Mos1ey

I liked all your ideas other than the part about giving the game an ending and being able to start with items via a gamey points system. Also, instead of days survived I think we need to switch to hours survived (actual play time).

The server I play on is restarted every 3 hours. The server slowing down after 12+ hours is completely normal.

In 1920x1080 I'd say you should be playing on normal-high settings. In 1280x720 you'd be fine on high.

Should run fine on 'normal' settings. You should be okay on normal settings. I'd look into upgrading your graphics card if you want better performance.

At this point I think there are two questions... What is DayZ? and What is DayZ supposed to be? The vast majority seem to think it's Battlefield with zombies.

Oops, I'm a bit late to the party... I'd definitely prefer the first option though. A four second delay sounds bad but if you think about it it's so much quicker and easier than going in to the gear menu, dropping your gun and equipping the hatchet like you do currently, and it's a lot more authentic than the CoD* quick switch. *Nothing against CoD, it's just way too arcadey for DayZ IMO.

I don't know many games where the devs release constant DevBlogs TBH, most just do a few interviews here and there, show some footage at a game expo or two and then eventually announce a release date. I really can't understand why people get so frustrated about DayZ. :S

What are your current in-game graphics settings?

You can't get global banned for combat logging. Global bans are issues by BattlEye if it determines that you're running cheat scripts. Contact BattlEye support, it's nothing to do with us... http://www.battleye.com/support.html

Derpwashed. Don't feed the trolls!

Will run the ARMA 2 mod fine on high/very high as ARMA 2 only uses a max of 2Gb of RAM, leaving an extra 2Gb for your OS. You might want to consider another 4Gb of RAM at some point if you play other hardware intensive games and/or are planning on playing DayZ standalone though.

So in theory if you have low FPS you can tell if there's anyone else around by how many of these objects and zeds spawn? :S

How much running Boot Camp lowers performance? I don't believe it does as you only boot Windows, you aren't running dual OSs like you did with virtual machines in the past. Then again I'm a PC guy, I'm not all that clued up when it comes to Mac stuff. If you're looking to do a lot of gaming then I'd suggest going with a PC as you get much higher specs for your money, they're easier to upgrade and you have a much wider selection of games without having to mess around with Boot Camp. If it's just for general day to day use and a little bit of gaming on the side then go with whichever OS you prefer.

Funny place to post this, lol, but - no release date as of yet. Only planned for PC and no, probably not (speculation based on the fact that ARMA 2 & 3 are not available for Mac - not confirmed). You will be able to play on Mac via Boot Camp though.

Should run okay on high settings as you're only in 1280x720, if you move up to 1920x1080 you might start to struggle. Nothing really stands out as the one part that needs to be upgraded. Maybe buy yourself an SSD but apart from that I'd just wait until you're ready to build another system. The CPU isn't great but the GT 640 is definitely the worst part of your system. I think you'd see a noticeable difference if you just upgraded your graphics card but I'd look into upgrading the CPU to something newer in the near future too if possible.

If you have literally everything on 'very high' then disable post-process effects and drop object detail a bit. You'll see a significant FPS boost and the game doesn't look much worse, if at all. I think it might be an issue with the new Nvidia cards. My GTX 780 isn't performing as well as I expected either, I'm hoping a driver update will sort it out at some point but I think that may be wishful thinking given ARMA 2's known optimisation issues.

If there aren't other people in the server, you aren't playing DayZ. The mod is literally all about human interaction. I'd just join a server and expect to die a few times, no biggie. Everyone was a newbie once upon a time...

Numpad + and - are zoom in and out with scoped weapons that have multiple zoom levels, other than that I don't touch the numpad. The numpad might come in handy for other things, and the 1920x1080 screen would be nice for general use though I suppose.

DayZ is completely seperate from ARMA, we don't currently know anything other than the geography of Chernarus in the DayZ universe.

I'm on the fence about the current hero skin. It is too easy to get for grouped players, but making it any more difficult would make it impossible for solo players. There is currently no humanity system in the stanalone, just lootable clothing. Who knows what Rocket has planned though. A more subtle humanity system would be lovely.

Nope, the DevBlog has a fair bit of info though... http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/

Never found a Mk 48 mod 0, and I haven't found a Makarov SD yet.

Quad-core CPU @ 3Ghz or better. 560Ti (or AMD equivalent) or better. 4Gb RAM or better. I think it will just about run but you'll be struggling on low settings with very low FPS. Assuming you want your OS installed to the SSD just remove all HDDs other than the SSD and then install Windows as you normally would. If you have retail versions of ARMA then installing to the SSD is pretty self-explanatory, if you bought through Steam then it's a little more complicated, you have to use symbolic links as Steam will only allow you to install games to one directory. To do this install the ARMA games and any other games that you'd like to run from the SSD to your Steam directory and then move them to where you would like them to be on the SSD. Then open Command Prompt and type the following... mklink /J >old location< >new location< For example... mklink /J "d:\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2" "c:\games\arma 2" Obviously replacing the paths with whatever yours happen to be. The quotation marks are only necessary if the paths contain spaces. I haven't actually put an SLi build together myself so I'll leave that part for someone else. :)

I don't think anyone does, mate.

You can die by infection in 1.7.7. There are no special zombies in the official DayZ mod, although I think some have been added in the unofficial mods of DayZ (e.g. bloodsuckers in Namalsk). Being knocked down is random, every time you get hit there's a chance you could be knocked down. There's a higher chance if you get hit in the back. Hiding in pine trees isn't very reliable any more, your best bet these days is luring them in to a building then either killing them or escaping or just running and trying to use trees etc. to break line of sight for long enough for them to lose interest.