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I was already able to help someone who had the same question so it might be interesting for you as well :) If you're really just interested in DayZ, you should wait for the standalone which will be released soon as it will deliever a superior DayZ experience compared to the mod. However, I think it would definitely be worth it if you're not struggling too much with the price (There is a discount at gog.com so Arma 2:CO costs only 17.99$ at the moment!) Not only for the original game, Arma 2:CO, which alone has incredibly much content and replayability but for DayZ as well. It surely won't be a waste to try the mod already and especially considering the mod will still be obtained by the community even after the standalone will be released it will offer you value for the money. The community will most likely also be able to do some experiments the official dev team won't be able to implement, so having this opportunity will propably guarantee you more than just practice and fun in the meantime. If you have any more questions concerning Arma or DayZ, feel free to just ask! :) @JAtchley80, Arma is a sandbox military tactic shooter which on top of it has full support for mods and a very large and active modding community. If you are interested in assisting someone with your knowledge and eventually getting some of your assets or work in the game, I recommend you to take a look at the Bohemia Interactive Forums, specifically the "modelling" section ;)

Well, the problem is that DayZ is a mod for a game that is very userfriendly in its construction. Arma's mods have always been the heart of the game ever since the first "Operation Flashpoint" game. That means the multiplayer structure is open for the user and he can use scripts for his custom missions which he can create freely. However, due to the success of DayZ, this openess that was based on previous trust of the user and has always worked in the original scope, the Arma community, there have been people who are abusing this freedom to hack. Therefore, hackers ,or better to say, scripters are a real threat to the mod. Especially highly popluated servers suffer from them. This is not to say the Standalone will be the same because it will actually restrict the user in this department much more as these structures are not needed here anymore, leaving a much more secure concept that removes all these previous abilities to hack. Nonetheless, there has already been a major progress and ever since private hives with whitelist protection have been established, the hacking problem is marginal if you're lucky with the server choice. So, just look for a well administrated private hive server and the hackers aren't a problem :) @SupahRyan, no problem, you're welcome mate!

; It would definitely be worth it! Not only for the game (Arma 2:CO) but for DayZ as well. It surely won't be a waste to try the mod already and especially considering the mod will still be obtained by the community even after the standalone will be released it will offer you value for the money(and no, as you can already guess it from the name, the DayZ standalone will be completely independend from Arma and be its own game) The community will most likely also be able to do some experiments the official dev team won't be able to implement, so having this opportunity will most likely guarantee you more than just practice and fun in the meantime.

To me, that's actually a good answer :) You know, looking back at how things evolved around the DayZ project, it is no surprise to see a normal chap such as Dean to feel the overwhelming nature of it. Don't worry about what you feel know, Dean, it is actually a good reaction as it shows how much you care about your project. Naturally, expectations can make you crazy and haunt you when you try to sleep as you fear to not meet them but at the end of the day, these expecations are nothing but a show of interest and this interest is what makes you stronger and feeds your dedication. If no-one cared about DayZ back then when you did the forum thread, all these great things would never have become reality. And to everyone having these expecations and demands, I think we should understand that what we actually demand is a good game. This good game can only be achieved with work and that work takes time. More time given to the development crew equals a better game and as long as financing isn't a problem, the equation works. The first release build is in fact very crucial. Perhaps even more than many people estimate it to be. It might just be a "foundation build" but to many people it is nothing short but the first impression of "the" DayZ game. Therefore, we all should aspire it will be the best it can. Dean did not publish the "news" he announced. But why are you here? To play a good game? While he did not make these announcements, has the game gotten any worse? I think, it wasn't clever to not live up to the message and I think it should have been handled better but I really don't care about it in any bigger scale. I think it would have been much worse to actually do these announcements and then in fact not delievering them (as it was drastically shown by Sergey Titov in such a poor way...). That would be a true and fatal mistake. What Dean did was nothing but telling us he wants to avoid precisely this mistake and thus, it was not possible to announce a release date or similar. My advice for the community would be to try to be productive in the meantime. Let's philosophise more abut the game concept, let's think more about gamefeatures, let's produce more creative ideas. There have been many good advices and ideas that originated from the community and they deserve further thoughts. This is our opportunity to help shape the game we want and make the demands we have possible. It is already proven that Dean is using the ressource that is the community and appreciates its potential. It's ultimately the root and crown of DayZ.

Thanks for the information Nort0n! May I ask, what is the native resolution of your display? Your settings are indeed quite low. Usually, you shouldn't have any problems with your system running the game on such settings. You can however see which Memory Allocator works best for you and add it to the startup parameters. You can also remove the MaxMem command. The game does not use more than 2 cores. A fast SSD will make LOD transitions smoother and give you less texture "pop-ups". Perhaps you are referring to the "Proving Ground" map? It uses a, at this stage rather experimental, new and much more sophisticated cell size, so it has a slightly different impact on performance. Oh and for the benchmark, there is actually a official benchmark scenario for both Arma 2 and Operation Arrowhead in the game. (Though you have to disable DayZ in order to access it via the single player missions) The 660 in combination with a SSD should be a good idea :)

I definitely recommend the usage of a SSD! Arma streams a lot of content from the harddrive and switching to a fast SSD will most likely already make quite a difference. Would you mind posting your advanced video settings along with some ingame benchmark results?

You want a fully working helicopter for a AS50 with ammo? :rolleyes: Do you know how quick and easy it is to cycle crashed helicopters and stack a full tent with those weapons?

hmm I would considder that off-topic to be honest and it wouldn't make a difference for someone to put his post into a PM instead of posting in a thread which deals with a different topic and could potentially annoy other users. Additionally, different people have different problems and answering every possibility is much harder than just focusing on a specific problem. But well, as a start you should disable AA and switch to e.g. SMAA or FXAA and see which Memory Allocator works best for you :)

Glad to hear you usually have sufficient performance :) Yeah, that's a whole different story. As opposed to single player, the multiplayer experience is also heavily dependant of the server's hardware. If it runs poor or you have a bad ping, there is very little the installed software on it can do about that. See if you can find some servers with a good response time and ping, preferably a private hive (whitelisted PW protection) and stick to it. It will be a worthy new beginning :) Speaking about the engine, it actually runs outstanding for all the things it does in realtime. In DayZ however, a lot of that is not needed and thus produces a unnecessary drop on performance. Fortunately, the standalone will have all of this removed, optimized and improved so it will stand with a better performance. No problem, you're welcome mate!

Yes, loading times have been decreased immensely. In-game performance however is not really subject to the DayZ mod development but rather your own choice of video settings. There are streamlined and improved scripts that run at a lower performance impact but in general, development of the Mod cannot make a huge impact upon how the game performs apart from the mentioned scripts. However, there have also been quite a few Arma 2 Beta Patches which had a positive effect on the actual in-game performance. :) Just out of interest, what exact problems are you experiencing? Just general low performance or is it something else? aah snap, ninja'ed. But I guess our posts are in a advantageous symbiosis, Fraggle ;)

Well some of the information that has been provided here is actually quite inaccurate. As already suggested, you are propably suffering from low detail textures as you were only using Arma 2:Free which is restricted to low resolution textures and no campaign etc. Untrue however is, that there would be a DLC that improves other, already existing textures. DLC's such as BAF (British Armed Forces) only provide high quality textures for its own content (Camo, L85, AS50 etc), whereas the PMC (Private Military Company) does the same. It provides the high quality textures for its own content (survivor-, hero skin, SUV etc). The thing with the DLC's is that Bohemia Interactives provides you the content, model wise, for free so you can even play with other people who have bought the DLC's (therfore adding even more playable content such as campaigns, misssions etc) but as in the case of Arma 2:Free they are restricted to low resolution textures If there is help required, I can assist anyone in optimizing video quality settings in order to get the most adequate visual result out of your hardware. There are quite a few tricks and workarounds of whom not everyone seems aware of. :)

he :D I guess "Mini Maracara's" thread was merged with this one. My post was directed to his questions :)

They are all maps made and designed for Arma 2 by members of its very dedicated community. You can take a look at some of the other maps that are available here. To bring them into DayZ, the lootspawns and some other code have to be adapted. If you want to make a terrain from scratch, I recommend you to precisely read e.g. this guide and then look for more information or an expert you can talk to. The primary tool you'll be using is called Visitor 3

I think this refers to the short "sprint" the infected perform after they have been fatally wounded and enter the death animation. Really happy to see it fixed :)

:D just noticed ^^ Well, the advices still stand MR BUGGLES

Definitely put your Video Memory to default and change the HDR quality to normal Another very important setting, if not the most important one, is the view distance. Put it to somewhere around 3k-4k especially when you're playing Arma. Vsync should be disabled as well. Other than that, 30fps are perfectly fine and would not be an fps issue. You don't need stable 60 as in e.g. a fast paced shooter ;) If you can do something in the HW department, get your hands on a quick SSD.

Chernarus is based on a real location in the Czech Republic and Bohemia Interactive, the creators of Arma, are from czech origin as well. They are re-creating their home so to say. It's nice to see you can confirm the authenticity :)

That is correct :) The engine will continue but the helicopter will lose its balance and quickly fall out of the sky into a big burst of deathly fire. You can however rescue a helicopter with engine failure since the air that is flowing through the rotors during the fall actually induces enough lift to land it more or less safer. If you're interested in helicopters, try out Take on Helicopters which you can even with the Arma content :)

Yes, it will live on. The DayZ standalone will be called "DayZ" since that is the brand name and the Mod will then be called "DayZ: Mod". It won't get the official support in the same way the standalone does and becomes a sort of community-run project. This however makes it far more flexible than the standalone, so modders can go all crazy and see what magic they can get in DayZ.

Awesome man! B) Same here :)

Hey KEOUGH, it is "AidlPpneMstpSnonWnonDnon_SleepC_layDown" You can look up how to play this animation in the wiki ;)

It's a beautiful map :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysbQGTVux3w&hd=1

Ah goddamnit! Now I know I really have to go crazy on size and colour.... ;) Please read the post a page back

Yeah absolutely. You can even just type "Limnos Airport" into Youtube and get multiple videos showing views from inside the airport, even showcasing military jets... That is indeed an important question! I think the main problem is that the justice system over there is still on strike

I was just about to write pretty much everything you said until I discovered your post. Saved me a lot of time fellow Bean hunter! :) Here, take some of mine :beans: