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night should be at most 1 out of 4 hours. The rest is nonsense.

No one has successfully made a game with 100 players 400sq km and a credible number of animals and zombies. This right here is really the best that we have that I know of. All the money right now is being made on 64km square maps or likely much smaller with zero AI in effect. At 8X8 km this game would likely work with a few hundred zombies. But that is not the target. Everything better we see in the game vs 6 years ago from a performance stand point could be chalked up to 3 iterations of Moores law. PC and video card horse power has doubled 3 times during the "development cycle" (assets of course are much nicer) How many times over the years have people on this board said that anyone who questioned the duration of development and the crazy slow progress just didn't know anything about software or game development. lol. The various generations of devs that have worked on the game have done some great stuff. But the original mod dude thinking that the underlying structural challenge of the game was trivial to resolve was always going to taint this project. Because its at the very fundamental of the game scale that the problem lies.

As I said to much flame a few days ago. This was the first early access release on Steam I think. They changed the rules for this game. And really, it has been a silly mess. Paying for things before they are done is as unlikley to get the response you want from a company as you would expect. It is nothing to do with the developers or designers, it is inherent in the economic system. But aside from that lesson. To charge full price for it now in hopes of getting 20 more million based just on the name when the game is far far far from done and the devs have never demonstrated a technical solution for a full map with 100 players and a full set of zombies is just dishonest. Anyone who has diligently played along through beta and thinks the devs have a solution to that problem that they are ready to spring on us is delusional. But I did get my 30 bucks worth. And on steam the buyers who bite now can get their money back in a day right?

Its not brain surgery. Who cares for the excuse, they could do an engine change half way through because they had a huge bank roll to do it and were still allowed to sell the over promised unfinished game for years in the state it was. Clearly they were terribly dishonest with steam and every client not just at the start but for years afterwords and to this day to get this thing into early access. Sorry it confuses your fan boi brain, but I can have played this game happily for years, gotten every penny and more out of the investment. And still acknowledge the fundamental dishonesty in the whole project. It is self evident.

lol, 5 years later and we get 40% of the game. I have enjoyed playing it too, but this is a totally failed way to source a game. And the first example has turned out to be the best example of why. Motivating a company to do something they have already been paid for is pretty tough. All the rest are uninformed fan boi excuses.

Didn't steam give DAYZ a special waiver to be sold early access. We see how that worked out for the company. How did it work out for the customer.

"everyone knows it takes 6 years to make a game!" Ya, if you get paid before you deliver the game. I have gotten my moneys worth many times over. But lol what a joke.

maybe this is what happend to me with a player a month ago. He ran up behind me, I turned my AK and fired at him and instant died. I thought he was a hacker or something

do you want to heal at a realistic rate too.

love the report.

From the devs stand point, they took in millions and millions of dollars for way less then the same investment on their side. They have been keeping putting varying levels of effort into it for the subsequent years and constanlty collecting more money as well. As to success or failure, they are a company, it is a success. They made what used to be a bunch of money before the battle royal games showed them real money. For the players. Yet to be seen. Surely a marginal experience with years of underutilized servers as the game trickled out. If they had said at the start you will have a stable game to play with 40% of the content of the mod in 2019 how many millions would they have gathered. lol

I like them if that helps you decide

Toxic complaint got a toxic response. Really. What a surprise. Sometimes we have to go full postal to get attention, do not whine about the response you get though. You did what you thought it had to do, well done. Right up to the whine.

Was fun, the well and the red Barn at Starey Sabor, the church at Gorka. Lots is there lots is missing. When they made the map they cut the vertical scale by at least 1/3 all the hills seem way bigger. The house under construction on the west end of Navey is finished. Still has the trailer in the back. The closer you get to the Elbe the more unrecognisable it is. But the interior is cool.

Thanks guys, will have to wait till I am back from my trip. In Italy now. Got them on face book though

Don't know how to post them from my cell phone..

I can see a loooong way when the weather is good. as far as I could ever see.. Good write up

I crossed the main northern highway and suddenly someone was talking to me, I put my headset on and hit caps lock and boom. out of the game. Thought that one was dead but when I logged back in the next day there I was standing alive.

Excellent, keep the fixes rolling!

I read that you might not want to put things on low settings put them on high and see what you get

I like the feeling of the map being bigger and wilderness between them. Do not mind the reloading. Do not mind the pace of starvation and dehydration. That is what you are really fighting and the fight starts in the first minute. Not so sure on the weapon status, not only is is cludgy to execute it is flakey to get it to stay in a given mode. Can certainly be improved. When they get the cold and wet and damaged to gear working with the atmospherics and zombie density they have achieved..wow the teeth gnashing will be intense.

Started in the little fishing village in the Ne, had only cleared a few buildings when a guy came running down the road, not armed, I only had two cans of food by this time. I offered him a can of food cause I had no way to open it. He took it, then followed me 30 feet then started screaming fight me. Because of how often you end up fighting zombies hand to hand with what ever you happen to have, I actually kicked the crap out of him, he ran a bit, I caught him and finished him and got my can back. He was screaming kill me at the end. I would rate him to have at least some imagination. I cleared that valley still no knife or anything sharp so I walked a trail I knew about looking for rocks, none. By the time I reached a built up area searching for something sharp and heard a weapon shot close to the south(likely the military check point) It was very dark so I just moved away from it. Left along the rail lines to the nw and soon saw someone. Said hi and he asked if I could open some food for him. Said no, he said use your pipe. I tried but got no indicator to open it, he asked for the pipe to try and I demured on that. But we started searching for something to open things. He was limping from hunger. We searched along with him living on water. Split up to search and I ran into someone else in a stab vest and with a skorpion with an axe. Asked him if he would open some food he said sure, so we had to find the other guy now. Went off looking for him and saw him stumbling away from 2 Zs, I called to him that I would pipe them he led them to me, I killed them then gave him a rag. We opend the food, I gave the guy with the axe the 380 ammo I had. We kind of split up and I saw each of them in the next bit in the distance as we moved generally west. Not sure what people want form the game. The danger of firing your weapon has changed it quite a bit. Core of this game is way way better then it has ever been. Its not even close really.

I want to put on a ballistic vest and run full speed 15 km to the far end of the map. This game sucks because I cannot do that. Got it.

I only KOS when trapped. And some have whined long and hard about that. But in the current exp and stress I have had good luck getting in touch with others. Those who whine about bandits, what is this game without them?

Not seeing any of the issues related above. sneaking past the dozens of Zs in Gorka, came across a trail of dead Zs and then a dead player, then a few more dead Zs then another dead player, then in the Police station hooked up with another player and asked him if he killed everyone he said killed who? So I showed him. Lol Centeral gorka was a blood bath, I must have missed it by about 10 minutes. The day before I met someone in pelona and we played for a bit but my gear started glitching. He said I had a pair of boots in my hands and on my feet I saw neither but never got the sore feet message either. When I relogged I could not get back on the full server.