deepseamk21

What do I do when zombies attack me? I start cursing out loud because they are glitching through the damn buildings, dying and instantly respawning and coming after me again, hitting me from 10 feet away, and spotting me from 1000 freacking yards away, or using their magical zombie eyes to see through buildings.

Lol. "he's glitching".....says the pot calling the kettle black.

Did a search on google and th forums and cannot find a fix. I keep getting a graphics glitch where the tall grass and sometimes the tree leaves are mono color, usually a bright glowing light blue. I have tried several different settings, I have the latest drivers, but it still happens. Some times it depends if I'm in 3rd person, 1st person,ADSing.....but its random at best. Has anyone else experienced this and found a fix?

It depends on if I am in 3rd person, 1st person, weapon ready, weapon not ready. I know it has something to do with shadows because I tried every shadow setting from disabled to very high. I will use one that gets rid of the glowing around grass in 3rd person, then when I switch to 1st person and raise weapon the trees are suddenly glowing lol. Each time I changed the shadows setting it produced a similar but random result, depending on what I said in my first sentence above. Anyone have any ideas to help with this? Ambient occlusion is off atm, I played with different settings for other stuff, but so far changing shadow quality is all that effects it, and when one thing seems fixed another thing goes to hell.

yes. So far it's still random.

I'm not sure of the number of non-american players on here.......but many of you have this weird idea that guns have to be military grade to be effective in killing people (I know we are talking in game, and choices are limited atm). Rocket can easily make military grade guns rare in game, while putting more civilian weapons in the game. Here in good ol Merica, civilian weapons are not that different from military grade weapons, the main difference being semi-automatic compared to fully automatic. A civilian CAN own a fully auto weapon in the states, it just costs a wicked amount of money (the gun itself, the license to own one, and the ammo you'll go through lol). Even in real combat, fully auto is only used to send enough lead down range to make the other guy keep his head down. Soldier don't run around all call of duty firing at everyone on full auto. it's not accurate and it's a waste of ammo, not to mention the barrel gets hot as hell if you fire 4 or 5 mags back to back (which I suggest you try IRL, in the dark, with a couple dozen buddies, quite a sight to see hehe). Personally, I own an M1A, and AR-15, a Kel Tec KSG, XD45, and an XDS. I would take any of those weapons over the M9 and M4 I'm issued by the military. I can do just about anything I want to my own weapons, where as we get bitched at if we mess around with our "work" guns, because anything added isn't technically certified by the military. Hell, I took off the stupid popsicle sights on mine and through on what I wanted. Though I'm still required to keep those popsicle sights in my kit bag lol. Rocket just needs to add civilian versions of some of the military grade weapons. I think that would be great. Not as "good" (matter of opinion) as military grade, but still VERY capable of killing everything and everyone lol.

We need rope. Charlie Bronson had rope! Anyways, game should be 75% civilian/improvised weapons, 25% military grade. Military has an ass ton of stock piled weapons. So it wouldn't be a huge surprise that a lot of them would fall into survivors hands during the zombie apocalypse. Remember, there are also civilian versions of weapons. Who says you can't find an AR-15 in a house? Sure, it's a lot like it's military counter part but it has only semi-auto capability. Same with M40A5 and R700. Different versions of the same gun, one civilian one military. Obviously the military one has some upgrades such as barrel type and a few other things, but this could be translated into the game so there are still decent guns that are technically "civilian". Guns can be taken care of pretty easily too. People were still using stuff like birch oil to clean and lubricate there guns up until WWII, so I don't feel that lack of technology should be a factor in keeping the weapons in game in good condition. Obviously, ammo would start to become scarce. Reloads are useless if you don't have the means to manufacture gun powder (salt peter, sulfer, and charcoal is one form of black powder) and staying around to pick up brass doesn't seem the brightest idea. If one had a enterprising group of people who found a plant that has the needed chemicals and such, one can make more ammo without electricity and such, it would just a long time to mass produce. Game should be a good balance of end of the world stuff. Enough time has passed so things are scarce but not enough time has past where everyone has resorted to using sabers and muskets/cannons.

How about cutlass's and samurai swords!? I'm not saying that because of walking dead or anything, but in the apocalypse you aren't going to see any more factories mass producing ammunition and eventually without the people to operate them power plants would fail and there would be no electricity on large scale levels anymore. It would essentially be a new version of the middle ages. Ammo would become so scarce it wouldn't even be considered an option anymore and people would have to use blacksmithing techniques to craft old world weaponry! o, and yeah, okay, Michonne swinging around a sword and decapitating zombies is pretty cool too lol.

Why stop asking for more? If the game can handle it, which it can, add more. It just makes it more immersive and realistic. Not everyone will be running around with the same red and yellow fire axe in the apocalypse. They will find other weapons or fabricate ones themselves. Makes it more dynamic and personal. To many people are acting like 80 year old men not wanting to change the game they played years ago (dayz Mod) for no real reason. This isn't changing how people play the game, it isn't punishing KOSers or rewarding heros. It's simply giving people more options in the game to make a character like they want. You can argue as much as you want with me about what I am about to say, but this is an MMO. May not be fighting dark dragons and casting magic and stuff, but people still like to customize their players. The more items in game, the more intricate, the more realistic, the better the game becomes.

not a bad idea. People will abuse system though like people have said. Might be more work than it's worth trying to balance the implementation of the idea and the stopping of those who would abuse it.

Yeah, a compensator wouldn't do anything for a gun like this. Could help if they had one in game for the M4 Though. Wouldn't help with anything but burst firing or full auto though.

It would be cool so people can recognize friends and not shoot them in the face on accident lol. Should only be body type, gender, face, and hair. Clothes and stuff should stick to be being found as usual.

sounds good to me. The more real life stuff in game the more immersive.

I'm trying to get my BF4 clan into the game, but I won't let them play SA yet lol. I'll let them start on Epoch mod or vanilla dayz first.

As long as we are all refunded our money lol.

wondering hordes, predatory animals, heli crashes (though, much rarer than in the dayz mod), crashed military convoys, stripper zombies, and aliens.

Wrong. First off the enfield IS a military rifle and WAS used as a sniper rifle in WWII. Secondly, their is little difference between a military sniper rifle and a hunting rifle when talking about similar calibers (obviously you won't be using a .50 cal to shoot a deer). M24 for instance is just a Remington R700 with a heavy contoured barrel. The military just slaps on designations to EVERYTHING but it's the same damn thing. You can easily put a match barrel on a civilian hunting rifle (which MANY people do) as with a military rifle. Not ever military sniper runs around with a freaking .50 cal or .338 lupua chambered weapon. I can take a "sniper system" not used by the military but readily available to civilians and BOOM, I have a super accurate sniper rifle that exceeds military standards and can shoot 1/2 MOA at 100 yards. NOT to mention, the civilian world has access to much better ammo than the military, since military does everything in bulk and prefers not to pay for the super insanely accurate ammo that is out there. A gun doesn't make a sniper rifle. The person using it makes it a sniper rifle.

I don't see how people can say this takes away the immersion of the game. Go to the ghetto, you'll see plenty of "colors and symbols" representing what groups they may belong to. I've always tried to get it through peoples heads this isn't ARMA and that you don't spawn in as a soldier or elite warrior you are a survivor. Who knows what your previous job was. A school teacher? A night manager at Burger King? Any retard could figure out that when in a group of non military people who don't have the luxury of a uniform to tell who is who, will come up with a system so joe schmo doesn't shoot dick and jane by accident when they are coming back from a supply raid in cherno. I'm all for the ability to do this. Hell, pens are already in the game, and you can go on the wiki and see spray cans are part of the game, just not implemented yet.

thats not what this thread is about though. Thread is talking about what they don't want changed and how it would mess with their own personal views on what THEY think is good for the game. Have you been to the BF4 forums in the last 2 months? That IS how BF4 is lol. BF4 forums are all topics bitching about something. i don't play COD so I can't say anything about their forums. Plus, people coming onto the forums to bitch about being killed IS how the dayz forums are lol. You can't go to threads without someone talking about KoSing. I don't know if people on here are half wits or are so stuck up that their opinion is the only one that matters but at least as a veteran player I try to see things from other peoples perspectives. They don't like being KoS every second. I can sympathize since I'm one of the people KoSing them. You can't compare BF4/COD to this game because they are very different in dozens of ways. It's like comparing a flight simulator to BF4 and being like "well, they both have jets in them so they are the same thing!"

I can't remember for the life of me, is there a command to show FPS in game or do I need a 3rd party program? I could of swore I was able to get FPS to show in the dayz mod, I just can't figure it out for SA.

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13....13.....shit, i lost count again!

Sorry, i was not really talking about you. My post was more towards bakercompany86. Read his post again and you will see how my sarcasm applied more to his post. I only used the "dayz SA: salamaderanders revenge" because you were the first person in the topic. "Gimmick" is subjective. I could say heli crashes are a "gimmick". There is no reason a fresh crash would be there if the end of the world has already happened and the worlds military forces have already been defeated. Yet some how there were a crap ton of random crashes still on fire because they had "just crashed". No one complains though because we all like the loot at them. hell, zombies are a "gimmick". Go play rust, its like dayz without zombies (technically at least, and not as fun IMHO). A gimmick is a gimmick only if you don't care for the particular add on. Some people would find it useful.

I'm not sure YOU understand the Dayz principle. I have been playing since the Mod came out and how rocket originally set the so called "principle". That being said, I'll KoS anyone but new spawns. It's a waste of ammo and you don't get anything from it. I have read one of the "sanity" posts, I thought the idea was an interesting compromise. I could deal with it honestly, it would help new players get used to the game. Eventually they will learn the game and probably KoS as well. Remember, there are a lot of people getting Dayz SA who have never played the mod. If we immediately start flaming these people that just means less people playing, which ultimately means less funding and less patches and dying servers. Stop being such elitests. The game isn't called Dayz SA: Salamanderanders revenge. If you can't deal with it, hate to say but "learn to play better" goes both ways. lol.

I think the more that is added into the game the less (perhaps not by that much less) KoS will happen. Items are damaged by bullets and at the moment that doesn't matter much because a lot of the stuff needed to survive is not applied yet in the game. I think once it gets a bit harder to survive more will think about KoSing because they will have more of a need for the items to be in good condition that a person may be holding. Who knows. IRL, people are going to shoot on sight a lot anyways. Imagine some gangster southside in and out of jail dude hiding next to a road with his uber gangsta friends. You think he is just going to be like "yo, drop ya gat and gimme ya shit son". No, he is going to kill you, rape your woman, and leave her to die. Lol.