Don’t do reviews often, but as this is such an anticipated title I feel its important to alert people to the issues the game has, mostly 1 issue.

I am aware this is Early Access, and therefore would never make a review based on....well pretty much anything as it could easily be fixed/implemented/removed or whatever, however, this issue has been in since day 1, is still in now, and for reasons i will explain, is unlikely to he resolved.

What is that issue? It runs like a fat kid in a pit of treacle....The performance is horrific to the likes i have never seen before, i recently upgraded my rig (not for this game) but did decide for science, to try out DayZ and the performance was identical. I am running an I2600k OC'd, 2x 720 TIs, 32gig of RAM. This rig eats up the likes of Metro, Arma 3, ARK, Mad Max, and pretty much any other game i can throw at it.....And why not? With exception of the CPU, which is getting on the rig is quite a beast.

DayZ however, is another matter...

1. Even on the lowest of settings you can make the game look like Minecraft and still get the most appalling FPS which gives you a headache within 30 minutes.

2. Its pretty much impossible to benchmark it, you can make it run nicely out in the middle of nowhere but the minute you get to a town, it tanks again depending on the size of the town etc. The only way to improve this is to go to the biggest and demanding city (Cherno maybe?) and tinker with the graphics until its playable, this will mean going as low as you can go and still getting a headache.

3. You need a PHD to use the graphics menu, its not intuitive, it dosent make much sense and certain options are in menus they shouldn’t be, not to mention after explaining to a friend what the scaling meant he was going mad about how he didn’t realize he could make the game look NOT blurry, and hes been playing it for over 6 months...

The reason that this is a problem, is because it dates back to Arma II. Arma II ran like a dog, it always has, and DayZ uses a slightly modified version of the engine which has exactly the same issues, even now you can run Arma 3, which looks leagues better, at a higher frame rate than Arma II. With the added high res textures thrown into Day Z iiI promise you even the finished release will be plagued with these problems mark my words.

The reason it ruins the game is because i cannot think of a game that is harder to aim in than the Arma series, and having a 15 FPS is like dragging a challenger two around your mouse mat, it means you KNOW you are going to lose an engagement if you get into one, which ruins the entire game.

Game would have promise if not for the extremely poor performance.

Don’t do reviews often, but as this is such an anticipated title I feel its important to alert people to the issues the game has, mostly 1 issue. I am aware this is Early Access, and therefore would never make a review based on....well pretty much anything as it could easily be fixed/implemented/removed or whatever, however, this issue has been in since day 1, is still in now, and for reasons i will explain, is unlikely to he resolved. What is that issue? It runs like a fat kid in a pit of treacle....The performance is horrific to the likes i have never seen before, i recently upgraded my rig (not for this game) but did decide for science, to try out DayZ and the performance was identical. I am running an I2600k OC'd, 2x 720 TIs, 32gig of RAM. This rig eats up the likes of Metro, Arma 3, ARK, Mad Max, and pretty much any other game i can throw at it.....And why not? With exception of the CPU, which is getting on the rig is quite a beast. DayZ however, is another matter... 1. Even on the lowest of settings you can make the game look like Minecraft and still get the most appalling FPS which gives you a headache within 30 minutes. 2. Its pretty much impossible to benchmark it, you can make it run nicely out in the middle of nowhere but the minute you get to a town, it tanks again depending on the size of the town etc. The only way to improve this is to go to the biggest and demanding city (Cherno maybe?) and tinker with the graphics until its playable, this will mean going as low as you can go and still getting a headache. 3. You need a PHD to use the graphics menu, its not intuitive, it dosent make much sense and certain options are in menus they shouldn’t be, not to mention after explaining to a friend what the scaling meant he was going mad about how he didn’t realize he could make the game look NOT blurry, and hes been playing it for over 6 months... The reason that this is a problem, is because it dates back to Arma II. Arma II ran like a dog, it always has, and DayZ uses a slightly modified version of the engine which has exactly the same issues, even now you can run Arma 3, which looks leagues better, at a higher frame rate than Arma II. With the added high res textures thrown into Day Z iiI promise you even the finished release will be plagued with these problems mark my words. The reason it ruins the game is because i cannot think of a game that is harder to aim in than the Arma series, and having a 15 FPS is like dragging a challenger two around your mouse mat, it means you KNOW you are going to lose an engagement if you get into one, which ruins the entire game. Game would have promise if not for the extremely poor performance.