BillyBobJoe (DayZ)

I don't really know how the vehicles are coded in but it seems to be that the V3 has no torque. It accelerates like crap and if you try and start on a hill or or climb a hill with little starting momentum you're in trouble. I've also never driven a real version of these trucks but for argument's sake, I believe the V3 is a little underpowered at this time. In my opinion at least, it should be able to handle hills a lot better. I think the top speed is decent where it is though. I do think the "brakes" need some further investigation too.

Since this doesn't appear to be anything official I'm not exactly going to take the time to be specific with my specs MSI GT60-ONC 3rd Gen i7 3610 2.3GHz 2x 500GB HDD in Raid 0 GTX670M Nvidia Card 12GB RAM 180W Power Brick 15.4" @1920x1080 I ballpark 30-50 FPS depending on where I am. I don't have too much trouble with DayZ. Most settings are on high. Same with other games. No issues. Newer models of this laptop probably play better. My only complaint is the fact that it's so heavy because of all the crap that's inside. Nice thing about the GTX670 is it's lower TWP compared to other top-end cards. This laptop is never hot. Newer models are probably better in many areas but I doubt any of them run as cool as the models with the GTX670. But they'll also likely get better FPS. Battery life also sucks ass, but no one plays video games on battery mode anyway. Battery life is about enough to watch a short movie, about 2 hours under load. My battery is old and only lasts like 30-40 minutes under load now :(. I typically play on my desktop now that it's running so I'm not in a rush to replace this laptop. I'm thinking of replacing it around August of 2015 when the back to school specials come out. It's how I got this one. Microsoft was doing one of their "buy a PC, get an Xbox" specials. lol

Hah! Thought this post was dead. Looks like everyone is in the same boat on this one: magic. But I want to know moar! I guess it's not a huge deal since it's always evolving but I'd really like to know how the loot system works. It was very clear-cut in the mod, here it seems there is definitely some sorcery at work.

Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone can explain persistence a bit to me...or at least try. I've been looking on reddit, google, and on here and I've found about 5/6 different definitions. I'm not mad about persistence, but I am somewhat confused on how it works. One definition I've come across a few times is that loot spawns, decays to a certain point, then unspawns and respawns somewhere else. Though is definition seems somewhat broken. By this definition there is a set amount of loot on each server determined when it first comes online. So maybe food will be more scarce, or guns, or ammo, because of the way that severs loot table first initialized. Other definitions seem to vary and talk about dropped loot unspawning after x restarts, but when does loot respawn? Or new loot spawn? Just curious if someone can properly explain this. Thanks.

About to log in for first time today, but last night it seemed like half the servers we're frozen. Pop of 0 and my friends and I couldn't join, just saw "Wait for host" forever. Loot still seems screwey. Haven't found a building in each town that is like the "jackpot" building like in previous build. Instead, loot just seems much harder to find. But I am finding a butt-load of jeans everywhere. Not sure if every good pair of pants in the game has been taken and jeans left in their place or jeans are just spawning everywhere. I still think the hunger/hydration timer needs to be dialed back a bit. I feel like more of the game is about finding food, or killing people for food. I know it's about "surviving" but surviving doesn't only mean eating and drinking. Some of us want to go out and explore the map, hunt for helicopters, build camps, not run through every building in a town looking for the one can of food to keep from passing out, then fail, and pass out, respawn, but because of current loot system, on respawn there's no loot in the town so you pass out again from hunger.

I heard the FNX was moved to helo crashes, didn't know Amphibia was also. Found a CR75 mag too, so apparently those are still out there somewhere.

I haven't found anything else yet either. But the other pistols are actually supposed to be rare. Though I haven't seen an amphibia? in forever

Sorry if my comments are reposts but I figure it's worth emphasizing. I'm not sure when "hide body" was removed, but I think it may need to be brought back. Not to be a douche and hide bodies, but because if a person dies in a doorway, there's currently no way that I can find to get around them. I killed two people in a small room yesterday but then got locked in because their bodies layed over the doorway and I couldn't climb over them. Vaulting is still hit or miss. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. I still have to press the hotkey like 22 times to bring out an item sometimes. Many times it works fine but I'd say it's 50/50. I think the loot system is worse for this patch. I've been to large amount of buildings with nothing in them, and then I'll find the occasional building (maybe 1 per town) that is STOCKED. ALL THE FOOD. ALL THE CLOTHES. ALL THE AMMO. And a couple guns sometimes. Not sure what happened there but there are times where the left side of my inventory window is literally full and there's even more than I can see. Items on top of items so you can't actually interact with them. A few friends and I have also noticed that picking up items or dropping them seems to desync or lag. I'll pick up an item several times before it actually goes to my inventory. Or I drop my bag, put it in the bag, then pick it up and it works. I don't know if it's just me, but when I "Eat/drink All", my character performs the animation, and then returns to a normal "ready" position, but the item is still in my hand, and not consumed. I've waited about 2min before hitting cancel current action. Once the animation is complete, I can run around and move, but the action menu only allows me to cancel current action, and the item is still in my hands unconsumed. Other than that, it appears very stable. Zombies are performing the same (ninja eyes and ears even in the dark, or when you're a fresh spawn who hasn't moved yet). Player movement and mechanics seem fine. Just the same old shit. I appreciate the new features, but I'd also appreciate some more fixes. And one last thing, apparently the game considers the sledge hammer a sharp object? You can open canned food with it to very little yield lol. I haven't tried skinning anyone with it but that's probably something that should be looked at.

Ignore Shister, he's correct on some level, most laptops don't like being overclocked, but we GT60 owners have TURBO MODE! Doesn't literally automatically kick the clock up there but...well, some technical garbage and basically it works faster. You should be fine though without the boost. I've had the 0NC with the GT650M for a year and half now and I've never turned on Turbo and can play BF3, DayZ, CoD, and some others without a prob. I too though have had a serious FPS drop though in stable. From what I'm hearing though it's common to some other peeps too.

I personally like the L85, still lucky enough to have one on my public hive character last I checked. Some people complain that it's OP but I disagree. It's really not the most accurate gun and it's 5.56 so its got the same power as all the other STANAG rifles. I personally don't think it's that big of a deal. If the vote fails to keep it in, I see no reason to replace it. The L85 with an ACOG isn't really that much different than the M16 ACOG. I'm not going to be upset if it stays out but I personally vote to keep it in. I do also agree though, that perhaps having a thermal scope that is unattached (perhaps to replace NVG or binocs) may be kind of fun to explore. Or perhaps consider for SA since gun modifications seem to be an topic to be toyed wtih.

^ I see what you mean. For me though, I play on a Vilayer server on the Vilayer hive, and the last two days, our server has bugged out to the point where everytime we log in, our character resets two a point from two days ago. Vehicles reset every server reset and essentially there is no point in playing on our server because nothing saves. We've been waiting all day to update to .6 but alas, it's 12:30 here and I'm tired. with work and shit in the morning. I'm sorry PersonalJ, but it seems Vilayer dropped the ball on this one. I've seen a lot of servers running .6 today, but I'm really only interested on playing on ours because my stats aren't tracked on the others.

I play on my friend's server mostly. The other day, immediately after server restart I saw to crashes smoking so that would make sense. But there have been a few times where immediately after a restart I didn't see anything. The sound effects usually take about 60 secs from coming within 30-50m.

Hey guys, I searched the forum with no real success. Sometimes, I can see smoke from crash sites, but it's only been a few times out of many. One of my friends says he sees the smoke almost every time. I have another friend who says he never sees smoke and didn't know they smoked. Is this a server error, general bug? Any ideas what to do? Not a huge deal but it makes finding crashes a bit easier. Thanks. EDIT* Typo

Hey dude. So, did you notice all the hacked in ammo crates in Electro? What a jerk...no idea if it was you. If I did, we'd of banned you but you seem to be a regular and we like that. Anyway, just before we met, a tree ate me and I lost my gear. Including an L85. So I was a little mad when we met, but at least I happened to pick up an M1014 in town for some reason. I was a little nervous when I got the fire station and noticed the doors were shut...but I thought it was a coincidence. The only person on the server that wasn't in my part couldn't have just happened to spawn in right next to me. Then I happened to open the first door to lose the zombie and you decided to FIRE A FRACKING M14 ROUND INTO MY SIDE! Then you politely asked me to come back so you could finish the job? Then you asked me to stop shooting you? Well, I felt a lot better after I killed you. I really wanted a coyote pack, and I was sad about losing my NV so thanks for those. When I saw you killing yourself over and over I knew you were coming back for your body. I felt it was polite to leave it, but I really wanted you gear, I'm sorry....I was also still kind of pissed about being eaten by a tree and being shot by an M14...so I ran in the hill and camped a tree. When I saw you climb the stairs...I did what any other bandit would have done. I killed you with your own gun. Well, shortly after I made it back to my body and my toys, so I feel a bit better now. Perhaps if we meet again you will make a favorable ally. You seem interesting enough.

R u sure it transformed? Me and some friends replaced a truck earlier with a bus. dumped the inventory from one into the other and left the bus in the exact same place. we liked the truck more and didn't care to destroy the bus. could of been something similar...