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well OP, my expectations coming into this one were pretty similar to yours. i guess i watched the wrong youtube videos or something. so, imo, your logic is dead on, and matches my experience. what surprises me is the high number of ppl that responded to your post without reading it. only because this community is uncommonly awesome. idk, maybe it's because we see this thread 10 times a day, every day. it is old news. i am going to disagree though. the game isn't suffering because of what it is. it is thriving. the more exposure it gets, the more will be playing. huge potential awaits. i'd like to see this game flourish for what it actually is; deathmatch with zeds thrown in for flavor. while this isn't really what i expected, i believe the game is succeeding because of bandits. not failing.

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animals. unfortunately for me, there are none ingame.

Q) do poor graphics settings made DayZ animals invisible? i've been around 6k blood for the last 6-8 hours of gameplay. so i have been going from farm to farm for the past couple of days, solely. but there are no piggies, no sheeps, and not even bunnies. :( my graphics settings are at my monitors default res of 1680 x 1050. all settings are on low, so i can play on my 2-3 year old hardware. but i'm not seeing anything. once i clear a farm, i carefully scan the terrain, and even binoculars to try to spot some animal. but nothing.

for the better part of 2 hours i was getting kicked for battleye reasons last night. i've been playing for a couple weeks now, so it was just annoying. i downgraded to beta 95389, and then re-copied over the server/client battleye .dll's. it worked the rest of the evening and today. so, idk. http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php/

yeah, i am getting this too. server/client are both the latest, straight from the battleye site. hate to qq, but getting kicked for having the latest version every 5 minutes is getting old.

while i agree in general, and only time will tell if it was a good effect on DayZ or not, LOL @ the tags you used for your thread.

lol. legend in your own mind. a skilled player killer could post these numbers after a weekend of playtime. pftt...

flapjack having aardvarks with jetpacks?!?

^ this

OP: i realize that you probably just got your 1 shot off, and never looked back here. but nearly every single statement you have made here is just plain wrong, and nearly the opposite of reality. have fun back in the Diablo III forums! :o

haha! this thread is funny and worth reading as a new player. but if i follow your logic, then i will be stuck in an infinite loop reading steps 1 - 6, and never be able to read step 7. if i was real hardcore, i would be stuck reading your memo for the rest of my life. :P

idk. i laughed at this story pretty good. but i think the op has a great attitude. just get back in the ring and try again. only thing is, if you do get a clan OP, if you speak in Vent the same way you write, nobody is gonna know wtf you are saying. lol.

all of these tutorials are commendable. they are helpful and good reads for new people for sure. it reminds me of school. i go to school for years and spend all my time getting smart about how my job in the real world is going to be. only to find out. when i do get a job in the real world, that it's nothing like what they taught me in skool. yep. kind of like DayZ; it's all different in the DayZ world. what i am amazed by is the wild range of emotions this game can evoke by circumstances that i don't read in any tutorial, or see on any youtube videos. and that's why i love this mod.

let me see if i have this right. you are sitting on a small hill on the outskirts of a major city, with an AS50 sniper rifle. and you want graphics tips that will help you shoot gud?

i bet those A-10's make awesome sniper bait. drool! :o)

i didn't use the six updater at first either until i figured out that it saved me an ass ton of time and effort upgrading versions every other day. you might want to give it a shot.

it's the smoke alarm in the building across the street. the battery is dead. zeds are upset about this noise too, but they can't figure out how to change the batteries. : /

yeah, if you just updated with the new arma patch, then 4 shots with the 1911 to kill a zed. 3 shots with the revolver. it's new, and a lot of ppl are wondering wtf. i don't even go near the tents. best of luck though.

yes, start reading these forums. they are awesome! :)

i have the opposite experience as you op. i sometimes feel like i have a cowbell around my neck which acts like a beacon to bring every survivor on the map. i mean, there are only like 40 other people on the entire map! right? example: on my 1st life, i ran into the ocean with a herd of zeds following, and swam for my life for 10 minutes until finding an island. it had a lighthouse. cautiously (is there any other way on day 1?) i scout the area and eventually i decide to see if i can enter the lighthouse. i go in, and just then some other survivor is just then climbing down from the lighthouse tower. we are both shocked to see each other. i know where that lighthouse is located today, and i can tell you that the odds are astronomical of someone else being there.

thanks for the nice link to the weapon summary Brenan! :)

yep. fields, water holes, outskirts of towns, etc. that said, i haven't seen a single animal of any sort in the last 6 hours of gameplay. and i've been looking. :/

you are absolutely correct OP. :) here is the wiki link which tells you exactly how visible each chemlight is. http://www.dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chemlight

read these forums! they are gold. these are some of the most helpful people that i have ever come across on any game forum. almost any question you could ever ask has been answered really well by many of the active posters. :)