JimWalsh4President

Just boot camp and play, like I do. It works "great", in Arma2 terms, on my i7 iMac! :) You must realize that in this stage of the development phase, there will not be any Mac port for a long time to come. So save yourself the trouble and install Windows on a small dirty partition of your drive.

I don't mind the "I am going to kill you F*CKER" or similar phrases during a heated moment, that is fine and within what I think is accepted. Actually, it can be kind of fun if it is part of a fight or "role playing" of sorts. It is the obvious racist and sexist PERSONAL attacks, that go beyond your character even, that I despise. And they are usually performed by the young ones, I agree.

In short: Yes. Yes, we have gone insane. Why? I do not know. I approached DayZ, when it was a mod, as my friends told me it was this awesome Zombie survival game. Although I did not get to play it at the time I quickly turned to YouTube videos in order to see what I was missing out on. I quickly realized that the game is not about zombies at all. It is about weird ass player interactions and the incredibly clunky but still lovable engine that is Arma 2. I laughed so hard the first time I saw someone ride his bike away from another guy chasing him with a shovel, screaming mild profanities at him. It was basically something I had not seen before and from that point on I decided that I had to play it. I got SA when it came out and I was told that this one would focus more on the actual surviving aspects. But. Nope. Not really. There were less zombies around and to top it off they were also significantly weaker. I went back to DayZ Mod/Overwatch for a while but that thing had weapons and vehicles everywhere and made it kind of lackluster for me. So. Now I am back playing DayZ almost daily. Why? Because I love that you can log on to the game and every single day something absolutely ridiculous will happen. Granted, this is mostly due to my personality and that I force these kind of random events of nonsense but still. It is like a shooter with a really strange and weird twist to it, for me. Some obvious twelve year olds scream obscene words at me. Some just wants to shout racist remarks at me as soon as I play as one of the non-caucasian characters and some play the silent bandit that will go out of their way to kill you no matter what. Myself? At the moment I just play it as the local weirdo. I trust no one and I usually end up in really strange situations due to my approach of playing it basically like a crazy person. Should the racist idiots stay away from this game? Yes, please. Should cheaters and hackers be banned? Of course. But is any of the "legit" ways of playing "correct" compared to others? Not really. Your perception of how the game SHOULD be played may not match with mine. I think we all need to accept that an open ended game like this will always mean that there will be many people in the game with VASTLY different outlooks on the game. I actually think we need KoS and backstabbing, without it the game would be too lame imo. It adds suspense and immersion and a feeling of never being safe. If the survival aspect is inforced however, then focus could of course shift from shooter more towards survival. Anyway, that was my rant. Here is a video of me playing. Some hate it, some love it. It is DayZ.