WirlWind

Something that's become fairly apparent after the new patch is that bleeding is a bitch. After you go through your first bandage, the next zombie that hits you is a death sentence. I was on 10k blood earlier and took a hit through a door and ended up dying (In no small part due to the hospital glass not breaking when I shot it). Unless the lore of the zombie apocalypse is that only hemophiliacs are immune to the disease, there needs to be a rethinking of bleeding mechanics imo. Something along the lines of - Hit for 4k blood, you will bleed for another 50% of the initial damage caused over X seconds (Numbers could be tweak, this is just an example). This still allows bandaging to be useful, since it saves you a lot of blood, but makes it a little more realistic and makes not having a bandage not end up a garunteed death sentence.

Nevermind, my issue seems to be server related. When a server is freshly restarted, I run 60fps no worries.

Kleid, considering that these are only infected rather than undead, chances are it probably hasn't been going on for a long time, or they'd probably be starving out by now.

True. Once you get to higher end gear, it becomes no trouble at all. It won't affect that either way. It will make the newbie start just a tiny bit fairer. Zombies can easily hit you randomly through a door / wall despite it being fixed and when you only have 1 bandage to start and no more are spawning (though that might be a bug with the new patch), it's something that needs to be addressed imo. Plus there's the whole "realism" aspect of it, but personally I'd just be happy to not die from skinning my knee while trying to start over.

No... Spent 4 hours being shot by people before I could find a decent gun and gtfo.

Funny, I've not had a single bit of teamwork in the 4 hours I've played of it so far. The one guy who didn't shoot me on sight didn't have any ammo otherwise he probably would have. I was shot in the back while climbing down ladders, shot for my bandage, etc. I was shot 24 out of the 30 some times I died. The rest were due to hemophilia. apparently every survivor has it *shrug*

I see this tired ultimatum repeated on every gaming site I go to: if you are not with us on this unique/niche/special/non-mainstream FPS then you are a mouth-breathing, CoD playing, troglodyte. There is never any middle ground or spectrum of experiences with you peole. It's always binary: either you fall in line with our special FPS or you're a CoD lover. ("lawl! insert over-sized meme to drive my point home") I count 9 instances of the word "CoD" in your opening post alone. It's a lazy and sloppy way to get your point across. Yes, we all dislike CoD to some degree. But this obsession you people have with hating it, bringing it up at every opportunity to try prove your own superiority in gaming tastes is simply obnoxious. Please, have my fucking children!

Everything mentioned so far, I've done at one point or another. The game just runs like shit for me and I can't find any reason why *shrug*. It gets decent enough after a server restarts, so perhaps it's something to do with the servers. I've noticed on a few diff low-powered servers that I get about 15fps, but I hit atleast 30 in wilderness on big servers with good hardware after restarts. Also, turning everything up or down seems to make little noticeable difference in framerate for me. I changed from 1920x1080 down to 1280x720, messed with AA, etc and the game always seems to just be below running smooth regardless of the settings (feels like 25 - 30 fps).

[attachment=462] I gagged atleast 9 times while making this one.

I had something very similar happen to me the other night, was unable to run at normal speed even while standing, was spamming shift and double tapping W to try and get me to run. Nothing worked, I think I eventually committed sudoku (lol) by zombie.

So many sith in this thread. It's not like people are asking for night time to be a slightly blue tinted day time... There's a difference between ridiculous (what we have now) and what they're asking for (closer reality). Regardless of how hard the game is supposed to be, it's still a game and staring at a black screen is not any kind of fun. There needs to be even just a small amount of ambient light, so you can atleast make out there's a tree infront of you, instead of running for 10 minutes, not getting anywhere and not noticing until you pop a flare.

I would say yes, but you might kill me and steal my beans *shifty eyes*

Twice I spawned yesterday only to immediately have a horde of zombies descend on the spawn -_- Also, I shot a zombie that was chasing me while standing in the middle of a fiend in the middle of nowhere and 5 zombies spawned and surrounded me...

To all you people enjoying the new zombies, why? Slaying 50 dumb-as-bricks, jerky and badly coded AI zombies is no fun at all, ESPECIALLY because it's coming at the detriment of player interaction (both good and bad). I don't know what you did before hand, but I played for the other people, not the zombies. Shooting AI will get old after a week or two in any game, esp this one. Also, stop saying this game is ArmA / a mil sim, it's not. The BASE GAME is a mil sim, this is a TOTAL CONVERSION MOD. It can be as realistic or as fictional as the mod dev wants it to be.

Just adding my 2c in what I've seen on this patch: Back before 1.5.6 broke zombie respawns, there were enough that you had to fear shooting in a town, but not so many that if you did, you died. This allowed alot of player interaction and some amazingly tense moments which is one of the big things I constantly hear people talking about with the game. Tonight, I got onto a 40 man Aussie server and saw atleast that many players in 3 hours. Not a single one of them shot me. There were no standoffs, there was no pvp, there was no excitement. Instead, I spent 3 hours looting junk, seeing a bandit walking past, wave at them, keep looting. It got quite boring very fast. I had zero sense of community in the game anymore as there was no tension or drama going on because of how many zombies there were. I read in an interview where you said you loved the stories that people have from the mod, well atm all of my stories since the patch are "Killed by wallhacking zombie, looted stuff, saw a guy, looted stuff, surrounded by zombies, died, quit out of boredom". 1.5.5 level of zombies with a few more and longer respawn timers would be good. Going solo SHOULD be viable as it creates tension, you should still be scared in a big town, but you shouldn't reach a point where it's more about battling the dodgy AI of the zombies, than having a mexican stand-off with a guy who just stole your beans. The game shone because of player interaction, not the zombies.

The trouble with having too many zombies in a town is it stops being a tense "what will this survivor do to me?" struggle to survive and more of a "oh hey, there's a guy I COULD kill, but why bother. I'll be destroyed by zombies anyway" game. If you want lots of zombies everywhere, L4D. There needs to be a balance between actual player drama and AI drama. If you know that you're likely to get 10+ zombies on you after 1 shot, then pretty much everyone won't shoot and suddenly no-one is pvping, there's no drama and tension on the server, there are no grudges VS players that spill into legendary battles for towns etc. I played for 3 hours tonight and wasn't shot at by a single survivor. Even bandits left me alone in the main cities. I went 20 minutes in elektro without hearing a gunshot that was aimed at another player. It just ends up as "if you don't have friends, you're fucked. If you DO have friends, you're gonna need to scavenge for an hour to get enough ammo to PK 1 guy" type game, which I guarantee will get stale very quickly. The amount of zombies in 1.5.5 was pretty much that perfect balance of player drama and "oh shit, I aggro'd zombies!"

Nope' date=' been doing hardware / IT since I was 4 :P ArmA in general hates my system. Tried just about all of the "tweaks" to improve FPS, but *shrug* I've reinstalled ARMA, reinstalled the mod, my PC is running well in pretty much every other game and is well looked after (Havn't had a serious crash or BSOD in about a year), use CCleaner regularly, have turned off most un-needed services, tested all my hardware, tried different drivers, run game-booster, etc. Mouse smoothing is off, v-sync is forced off in the c-panel, 8 frames rendered ahead, my scene complexity is only 100,000. The only possibility I can think of is my motherboard, it's getting on in age and has a hacked bios to support AM3 chips so it's probably the biggest bottleneck in my system atm, but again, I don't have issues in -any- other game beyond ArmA 2 =\ No, it's not. PSU doesn't affect framerates, worst case your PC just won't start, least case, you'll start crashing a bunch in heavy 3d applications. As for framerates, it will be the same with a 650w or a 6500w

Another 580 user here, but I'm running a Phenom 2 @ 4ghz, have 8gb of ram, latest nvidia drivers and have tried just about everything to get the game running smoothly. I can get it bearable, but I'm constantly seeing videos of people with PC's that cost half as much as mine running smooth WHILE RECORDING WITH FRAPS! Tried running at both 1080p and 720, tried messing with graphics settings and nothing seems to clear it up. Running W7 64 bit ultimate, btw.