SineDeviance

Yes. A thousand times yes. The only purpose it serves is for trolling players. If you disagree, you're one of those trolls.

I just noticed that all the servers have been rented. Will you have more available soon?

I'm sorry but I'm a little confused by what you're implying here. The AS50 and the M107 are legitimate DayZ weapons that are actually in the loot table. They are not that difficult to find. I come across them at helicopter crash sites or at tent camps with some regularity (whether or not the ones I find in tents are legit is, of course, up to debate.) If you're saying that scripters frequently spawn into the game with them, well, I admit I've seen that too. That's why you'd do well to find and keep a legit M107 on you at all times. I do just that and I have taken down quite a few scripters. You could beat them at their own game if you tried.

What probably happened was, the body disappeared, and right at that moment a mil-spec Zed aggro'd to you and glitched through the wall. I've seen similar things happen.

Honestly, I'd be quite content if they simply fixed (yes, fixed) the zig-zag movement and Kenyan-grade running speed, which makes them impossible to target unless you're going for center mass shots (and even then it's not easy.) I'm not an FPS god like a lot of people that probably play this game. Most of the time I have to wait until they run up close and personal before I can get a solid line on a headshot. However, I do prefer a "Lots more Zeds, slow Romero-style movement" approach. It has worked very well in lots of games (The entire Resident Evil series, Dead Rising, STALKER, etc.) and I think it would work equally well in DayZ. Fast ghouls are only good for shock value in my opinion, and that largely wears off after the first five or ten G's (slang for ghoul, heh) you encounter. Slow, shambling masses are much more frightening in this player's opinion, because it presents you with a situation where you'd sometimes need to expend most (if not all) of your ammunition to put down the entire horde. I'd rather have a realistic option of running away as compared to simply running around a wall and going prone. And that's if you manage to somehow run faster than Zack (more slang) which ain't likely.

I don't think you should be having any issues, I have a similar (slightly more powerful) build. Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3 Core i3-530 dual core @ 2.93ghz (overclocked @ 3.53) 4 (2x2) GB dualchannel G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1600 XFX ATi HD5850 1GB @ stock clocks Windows 7 Ultimate x64 I get anywhere from 25-45fps in towns, to 60+fps in the wilderness. All visual settings on Highs/Very Highs except post-processing, which I always leave Off. I tend to run AA Off (as it is useless with my rendering setup, as you'll see) and AF on Normal. In lieu of post-processing I have the interface res at 1920x1080 (my monitor's native res) but the renderer is set to 85% of that resolution, or somesuch, which produces a nice blur effect that makes the game look more realistic while actually giving me a slight framerate boost. Still, the game is generally very playable in all situations. I haven't had any hard lockups or crashing, but YMMV.

About four hours ago I logged into Kansas 1 after a week+ long hiatus from the game. At the time, I pretty much had the intention of seeking out a survivor and starting a firefight with them so I could die and respawn. I spawned back in just north of Vybor where the barn is, and had a DMR, M4A3 CCO backup, and a Glock 17 on my survivor. Immediately after spawning in I turn around and notice a heli crash right there in front of me. Found an FN FAL + ammo that I didn't take, but did find some STANAG magazines. Crawled a bit closer to the north side of Vybor and a truck (UAZ two-door) rolls past me on the road a good distance away. I wanted to take a shot with my DMR but the grass was too high and I couldn't take it without exposing myself, so I thought better of it. I waited until he drove off and resumed crawling. About 30 seconds later, I hit the wall around that building on the north side, and a different truck rolls up (4-door military, looked like a HMMWV) DIRECTLY in front of me with three visible survivors inside. At first I think I'm hosed because they are driving right towards me, but then they stop, back up, forward, back up again, forward, so on, as if they were trying to find the perfect parking spot to go raid the heli crash. On the other hand, they were only ten meters from me at one point so I am fairly certain they saw me. I heard a shot and unloaded my DMR. I shot all three of them multiple times in the span of about five seconds. I could see survivors 'dumping' out of the truck. Then the death messages followed and I had three shiny new murders. I went prone, turned around, crawled for a few seconds, then crouched to get out of there... and then I started taking fire from seemingly all sides (but I couldn't actually locate any of the shooters.) A few seconds later I was dead. Still, I think I had a pretty good run with that DMR, all things considered :D

I haven't played since the new patch and hotfixes dropped, but my old respawn tactics should still be relevant. It went something like this. 1. Spawn at coast. Guess my approximate location to the best of my ability. 2. Check the Chernarus map I always have up on my second monitor. 3. Locate the nearest barn and run to it. 4. ???? 5. PROFIT (Maybe find Winchester and/or food and/or soda and/or hatchet/hunting knife.) 6. Repeat steps 3 through 5. I tend to do this for at least a few hours until I have plenty of low-to-mid-tier supplies before heading northwest to tackle Stary Sobor and the airfield. I guess with the new spawn rules (no morphine, etc.) this won't work as well as it has in the past, but I will adapt my playstyle.

Hi all! This is my first post here, but I've played DayZ on a daily basis for nearly a month collectively and I've lurked these forums quite a lot during that time. I hope you'll all decide that I've earned my 'stripes' so to speak, and don't immediately discount this post as the rantings of 'just another new guy.' You might have also seen me in-game as DarkED sometimes. If we played together during that early time I would like to thank you, it was some of the best gaming I've had in years. This is going to be a bit of a rant and a bit long, but please bear with me. My feelings on the game are currently mixed. Of course, this is just my opinion as a player and I don't believe that you as a reader, or Rocket as a developer, abso-fucking-lutely NEED to care about what I think or I'm going to RAEG!!!111one. But, for those of you who don't mind taking the opinions of others into consideration, maybe you'll find that my opinions line up with your own. Please also consider that many of the friends I brought into the game now share my frustrations and have likewise not been playing much recently. I think I speak for them as well. Also consider the fact that this is simply our personal experiences in DayZ; your mileage may, and probably does, vary. Let me start by saying this is the game I have been waiting for play for nearly a decade, and the first couple weeks were pure bliss. I died a lot, learned how to not die a lot, got some friends involved, and all was well and awesome. Thank you Rocket and all of your supporters for giving me the game I have been wanting to make myself for so long. My play style in DayZ centers around the concept of simple survival. Not killing other players just because it's fun (although I have killed other players in self-defense.) Not leading zombie trains onto other players so I could sit back and laugh at their expense. Just survival. Moving from area to area, meeting and talking with interesting survivors, and grabbing whatever I deem useful along the way (it's amazing how much good stuff spawns inside supermarkets, or used to.) I try to play the game with a realistic approach, but also an ethical approach. In my opinion this is still a valid playstyle, and if you do not agree, well... sorry, but I'm not going to change it. Which brings me to why I haven't played in over a week now. The first issue I (we) have with the current state of DayZ is that it has largely devolved into a mass deathmatch. New players tend to be excluded from this, but only for a few days of playing it seems, until it happens to them and they become so-called converts. It's almost as if the majority of the community all got together in a room and decided to just kill everything that moves on sight. Gone are the days of "Are you friendly? We are!" ... "Yeah, come on in." over chat or direct vox. Now, almost every survivor we encounter fires at us as soon as they see us with no provocation. This is not realistic survival! In a real Zombie apocalypse (or any kind) there would undoubtedly be at least SOME pockets of humanity left in the sea of Zack (and bandits, of course) that would make some sort of ethically-calculated decision before pulling the trigger. Note that this is not a rant about losing side-chat. That was a good decision in the direction of realism in my opinion. We noticed this problem a while before side-chat went bye-bye. Anyways, my point is that we had a lot more fun when we still had the opportunity to join up with random people for the good of all. Now, we cannot realistically trust anyone unless they're already on Mumble and part of our group. My next gripe with the game is how unbalanced night is in general. Where is moonlight? I've lived in rural areas, and even on cloudy nights the moon does generally provide enough light for you to be able to see more than two inches in front of your face. Unless you have NVG, or know how to effectively use chemlights (and even those are a huge risk,) you are walking blind or a walking sun that is visible from at least a klick away. I understand that in real combat there would be some imbalance between forces that had night vision and forces that did not, but does a flashlight really need to light you up like Times Square? Even a chemlight produces a small dot that is visible from at least a klick away with the naked eye. Also consider that without chemlights, flares, or flashlights, it is essentially impossible to play. Your only option at that point is to stumble around in the dark completely blind, or switch to a day server. My final gripe (there are others, but they are small) is all the glitchy death we have encountered. I realize that the game is in alpha stage right now, and there are tons of unfixed bugs, but some of this stuff is just ridiculous and seems like it should be high priority. As an example, a couple weeks ago I had 12,000 blood and a lone zombie aggro'd to me. Normally this wouldn't be a problem and I would quickly drop a lone zombie, but he glitched out for a couple seconds (lag?) and then re-appeared directly next to me. He then proceeded to hit me once, which knocked me out, gave me a broken bone, and caused me to start bleeding. It was one of those 3-minute knockouts where you're dead way before you'd ever be able to get up again. It was also very much a "WTF just happened?" moment. Unfortunately, I was playing solo at the time and lost everything. I could have killed the task and reconnected when friends were on but where's the fun and/or realism in that? As I understand it, zombies aren't supposed to be able to knock you out unless you are under 8,000 blood or some number, but we've encountered it at full health at least a few times. Add to that the rare but relevant teleporting superzombie, and it occasionally causes us to die in very annoying, monitor-punch-inducing ways :D If it wasn't for the zombie magically warping through time and space, I probably wouldn't have died that day and lost all my gear. I know we're not supposed to become attached to our gear, but it is easy to let it happen. Especially when you've finally got those NVG you spent a week searching for. I guess I should finish by saying that I still love DayZ, and I still want to play the game. It's quite an addiction. I just want to play it much less now. That is unfortunate, because I still believe this will be the best game in existence once it goes gold. I guess what I am really trying to say is... please don't disappoint us :D Please fix those ridiculous bugs ASAP, and maybe find a way to make the community more open to (not quite trustworthy) random grouping again. The game really was a lot more fun then, and it presents an interesting game mechanic that is not present in any other game. If you took the time to read this post, thanks a lot for hearing me out. If not, that's okay too.

Cool, and thanks! But honestly, after speaking with people in this thread and knowing that I'm not alone, I feel like I want to play again. I think I'll log back in tomorrow :D

I'd like to say that I agree with just about everything you've said. Players should have more in-game options to handle various situations besides simply running, attempting to hide, or fighting. Same goes for 'secure' storage and prone issues. I think that instead of having a totally thief-proof storage, there should be simple locks, keys to those locks, and lockpicks or objects that can be used to pry or bash a container open in the game. Mil-spec zombies do (or did) drop mil-spec magazines on occasion, particularly Glock 17 and AK variant magazines. They also drop chemlights and bandages. Police zeds tend to drop ammo for higher-tier civilian weapons, like the Winchester 1866 shotgun.

Thanks! I was really hoping I wouldn't get a flood of "LOL go play minecraft n00b." It feels good to still be surprised by a game community every once in a while' date=' especially in an age of gaming where game communities are not generally mature :D We do the same. We even go out of our way to avoid the key cities like Stary Sobor and Elektro because wandering into those areas is generally suicide. Still, I always feel the urge to find and talk to other players, even when playing with my regular group.