Kohlbar

So I've been playing on public a lot recently. And after many times looting up, going PvPing, getting killed, and repeating, it made me think... All the times I start out as a freshie on a high pop public server, I'm almost always getting shot at and the most friendly people I meet are other freshies. I, personally, try to uphold an anti-freshie-killing strategy, but last time that got me fucked when somebody was just posing as a freshie while his friends were in the bushes waiting to ambush me (clever ruse I must admit). It got me thinking, is public just inherently for PvP mainly? I mean, there's this huge advantage you get when playing public because you can go on any server, collect all the loot from all the different servers, and kill all the people who got all the loot from all the different servers. Basically there's a lot of loot! Then there's private, where everyone shares the same server and its loot, as I recall they're usually much more diverse as to where you will find people, how friendly people are, and what kind of gear you will end up with. These are all huge pluses for private servers in my opinion, but at the same time I just like playing public because it feels more official,,, and all my friends can play with me and have all of their gear on any server. My main point is that I wish there was more diversity in public servers, More proper bandits, more friendlies, less full-geared squads killing freshies on sight, and more of meeting people in different situations and different locations.

HI, I want to start using the Feedback tracker, but when I try to log into it, I get "Your account may be disabled or blocked or the username/password you entered is incorrect."but the exact same credentials work for logging into DayZ Forums. Is a separate account necessary for the tracker?

Hi, so a few months ago I got this Lenovo erazer with: Processor: AMD A8-7600 Graphics Card: AMD Radeon R9 255 and I was getting crap frames in cities, sometimes going as low as 10 fps. I didn't know why, but I carried on because the frames were at least slightly better than what I got on my laptop. Later on, I decided to switch which HDMI port I plugged my TV into, and since I used a different HDMI, my frames tripled and it finally feels like I'm playing on a decent computer! I'm pretty sure the manual recommended a certain HDMI port for personal use, but I disregarded that because I didn't think it'd make any big difference. I was wrong big time lol. I get 30-40 fps in cities and 60-70 in the open now. Anybody know why changing HDMI ports made such a big difference to my FPS?

Yeah, the one that works better is the horizontal one next to the graphics cards. Ah, well it's been about a week since using the other HDMI port and FPS and performance are still steady and improved. Yeah, I hear a lot of shit about AMD processors DayZ was designed for Intel blah blah blah so I'm really glad I'm getting the fps that I do. Looks like I was utilizing the internal graphics until recently, and with the R9 graphics card it is much better. Thanks for the informative replies!

Well, it might be more like 25 in the thick of the city, but on the borderlines i'm getting 40+ steady. This is a lot better than it was before and WORLDS better than the 5-10 frames I would get in cities on my freakin laptop lol. What you're saying about using the R9 makes sense because the HDMI port that helped the performance is on the Graphics Adapter slot of my computer, while the other is somewhere in the middle of the chassis. Basically, I was using the integrated graphics of the computer instead of utilizing my graphics card? This makes a lot of sense as it has helped pretty much EVERYTHING on my computer run much smoother. Edit: I play on very low settings, just fyi.

Hey guys I just acquired an ak74 and I was thinking about taking the buttstock off to make it look more "thug". Only thing holding me back is the potential loss of precision. Does anybody know if Weapon attachments such as the buttstock, handguard, or the condition of the attachments make any difference to the handling of the particular weapon or perhaps some helpful resources on the matter of weapon attachments?

Hell yeah it feels good! Love killing people.... but player vocal player interactions are also awesome... play how you want man i wouldn't be mad if you shot me on sight (i get that masochistic sigh of relief ALL THE TIME)

I have killed myself because I accidentally killed my friend and he said to "keep his stuff anyway." just felt weird carrying it around so I used it to kill myself. I have also killed myself for touching duped gear, but whenever I feel good about my current character and start to get bored with it, I just hang around the major cities in high pops and hope to go out in a blaze of glory.

A few weeks ago I bought a new PC and ever since, I can't direct chat in-game while sprinting. This is really annoying because that's when I do a lot of my talking, lol. For some reason, when I press down Shift + W + Caps Lock, Caps Lock doesn't work. It works with other 3-key combinations, but just not that. My keyboard is a Black Silk Lenovo keyboard that came as default with my new pc. it's a very basic and cheap keyboard. Does anybody know if this is just a problem with the keyboard or if there is a setting I can change to make Shift + W + Caps lock work? Thank you.

Wow thanks for the great feedback. Never knew anything about that keyboard rollover. I will just use double tapping for talking for now lol