billytehbob

1st Person view is limited in your awareness in game when compared to reality.. this is why the ArmA devs implemented 3rd person. It's a military sim, and 3rd person is an acceptable evil. I like it when traveling or moving around in town, it gives me more awareness than I would get in 1st. So you can look over walls and around corners, in real life you'd be able to hear the other people and know that they were there, but ArmA doesn't do this, so it's substituted with seeing them instead. In real life, you could stick your gun around the corner without exposing yourself, but if they implemented that feature in ArmA, let alone DayZ, everyone would freak. It's give and take, people.

I'm running an i7 2600 with a 550ti, and I can run most things on max settings. 550ti is not a bad card. OP, if you can run ARMAII free on high settings, no problem, then you can run dayz. It doesn't change anything graphically, you just get the HD textures when you get Op:OA, so you may have to dial those down a bit.

I'm down as well.

I'm running an I7 2600, 550ti, and 4 gigs of slow as shit RAM, and I can't run the game almost nearly maxed out for the most part. Some servers seem to run terribly, while most run very well for me. If I were you, I would try to get an I5 2500k, but the only reason I have the i7 is because I only paid $200 for it, the mobo, ram, and the GPU ;)

Playing with a friend tonight, we came across two hackers on US177. Names are _Fangz and Tony. They are using teleport hacks and probably spawn hacks. Unfortunately no screen shots yet.

Only issue of I have with disconnectors is the fact that I'll get the drop on them, kill them, but they D/C right after dying and their body sinks through the floor. I had it happen twice today, and a few times in the past.

I've found that STANAG magazines are much more prevelent than AK74 magazines, but the 74 magazines are still fairly common enough to not warrant any issue with having enough ammunition. The sights are better on the M16 than they are on the AK. Damage is greater, as a 3 round burst is usually sufficient to down someone versus 5 shots for the 74.

Really? Do you really feel that the content is complete in this game? What's the issue with having more content? I've never seen a forum where people were so hostile to each other over suggesting new stuff. It's people like you that ruin this mod, that object to any sort additions because "It's a sandbox/alpha". Who gives a shit what it is, if you don't like it, don't use it.

I wouldn't. If he didn't shoot back, or at least ran away if he was out of ammo, then sucks for him. Very rarely do I let somebody go, I'm not risking them coming back with a gun.

There is no Holo M4 SD, but there is an M4 SD with an Aimpoint, or CCO. I've seen many times where it's been said that it's safe to use hacked weapons if you find them.

Got a new computer, and ever since I started playing DayZ on it, I can't see any zombies, or the field hospitals, or the barracks in Stary sobor. Was just playing with a friend and he aggro'd zeds right by me, but they don't affect me. This is happening with 1.7.2.3 and it happened with 1.7.1.... any body have this happen and find a fix?

That did it, thanks.

Nope, verified the cache and it didn't solve the problem.

Nevermind, resolved the problem.

I liked the zombies in the Walking Dead. Rewatching the first season, it seemed that individual zombies would move pretty slowly, but when they grouped up, they became a fast threat. You'd have the occasional ones that move pretty fast by themselves, but most of them would shamble along loudly trying to get to you, while also attracting more zombies at the same time.

I think you're forgetting the aspect of human nature, or more simply, animal nature in general. I don't want to die, so that nobody over there who may or may not have decent loot/food is gonna help me out, whether they like it or not. It's oversimplified in DayZ because coming back to life takes a few minutes and you only lose your gear. Still, do you want to lose all the stuff that took you hours to find to chance that the new guy over there with the hatchet might group up with you? 9 times outta 10 the guy is gonna hatchet you in the back, so why risk your stuff for somebody you don't know? And you're assuming that they didn't have to work to get in the position they are in? Sure, some may have gotten lucky and killed someone that had this gear and wasn't paying attention, but I'm pretty sure most don't end up like this.

Lol @ all of these fuckwits complaining about how sniper rifles are "breaking" the game. If you could honestly complain and moan any more about anything in the game that kills you in a way that would require you to put in effort to avoid, you would. If you honestly believe that snipers are as game breaking as you claim, then I guarante that Rocket would have already removed them long ago. If everyone was dying to a sniper all the time, thats one thing, but if you don't know how to maneuver correctly, than you deserve to die. Try avoiding the open fields and instead run in the forest. Try not satanding still for more than a couple seconds. Since I started playing DayZ in late April, I might have been killed by a sniper a couple times. I said it in a different thread, and I'll say it here; Sniping is a different play style, its not like the bullet travels to the target instantly and perfectly where the crosshairs are, you have to compensate for their movement and distance away from you. Now, on the topic of the L85, I've never used it, but thermal isn't god-mode either; it's easy to avoid. Hide behind a wall or in thick brush.

Picking up one in a few days, gonna have: AMD 64 xII 6000+ 4 gigs of RAM GeForce 8600 gts 250gb hdd 800w PSU I'll have to upgrade the RAM, CPU, and GPU by the time arma 3 rolls around. Used to have an i5 3.3, 8 gigs ram, an hd6860, and a tb hdd, it was unstoppable.

Is this being implemented? Or planned to be implemented? I'm talking in the sense of weather changes in conjunction with the time of year. I figure since the time in game is based on real-time, why not the weather? With fall approaching, and winter following, I think it'd be pretty awesome to see some snow falling, and causing an entirely new playing dynamic in the game. Since a dynamic weather system is already in place, I think it'd be pretty simple to install this, new textures and what not. So what does the community think? I'm sure this isn't the first thread, but I'll post my thoughts.

AKS-74U is not a subgun, its a regular carbine. Both the AKS-74 and 74U shoot 5.45x39, a rifle round. Personally, I'd take the AKS-74 over the M16A2 any day; the sights are more open on the 74, and it should shoot a lot better than the M16. My AK-74 shoots like a .22, and my 5.56 AK had more recoil and muzzle climb than my 74. I don't have any experience with the M16, but I'm gonna assume that the recoil is pretty similar. However, in game, they seem to shoot much the same, and do the same damage. But because the sights on the M16 are much more restrictive, its a lot easier to make follow up shots with the 74 due to the collimator sight.

Really?

I think it would be great to add some quest line that you could choose to follow, just would add more variety to the game and would give players other stuff to do.

Then why worry about it? There are no real positive aspect to removing them. They're pretty hard to get in the first place, and if you remove them, people are just going to replace them with different weapons. Sniper rifles have their niche, just like the M4s and AKs have theirs, and all the other weapons theirs. I mean, I have trouble encountering people in groups, so should I push for the removal of grouped gameplay because I am almost always losing those firefights? I would also confidently say, without a doubt, that most people playing intelligently, not fucking around, would never engage people past 300, maybe even 400, meters, it's just not worth it. You risk attracting unwanted attention in the first place, and if you don't have a weapon that can be zeroed, you're not doing anything but taking shots and hoping they land in the right place.