involved) for each item would start to grow exponentially. If you added just one of the ones you suggest you would suddenly need to have textures for standard, black, green, orange, black/green black/orange, green/orange, green/black/orange and so on. I don't think it's feasible at this stage in development, possibly ever.
  10. You are free to discuss whatever you want in the correct place. Your search for the term zombie horde returned 117 results. As for H1Z1: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/185256-h1z1-a-post-apocalyptic-mmo-from-soe/page-133#entry2209322 Devs don't lock anything. They have better things to worry about.
  11. Well I was responding to the poster above me who said the opposite ;)
  12. The map is still the same size, mind you. It's just objects being added/changed.
  13. If you come here to find help with a crash that is occuring in your game, please do not post new topics. Although people on here are very helpful with most other issues, crashes are something they cannot assist you with. Crashes are particularly nasty issues and require an analysis by the development team. The easiest way to get help is going to the Feedback Tracker and providing all relevant information. If you haven't already, create an account on the Feedback Tracker. http://feedback.dayzgame.com/ Do not try finding a similar crash report. Most crashes are unique and need to be addressed individually. Unlike normal bug reports, you don't have to worry about creating duplicates of crashes. In case we find out that your crash actually is the same as some other, we will take care of that ourselves and will let you know. Create a new issue and clearly label it as a crash in the subject. "Game Crash - Dropping a protector case crashes the game" Next, provide insight into how you got your game to crash. Include as much information about what you were doing around the time the game crashed. Every little detail can help us fix the problem. Remember to mention whether this happens on the stable or experimental branch of the game. GOOD "The game crashed when I dropped a protector case on the ground while playing on an experimental server. I had the protector case in my backpack and drag and dropped it into the vicinity window. The case contained a canteen and a pack of rice. I have tried this several times and it happens every time" BAD "Game crashed when I dropped a protector case" Include steps to reproduce if you think that they are necessary and aren't obvious enough from the description. Always describe reproduction step by step. 1. Open inventory 2. Place the protector case in your backpack 3. Drag and drop it into the vicinity tab 4. Game Crashes Don't forget to include the game's version (can be found in the main menu). Now for the most important part of all. We need you to upload a few files from your computer. Specifically, the crash dumps that are generated with every crash and the dxdiag report from your computer. Getting your DxDiag file 1. Open the Start menu 2. Write "dxdiag" 3. Press enter 4. A window will open 5. Click "Save all information" 6. You will get a text file - that's what we need Getting your crash dumps Go to this file location: "C:\Users\<Name>\AppData\Local" There you should see a DayZ folder. Create a .zip or .rar file of that folder. Then take the .zip/.rar and the DxDiag file and upload them to the Feedback Tracker issue. The upload limit is 5000KB, which should be enough. In case it is not, please upload the files to a file sharing website and post a link to the files in the comments. In most cases, we will answer crash reports within a day or two, provided you filled out the report correctly and uploaded the necessary files. The issue will then be sent to a responsible team member, who will implement a fix. You will be notified once a fix is introduced so that you could verify that the crash does not occur any longer. Thank you for reading this! - Accolyte
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    Controversial Development Timeline?

    And that's how Lok got fired..
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    The "new" cheating.

    And off topic. Please stick to the topic of this thread. If you wish to discuss loot economy, find/create a thread for it.
  16. I'm currently cooking and will be for a bit I'll see if I can jump in after I'm done :D
  17. While I understand what you're saying and hate to say the following, this is pretty much how things work. In games development, devs will generally start worrying about FPS (optimisation) in the final stages of development, once most (all) functionalities have been nailed down and can be polished. As I keep saying, you can't optimise code while it's still being actively iterated upon. If you did that, you'd get stuck in an endless loop of implement/break, fix, implement/break, fix and so on.
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    Sanity checks you say? 0.53

    Sanity checks are basically quick tests designed to find out whether or not the absolute basics of a game (feature) are working as intended/aren't broken.
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    Small YouTubers

    http://forums.dayzga...before-posting/ Do not ask for subscribers. Do not post a topic leaving only your Youtube channel. These guidelines apply to other forum sections as well. You may use the gallery to post your actual videos. If people feel like subscribing based on what they see there, they will. EDIT: Also, please note that crossposting is against the rules.
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    DayZ 2.0 - The Sequel

    From what was said at some presentations (I think it was mainly the Rezzed one), they will support and expand the game rather than start working on a sequel any time soon after release. Perhaps in a WoW sort of way (expansions and such), but that's just me guessing as it would sort of make sense.
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    Check my videos?

    Why post it then, my friend? Please do not post a topic asking for subscribers with a only a link to your Youtube channel provided. http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/forum-126/announcement-6-read-before-posting/ Do not ask for subscribers. Do not post a topic leaving only your Youtube channel. These guidelines apply to other forum sections as well.
  22. Yes you will.. and I will cut you down and eat you :blush:
  23. He was a naughty, naughty boy. <_< I might come to the meet and greet as well. If you'll have me and if I don't forget. :D
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    Free Video editing software.

    I found Vegas pretty good to learn the basics. It's definitely easier to learn than Premiere. But Premiere does offer much more in terms of functionality, especially if you pair it with After Effects.
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    Rocket standing down from Dayz by end of year

    Yes. Also, holy necro batman.
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