ColdAtrophy

Yeah. Me. :P I play 3pp with Schwabam, DaveB, and Eno, but 1pp will forevermore be home to me. Even if 1pp never picks up popularity in the community as a whole, I really don't give a fuck. I don't play DayZ for the player interaction, if one could even call the near constant KoS any kind of real interaction. I play DayZ to live the zombie apocalypse. I want to be afraid. I want to be surprised. The 3rd person camera stifles a lot of that, whether people realize it or not. I can't tell you how many times I've been genuinely surprised by a zombie in 1pp that I would've seen a block away in 3pp. In short, 3pp plays like a game, which I guess is what some people are really after. 1pp plays more like a simulation. I don't have to think about my camera perspective or what another person might be seeing from some asinine viewpoint with their drone cam. I can just get lost in the experience. Once .59 hits Experimental, we get zombies back and while I will still play 3pp with the aforementioned bros (salt of the earth kind of dudes, imo), 1pp will again be my primary mode. I can't wait to get back to cleansing Chernarus of the infected once again. (See profile pic)

This thread. It's like watching a chick go back to an abusive boyfriend or watching a dear friend backslide into heavy cocaine use. We all know how this story ends people. Grimey Rick shows up and at least 2 people get a one week ban. Then the topic gets locked and nothing was accomplished. Why must we go through this over and over?

Was this really necessary? Have we not done this exact same poll like 15 times before?

For Mr. Hicks, if his is so inclined: 1) So sometimes, albeit rarely, I find myself behind an unaware player that is simply laying there and trying to snipe people for no real reason. I think to myself, how great would it be if I could go up behind this guy, pull this combat knife out of my boots, and slit this guy's throat without making much of a sound just in case he has friends around? When I think of this, I'm imagining an animation sequence wherein there could even be a skill based struggle of some kind. Seems pretty gritty, survival-y to me and like it would be right up DayZ's metaphorical aisle. What say you? 2) SInce it's not possible for us to have access to Enscript just yet, what would you recommend a prospective modder do to prepare in the mean time as far as scripting is concerned? Since, as you previously mentioned, Enscript is closer to C++ than to Real Virtuality's SQF, would it be most advisable to brush up on C++ while we wait?

I just threw up from pure joy.

Yep, Happened to me too. It sucks. https://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/228576-character-reset/

My two cents: Gorka is the best balance of camouflage, carrying capacity, and protection from the elements. That's why everyone wears it. There should be civilian analogues of most military gear barring, of course, things that there aren't reasonable civilian counterparts for like grenades or AKM with a drum mag. Perks from military gear should come in the form of things like the Plate Carrier which offers an unbeatable combination of style and capacity but that comes together as a result of scrounging for the pieces. Surviving a military location once or twice is no big deal. Checking them constantly to finish a set requires patience and skill. Civilian top end gear can simply be controlled through rarity and can also require piecing together sets. After all, as someone who spends an obnoxious amount of time meticulously looting every nook and cranny of civilian areas, I can say without a doubt that items like the Winchester are desperately needed in the civilian loot pool. Moar "holy shit look what I found in this random shack in the middle of the woods!" plox. Either way, most of this is a symptom of alpha and I would advise patience in addition to discussions like this. EDIT: Also as a bit of an add-on that just popped into my head, military gear is made by the lowest bidder almost universally. Civilian gear can be as well made and fantastic as you can afford. I would much rather stumble across something like this (http://www.sosproducts.com/Two-Person-Emergency-Survival-Kit-Backpack-p/240.htm) in some random house in the woods than a SPOSN. And that's not even a great example of what I mean. There are some really nice (and pricey) civilian items that could rarely exist in a game like DayZ.

Hey OP. I did send you a private message so I could help you long before anyone posted in here. You never replied. Last time I tried to help someone with this, my topic was blocked and my post hidden because the forum admins don't differentiate between scripting to cheat and a script for gaming peripheral software.

I have a run toggle on my mouse. Trust me when I say it isn't an advantage in any competitive context. In fact, the first day I used it I jumped off the roof of a hospital accidentally. I plan to play games until the day I breathe my last. I will be pissed if I can't play DayZ XII in my virtual simulation room because of arthritis.

I can personally confirm that the game supports all the way up to 4K, but it will only show you the supported resolutions as reported by your system. That said, running DayZ higher than 1080p requires some serious hardware that the vast majority of us, even with better than average rigs, simply don't have. If it were me, I'd wait until the tail end of beta before I invested in any hardware purchases for this game. There are just too many unknowns at the moment.

IIRC, all clothing types of the same category currently offer the same levels of protection. For example, the Plate Carrier gives the same level of protection as an Assault Vest or, as in this case, the Anti-stab Vest. Although I don't think I am, I may be wrong. There could perhaps be a few exceptions floating around out there. That said, the devs have recently talked about a total rework of the damage system and if I understand correctly that would include reworking protection from gear. Perhaps the Anti-stab vest will one day provide protection from sharp melee weapons.

https://youtu.be/i28UEoLXVFQ

Once upon a time I was a console scrub. Then I built a shiny new PC. I asked my buddy, " What should I buy so we have something other than BF4 to play?" He sayeth unto me, "DayZ". After a small amount of research and my very first forum topic, (https://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/221826-considering-purchasing-the-game/) I did purchase DayZ SA and my world was never the same again. Then there was this little gem, entitled "Noob on a Rescue Mission": https://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/222069-noob-on-a-rescue-mission/ It almost brings a tear to my eye, seeing the problems I was struggling with, things I do now without even thinking about. I once drove a truck from Kamenka to Severograd (or something like that) after 9 or 10 shots of rum, so drunk I couldn't even see straight, to pick up Biohaze who had fallen off a roof and respawned and I didn't wreck once. Here I was, such a green little noob, worried about zombies in Krasnostav! LMAO! I was playing the new-er-ish Tomb Raider game that was on sale last week on Steam and there's a part where Lara stumbles across a bunch of wreckage and a makeshift camp. She walks away from two giant PET bottles of clean water! She throws away a perfectly good pack! In the very next scene, she's bitching about how she's hungry and thirsty. WTF dumbass. The whole time I was screaming at the cutscene. DayZ has changed the way I play games and the scope I use to examine games. I can't believe I already put 1000 hours into this game. I still feel like I have barely played it.

Some of my favorite shots taken thus far:

I'm just saying that the devs do not appear to have plans aimed at making this game, DayZ SA, as survival oriented as the OP was suggesting.

I have a very strong feeling that this game will never be so survival focused. It doesn't come from a game that is that heavily survival oriented nor a studio that seems to have any real aim towards achieving such a thing.

I'm still around, but my 1PP buddy refuses to play with no infected so I play on a 3PP server with some new friends. Took some getting used to for sure. Also, I bought Arma 3 so I can shoot something. Waiting for hoppers to show up at a quonset on a low pop gets boring after awhile.

Like ikr. How dare he get immersed in a video game with a stated primary goal of immersion from a developer that has a history of creating immersive games?

Chris wasn't talking about that kind of documentation. He was talking about documentation pertaining to the creation of new art for the game so that everyone has a standard and a set of rules. I'm not 100% sure about all that entails, but I'd imagine that it's best to have a core set of guidelines for anything new made for the game so that as little as possible has to be reworked or redone. I think he was comparing to The Witcher only because (based on the context of when he first brought it up) the guys at CD Projeckt Red had either just spoken before him or he had just spoken to them. Granted, this is just conjecture, but it's based on the manner in which he was speaking. I could be wrong. I actually agree with you here. As much as I love being a part of this, I hope other devs learn from the struggles that DayZ has gone through. If this was a project like one of the other EA titles I own (Stranded Deep or Interstellar Marines) wherein the devs were working with an established engine and simply adding features and bugfixing, it wouldn't have been a big deal. Instead they opted to develop Enfusion concurrently with DayZ SA and I can't help but feel that, while it will be best for the long run, neither the players nor the developers are well equipped to deal with the particular problems that this creates. However, if BI had gone the other route, they risked DayZ spending too much time out of the public eye which could have negated the relevancy of the entire project. I guess what I'm saying is that I feel DayZ SA's project is too complex to have player access to alpha builds. I think that, in general, we have as a community demonstrated that the majority of us can't even be bothered to read the rather simplistic weekly status reports, let alone report bugs to the tracker, or handle the massive fluctuations in functionality and playability. I'm guilty of it to an extent as well with the recent lack of zombies. I haven't harassed anyone over it, but it's tough to contain my disappointment all the same. These issues would be easier for me to swallow if we got more detailed and technical stuff from the dev team about what they are specifically working on, but I imagine that would be impossible for many reasons. I can't wait to see how that turns out. I will likely end up getting it for my stepson on the PS4. I'm most interested in seeing the end results of all the optimizations that would absolutely have to take place before the game is even remotely playable on the 8th gen consoles. I have an i5-4690k @ 4.5ghz, 16GB RAM, an SSD, and a GTX 970. I still get a minimum FPS of about 30 after a lot of experimenting and tweaking for quality vs performance. The consoles have custom AMD APUs that are nowhere near up to the task of running something like DayZ SA in its current state. While I'm not heavily invested in how that all turns out, my curiousity is still quite piqued.

"Your character was unable to be loaded and has been reset. A system administrator has been notified. Please reconnect to continue." I just got this error message in game. Any ideas on what I should do? I spawned on the coast just after this. EDIT: Just uploaded a video to Youtube. Processing now....

LIES! That never happens. :D

I've been saying this for quite a while now. Console gamers have never seen anything like DayZ. They are going to lose their shit. I can say that with a fair degree of certainty as I was primarily a console gamer up until about a year ago. I am the tiniest of samples, but I do represent the kind of console gamer that would buy into DayZ and I've put in 1000 hours since I bought it sometime around the beginning of the year.

Actually, it's RivaTuner OSD but it comes with Afterburner.

EXPERIMENTAL PREP! About one hour ago! Time to try not to get too excited in case it's a false alarm.

To whom are you speaking?