HarryPotter (DayZ)

Only thing I'm not so kneen on with sks is to be sure of getting ammo you have to go to military places. Other than that it rocks. The repeater is the closest, in my mind to the sks if you don't live for jacking barracks for ammo.

Play private hives. I've never had this happen to me on a private server

Repeater. Easy to find, loads of ammo about, accurate, geared players leave you alone and other survivors don't see you ad a threat so give you ammo. I've taken a few well geared players with my trusty repeater. And it holds plenty of rounds and you don't need clips or mags!

There should be a test server/s where all items are easily available

I got drilled by am m4 straight of the beach twice today. Apart from that I met some cool guys, traded some shizz and had a cool gunfight at the building site in cherno.

My least favourite kind of player is the invisible kind who kos one shot kill you point blank when you are killing Zeds

I have no idea how to optimise my computer

Hi, as per title. I get the animation but no end product? Am I missing something?

Hey thanks I will try that tonight!

I think in the long run we might see different play styles represented on different servers. Like some will have tonnes of military gear and be a pvp fest and some will have only very basic civilian weapons and have very little pvp but lots of crating etc. Some might be just fists and knives etc and some will have everything..

No.. Some guy tried to jump me with a big hammer and I killed him with my baseball bat... I was so angry I wanted to cut him up and leave his bits on the road.

It may or may not have been a human....

I got lost. I don't like using maps outside the game, and headed off into the woods inland. I have no idea where I am but I'm trying to get to NWAF... This game is insane sometimes. So frustrating if you don't know where you're going! Apart from that I have a nice mosin with LRS and swan off shotgun, my trusty hockey stick (the zombie slayer) and plenty of food.. So I'm surviving, just have no idea where I am!

GForce experience

Im friendly most of the time, buy yeah most people will try and rush you, especially if you have gear. If I have a melee weapon and I see a fully geared player with lots of nice stuff... well I suppose I do sometimes try to take em. If I have a good enough weapon like a mosin or repeater, I just leave them as not fussed about military gear most of the time. The amount of times Ive been killed with no weapon with my hands in the air just trying to talk to people is ridiculous

nice vid

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/221501-dayz-sa-fps-help/ I used the Nvidia thing to optimise the game then followed the steps in this video. Word of warning though you set the max draw distance at 1000m which is fine for everything except spotting far off objects if you like to navigate using landmarks as all terrain over 1000m away is completely barren. So if you setup can handle it on the original setting I would leave it! I have an issue as I have only 4gb RAM so I need to switch off all sorts of background stuff to get good performance but you should be ok

Have a look in the trouble shooting section there is a good video there which I followed and had some good results. You have a much better machine than me so you should be ok

Interesting dayz.... So I logged in just off the coast on the east of the map. Pouring rain... Wet, hungry... Just your typical day in hell! I had a baseball bat in a moment and went to raid the police station. Nothing there.. Well what did I expect? All of a sudden I hear foot steps, I spin round on the spot just as a guy swings a sledge hammer at my head. I side step.. He misses and I catch him with the bat, he swings again and catches me good. I'm bleeding. It's do or die... I go caveman on him and smash his head in with my bat. Nice, he has a rain coat, a bag, some food and mixed ammo! I decide to head down to cherno planning to loop inland to the west and come round to the north of the town looting buildings on my way. I soon had a repeater with 6 rounds. It wasn't long before I found trouble.... I had gone miles off course and ended up coming onto the coast from the north as I'd planned, only miles east from where I had wanted(not sure of the name of the town I came upon).... I could hear gun shots.. M4, sks and something else maybe a mosin... I flanked the northern edged of the town down a steep valley and across a dirt track. Looking left and right as I sprint accross the dead ground on the valley floor I see a fresh spawn running out of town towards me... I stop just off the track in the bushes. The woman has seen me and I raise my repeater, she comes at me fists raised. It's not really what I want when I'm trying to be stealthy!! I end using all 6 rounds to get rid of her. Damn. No more rounds! But I decide to press on with my mission. I creep up to where I think the shots came from and sure enough I see a full decked guy croutched in a small courtyard. I pull out my trusty baseball bat and move on his position... If I had rounds he would be dead! I'm now right by his position on the other side of the wall... And I rush him. I get a good clean hit.. I can take him, but shit there is another guy there, he pulls his m4 and fills me with holes. It was worth a try.... I spawn back in just outside Cherno and start to loot buildings, heading west. The place is barren.. Nothing around and I'm starving and thirsty. I find a drybag in the middle of a road with some ok gear (food, bipod and cuffs) and decide to head up to the apartments. Nearing the small 2 story barracks in the middle of the apartments complex I get a server restart. Ace.... The server comes back and I'm in the barracks and get some good gear, mixed ammo, a wolf mask and a shovel. The plan now is to high tail it down to the airfield. I meet up with a guy being chased by a Zed and I kill the Zed for him. We trade some items, he gives me a pump action for some sks ammo. We have a quick chat and part company. Nice guy! I make it to the airfield and loot the hangers and control tower. Lots of ammo of all sorts (but no shotgun ammo) balistics helmet, plate carrier, LRS, hunting knife... Loads of stuff. I can't resist a peak on the roof of the control tower... And then as I'm coming down.... Whack.. Whack, rounds are falling all around me! I hit the ground and start to snake away, looking over my shoulders but I can't see anyone. The rounds are still coming pinning off the hangers as I sprint to the west, out of danger. I get to the town just outside the airfield. I'm alive. I'm glad. I log.

I'll take an sks any day

Wednesday is server maintenance day. Maybe it's because of this?

Maybe no one knows the answer?

Really? Never knew that, that's cool!

To my knowledge no

So I was thinking. Last night im out in the woods and get caught in the rain after a server restart. The weather goes from bright sunshine to heavy rain. Will it ever be possible to put a rain coat on over your shirt? I was wearing a police shirt so it should be possible to pull a rain coat on over it right?? So you could fold it up and pack it into your back taking up 2 slots then just whip it out when the rain starts. Im sure at some point we will have a more realistic mechanic for getting too hot while running about and will need the option to be able to layer clothing.... Sorry if this has been posted before :)