You've gotta get past the tutorial sequence. When you see the cutscene where John kills the zombies with the helicopter, then you can switch to third person
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DayZ Early Access Thread - We dont go to Stary Sobor
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You've gotta get past the tutorial sequence. When you see the cutscene where John kills the zombies with the helicopter, then you can switch to third person
blankempathy
Member
Ran into a strange glitch today. I was just running through the woods following some power lines when suddenly I was teleported to a road and the camera is just slowly spinning around me and i can't do anything including not being able to access the menu.
I just brought this earlier and I'm really enjoying it so far. I've managed to not die yet, I expect it will happen soon enough though. I've gotten in a few close calls so far, killed 3 other players and I'm fully geared up. I just need to focus on learning the map now. That seems like it will be my biggest challenge since I've never played the mod before.
It's a glitch. If you relog you should be good to go.
Grocery stores/military bases/offices seem to have the highest frequency for me.
indigo-cyclops
Member
It's the FN45 or whatever. It's not that special pistol. I've found a bunch of clips in the Balota airfield/military base/camp. Then I found more in a secluded base that I'm keeping secret for now
. Playing later tonight I really really good OG GAFZ will be on.
Unbound By Death
Member
But is it really ambience..........?
MarmaladeChainsaw
Neo Member
pretty sure it's just a bug
MarmaladeChainsaw
Neo Member
I'm really beginning to dislike the m4, still can't hit anyone with it unless they are within 50m. I'm liking the mosin with a pu scope though, much more fun to use!
But is it always a bug? There was a time when I heard clearly a soda being opened in one of the shithole towns inland and it was quite a complete sound. I freaked out a bit and turns out there was really someone else in town and ended up killed him. Coincidence..?
Krappadizzle
Member
Took a break from DayZ as the jank was getting to me and started playing Rust. Between the two at it's current state, Rust is a lot better. It's insanely fun, and some of you would really like it.
Ya, Rust looks like a great deal of fun. It has been in Alpha for a long time at this point though.
The Janitor
Member
Mister Wilhelm
Member
I don't know if I enjoy this game.
Spent 45 minutes running up and down the same road looking for something to drink.
Found one soda and a backpack and nothing else after looking through seven houses.
Graphics are terrible and the movement feels even worse.
I want to get to the enjoyable part of the experience quicker but I'm not sure that's easy.
Spent 45 minutes running up and down the same road looking for something to drink.
Found one soda and a backpack and nothing else after looking through seven houses.
Graphics are terrible and the movement feels even worse.
I want to get to the enjoyable part of the experience quicker but I'm not sure that's easy.
You're heading the right way for a smacked bottom, fella.
Busta SMurk
Member
I have a TeamSpeak server, and I've been organizing groups the last few days as well.
Taking in lone wolves and making a gang out of them.
New page, so I'll say it again:
Just add me: Busta_SMurk or Busta SMurk on Steam, and I'll send you the TS info when I'm on.
Also join GAFZ, or even the NeoGAF groups on Steam Groups, as I pick up people from there as well.
If you see me online, and I'm in DayZ, just tell me where you are are we will try to meet up. I usually have 2-3 other people with, or near me.
LeeRoyBrown
Banned
It's broken as fuck at this stage, but I'm use to it because I played the MOD very early so I knew what to expect, I honestly can't wait for a real dev to come along and competely copy the game and just make it work.
In regards to loot you need to run far far inland, I'm in a town right now looting the shit out of it.... it's crazy, I have an M4 with attachments, all sorts of shit.
I actually think the graphics are sex on max, however I agree the animation is poor and the responsiveness is attrocious, sometimes I have to press V to jump around 30 times before anything happens.
Wow, thats terrible.
How could this even flythrough devs testing?
Can a person who posted here that he has 50-60fps in cities, can make similar video from?
I'm pretty sure all those info can be get from MSI Afterburner.
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I found this in youtube comments, can anyone test it
Code:
DO THIS, will increase your FPS by atleast 25;
(DayZ MUST be closed before you edit these files)
Go to My Documents, enter folder DayZ, open dayz.cfg, change the following lines to this;
GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1;
GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=1;
then save the document.
Go back to My Documents, enter DayZ Other Profiles folder, enter your username folder, open the your username.cfg file (not the .vars version).
Scroll to bottom and change the following lines to this;
sceneComplexity=100000;
shadowZDistance=100;
viewDistance=1600;
preferredObjectViewDistance=1600;
Save the file. Start DayZ SA game, and enjoy an additional >25 fps :-)---
This has nothing to do with client performance.
MickeyKnox
Member
Don't hold your breath, this has been a flaw with the engine since its inception and has never been fixed.
That's the equivalent of lowering the draw distance in Arma so it should give you a frame boost at the expense of not being able to see very far unless the distance is server locked.
Mister Wilhelm
Member
Why? Because the graphics ARE terrible and it DOES play like shit?
I realize this is alpha, doesn't make it any less true.
I want to like this game. I'm going to give it some more time, but I'm not going to be blind to where it needs to improve.
Thanks, I'll try to go much farther inland.
I was more curious about. I know that later was probably just changing lod settings.
GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1;
GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=1;
The Janitor
Member
It's funny, people even attack when they're clearly outmatched. A guy tried to fistfight me when I was holding an fire axe. One swift chop with the axe took care of him.
SpookyFries
Member
First time playing DayZ last night and damn. I got motion sick pretty bad. Probably due to the head bobbing/motion blur/strange frame rate
I was only able to play for about 15 minutes
I was only able to play for about 15 minutes
The Janitor
Member
You can turn off the headbob in the menu, and the blur can be turned off by setting post-process to off.
First time out I lasted a couple of hours. I ultimately died, not by zombies or other people, but by a rotten orange that I ate. I had no idea eating a piece of rotten fruit would be fatal. I figured it would make my guy sick, but killing me? That's one dangerous piece of fruit. I lay there unconscious for a good while until my friend joined my game and came over to my body and took all my stuff to hold for me... then someone comes along with a gun and kills my friend, lol.
I turned off post-processing yet I still have blur. Did I do it wrong?
I turned off post-processing yet I still have blur. Did I do it wrong?
OFFIS
Member
There is rotation blur slider, get rid of that too.
I'll admit some of the textures can look a little washed out, particularly the ground textures but some of the details on the weapons and clothing really do look photo-realistic, play with your settings a bit more.
Keep plotting along with the looting, it's still an alpha.
Had a weird experience with a guy at the Balota airfield. I ran into it from the northeast, and saw the eastern air traffic tower. I figured, shit, this is a relatively new spawn, what's thee to lose? So I run up, and instead of taking the front door, I start climbing up the ladder on the opposite side. Suddenly, this guy decked out with an M4 and army camo comes into view, and he goes into the front door. At this point I'm nearly at the top of the ladder. All I have is a fireaxe, so I really don't want to combat this guy head on. Especially with how slow you move on stairs, I really needed the element of surprise and a good running blow.
So I climb down to the halfway point of the ladder, and sit there for two minutes or so, waiting for someone to shoot me in the back, or for this guy to show up. He eventually gets to the top, and he does a sweep of the outer rim of the tower. I'm amazed he didn't spot me, because he got right to the edge of the ladder. Was sure I was gone. But, he just walks back inside the tower, and I hear him pop a can of beans and start eating. I figure, shit, this is my only chance. I get up the ladder, axe in hand, and run up to the middle of the tower.
He's not there. Weird. I saw him here seconds ago. I go downstairs. Nothing. Check behind the stairwell, take a quick peak outside. Guy's nowhere to be seen. He was JUST eating some food. My guess is, he saw me coming and logged. To me it looked like he just lagged through the building. Anyway, I go back to the top, take one last look around. Go down the stairs again, and there he is, crouched in a corner with his rifle ready, and I don't even bother trying to get to him. He's a set of stairs below me, he has a rifle, just, take my death and maybe I'll get a better spawn next time. Sure enough the dude blows me away, and takes his sweet time doing it.
The weird part is, while I'm sitting at the 'you are dead' screen, talking to some guys in Steam chat, I hear the dude over mic yelling something. "NO! I DIDN'T-", followed by a round of gunshots, two sets of footsteps, and some distant microphone chatter I didn't pick up.
I'm not really sure what to make of that whole situation. A mix of possible combat logging and miscommunication? Whatever it was, it was better than the usual deaths I get in this game.
Next time I'll just head north.
So I climb down to the halfway point of the ladder, and sit there for two minutes or so, waiting for someone to shoot me in the back, or for this guy to show up. He eventually gets to the top, and he does a sweep of the outer rim of the tower. I'm amazed he didn't spot me, because he got right to the edge of the ladder. Was sure I was gone. But, he just walks back inside the tower, and I hear him pop a can of beans and start eating. I figure, shit, this is my only chance. I get up the ladder, axe in hand, and run up to the middle of the tower.
He's not there. Weird. I saw him here seconds ago. I go downstairs. Nothing. Check behind the stairwell, take a quick peak outside. Guy's nowhere to be seen. He was JUST eating some food. My guess is, he saw me coming and logged. To me it looked like he just lagged through the building. Anyway, I go back to the top, take one last look around. Go down the stairs again, and there he is, crouched in a corner with his rifle ready, and I don't even bother trying to get to him. He's a set of stairs below me, he has a rifle, just, take my death and maybe I'll get a better spawn next time. Sure enough the dude blows me away, and takes his sweet time doing it.
The weird part is, while I'm sitting at the 'you are dead' screen, talking to some guys in Steam chat, I hear the dude over mic yelling something. "NO! I DIDN'T-", followed by a round of gunshots, two sets of footsteps, and some distant microphone chatter I didn't pick up.
I'm not really sure what to make of that whole situation. A mix of possible combat logging and miscommunication? Whatever it was, it was better than the usual deaths I get in this game.
Next time I'll just head north.
I had this problem too, I just go into configure--> video--> and it corrects itself
I don't recall them saying they touched the ground textures, which is why you're seeing a disparity between them and the weapons/clothes.
Wait, did you fall through as you were logging out or when you logged back in? I logged out in the top of a house
So I think I am going to wait until two things are fixed/implemented.
- Controls are janky and laggy, mouse acc. is disgusting :/
- Zombies are not fun to fight (did I hit it? did it hit me?) and clip through buildings, there is no way to outrun them and hide in buildings.
Enjoying the hell out of Sir, YABH right now.
- Controls are janky and laggy, mouse acc. is disgusting :/
- Zombies are not fun to fight (did I hit it? did it hit me?) and clip through buildings, there is no way to outrun them and hide in buildings.
Enjoying the hell out of Sir, YABH right now.
Me and my buddy had an intense skirmish in a military base recently.
We play on a low pop UK server so we were getting kinda lazy about being careful of other players. So we're all decked out and decide to check out this military base. We spend 10 minutes on one side checking for loot and I pop up my inventory while standing outside a building for a quick second and I'm shot dead from out of nowhere. My buddy is upstairs freaking out and I tell him to just sit tight and watch my body. Sure enough a guy completely decked out in military gear slowly walks over to my body. My buddy takes him out with his Mosin and immediately gets shot at from another guy in an adjacent building. So they spend 10 more minutes in a game of chicken before my buddy finally gets taken out by the other guy with an M4 with suppression. We lost everything.
Now anytime we go to a city/base like that we drop off our important gear and scope the place out first. This game is amazing.
We play on a low pop UK server so we were getting kinda lazy about being careful of other players. So we're all decked out and decide to check out this military base. We spend 10 minutes on one side checking for loot and I pop up my inventory while standing outside a building for a quick second and I'm shot dead from out of nowhere. My buddy is upstairs freaking out and I tell him to just sit tight and watch my body. Sure enough a guy completely decked out in military gear slowly walks over to my body. My buddy takes him out with his Mosin and immediately gets shot at from another guy in an adjacent building. So they spend 10 more minutes in a game of chicken before my buddy finally gets taken out by the other guy with an M4 with suppression. We lost everything.
Now anytime we go to a city/base like that we drop off our important gear and scope the place out first. This game is amazing.
Cyborgmatt
Member
Your stomach grumbles.
I wish they toned down the requirements on food and water, it seems you need to eat and drink at least every 5-10 minutes at the moment.
I wish they toned down the requirements on food and water, it seems you need to eat and drink at least every 5-10 minutes at the moment.
Cyborgmatt, are you making sure to eat and drink until it says "your stomach is full?" The hunger and thirst status bars only go away when you've consumed the minimum amount you need in order to stop losing blood. But you can eat and drink much more than that. If I see a well I will drink until my stomach is full and not be thirsty again for hours.
Cyborgmatt
Member
Oh I didn't realise there is a message for that, I was just drinking/eating until the bars on the inventory page went away.
Thanks.
Baldwin_the_First
Member
It's the FN45 or whatever. It's not that special pistol. I've found a bunch of clips in the Balota airfield/military base/camp. Then I found more in a secluded base that I'm keeping secret for now
Playing later tonight I really really good OG GAFZ will be on.
Yeah I was talking about the FN45. You should join up with us, I'm pretty much the only one new in the group, but I'm getting the hang of things now, so everything seems a lot easier than it first was.
I read that you can attain healthy/healing status by using antibiotics or alcohol if you have been hit at all. I have to try that today.
Is that the 357 revolver?
The Janitor
Member
That'd be good cause I have a shitload of ammo for it lol