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Hi I bought the standalone the day it was released (a mistake in my opinion but that is not my point) and I haven't played it at all as the game lacks alot. I played the mod a bit on and off. My biggest issue with this game is the lack of zombies when will the zombie count be up to that of the mods (or how the mod was when it was released two years ago). Right now it is a zombie game with no zombies lol and has been so for a very long time... oh and I know they are infected and not zombies so spare me of that comment :D. Basically my question is when will the zombie count be so high that you see so many zombies in big cities that you actually have to consider whether going in is worth it and when you go in you have to go low to avoid aggroing the entire city? Does anyone have an ETA on this? or when do you expect it?

Well we can hope :D Yet release seems like a long time I think they probably would work on it during beta.

This is exactly the kind of comment that I did not want. It is unhelpful and a waste of my time. I am well aware of it being an alpha and a n open world horror game with infected humans. So when will there be a decent amount of infected humans? That was my question if you do not know or don't have any educated guess then spare both of us from your useless comments.

Well he leaves with a big sack of money... This is why early access is a flawed concept, people initially think that it is the same as a preorder whilst in reality it isn't. I am not surprised I would do the same thing he is rich now and might as well leave and do whatever he wants. Bohemia will take care of the game, however be prepared for a kids friendly version of DayZ. It is a very douchebag move from Rocket (I repeat: I probably would have done the same with that money). Now come Rocket fans and rain hellfire on me for saying that....

You are absolutely right... The issues that were present in the mod are also present here, HOWEVER the standalone can develop far more than the mod could, so potentially by 6 months time this game will be fun to play. Yes a game can stay in alpha for a very long time, especially since rocket for some odd reason has a very small team working on this game. A big company should have developed this, then it would have gotten out a lot quicker. I bought it because I know it will be fun to play this game one day, but right now it is just a buggy mess as I expected :) I agree with you on the fact that development is going on very slowly with this game.... I am also not happy with the engine they use, the whole feel is like Arma 2 and that won't change, at least I doubt it is possible. This game will one day be good, but somehow I feel like it could have gotten so much better.

Spot on sir spot on!

Now see this is bullshit. If you want to play like that then do so, but you have no right to decide how others should play. I hate nighttime, not because it is challenging, but seeing a dark monitor defeats the fun for me it is simply unfun and results in me cranking up the gamma like 95% of other players who play in nighttime... I always played the mod during daytime and intend to do so in the SA too. If I want to play on daytime servers then I should have the right to do this.... I want to see what the artists designed not a pitch black monitor....

Patch notes should be shown in steam with steam updates it is far easier for everyone :) (Side point: Also my steam does not seem to update DayZ maybe it has and I haven't been aware of it, but I certainly can't join any games now.) Patch notes should be both present on the forums and on Steam with every update.

Oh well thanks. I did not know, mainly because I haven't been on the forums since the standalone got announced. My interest in the mod fell framatically after this whole issue with the hackers.

Im wondering will they use the Arma 3 engine or Arma 2? Because visually I find the Arma 2 engine to be very unattractive but the Arma 3 engine is very beutiful. Also with nicer animations, ligting, day/night cycles and distant rendering. It would be a huge drawback if they used the Arma 2 engine. Now I know that they said that they can take elements out of the Arma 3 engine and add it to the current one however that still means the the majority of the game will be on Arma 2 engine.

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Yea tell him to L2 PC xD. On the serious side. I don't know if it works on a mac. However if you are a gamer then PC is the way to go macs are not designed for gaming. Pass this on to him if he doesn't already know.

If the hacking continues I expect Rocket to pay me for trying his game. If the hacking is reduced to a minimal level then I would gladly pay 40 euros for a standalone game like DayZ

So at the moment I am waiting to log into the game I have done so for 10 minutes now it is just stuck on loading. This is what happens every time I want to join a server it takes forever. Dayz wasn't like this what the hell happened? The more updates that come out just make it worse. Am I the only on experiencing this?

I don't mind the patch being late but the communication needs to be in place. I haven't heard the devs say anything about the upcoming essential patch. As of now DayZ is unplayable due to the graphical glitch. If the developers could just say that "We are working on it" "Going to release it soon" or something it would be nice :) Has anyone heard anything?

Rocket still insists on working on it alone thats why it takes forever... When is he going to let more people work on the code? Reality is if he won't anytime soon then Dayz will die when Warz comes out which I don't hope.

Hmm Interesting. Ill change it. Thanks again :)

Wait what WHAT?! DA FUK. HAHAHA! Your my god oh well. Kiss kiss :D :D :D no homo. WTF very high should equal max lol. EDIT: Actually I had my video memory on medium see what I have suffered. Well that explains the windows gfx memory limit warnings. Thanks

I have the same system as you apart from having a gtx 570 instead of 580 and yes it runs but not good enough. The game does not give me 60 fps as it should.... It doesn't look good. Also remember that most people haven't a rig as ours they should be able to run this game too! It isn't even good looking but runs like crap. I need 60 fps to be satisfied at least 50 and I rarely get it.

Agreed the engine smells like crap.... Performance is a joke :D. I also feel bad about having to buy Arma 2 to play Dayz, this means that I supported the shit company bohemia crapactive..... but then again I really wanted to play Dayz. I payed 25 euros for a crap company just to play a mod that a single man created haha :D

Did you just say that the engine is good? The engine is terrible and sytem demanding. It eats up most people computer power without even delivering pretty graphics. I have a GTX 570 and an I5 2500k I should be able to run this game at least on medium settings with a flat 60 fps but I cant. Its laggy, I get about 30 fps which is not good enough on my system at all. Now it will be interesting to see how the Arma 3 engine will be like because according to the devs it will be less system demanding and prettier :D. The Arma engine is mod welcome though that is true :) However once the game goes standalone we couldn't care less. I think the reason why Rocket keeps on saying that the Arma 2 engine is good is because it can render such a huge world most engines cannot! The arma 2 engine wins on that point but looses on most other points. Then again he has to say that it is a "good" engine because he works for Bohemia, I think he would like to keep his job :P

So there are just as many hackers in for example Battlefield as Arma2 (Dayz), is that what you are saying? Yes hackers are inevitable, but they can certainly be held back and even stopped if the right tools are applied battleye does not count as a well functioning anti hack tool. I am not a programmer, however I have never feared hackers before until now. I play Dayz and fear getting hacked I have already tried it 6 times and I have played it for less than a month... I have never had to fear them in say CoD or BF.... Obviously something is wrong here and I am not blaming Rocket but more the anti-cheat tool he uses...

Nothing works 100% but they certainly work better than battleye. Compared to Arma2 you rarely see hackers in games protected by VAC or Punkbuster.

I cant wait for the login timer fix so far I wait like 10 minutes to join any server.... Oh yea and I can't wait until Rocket realizes that battleye sucks and that maybe he should use VAC or even punkbuster just something that works... Battleye welcomes hackers....

When I press join server it takes about 5-10 minutes until I can actually play my screen is just stuck on loading am I the only one? You should in no game have to wait that long. How long do you have to wait? I5 2500k GTX 570 8 gigs DDR3 I presume its a serverside issue, however the game has not been like this before this happened after 1.7.2 as I recall.