Map and idea look quite promising.

Old Bike

Hey, yesterday I saw an old bike parked in front of an airfield, i ranged it with a marker and it was about 150m away. I was sitting in a bush and checking the area to make sure its owner wouldn't be close and it's not a trap. Then some dude (fresh spawn, no gun, patrol pack) bolted past me and straight for the bike. He didn't notice me thanks to a ghillie i found. I made sure he was alone before firing, but at that point he already got on the bike. It wasn't parked for a quick escape tho, so he had to take the time to turn it around. I aimed my enfield and let off the first shot, right in the back; follow-up shot, into the head this time. No reaction, still riding the bike back and forth. Another shot to the chest. Again, no reaction, still riding. Another shot to the chest or arm at least, nope, nothing and he takes off. For every shot I saw a dot of blood show up confirming the hit, but it didn't kill him, he didn't even pass out. The server had a very low ping tolerance, (>75 and you'll get kicked), so it wasn't lag (no red or orange chain either) and if he was a hacker, well, he wasn't very good at it... So, my question is: Do you take less damage from bullets when you are on a bike? Is it as if you were in a vehicle, so some of the damage you should take gets mitigated by the vehicle?

You are partially correct I would guess.The problem is that this feature isn't bug free. It seems that this effect can be active even if you are already dead. I got shot today and got the "You are dead" screen with negative blood. I waited a few moments, said "whatever, let's start over", hit Esc and abort and try to spawn again. I select the gender and fall unconcious as soon as I spawn.

yep, this is a "known" bug and by "known" I mean that we are aware of its existence, but have little to no clue what causes it. I had this happen lying in an open field and after logging out in mid air after being teleported there by a hacker. In one case i lost all my gear in the other i kept it after logging out and in again. A possible way to prevent this, is to stay in the lobby until your and other players' pings show up, then hit OK to join. If it still happens somehow, your body with all your gear will be where you logged out before you got killed in the loading screen.

Not sure about others, but I consider this cheating. to clarify: this was initially posted in the New Player Discussion Forum and looked more like "look at this cool (unfair) exploit i know(/found)"

Couldn't find it (yet?) because the reddit search engine is utter... However, i do remember that the only way to fix it is to quit (altF4) as soon as you see the "[your name] was killed" message in the loading screen. Your body with all your gear will be where you logged out last time if let it load through and you can run there and pick it all up. If it's on the other side of the map, bad luck. Logging out and joining another server AFTER it happened worked for me ONCE, but the other times i've just lost my gear and started over and didn't bother spending 2 hours running to my dead body. The post on reddit also stated that to prevent it (not proven in any kind of way, mainly anecdotal evidence of course), is to wait a few seconds before hitting "Ok" to join the server. Spent at least 5-10s in the server screen where the players and pings are listed, then hit Ok. This "worked" for me so far as well, but this might also be mere coincidence than a real fix to the problem.

There was a reddit post explaining this, i'll try to find it or see if i have saved it.

It's alpha, so a new version doesn't necessarily mean a more bugfree version. There can be game breaking stuff in the newer version, so they are getting adopted a little slower than let's say Team Fortress 2 with an entire QA department behind it. Yeah, this relates to point 3) in a way. Try to find servers that restart frequently (<6 hours between the restarts is good imo). Also, if at first you don't succeed, try again. Sometimes there is a hiccup and you'll get stuck on one of the screens - again, alpha. If loading takes a long time, it's usually a good sign that you'll have terrible fps and that the server hasn't been restarted for quite a while. see above. This is a problem that seems to be somewhat common. I'm not sure what exactly causes this, but it is linked to the server AND the client. The longer a server runs, the worse your fps get. Once it is restarted you'll get your "normal" fps back. e.g. Last night I joined a server and had 4 fps just lying in the forest and a message said "restart in 5 minutes". I waited till it restarted, rejoined the same server and bam! 50-70 fps.Not everyone experiences this tho. I was on a server with side chat enabled and asked if people had fps issues when i was down to <8 fps and only 3 out 25 people said they have the same problem. This is not very representative of course, since people who have that problem usually leave immediately after discovering that they have low fps on that server. So it definitely has something to do with the client as well. Servers connected to the official hive are not allowed to be password protected for obvious reasons. Some guys don't get that and try to circumvent it by kicking everyone, but everyone can rent a server, sooo... deal with it i guess :( Get DayZ Commander. Sometimes names and server descriptions are not updated by the admins and so a server will run newer versions than the name says. DayZ Commander fetches the correct arma and dayz version and let's you filter for servers that match your versions. On top it gives you stats about which are the most commonly used versions.At the moment the most common Arma patch is 96585 with 46% and the most common DayZ version is 1.7.2.6 with 47% out of almost 4800 servers. The last version, 1.7.2.5, is still on 33%. No idea. Tried google?

How do you plan to give out the prices and are you accepting donations? I have an M107 + 3 Mags and a FAL AN/PVS + 5 Mags I have basically no use for.

It's slightly smaller, but most cities are very close together, so you'll rarely have to run for half an hour to get anywhere.

I have to +1 the server issue. The longer it has been running the worse my fps are. Yesterday I joined a server and barely made it past 12 fps and usually dipped below 5 at certain points. "Restart in 5 minutes" was announced in the bottom left. The server restarted and I rejoined it. 50 fps in the same spot on the map, same time of the day, even after all the other players joined again. Only difference was that the server was freshly rebooted. Others were playing fine (sidechat was enabled) while I had extremely low fps tho, which makes the problem all the more weird.

Well, then PC#1 plus get another 4gig of ram. It's 20-30 bucks. Might want to look into custom building one yourself, because 850 seems a bit much for what they offer. I mean, basically the same setup as PC #1 but with a 7850, 8 gigs of ram and a good PSU (not a cheap Logisys for 15 bucks...) would cost about 750 USD on newegg. Seems like they ask for about 200-250 USD more than the components are worth.

w/o knowing the prices of each PC it's hard to say which one gives you more bang for the buck. However, the 7750 in PC #3 is slower than the 550ti and quite a bit slower than the 460.

Take PC #1, add another 4gig of ram and swap the 460 for a 7850. The 460 is around 20-25% faster than the 550ti, the 7850 is about 50% faster than the 460 and about 10% faster than a 560Ti.