AzrailCross

The only thing I've heard of chickens is they seem to spawn near farming areas even the smaller spots with small patches of pumpkins. (but for the life of me haven't ran across one yet -_-) Not even sure 'where' or when I heard that, so don't take my word for it on that one. Just hearsay at the moment ;3 Did spot a bull though... even hear tale of goats but the wildlife seems to be better at hiding than any of us. But I can confirm ONE thing, zombies WILL kill the animals.. watched a pack of zombies that were following me - change course for said bull I mentioned.... I saved him from them though, all's good.. then shot him.

First off, not sure how it's even possible that your not finding melee weapons; it's something beyond luck because I've never had an issue running across *some* kind of melee weapon at least two times an hour, pickaxe's work great, splitting axes, fireaxes, but the general weapons like the machete (cannot recommend using it, use your fists <.<) / shovel / pitchfork ect are fairly common, the only reason I can think your not finding weapons is your on a persistance server which has been devoid of spawns due to issues I'm told (haven't played on one) or your only searching the 'bad' houses, which there are. You'll get the hang of only going into the proper houses in time, the piano, firehouse, police station, barns, tac, hospital, so on .. but the 'more common' small houses are all essentially worthless beyond finding books, food, matches, sometimes sticks or other rare material, ammo, or attachment but that's literally betting against the odds. It just seems 'off' your not finding anything at all but again, could be a persistent server or I guess not picking the right buildings - but that's well beyond any sort of bad luck; in three hours even avoiding the major loot areas you should still end up coming across *some* kind of melee weapon if not many- and in all likelyhood, compass, maps (enough to make a full), gun, a number of boxes of different kinds of ammo, food, canteen or bottles, tons of soda - enough to fill a talon backpack, 6slot shirt and pants and have some overflow from what you've left behind. Hell, in an hour and a half I've come across four medpacks that I remember and have something like 6 pristine bandages in my pack and ditched many many more damaged ones. Setting that aside though, my biggest raised brow is your claims the zombies keep up with you *Forever* - something is going wrong here. Are you not sprinting? Trying to go uphills (bad idea) .. never, not in this last update, not in all updates before it, were zombies unavoidable, just get on a street, and sprint in one direction and don't stop until the zombie is long out of sight and it won't continue pursuit. Never have I had a zombie follow me for more than five minutes and THAT was because I kept stopping/slowing down trying to go up hills (where they will catch up) - you sprint faster with nothing in your hands but even armed with my weapon out I've lost zombies between 30-40 seconds (most common) to a max of really two minutes before the zombie is way off in the distance standing still or wandering off. .. and lastly, not sure what's getting you stuck in the bottom of them but the only building I know to still do this is the 6+ story city apartment building, and there are two methods out of any 'stuck' situation. One is reporting it and an admin will get you out or at least reset your character, the other is on the forums but for the most part is just spazzing jump, crawl, roll, jump, crouch, weapon out, weapon in, stand, run, dive, stand, weapon out while standing forced run, log out, log in + hold movement key to spaz the character through the building while it's still loading. Just a heads up, but it really shouldn't be something that happens often, haven't seen that bug for at least a month and I only ever save in buildings.

I haven't tried to overclock my CPU from 3.2 to 4.0 for about six-eight months, and without doing it again I couldn't tell you what the volt's were to do it, not even entirely sure how much I'm throwing at it by default but nothing special as at the moment nothing's overclocked, just running on standard factory settings for my prior post. As for the mention of running it ice cold; nah I'm not that into 'must run freezing cold!' in regards to my computer, but as it stands to overclock it would literally be death to this system, it runs as is between 55-56C with pretty much nothing but background processes and google crome running; but on more intense games (lately found this to be shadow warrior didn't play nice on higher settings, ended up getting my CPU to 70-75C (160ish degrees) and the cut off 'protection' is 79C that's cutting it a bit to close. Particularly when you start to get a whiff of burnt plastic and feel the back of your tower like your touching the outside of a oven. Overclocking for this machine will have to wait until I get some better cooling, and when I do, new graphics card and more ram to go with it. But the whole purpose for posting my specs is despite this system being 3 years old and not overclocked; it actually handles DayZ fine; that's not to say those with higher end systems shouldn't complain - obviously something is going on there, but tuning back the settings to very low across the board except for textures, objects, and AA to normal (particularly shadows in cities, that's the biggest killer to my system; 90% of the time run very low, but disable shadows altogether in cities and suddenly I'm going at what feels like 30fps but haven't directly pulled up a counter to test that.. still, big.. big difference from sloggish can't aim for sh@% in cities to .. smooth.)

1920x1080 & I've already overclocked it to 4ghz but toned it back due to overheating, the fans are a bit old and don't take enough care of them given previous houses - roomates had cats and the fur built up, they still run great but it gets way to risky to overclock atm (55-60cc dayz now, 70 on some high end games 79 is the cut off point.) So add in 1 more fan on the top, 2 more on the front, and two more on the bottom, replace the one on the top that's already there, and replace the one on the back, as well as replace the one on the side.. and should be more than able to handle it. (or get water cooling ;3)

Aside from the burlap sticking out like a sore thumb waiting for black-green camo painting it's a good addition.

Updated with the video, for me however it doesn't seem to be related to any particular city or flooring (happen on grass, mountain land, in cities, and housing) and seems to always happen; have hopped to three different servers out in the wilderness and doesn't change. (edit) Did some testing, seems to occur 100% of the time on any surface on any server so long as you have any gun out and try to crouch sprint. Doesn't work with standard items or melee weapons. Seeing as at least one other person has experienced it .. will make a ticket for it as a issue, if this thread gets moved to troubleshooting or not - wouldn't mind more people speaking about it just to find out if it's a issue limited to only a few or actually occurring for everyone and just went unnoticed for a bit.

Did a search of the help tickets, troubleshooting and google in general and am left wondering am I the only person who has experienced happy feet? .... Sorry I really should explain that more eh. When I crouch down, and walk forward the sounds normal: however, start to sprint while crouching? BAMBAMABMABMABMABAM! Turbo noise <_<! Anyway, first I've experienced of it and having not heard anyone else having the problem, not even sure if it's just a case of needing to check the install files for errors with the latest update; or something known or just gone under the radar. Have a video uploading to youtube just in case none of this makes any sense -_- Edit - FFS This was suppose to be in Troubleshooting. Ah well, admins to the rescue <.< maybe? Anyway, perhaps try to turn this post into a more general discussion uhm.. hrrrrm... what .. do .. you .. think .. of the... happy feet? Yeah no, troubleshooting is probably best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lkKuT0MwrQ&feature=youtu.be

Stone age AMD Phenom 3.2ghz Quad Core / ancient 5750 Radeon 2gb / 4gb basic ram and ... put everything to very low, objects on normal, textures on normal, and AA on normal = ... Strangely enough 25-40 fps everywhere except the cities with the sky-high apartments where it drops to 8-15 fps yet turning shadows all the way off jumps that to around 20-25 fps.. and this computer is 3 years old, $800 at the time, without any upgrades or overclocking since, looking forward to overclocking the CPU to 4.0ghz quad after obtaining some additional fans and replacing the current ones from the factory standard and getting a new graphics card that's you know, not like $25 today, and 8gb ram .. but for now it functions, no doubt playable have over 150 hours clocked into DayZ and not once a death by lag at least. Then again I'm one of 'those' that the difference between 30 fps, and 60 fps is unnoticeable to begin with, so - so long as it's *staying* over 30 fps at all times I'll always be content.

I know the feeling, my fiance sitting beside me using none other than a Logitek trackball .. I still can't comprehend how she uses it and aims so well. But she does, yet even she on a laptop looks at the trackpad and goes 'just no' and can't use it aside from being lazy to navigate websites. Gaming on trackpads, trackball, mouse, joystick, controller.. it's all possible, and once you get used to whichever means, works just as well in most every instance as the 'other' form. Each just have a steeper learning curve in some cases.... trackpad and trackball still boggles my mind though, despite knowing it works.

I'm always at odds with these statements, mostly for two memories I have; one being CSS where I basically had a hacker reputation despite not hacking; for instant-twitch reflexes of netting headshot after headshot of entire teams on my own with the Deagle and Scout; shift over to when I first started into the Halo series and well frankly died over.. and over.. and over again for shitty aim: yet later, once Xbox became my primary means of gaming I was twitch shooting with again insane accuracy; of course I've long since gotten rid of consoles and delve only in PC gaming again; but have an Xbox controller I again am terrible at using.. -- yet the point being it's possible to master the use and sensitivity of a controller to match the use of a mouse. Of course it always had the tradeoff, lowering the sensitivity of the controller led to great control of on screen accuracy but the issue followed of not being able to do complete instant turns to hit people behind you nearly as fast; but as far as general accuracy of targets in front of, and just off screen of you, the response time and accuracy can be identical. Particularly, I think the trade-off issue in a game like DayZ where targets are not moving at any sort of fast pace would actually be one of the few games out there that a cross-platform play wouldn't actually be extremely unfair for anyone.

Well played.... well played.

TBH will never understand the hate for AMD CPU's have a phenom and it's been phenomenal for .. three years now? (3.2ghz quad core w/ overclock to 4ghz, though I can't overclock it right now until I upgrade the fans due to well, never having done any upgrades on this computer since I purchased it; always ran fine.. so no need to) and bought the whole PC for $800 when I did, full tower, 4 gigs, 5750 Radeon, 850 ps, and gigabyte MB w/ Phenom 3.2 quad .. yeah, safely can say for what I paid back then it was a great deal. Still runs DayZ smoothly for the most part even in cities though the settings are all on low/very low except for the overall view distance of players and objects in the cfg. But for $800 3 years ago still holding it's own and could stay my primary PC after a graphics card update, fan overhaul, and some additional ram for kicks. The only real point here being, AMD has never failed me and is supremely cheaper than Intel, very much worth it IMO. (I'm not debating between one PC or the other, haven't looked at them. Just not to base your judgement solely Intel vs amd by brand itself, they aren't bad from my experience and unbeatable in budget builds.)

If you ask me to put my gun up and we're both holding weapons (lowered, but out) on each other.. you can bet I'm raising mine and killing you first, nobody with any sense will put a weapon on their back around someone they aren't yet comfortable with. The only time I've ever put my weapon on my back was with a group of two others that I'd had a 15 minute long conversation with in a building, and another 15-20 minute conversation while running to the next town - our weapons all out the whole time and we were all keeping eyes on each other (alt 'look' view, not literally being extra suspicious and turning toward one another.) It was until after knowing these people for an hour that trust built they weren't backstabbers, now we're still friends. Each encounter varies, but if your asking for a gun to put completely away your really asking for a bullet in the head.

It might be good to discuss (or give video) of proper use of a bow. Such as the drop of the arrow at distances, good places to find arrows (eventually, hopefully how to craft them.); and if you have the time to test provided someone else hasn't already -- the difference between each hunted food source and how much it restores of your hunger to some degree. Just some thoughts, it's great advice as is.

For one, as others have said it's not really a hacker so much as Program Purchaser #... --- That said, some have a conscience and in the game may be convinced to 'not' kill you same as anyone else but most aren't going to care. Some have no lives/lazy/lacking skill other's just enjoy it because of the fact it's obviously taboo : like breaking the law, the whole risk of getting caught and something coming of it is the real thrill; causing rage and such with ease feeds into a power-complex though in real life they may be good people it's just a excitement in the moment thing. The only way of dealing with it and getting rid of them goes beyond just good detection software (though having a couple people dedicated to searching for hack software for DayZ, and finding out what loopholes they created so they can be shut down quickly is a good start, despite giving the hackers money for the software they'll lose out in the long run as the program will cease to work continually and catch those using it 99.9% of the time due to that one purchase.) and reporting but has to have more to it than that to really be even remotely near fully rid of them. As was mentioned, if *only* it could be made a real felony akin to destruction of property / loss of revenue and be something people could be fined for that'd solved a huge chunk but that's not happening... so the only actual alternatives are putting up additional barriers to accessing DayZ. While I am fully aware nobody in a seat of power will ever hear it, meh, I feel like typing.. so why not. 1.) Get an agreement with steam, if hacking is proven the entire account is shut down from online access across all games, fewer will ever try if a warning-agreement pops up outright stating if you are caught using TPS to gain an advantage in the game you'll lose your entire library of games, but it has to be proven without a doubt (so not getting banned for using Fraps for instance). Also, DayZ is unable to be purchased until the account has at least 5 games on it that are not free. (Daring, next to impossible, but a serious deterrent that won't happen regardless so I don't why I wrote it :P.) 2.) Sort of a obvious one, but allow server owners to restrict being able to be played on them to certain steam traits: eg. If your under a certain listed age, if you have under 5-10-15 games, if your account is less than 30-60-90-ect days old, if you purchased DayZ in the last x days, weeks, months (up to 6 months), if BE or Vac has ever detected you cheating in any other game besides DayZ (if possible). 3.) Secretly form anti-cheater personal through trusted players who will garner access to specially made tools to respond to possible hackers with built in prevention to ensure these players couldn't use them without cause. Only when a report is filed - these players can instantly join a server in secret from a spectator view and watch for odd behavior to the point of being able to follow the individual across ANY server on a whim for a certain period of time, the entire situation being recorded for review and a ban capable of being issued from DayZ by the spectator until actual Staff can review the BE logs and video evidence to make a decision. (.. actually fairly reasonable if it is done properly, but the trusted players would have to be in turn randomly monitored and logged by actual employee's to ensure they aren't abusing it down the line in some form; but it would be a sustainable means of administration that doesn't drain funds out of the game - would certainly bring in more customers in the long run if the 'program' deters obvious hackers entirely with the quick responses and bans; meanwhile the more subtle would have to be handled through great detection software/monitoring.) Yeah that's about all I've got, past 3 in the morning :P Anyway, meh. Was fun trying to consider what all might work even if a fairly pointless thing to be doing.