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Or crap ati cards. Intel/nvidia is much more reliable from what I've experienced with both brands.

Beans for creeping and a cool topic. I personally find relaxing in dayz to be almost impossible

It's not exactly planned. Dean said at rezzed that they are testing to separate the renderer from the game. That would make it possible to bring dayz to Linux and OSX. So you probably won't see it on Mac for some time, but there is a good chance.

I think the actual menu setting for AO broke some time ago, so if you had it on it stayed on, if it was off then you would have to set it by hand in the profile cfg.

AO setting didn't work at all until the most recent stable patch. In his rezzed presentation Dean said that they're tweaking the HDR to work better in dark situations, I'm sure that once that is improved you won't be able to notice AO artifacts as easily. Also turning on AO certainly shouldn't give you a performance increase. At the same time it's a relatively simple post process effect so you probably won't notice a performance decrease with it on.

I played on the experimental servers a bit last week, the guaranteed messaging seemed to be working perfectly for me. I also found a nice log cabin style pub or something near svetlo, of course there was no loot in there on the 100 man server.

I have read people arguing that as well, most of them seem to think gear collected on a private server means gear they can use on another private server or the public hive.

No they're not the same. Bandits understand the game they're playing and are very good at it. Kos players have no idea what's going on besides the fact that there are guns in the game. So they think "ill just shoot stuff then I win?"

Lately I've been playing on low pop servers solo giving myself plenty to do without any idiots around to ruin the fun. For example I recently started an all bacon and beer diet on my stable regular character. Refusing to eat disgusting fish and beans makes it that much better when I find the delicious canned bacon. I'm hoping private servers can counter the terrible community. If the servers in the mod are any indication, then if the morons can spawn with an m4 and gas mask they will join those servers, while players like us will hopefully find a decent mature only server. At the very worst I will host my own private server and just play it single player. I'm also hoping h1z1 takes a lot of the flavor of the month players away when it launches.

Definitely not a feature then, I'd bet it was either your friend that wrote it or the server maybe had a bug/wasn't actually restarted. If you were on experimental then I would have assumed they're working on persistent objects, starting with paper.

Were you on experimental or stable branch

The melee weapons are a joke right now. There is nobody talking about it anywhere, not even the community. Surely you can kill any human with a bat or machete in a little less than 20 swings to the chest. I like to think the new physics stuff will fix this, but nobody has brought it up at all.

All of the threads I see end with something like "find a fireaxe noob problem solved" I basically was hoping that in one of the many conventions that the dayz team recently attended, and the roadmap they revealed, that they would say "hallelujah you can effectively kill stuff with a hammer"

Posting in case anyone missed it :O

Experimental update including cooking, hunting, 100 guns, vehicles, and half life 3 confirmed. Coming yesterday

I like the one where you found the debug field

Needs more bacon

At EGX I think Dean said that they started working with the guy that set up the arma 3 movement system. Hopefully he includes some form of this stances system, I find it very useful in arma 3.

You can run arma 2 no problem, but if you are using low settings for the SA then you might struggle with arma 3.

The arma 2 inventory system is horrible compared to SA inventory imo. For that reason alone I won't be returning to the mod ever again.

I played on that single experimental hc server a few days ago for a couple hours. Went through about 5 villages barely making it to the next one each time. Hopefully in the future that kind of challenge becomes more common on hardcore servers.

Imo out of game comms is a form of cheating. OP all you can do is try to be more stealth, don't go looking for a fight and if you get into trouble try to figure a way out. I'm sure it seems boring at first, but there have been many times a group tried to hunt me down and I slipped away without a scratch, for me that feels just as awesome as winning a gun fight. If all the new players just want to roam around the map with their clan picking fights with solo players then we have to make sure they don't get what they want

Mmmm delicious

It's alpha OP deal with it Seriously though if this isn't a troll then your pc has probably been hijacked. You are likely experiencing some kind of root kit. Virus scanning software is unreliable, your only real option is to format your hdd and reinstall windows :( You can open the add/remove programs menu and look for anything that seems out of place and try to remove it, but honestly formatting is the only guaranteed fix.

How is this thread not sticky yet!!?!