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GUYS! Check this out... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game and then tell me this wouldn't be absolutely perfect for Dayz! It would mean ultimate immersion. Head tracking would be crucial, and the 3d element in the different environments would be absolutely awesome. Its already gotten critical acclaim including a Best of E3 nomination. Right now the res is 640x800 per eye, but given the fact that they've raised 8 times the money they had hoped to raise, they have stated that they will push it to 1080... PER EYE! The low res version can be picked up for $300 and the high res will be under 1k. Anyways, just dreaming away here. I remember Nintendo's Virtual Boy and how awful it was. I thought we'd be playing in VE goggles a long time ago. Hopefully these pave the way. ROCKET AND DEVS! Get the Dev Kit from Oculus for $300 and INTEGRATE IT INTO THE STANDALONE! pweez

Sweet... so I can play, say... tomorrow?

What hurdles? The devs of the Oculus claim their SDK and integration is very simple on any engine. VR engine already supports head tracking... what obstacle? I don't think its worth putting on the mod, but the standalone... I've shelled out thousands on my comp (I use it for work as well), so I wouldn't mid spending 300 more for VR goggles. Good IR trackers cost that much.

I might just order a dev kit even though I'm not a dev. I want a pair of these... right meow

I uninstalled Arma two days ago. A. Its incredibaly addicting and my productivity has gone down the crapper during a crucial time at work B. The level of frustration and disappointing started to supersede the level of fun. I then read this thread, fired up steam and thought I was going to get fired for sure... until I read on. If only indeed. Maybe its for the better. Let the dogs get introduced, nothing get fixed and the "active players in last 24 hours" statistic continue to drop. I'll hold out until standalone. Hopefully they introduce Oculus Rift... that would be INSANE. Good luck Devs

Hey guys! Have you heard of this new game "ApocalypseZ" coming out in 13 days? It's amazing. The developers promise: 50,127 square miles of terrain including a detailed, true to life map of New York City! (O wait, scratch that... smaller than Cherno) Servers capable of hosting 649 players! In game purchasing of your own servers! Zombies you can train and put a saddle on, for faster transport across the vast terrain! Customizable guns! Put a lazer dot, flashlight, bipod on on your m4a1! Don't forget to add a 203 bean launcher! One for every rail! Vehicles vehicles vehicles! (maybe) Hardcore and softcore modes, for those more privy to skinamax (leaves more to the imagination). Below are some screenshots. Don't forget to preorder for 50 CASH MONEYZ.

Dude, I signed up for the WarZ "preorder" (just my email?). I'm curious. We all are. Thats my point. there is no evidence of this game existing other than some "screenshots". It is ripped off of DayZ down to the backpacks and hats. The developers previous games were no where near as ambitious and even they fell short and finally I am not whining. I am not bitching. I am merely pointing out that this WarZ seems like a scam with its promises of grandeur and awesomeness and imminent release date. The developers are riding the wave of success that is DayZ, playing off of our disappointments with recent builds and desires for a final game to SELL PRESALES. You have my 2 cents, now go ignore them and waste your 5,000. Way to ruin a perfectly enjoyable, sarcastic and humorous thread you ass hat.

Check out the developers last game:

I can't imagine how this is possible considering me and my group can't stay alive longer than for an hour without getting blowed' up by hackers. The more interesting statistic is the quickly growing Unique Players vs the quickly falling Unique Players in Last 24 Hours. More and more people jumping on the bandwagon, only to get killed by haxxors and bugs, never to relog. Quiet sad indeed.

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How come my uber awesome real life in-game screen caps don't show up? I used the image utility to embed them... sheesh, is the forum as broken as the game? :(

The WarZ... a shitty developers empty promises and pretty pictures intended solely for the purpose of generating CASH FUCKIN' MONEYZ in presales via riding the DayZ wave. POINT. BLANK. PERIOD.

Ok. Last time: Virtual Reality Engine 4 is what is used for ArmaIII. When Rocket and BI say they will use Arma III's engine, they mean VR4. Standalone VS Mod: Mod = modification of an existing game. In the case of the Arma series and games like Half-Life, Arma is pretty open to modding, but there are things that simply cannot be changed without root access to the game engine, the core components, which a mod does not give you. A developer needs to add the ability to mod which BI has always done, and I applaud them for it. Modding means using the existing recourses to create new stuff. Standalone means using the 3D and Physics Engine (VR4), the CORE COMPONENTS, and the programming of said engines to create whatever you want. Many games used to use Unreal Engine. Hundreds, everything from FPS to RPG to Simulator. The Engine is how stuff gets rendered and how physics work. Point blank period. With Rocket's ability to access the core components of the game, only things pertinent to the game will exist (no more hackers spawning random stuff in). He can add scripts that connect to servers and really dig into the blood and guts of the game. He can CREATE A GAME instead of MODDING AN EXISTING ONE.

You guys ever see constant death messages from 1 character dying every 3-5 seconds? I have a feeling that its something hackers do to avoid being banned by BE when teleporting. Why? Because if your character sends a message to the server that you dies, than your body "teleports" back to the beach. I know its a stretch, but I was playing on a US 249 which was "hack city bitch, hack hack city bitch", but I didn't really care at this point, as every server I encounter recently is effed up the a. So I'm running to my body after getting killed by a tree. As I approach I hear a chopper, but its all staticy, like direct comms. I realize pretty quickly that its an invisible hacker using direct, and I type "Hey Hacker". He types "Hey Dima. Here". Suddenly, I am decked out with AS50, Ghille, m9sd, food, water, NVGs, Rangefinder... every tool. I didn't ask for it so I figured, what the heck. I ran around like an idiot (lately there is no point in setting up a base or trying to achieve some high end goal), and about 5 min later, this guy gets banned for teleporting by BE. About an hour after that, me and some friend get mowed down by a guy who is teleporting, blatantly and obviously. We were seeing multiple death messages of the same name and saw the same exact message merely seconds before he popped onto our screens. I can't confirm it was the same guy, but I have a hunch that if a death message is received in between teleports, BE thinks its kosher. Hope that helps in some minute way.

Dude... Have you seen the screen shots? Even the player models are identical. It is pretty blatant. Same pants, shirts, backpacks... even the stupid baseball cap. If the theme of the game was the same but they started from scratch, I wouldn't care, but I agree with Ginger here. They are literally ripping the game from Rocket and us (in a sense), trying to promise an early release to get PREORDERS and are going to release utter garbage. This is a a bunch of greedy fucks trying to cash in on Rocket's globally viral idea. Have you seen their other games? And the engine WarZ is going to be on? Its poop and will never even come close to DayZ and ArmaIII's engine. Back to the topic... ummmm... eh.... you think WarZ will have dogs?

Asus P6T Deluxe v2 990x (purchased on flea bay for $470) 24GB 1600 Mhz Ram Corsair H80 Fractal Design XL Mushkin Chronos SD 2 x 1tb Caviar Blacks Sata 3 expansion card FW800 card OSx 10.8 (Mountain Lion) This is all for my work comp, a beast of an audio/video editing rig I use mostly for production and mixing. But then the kicker is you add an HD and put Win 7 on it an EVGA GTX680 and you're good to go for just about every game on full blast. Only downside is I don't get enough work done when all of my games are a simple reboot away :P

I quit... 3 servers tonight, within 30min, no exaggeration, not joke, the entire server is killed. The last server, I spawned at Krutoy. 3 min later I am ported to debug along with every one else. I run, I survive, legs break, thrown in the air. I respawn after a few players are kicked by BE thinking that maybe that got rid of the hacker. I find a Lee, a mak, some food and water, some tools. 30 seconds later, my entire inventory is deleted. 15 seconds after that, I have broken legs, and finally 10 seconds after that, me and the rest of the server are dead. BI and rocket are losing new fans. Imagine I just bought OA and what not for $30 because of all of this hype about dayz. If I had played this game for more than hour, I would get killed by hackers. A few more instances of this in a night and would put DayZ to bed. I think the only hope is the standalone that doesn't have the openess of the Arma 2 and OA. I'm sorry, but BE is useless

A mod within a mod Its mod inception... whoa, mind blown

Tat said, the standalone will limit hacking to client side hacks like wall hacks and player locators. Thats much better than scripts being run on the server. So, maybe its time for a month long hiatus.

Me and my party were thunderdomed 3 times last night on US 232... Some were teleported, some were not. The hacker than proceeded to port us one by one to a bus in the woods, where we lost all of our stuff and he sat in the middle of us in his ghille with some sweet gun picking us off. At one point, I was in the heli during the thunderdome challenge. I shot about 5 people from the gunner seat, we took off with some random guys in the back and hacker sat at the bottom and picked us off out of the chopper one by one. He was invulnerable to machine gun fire. We lost a UAZ and a GAZ. We lost ghille and as50. We lost all sorts of stuff. But such is the way of DayZ. It gives you these little things to be happy about, then rips them out of your hands in the most ridiculous ways. On a side note, 2 days ago I was teleported into the air as a fresh spawn. As I dropped to the ground, I saw many many parachutes. As I fell through the sea of parachutes, I realized they were all cows... parachuting cows. In closing, people (myself and party included), have stopped taking this game seriously. Our camps have been erased, vehicles looted, we have been ported and dropped and killed and hatcheted and blown up and we are kind of tired of playing for days establishing sweet camps, only to all get taken out by hackers. We still play, but no one takes it seriously anymore. We run around cherno and elektro and other hot spots because we just don't care anymore. Even that is losing its novelty. After 15 beta releases and seemingly daily BE updates, this game is still run by hackers, and if it doesn't change, its ova hova

You guys don't know what an engine is...

Last night may have been the wildest night of DayZ in my life. We had our camp raided 2 nights ago. V3S, Truck, UAZ and Heli gone, but the bastards left one tent standing with nothing but a Kobra and Stanag rounds. Very funny. I frantically ran around looking for our stuff, as we had no food, water... nothing. About 3km from our base, on the east side of the long skinny bay in the NE was our chopper, no vehicles, 2 tents and a dead body. The only reason I went there is because we had found a tent and PBX near there. Total awesomeness. I took all of the morphine and useful goodies out of the tents and left a bear trap between them :) I can only hope he doesn't have a morphine on him. :D Anyways, I meet up with my mates. We fly to a fuel pump, load up about 2/3 into the chopper and head out looking for a good place to relocate our base and search for our vehicles. No dice. We found a few empty camps on the West, 2 choppers (Yay NVGs!) and then, out of boredom, we land at NWAF near the refueling tanks. We load up on gas again and ammo (I find an m4a3 CCO in the barracks!), and just as we are about to enter the chopper BAM! Yellow chain. We wait 20 min. Server is down! We didn't save the chopper! I log. 20 min later, friend of mine gets on mumble and joins a night server (he has the only other pair of NVGs in our group). I tell him a about what happened, but he is on the far east, we are in the west and we have no vehicles. He decides to check out NEAF and finds an ATV with l85 and a V3S completely packed full of loot. He is kind of a newb who we saved from cherno and doesn't have driving experience, but I tell him to drive the V3S to NWAF to pick me up. He does, with my guidance. All is well, we establish a new camp far from our old one, and then I alt tab and refresh our chopper server. Its back and its only been about 45 min since I last checked! We drive the ATV to NWAF, log out near the fire house. Log into the chopper server and my friend says he hears a chopper and gunshots! I'm in shock, but alas! "LOADING". He's in, but he's noob, and scared to leave the safety of the shack until I get in. FINALLLY, after an excruciatingly long load, I'm in. I hear the chopper spinning up! I run out of the shack, buddy in tow. We run through the firehouse back door and see our chopper near the radio tower! Its facing the exact opposite direction and is about 100m away. I weapon the L85 and fire 10-12 rounds into what I believe to be the rotor. But they are off the ground anyways! AND TURNING! We run back into the firehouse backwards, shooting the bottom and sides of the chopper. Bullets from the MG on the chopper are flying EVERYWHERE. I'M HIT! I'm at 6k health but we duck into the safety of the stairwell. Zombies are everywhere. The chopper is circling. I climb up the stairs slowly, aim down my sites and see the yellow outline of a chopper amidst a sea of orange. I fire 2 shots before I am peppered with 50 cal rounds from the machine gun. I. Am. Dead. My buddy grabs my NVGs, L85 and GPS and waits patiently for the chopper to leave. He was hit as well and is at 4k health. He tries to avoid the zombies but cant. I am biting my nails listening to what is happening on mumble. It is driving me crazy. I hear his m4a1 over mumble blasting! He is swarmed. And now he is on the ground, unconscious. I am in utter shock. He has 2 NVGS, an L85 AWS, 2 GPSes. His get up with 1k health and killes the remaining zombies. He is bleeding and at less than 50 blood now. He can't see and doesn't know the NWAF at all. I'm pleading with him to out of there, he passes out 3 times but makes it the tree line. I have some crazy footage and pictures of this, but am too lazy to edit it today. These last 2 days have been an utter rollercoaster of emotions. One day you have 3 awesome vehicles and 4 tents packed, AND A CHOPPER! The next you are scouring Grocery Stores for beans. Then again, chopper. Then DC. Sadness. Then V3S and ATV and L85 AWS. Then chopper again! Then death... and sadness again. It's too much man. I need a break.

If everyone had this mentality and the few honest server ops out there didn't test the latest patches, we would still be on V1.

I'd love to, but I don't have any. 4 requests in the month of July and we can't get approved. Read my previous post buddy. I've even reached out to other admin and mods and all they say is use our server tool. 4 times man. THATS the exact thing that pisses me off. I WANT to host a server, badly. Then I don't have to play on servers that don't update for weeks and lock when choppers are reintroduced.

Do you not understand that you are hosting for 2 purposes? The primary is to help with the development by testing and relaying info about the performance of the updates and the SECONDARY is to provide a sweet game for everyone to play. You should be forced to update even if it makes everyone swim in the sky and changes everyones backpacks to butterfly wings. Eff that, you shouldn't be forced, you should WANT to update, for the benefit of the community and the game. In my opinion, it kills the community and hurts development when half of the servers on still on 10.7.2.3. Whether you see it or not, progress is being made, and many hosters are impeding that progress because of their camps, loot and the fear of losing them. Point blank period