Thanatos (DayZ)

Have you checked if the cpu and gpu performance is being throttled by the power management of your operating system? On laptops the hardware performance is often automaticaly tuned down by a LOT to preserve battery life which can make games unplayable. Using the official Nvidia whql driver is a good start but also make sure all the other system drivers and direct X components are installed. Another nemesis of gaming on laptops is overheating of components and this can also cause performance to be throttled. I run the game in 1080p high settings with very decent fps on an Intel Q9450 @ 2.66GHz with 4 gigs or ram and a Nvidia GTX280. I built this pc 4 years and 5 months ago. This system was good back then but extremely dated today. Clean and properly configured drivers, os and games make a big difference.

Very true and if you want to be absolutely sure you never run into anyone you can join an empty server. The map is gigantic so it shouldn't be that hard.

I love starting with no weapon. Makes for some very intense sneaking and escapes but it never takes long to find a hatchet. Learn to love the hatchet by the way because it's ability to make stealthy kills is highly underrated and particularly in the beginning when you don't have the means to deal with big hordes of zombies anyway. Here's a tip. Aquire a hatchet and when you find a barn you simply run up to it ignoring any zombies in your way. Run inside the barn and immediately go up the first flight of stairs onto the platform and turn around to face the stairs. The zombies you pulled will now slowly stumble up the stairs and you can simply spam your axe attack and let them walk into it. If you do it right you will take no damage and you can now loot the barn and the zombies for anything valuable. Barns are a good source for all kinds of basic items including shotguns and hunting rifles.

The account is registered to his personal info and it is strictly against the TOS to sell it. This person can simply contact Blizzard after the deal is done and claim the account was hacked to get it back. Even giving op the benefit of the doubt that he or she is honest it would be unwise to do this. I can't speak for the Steam account but I assume the same rules apply.

My is post lacking in nuance and I may have exagerated a bit but only for the sake of argument. :angel:

Great movie! To bad in real life the bullet would have been most likely ejected out of the side of that scope due to the curvature of the lenses inside Mythbusters did a lot of testing and the rounds used in that scene from Saving Private Ryan got stuck somewhere in the scops lens assembly every time. They managed to make a "kill" in the end using a special round with a penetrator though. In real life the German soldier would have survived but he would also have been taken out of action because his scope would have been wrecked.

What a fool. He should have shot you when he had the chance.

I am also wondering about several binds on my British hoighty toighty tippy typer. 1. How do I switch firing modes on my rooty tooty point and shooty? 2. How do I turn on the windscreen wishy washies on my motorized rollingham? 3. How do I turn on my torch and trolleytorch? 4. I was accosted by an uncouth chap who demanded my beef wellington ensemble with lettuce so I said 'pish posh' and struck him in the slappy ham with a pip pip gollywock. Most unpleasent indeed. Which button do I press to call the authorities so I don't have to parley with these barbarians myself? Much obliged and yours sincerely, Lord Henry J. Trouserplantain esquire

You could possibly have a profound advantage over male players by looking like or even roleplaying a female. When I was still playing World of Warcraft a girl from my circle of friends was also playing the game and she was in a raiding guild which is, for those who don't know, an organised group of people who try to beat the hardest dungeons in the game for the best loot. This girl was a casual player and not very good at the game but soon after joining that guild she was running around in better gear than any other member and she had several extremely rare and expensive items that very few people could afford on their own. She told me that several guys had begun showering her with gifts bought from the games auction house and high value freebees from the raid loot even though she hardly participated in dungeon raiding. This started after she had posted some pictures of herself on the guild forums and started chatting with these guys in private. She basicaly told me she was a bit creeped out by it but she was keeping them at arms length and getting rich doing nothing so whatevs. Now I do realise that my example doesn't match DayZ gameplay very well because in this game people rarely get a chance to socialise enough to start manipulating others but perhaps a fem player skin will still give some people pause for just a second when they round a corner in a building and run into one. Moral of the story? Some males will go to huge lengths to impress a female they have never even met and people can turn this to their advantage.

If you killed a guy because you felt threatened and you gave the poor nameless sob a viking burial in his shiny highly valuable blue van while there is zombie apocalypse going on you are probably not a bandit but certainly an idiot. :rolleyes: I think they did the right thing.

I can only guess and it could have been any number of thing but what seems most likely to me is that you were hit by a bullet.

At the end of the day it's still a game meant to entertain people op. I loved OFP and ARMA 2 but they already had too much depth and realism in their mechanics for the vast majority of gamers. Most people viewed the games as a sim that was too technical and close to the tediousness of reality to be enjoyable but some of us loved it. You are a realism junky pur sang but you are seeking levels of micromanagement and real life authenticity that would make even the harcore ARMA 2 players run for the hills. Some of your points sound interesting though like better ballistics and weapon handling/maintenance to make (long range) shooting more challenging. More realistic zombie melee combat is also welcome. If there truly is demand for a game that makes you gather dozens of sticks sit at a campfire and throw sticks on it of 10 hours straight while sipping water every now and then and taking a piss once in a while while keeping close track of the amount of calories you sonsume it will be made but I wouldn't hold my breath of I were you.

Wow... that guy in the first movie is one sadistic sob. I had a laugh at the crazyness of the situation but wow. It was like watching elementary school bullies steal a kids luch money and kicking his ass with all the powertripping and fear associated with it but in a videogame. Weird. Hilarious, but weird. *edit* Okay I just watched the other vids and I hope this guy is just really good at acting the part of a psychopath 'the hills have eyes' redneck. I have to admit it makes for some great DayZ footage. :D What the hell.

I spent most of my hours in ARMA pitching AI forces against eachother in the campaign editor just to watch things explode with a bunch of amazing visual effects mods running like WarFX Blastcore. I would set up a huge tank engagement in the desert, have special forces raid a town with chinooks or stuff like setting up an ambush with an IED and have other AI drive a convoy through it just to see what would happen during the mayhem. Just watching as a civie from a hilltop at night with all the tracers flying around and smoke plumes underlit by burning vehicles and buildings was awesome. I had mods for cluster boms, a MOAB and other cool stuf like AI scripts but I never tried the nuke. Looks awesome. :)

It looks like you were right op. I just checked it and the distance is indeed locked in Dayz. When I move the slider in regular ARMA 2 you see the distance change on the fly and now it doesn't do anything. 1000m to 2500m looks about right and after that hings fade away in the fog. Plenty of distance for fancy sniper shots but it could be a bit more.

People are very paranoid indeed and I am also playing the game as a hermit most of the time as you describe so that is about the extent of my rp when I'm not playing with friends. I'm not new to ARMA but new to Dayz and I understand that there was a lot more co-op going earlier on so I can see why you would be a bit cynical about it.

I'll just assume you have your view distance cranked up in the video options? I have it set to 3000 meters and I can see much further than I will ever need to (from hilltop to hilltop and beyond) from the ground but I believe it goes up to 10000. Did I fail to notice that it has been locked on a lower value or something?

I'll assume that was tongue in cheek because we both know that's not true. :rolleyes: DayZ is the purest rp game I have played in a long time. It's one of those games that makes you forget you are playing a game. If I want fast I'll go play some counterstrike and I can still make some mean headshots even though my teens als long behind me. :D