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yes, they did way better things like... having ten children, or... i don't know, what did people do back then? ride dinosaurs for fun? he is completely right though, if you search for a reason in a computer game, search somewhere else

yup, also you can see as if you were about 3 meters tall, peek around corners without people seeing it and lay prone in grass while having perfect view behind, in front and to the sides despite the grass being right in front of your eyes... seriously, if all servers would be 1pp only i would enjoy that, all the stalker games were 1pp view only as well, unless you wanted to die horribly, and it made for great atmosphere combined with your body limiting your movement and generally a realistic feeling about how/where you could move the bad thing is that DayZ has way to bad performance and headbob despite it being turned off that gives me headaches when playing 1pp to long would love it, but they would have to optimize the game first (so maybe in beta)

wow, never heard dayz would perform better with ssd before, guess i'll have to try that next only thing so far on my ssd is WoT to reduce map loading time, but if i can get more fps for dayz instead i'll throw WoT on my HDD right away again xD edit: now that i think about it, of course a map which textures aren't all loaded into ram completely and which has different LOD terrain has to be loaded from the harddrive during playing... especially in cities... *derp*

the original high zoom factor from arma 2 was intended to allow you a wide field of view, but still be able to mimic the detail with which the humand eye can see details at distance arma2 was a military simulator first and a game second, it was even used to train soldiers to a degree afaik, so the "realism" does have to do with it, as well as the fov, since the arma 2 zoom values were meant for people with 20/20 eyesight and training in firing a gun at targets beyond 300 meters, yet survivers in dayz are more the "usual guy" and not highly trained, which is also why i think it's a little ridiculous that all scopes are accurately mounted on your gun no matter what, but thats beside the point devs seem to want to get engagements closer, which is why they fixed the fov slider scope bug and nerfed the zooming fov, not a bad thing imo

old mod heatmap, you can still see Guba and no northern cities

yup, saw servers like that on numerous occasions, normally i just change server and find loot when i spawn again maybe the hive connection is just kaputt

actually i don't want to know what a good portion of DayZ trolls and idiots screaming at you after killing you would do to a 9 year old normal boy damn, after a year or so we might have the real-life incarnation of Jason or something like that, so... his mother probably saved his soul that moment xD

with you on that one can't wait for more cars to join in^^ ah the fun i had in my SZ1203... so awesome offroad and onroad, and all my friends had a place to sit...

well, let's look at the positive things: we have the "FOV slider affecting iron sights" bug fixed on experimental, maybe the devs could add some higher bare-eye zoom to go along with this when it hits stable, should be a minor variable tweak now you can play at a fov good for looking around yourself (75°/90°?) and be able to use scopes to their full potential anyway, which makes me more excited than it should probably... though on a "realism" note: if you are not a 20/20 eyesight military marksman, seeing people at 300 meters is pretty hard, even harder hitting them with bare iron sights if you want to see how big a person is at 300 meters, at least in germany, you can look at someone who stands 6 street limiters away (each being 50 meters apart from each other)

When everyone of your buddies has an i5 or i7, thats not a big suprise, DayZ is very CPU heavy and having the best/second best series of CPUs currently available installed helps dramatically i myself have major problems because of my CPU being low to mid tier, to play at 30 fps i need to tone the graphics quality down to no end (mainly object quality and render distances) the poor performance is the only thing right now that keeps me from playing DayZ, else this game is almost perfect for me -oh boy, using the search function and then writing something is not a good idea, sry for the necro xD

it's from a game called "reality" it has very good graphics, just the story is shit i really wish DayZ was a little more like Stalker: -Zombies aren't a thread -Surviving is trivial -the only thing left to do is murder other people imagine that with radiation randomly spread around the map, mutant and anomalies sadly that will never happen xD

are you aware that you are playing a game around player interaction and you cut down that part by just shooting them from 400 meters away? just buy a single player game

are you referring to the obvious hackers that get banned after a day? because i know someone who spawns in gear and has ESP on all the damn time, he has not been banned for half a year now

did you ever ran up a 40° incline with about 50 pounds of stuff in a backpack? i think not

this is the mentality that made this a deathmatch-game seriously, you could fill all the servers with mute KoS arma 2 bots and nobody would notice because of this mindset

yeah, don't wait for a lighting fix coming any time soon, with the new renderer being developed (at least ihope they still are) they are probably bringing in some kind of realistic nighttime lighting if they don't, it's a real shame because night-time play before everyone and their grandma knew the gamma glitch was awesome i remember actually seeing flares being tossed around at night in cherno paranoia was even stronger and zombies came out of nowhere when i earn enough money i will rent a DayZ server and get the day-night cycle to 3 part day and one part night, or even half/half, but only if the fix the damn lighting a very fast solution to this though is not apparent, since the use of text-config files allows someone to even change gamma values if the devs wouldn't allow for such a thing after launching the game, they need to change the engines renderer to fix the gamma-exploit, so that the only workaround is cheating which will get you banned

well, when the real zombie apocalypse hits (not if, WHEN ;) ) i am not gonna be as blue eyed as i would have been before playing DayZ and way more cautious and of course dead after a few hours/minutes because i am terrible at running for long distances

yeah, loved the stealth element of DayZ Mod where you could "infiltrate" a city full of zombies they were almost completely blind and reacted to sound and fast movement, which is a very good way of doing this when inside of a city with zombies around you, you can very well use them as a "player detector" as most player don't give a damn if they are followed by zombies shotting those guys into the legs made them have little time to regret it

yes, it's the normal (anonymity + normal person = abhorrent social psychopath) scenario

the first one is the most obvious trap someone can set up for you, next time just lay the bandage on the ground and let him have himself bandaged the second one was a prime example of why i NEVER trust fresh spawns: the have nothing to lose, so they might as well risk everything to get some gear faster you are playing as a friendly from what i can tell, that however does not mean you need to throw all security aside and be a big target for everyone, play it smart and keep it up

:o but the wallet will get dirty then...

That is something i thought about many times I was in the alpha and beta of Fallen Earth, which was a great game for some time, and in alpha, the main thing to do is progress, which happened about twenty times as fast as here, bugs are a byproduct that will be adressed later the top priority is to get the game to a stage where everything you want to be in the game is there, the next step is to ensure the quality of the content if this game would be a piece of metal the devs are working on, they are now polishing it, just to re-heat it later, form it to another thing just to polish it again

one thing i noticed was that my pothead teammate could shoot incrdeibly good, hitting moving targets on crazy distances clean in the head

Totally agree, this game needs to get mind-breakingly hard soon, zombies everywhere, scarce food so you actually are happy if you can afford to hunt right now the difficulty to survive is a joke