ColdAtrophy

It's possible, but that makes the cost of running a server exceptionally, prohibitively high. People are not going to want to pay for or rent multiple machines to run one server. Also, you probably technically could build another machine to run some of what the client does, but once more of the rendering processes are offloaded to the GPU, what difference is there between that and SLI/Crossfire? Factor in DX12 utilization with the new renderer which has been promised for some time after beta (DX11 first), hopefully before full release. There won't be a point. Also, not to sound like a broken record, but the new renderer should help a lot with performance for the previously mentioned reasons. You are talking about throwing a massive amount of hardware and computing power at something that is already not utilizing the hardware we have effectively or efficiently. <--Not a judgement, just a fact. Even if you somehow built up a mod that could use all that extra hardware, very few, if any, other people would even be willing to try to run it. At best, someone might make a youtube video about how crazy you are.

It's fine man. It's still on topic for modding at least. What I've had a problem with was the recurring gun debate and people trying to vent general frustrations with development or use this as an avenue for attacking the devs. Nothing you've said falls into those categories.

Tbh, I'm not sure, but we do know that SQL is being replaced by Enscript and that is supposed to be able to be processed much faster than SQL. Time will tell. It's definitely an exciting time to be involved in this project!

I've got an i5-4690k @ 4.5ghz and a GTX 970. At max settings, 1080p, 100% resolution scale I get 27 FPS minimum. With a few cfg tweaks and dropping object quality (which I won't have to do with when occlusion culling gets worked out), I can bump that up to 40. The new renderer will change quite a lot, as well the multi-threading optimizations that Eugen talked about at the beginning of this year. For the record, SLI Titan X's wouldn't move your minimum FPS by not one frame. Right now, we are limited by server simulation rate and CPU single core performance.

We can't make sweeping statements on this yet. One of the features of the new renderer is supposed to be proper occlusion culling which should substantially improve the FPS in cities issue.

Yes indeed sir. Biohaze and I have spent hundreds of hours on them.

There are a few on Stable. I stress, a few. We basically have 10 or less servers to play on and none of them ever get over 20 players. I suppose if I expanded search parameters to include regions other than the US, I'd likely find more but I don't want to encourage any more latency than what is already inherent in the game. Just fyi. The player base is currently smaller than it has ever been. 1pp players were already a minority. Zombies are not a presence in 0.58 and that drove away quite a few players as well. Currently, I'd be surprised if there were enough 1pp players to fill two servers at any given time.

I get that your point was more about 1pp vs 3pp and various unbalancing or immersion breaking factors. I didn't mean to derail, it's just that I've been curious about this whole subject of 3rd party VOIP for some time. Biohaze pointed out one really important thing though to me in conversation that sort of renders the whole thing moot. What would prevent someone from just using Skype on their phone or a tablet? Nothing. There is literally no possible way to control it.

Is that a legal thing to do? This was the only reasonable conclusion I came to awhile back, but abandoned it as I figured that, even if it was somehow legal for one program to purposefully suppress another when both are non-malicious, it might piss off the companies that run the 3rd party voip services.

If you had actually read my post, you'd see that I'm not calling anyone dumb. I'm saying that it's stupid that this DESIGN problem has never been addressed. Us arguing with one another accomplishes absolutely nothing.

It bothers me that the devs haven't just taken a hard stance on this and taken actions towards their goal. On one hand they say that 3pp will never be removed, but on the other hand they regularly say things like, "[we've] considered making all official servers 1pp" or "the best way to play DayZ is 1pp". It's dumb that we have to have this argument weekly. I could almost literally copy+paste the argument from last time or the time before that or the time before that. It's dumb that they never fixed this problem when it cropped up in Arma. Google it. Threads go back years and years with people complaining about it in Arma as well. It's dumb that they released DayZ with 3pp at all, based on the previous issues encountered with it, especially when one factors in permadeath. It's dumb that they haven't just lowered the camera and pulled it in tighter to the back of the player model. 99% of the competitive issues with it would go away for, being generous here, a day's worth of work.

Yes, this. Typing friendly in chat can easily be translated into "shoot me now before I shoot you".

The time and date can be set to any time or date in the mission settings. In experimental, for example, we are currently in autumn but we've been in summer before too. The devs set this for every update.

I could see something like this becoming a thing. Obviously, one would have to invent a theme park. And also explain why there are guns and ammo everywhere. Still, as an element of a larger map, it could definitely work.

Actually, you haven't touched on anything really. Other than your opinion that has little, if anything, to do with the topic at hand. I will ask you this one last time to please stay on topic. If you have something to add about what you'd like to see in DayZ within the context of new map ideas, then please share. Otherwise, please move along. The button for reporting nonsense is really easy to find.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=subjective+vs+objective

Yay. This thread........again......this week......*grabs popcorn and lawn chair*

To which truth are you referring? Whether or not you or I like something has no bearing on objective truth. For the record, I wasn't trying to start any argument. Just trying (again) to keep the thread on track.

Dunno. Ask Hicks. Last I heard they were still rewriting actions and such. I won't pretend to know what half the shit they tell us means.

Did anyone else have a whole body cringe when the model impales itself with a pitchfork?

I would just like to throw this out there: we need a SPAS-12. One reason really. Jurassic Park. That is all.

Did you have anything to actually contribute to this thread or are you just here to incite an argument?

That and the NEW ANIMATION SYSTEM.

None of that will discourage someone from firing one more round into your head. At all. I'm not even a KoS troll. I do not PvP. I will still fire one bullet into the head of a downed enemy to make absolutely sure that they cannot continue to present a threat to me. And it would be easy to change my behavior relative to someone who kills players constantly. But I still have no idea what you could do to make me stop performing a double tap for safety. It just makes good sense.