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That would be awesome because it would add to the immersion I think. Just random empty town noises: tarps snapping in the wind, a random door slamming, maybe a flag up on a pole making a racket when it's windy, etc.

If branches can flow in the wind, so can hair! :D

http://bfy.tw/CXMG There you go

That is posterization and it is the bane of my existence.

I live far up northern Quebec and when I drive a bit out of my town, I notice how DayZ-looking the area is. Abandoned houses, sheds, farming equipments, power lines that you can follow up mountains....a whole lot of stuff really! Here are a few pics! Sorry, most were taken from my car as we couldn't stop. I'll sometimes wonder which house I'd loot first in case of an actual zombie apocalypse! :> Barn House with shed Church! You know that's Novy Sobor. Found a cargo truck! As emu pointed out, is even has a dump bed, for even faster unloading of your loot! More barns! Lonely abandoned shed on the side of the road Old house, just sitting there. I mean, you can't deny, the terrain is really similar! I'd loot the *&$% out of this, hopefully find some rope and burlap! Which would you loot first? Enjoy :)

North West Ventures Got a sedan stuck in Grishino. Banged the trash cans so hard the hood flew off. Ermahgerd a herlmert Ditched the sedan and found a cargo. Server-hopped on an AUS server because my graphics card sucks and I can't see shit in the dark. Looted Tisy. Found a tent. Went back to baby camp. I got him a fishing hook and wrapped it nicely in a teddy bear as a gift for escorting me through darkness but he wasn't having any of it. ''I ignored you and your teddy bear because I thought you were just being annoying shoving it in my face.'' Lesson learned, I keep the bears to myself now. The end.

About the visuals of stars.........they are bugging me a little bit. Here's what a star field looks like, under regular light pollution conditions: (with denser populated cities, you can see even less, the Orion constellation is still pretty visible though) This looks somewhat similar to what we see in DayZ normally. See next photo for reference. What bothers me is that Chernarus has no electricity, therefore is not subjected to light pollution; star fields and the Milky Way should be a whole lot more visible than the stars we see at the moment. Mind you, I'm aware that this isn't a priority at all but it's just my two cents on the ''visual of stars''. Here's what I would love to see (pardon the supremely crude photoshopping, this is just to illustrate my point.) Before After The Milky Way is an important missing part of our night sky unencumbered by city light pollution.

Stay hydrated and energized as much as possible. Try a saline?

That's an excellent question. WHY are you STILL playing DayZ if it's so bad?

You're right, I should post there, but I think I'd rather ask if this is a known bug first, so that way I don't have to submit it when it's already known. If that makes sense :)

Little bug! Not sure if known already. I spawn near Kamyshovo and decide to cut off a stick from a tree with my stone knife. I believe it was the tall pine tree. I head to the police station to the apple tree because I'm really hungry and I want to eat something. I search for my first apple on the tree and eat it. I search for a second apple on the tree and........... I have multiplied apples! I am officially Jesus. I try to eat the first apple on the stick: I right-click and instead of ''Eat'' i get a ''Receiving...''. Like the apple is bugged. God dammit, I can't be Jesus today. I take the stick to my hand and all apples dissapear from the stick. I put the stick back on my back and look for more apples. Same thing! I Find one, eat it, and when I find the second one, the previous one is still on the stick, but not eatable. Now 2 bugged apples on the stick and 1 good one to eat. I have to put the stick in my hand again to make them dissapear. I was almost magic Baron today. /sadface.

Do you know what we need? This.

N.B.: I think emu's new look is very cool, but not leather hat cool.

Some visual bugs I am experiencing: not sure if already known or should I submit to the tracker :/ weird white outline I get on objects in the distance (at night) That white pixel visual static-y noise. This is very weird to look at D: See all the little white pixels on the tree on the ground. These are flickering whenever I move the camera.

Nobody else going on interesting adventures? Here's another one. This one's pretty bad. My day started horribly, irl, with a sucky medical procedure, so I was already in a crappy mood when I got home and hopped on DayZ to see if I can clean up our camptropolis and get a little gardening plot going to feed the crew. I get some pumpkins going and log off for a few hours. @starvingart joins me a little later in the early evening and we decide to set up a second camp at our preferred location in the North East. We grab a few essential items from the main camp (that I promise to replace, of course) and head with the gear down to the trucks, to figure out which one we'll take. We decide on the orange truck. I mean, the one on the left, because the one on the right got stuck on an invisible stump. No biggie, I grab the gear from the right truck, and decide to switch it over to the left truck. In my crappy tired brain state, I somehow manage to put the gear back in the stuck truck. At this point I'm 300% certain the gear is in the non-stuck truck. So off we go to our desired destination. Halfway there, we notice that the gear is, in fact, not in the current truck. I had dun goofed and left it back in the stuck truck. starvingart is understandably annoyed (not really, kinda, maybe a little) but I'm extra pissed at my stupid mistake. Just need to laugh it off at this point, we'll shortly find a stuck sedan, manage to un-stuck it and decide we can come back later for the gear. Looking for a good spot to set up shop. We contemplate the meaning of life. Why is this day so shitty? And why does it have to rain all the time? Is this Seattle or what? Sigh... Off we go again. There is a huge desync/laggy issue while driving, framedrops are crazy. I can't remember what happens to the truck but I somehow manage to inherit of the sedan's wheel and off we go again. It's pretty Not too bad but driving in cities is horrible and choppy. At some point I get a nice cruising speed and all of a sudden I realize something: For those of you who watch Better Call Saul, I just pulled a Kim Wexler. The desync caused me to entirely miss the slight curve in the road and here we are. A picture is worth a thousand words so I'll let art's reaction speak for itself. I bended the steel beam. This day is true shite. Art needs to stop for a bit in a sacellum. I stay outside out of respect for the religious experience. He's probably praying to all sorts of different gods to grant him the strength to put up with me at this point. Shitty day almost over.

Looking for vehicles It is a windy night tonight in Chernarus; trees are swaying under the breeze, blowing at a steady 18 mph ( a 4, on the Beaufort scale, if you'd like to know.) I wake up on the coast, Berezino to be more exact. I, of course, pig out on apples for a while, enough to get me healthy, and off I go to meet up with @emuthreat and starvingart. We resurrected what I hope to be our camp megalopolis. We got 3 tents for now, can't complain. After a few drunk tunes around the campfire, we go inside one of the tents before we depart. A glowstick was thrown in a barrel and it made a cool shadow on the ceiling of the tent, like a weird blueish glowing portal ready to swallow us whole. I hop in the passenger seat, leaving emu in the bed of the truck. He's not wearing any waterproof gear and it's raining; let's all have a moment of silence out of respect for our brave, chilly comrade. See? All wet. This motherfvcker is about to die on us real soon and that's not cool. We are so mad we destroy the shit out of it. I even punch it with a rock. That's how mad I am! (We're not really mad, we just want to make it despawn. Can you spot emu?) Looting this and that. I hear some crickets and that makes me happy. About to make a pit-stop in Elektro. I almost made it full circle, back to my original provenance. Emu, which i will now dub the Great Survivor, heating up a bit and refilling on calories before we part ways in order to maximize our search efforts for a new vehicle. Here is where we part ways; I go with art because why not. A few pit stops along the way; Gotta stay hydrated and energized. Apples will never fail you. Now if I could just shake that tree.... Running back to camp before going to bed. There was a conversation about a Schrödinger chicken but that's a story for another day. ** edited to include a few bugs i got: a. once every couple of minutes i will get a noticeable shift on the gamma range of the game, like it ''kicks up'' a notch. Then it goes back to normal (how it previously was). Then it does it again. Intermittently. b. I have a weird white stroke/outline on some objects in the distance, this is new from today (on stable x64). it's very thin, 2 pixels at most. c. I cannot hear the fire, the wind sound is extremely faint. edited for more shots My good friend Fillmore, aka Chet Manley, aka the greatest RPer that has ever lived. Met up with him in Krutoy Cap, trying to keep himself alive after having been hit by a wave of hypothermia. He has a rough start to his day as his game is buggy. His game crashes and he collapses, I, of course, try to revive him with my trusty cheek CPR. To no avail. He relogs and dies upon logging out. I am alone again. At least I got a nice view. (clouds added because &/$%* posterization that i am trying to hide.)

I spawned on the coast yesterday. A zombie came after me. I one-shot him. With a rock. A rock.

I don't think it's this huge deal/gamebreaker for anyone, but you know me, I love screenshots, and it is definitely a pet peeve as I have to manually attempt to blur it out each time, losing precious pixel data in the process and it kind of bums me out. Maybe it's just my graphics cards but honestly it's not THAT old or crappy.

Any tips for my sky posterization issue? I'm not sure I should file this in the bug tracker. And I've been googling to see if people have the same issue but no one seems to mention it. /sadface