Mystic Bagel

Gotta love self-fulfilling prophecies.......I cant thank you enough for my biggest LOL moment today...... I'm beginning to wonder if maybe these Forums are the best part of DayZ

Wrong......Battlefield 4 lets you cancel joining the server after choosing to join. So with THAT, there's at LEAST one AAA Blockbuster game with that feature.....

Banned...mwaahaaahaaahaaaaahaaaa

change the in-game resolution in video settings. The OTHER option would be to uninstall, clear the registry, and reinstall

The audio is a mess for sure. The one that irritates me the MOST is the high pitched "beep" sound that happens every few seconds the entire time. It sounds like the spawn beacon in Battlefield. Not sure if its something you all hear or if it's sound card specific, or if I'm just going insane...either way.....why is it FOLLOWING ME!!??

You're living on borrowed time, friend

I don't suffer as badly from the lag in cities as some of you talk about. Have you guys "unparked" all your processors cores? My performance in games has increased considerably since having unparked mine. If you have never unparked all the cores of your CPU, here's a link to show you the process. http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility FYI.....this article talks about Intel, however as an owner of an AMD FX8350, I can confirm it works for both CPU's

Im not sure we need a breakfast simulator.......

See LOLCATS.....this is why they make you sing songs and force you into bum fights......stand UP for yourself man. Its better to DIE on your FEET, than to LIVE on your KNEES!!!!

Your Right, Mr. Gentleman, I was just giving you a hard time. Keeping worms in your pockets is, well, kind of gross, as for berries, they don't do well in pockets. A one slot container that holds those types of items would be a reasonable and practical addition. Not to mention, it will help the ladies keep their makeup organised! My wife could use something like that for her purse............

Thats a great idea......we could have Tupperware parties!!!!

I'm pretty sure what exepro22 was trying to relay, was IF you run into him you won't have to worry about performing a tap dance routine while singing the lyrics to "I'm Alive" by Celine Dion. He will simply let you continue on with your dignity intact by carefully placing 2 rounds in the backside of your Loudspeaker

Huh???

I believe that guns should be plentiful, the ammo rare. If guns were no longer in production, there would still be billions of them, Ammo however would become a dwindling resource. If ANYTHING, make casings more common than live ammo. Then make ammo a craftable item, with the resources being somewhat common, but heavy and cumbersome. If you wanted to gather that resource, lets say it could either a) takes up a disproportionate amount of storage slots OR if weight comes into play is heavy enough that you cant carry much else other than some basic gear. OR, it could be in small enough quantities (lead and sulpher) that you would only be able to make a few rounds at a time. In an apocalyptic scenario you wouldn't ever need to make guns, you would eventually need to make ammo.

That would be cool. I have Black Bears where I live, often they are just outside in the yard digging up the lawn looking for bugs. They're pretty timid though and scare off easily. Wolves would be a MUCH bigger threat than bears if you're solo. If you REALLY want to kick up the threat levels, put Moose into the game......they're miserable giants with anger management issues.

I know that diesel would be more current, but finding the necessary quantity of fuel for it to be plausible, would wind up being completely prohibitive, if not going way out on a limb of realism. (2-3 cans of diesel to keep it running for x/time) Fuel should be fairly hard to come by. I know, HERE, where I live, we have train museums as well as historic trains that sometimes go out on the rails for special events. I KNOW in a small town where my dad lives, they run a steam train every summer for the tourists, the few that stop to use the washroom, lol Coal is by FAR the most widely used fuel for power generation in the world. It WOULD be completely plausible for a rail car filled with coal to be found, as well as steam engines. Coal is abundant, Diesel would be rare. Gas can spoil, coal...not so much. As far as sabotaging tracks goes, I would think that would be ok, so long as the destructible locations were in limited quantities, and the materials readily available to repair them, otherwise the trains would almost always be stopped to fix tracks and no one would bother to use them, making it a waste of programing/server resources. Autos vs Train? Unless we're going the route of 1000 vehicle servers and full gas cans everywhere, in which case I would no longer be interested in this game, running Auto's will be rare, fuel will be uncommon. Hopping the trains would be far safer than driving autos, and more clandestine as well. Trains would get you CLOSE to most places, autos would get you exactly to where your wanting to go, but in a land where the loudest noise is the wind & Rain.....everyone else will know exactly where your going too. You hear a auto, you KNOW someones coming....you hear and see the train coming, theres no guarantee anyone is still on it, you only know someone WAS on it at some point and its running out its fuel. Obviously, these are just MY opinions and in no way should be taken as trying to hijack and "Railroad" Odrakis' Idea. I like it and think it has a TONNE of merit

Patience Grasshoppah.....you're only saving yourself 10 minutes...if times that precious, your wasting valuable seconds reading this reply, stop now while your ahead!!!! So did YOU break down and buy it..or did someone ELSE break down and buy it for you? Regardless, you're going to need to replace the game in your sig......

Does it Ding when the clips empty?

I would venture a bet a member of the Taliban or an Amish fellow would..............

Much older than you, son. If your buddies aren't able to feel it out on their own and think an In-Game manual is something they need, to read, then try reading the forums. I think that's, and I quote, " Intelligent advices" plural, you know, because I have made more than one suggestion, . Ok, listen. You go hiking into the back country alone, everything is just sunshine and lollipops. Suddenly, and without warning the edge of the trail crumbles away under your feet and you fall down a steep embankment, rap yer noodle off of a tree, and lose consciousness. When you awaken, you have a slight concussion and cant recall which direction you were headed, your pack is 20 feet away and looks as though a bear tore through it, consuming anything that smelt like feet. Your cell phone, which didn't get a signal ANYWAYS, is smashed and unusable, so you cant access it to read the "survival guide" ebook you pirated the week before. You are confused, scared, hungry, and bleeding........to make matters worse...WTF is THAT!!?...a fucking ZOMBIE!!?....GEEEZUZ CHRIST!!!

How about a train that just continuously travels around the map? You would have to run along side and time the ladder properly and then jump aboard. Long enough that one group of guys couldn't just hijack the train and roll through killing everyone who tries to board. Sure would be a trip when a player suddenly spawns into the car your in. I could be an interesting element. Maybe having a coal car right behind the engine. To get the Train running, a player needs to shovel some coal into furnace to get it going, shovel and matches required, and it runs continuously for x amount of hrs. Sounds like a good idea to me Odrakis, here, have some beans for breakfast!!

I agree with one point, Zeds health shouldn't be static, and they're not. There are faster types, slower types, stronger types (Like the MPs), and weaker types. The REAL bottom line here is, they haven't really touched on the integration of the Zeds into the game yet. Once they DO, I'm SURE that there will be a wider range of weakness/toughness due to the fact that there will be WAY more of them to contend with. That said, and to note, I've only got 40 hrs into this Alpha, when you first start it SHOULD be confusing. Really, when was the last time you had to scavenge for food and water, remediate a spontaneous injury on the fly, or otherwise be suddenly FORCED to survive? Unless you've overcome homelessness or some other third world environment, probably never. There are COUNTLESS guides available concerning your first DayZ day. If it's too confusing and difficult, I would suggest they start reading through these forums....THATS easy. Secondly, I've rarely, in all of the respawns I've experienced, have I had to deal with Zeds the instant I spawn, OR within minutes, although it HAS happened and it does suck to have to run for your life before you can look for any supplies....still though, it's an unexpected and engaging scenario in DayZ. My FINAL thought here is this.....IF your friends are finding it too difficult/confusing/frustrating, just wait until they spend hrs on end gathering supplies in buttfuk nowhere, finally see another human player and then get KoS and looted.....lol So REALLY....the Zeds are actually the LEAST of their problems....and judging by their dislike of them, they are going to HATE this Alpha. I don't mean to come across as though I'm an a$$hole, only that the DayZ experience isn't MEANT to be easy, and it really is TOO easy at this stage of development and will only get harder as they start to refine the game. Tell your friends to read the forums

So here is something I think could help balance the rising murder rate in DayZ SA Lets assume that whomever inflicts damage on another player first and lives, is considered a murderer. Lets assess a penalty for being a murderer, in increments, and carries through death. 1 murder = no penalty 2-3 murders = Zeds are attracted to your presence and lock-on leaving all neutral players alone. 4-5 murders = Zeds range of attraction increases, drawing them from a wider radius resulting in greater numbers 6+ murders = unable to equip firearms Murderers can reduce their murder count by 1 every 24hrs by visiting a church/shrine and praying (sitting still for a set timed count down) Heroes/Non Murderers could hunt/kill murderers with impunity. I guess the only problem would be how to identify the Murderers.......I mean aside from the every increasing stream of Zeds chasing after them. Any arguments for or against?

If you are lost and want to locate something with little to no effort, pick a direction and double tap W and then jam bread clip under the 2 &3 keys so it holds the W key down. Now sit back and relax. Once you see a town, you can find the road leading into/out of and there will be town signs. Match the name on sign to the cryllic name on map and try to orientate yourself to the layout of the town. Voila....not lost anymore...untill you die

Not entirely true, Gameservers may not allow restart warnings but other servers must. Yesterday I was playing on a server and a warning came up saying "Warning : Server Reset in Approx. 10 minutes" Then a few minutes later again "Warning : Server Reset in Approx. 5 minutes" then a couple minutes after that I lost connection. So some servers DO in fact have reset warnings