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The general "idea" of a zombie is a human brought back to life with minimal brain activity whose only desire is to eat living flesh. Yes there are different versions of zombies throughout all the invented lore on them, but that can be considered the staple. And never has a zombie been able to blink around like a wizard on crack. I can't imagine that being an intended feature of this game. Sprinting I can deal with, but zig zagging around while blinking through the air just kills it a little for me.

Lol! Yes it did... but I'm bored and tired at work so this got my brain working again.

I randomly stumbled across this mod in another game forum and it immediately peaked my interest. Essentially an MMO-style FPS Survival Zombie Apocalypse game all rolled into one neat little package? :o After doing just a bit of research I was immediately hooked. I'm currently downloading ARMA Combined Operations via Steam right now as I type this. So, with a little bit of time to kill, figured I'd post here while I continue to do more research. From what I can tell, the premise behind the game is amazing, and the core gameplay is intact. However, the game is still considered "Alpha" and as such is buggy as all hell. And what's this I'm hearing about DayZ becoming standalone? And what does that have to do with the ArmA III game coming out (and I guess was delayed) in 2013? So here are my questions if someone could oblige me. :) -I've never played ArmA before, and apparently the interface is one with a steep learning curve. Any suggestions for a quick tutorial in navigating the interface so I can jump straight into DayZ once I get it installed? -Any tips and/or hints for getting DayZ to run as easily as possible? As it stands I'm just following the directions provided here: http://dayzmod.com/?SixUpdater -I'm assuming my love for anything zombie (which means if a real apocalypse happened I think I'd be pretty good at fending for myself) can translate into basic survival mode for this game. Anything considered "non-conventional" where this game steers away from "standard zombie survival" and I wouldn't realize that what I'm doing is a good way to get myself killed? -What's this talk about DayZ going standalone and what does it have to do with ArmA III, if anything? Thank you all for any advice and answers you can offer. I'll see you in game!

So I just downloaded ArmA II specifically to try out this mod. Loaded up a server and for some strange reason every blade of grass and all the trees have weird blocky textures surrounding them. Anyone know why this is happening? Also, it feels like there is some extreme bloom/blur effect going on and it's really straining my eyes. Is there a way to turn that off? Thanks for any assistance.

Ok so did a bit of researching, watched those video tips... I think I'm good to go! First time I logged in I was surrounded by about 10 zombies right when I was trying to adjust my graphic settings, so my first round wasn't much of a success lol

Seems as though even if it registers my ping as fine (below 75ms) no matter what server I connect to, after a few minutes I get a yellow broken chain on the bottom right side which I'm assuming is a disconnect warning of some sort. I've then run across players just sitting there or running in place so I know I'm disconnected from the service. What can I do to resolve this? I would really like to play. :) I've tried about 4 different servers now. And reloading the same server seems to take a long time as well, as I just sit at the "Waiting for character to create" screen for about 5 minutes each time. Sorry for the newbness, just loaded this game and mod tonight!

Now to go die... :P

Found out the problem with the blockiness was the AA. Disabled it and everything is great now. Thanks everyone for the tips! And the bloom fix is great now. :)

Oooh that might be it. I didn't mess with that setting because I thought that was for 3d monitors or something, which I don't have. I'll check that as well.

Once I can get back into the game I'll let you know how things turn out after messing with some settings. Apparently I spawned up next to about 10 zombies so in trying to figure out the basic controls of the game and messing with settings I got killed. :P

Thanks for the tips. Another question just popped into my head... how many people does a typical server hold? And if I play on one server and then switch to a different one, do I have to start a new character or is the character saved across all servers?

I'll search right away! Thank you! I don't care if I have to wait a long time for the standalone... I just spent $30 on a game solely for the mod. :P Better get some use out of it. ;) I was just curious as to what is officially out there regarding that particular piece of news. I guess my followup question to that would be... how long has this been in alpha? Is it getting frequent upgrades, patches, etc? Is development still well underway? So many mods I've gotten attached to in the past with other games seem to die out well before the mod is ever completed. Such is the nature of the beast, I guess.