vetrox

I has GTX 460m in my laptop but i think my mega slow processor is letting me down atm. Graphics are all on med but the moment you come across some trees my framerate runs off into the distance

So have spent maybe the last 8 hours? wondering in the wilderness getting some gear then headed back to cherno to meet up with a teamate and just as we meet up and are about to start shit. We both insta die, so do a bunch of other players on the server then the server closes... I dont mind getting shot by some bandit but to just die randomly and the server to close? thats just gay. :( <- mega sad face :(

Would it have been a haxor? Would it have caused the server to crash?

Im all for this. I took my first trip to cherno today expecting it to be wall to wall zombies but its no different than walking into a small village. I strolled in, picked up a few odds and sods, strolled out. Easy

A rough translation for the rest of you. If English isnt your primary language then im sorry. If it is then google words you're not sure about! YOU ARE NOT IN THE LATE 1990'S TEXTING SOMEONE!!!!!!

Double post somehow

I have been killed once by a bandit so far and shot at by a couple of guys. I was running from a zed in the middle of the night randomly into a forest and managed to climb a ladder. Chucked out a couple flares to see what was happening and see how many zombies there were. After 10 minutes i heard voices. I was all like "hello?" They replied "shhhhhh you hear something?" "hello!?" "yeh i hear it too" "I spawned about 10 minutes ago I'm pretty harmless on this tower" Then i saw flashlights and they just started taking pot shots at the tower. They were shooting at me for ages. I was all like "I'm telling you i spawned like 10 minutes ago" They kept shooting so i just chucked like a million flares off the ledge and jumped off and killed myself. But then i was walking through a city earlier to day and got hit by a couple shots and I screamed out that i was friendly and unarmed. I asked if he could give me a blood pack as he had shot all my blood away and he gave it to me. Showed me where the hospital was and let me be on my way. I thanked him as i left the city. Nice guy. (Noticed he wasnt a 8yr old cod kiddie)

First off if you're lazy (like most of the internet) and dont want to read the whole post then the summary is: I love it. If you want a more in depth summary scroll to the end. Read on if you want some opinion and structured comments from the worlds worst keyboard warrior Ok so a friend of mine told me about DayZ mod and as an avid zombie lover/killer I immediatley decided to download it. I already love ARMA II and I think it makes the perfect platform for a zombie survival mod/game. So my first 4 Hours Post download and install Hour 1: So getting started with the mod. Im well aware that this in alpha stage (I have tested far worse alpha games) but the first problem I ecountered was just getting the game loaded. It was stuck on the "finding character creation" (or whatever it says) for a while and I thought i broke it. I soon realised this mod takes ages to load on my machine (ARMA II is the only game that runs like crap on my laptop but the long loading did make me worry) Once that was out of the way the I was in and ready to explore and engross myself in the post apocolyptic zombie world. 2am, Lights off headphones on full LETS GET GOING!!!!! First order of business...remember how to play ARMA. Its been a good year and had since forgotten the controls so about 20 minutes spent familiarising myself with the controls and inventory system Next 20 minutes. I got no weapons....SWEEET. One of the best games i played was amnesia:the dark descent, in which you play the whole game helpless with no weapons so this immediatley appealed to me. I saw an island a little way from me so I started swimming for it thinking there might be piece of something for me on there. Long story short I found some zombies, started bleeding, swam away, died. The End Hour 2: Ok im familiar ish with the mechanics. Had a quick read up on the wiki to familiarize myself with the survival basics. Pick a new server and start all again. This time I used my amazing map/tracking/mountaineering skills to work out where i was (Ok i have never read a map in my life but even the most basic of braincells should be able to work out how to look at the map, see which side of the road the train track is on, small islands off coast and have a rough idea of where the nearest town might be) So i started huffing it to a town (didnt catch the name) and cautiosly made my way closer and closer, crawling past groaning zombies and what not. Now im only an hour or so into this game/mod and my heart is already racing. I was actually in the game. Sneaking around, trying not to get eaten. I found a hut...I FOUND SOME STUFF. Chem lights, some food and drink. Did some more sneaking around and found a 20slot bag and a hatchet. No i can be less fearfull of these dead walker things. So i carried on like this for a bit, scavenging, avoiding. Slowly growing more confident in my ability to sneak up on zeds. I even went as far as to take a few out. HOUR 3: First contact with player. By this time its pretty obvious that the zombie AI needs a spot of tweaking but it still doesnt detract from the whole fearing for your life that you might get eaten. I had taken a couple of hits and could use a blood pack really. So there I was casually skulking around for supplies when suddenly, I hear gunfire in the distance. FUCK ME DID ALL HELL BREAK LOOSE! zombies that I didnt even know where there suddenly started running madly around like mad rapists at an orphanage! Moar gunfire and more zeds. Omg my heart was pounding. I can honestly say I have never felt like this playing a video game ever!!!! It was sureal (dont know how to spell that one) Lots of gunshots carried on. I can only assume there was a couple of guys cutting through swarms of zombies. The gunfire did stop eventually but i never saw the player or bodies. I didnt want to so I promptly got up from under the bush i was cowering in and made a run for the treeline. HOUR 4: So some exploring and scavenging some more. I found a small little village that looked like it could have some stuff in it. Im casually walking around with my trusty hatchet popping the odd stray zombie when suddenly i hear footsteps behind me. Another player....AND HE GOT A GUN!!! I thought i was doine for then and there. He just looked at me. My salute key doesnt want to work...I dont know what button to voice chat. I was just waiting for the last couple hours hard work to wither away. But he didnt shoot me...I turned around to watch about 10 zeds hurl themselves towards me. I managed to somehow cut them all down without taking a hit (ok they aint to hard to wipe out. Again the AI needs a spot of tweaking) turn around and the player had disapeared. I then found a barn...with an actual fuck ton of stuff in it. My lucky day...theres a gun on the floor...a rifle as well. As im sifting through all the gear and loot...a bloodthirsty axe murderer comes up behind me and plants it straight into my skull....DEAD....Rookie error. I wasnt paying enough attention. SUMMARY. So my first 4 hours. Fortunatley ARMA in my books is a great game anyway so I dont need to comment on that, but the MOD itself. It really did draw me in. I felt like i was the last guy on earth it was a great feeling. You quickly learn that the zombies are pretty fucking dumb. You can practically walk up to some of them and they wont even notice (it still doesnt stop me from sneaking around like im splinter cell) but the concept is just brilliant. COD players are probably not going to like it cos you dont just run around and blast shit (good games may be that simple but amazing games aren't) but if you actually take time to learn what the mod is about before you begin then you will have a great time. I dont know how long it will keep me involved. I'd say 100 hours? im sure i will get pretty used to these dumb as fuck zombies pretty quickly. The only major difficulty that people might find (when i say people i mean those who dont know how to make game work) is the odd loading screens and death screens and how to respawn but I'm going to put that down to alpha-ness syndrome. I just wish I had a machine that could make the game look good and play with a decent fps. (its the damn trees that do it, I know it is. Its almost as if the AA is killing my GPU by making it work overtime applying aa to trees!!!!) If you read all that...Thanks. Im bored at work so If you didnt read it I'm not hurt. Anything anyone (devs in perticular) wants to ask about a generally open minded gamer/software tester (or QA depending on what country your in) on his initial impressions feel free to ask. In b4 generic interweb tools with noting usefull to say.

This game (ARMA) is very cpu heavy. I have some form of slow ass quad i7 in my laptop. Wish i went for the faster dual core i5 :(

I knew i spelt it wrong! I just knew it!!! Google was right there but I was all like "no no no i got dis!!!! But I think you nailed it in your comment. You really do struggle to survive and when you find that can of beans when your dying of hunger your all like "OMG FOOOOOOOD nom nom nom, OK ZOMBIES!!!! LETS DO THIS!!!! WWWWAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH" etc Anyone else want to comment on their first 4 hours? Are you the zombies apocolypse?