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Have you looked at DayZ Commander? It has some of your features, but not all.

As said above, but I will add... your friends can press "I" in game and the name of the server will be on his screen... in case he's forgotten.

Alienware are good machines in general, but they are also severely overpriced. Unfortunately for a gaming laptop you don't have *tons* of choice. Honestly for the price of a macbook or an alienware, you can get a cheaper laptop (or even a tablet?) and build a moderate desktop for gaming. Unless it's an issue of space, I seriously suggest this plan.

I agree that you need to hear in this game... I generally keep my music volume fairly low... I can hear it but game noises easily drown it out, even just the noise of rain or of the coast will really drown out the music. Heck, my Mumble chatter is a bigger distraction at times...

Great mood music in the style of classic horror movie soundtracks. Listen to this album and try to not think back to 70's horror. Amazing.