Any of this issues besides, be aware that building a map with decent size and decent quality all by your own is a lot of work.

Well if people are saying "I don't like a military game but I like Zombies", I don't see why anybody should have an issue with that? Different people, different taste, relax please. Funny thing is, for me it was the opposite, when I first heard of DayZ I was like "Zombies in my beloved Arma, WTF!", and I refused playing DayZ for some months. Once I started, I got hooked in in the first five minutes. The only thing that is really pissing me of is people who complain how crappy the engine is when they cleary have no idea of what this engine is capable of and what its limits are. It is not a coincidence that DayZ emerged on this engine. Also, there might be some guys that got bored of dayz but that are able to get some more fun out of their money with the base game or other mods. I mean, you already paid, there is nothing to loose anymore by just giving it a try.

Didn't read the whole thread. but the pros seems obvious to me: - Big worlds with no borders. Which other fps shooter has maps with 20 on 20 kilometers? Every time I play another shooter I wanto to know: "What is behind this wall?" Only to find out that there is no way in the world to get behind that wall. - Also, the scale of battles: You can have battles with 100 soldiers versus 100 soldiers on the same town, with a good cpu even more. You can fight a batlle for whole Chernarus. When a tank drives down a tree in Krasnostav and you get there from Elektrovasdok one hour later, the fallen tree is still there. - Modability: DayZ is just one of many good mods for this engine. There are mods, missions, campaigns, bot for single and multy player... There are also custom units, custom weapons, custom islands, custom buildings, ... all for free. - Weapon ballistics - Not really engine related: But as a long term user, you know bis will patch their engine even years after release. And yes it is a very perfomance hungry engine. But on the other hand, I bet Arma is not the only engine that looks bad on a notebook.

To be honest - I rarely play DayZ these days. Reasons: Grafical Artifacts, but mainly the loading time when joining a server. I dont get why Rocket just takes out the dead military zombies when he cant fix them. I love this mod. But I have to say: Not one of the big bugs have ben fixed since more than a month (grafical artifacts, tent dupings, loading time, hackers). So the DayZ stuff is either incompetent, or they put all their work on the standalone. And no, I am not crying. I play Arma2 since it came out. I dont really care if DayZ dies or not, because either way, I wil have my fun with other Arma2-Mods.

There are already custom islands with big cities avaible for Arma2. However, you have to make some compromises if you dont want a dia show with 7 fps, like smaller overall map, fps-easy builidings, etc. Only high end pcs will run a big town whith a high amount of enterable buildings on a 20*20km map. Right now DayZ will not change the map anyway IIRC. Some rather big towns for arma2: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=15482 http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=12315 There are more...

Happend to me too. On the bright sight, all gear was intact.

Well, if you REALLY wanna be safe and all you do is just about safety, then go in the forest, hunt animals and drink water. You will survive forever. No need to go to Chernogorsk from a strictly survival point of view once you have a hatchet, a hunting knive, matches and a water bottle. So i dont see the security argument in killing unarmed guys. You could admit its just for fun, I dont have a problem with that, I mean its a game :) I just dont like people hiding behind a reason and acting like they are on the moral high ground when they are not.

In war truth dies first. So im not sure if BE messed up and is hiding it behind propaganda or if hackers invade this thread claiming they are innocent. Well maybe both to some degree. However, if BE really messed it up, I am sure the real cheaters that got caught will jump on the train and all complain that they are innocent too. Anyway, the Arma Vets I know which are playing DayZ all had no problems with false bans (yet). On the other hand, after playing for 10 days without seeing a hack, today I encountered 2 in a row, the first one transported me 5 kilometers in the air, the 2nd one transformed me into a dog...

Wepaon is one thing, your skill and how you like to play is another. If you like to get close to the enemy and are good at it, m4a1 sd will be your trusted friend. If you prefer to take out your enemy from a big distance, it is a bad choice. I for my part love the m4sd (never had it in dayz) and would trade it for a sniper rifle at any time, just because i am a really bad sniper but i am good in close combat and in sneaking up to the enemy. On another note, the m4sd is good for the night - it has no muzzle flash.

If you just spawned on south coast, going uphill is the same as going north.