To be fair, you're comparing two games that are on completely opposite ends of the spectrum (Arma II being a mil-sim that strives for realism, and CoD being an arcade game that resembles laser-tag more than actual war).
With Arma II they tried to replicate real-world physics and movement as closely as possible, hence the seemingly "clunky" feeling it has. You might say "Wrong, there's no way my head and body jerk around that much when moving in real life", but in reality, that's actually what happens (of course you're so used to it that you never think about it).
For example, in Day Z, just be in regular standing position, and hold (or double-tap) Shift to walk. It seems SSLLLOWWW, but no, that's about average walking pace in real life. It makes you realize just how unnaturally-fast the movement is in most other games.
It feels weird at first, yes; but to believe that in real life we fluidly hover around, heads completely fixed in position, and can stop and turn on a dime - similar to CoD - is a bit silly.
Edit: I think you can turn off head-bob actually
Because I'm only running on Medium-High settings, with AA and post-processing completely disabled. It's a good-looking game, yes - and it's very resource intensive - but it's not worth the drop in framerate.
Also, the graphics can be really glitchy with certain settings. Turning on AA makes grass and bushes turn white for me. I think there's a fix for it, but I don't really care.
This is one of the few games where you don't need to max out the graphics to be completely immersed in. Which is weird, especially coming from a person like me who insists on being able to play every game on Ultra.
With Day Z, I just have no desire to crank up the graphics whatsoever.
How the hell do you find inverse time servers. I'm too inexperienced for night.
i'm thinking about giving up on it until they fix it. tired of waiting an hour to get into a server to play. spend more time logging in than playing.
this is ridiculous.
1. debug forest
2. no gear/no hud
3. everything looks fine but can't move...
4. debug forest
5. inverse day
took me like 10 minutes each attempt.
whats really weird is that i have logged into some servers immediately and others take forever, and then if i go back to a "good" server, it takes forever to log in again.
are there any ports to forward for ARMA2 and this mod? Seems like I get a lot of link broken indicators even though I have really good ping to the servers.
sigh...
My experience is pretty much the same. Sometimes I can get into the game easily on a server with 49/50 players. Other times, I'm waiting for 10+ mins on servers that only have 10/50 players.
It is getting tougher and tougher to get in a server.
I have had my character for about a week now, without dying. :biggrin:
Just strooling along by myself...trying to survive.
I have finally found a hunting knife, firewood and matches....my blood is at 6500....so next session I am going to try to get some meat in me...that will get my blood back to 9500.
Also I finally found a watch and compass.
The atmosphere of this game is off the hook...especially when you hear alot of gun fire and you are by yourself. i'd really like to know how often stuff respawns.
I finally made it to the main airfield and was lying prone just watching the action take place,,,,a pretty large group of bandits were there so I decided to stay away...but watching was quite fun and I know I could have wasted a couple of them, but someone would have killed me...so I decided to survive.
I started over next to a big town crawled into a school and hit the motherload, picked up 4 canteens, 13 mags of ammo, and the Lee rifle it does a 1 hit kill but pretty much gets everything in the areas attention. I guess it would be best to go into a building fire it and head shot everything that came in the door with the pistol.
If you are crawling how close can you get to a zombie without being attacked? It seems like you are almost invisible if you are crawling, can anyone confirm this?
I think the beta patches limit the number of servers you can get into though.