Daddy'o (DayZ)

In reply to questions above: It works pretty well in my opinion. Obviously you can't like run with 2 chars at the same time, but it's pretty much perfect for over watch duty. Just alt tabbing from my looter character to my sniper character and check out the surroundings, then alt tab back. Also the main point of having at least 2 characters is, usually, using the other character to play with your mates when they're online, and then the other for solo play when they aren't around. That's how couple of my buds run as well. I just took a bit of a leave and have been lone wolfing and 2 timing for some time.

Started eve 07 of 07, so that's what... 5 years going now ;)

Best not to pick it up man.

I dunno why you people keep reviving a bug report from 1.7.1.5 since the body disappearing thing has been fixed since as far as I know? Just update to 1.7.3

I'm seconding this. Think the lowest is 25 slots. It would mess with the game if there were only 10 slot servers available for easy items grinding.

In my opinion it should run fine with that rig. I heard the graphics card is causing some issues with some users, but should be no problem. Should also be powerful enough to crunch out a comfortably better resolution for you :)

Someone already pointed this out, but yeah, since arma is a combat simulator, swimming with 80kg of stuff on you, you're going to drown. So when you force your character to swim, he'll drop his bag and gun etc.. in order to be able to swim and avoid drowning.

Well obviously. He had all that and he didn't want to lose it to you. Even the unarmed looking can still have a hatchet on their tool belt. Turn your back on him and suddenly he's not so unarmed anymore.

2 reasons. 1. The ass-factor that all 3rd person games have. Nicer to look at a feminine ass than a male ass run all day. Much more so in DayZ because of long distances. 2. Nerd factor. You can influence people by appearing female.

Then you'd never need to sneak or avoid zombies, or shoot zombies, ever again?

Yes they do! But instead of having certain locations with antidotes that players can pick up and 5x the amount of zombies, have most towns have something you CAN'T pick up and just the normal amount of zombies.

I can't even be bothered to list all the issues with that antidote thing, but namely imagine the amount of snipers camping those locations, and large groups of people taking ownership of the locations. Imagine the server hopping around the antidote loot piles.... I have a much simpler solution. Think about what I say here: How are zombies now? - They're just as fast as you - They don't relent unless you manage to lose their line of sight and sneak away - They hit really hard, cause bleeding, broken legs and uncosciousness In a word, they ARE dangerous. They kill lots and lots of noobies. Why? Because noobies don't have weapons or not enough ammo to counter them. Why do older players find no problem with zombies? Because they either DC every time they get aggro to despawn them or they have enough ammo to kill any amount of zombies, after which they just exploit the ammo replenishing bug via DC. Fix these two things: -No more ammo replenishing from DC -No more insta-safe from DC This would mean carefully avoiding zombies, conserving what little ammo you have, and if you aggro, you either have to make do with the ammo you have or be witty and lose them via line of sight and sneaking. Finally there needs to be a reason to enter zombie infested towns. As you said with a canteen and hunting gear you can survive infinitely in a forest. Add something to towns players can't pick up, but something you need. A static item you can't carry, but need to visit every so often. This forces people to enter towns, conserve their ammo and actually handle their aggro, and suddenly this is zombie survival again!

Vehicle isn't tied to a person like a tent is, or is supposed to be. A tent is supposed to disappear after 2 days of the placers death but isn't anyway. This does not apply to vehicles. When you save a vehicle only the location and inventory is saved regardless of who saves it. If you die, the vehicle will stay put until moved and saved by someone else or 7 days pass and it despawns.

Yes obviously, but if it were that simple it would have just been fixed. Obviously I won't claim to understand what kind of a database structure DayZ hive is running, but I do understand the difficulty of changing something seemingly very small when you're looking at the database structure and going "oh shit..."

3 has already been tried, tested and drawn back. It caused a massive surge of duplicating items. A person would log out, mate of his would pick stuff up from the bag of the persons copy. Person would log back in, both would have the same items.

As far as I know a vehicle _is supposed to_ save it's location every time all players exit and it's left stationary. However I wouldn't trust it personally and I don't see any reason why you wouldn't take the extra 5 seconds to save every time you touch one.

yeah you could use iphone as speakers with a jack I'm sure, but then that won't fix the problem, since a jack doesn't do anything without a sound card processing the sound data and relaying the sound. You need a card man, but the cheapest solution is to wait for your card to arrive, alternatives are external cards or sound systems with said cards built-in, but those are hella expensive as far as I know. May you find your beans tasty and full of munchy sound when you get it :)

The zombies are fine. They're fast, hard to hit, hit hard and hit fast. The problem is the players have too much ammo to counter any amount of zombies. That and you can always just disconnect to despawn them. Balance is achieved when ammo replenishing gets fixed and it's made somewhat rarer, and when combat DC gets fixed. Then zombies will finally be a challenge, because you can't escape them easily by a simple DC and you cant kill and endless amount of them in a house or anywhere else.

Yes tents diminish dying. Removing tents however diminishes end game goals and interest. If you can't camp and hoard, what are you gonna do late dayz?

No there is no Fal with a thermal scope. The TWS is a hacked in weapon. The only thermal weapon is the L85 and it's not removed either. It's bugged due to the new patch. The bug is inconsistent between players, so yes some folks can still have it. And yes it does still spawn. You can still find it on crash sites, but sometimes you can't pick it up, sometimes you can but it wont appear in your hand etc.... so just bugged for most people.

The only reason pvp is so abundant in this mod is because it's the only threat and goal. As I've said in 100 other threads, surviving doesn't take anything. You can do it easy by yourself solo. There's no thrills do be had from that after a very short while. Only excitement from surviving you ever get is from hostile players. And then when you, alone or a group, have everything, rarest guns and items and what ever, whacha gonna do? Nothing left to do but find people to kill and get thrills from pvp. This mod is nothing without it and so you find it everywhere.

He speaketh the truth.

What do you need teamwork for? Zombies aren't hard enough to force team play. You only need it to avoid getting killed by solo bandits. Survival without pvp takes nothing, hence pvp is the essence of surviving. This is why people shoot each other. Because what else is there to do. You can just sit in a bush, cook meat all day long and drink water from a lake. You'll survive infinitely. Eventually you'll get bored and start to look for pvp.

OP is using the word game, where the mod creator is using the term anti-game. You want balance, where the mod creator has stated he does not want to create balance. You want fun and fairness where Rocket wants simulation and realism.

Have the gun as well and as far as I know it doesn't allow zooming. It's a set magnification.