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Full weapon customisation? Purpose built HUD and inventory system? Revamped med and injury system? Disease and contamination? Item damage? I'm not sure if that was a serious question, so I'll leave it at that. :S

They are opening the alpha to the public, they're releasing in alpha. The current build is pre-alpha, some of the core features haven't been added yet. But that's the whole point... It's taking so long because they're adding all this new content that couldn't be added to the mod.

You're banned on ArmA 2: Operation Arrowhead, not DayZ. Contact BattlEye support... http://www.battleye.com/support.html Locked.

Yeah, you're actually doing pretty well considering you're running a Phenon (which ArmA 2 just does not get along with well) and a really old GeForce card. Just set everything to disabled/very low/low, whatever the lowest setting that's available is, video memory to default and 3D res to whatever your native res is and that's pretty much the best you're gonna get, unfortunately.

There hasn't been a release date set since the 'before the end of 2012' one, people read too much into everything Rocket says and false release dates end up being speculated on by the community and everyone gets disappointed when they aren't met. The reason they failed miserably to meet the original deadline was because they decided to rebuild the game from the ground up instead of releasing a more polished version of the mod. Perfectly fine with me, a better end product can only be a good thing, right? It's a shame that there will be no vehicles on release, but again that's because they're being redone and will hopefully be awesome when they do make it in to the game. To be honest I'm glad there will be no private hive and mod support, playing vanilla DayZ again will be really refreshing to me. It's probably easier for me to not get worked up about it because I have the game and can physically see the progress that the devs are making, but trust me everything is looking epic and will be well worth the wait. I'm really glad that they decided to rework the game at a base level and didn't release in 2012. :thumbsup: Bear in mind that it takes Infinity Ward and Treyarch two years with a massive dev team to make the same game over and over again. BiS are only a small indie dev team and the DayZ dev team is even smaller.

It is a quad-core, but it's pretty old. It's good enough to run ArmA 2 and DayZ mod on 'normal' settings if you upgrade your graphics card. ArmA 2 uses a maximum of 2Gb RAM, which still leaves you 2Gb for your OS/background operations, so it's not really worth adding more IMO.

Disable shadows and AA and set object detail to 'very low', that should buy you a few more FPS. Also, set video memory to 'default'.

bfisher, I'm not sure you actually like what DayZ is supposed to be, I think what you actually like is what it's become through the shortcomings of the mod. It's supposed to be a gritty game of survival and that isn't supposed to be easy.

A 650 would bottleneck a 3770k so badly that he won't even see half the power though, lol.

I think he hit B instead of space. Once. :S

Have you gone in to CCC and checked your 3D app settings? If you have stuff like tessellation set to 64x then that will kill your frame rate. Other than that I'm not really sure what to suggest if you've tried the usual config tweaks and startup parameters. You should be breaking 100 FPS on low settings, really. :S

There won't be private hives on release.

I think the way it works is if he's wearing night-vision goggles and you shoot him in the face, they'll be completely broken. If he's carrying a GPS in his bag and you shoot the bag, there's a chance it will be destroyed. etc.

Nah, it's not uncommon for cheap PSUs to quite literally blow up. It's also not uncommon for them to take the motherboard and CPU with them, sometimes the entire rig. Definitely do not skimp on your PSUs, lol. https://www.google.ae/search?q=cheap+psu+blow+up&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&gws_rd=cr&ei=mHkiUuazLI6rhQf68YDwDA

I'd give yourself an extra 50w or so over the minimum but yeah, you can just replace your current one with a new one. My only advice is - don't skimp on the PSU. If you get a cheap one you risk blowing out your entire rig.

How about DayZ without the survivors? Maybe you could play as a cow or something.

If you say so, lol.

Please don't create multiple topics to advertise your server.

I'm not sure how possible it is but Altis+, made apocalyptic for DayZ, would be absolutely awesome!

I'm having flashbacks to being 8 years old and playing Pandemonium on the Playstation.

I have to say that most of the things listed in the OP (minimal HUD, filling magazines, player-to-player blood transfusions instead of using unrefrigerated blood bags etc.) are some of the things that I find the most awesome about the standalone. It's a shame that there won't be any vehicles on release, but that's for the greater good. They're being redone so that we have something better than what we have in the mod. I think the vast majority do not want a polished mod, they want a polished game. That's the reason the standalone wasn't released in December.

Really late reply, lol, but rather than disabling it completely I like to leave a tiny sliver on the bar. I find having the tiniest bit of head bob stops me feeling like I'm controlling a flying camera. :) It's awful on the default setting though... Definitely turn it down quite a lot.

You mean the head bob that you can disable in the options menu in ArmA 2? u,u

Me neither. The way I see it this just encourages looting your own body when you die. So much for permadeath. :S

No, you're running a really old CPU without a dedicated graphics card. I'm surprised you can run the game at all, never mind with low FPS.