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There are lots of subtle differences, there is a lot more military loot on the Tavi map than there is on the Origins, for instance the big electric plant (looks nuclear with the big cooling stacks) spawns nothing in Origins but that map says it should have industrial and military. I've noticed a few differences in individual buildings in towns too... but it is a good reference map,... its quite good because it makes you explore a bit lol

I had this problem when I first started playing the game a way last year... I dont think I got a solution but it works fine now... I have reinstalled a few times. Have you tried checking the integrity of the local game cache?... On my steam if it finds a file that is corrupt it tries to redownload but once it says it has finished, nothing has happended. I tend to need to find the file, delete it and then check the integrity... This is ehy I just reinstalled a few times... It was difficult to work out what being updated lol

Got me a new case ordered that should help out with my cooling issues... :D

HAHAHAHA and a new tower isn't even a priority just now LMAO

Both rigs look awesome... I have a proper ghetto PC lmao... bought a pc from ASDA at £270 and have replaced everything inside it bar one HDD. It sucks balls at cooling, so I open the side up and put a desk fan into the side of it... needless to say it needs cleaned every week or so lmao. It's not a powerful PC really, but I would say a mid range. FX-4100 GTX 550ti 4GB DDR3 1333MHz (waiting on 8GB of 1333MHz being delivered today or tomorrow) ASUS Mobo (M5A78L-M LX V2 <-- if that even means anything to anyone) I'm going to upgrade to the FX-8350 or what ever the number is for the piledriver... I was looking at an i7 but it is about £100 more expensive, I'd need a new mobo and I'd need to reinstall windows... The FX is better at video rendering and stuff which I've started to dabble in so its not all bad :D ooooo look at the dirty dirty!

Thanks for all the replys... I waz actually expecti g to get slated for my moaning lol... Yeah I dont mind for example starting with a makarov and 1 clip... It makes you almost a threat lol like on origins... Ill have a look at some of the servers posted when i get home hopefully some of them are in the UK or Europe... Being from Scotland I might not get a decent game on a US server

To avoid this happening in the future, never combat log, there is never a scenario where it is okay!

I know this isn't a cure but it is a prevention: Don't log out/alt+f4/combat log/zombie. Basically don't log out just after performing any task... especially if you have been hit by a zombie/player/environment. I have a friend that combat logs with players and zombies... it has happened to him, even after we moan the arse off him, slag him for it and berate him to no end over it... its just not right... his excuse is always "I'm not dying out of some stupid loyalty to a game" -_-

I can't be 100% sure but your specs are quite low. Your GFX card isn't exactly great, and I haven't had a look at your CPU but I believe that may be a bit dated now too. I read an interesting thread last night that I think will help you. Important point from the thread: Graphics settings on High or above will use your GPU, settings lower than HIGH will use your CPU There is also a little trick in there you can try by editing your Arma2OA.cfg files to try and make the game run faster. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/28160-guide-how-to-set-up-your-graphics-properly/

Yeah, I have read that all over the place. I think it has something to do with all the physics it needs to calculate for all the tiny parts in the game... bullets, finger bones and stuff. I have an FX-4100 and the rarely pushes my CPU above 60% I am thinking about upgrading my CPU and I was just gonna go all out and buy a 3rd gen i7 but after reading loads and loads of reviews about the 2nd & 3rd gen i7 and the FX-8150(i think that is the right number for the FX 8core) the performance hit is quite minimal for the purposes I would be using it, with the only real hit being noticed if I am live streaming/encoding videos. Can anyone with a 2nd or 3rd gen i7 or FX-8150 report on its performance in game? - I know a lot of it will be to do with the GPU as well but I'm just trying to build up a rough picture. I'd be saving £100 on the CPU + ~£50 on the mobo by keeping the AM3+ socket for the FX range

I'm not sure a fragmented harddrives are an issues these days, the OS tends to keep on top of it automatically.... someone debunk me if I'm wrong.

hmmmmmm, what would happen if everyone had this mentality? I think that DayZ player mentality changes over time, I know mine has. You only need to get burned once by going into a fire station leaving a new spawn alive only to have them kill you and you will never forget it. Your trust of everyone will be severely diminished. If I am operating in an area and I see someone, I will kill them to protect myself and my group if I am already on with my group. It only takes a few bad experiences to feel that everyone on the game is untrustworthy. I personally think it was inevitable that DayZ has become more hostile. It only takes one person to stab someone in the back, killing that persons trust of anyone else in the process, to set off a chain reaction. The victim will now create another victim to stave off another bad experience... if this holds true, how long until no one trusts anyone?

Okay, I may have made a huge mistake, has the loot system been changed in the mod? I haven't played vanilla DayZ in a long time now... I logged in to try the new vault out. I understand that the SA will have the scavenging loot system which is obviously better than what we have now, and I'm sure I read that Rocket wants to have a sort of loot economy too that the server will monitor. My point was that there is really no difference between growing loot and the current loot system (or the old one if it has been updated in the mod).

I was assuming that an AS50, being a military weapon, would still only spawn in a barracks for instance. Under the current system, although based on chance, given enough time you WILL find an AS50 if it is on the loot table. Both systems essentially boil down to the same thing - time. Commit enough time and you get the best gear. Like wise, one industrial building is enough to get a chopper in the air. The only difference between the two methods are how you spend your time before you get the AS50

To the people I've quoted... You know that you can farm loot at the moment and it is probably quicker to farm an as50 under the current system than the once proposed by the op?

This thought has only just occurred to me, I hadn't thought about it because there are so many people out there that create videos of DayZ. Do I have the right to upload game play footage to YouTube? - I know I should have found this out first but like I say, it has only just occurred to me. Are there any rules that need to be followed if I have permission? Who would need to grand permission if it was required, the DayZ team, the ArmA II: OA team or both?

Thank you very much, very insightful reading lol

Thought I would share a few videos I have taken while playing DayZ, I hope at least 1 person at least enjoys them hahaha... Stalking the woods of Mitrovice Bumped into an unfriendly new spawn, he told me he would kill me if I went into the barn before him... guess what happens next lol. Proxy battle at Mitrovice docks, I uploaded the second part to this video but I haven't edited it yet. This was one of my first videos, we had our own server, but it was always dead but that didn't stop up spending hours hunting down and fixing up this chopper... *facepalm* - first 30 seconds is all that is needed here The sound on this video desync'd and I am sure this guy was a hacker... I emptied sooooo many rounds into him and his truck. If you feel like leaving some criticism please be helpful or funny :P

Loading up single player click on "Armory" click Chernarus, click "Host" give it a pw and now you can log into your Armex server where you get a selection of guns and vehicles to play around with, with friends. This is a good way of getting used to the way the game works in a nice environment lol. The game lasts an hour but if you are anything like me there will be no vehicles/buildings left after the first 20 mins, just restart the server and go again lol.

best time to go hunting for them is just after a server restart... they will have changed location and have new loot.

maps you find in residential buildings, guns in any building that is not an industrial (however industrials are good for ammo), gillie suits in residentials too. Best weapons will be found in the Barracks at NWAF or heli crash sites... they spawn randomly in open fields to the north of the map and will only have loot after a server restart

hahaha I remember when I used to log out when I sighted another player... not quite as bad as combat logging but I grew out of it pretty quickly lmao... I'm not proud of my first few kills... I was on with my team and we had found a VS3 Civi and rolled up and down the coast jumping out and killing everyone we came by... This is when I decided never to kill on sight again... I almost turned on one of my team that night to save a bambi...

I can't remember how my very first life went, but when I first started playing I always thought that night time was best and I'd constantly pop a road flair and follow the rail roads. The reason I done this was because I had watched a video and everyone in the video seemed to be doing it lmao... At the time I had no idea how much of a threat other players were, infact, I played assuming that everyone would help me out LMAO

Checked out the link, looks awesome and I am definitly interested. I'll get some recording done tonight and send it off.

DayZ is just that, Vanilla DayZ... These run on a public hive (altough there are private hives for it too) so if you are playing on an official server you are always gonna start with the same stuff, and all the loot tables will be the same for each server. Upside is you can switch servers and keep your gear. DayZ+: This is a slightly different version of DayZ, I quite like it. It is set in the same place but every server will be on a private hive (i.e. you cant switch server and keep your stuff) DayZ Origins: Technically nothing to do with DayZ. This is apparently a mod of it's own heavily based on DayZ. This mod uses the Taviana map (personally my favourite map) which is over 600km^2 (over 600 square kilometers, compaired to the 225km^2 of Chernarus). The map has lots of custom vehicles that look like the have been made by survivors, including a helicopter tha has been put together from parts of other vehicles and scrap. Some of these vehicles are "upgradable" I believe, but I've never done it myself Most of the other DayZ mods on commander offer different play styles, Namalsk is small, has lots of high value military and has a customer "monster" and Psy emissions, heavily based on the serise of games S.T.A.L.K.E.R if I am correct. I havn't played all of the mods so I won't comment on them all. A note on private/public hives: A private hive is basically an unofficial hive that anyone can download and install on their server, but if you log on to one of these servers you start a new character that is only availabe on that server. There are private hives that allow you to move between servers and keep your gear but they are all hosted by the same company. I was playing on a few Namalsk servers that were all on a "hostnamehere.com" hive but if you stop playing on a server hosted by "hostnamehere.com" then you would need to start a new character. Public hive: As far as I'm aware these are only availabe on the main DayZ official servers. For more info on some of the maps available you can check you www.dayzdb.com although I would recommend using some form of add blocker while on this site or close it down when you are in game because they now have annoying video adverts that will start playing audio while you are in game... many a time I have shat myself haha.