RosscoMac

Servers are a mess right now? No-one I know can get on a stable one at all.

Anyone having mouse problems since the update? My friend says his mouse won't respond correctly now when in DayZ. I'm not sure of the specifics yet, just thought I'd ask here in case anyone else has similar?

Thanks for this! Made such a difference. :D

I like having the zoom. I also think of it as focusing rather than just looking. But there is a problem with it when compared to holding a gun in first person. You cannot zoom into the same level with the gun anywhere which seems a bit counter-intuitive. I don't understand why you could focus like that normally but not when aiming down the sight of a gun. It seems to me that that's when you would be focusing on a distant object more than any other time. Not that I'm some KoS murderer by the way. I just can't understand why they removed the zoom with guns as it used to be in there. Wasn't it? :huh:

This is a small part of my first real life in DayZ which is still on-going. I had moved north from the beginning; I always try to get away from the coast as soon as possible. I see no value in hanging around there. The relentless killing that goes on actually makes me want to kill people too to defend myself, which is not my style of play. So I headed north, hitting a few small villages on the way to Zelenogorsk from my spawn in Kamenka while I waited for my friend to reach the same place from the east coast instead. I had met no players the whole way, only a handful of zombies which I killed with my axe with greater and greater accuracy the further north I moved. When I reached Zelenogorsk I was amazed at the size, I hadn't really played the mod a lot on Chernarus - I mainly played Panthera - so I'm not 100% familiar with the lay of the land here which is good. I got myself right into the middle of town for a full on looting session, finally found my first gun amongst a variety of other items including two med kits. I was just up the road from the supermarket in one of the two storey buildings looking out the window for other survivors when I suddenly seen someone crossing the road outside. I was straight onto my friend on Skype asking him what I should do. It was my first real encounter with a survivor and I wasn't sure how to play it. I had collected a fair amount of loot and travelled a decent distance so didn't want to risk losing it. I certainly wasn't going to shoot the guy in cold blood, he was geared up and as I've said before, it's not the way I play. I decided I would just call out to him and see how he reacted. I preferred my chances of surviving by talking to him than by hiding. He was running around in and out of a lot of buildings and I didn't want him to chance upon me and open fire instantly. So I called out "Hey you with the green bag, I'm friendly, don't shoot me!" No reply. "Heyyy you! Running on the road! I'm upstairs, are you friendly?" No reply. I immediately think I've made a mistake and that he's now looking for me to kill me. If someone calls out to me I make sure I answer straight away in case they have me lined up and are ready to shoot. But he didn't reply. Then all of a sudden another person was running around with him. They were obviously a team playing together so I was really worried now and started to move downstairs to get outta there. I spoke out again one last time "Hey you guys! Are you friendly?" when the doors opened and in they both walked. No shots were fired though by either party. We all just stood there for a second looking at each other "I quickly shouted "DON'T SHOOT, DON'T SHOOT!" just in case they were going to but they never seemed bothered at all and finally they started talking to me. We moved upstairs to talk and they started asking me for medical supplies. One of them was low on blood and needed a transfusion. I checked all my gear and realised I had no idea about this blood transfusion malarkey in SA so asked him what I needed. He told me the items and it turns out I had them all, so I laid the kit on the floor and he took it and proceeded to take blood from me. I'm not sure the value or percentage taken but there was a noticeable drop in colour saturation on my screen so it must have been a sizeable amount! He then put the items back on the ground and I picked them up and transfused my blood into him. He was very thankful as I done this but after a few seconds of the transfusion finishing he collapsed right in front of me! I had no idea what happened and we spoke about whether it was due to blood type mismatch but they assured me that wasn't in the game. Finally he woke up again and they were on their way. I was sitting there organizing some of my loot after they rewarded me for helping when the same guy came back in on his own again with news... Apparently he was infected and was going to die. I don't know how he knew this but that's what he said. He laid down all his items, clothes, weapons, everything on the floor and said I could take them all. I was quite surprised at being offered so much good gear such as an M4, large backpack, loads of food, gas mask, tactical vest, etc. I thought it was a trick at first but I wasn't going to argue so I scooped it all up. Then he gave me the bad news... He wanted me to kill him. He must not have wanted to wait for the infection to finish him off, but rather be killed and start again. So he sat there with his head hanging down, with just his underwear on and me stood over him with my M4 pointed at his head. I said to him "Farewell, my friend. I will tell tales of your kindness..." and pulled the trigger. One shot from my M4 hit him straight in the head and his body slumped to the ground. With all his gear he so generously offered me and his lifeless body next to me I suddenly felt a wave of sadness hit me I haven't felt before in any game. I had randomly bumped into a stranger and nursed him back to life. We talked and laughed and shared a short time together and now he was dead right next to me because I had to put him down like an injured dog. I am still alive. Surviving just for him. Avoiding bandits and dropping zombies as much as I can to get further north to safety. Using his gear to keep myself going. There was no story to force all this to happen. No NPC characters with scripted lines. It might have only lasted 10 or 15 minutes but it was quite a powerful moment as far as video games go and I don't think I'll forget it for a while. Sadly I didn't get either players name but it was on a GB server I think around 9pm GMT on Friday night and they sounded foreign to me. It would be cool to hear from either of them if they are on the forum. This is why I love DayZ, it gives you the freedom to do what you want and make your own stories and memories from real encounters with real people.

Exactly. Moments like that when people actually join together and try to help each other survive are when the game really shines. I'm not in the mindset that no-one should KoS as without that there would be no danger but it's always nice to be reminded that there is some tiny slither of humanity left at times! :D

Only died once in 11 hours of SA play and that was half an hour after getting the game I decided to jump off a building for a laugh. No ragdolls or falling animation looks terrible! :lol:

Servers that work! :P I finally got some time to come on and it's not working. :lol:

Everyone has this problem now. It's being worked on.

It brings up a good point about what happens when you die. When snuck up on it would be useful to know briefly in some form that you have been killed. Rather than instant black screen as I believe it is. I've not died yet so I'm not sure how it happens. :)

They need to find a way to stop this. DayZ at night is an amazing experience when played properly, and this just ruins it completely. I will continue playing as normal with little vision in the dark and rendering all trees and bushes and grass in the distance. People who change the settings to make the game easier are missing the point of DayZ completely.

I would guess that you place the wood on the ground, the matches in your hand then scroll wheel over the wood. Seems the most logical way so give it a go if you haven't already?

A few people with the idling second GPU in SLI and Crossfire then. Hopefully it gets acknowledged and fixed soon as it basically halves my possible fps. :( Also have the dual monitor problem where the cursor is able to leave the main monitor. I was confused as hell first time clueless as to where it had went!

Can't see anyone else mentioning their SLI setup only using one GPU instead of both? No-one have this problem? :(

I have two GTX560 2GB's running in SLI and it will only use one of them. It's maxed at 100% and the other is idle. :(

Yas! It's out. Downloading now without thinking twice about it. I expected the price to be lower but even if it was £100 instead of £20 I would still have instantly purchased. Can't wait to be a noob again! :lol:

He just means you shouldn't be spawning where you logged off on the previous server. Coast, map edge, wilderness, wherever. I like that idea. Server hopping to collect loot is a farce and needs to be stamped out one way or another.

It seemed like he said something along the lines of fixing that bug then hitting the button as if it was the last hurdle. I'm definitely more excited since seeing this video anyway. It is certainly getting close and looking way better than the mod. Even without vehicles, which is something I never really cared for much in DayZ vanilla.

As much as I liked the stream and all the content in it, I just wanna see some 1080p shots of the game running. Everything is low resolution and doesn't show the game off at it's best quality.

Ah thank you so much! I missed the link to this. Cheers buddy. :D Not watched much but what are peoples opinions on zombies taking upwards of 5 hits with a baseball bat to the head to die? Seems excessive to me. I think 1 or 2 hits should suffice?

Has the twitch video been uploaded to Youtube? Twitch for me is terrible, doesn't stream well at all and the archive downloads have a slow rate too.

Pffft K2? You need to climb some real mountains Dean! Come to Scotland and I'll take you up Ben Nevis. ;)

Vindicator for President!! :D

No multiple versions of the same thing then? Thanks for clearing it up. :)

Yeah I just thought it was worth mentioning. Obviously items have different degradation values so can look different based on that but it could also be that there are different versions of many items to keep things fresh rather than having one type of wrench, one type of screwdriver, etc. Some variety in the items will be good.