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Likely will never happen. Would cause inconsistencies across clients and cause major FPS loss (when we should be thinking of ways to make FPS better). If the physics were synced across all clients, the netcode wouldn't be able to keep up.

Right...but we're talking about graphics. None of that has to do with what this thread is talking about. There isn't going to be a new game engine. Just a new renderer. The lighting capability will instantly be improved and it will allow them to use more shaders. That's about it. This is all being done by a team separate from the people who are actually working on the zombie pathfinding, physics, sound, loot, etc. The OP is talking about the new renderer being integrated, and not the entire DayZ game engine itself. Of course all that stuff is being improved from the mod in the over all DayZ engine.

Pretty sure they're just changing the rendering system, the game engine itself (everything not-pertaining to graphics) will be 100% the same. Absolutely none of what you talked about is really relevant to the "engine" updates that are going to happen.

what's an idear?

Thanks for the notes. I'd love some rare badass LMG's with even more rare attachments. Give me a reason to scour for loot (and not just one reason). I'm not surprised the plans for base-building and barricading aren't very ambitious, I think it's clearly a long ways off - zombies don't even recognize walls or floors yet! :P Excited for the new renderer. Should look way better and provide better optimization - can't lose.

I just switched over to Windows 8.1 from Windows 7 and I'm finding that when I alt tab out, I can't get back into the game. It'll just flash on my screen for a second, but then remain minimized until I close it. Does this happen to anyone else?

Get to keep my uber sniper another week :D

Dang nabbit. I could've sworn alt+tab was working when I was playing the other night...

If this game is so unplayable how have I put 200 hours into it? Didn't spend any of that time bug testing...just playing and having fun. If you don't enjoy playing it, then why are you playing it at all? It's not supposed to be a finished gameplay experience. Complaining about it just makes you look like a huge fucking idiot. The game is making steady progress. Sit back and watch.

The standard resolution these days is 1080P, so that'd be a pretty safe assumption. I'm actually at 1200P. Do you have your DayZ on a SSD? Helped the dip in city performance for me by a lot... Also, my i7 930 is overclocked to 4.3 GhZ. It's not running at standard spec.

I just play with all my settings turned up (except for AA, which I just use 2x). i7 930, 6gb RAM, GTX 670, FPS drops only in dense cities but not enough to effect gameplay, wouldn't consider turning down any of my settings,

Half-Life 2 had way better ragdoll than CS:S but few games have ragdoll as good as HL2's.

Any games that use a fog effects to boost GFX as opposed to hide game objects for optimization don't work this way - fog only decreases FPS. In the typical situation, the object would have to be rendered within the fog, game engines aren't efficient enough to do otherwise. Then again, I only know few games that use fog to increase the graphical look of the game - but the ones that do all impact FPS when turning the option on.

Good news. It's just unfortunate that I'm going to lose all my gear, I've had my character going for weeks and I've got sweet sniper gear :(

I've had a million scary moments in this game. One that comes to mind was when I was camping and sniping the NW Airfield. I hopped from server to server, sitting for 15 minutes waiting for someone to go near the firehouse. I went to some high-pop servers, some low-pop servers (10-15 players), and continued doing so for a few hours. Hours went by without me seeing anyone. I relocated to a 3 player server so I could run around and restock up on food, drinks, etc. While I'm looting a drink by the bottom steps of the air tower, some dude walks down the stairs and pops me in a mere couple seconds. I was so caught off guard, I nearly shit my pants. All the scariest moments in this game pertain to me looking for players, not finding any, and then being surprised when I least expect it.

I can't friggin attack! No matter if I raise my weapon, unequip it and then re-equip it, drop it and pick it up, etc. - nothing works, I have to relog. Pretty much this is guaranteed to happen every time I get hit by a zombie. Once I'm hit, I have to relog because I can't attack with anything. This is particularly lame because zombies love to attack me through walls this patch (while being nowhere near my character). We need some awareness spread about this dumb bug because need a hotfix nao. " EDIT - SOLUTION: It's a known bug transferred over from the new patch that was in experimental. If you attack/click too fast, after 2-3 times your LMB stops working. When attacking you have to wait for the animation to end before clicking" - EchoZeero

Is that all you can come up with your imagination? There are tons of things to do. I've been playing the game for a year or two now (in some shape or form) - there's never been a lack of things to do.

H1Z1 looks especially shallow compared to DayZ. It has a pretty standard crafting system but not much customization or in the way of weapon ballistics.

Couldn't care less about NVGs. I just remember using thermal scope equipped sniper rifles in the mod days. They were amazing to use. Obviously insanely powerful - they could be awesome "artifacts" to find (thermal scopes). P.S. Damn you responded fast

Any word on thermal goggles?

Thank you for the confirmation. This is one of the long-running bugs that we're used to but can't help but notice how blatant it is. It will be a great day when it is solved.

This helped the issue a LOT for me, but didn't solve it 100%.

...throwing damage and player collision for items? I'd really like to be able to throw knives, axes, rocks, etc. - preferably into the heads of my enemies. It'd be even better if the knives stuck out of them if you landed a hit. I've been keeping my ear to the ground since they implemented throwing physics and I haven't really heard anything in regards as to how far they're planning to take it. I'm sure it would take effort to implement but I feel like the reward would be great and it would vastly open up the possibilities of combat in DayZ.

Not a very intuitive key word - few people are going to be able to identify the bug by the cause (clicking too fast during melee). I feel like can't attack bug is a little more accurate, because when it happens you are unable to use any weapon whatsoever.

Anyone else feel shotguns are a bit rare? I've been having a difficult time spotting any. Only spotted one in my 5+ hours of playtime today, and the server went down as I picked it up...pretty lame because it came with a ton of ammo and a speed loader. :P