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sigh, so what game did u deduce this from: "Helos need a lot of upkeep to maintain and repairs aren't anywhere near as easy as the game makes it out to be (who the fuck can carry a main rotor assembly anyway)." now read my post again. there you go, not that hard.

its pretty easy to maintain if you play with friends, playing by yourself you will have a hard time trying to o keep it for long on a crowded server.

your suggestions (usin acre and ace) and smk animations mod would make dayz a way better mod/stand alone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vklOq6KFQy4

what should be removed is the initial message telling where you are

i believe thats MSI Afterburner OSD

spray paint = penis graffiti all over on another note, any word on more updates for the mod? (couldnt find an unlocked topic about it)

more zombies! with proper animations! one thing that could be addressed somehow is dealing with how zombies spawn since they pretty much tell if theres someone around. maybe there could be a couple of zombies all the time in those places, so ppl far away would still see them around on empty places.

still, i wouldnt consider it a good analogy because arma 2 and half life´s sucess by itself cant be compared, but its closer. counter strike mod was also sold as a stand alone after it became oficially developed by valve, not requiring buying half life. in fact at least in brazil it was a cheaper alternative (around half price), but previous versions and the mod died along with outdated servers and lack of support (since the creator was now working for valve). then came condition zero which was pretty much ignored by most. and the franchise got new life with the source remake, and now with GO again. the mod died and became a sucessfull franchise under the original game (halflife) developer.

just a note on your bad analogy, call of duty doesnt normally come with an avaiable battlefield mod from the makers of battlefield. all while making a barely known call of duty get top sales worldwide because of the battlefield mod. maybe now you can also see how that was a bad analogy. i know its hard to grasp the concept i previously presented but its in the details. i havent found anything about zombie animations on the stand alone, will they be revamped upon release? and out of curiosity, is there a way to insert new animations in the mod for the zombies?

seems stupid to ask but have you tried running arma 2 OA outside steam on singleplayer? that worked for me once.

amd x6 3ghz watercooled 16gb ram 120 agi 3 ssd and radeon 6950 2gb. i get average 15-25 fps inside towns, fullhd but everything on low, but putting all on max changes barely nothing so seems to be cpu related. also, this game has some sort of gpu memory leak as it starts out using around 200mb but slowly (30+ minutes) reaches my gpus maximum 2gb and the fps drops some more. imho this game needs at least an i5 2500k (way better per core performance) with a 660ti to run fine at 30+ minimum fps inside big towns. i may get an amd 8350 soon but i wonder if ill lose performance since this game doesnt seem to use more than 4 cores. and the x8 has even lower per core performance than the x6.

tell me who said that, hint: being able to read isnt the same as being able to understand what was written. yeah i saw the video, having been called a hacker since ut and counter strike days (where sometimes used to have scores like 30-0 in pubs with 18+ people) for hundreds of times when i played more seriously, nowdays whenever it happens although its rarer, i usually just ignore it. so to me his reactions to the accusations, which come down to mostly poking fun at, are valid. he may have cheated, of course i cant be sure, but i didnt see nothing that couldnt be done normally in the video, and the game is bugged as hell with a lot of different servers and custom versions. and anyway, independently of his skills, his videos are still very funny and the main reason for it is his charisma. so far i havent seen any other video/videos that were able to grab my attention and entertain me like that. ps.: "oddly" he is also a great player in a lot of different games, does he cheat on all of them aswell?

did something liek that with a couple of friends aswell, a few asked me about what i was playing when they saw "arma 2" on my steam, i explained about dayz since my arma days are long gone, and recently arma 2 went on sale on steam and gog, a couple of them asked me about it, if it was worth it for dayz, and i told them to wait till the game itself came out, they arent hardcore players and i knew they would easily get frustrated with an alpha mod, and also, they would get angry if the proper game came out a couple of weeks later. but, the game has been delayed and they probably already forgot all about it. ill remind them when the time comes. i just really hope the stand alone will have way better cpu optimization.

i understand that, what im arguing about is the consumer perception of dayz as a product. i´m not saying theres any foul play in any way, far from that, i´m just trying to make a point that might be valid to reasses in order to make it more clear to new consumers of the game and improve the establishment of dayz has a brand. well thats only my opinion of course, i might also be wrong.

first, thanks for the reply, maintaining 2 different versions of the same game surely will be unortodox, and i think what i suggested would ensure a bigger fanbase for the stand alone, all while respecting the players that unknowinly buy arma 2 solely for dayz a few weeks prior to the "full game", since its pretty clear that those arma 2 sales are for DayZ. again im not one of those, but would be amazing if bohemia did something like that intead of just lowering prices on steam/gog. or simply just start with the preorder of dayz already, that would also pretty much make it clear to the consumers while not letting the uninformed (ones that dont come to the forum and such) be surprised by it and basicly having to pay twice for the full dayz experience (best avaiable) they would expect, in that way maintaining the consumer perception of quality for the franchise. personally, in my opinion, since dayz is becoming a franchise, having a lower quality counterpart with the same name can get confusing and lower the consumer perception of it in the long term. well maybe i´m just thinking too much and i just underestimate the inteligence of consumers, and in reality none of that happens. rocket obviously started something really big, i just think that issue undermines dayz itself in a small way. i agree, but theres a lot of competition for games out there, and on sale season you can get 2 AAA titles for that, the question would be if consumers would pay that for a "batman arkham asylum" game or a second copy for the same game they already play (while dealing with all the frustrating issues everyones aware of) and payed for. to me, it hurts the brand in the long run. on another note, you guys should hire frankeionpc to make an official dayz series or something, his dayz videos are amazing.

bohemia should give the new stand alone for whoever is buing arma 2 for dayz right now. btw i wouldnt be included since i got arma 2 before dayz but that would be way more fair to the newer fanbase. so about the stand alone, will infected have proper animations? and do you guys need help from a freelance 3d artist for new ingame models/textures? was also reading about it being heavily optimized but with fps being taken from the gpu aswell, so the stand alone will have a lower cpu performance hit? that would be good news for amd users (like me with a x6 @3,6ghz) since per core performance sux and i endup with 15-25 fps inside big cities.

i play on a amd x6 1075t @ 3600, amd 6950 2g and an agility 4 ssd. (both watercooled) inside cities like cherno and elektro, the game is barely playable even in low settings. on the woods and small cities it runs smooth on medium. this games performance is horrible, i would suggest at least an i5 2500k with overclock and the new 660ti.

do i need a 1.7.4 client installed to play on a 1.7.4 server? if so, where do i download it?

i dont understand the point of playing without adversities. lots and lots of admins do that, they must be retards or something. to me the only thing that makes the game fun is after gathering some shit and experiencing the thrill of surviving and the fear of the consequences. dying without good gear means nothing afterall.

i wish that since it will be on the arma 3 engine, that it wouldnt be a stand alone, unless it was a highly polished\finished game. the reason is that ill probably buy arma 3 for arma 3, and also have to buy a stand alone alpha game. saying this because i really doubt it will be more than that with this time frame.

well rocket already posted that duping is unfixable, so lvie with it till the stand alone i agree with op, when im bored i stay in the mountains and shoot newly spawned players with a m107. but pistols wont help them. yeah i also try to hunt snipers, but usually when i find them before they see me, if i miss 1 shot they disconnect, sometimes even when i dont miss, and dont get the kill count.

ill sure try this out, i was using a small plastic device in order to keep holding the w key.

the way i usually know where people are is by looking at where the zombies are spawning from afar. and yeah ive been playing as a sniper with an m107, the last 3 snipers i tried to kill, i shot them and saw blood splashing (they didnt even realize where i was), but they dcd and i got no kill (its a 1 shot kill weapon). unrelated but im ranting cuz im fucking frustrated, dont even wanted their stuff cuz i have no slots left, just want the kills (nothing left to accomplish in this game). i gave up trying to pvp with a pistol, wasting an entire clip on a guy and not killing him is a joke, not to mention doing that with an ak. starting to get bored with sniping, ill probably die soon from getting too close. kind of miss the old 1 shot lee in a close combat.

dayz commander is way superior and both programs have nothign to do with your ingame character

are you using steam? is dayz commander changing the default AO executable to the beta one?