d.walker43

ive only found 1, and it might have led to my scariest experience ever in dayz. I was at Balota, and I walked into one of the hangars. there were 3 bodies in close vicinity of each other, all stripped of clothing and gear. piece of paper in the middle. all it said was "crazies were here." I continued, and found tons of stored up loot in the top of the ATC. everything you could imagine was there. i heard some people talking, so i laid down and waited. eventually the voices faded away. I then heard gunshots. no normal mosins or nothing, these guys had multiple AK's and m4's. i waited for a break in the action, and ran off into the woods. The crazies were at Balota that day. And they were crazy.

I myself am a outdoorsman/hunter in real life, once possible this will for sure be my playstyle. in a real zombie apocalypse, this is for sure how I would plan on living. Live off hunting/garden in forest base, only go into town for necessary supply runs. Chickens and animals in general need to be a lot more common, I know that it is planned for more zombies but im not sure about animals. Anyway, I think the game should include animal/survival methods of living, having knowledge of survival and outdoorsmen stuff should give you an advantage in-game. it would in a real life scenario, which this game strives to be close to.

Simply a glitch, as others said they walk through the doors, its better then it was but it still needs work. will be fixed soon. I do however, think that eventually the zombies will be able to break down doors/barricades.

bumping this again. im trying to make this the master list, lol it needs to stay on the front page

all fun and games, until this happens. "blah blah blah, Balota, hahaha...PEW PEW PEW! ahhh *MACHINE GUN SOUNDS* ahhh.....silence." would be very fun, and actually pretty scary if this happened. I know if I set up the radio station all I would do is impersonate 3-dog and play classic rock for all of Chenaurus to hear.

Hi guys, after playing some of my other games I wondered something. How come games like Planetside 2 can have thousands of players in the same server, while Dayz can only have 40 without serious performance issues? Is it possible to use these optimizations/technology in DayZ, making it so we could have more players, zombies, animals, etc? obviously we would only want like 80-100 players, but could this be used to increase zombie/animal's numbers? Simply wondering. Thanks.

In a sense we are going to have "bosses". Hordes are pretty much confirmed, the current engine cant handle them yet but they will be added with the new engine. a horde of at least 50 zombies all attacking at once will take more than an axe/1 shot to kill. so they are a kind of boss in a sense. hope I answered your question.

I usually try to go with a mosin, and have a back-up mpk5 in my inventory. if I see a ak or m4 I will still take it though. also try to get some pistols, when im a fresh spawn I try to just get any gun that I have ammo for, I take any ammo I find. once ak74 is added I might take that over mpk.

1: great to hear that. 2: there is a larger road. not a highway. ad if it even is a highway, there needs to be several of them that connect the larger cities, but need to be filled with cars and zombies. 3: Cherno, or even Novo, is still very small. compare it to an actual town. by large town, I mean so big that it should take up like 5x the space Novo takes up right now. maybe more. also, the new city they are adding is not even as big as Novo. so its not "huge". 4: more. again u know people have suggested this before, but more islands and farther out, and bigger. 5: I did search. that's where the island idea came from. Thanks for the feedback, have a good day.

sounds great! I have 1 concern though. why is the first vehicle going to be a military vehicle? I was under the impression that it would be a bike, atv, or small civilian car. something that will be common. military vehicles are going to be rare. so why is the first vehicle in the game going be one of the uber-rare ones? doesn't make much sense to me.

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not really. i was suggesting this more so that u could compare specs, and see if ur computer is simply not powerful enough.

well if its worse then your current one don't even bother, maybe try using a friends computer

works fine, if alt tab doesn't work you can click on the lil shortcut that is pinned to the taskbar, that takes you back as well.

Do you have another computer in the house you could try it on? That one seems pretty weak,but I still think it would run it but you never know. try it on a different computer or at a friends house or something.

I think if it was added, it should be later. this should be one of the guns that could be added to vehicles and such, and should be implemented around the same time.

Alright guys, thanks for the answers. I think I kind of understand now. Guess we'll just have to wait for optimizations to come. Alright, sorry I figured that since I was talking about Dayz still it should go here, if you want to move it that's fine.

Alright. Fair enough. :)

Yes, your right, but remember that everyone would try to get the military stuff right away. And, this is probably several years after the apocalypse began. The military would still have tried to combat the zombies in the beginning stages, so they would obviously be using their own equipment. Also, think for a minute. Where have you ever seen a military helmet cover in real life? probably not very often (unless you serve in armed forces). They wouldn't magically be everywhere once the military fell apart. Also, we all know that if military items are extremely common then this would just turn into Arma with some zombies scattered around. It would be what happened to DayZ mod all over again.

Ok, so what im getting out of this is that mmo engines can support tons of players better. I guess im confused about this then. Why wouldn't not only Dayz, but all games use an engine like this if it has the capability to support thousands of players at once, and in Planetside's case, pretty decent graphics too? Im not much of an expert when it comes to game development, so if someone could explain this in layman's terms that would be great. Thank you.

I understand. But remember that military helmets should be extremely uncommon to begin with. and covers should be even rarer. There is too much military loot as it is, there should be far more people wearing baseball and cowboy hats then using ballistic helmets and military-grade riot equipment. Id be fine if this was implemented, but I just don't see the usefulness of it.

Sorry 'bout that, ill fix it. also ill add your ideas, both good.

good, but too military-like. remember these are average civilians.

happened to me too. click configure (4th option down) then video (top-left I think) then resolution (top-right I think) then change the "screen resolution" (2nd option down) to your screen's maximum resolution.

I made a post exactly like this a few days ago, "The Unofficial Official Vehicle List" or something like that. Go check it out, ill take some of the things from this post and add it to the main one. Thanks for the ideas.