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I haven't played for a month now, because my notebook doesnt support the game well. New ones on the way though ^^ As far as i know there are still a lot of bugs and the hacking problem seems to get worse and worse.... I will definetely start playing again, but it might be frustrating sometimes that you die of buggs or worse of hackers, that are pretty frequent. It is by far the most exciting game/mod that I have played for a long time, so I still encourage everyone to try it out, despite all the problems :)

I personally would not want to play on a PvE server, but if some people want to, why shouldnt they be given the possibility? Gamers are so serious about, who is badass and whos not nowadays -.-" It is an opinion, no need for the ragestorms. Discuss like grown up men.

I would personally like to see some kind of modification system for weapons and general equipment :) See Monkey Island for reference: Use huntingknife with Lee Enfield with Tape ---> Rifle with Bajonette :P And the possibility of finding Scopes/Sights/Lasermarker to put on the weapon of your choice...

My new NOTEBOOK (care! mobile graphics and such): Intel® Mobile Core i7 3610QM / 6MB L3 RAM 12GB DDR3 NVidia GeForce GTX 675M 2,0 GB 128GB SSD 500GB Normal Harddrive Might not be so much compareble with a Desktop, but I would really think about getting a 3.Gen i7 and a Solid State Drive, because that babies are speeding up your OS so nicely Care: There are some i5 models that are more powerful and more expensive than i7 models. Check out benchmark sites to compare different Graphicchips and Processors, because the variety of different models can be very confusing. Never buy anything just by the name. check its specs!

If you destroy the graphicscard that is a serious backdraw yes :D I am actually pretty clumsy and not much of a practician, but it is really difficult to destroy a computer part nowadays. Never the less I would advice anyone to buy and built such a custom made machine with someone that has acutal knowledge about it.

As far as I could presume out of the opening post your expectations (ARMA2, Football Manager) are not that high. So i would like to ask you, if you would possibly use that computer for work issues too. That would lead to the question wether a notebook would ne a good choice regarding the next years to come. My brother bought a tower some time ago and now he realizes with the start of his studies, that he would rather need a notebook. I am a gamer and student and I would never ever again buy a desktop pc. In addition I have to admit, that I am pretty regularly meeting with friends for a networking session and a notebook is just priceless for that kind of events :) Just something I would think about before buying a new machine. If you want a desktop, I would really try to build it with a friend if possible. Does safe you a lot of money.

It would be much easier, if you would post the technical details of the machine rather than the actual page. From my point of view Alienware builds very good gaming machines, but for a horrifying price :-/ After you found out what technical wonders should be inside the case you should check different shops, to maybe find a cheaper alternative.

I would love to see fewer omgwtf specialforces weapons :-/ We need a better differenciation between civilian, police-type, military and specialforces-weapons. With a huge increase in rarity of the later two in both weapons and ammunition.

If you have the Six Launcher still running in the background, I would try to quit that. Helped me a lot with my laggs.

M1014 is the best gun for a friendly survivor in my opinion. Amunition ist plentiful, stoppingpower is high and it is easy to fing one in a firestation of your choice. I think it is a pretty cool gun, because it is not a omgwtf specialforces weapon with 300 attachements. It might be my personal roleplaying, but this gun just feels right in the hands of a survivor in a cruel world full of zombies :)

Isnt the bloodloss stoping at a certain point arround 3000 blood? No need for a sniper-cure as far as i remember.

Wow :D Straight in the face. No seriously, are you actually reading the opening post or are you just reading the title and half of the first sentence, before you rage boy? As I said I didnt want to talk about graphics or some sort of performance issues, because thats all my crappy notebook (new ones on the way for godssake). But it seems I could actually start a quite interessting discussion here. Thanks folks, you really showed me some good points why to love and why to hate this engine. And furthermore we get some overall impressions of what the people expect for the standalone version of this game, regarding design and handling.

A friend of mine once found a bicycle and went on a tour all arround the map and found like 4-5 heli-crashes in the process. Since he lost the miracle bike of epic loot he hasnt seen any crashsites. This teaches us that luck turns in this game.

If I did something wrong mean: I did the mistake of trying to put a gun from my backpack into my hands without dropping it on the ground beforehand you are right :) I dont know how many weapons I lost because of that bug. Maybe thats been fixed while I took a break. I hope it is ^^

I think we can summarize, that the inventory indeed is functional, but in a buggy and absolutely clunky way :)

To the question if I ever played ARMA2: No I didnt, as I already stated in my opening post :) Thanks for the answers and the good manner in this topic (I am an old Dota player and this community is so mannered at Forums that I have tears of joy in my eyes^^). Yes, I really did not appreciate the huge scales of the map enough, thats absolutely right. Mechanics like a bulletdrop exist in tacticals shooters like forever. It was new to me with BF2 I think. The inventory is not exactly part of the engine, but I mentioned it because its the worst peace of crappy design that I have encountered for a long time :) It takes hours to pick up stuff and manage between backpack and inventory and I dont know how many guns I have bugged away in the process. All in all we can much appreciate the positive sides of the engine (realism, huge map...), but I really hope that ARMA3, bzw the standalone of DayZ, will concentrate more on up to date handling and user-friendly design of menus, inventory and controlls.

You got my beans OP. I took a break from DayZ myself, starting fresh with my new machine in a couple of dayz (haha) :) The problem is that you cant really judge where your car has gone in this buggy hell of hackers. 1. It could be stolen by a proper survivor, what would be absolutely ok and intended. 2. It could be respawned by a hacker. not cool 3. It could be just dissappeared to be never seen again. also absolutely not cool. Atm the problem is, that point 2+3 have far higher chances :(

Brothers in Arms man :) I really dont get this obscession about who got the bigger guns. I stick with my trusty M1014. Why? Cos I can!

Sniping people is no banditry, but thats just my opinion. Try something more creative if you wanna be a good bandit.

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Great, if I get killed I turn godmode on and kill everybody else on the server until I am bored. Then I start normal again and get killed by the next godmode guy that goes rampage... Then I stop playing because its pointless :)

So we finally met, IT WAS A TRAP!!! MUHAHAHA :D No just kidding, sorry for you mate, but have you seen my friend the pig?

Yeah pretty right, but lets see how it works out. When I get my new machine I am back in DayZ. Buggs are ok, but Buggs+12FPS is just cool for a while :D

We actually did the same thing some weeks ago. Doing some zombie-hunting from the roofs in Berezino is pretty funny. We came to the decision that we never fired enough in this game.