I'd just save up and buy a whole new system to be honest. Everything is 4 or 5 years old and upgrading 1 aspect of your system may make the game playable, but it wouldn't be what I would call fun. Oh, and when you do buy a new system - stay away from the HP's and Dell's of the world. Remember, you get what you pay for. If you buy a budget computer you'll probably have to update it in a year's time. I've had my I7 920 (now overclocked) for years now, and it's as good as almost any CPU out there (before overclocking!). I'm sure there are some websites that do barebone deals in the US (I'm guessing that's where you're from), you may find a bargain or 2 to be had on those sites - but it will probably cost a little more than $400. If you want a good experience you'll have to pay $200-300 just for a graphics card. It's expensive, but if it's a hobby if yours then you have to decide whether it's worth the investment.

Do moderators actually police threads or do they just troll all day long? If you haven't noticed you are contributing to the crapness of the community by trolling and posting unhelpful comments. I mean if a moderator does it, then everyone else may as well too! So much for leading by example, and no... giving up your free time doesn't give you an excuse to troll the forums you're supposed to police. But hey, you have a blue name and you're awesome.... Right?! As for the forum subject - The net code sucked months ago, but it seems to be a little better now. I've been victim of trading kills with people many times, but I really haven't experienced it for a while. I think when everything is running properly it won't be an issue. If it takes seconds to register hits (like it has in the past and does on some servers even today) I just won't play the game. You guys can flame the OP's concerns all you like, but he makes some valid points. Hit detection can take seconds, people do rubber band about under IDEAL circumstances (I got killed by a player who ran to an edge of a building and on my screen he jumped off so I shot at him - but that was lag... he had stopped at the edge to shoot me). It shouldn't take 1000-2000ms for things to register, and that does happen surprisingly often. Whether that's the engine itself or the mod I don't know as I don't have much experience with other Arma2 mods.

You won't get the framerate you will get in BF3, it just won't happen. Most high end systems can't even achieve 60fps in Arma2 (and I'm talking 60fps in cities, any moron can get 60fps in an open field looking at the floor). You should be happy with 60fps in DayZ tbh, the difference between 100 and 60 fps is small at best. inb4 people start claiming they can run Arma2 "silky smooth" with specs 2 or 3 generations old. Oh inb4 the "the eye can only see 30fps" crowd.

The mod is not going to receive many bug fixes. What it will get is (buggy) ideas the devs think may work in standalone, and when they're finished coming up with ideas they'll open up the mod and allow people to fiddle with it.

Well after months of playing DayZ and mastering the game what else is there to do than to run around the 2 big cities like John Wayne shooting people indiscriminately?

+1 for duped satchel charges.

You'd think such information would be on these very forums. Mind you the devs seem to spend more time on Reddit than in here, although I suppose you could hardly blame them.

There needs to be some indication when you're below 9k blood and can be knocked unconscious by a zombie. The colour saturation thing is only good at 10k+ blood, anything below and it's pretty hard to tell how close to death you are - something that I would imagine is quite easy to self diagnose in the real world.

Admin made a rookie mistake. Clearly he should have performed an "emergency restart"....

WOW IS DYING! Ah crap, I think I may be lost.

BattlEye doesn't make mistakes. Never.

BattlEye is scary. No doubt it will get fixed but they state that if you get banned it's because you did naughty things and they'll never reverse a decision. If someone gets banned by BattlEye and claims he didn't cheat I'm more inclined to believe the player - even with the rampant cheating going on.

Instances are for underground complexes. They won't be locked to a particular group or party and anyone will be able to enter them provided they can find the entrance and provided they have the required tools to open the door (he mentioned hacking the door to get in in an interview). The term instances in DayZ is very different than instances in WOW, EQ etc. I guess you could think of them as wormholes in Eve Online - a hidden system players can use as a base of operations and requires a player to use probes to scan for the entrance. It's Rocket's answer to leaving the map static. If players could build stuff in the actual map things get cluttered very quickly, you just need to look at the mass amounts of barb wire and sandbag walls on some servers. The player creation is going to be done underground, to keep things above ground clean. WarriorWolf - Rocket has said he doesn't want to have NPC factions in the game, or safe zones. He has said he wants to give players the tools to do that stuff themselves, although giving players the tools and having them do it are two completely different things... But this is DayZ afterall :)

I wonder if the zombies get the same eating/drinking glitch that players get - you know.... the one were if you run close to someone who has ate or drank ages ago but hasn't logged out you get the eating/drinking noise.

People that fall for those sort of cons deserve what they get to be honest.