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I have no problem with them being able to keep up however what I can't stand is when they get close and arma pathfinding screws up and they start walking randomly instead of going directly for me and thus their animations have to be sped up bazillion times so they can ever reach you. This results in them performing matrix like dodging maneuvres meanwhile breaking the sound barrier and flailing their limbs at 1200rpm making them impossible to hit.

I disagree with OP. First off avg. lifetime is very misleading as its being lowered by cherno/elektro deathmatching derps who don't need to care about anything except point and click in the first place and just spawn over and over again. On the other hand, when you got some hours under your belt, you can survive for days and then you start pondering what more you can do. Build a base, reinforce a house, raid, hunt, repair stuff, etc. The more you will be able to do the better. Hell even implement the need to take a crap or a piss according to how much you eat/drink and make the possibility of digging a hole for it first or to do it in a bag that you'll bury so the smell wont give you away to bandits or zombies :D But I'm all for not adding too much stuff until the existing features will get fixed, like tents and vehicles.

Guys you might try this guys advice: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5516&pid=62273#pid62273 I didn't try it yet but it should be legit as the tent placement validation is done by clientside script and as long as the addon is signed (which older versions are) it should work.

I think it fits it perfectly. I remember dodging zombies and shooting them with 1911, aggroing only a few, but then... my friend in the other part of the village fired the leeeerooooy enfieeeld and a motherfucking zombie tsunami ran past me, ignoring me totally like if I was invisible and I just said him that he better have some solid supply of ammo for that thing. Firing this weapon anywhere near zombies is the same like running to your death, but in this case the death runs to you and it evens sounds similar :D

So this morning I found an UAZ on DE6 server. As usual, the very second I find a vehicle, server shuts down - which happened. Now when the server is online again, theres no UAZ :( And there's no way that in the few minutes when the server started running again a huge group carrying 4 tires and other parts rushed in, repaired and GTFO'd.

I have seen a Strelok and a Uncle Yar.. you know them? Seen both of those names in DayZ but nah, I don't know them personally. It would be cool tho to make Strelok, Fang and Doc group operating north, past the "brain scorcher" (elektro/cherno presumably :D)

Vehicles are from my experience unstable and buggy as sh*t. Every time I finally find a vehicle its gone after the next server restart/crash/shutdown/whatever and never appears back again.

Yep. This bug is still present in 1.5.8.4 Impossible to place tent even on perfectly flat and object free areas.

DMR. Today we tried working in pair from two hills, covering eachother and both with DMR's. Tho we were rustling bandit jimmies and occasional unlucky survivor who wandered too close. Very damaging, precise, good optics, big clip, rapid fire and nice ballistics. I love that wep. Also looks sweet.

I don't care about this much. There are worse things to fix in this game. I have similar POV as Deruu. I shoot only when it's necessary and not to kill, but to NOT DIE. And if the guys DC's he's not a threat anymore. If you for some reason want to fraghunt in this game, just gotta aim for the head.

Please if anyone didn't update yet, pack your dayz folder and upload it, I'm sure many people will appreciate that. Or if there's a stable download link for 1.5.7 please post here. Thx Ok, I've dug up a 1.5.7 torrent with one seeder, actually downloaded it and reuploaded. Here it is: http://uloz.to/xy2SH42/day-z-mod-05-15-2012-zip It's in czech language, but all you have to do is simply click the big download (Stahnout) button, do the captcha test and click "stahnout" again. OR switch to english :D

Stuck at 8fps no matter what in DayZ, having ~60fps in regular arma. AMD Athlon II X3 445 4GB ram Win 7 64b ATI HD 5770

Thats why I picked it :)

LOL DAT THREAD :D Either someone else is using the same name or I have a really bad memory :) I didn't have DMR neither did encounter a group in barn, but yes we had a glowstick party in S. Sobor together with vysavacz, an awful lot of zeds and some bandits. When everything was shot dead we were heading to the mall to grab some beans and do transfusions, but suddenly server crash :/ But we found eachother now :D

Sign me up. Should I join some steam group or just be at the TS server at right time?

But it seems to me that vehicle damage in DayZ is way heavier than default arma. Nudging into any object at 1kph will make your car explode it seems to me.

By default, dropped items dont despawn in ARMA, but DayZ has a cleanup routine and its a bit unpredictable. Sometimes your stuff left on the ground will disappear fast, sometimes you can find it after a pretty long time, but dont rely on it, definitely not for stashing valuable stuff. I've seen rocket posting something about underground caches that should be invisible to other players. That would be cool and I hope it will be implemented in future versions. You can also put your things in vehicles, but you better get them working and drive away from where you've found them.

Youtube screwed up the ratio but nvm, have fun watching me die horribly to immortal zombies :D

Yep. Lights are the only thing working even in otherwise completely disabled vehicles :D You can destroy them by shooting them, but I didnt try that in Dayz so I don't know if it can be fixed. Btw doesnt the DayZ mod make vehicles superfragile and does superdamage to passengers? I was completely healthy, driving an UAZ and as I was slowing down a to stop under a tree, I did hit a tiny twig hanging from the tree with the top of the car at 0.0001 kph, UAZ went instantly from ok to fubar and I fell out instakilled. lolz. After that I don't even attempt to run over zombies because I fear that the car could explode when colliding even with a crawler :D

Thx guys. I know, Winchester is the best weapon for PvE, its literally infinite ammo, but I liked my AK and had some extra mags in backpack and my friend died when we're raiding S. Sobor where I did get this and kept it so his death wouldnt be pointless :) I would've been better at shooting if not for the fraps lag but that wouldnt help me much since they were invincible :D And yes single entrance buildings are good too, but some small shacks are just too small so its hard to stay away from walls which zombies can hit through. Buildings with stairs are also extremely good. I remeber having to use lee-enfield and thus alerting every single zombie in Berezino and killing almost all of them on one stairway. I swear if the bodies would stack and not intersect eachother, I wouldnt be able to get out of there :D

Nights like in DayZ aren't impossible, but are very rare and can depend on lot of things, even location. I experienced a night like that only once. I live in the Czech rep. (Chernarus terrain is based off it) so I know what the climate conditions look like here. We were on a 3-day airsoft scenario in area with huge forests. Only kinda serious teams were invited and a lot of these guys serve in army or police and are doing it for fun. Though this particular night, nobody was able to see anything. Our group sent to secure a bridge was led by few people with NVGs and we had to walk in line and pat each other's back constantly because without an NVG nobody was able to see shit, absolute pitch black night. Only thing you could see was the sky inbetween the trees. There was decent visiblity at clearings and outside the forest but in it? Hell it was like being blindfolded. TLDR: Pitch black night is possible only in dense forest. It still can be bad outside of it, but not that hard like in DayZ but I accept it as the part of the atmosphere, its fun for me. I only crank up graphic settings when I need to kill some bandits because they will use it 99% of the time and its almost like an old GEN I nvg.

Yep. My guess is ~10 vehicles on a map and in some servers you have clans bragging about having 6 vehicles. Now go and find a vehicle for your group :( Increasing the randomness of vehicle spawning would be nice. And having some indication of total server uptime would help to find out if there's any point in searching for them. Because you don't have a chance to find vehicles on a server that's been online for long time without a wipe.

Majority of the servers I came across don't get much attention from admins and when a bug occurs (f.e. no loot/zeds spawning or vehicles/tents despawning) its most likely not going to get fixed that day. So I used to play on NL1 (Veteran mode) which has a good admins that are online frequently and restart the server properly (lock it) every time a bug like that is reported and I never ever had problems connecting to it even if it was overloaded with billion of zeds and every other server had endless "wait for server response". Infinite kudos to the admins on NL1, but they made it day only :( So do you guys know about other european servers with good staff like this? And preferably veteran mode? (scanning treeline for hud identification during ambush is really lame but viable way to get advantage)

Thx too but permaday was the reason why I left NL1. Should have written it more clearly :) Night is fun time too. The cycles could be shorter tho.

Thx m8!