ZenBC

Graphical errors seem to be worse then ever with this build. Under 1.7.2.4 I could usually get rid of them by changing some graphic settings (video memory) or switching server. Now it's the same story on every server - graphical glitches. Different memory settings make it worse or slightly better - but hardly ever completely fixed. Oddly enough, I usually get NO graphical glitches for the first 5 to 10 minutes after a server is restarted - after that, they come back with a vengeance.

These days you can run around and get geared up pretty quickly with high grade stuff. I spawned in elektro, got a enfield, killed a guy for his NVGs (sorry guy but don't wear NVGs in the daytime...). Ran to Cherno to meet a friend, found a car, drove past balota where we killed a guy who shot at us with a SVD (no ammo, fresh spawn with an SVD with one mag that he unloaded at us - lucky guy), kept going to green mountain, found another car with GPS, AS50, FN Fal, AK74. Went on to the NWAF, got two M4A3s, now fully geared in about 4 hours of gameplay. Not too bad!

There should be a specific marker for dog murderers so everyone can hunt them...

My current day job ;-) Frankly speaking, I have a strong background in IT Management (years working as an IT Project Manager for 1000+ seat companies and management consultant) and the mere thought of Macs in an enterprise environment pisses me off - they just don't belong in an office because they're almost worthless when it comes to enterprise level IT. I made it a point not to integrate a way for OSX to hook into the Enterprise network cause they were security nightmares. IMO: Mac = Best UI on the market today by far but piss poor at games and business (unless you're talking music engineering). My parents (over 60 years old) still struggle with Windows after almost 20 years but picked up OSX in a matter of weeks. Good for non-computer literate people (and that includes people that think DDoS stands for Direct Denial of Service :-| ) Win = average UI, good for gamers, people who like to fiddle and by far number 1 for business. There's no 'better' system - OSX and Windows are geared towards different markets. And yes - Bootcamp works just fine with this game, I use Windows 7.

I've only ever got NVGs off people I killed. I wandered across a pair in a random tent but usually you'll find them on a sniper outside elektro or cherno... Never found one as actual loot...

Thermal sight is basically just a spotting tool. It's useless for CQ (anything closer than about 200m) unless you get the drop on a target and he's not moving. They're practically dead weight in your pack because they take up a ton of space and can't shoot for crap. If you wanna make it even more useless - put the thermal on the FNFAL instead. Something that doesn't use STANAG mags (which are everywhere) so basically you'll almost never have ammo for it... People still get the drop on me sometimes with a thermal - it doesn't see over hills or perfectly through trees. It's simply a great spotting tool but useless as a gun - the way I think it should be. Leave the thermal, but make the gun even more useless - 10 spaces in the bag but one mag? Next to useless unless you're part of a squad...

lol "I Have found a map of the locations..." Yes, when you hack, these maps become readily available... or did you and three friends do a grid search of the entire map in a few hours? I doubt it...

I must admit... I was a little disappointed Dogs were the newest addition to the game. I was hoping it would be more teamplay aspects or perhaps even additions to the late game. I understand that Rocket is under pressure and there's only so many hours in a day - but dogs feels like a very minor addition to a game that is still in desparate need of a late-game play. After you've played 50 hours, chances are you've obtained most of the guns, most of the vehicles and had a fair share of PvP. And then what? I'm really hopeful that the patch after 1.7.3 will include some big improvements to the state of the late game as right now this game starts to become boring after the first 50-100 hours of play unless you're happy sitting in Cherno or Elektro sniping all the time...

SVD Camo? Really? I much prefer the DMR or AS50 - DMR for night time, AS50 for day time... I think SVD ammo is just way too difficult to come across.

My current kit: Primary: - L85 with 4 mags - DMR in the bag with 3 mags Secondary: - Silenced M9 with 5 mags (perfect for zombie killing) Other: - 2 bloodbags - 2 morphine - 3 painkillers - 2 water bottles - 1 NVG - 1 Rangefinder Tools: - Map (looking for a GPS!!!) - Hatchet - Hunting Knife - Matches - Toolkit - Watch - Compass I log on at night time mostly and pretty much try to get in and out of cities without either killing other players or being noticed myself. NVGs are critical, as is the L85 for spotting - can barely remember the last time I shot the L85 actually! The DMR is good for use with NVG - when I run during the day I carry an AS50 that I keep in a tent. Alternatively, I sometimes use an M4CCO if I'm not trying to spot. Had an M4 SD but lost it :( looking for that and the GPS right now!

Humanity stays even if your character dies, it does NOT reset to 0 everytime you die. It wouldn't surprise me if hackers could change the humanity value.

You know how to beat hackers every time? Thermal ;-) Was running along with a buddy about 100m behind when he tells me over TS a guy is telling him what he's got in his backpack. Night time, we both got NVG - he's doing 360s to try and find the guy when I get a L85 thermal scope on him and see a guy standing right behind him - which he can't see... :D

Yeah I've all but given up as well after dying 4 times in the last 3 days to hackers... if it's another shooter, I don't worry, I switch servers, it's frustrating but there's no perma-death. In this game, it's so much worse because you spend 10 hours running through the forest like an idiot holding down the W key until your finger gets sore, get that amazing bit of gear, only for it all to disappear in an instant. Try only playing on low pop servers in the middle of the night - I find a lot of skiddies probably aren't awake betwee 5amand 10am ish so it's a little safer around then... lol

Look. Find me a PC that runs Logic Pro and I'll give you a songwriter/producer that will use one. Many of the top writers/producers in the world use Logic Pro for composition and most of the big production houses use Macs exclusively also to run Pro Tools and other Avid gear. Macs are toys/easy to use/whatever but for some they serve a definite purpose. Yes I know Pro Tools runs on PC - but most reputable studios in the world run Macs and only Macs. For games? I used bootcamp on my MBP and the game runs on about 30fps on 1920x1200 with medium/high settings and better with a lower res. I'd recommend bootcamp because WINE doesn't yet support DX11 I believe and there's no definitive time line for when it will.

yeah I saw half the server die from a nuke and logged off pretty quick...

OK case Just got hit by hackers again, dropped in the middle of the airfield twice and everyone on the server died. Third time I see hackers in 2 days. Bear in mind, I was on a low pop server (10 or 11 people) so it's not like they just hit high pop servers...

I see hackers every day these days. Yesterday one teleported on top of me but coudlnt' find me in the trees (ghille suit, right in the middle of 3 big trees), heard him, spun around and shot him. Scripter? Yes, M240 Scoped, he also had a CAR HORN in his inventory. Next day, different server I'm running along when I see the kill feed light up with one name. Then another. Then about 15 in a row. I aborted straight away (I was in the middle of a forest). Server admin took that server down for a little after that. It is prolific, it's easy to do and you only have to look at the number of members on scripting and cheating forums to know how widespread it is. Some cheaters will just spawn in gear for themselves and use them to find vehicles - nothing you can see directly. A smaller portion prefer to grief by killing servers, teleporting, carpet bombing, etc. I think for every player griefing, there's probably another 3 or 4 just hacking in weapons for themselves (probably because they're sick of perma death because a hacker killed the server and want to get their gear back on restart). Just get used to it unfortunately. Battleye seems to be getting a little better, but it remains to be seen if it's anywhere near effective.

Lol didn't you watch the video I posted above about how alt+f4 ppl were pussies, but you need to D/C to avoid zombies? Lame.

I believe if you get LOS on someone, it'll mark their position on your map too... If you go near a town, you'll notice zombies last known position also visible on your map a lot of the time....

Sounds to me like next time you shoudl take sniper backup. I wouldn't do a trade unless I had a few friends in the trees around with sniper rifles ready...

Well Rocket did say there would be different kinds of zombies eventually... maybe this is the teleporting axe murderer zombie? lol

I have 95777 as well, no problems here...

I wonder if picking up hacked weapons has anything to do with it? That would be my guess...? I'm on 95724 (because some Korean servers upgraded) and it's just fine for me...

I think you mean, your average CoD player...