Mastiff (DayZ)

Just because it is new doesn't mean it is better or great, though the 3610QM is quite a good chip for a lappy the 650M is well a mobile GPU with only 1GB of memory. Don't expect much from that GPU, perhaps low settings and all what not but... I just don't get it.... You know you want to play games but you want to fork out around £1,799 on a laptop that with its extremely limiting GPU you will end up just having an expensive web browser, seriously... I don't understand you Apple guys, it just doesn't comprehend. Buy yourself an iPad 3 if you want something Apple and spend the other £1,000 on a good gaming PC or even a proper gaming laptop but don't waste it on an over hyped, priced and well to be honest under powered laptop. The only thing those laptops have going for them is their beautiful screen but other than that its pretty crap compared to competitors. Oh? Boot camped windows and low settings on a laptop built the same year as arma 2... we're the retards?

I hope to god if this game goes stand alone it doesn't use the Arma 2 engine.

How long after when you killed someone can they DC and their body disappear, the other week I hit someone with my enfield in their legs whilst they were running through a field, they went to the floor... I hit them again and killed them but their body disappeared almost immediately after the murder was registered.

...Lol, it reminds me of BF2 where I would put C4 on jeeps and helos... not so much BF3 now it has restricted access.

I think the idea is great but only it grants access to a global chat, otherwise you still have the scenario of having to get close enough to exchange details through direct communication.

Global chat allows you to speak to someone from a further distance, with direct chat you need to get reasonably close and thus becomes very dangerous when trying to approach someone you don't know.

So why not leave server chat on until the radios are released? Won't immersion be broken when suddenly every tom, dick and harry are screaming down the radios and you get spammed with messages from people trolling you? Or do you expect a turn on/off feature on your radio? Oh... why don't they do that with global chat? Exactly, though its because some people claim it is immersion breaking but are then happy to play on constant day light servers, unrealistically see their own blood pressure... and much much more. Some 'bandits' not all, but some got upset because it was being used as an intel channel to warn others. I would say that is fair to say, though 20 minutes would be more accurate for and experienced player and a convenient spawn place, a lot of spawns are some distance away from a deer stand or a high value barn. Given the nature of loot spawns you do have to hit quite a few buildings before you find one. The second point... I'm going to call bullshit, I see people killing each other for the sake of it. Too far away to communicate with and thus no way of ID'ing them as a thread.... thus they get spanked instantly.

I prefer playing at night time but only on a server where visibility is reasonable, I can't stand servers that are solid black and for some reason the sky is lit up like a fire.... its not immersion, its retarded. Even in the darkest of nights my eyes would be able to adjust to the faintest amount of light being reflected from the clouds and moon light. When I server hop trying to find a good server to play on for the night, I often find those solid black servers are completely empty and the ones with a reasonable level of visibility are actually quite popular, I'm not a fan of day time because I like to keep in the shadows... I don't have NVG either.

I have been playing 1.7.1.5 for a while until my favourite server updated, since hten I updated from .7.5 to 1.7.2.3 and I have had no problem, my ghillie suit remains, however I'm certain i still have a glitchy bag inventory, whenever I log out all the items I previously had about a week ago just reappear. It's annoying... as I just raided a hospital as well so my coyote backpack is just full of medal supplies, I'm curious to see if it will stop glitching when I get rid of my M16 from the back pack.

The statistics aren't very useful due to the amount of things it misses out. How do you know that 80% of those deaths weren't by people playing on a 1/40 server so that the only things that could kill them were bugs or zombies? Its like a recent iPad survey I saw, there was only a 40% interest in the iPad mini where someone would willingly buy one when it came out, howeveri t was later found 80% of the survey already owned an iPad..." Just one of many ways to realise how bad looking at some unclear statistics are. You also have no idea out of those 80% did any of them actual encounter another player? Its obviously clear zombies vastly out number humans normally 20:1 but in some cases I've had 100:1 on the NWA In my current character life I have only encountered 3 other plays (and 2 friends) those 3 players I have immediately shot and killed and thus I have a 100% KOS. Though my 3 kills will no doubt be dwarfed by the amount of times those players died due to zombies.

With the immersion excuse aside because frankly that can be solved by turning it off, if you want that level of immersion so be it but perhaps not everyone else wants it? Not everyone else might have a microphone so they can't speak as longer distances. I think a lot of hatred for this global chat comes from intel gathering, I might covertly send a group into a small town or the NWA and one person can spot our group and inform the other 45 players on the server of our position and I think that is why people hate it. Yes but its quality vs substance or what not, If we all wanted immersion and survivor we would remove blood count, kill count, remove the HUD and lock 3d person off on every server because that would give us a better feel for the game. However I'm sure a lot people would disagree, I mean I don't usually know what my blood pressure is when I'm walking the street... I can tell how hungry I am, thirsty and how noisy I am being but yeh... Rocket needs to a strike a balance between realistic/immersion features and something that will be useful and helpful to the players (Blood count). Put it this way, if you don't want global chat because it breaks immersion, someone will say... We don't need a blood pressure counter because it takes away from the survival factor. How do you think many people would react about that? I'm sure a small group wouldn't mind but a large amount would be a bit wound up...

Can you heal a broken bone with morphine and suddenly begin to walk on it again? Can you increase your body temperature instantly with a heat pack? The list goes on... Though resurrecting people? I don't think that would suit this game what so ever. The worst thing about dying when in a group is you've got a long way to go back to link up with them, if they're so far away you might even have to spend a night rummaging through towns to get supplies to survive the run, I can understand the frustration but it adds a bit more risk vs reward.

I call bull shit, so you're telling me without going to a house (Deer stands?) You found water bottles, food, hunting knifes, heat packs, tents, hatchet, gold dust (matches) and all other survival gear within 10 minutes from none residential/built up areas? What a load of shit, please keep this over exaggerated verbal diarrhoea off the server, the only way that would happen is if someone gave you it all or you hacked the gear. I might of believed you if you said 30/40 minutes but 10 minutes without going to a house LOL, ok mate... However, just because you do roll in a crew shouldn't mean the game is significantly less interactive for someone else... why not return global chat but have it on/off, so if you don't want it on you can turn it off... oh wait you wouldn't be happy it being used as an intel channel spreading the movements of your group. I'm neither for or against returning the global chat but you just said you don't want the game ruined for your sake, don't other people have that same opinion?

I think operating under the minecraft model like you have said previously is the best option. You can scale the cost of the game with the amount of content and its progression through development, for now if it was a standalone game you could sell it for £10 and when its Beta maybe £15 and full release £20? That way you can receive funding through development to help you either hire more people or enjoy yourself, developing this in such a close group with such a high demand from the community is going to burn you out. That or a one off payment, no offence but I would never pay a subscription for this game.

Here we have a classic example of our community has the worst infection, infected with brainless posters. If you loaded into the game with no video and you could hear someone shooting would you stay on? No you wouldn't so stfu and grow up

Interesting comment, carebears are usually someone who want to avoid fights at all costs... Giving someone a weapon means they can involve themselves in a fight, someone without a weapon well... he ain't going to get involved with a fight or at least not intentionally... So which one is the carebear? Wait, the one without the gun? I don't really know what your point was, unless you were just trying to highlight how retarded your comment was.

I agreed with the OP until he pretty such said if you don't agree you are an a exploiter/hacker.

I've currently only been playing 1.7.1.5 and have a ghillie suit... I would be interested to know what would happen if I were to update to 1.7.2.3

Let us spawn with a melee weapon... why would my character be able to survive the initial outbreak but be so dumb he doesn't acquire any sort of weapon, why not spawn us with a hunting knife that can be equipped and placed into the tool belt...

Basically if you want Arma 2 or other games to work what you need to do is sell your mac to someone else who is willing to pay through their nose for an under powered machine, then build your own custom PC for half the price your mac was... then what... enjoy your worthwhile PC and saving money. I have a AMD 965, AMD 6850 as one of my PCs and that was around £500 to build (if I don't include the SSDs) that runs Arma 2 quite well although the graphics need to be on around medium. My other build which is a 3570K, 7970 lightning and some other stuff runs everything maxed out and costed around £1,200. As the price goes up your performance gains get smaller until you're paying £100s merely for an extra 1fps.

I'm still with 1.7.1.5 and I will be keeping it that way for some time.

Do like

Will also contact you later, looking for some UK players to team up with so could be great opportunity

No, Unless we can punch the zombies or can start with a knife for melee, sure not everyone has handguns but I think everyone who ends up in a zombie apocalypse would immediately pick up a lead pipe, wrench, hammer or other.... but no our survivors managed to survive the original outbreak but not smart enough to bring a basic blunt force weapon or pick one up.

im still playing 1.7.1.5 and found a recently deceased player with one, itook it off him put it on and ditched the civis on the floor admist an ongoing glitched inventory from where items i droped 2 days ago keep reapearing. Will i be likely to die when i attempt to update to 1.7.2 or what?