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We generally regard the DayZ Forums as TMW's turf ;)

The Trusted Medics of the Wasteland have earned their place to be pinned in the General Discussion section. They did it once under the leadership of DayZ Hero, Dr. Wasteland, and are doing it again for the Standalone under the leadership of Marijke. They are pinned in the DayZ Mod section, so why not here as well? Standalone has not somehow changed their cause. It does not seem likely. I only say that because it would be much easier to join and use the TMW's TS server to make yourself known as a trusted medic and achieve Honorary Member status within that community. Then again, a white list is a definite advantage when operating separately from the group. Having a pinned thread that acknowledges your SteamID as a trusted medic is a great assurance to others that you are not likely to rob them blind and leave them for dead. I believe that Se7en departed for another gaming group a little while ago. In any case, this is not the thread to address such concerns. We already know a mod will come in here to keep things in check, so why not speak directly with the leaders on their TeamSpeak server instead for answers?

Look at that Mod abuse.

Yes, you can, but don't expect stellar frame rates with everything on very high. The HD 6770 is pretty much a rebranded HD 5770, so the performance of that for DayZ/Arma 2 can be used as a reference if you can't find enough information about your HD 6770 running DayZ. The CPU is sort of weak by today's standards since the cores on the FX-6100 aren't very efficient on their own and that's a downside for gaming. However, I believe the real limiting factor here is the video card. Mainstream performance GPUs like the HD 7790, HD 7850, and GTX 650Ti are very affordable these days between $120 USD and $160USD. Eventually you'll want to upgrade to one of those three cards if you want more performance without breaking the bank. As for actual in-game settings you're going to want to turn all forms of Anti-aliasing off, use the lowest HDR setting available, and maybe even turn off shadows. The weird way that Arma 2 handles CPU/GPU load, you'll want to either turn shadows completely off or put them on High/Very high. Test it out to see which of those options gets you the best FPS. The rest you can leave on High or medium and it should work fine. Remember, always leave video memory on default so it uses as much of your graphic card's VRAM as possible. Another important factor to take into account as well is your resolution that you'll be playing at. I used a HD 5750 that was overclocked to the 5770/6770 speeds at 1680x1050 for a few years and based on my setting recommendations above, it ran fine. Arma 2 averaged 35-40FPS in most places and got mainly ~30FPS from good DayZ servers. However, if you're playing at 1080p or larger, you'll definitely need to drop the settings a bit again. In any case, read one of the many Arma 2/DayZ optimization guides to tweak the game to your configuration and squeeze every last FPS that you can get out of it.

I can assure you that you will receive no help from the Reddit Rescue Force simply by your behaviour towards the TMW. Find some friends who you wouldn't troll to help fix you up.

Yeah, it just looks like you don't have the optimal graphics settings to get the best FPS out of your hardware. Combine that with a bad server and you'll get really low FPS. Your system specs are good enough to play the game normally.

What are your system specifications? CPU/Processor: Motherboard: Memory: GPU/Video Card:

I think the issue here is that the OP needs some friends to play with. It's a shitty situation, I'll admit, but games do change and unfortunately for the solo experience, you'll have to accept that most other people will have at least one or more advantage against you. There's no possible way to restrict the use of TS and other systems for external communication short of locking the player out of the game until everything else on the player's system that has access to the internet is closed. And who would enjoy that? All for an authentic solo experience? At what point does the fun become outweighed by frustration due to the harshness of the game? It's cool that friends can group up within the game to play authentically, but this is DayZ. It takes hours to get back to the state that your friend and you were playing in when one of you died or whatever. Dying happens very frequently and it would be irritating beyond belief to put so much effort in to get only frustration in return. Better to just upgrade to external comms, such as TS, and change your fun to a different type, but at least you'll still be having fun instead of hating the game.

Trees are precious. They allow us to breathe. Protect the trees.

I have personally discussed the matter with Marijke and the Reddit Rescue Force acknowledges that the Trusted Medics of the Wasteland had no involvement in the recent attacks against us. In the unlikely case that there is a rogue medic from the TMW that is involved with the attacks, the blame is placed solely upon that individual and not TMW as a whole.

None taken. If there is a better way to dealing with satchel charges, that is great information to have and we would welcome it. We're always open to improvement. Any information to improve the security of a rescue is always welcome and I wouldn't delude myself into thinking that we have all the answers. I'll mention it to the people at the RRF and see if some of us can get on your Teamspeak in a few days to discuss these issues. Thanks and congratulations on your promotion to TMW leader :thumbsup:

Thanks for the replies. If you check out the RRF Design Document available under the resources section, you'll see that we do encourage precautionary measures such as grouping up, and positioning overwatch, having the patient put themselves into a sitting position so that if they do try to pull a fast one, then the medic would see the animation beforehand. However, due to the open-community nature of the service, amateur medics often disregard these guidelines. Mostly due to the amount of time that it takes to set up a proper rescue and that is usually where the problems begin. More experienced medics know to follow these guidelines, but even they will often forgo them in the interest of time. 95% of the rescues completed using the RRF are not video recorded, but I won't pretend that the 95% are performed properly. I can say that a good portion of them are, so it's not that we're not practicing good standards, it's getting others to follow them. There is no way to enforce this upon users as we are an open group. The largest issue right now is that of the 18 ambushes the OP and his pals have carried out against us in the past 6 days, about 13-14 of those ambushes have been conducted using satchel charges. There's no way to defend against satchel charges since they are difficult to see, especially when they can just sit on it and then detonate it as the medics get close.

You don't seem to realize the extent of what his friends and him are doing. Since we had started up in June 2012, there was always the risk of being ambushed and the medics accept that. It happens, we get it. Hell, even the OP here had a pretty clever ambush involving a deer stand and a satchel charge last year and we gave him full credit for that. It was good since nobody had done it before. However, the sheer amount of ambushes that his crew has stage in the span of 4 days this week alone is harassment.

Right, because an entire community of 2,600 people are all "inept medics" with potty mouths. If you can't take the heat, you'd best die quickly on the barbecue.

You seem to have mad vision. You think that anything someone says who opposes your views says is said in anger lol. Saying it won't make it true :P