Wah great to see an update!

Liking the progress and the item degradation.

I'm wondering as well before I put money down, can we actually play the game?

Just bought and installed. Going to play now.

Don't kill me on sight yeh.

There is no map until you find it.

Maps found are not full though, as it comes in sections or areas only. Like South West, East coast area etc.

Faster le, buy today in order to get 2 cards before the winter sale ends. At least can get back some sens when you sell the card.

Couple of hours yesterday night.
Playing with my 2nd machine, AMD 640 with HD5750 and 4GB ram.

Straightaway had to reduce all the effects and quality coz I was damn laggy with the high GFX.
The motion blur and Field of view really made me pening while playing.
So had to change the FOV to max and reduce the motion blur to almost zero.
I have a feeling unless I lower all details, the game will not be smooth. Currently, its sits between smooth and ugly for me. Still lags a bit.

After 'fixing' the FOV, less pening when playing. 3rd person mode less effect of pening compared to 1st person for me.
This game, when your character move, it shakes A LOT! And I thought BF3 & 4 shakes were bad.

It is definitely an Alpha, still got clipping bugs here and there like being able to open/close the front door of the house when you are upstairs while facing the front door. Also sometimes your toggle for running can be stucked, relogging helps.

Met only 1 person yesterday, he was crawling and dying as I ran past him with Zombies chasing me. You can say he saved my life coz the zombie stopped to attack him instead. Thanks bro, didn't get your name though.

Until now, I have no idea where the hell am I. Still near the coast, near a city with 1 tall chimney. Already check out the apartments there but no loot and only zombies around. Will probably get more food and water, then try to head north to the hills.

Damn zombies can chase you for miles unless run far enough and get behind cover and zig zag a few times. The forest helps a lot. I realise how persistent the zombie was when I ran almost 10 minutes in the open and he was nowhere to be seen. Just resting and looking at my items when I hear him growling again. So had to run again near a building a circle it to lose him.

Overall, very engaging to play, especially if you've never played before. I've only seen videos of the dayz mod but never played before. Hopefully can find some friends to play with.

I'm Skidd Chung in game.

We should but I don't even know where the hell am I. I'm not in game at the moment fyi.

Looking now at maps online, probably slightly north of Elektro near the coast.

The zombies in the standalone is definitely more scarier and more persistent. In the mod, zombies can't hit you while you are near a bush or tree. And slows down considerably when the zombie enters a building.

In standalone, sprinting is the only way to get a good distance away from the zombie in open areas. As long as it can still see you it will chase you.

In cities or forest, just do tight corners around objects so the zombies loses the line of sight, they will still sprint towards your last location so if you do 2 corners out of sight, they will just stop at your last seen location. If the Z still see you from your last know location, it will move towards you again. I tested this last night when running around a small house hahaha

And Z seems to hear or smell you if you run past them even when they are not facing your direction. I find that as long as they are not that near, you can just sneak behind them by crouch running. Running into long warehouses and them following you will slow them down in the warehouse. As tey will not sprint when indoors.

Playing from SG atm, no lag since servers in SG.

But not sure about MY side. Will test it next week on Unifi.

But should be the same like BF3 pings I suppose.

However the game is not optimized yet as the graphics is actually taxing and not smooth enough when the character is moving. IMO anyway.

This post has been edited by Skidd Chung: Jan 3 2014, 12:23 PM

Ok will add you tonight if Steam is working.

Will you be playing the game tonight, I should get on bout 10-11pm.

Steam is still down I think.

Will be in game in about 20 minutes.

can;t add you as friend in Steam, can't even access the community page...

Skidd Chung on Steam and Dayz

Did your firewall block access for the game or something. I know my firewall normally stop processes from accesing intenet if run for the first time.

Anyway I am in game, can't accept you rinvite coz my steam is funky. wont display friends page

I see the server name "DayZ SG 1-26 ... hosted by MPGS.co"

Yeap, its like that. Its basically a survival game with zombies. Need to collect food, water, clothing, medical supplies and weapons to defend yourself.

Unless you can stand the frustration of dying and starting over and over, I really don't recommend this game.

Check out more Youtube vids how the game looks and plays. It is not a typical online game I would say. Servers normally host about 40ppl max at a time. You can switch servers and all your items are saved in the other server.

Other players are normally the threat in this game unless you are friends with them.

Oh and the maps is freaking huge and no vehicles makes travelling really taxing.

Try restarting Steam and the game again.

I really have no freaking clue where I am.

Never played this game before, so still have no idea where I am.

I think I was in the town of Elektro and have now run up north to a hill, now slowly making my way down to a small village. Stopped at the edge of the forest.

I opened dayz standalone map, but still can't rally point out where I am exactly.

nwaf is north western air field?

Ok I see mcfeemo on my player list i nthe server already.

We are in the same serve rnow dude.