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I found that the best way to not get killed as a hero was by using a gun with ironsights and just the normal hero skin, no ghillie and at most an ALICE pack. For me that meant rolling FN FAL, which is a great gun, the ammo is probably about as rare as CZ 550 ammo too. Ghillie, Camo, Coyote backpacks and M14 or other scoped weapons tended to make me a target. For the record I've found maybe five CZ 550s in 6 months of gameplay, while I've found tens of DMRs, M107s and AS50s. It's easier for some people to find them now due to private servers being so heavily modded but in vanilla DayZ they were always pretty damn rare by comparison - mostly due to scripting and duping. Definitely the rarest gun in the game for me.

I have so much contempt for scripters. I think they're all pathetic.

So long as the zombies are flawless (can't punch through walls/stairs, don't do the start-stop zig-zag running, can't punch from several metres away) the game should be good to go. Zombies are the only thing significantly holding the mod back IMO. I'd like harder zombies in the standalone, just not harder because they're glitchy.

Anyone else have the experience that every new piece of information about the standalone that gets released makes you want to play the mod less?

All of my this. If you could cancel the animations it would be bearable - you can't, so it's not a smart code change.

Blitzkreig anyone?

I'm outraged by nobody mentioning snakes in the standalone.

This is true. In DayZ I make a bit of an exception because I don't play it like a competitive shooter and I want it too look good, I think of it more like a Skyrim type adventure game then Battlefield 3. Plus I don't get much 'micro-stuttering' anyway. When I play Tribes: Ascend - it's a different story.

Damn I've been calling them 'helichopters', am I not cool?

Jelly of that setup OP. I've been fiddling around to increase frame-rates in cities myself (my PC is a lot weaker: Q6600 3.2Ghz, 4GB DDR2, GTX 660 2GB, Windows 7, playing at 1920x1080). I've tried pretty much every combination of startup parameters from here - http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma2:_Startup_Parameters - the only one which had any significant effect was -winXP which bumped my FPS in and immediately around Elektro on average by 10 FPS (25-50% depending on location), but it didn't really impact visual quality at all. I'm not jelly of your aliasing though OP. Turn up 3D rendering above 100% (over-rendering), it usually decreases aliasing without much (or any - even on my PC) performance hit, it should especially work on a PC like yours. Here's a screenshot of my settings, you can see that the building, fences and especially the frames of the crane have very little aliasing at these settings. I also found that I need ATOC on All Trees + grass and Anti-Aliasing at least on High in order for bushes, grass and trees to look acceptable (not like paper cut outs) this impacts framerates mainly outside of cities, turned off I would get 100+ FPS in fields with it on on I get 50-60 (my monitor is only 60Hz so it's good enough for me). No matter how low I set my settings (excluding lowering resolution) I rarely get more then 30 FPS when looking into a city though. Terrain and object detail impact performance a lot so I have these set to normal/low, this increases FPS but doesn't really degrade image quality much.

Why not? I've been playing Tetris without blocks for years.

Oh. I 've never had to turn the engine off while the car is still moving, does this save the environment or something?

I use it because it gives me better vision - obviously. DayZ isn't actually a first person shooter. Sure if you want to hit shit you should use first person but a lot of the game isn't about shooting so it's not appropriate. Frankie(onPCin1080P) mentioned anecdotally that rocket chose to include third person because it gives you back some of the awareness that you lose when playing in first person on a small screen (i.e. your peripheral vision). There's also the fact that some of the greatest games ever made would have been absolute shit if they were exclusively first person (Metal Gear Solid, every GTA, etc). Just because you have some shooting in the game doesn't mean that you have to adhere strictly to the conventions of the first person shooter genre! But as others have doubtless said if it bugs you then stick to first person only servers. I'm fine with it.

The engine starts when you push your forward key.

I'd love a NZ map. Remote island with reasonable population, variable terrain and great scenery? Not to mention that it somewhat fits the story, NZ is the type of place you might try to escape to in a global zombie outbreak.

It's mainly because video games are made in the West for Western customers. Although the Cold War has ended Russia still make a good boogeyman.

I've never had what you're experiencing OP but I have had some strange things with controls for instance I recently had a CZ 550 (a gun I normally don't touch) and I couldn't zoom in or out with the gun lowered, I also cannot toggle zoom in more then once with a weapon raised in order to return to normal zoom I have to toggle zoom out twice. I changed a whole bunch of bindings - mouse wheel now toggles zoom, freelook and lights on are now bound to a mouse button, Q and E now toggle lean, shift toggles run, running macro added, etc, etc. It actully makes a huge difference.

Thrust Juice - I'll need that to wash down Matt's Saucy Meat. (No homo)

One thing I've noticed is that I can change my settings from high (AA, AF, ATOC on max) to low (disabled) inside a city and it will have only a negligible effect on frame rate, maybe 5 FPS at most. These variables have a large effect on frame rates in forrests and open fields but in a city it's practically nothing even though they improve visuals dramatically. Even turning object detail and 3D resolution up and down only has a minor effect on frame rates in cities for me. Like RJTurner said the bottleneck maybe the CPU as I'm still runing an old Core 2 Quad Q6600. The odd thing is I've tried it at stock (2.4GHz) and with a 33% overclock (3.2GHz) and framerates in cities hardly budged. ARMA 2 is a really strage beast.

Yes.

Yes I have this. I do not get the city lag while playing in the editor but if I jump into a game of DayZ then I will. Some people believe that this is a problem with disk access - I think it's more a problem of code efficiency however. If you have 8GB of RAM or more it may be worthwhile moving some or all of your game files to a RAM disk to see for yourself (only recommended for somewhat knowledgable computer users). Some people have reported great success with this technique in vanilla ARMA 2, it seems to fix the issue of 'texture popping' if nothing else. I have an SSD so I find it rather surprising that disk access is a problem but I haven't enough RAM to move the entire game directory to a RAM disk, I have tried moving both the @DayZ directory and the building.pbo files to a RAM disk but this didn't fix my city lag.

Honestly I don't listen to much while playing but when I do it's usually Thin Lizzy or the No Agenda Show.

It is time.

One presumes in the fullness of time.