'Heat Wave' in the distance, and some problems with leaving and returning.

[YourGloriousLeader 1]

Hi there,

Just finally got a decent PC so instantly got ARMAII and DayZ, had my on both for a while now.

DayZ is great fun, and I've only had a couple of technical issues. Did a quick search and couldn't find anything relevant to the first and nothing that seems to be the root for my second. Here goes:

Wherever I look, the distance seems to waver, almost like there's a heat wave. It actually comes across as quite psychedelic and dreamlike, so I don't actually hate it, but I was wondering on any possible causes - I haven't played around with the visual settings since I'm pretty n00bish with this kind of thing.

Reloading a character is also a little temperamental - for example, I've had to choose my gender - you know, that option you can never change - each time I've died. The first time I left and re-entered, I lost my double barrel shotgun but kept everythign else. Another time it didn't reload my previous character, so started anew, died (it was dark), then when I respawned I was the previous character which didn't reload!

Not tried it since and I'm hoping that's it settled down (I changed some profiles in between some of these), but again any pointers in the right direction are appreciated,

No major problems though, overall I'm having a blast. Except for the guy who hatcheted me in the legs in the supermarket when we were surrounded by zombies, getting himself and myself killed...why would you do that?! OH THE HUMANITY

[doom4mr 135]

heat wave - go to video settings and disable the Postprocess effects may help.

you can change the gender each time you respawn.

about the item lost etc. its bugs...

do not logout after getting item give it up to 5 min to update.

Edited August 4, 2012 by DooM4MR

[YourGloriousLeader 1]

Cool I'll give that a go - I think I had got the double barrel quite recently before logging out. Thanks BRO