dulix11

I stop and realise, hang on, this a game. What kind of person gets angry because his fake, digital character died? And then I go, oh well. At least I can go scavenging and have more fun finding that Mosin again.

Maybe go into options and set the 'chat volume' higher? The option might not be called that but its along those lines.

Wow...cringe/10 I'm waiting for the Intel version.

May I ask how much internet you get a month? And how fast it is? Is the option of broadband available? I'm in pretty much the exact same situation but my family barely ever uses the internet, so I usually have enough for quite a lot of game time. The problem is, DayZ would be very dull without other players. NPCs? Maybe, but this will be ages down the road if they decide to add it. There is simply not enough to do without any other players.

No sorry, that is some very old hardware, I don't think you'll be able to run it at all.

Third person...just makes playing alot more 'fun' I guess. I never use it when fighting things, but I almost always use it when travelling. I can only use first person (and I have been alot more recently) with head bob completely disabled.

...I find food and drinks everywhere...literally....everywhere... weapons are a little harder to find, but make sure to look in the back of cars, fire stations, hospitals and all the new buildings.

What exactly do you want them to add that will make finding resources easier? You're not being very descriptive. I'm finding it hard to believe you are dying from zombies, not only are they much slower, but also very, very few in numbers. One in a street if you are lucky.

Exactly, the axe still makes gunshot sound effects...

The first sight I attached to a weapon... My desktop background ...Chernarus toilet sign cutbacks.

Have not had much luck any where for magazines except for 7.62mm boxes. Which don't fit in my mosin :/ I had a 30 round and 20 round 'CMAG' for my previous M4 but I died so I lost them...and then I haven't found any magazine at all for the FNX. But could someone tell me what ammunition the Mosin uses? Also, what are the random piles of handgun ammo for? Any guns that we haven't found? All I've managed to find is about 50 M4s, 2 Mosins, 5 FNXs and a limitless supply of axes.

If you really wanted to, you could swap out the more expensive Intel CPU for an AMD one, they are usually ~$100 cheaper but since your budget is pretty high you may as well keep it. Also, I would swap out Win8 for Win7, but other than that, it looks pretty good.

I have run into a heap of people, and only 1 has tried killing me. He fired about 15 rounds from his M4 and missed all but twice. Then we stopped and tried to converse but I died later on. I always try to be friendly, anyone I happen to run into I press capslock and announce 'friendly! dont hurt me!' but hide behind doors just in case they try anything funny. Today I met a guy in Elektro with nothing at all, just the T-shirt and jeans. I must've scared him off with the axe I was carrying...

Don't use your fists, if that's what you are doing. Use a 'splitting axe', 'fire axe' or crowbar, one hit kills. Also, don't pay attention to your crosshair dot. It is useless for melee weapons, wherever you swing the weapon is where you will hit. You need to time your strikes properly too. As the zombie gets closer, swing and you should smack him down in the first hit.

Find servers that have almost all of the player slots occupied. They will almost always be daytime.

^^^ this The Mosin, M4 and the handgun that I can't remember are all the firearms I've found. AK-47, M16, double barreled shotguns, single barreled shotguns, .22s, M1 carbines, M1 Garand, SKS, Skorpion....

Like Konna said, the items aren't that rare. I've found an ACOG, about 4 bipods, 50000 military vests, ballistic helmets... They were fun.

If you can stand my girlish giggling and somewhat muffled webcam mic, it should be quite enjoyable. Ignore the general laughter and excitement between me and my friend, it was my first SA game, the first time me and him had met up, and the first player interaction. also i know some of you will hate me for the gamma and brightness abuse, but hey, how else was I meant to get a decent picture out of this?

i think this needs to be shown around a lot more.

All of my player interactions have been pretty cool. Even guys with hatchets and M4s are pretty friendly. I ran into 2 guys at the Balota airfield and they both ignored me, I shat myself and pressed Caps Lock as hard as I could: 'friendly friendly dont hurt me' I've been shot dead once, I think. That was when I had 2 payday masks...and trust me, the gunman was a very, very bad shooter. He fired about 15 M4 shots from a distance of about 5 feet, and I think I was hit twice. I haven't killed anyone yet.

Just something to keep in mind...the maps only show seperate areas of the country. My friend had a map that showed 'E Chernarus' (eastern chernarus) and I found a map that only showed 'SE Chernarus'. I know they spawn in the back of cars, houses and maybe supermarkets.

He's not interested in building, but he is convinced he needs pure overkill. His laptop pooped itself and now he's looking for a desktop. He found this one: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/AMD-Eight-8-Core-FX-8350-4-0GHz-Desktop-Computer-16GB-DDR3-2TB-HDMI-Gaming-PC-/111088313526?pt=AU_comp_dekstop&hash=item19dd6124b6&_uhb=1 And I reccomended this one: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/INTEL-Core-i5-3570K-3-4GHz-DESKTOP-COMPUTER-1TB-8GB-HDMI-Quad-Gaming-PC-/111083845900?pt=AU_comp_dekstop&hash=item19dd1cf90c&_uhb=1 The only problem is that you have to pay for an Operating System to be installed, which is another $105 AUD, and then a new GPU, which is another $130 AUD. He's convinced that having 16GB of RAM and 4.0GHz will give him 'freedom' but I beg to differ. I heard the 8350 doesn't quite live up to its advertisment of 8 cores? And I also heard that AMD CPUs are also sort of less powerful compared to Intel. eg: 4.0GHz AMD = 3.5GHz Intel. I forgot to mention, it won't be terribly demanding games either. Minecraft, KSP and maybe some other games but nothing too intensive. Halp!

15kg with just 1 magazine that is. 1 magazine containing only 5 bullets. An AS50 without sights or magazines weighs around 12kg. So if 1 fully loaded magazine is installed, and weighs ~3kg, you'll have to choose. Is it going to be bullets for your OP gun, or is it going to be medical supplies, food, water, maps and nav items, other sidearms, silent weapons (axe)...

This is silly. What kind of military uses AS50s to fight unarmed, unarmoured, brain dead zombies? Its like using an RPG to breach a door.