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Balota Airfield and surrounding area

I love WIP pics. The whole process of making a video game is fascinating, and I like seeing the thing progress. Thanks for the pics Rocket, SA looks to be shaping up nicely.

Anyone else really happy that the closed alpha has started but also so damn jealous? Just sitting here wishing I was a fly on the wall at BIS watching it all unfold. :D

Im hoping that SA is just around the corner so taking a break from Chenarus so as to not burn myself out on that map. But since we don't know exactly when SA is coming out, if you have the money and don't mind spending it, you might like getting your feet wet with the mod version of Chenarus so as your totally not lost when SA is released. Or maybe you want to be totally new to the experience. Up to you. :) Im trying out the origins mod now, it being a different map. If you get Arma II CO then you get all those different maps that you won't have if you just waited til SA. Good stuff with the mod, and you'll have fun, but totally up to you. :thumbsup:

Now that is passionate dedication to your hobby.......or psychotic behavior that is really quite scary. Remind me never to give you any of my personal info. :P

DayZ experience (gameplay, idea, feel you get from playing, etc) > great graphics DayZ doesn't look bad, doesn't look great. IMO doesn't have to.

LOL yea that is the thing I believe most of us want. :) But the advancement towards that is exciting to me.

The update looks pretty cool except for the tradeskill shit. Don't get me wrong, I love tradeskills in games and would like to see it in DayZ. Housing...Yes, Equipment needed to survive (i.e.- a water catch, water purification unit, weilding stuff on cars, hunting snares, yada yada, yada)...Sure. But silencers/scopes/all that "oh a piece of glass and some twigs, let me make a sophisticated sniper scope" stuff, no thanks. Hopefully the SA alpha is jsut around the corner and I'll be playing that and not the mod so I guess the patch isn't that big of a deal to me.

Ewww, don't know what the hell I did messing up the font and such on that. sorry.

Yea I realize that, but I meant this... Dean Hall ‏@rocket2guns28 May DayZ Client/Server Architecture is functionally complete! Large scale test occurring tomorrow for those in closed testing team https://twitter.com/dayzdevteam With Rocket being back, the client server infrastructure basicly complete and the closed alpha be ratcheted up.

Forgive me if this is a really stupid question but are you trying to get onto a whitelisted/password protected server?

Have been cautiously optimistic, but with todays tweet, cautiousness is being thrown out. Anticipating a bunch of E3 info fun, an open alpha release date, and my Nerdgasm immediately to follow. Then of course I'll miss out on the first batch of alpha release slots, (didnt Rocket say somewhere it would be around 50k or so) and I'll start drinking again. :( Thanks for the tweet Rocket, made my day.

You spend hours fixing up vehicles so some jackass can come along, snipe you and steal it. DUH! Dumb question. Sorry, I had too, :D Seriously though, I still get such a kick out of running over Zeds, thats one of the main reasons I do it. I'm a man of simple tastes. :(

http://kotaku.com/dayz-creator-summits-everest-no-zombies-in-sight-509727047 Congrats Rocket on doing something that few will ever do. Now, get your ass back to BIS, vacation is OVER! :P

Bravo... /golf clap. you had me going there for a bit. I thought you were serious and not a troll. Fooled me. Maybe its just me but isnt the alpha release giving them money to develop the game? I mean your not buying a completed game when SA alpha comes out. Thats why we are getting a deal. And really, Rocket not wearing a suit is a problem? /sigh

Arcade style survival game?... OMFG please NO! I like the way they are going about it. From all looks of it, its still going to be DayZ, even if everything is different if you get what Im saying. I think you have a bunch of needless things that your worrying at but we will see. :)

He'll be back on Monday, per his twitter account and He hinted at a lot of info incoming.

LOL Hey was just being a little snarky, but I see what your trying to say. I think you don't give BIS or the DayZ development team, Rocket included, enough credit for what they are doing though.

Do you work at or own stock of Trion Worlds? :P

My stupidist thing done in DayZ just so happened to be earlier this week. I found a beat up UAZ in the little cargo area just outside Electro on the beach. Everything needed to be fixed so I made many trips into Electro getting pieces together and fixing it up another civ car wreak was nearby so I was stashing all the loot I came upon in it so that if anyone came across the highly desirable Jeep while I was fixing it up, my newly found stuff wouldnt get stolen. I spent a good amount of time getting it fixed and gassed up, YAY!, so I get in and drive across the way a bit to the civ car. Get out and start transfering stuff into the UAZ. I put my m-16 in the UAZ and a few zombies have aggro'd and starting to close. I have my MK-17 on me but dont want to waste the ammo so I switch over to a m1911, kill a zed but the other hits me, no big deal I think. I start to move out a bit to get space and he hits me again and breaks a leg. Crap! I need to reload so I roll away and stupidly roll under the UAZ. I cant move out from under the UAZ. I need to reload so I try to do that and the damn zed knocks me out. Im sweating out the wait hoping to wake up again, reload and kill the zed. Well I glitch, cant reload, and it wont let me switch out my weapon. It goes through the animation but Im still stuck with an empty m1911. I died, screaming at the comp. Spawn near Balota, immediately take off towards Electro. Screw everything, I dont use cover or get off the beach I just try to make it there as soon as I can. I get there and the Uaz is gone, the civ car is looted, and my corpse has been picked clean. Lose great weaps, a fully gassed up UAZ, all my survival gear because I just really needed all those foodstuffs. I've taken a few days off from DayZ since then. It was truly a series of stupid decisions on my part with a little bad luck, but it was a horrible beat and am having a bit of a hard time letting go of it. lol :(

Well, Rocket has reached the summit, hopefully will be back at work soon. Let the forum frenzy begin! :)

I really enjoyed the last survivor games. I'll be watching for sure. Only thing I'd say is please, people who are running the show. Don't have the cameras switch around so much. I know y'all want to show us the action but last time it seemed like something would happen and you'd switch over to it and we'd just see the aftermath, meanwhile something else would be happening somewhere else so you switch and we get aftermath again. Its like chasing your tail and you never really see anything. Just a suggestion. I think y'all do a good job and its fun to watch. Last thing is PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, enforce the rules you created. I won't name names but last time it was lame that a few blatantly camped under a tree for an hour and waited out the worst of it. Piss poor IMO. >:( :P :) Looking foeward for tomorrows show and thanks again.

Best advice I've heard or seen: Always act as if someone has a pair of eyes on you, act accordingly First thing you should do when you spawn in is find a hatchet. Set up one or more tents near the coastline, stock them with matches, compasses, maps, hunting knives, water bottles, binos, etc etc. After Death, its a short trip to your tent and your ready to go without HAVING to go into a dangerous city to supply. Go into Arma2 armory and practice basic vehicle driving, and helo flying. You'll be ready to go the first time you come across someones hidden carpark, landing pad. DONT kill unarmed spawns on the coast, Kill count is only impressive if its raised against real threats.

Good topic! :) A zombie broke my leg in the little dock area northeast of Electro. I crawled a bit towards the hospital and hid in the bush near the beach to log. When I log in today Ive only got 300 - 400 yards or so to crawl through town to get some morphine. Ive got a hatchet so Im hoping it wont be too bad.

I laughed, then I cried. OP, they were dicks. I've never understood killing a fresh spawn, unarmed survivor (bandit skin exceptions of course), especially on the coast near a spawn point.