DarkwaveDomina

Without rule of law you might soon find men are just as valuable a commodity, men are still forced to perform manual labour for no pay in the west today. Granted, we're talking about isolated cases of men being kidnapped and forced to live in trailers under lock and key, but without the rule of law?

Zombie dogs is one thing I never want in this game. Not only are most infections species-specific but zombie dogs terrify me since the Resident Evil games.

I'd recommend trying Pustoshka or Cherno but maybe this game simply isn't optimised for newer cards. Your housefire 480 Fermi should not be making a mockery of a 760, if you're getting a 40+ framerate in big towns with high/v.high settings and I get 18fps on normal something is completely broken. Edit: One thing that comes to mind is to ask if you're running any of those common .cfg tweaks, they significantly reduce image quality. For example I see people saying "oh I put my object detail to 250,000 but I am running with all my settings on high" even though object detail 500,000 (never mind 250,000) translates to normal on the in-game settings. The only .cfg file options I personally mess with are the renderahead ones. Edit 2: Last night someone told me to try -maxMem=2047 instead of -maxMem=4096, I just logged in and tested outside Pustoshka and it actually seems to have helped. I didn't check GPU usage but my framerate was ~28 instead of 18-24. More testing will be required though and I'll need to check utilisation.

Try it in a town. People with exceptional machines are finding their GPU usage dropping like a stone in big towns, I get 99% usage in the country and woodland (40-60fps like you) then my GPU usage hits 50% once I go to a town (e.g. west end of Pustoshka, Cherno, etc.) and drop to 18-24fps. http://youtu.be/9ssjr36NKTE Not my video, but same problem. Check his specs.

I don't think he's trying to con us or is taking the money and running, but he does have a seeming lack of awareness about what state the game is actually in. I watch all his streams and he plays like someone who just started, he doesn't know how half the stuff works and spends most of his time in buildings known for not spawning a single piece of loot. I stopped watching his stream after an hour yesterday, listening to the QA was interesting (horrendous mic issues aside, Eurogamer's fault) but he spent most of that hour in buildings that spawn nothing. He was running around in the same clothes with all his few pockets full of the same useless crap. He didn't even know where he was or where he was going, he said he was completely lost numerous times. I think development would benefit if he knew the game more intimately. I don't consider this a controversial opinion.

That is impressive but it doesn't remotely explain why he seemingly has no clue how to play it. Hell, in one of his own streams he once said "it's getting to a point of development where I might even consider playing it". Do other staff at BI have access to his account for play-testing? Does he keep it running constantly in the background while he's doing debug and specific things? He must do because that's going to be 2 months solid play time soon, the game has only been on Steam since December. There are explanations for that play-time, you should see some of the playtimes my friends have from idling for trading cards. Like I said I have a lot of respect for him, but his lack of knowledge about the game is overwhelmingly self-evident when you see him actually play it.

This, but it's not a permanent 'feature'.

Wow, there are people in this thread who actually believe shiny metal will be worth anything if the shit hits the fan. How much Glenn Beck style survival gold did you rubes buy? Tell us so we can laugh at you.

It's not as simple as "this". I have an i5 2500k and I have tried it on DayZ clocked up to 4GHz, that's a 20% OC and I plan to try with a higher one, it didn't stop me getting 18-24 FPS in the larger towns and cities, in fact it didn't increase my framerate whatsoever. DayZ doesn't even use more than 70% of my CPU (and doesn't fully utilise any core), this issue is something to do with GPU utilisation taking a nosedive. People with similar systems report varying results, some better than mine and some even worse. It's not as simple as "your CPU is shit".

I hate to side with someone (Rick1633) who makes such an emotional and disrespectful post, but I kinda' agree with him. As much respect as I have for Rocket, if you watch any of his streams it's quite clear he doesn't really play this game whatsoever and has no idea how to play it, and I think some of the staff under him are getting away with murder because he isn't cracking the whip over certain issues due to not even knowing they exist (e.g. He thinks loot spawns in houses that it simply doesn't). What Rocket does in his free time is his business, and like I said I have a lot of respect for him, but I suspect we'd see some crucial issues fixed sooner if he spent a bit more time on DayZ instead of Project Zomboid and now Banished. He's alpha testing other people's games and barely playing his own.

This is good news for myself and others who wanted passive skill increases that make you value your character's life more, assuming they are erased entirely upon death. Rocket has mentioned this multiple times, going right back to the dev diary videos long before release, I tried telling the nay-sayers but they wouldn't listen.

Totally normal.

This, I am sure of it. Everyone goes to Berezino or beelines for NEAF and the shipwreck.

No crashes or anything as a result of doing this? I have heard some people warning against it but I'll try anything at this point to avoid 18 FPS in big towns/cities.

I quite like the experimental servers but with there being so few of them you can't expect to find much, they're usually rammed with players.

Sure why not, I wasn't convinced by the whole trading cards thing at first but it's actually quite fun. I just wish random boosters dropped more. :P

It's the freedom and the realism/survival element. Before DayZ (Mod) came along my favourite FPS franchise was Battlefield because most games forced you in to the same old alley/corridor grenade spam formula, a complete lack of freedom, but since DayZ I have found myself completely uninterested in any other shooter. This just has what I want. Now I play strategy games, RPGs, and DayZ.

I say this a lot, but I will warn any bambis not to come within 20 feet of me. If they do I just shoot them right away before they can try knocking me out or hitting me with a pipe wrench. Most bambis seem to be complete nutters because they have nothing to lose.

The downside being that unless you use OpenGL any framerate under 60 will lock your framerate to 30, and any under 30 will lock to 15. This isn't so bad but the main reason I don't use vsync is it makes my mouse movement feel laggy.

I suspect that you didn't read the thread before posting.

The only real effect monitors have on framerate is the resolution and the refresh rate, i.e. You don't see the effect of >60fps on a 60hz display.

No.

This made me laugh a lot more than it should have, I am just imagining a bunch of heavily armed guys in body armour running away whilst clapping.

When I have had to use direct comms it seemed immediate for me, none of that cutting off, just the quality was so bad that I found it unbearable. Also I just prefer to use TS until there's some sort of "whisper mode" or a wider range of hand signals. :P

Are you or your kid using a female character? Whenever I pick up a red hoodie on a female character it is always pink, I was actually shocked when my friend picked one up and it was red on his male character because I thought it was meant to be pink all along.