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that callout thread, holy poo poo 
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| # ? May 22, 2012 20:29 |
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For those with bad framerate settings try turning down your view distance. That made the biggest difference for me, even on the lowest setting I still saw incredibly far away.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 20:31 |
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Cage posted:For those with bad framerate settings try turning down your view distance. That made the biggest difference for me, even on the lowest setting I still saw incredibly far away. Anything over 4000 for viewing distance is pointless, the fog prevents you from seeing farther.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 20:32 |
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My view distance is at the absolute minimum and I was still getting about 10fps looking at the floor in the wilderness this morning. Some of the servers were boned.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 20:54 |
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I haven't listened to the interview yet, but the podcast that I occasionally contribute to got Rocket on the line for a little while last week. It made it into this weeks podcast (about 45 minutes in, or so. if you don't want to listen to us). http://www.knowngriefers.com/2012/0...t-ing-into.html The interview itself is about 45 minutes, I think.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:00 |
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Thumbs Up Dude posted:that callout thread, holy poo poo Now they are accusing the admins of SA in organizing DDoS raids. Dear God this is beautiful. 
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:10 |
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Red Mundus posted:Now they are accusing the admins of SA in organizing DDoS raids. Dear God this is beautiful. Also, apparently DDoS's and raids are considered childish and a waste of time on 4chan. I can't even begin to comprehend what internet they're using.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:17 |
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keyframe posted:I will take that over my name being visible on screen from 1000 meters because some guy looked in my direction. Not all "regular" servers have that enabled and, indeed, I find that most do not. There are also some "veteran" servers that have third person enabled, but most don't, and most that do have crosshairs disabled (Which I would be fine with if they at least appeared when you shouldered your weapon in third person). I prefer playing in third person because it makes the game more playable in general for me; trying to see in vegetation or in buildings is almost impossible for me, and I generally just feel like I have greater maneuverability in third person. Unrelated: Arma is the only game where I've actually felt like I was shooting an M4 when I shoot an M4. I want to try to track down an M24 and see how close to reality that one feels. Do they spawn in deer stands? thehumandignity fucked around with this message at May 22, 2012 around 21:23 |
| # ? May 22, 2012 21:18 |
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zarg posted:Did this and it worked great. Me and my buddy managed to get to Lopatino just as our water gave out (the game ate my second canteen when I moved it to my backpack I think gamelab2021 is my steam ID. I'd kill for some teammates that don't shoot me using poney names and saying "u mad" over and over. Save me fellow goons.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:24 |
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) and managed to refill at the church there. We're going to log there for now and get a late-night run going around 1am, (11.5 hours from now) to do the following:
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thehumandignity posted:Unrelated: Arma is the only game where I've actually felt like I was shooting an M4 when I shoot an M4. I want to try to track down an M24 and see how close to reality that one feels. Do they spawn in deer stands? From when I had my m24 I can say that it felt pretty similar to the cz except it just has the better scope.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:28 |
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That entire site is almost impossible to read, I really appreciate the work the Dayz guys are doing to the game, it's fun and unique, and Alpha. But some of these people make it seem like now Rocket and crew owe them for all the money they spent. If the goon hate continues like this, they will probably spend more money on accounts here to uncover this vast conspiracy than they would to donate to Rocket for his time and effort. Real stand up guys right there. I really like how the game is, it's a challenge because you just don't know what's around the corner or next hill. I've yet to shoot another player, been shot dead several times, but that's just how I want to play it. The paranoia levels in the game are great. I do hope I log in and don't have a cold, but then again, I've hoped that I didn't wake up with a coworkers cold or flu the next day as well.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:29 |
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thehumandignity posted:Unrelated: Arma is the only game where I've actually felt like I was shooting an M4 when I shoot an M4. I want to try to track down an M24 and see how close to reality that one feels. Do they spawn in deer stands? I found one at the northwest airfield. It's basically a nicer CZ 550.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:33 |
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I paid $30 just to play and I have no regrets. It's a drat fine mod and up until the cold and temp changes I've never really had a problem with it. The forums however are just poo poo. What is it about survival sims and games based on realism that attract poo poo-spergs like that?
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:33 |
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Red Mundus posted:What is it about survival sims and games based on realism that attract poo poo-spergs like that? Slightly realistic isn't enough, why not go allll the way? (And then some)
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:37 |
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Slightly chaotic isn't enough for me. When are we going to declare war against everyone?
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:41 |
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So I bought ARMA II a little while back to play with Goons, but it felt pretty laggy and clunky. I understand that this is probably in part just how the engine is, but I'm curious if Operation Arrowhead has improved the engine at all? I'd really like to play Day Z, but I had a pretty bad experience with vanilla ARMA II.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:43 |
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Eonwe posted:So I bought ARMA II a little while back to play with Goons, but it felt pretty laggy and clunky. I understand that this is probably in part just how the engine is, but I'm curious if Operation Arrowhead has improved the engine at all? I'd really like to play Day Z, but I had a pretty bad experience with vanilla ARMA II. The only bug aspect that's been/being fixed as far as I know for now is pistols+ladders=/=potential death. But yeah, if you didn't like Arma for all its clunkiness and bugs, DayZ is the same, except with zombies and beans.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:47 |
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Vatek posted:I found one at the northwest airfield. It's basically a nicer CZ 550. I don't think I can really convey in words what I mean about how the rifle feels, but thanks for telling me where you found one.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:48 |
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thehumandignity posted:I don't think I can really convey in words what I mean about how the rifle feels, but thanks for telling me where you found one. It can spawn in all of the military type spawns.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:49 |
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So I did my first murders last night  Was heading to Stary to hook up with some goons. I was west of Guglovo in the forest and spotted a bandit and a survivor making their way through the forest and they hadn't spotted me. I dropped my M4 SD (which I subsequently lost on the floor) and pulled a CZ out of my backpack. I watched them for a long time deciding what to do before pulling the trigger on the prone bandit. The first shot missed but the second pegged him right in the head. His friend soon followed and then a second survivor started slowly walking over to the corpse of his friend and he went down like a sack of spuds. I don't know why I did it Who were these people? were they friendly? Would they try to jack me for my gear? You never really get these kinds of chances to get the drop on people in DayZ and with the bandit skin being removed soon I thought 'gently caress it' (I had basically everything: binocs, NVG's and every sub item) My heart was beating so hard that my back was actually hurting. Of course it was all for naught when 2 of us got accidentally TK'd when 2fat4sex dropped a grenade at his feet instead of a chemlight  Then when I went to bed I was having DayZ dreams about being a bandit and shooting people for robbing me. I've become a monster 
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:51 |
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Red Mundus posted:I paid $30 just to play and I have no regrets. It's a drat fine mod and up until the cold and temp changes I've never really had a problem with it. The forums however are just poo poo. What is it about survival sims and games based on realism that attract poo poo-spergs like that? The irony is that if the realism spergs were faced with a situation like this in reality, they'd probably be the first to die 
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| # ? May 22, 2012 21:53 |
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Sultan Tarquin posted:So I did my first murders last night I kill off my own little criterion. If they're stupid, they die. The few people I have killed deserved it. Launching flares everywhere near the coast of all places was a mercy killing. Admittedly it was also my most stylish kill, so I'm happy it panned out that way. But yeah, just taking potshots at zombies outside towns and basically lighting yourself up at night... If I didn't do it someone else would have, and beans are all the sweeter when you're prying them out a dead mans hands. Sometimes you'll see two survivors travelling along together when one just starts going full retard and either picks up a flare or starts aggroing zeds and his compatriot will just turn and run realising he teamed up with a complete moron. Solo survivor all the way.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 22:00 |
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Eonwe posted:So I bought ARMA II a little while back to play with Goons, but it felt pretty laggy and clunky. I understand that this is probably in part just how the engine is, but I'm curious if Operation Arrowhead has improved the engine at all? I'd really like to play Day Z, but I had a pretty bad experience with vanilla ARMA II. It's always clunky but OA and patches since then have improved the performance, depending on how long "a little while back" is.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 22:00 |
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Vatek posted:It's always clunky but OA and patches since then have improved the performance, depending on how long "a little while back" is. Operation Arrowhead wasn't even out when I bought ARMA II, so its been quite a while.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 22:16 |
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thehumandignity posted:Unrelated: Arma is the only game where I've actually felt like I was shooting an M4 when I shoot an M4. I want to try to track down an M24 and see how close to reality that one feels. Do they spawn in deer stands? That's where I found mine. The ammo's tough to find, though.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 22:20 |
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I went up a big crane and some coastal city and found a silenced sniper rifle with a thermal scope? Holy poo poo this thing is disgusting I keep watching people from high up on my tower and keep thing how small and insignificant they look in my scopes. I need help
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| # ? May 22, 2012 22:26 |
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Just hopped on mumble and dallas 13 if any ones playing.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 22:43 |
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I got this last week. Didn't plan on being a bandit, but Jake running down the middle of the road at night with flares out between Elektro and Cherno stopped to type "Hey guys I'm on my way to Cherno almost there!!!" was too tempting a target. Ran up behind him and shot him point blank in the head. Now to murder everyone.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 22:46 |
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queeb posted:Just hopped on mumble and dallas 13 if any ones playing. I'm on the free mumble server wgoic.com or somesuch. User names Wiggle. Don't blow my beans out.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 22:47 |
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Got disconnected, jumping back on. Join the goon mumble junkie!
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| # ? May 22, 2012 22:56 |
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Blitz7x posted:I went up a big crane and some coastal city and found a silenced sniper rifle with a thermal scope? Holy poo poo this thing is disgusting That sounds like it could be a hacked weapon. There are no silenced sniper rifles available, not even in the rarest military drops at the NW Airfield barracks, and certainly no rifles with thermal scopes AFAIK. Sultan Tarquin posted:Of course it was all for naught when 2 of us got accidentally TK'd when 2fat4sex dropped a grenade at his feet instead of a chemlight Sorry about that. I'll keep grenades in my pack unless I plan on using them in the future.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 22:58 |
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2fat4sex posted:That sounds like it could be a hacked weapon. There are no silenced sniper rifles available, not even in the rarest military drops at the NW Airfield barracks, and certainly no rifles with thermal scopes AFAIK. Yeah this is too good to be true. Whats the key to toggle the thermal on and off?
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| # ? May 22, 2012 23:00 |
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2fat4sex posted:That sounds like it could be a hacked weapon. There are no silenced sniper rifles available, not even in the rarest military drops at the NW Airfield barracks, and certainly no rifles with thermal scopes AFAIK. I think some of the FAL's that can be in the crashed heli spawns have thermal scopes. I'm not sure if the crashed heli loot issues were actually fixed in this patch though.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 23:01 |
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Sultan Tarquin posted:I dropped my M4 SD (which I subsequently lost on the floor) and pulled a CZ out of my backpack. In the future, instead of dropping your current primary, just open your backpack and pull the weapon inside of it out. Your M4 would have been transferred into your backpack while your CZ popped into your main inventory without any problems. At worst you'd have to shuffle ammo. Blitz7x posted:Yeah this is too good to be true. Whats the key to toggle the thermal on and off? N. I'd suggest getting rid of it and possibly emailing rocket about it with your player ID so you don't get potentially banned. Edit: here is a list of all legitimately obtainable guns: http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Weapons A Lamer fucked around with this message at May 22, 2012 around 23:09 |
| # ? May 22, 2012 23:03 |
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Having just got Arma, how exactly are you supposed to do anything if you start fresh at night? It's utterly pitch black no matter how high I crank the gamma / brightness, I have no torch and flares are pretty useless. Is my night blacker than it should be or something?
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| # ? May 22, 2012 23:03 |
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Blitz7x posted:I went up a big crane and some coastal city and found a silenced sniper rifle with a thermal scope? Holy poo poo this thing is disgusting Take the shot. You are the apex predator. You don't feel bad when you squish a bug do you? Edit: ^ try the gamma trick with hdr on very high. You will need good eyes or a horizon to do anything fancy though so stick to the villages. Oppenheimer fucked around with this message at May 22, 2012 around 23:05 |
| # ? May 22, 2012 23:03 |
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immortal flow posted:Having just got Arma, how exactly are you supposed to do anything if you start fresh at night? It's utterly pitch black no matter how high I crank the gamma / brightness, I have no torch and flares are pretty useless. Nights are only manageable during full moons, which are either random/rare, or were removed in a recent patch. That's the "realism" rocket is going for for you.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 23:06 |
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A Lamer posted:Nights are only manageable during full moons, which are either random/rare, or were removed in a recent patch. That's the "realism" rocket is going for for you. I never played Arma before I bought DayZ, but considering that the star constellations are the same as the IRL ones it would make sense that the moon cycles follow real life as well. Considering that we just had a new moon yesterday, it'll probably be another 10 or so days until there's enough moonlight for people without NVGs to reliably play in darkness. http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_..._calendar.phtml
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| # ? May 22, 2012 23:11 |
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A Lamer posted:In the future, instead of dropping your current primary, just open your backpack and pull the weapon inside of it out. Your M4 would have been transferred into your backpack while your CZ popped into your main inventory without any problems. At worst you'd have to shuffle ammo. Doesn't this sometimes result in people's weapons and ammo disappearing? What do you mean exactly by "pull the weapon inside of it out"?
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| # ? May 22, 2012 23:15 |
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Gunder posted:Doesn't this sometimes result in people's weapons and ammo disappearing? What do you mean exactly by "pull the weapon inside of it out"? Remove the backpack rifle, rather than your current rifle. Weapons only disappear if you try putting them into your backpack and there isn't room. By removing a rifle from your backpack, you're freeing the exact amount of space necessary for your existing one to fit, unless it's an oversized item. (I don't know if these exist in vanilla arma or just ACE) The weapon switch happens automatically for whatever reason. For what it's worth I've been using this method ever since I found out I could carry a second weapon in my backpack, and I've never had problems. Edit: See also Doccers' post on the next page which is worded much better. A Lamer fucked around with this message at May 22, 2012 around 23:27 |
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