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try turning down alpha to coverage first, then AA second. Mess with one at a time and push apply, and see if there is a change. Your CPU and GPU should be able to run the game on high/very high combo though, so a verify of the integrity of game cache wouldn't hurt either.

I was reading some other suggestions, and it struck me as strange that literally the ONLY place to get good military gear is NWAF and Myskyno(sp?) tents. I have read some posts from the Devs explaining that the loot distribution is intentional because they are trying to create a "flow" of players and a sense of character progression. My question is, why does a sandbox mmo where you create your own story, even need a flow? My suggestion is to make the game a true sandbox experience, where players aren't lead to certain areas of the map. Let us develop our own characters. If I run all the way up to NEAF, I should expect similar gear to drop at NWAF. Not just the air bases, but smaller military installations as well. Currently, you would most likely get better gear from a small unnamed village compared to NEAF, or any military installation for that matter on the eastern side of the map. There is literally no military gear on the eastern side, besides player's camps, random heli crashes and maybe a police station. Why do the developers want us to migrate to the northwest? Why not make similar gear spawn in similar locations all across Chenarus? Is it about concentrating player population so it forces more interaction? Or is it just purely for the flow? I have ~300 hours logged of in game time, and I hardly know the Eastern side of the map (besides the coast) at all. There is no point to explore over there, at least for me, because the gear is so bad compared to the Western side.

I have been playing DayZ for 5-6 months, so yes I am new compared to some of you guys for sure. I never played the mod, and only spent 15-20 hours with Arma2. Assuming the game takes off when it does a public 1.0 release, there will be a lot more new players. A "fresher" perspective may be what the game needs. I started playing DayZ because I saw Frankie's videos and thought this game looked awesome, and it is! I am very curious, though, if the east will ever have similar loot to the west. If a barracks spawns military weapons and clothing in the west, a barracks in the east should spawn similar items. Thats how it should be in my opinion anyway. I can't speak for the way it used to be, but my guess is that people no longer really PvP on the eastern side of the map because there isn't much gear compared to the western side. If people used to run to the NEAF and nearby cities, it was probably because there was actually something there. Since I have been playing, NEAF has been empty of loot.

No...my proposal is to distribute military gear (in the appropriate places) across the entire map, instead of it all being amassed in a couple spots. It's true that is about all of the map I currently use though, plus north west air field and everything on the way. Everyone is entitled to their own playstyle, and mine is a tactical military approach. Not my problem if you have an issue with my playstyle, but if you have something constructive to add feel free :)

Thanks for the updates guys. I am looking forward to the new audio and the new animations the most. The only questions I really have is about the audio. Is it only the gunshot sounds themselves changing, or can we expect a major overhaul in the audio department for .61? Will the new audio for .61 have any updated "3D" sound to help with locating sound sources better? (ie zombies moaning as well as gunshots?) Also, will anything be updated or changed with the ambient sounds in .61? See ya around Chernarus!

That usually means your graphics card isnt good enough to play DayZ. You need a dx11 compatible gpu, and im betting you dont have one. Time to upgrade :)

Perma dead haha

I would loke to see megaphones. They could use the batteries that are already in game. It would also be awesome if they get item placement figured out, so you could place a megaphone on the ground in front of a walkie talkie or on the hood of a car, effectively creating a broadcast system.

Honestly i dont think you could even call them zeds if they can shoot a weapon...i agree thqt they are not challenging and not even worth killing though. When they add in a stamina system so you cant just out run them, they will become more of a threat. Also, when zeds start dropping clothes and food they will be worth killing. The only thing zeds need in my opinion is better sounds (including footsteps!), the ability to open doors and have them start dropping loot. I think its a bad idea to give zeds weapons, but +1 for them being inside buildings and able to be knocked out

Agreed on all points...it would be awesome to track someone by their blood trail.

I've been walking around all day singing "The day I died was the best day of my lfe". I saw a pokemon player look at ME weird, as if singing this song was weirder than catching pokemon lol

I had to brighten the video because shadowplay still records .60 really dark for me, so if any colors look off that's why. Right before I started recording, I saw zombies running towards the opposite side of tent city from me. I heard the zombies landing blows. This was on a server of ~30 people, and I was by myself. I don't like to KoS, but at places like tent city its usually kill or be killed. Patience and situational awareness are how battles are won.

I dont know why you would want a lower refresh rate but the easiest way would to be change your refresh rate through your control panel. I also use a 144hz monitor and i never miss 60hz at all. Even at 45-60fps, i can tell a difference between 60hz and 144hz. The higher refresh rate is always smoother looking

What do you use for zoom & hold breath? I had tried previously to set sprint and zoom to mouse button 3 and 4, but dayz didnt recognize the buttons.

It is indeed.

A ssd wont help with in game performance AT ALL...It will help games load much faster and windows itself will run a lot quicker and smoother, but will not increase fps or general performance even a tiny bit. Your graphics card (GPU) is what mostly determines your in game performance. If you have a high end graphics card but a low end cpu, you could potentially bottle neck the gpu and handicap it. If you are getting 100% gpu usage in game, then upgrading your CPU wont help in game performance either. If your GPU never hits 100%, then your looking at a cpu upgrade. Tldr: upgrade your graphics card.

I also have noticed a degradation in overall server performance. I have a stable 100mb ethernet and usually only play on servers around 40-60 avg ping. My fps will drop to around 45-50 in big cities and hovers around 80-85fps in the wilderness, so client side performance isnt the issue. I have actually seen other players rubber banding and have also experienced horrific lag with in game communication. I have also had issues with opening doors occasionally. It isnt common, but it does happen, when it did not happen in .59.

It sounds like your issues stem from pushing the action button twice. For example, if you double tap alt, your character will be locked in the direction he was facing and only you camera will move when you move the mouse. Double tap alt again to disable it. That feature comes in handy when you are running straight for a long distance, and you want to look around without deviating from your course. Same thing applies with the character leaning...If you double tap Q or E by default, it will lock your character in that stance. Double tapping it again will unlock your stance again.

You guys remind me of a toddler throwing a tantrum...come on now .60 is released on experimental, and the devs have been very transparent about blockers before the experimental release and also about whats preventing it from going stable. We get a new status update at least every two weeks, and progress is very much in your face. It could be much worse....we could still be waiting for a peek at the new renderer with no information at all. Point is: relax, play some dayz, and for the love of god stop whining about the game not being ready "fast enough"

It has been known for literally years that the new renderer was going to be dx 11, and upgraded later to dx12. You should do a little reading before buying an early purchase game, especially if you have a lower end computer. They announced it and re hashed it several times. I hate to say it man but you are S.O.L.

This reminds of the scene in the original Jurassic Park, "Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear" I wonder what would have happened if you used the bus as a battering ram to run over the giant zombie lady? She probably would have eaten the bus and everyone inside, which would be awesome

People keep screaming "its alpha" at you because that is the reason why .60 server up times are so low. They have repeatedly said that .60 is not for "playing", but for testing, as it is. Dont expect a strong user experience on the experimental branch. In order to fix the performance issues, they had to write a new renderer from scratch. Rewriting a new renderer is not bug fixing or balancing, which is done in beta mostly. So yes, this should happen in alpha. If you play .59, which is meant for playing and not just bug teating, unexpected crashes are pretty much non existent. If you had crashing issues a year ago, it was for a different version of the game and thus not applicable. The issue of being disconnected or servers crashing is real in .60, and it wikl be fixes by the time it hits stable. They have to run it as experimental to find the issues first before they can address them, which is the entire point of it. I am personally just tired of people not understanding what a work in progress/experimental/alpha means, then complain when it isnt a fully polished or great user experience. You have probably heard this before, but go play something else until .60 hits stable if it is bothering you that much.

Is this what you currently have or plan on buying? I see a few things that jump out to me. The PSU is the weakest link in that build if you ask me. It isn't a terrible PSU as far as quality goes, but as you attach peripherals and bump up the usage you may have issues later on. I would stick with 500W at the minimum, and EVGA is usually a pretty solid brand when it comes to PSUs. Your CPU...again, it isn't a terrible processor but it is dated. There are no real paths for upgrades in the future, either. Take a read at this post on toms hardware forums : http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2297424/fm2-intel-1150.html The gist of that thread is that you would be better off with an FM2+ socket if you weren't planning on using a dedicated graphics card. It doesn't look like that because your CPU has no dedicated graphics, and you are trying to play DayZ, which is pretty impossible on any integrated graphics anyway. I would personally suggest going with an 1150 socket type or 1151 motherboard paired with an i3 processor. The price & performance should be similar if not better, and there are just more options and price tiers with intel compared to AMD. It's also a lot easier to upgrade with Intel. If you have a i3, and want to upgrade to an i5, you can literally just take out the old one and plug in the new one. Intel is a lot better about making new socket types backwards compatible. I dont have anything against AMD, even though I do personally prefer Intel, and there are no issues using an AMD CPU and an Nvidia graphics card. As for your GPU, it is a decent card and is compatible with DX 11, so you should have no issues playing DayZ. You won't be able to max everything out and run around with a ton of frames, but you shouldn't have much of an issue finding a nice balance of graphical eye candy and performance. You would benefit more from asking this same question at the toms hardware forums honestly man. Make a free account and you will have several answers by tonight, by people that work with computers regularly. Good luck!

Are you using the auto join queue server function within steam to join? If you are, then that is the issue. It stopped working in .59 if you had the -newui enabled. It still works with the old UI in .59 though. That method will not work for logging into DayZ with .60 either, although I am sure many of us have tried :). Every time I tried it that way I ended up with that exact screen...see post here If you are logging in through a desktop icon or just launching the game normally and this happens after spamming the servers to get in, then you should make sure your OS and graphical drivers are up to date. List your PC specs if you are still having issues logging in normally and everything is up to date.