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Who else is signing in on Steam every few hours to see if this is stable yet? I have a can of beans which I am willing to share with developers if they release the stable version ASAP! Here it is :beans: , now eat, drink, energize, get healty and give me an update!

Well yes, I am actually already playing it. It is called life! ps: Unfortunately no zombies yet! :P

Rocket launch sounds awesome. Maybe his new game will be RocketZ. Bohemia Interactive is simulation company and DayZ or ARMA will never be another COD clone. In one way I think that going full hardcore simulation path is a great idea and many people who like DayZ and Arma were hardocre simulation fans and hate COD noobies, but the drawback is the a game which is to hardocre will never be as popular to general audience as Call of Duty. Will Bohemia Interactive go to COD path, I dont think so. Well as long as they are an individual company there is no worry about it, if they would be acquired by a larger company than maybe. Only bad thing I can say about BI is that, the story of their games could and should be better, but I still love their games (simulations). If you put the time in playing their games, then you also receive rewards from the simulation. ps: There is a fine line between a hardcore game which is still fun to play and a hardcore game which is just sadistic to play. I just hope that DayZ will be on the fun side when its finished!

11. EAT Eat all the food you see (not rotten)! Rice is one of the best foods you can find (ps: You will lose some of the water, while you eat it!). 12. DRINK Drink at the fountains until you see You are full. 13. HEALTH You have to be fully feed and hydrated, until you start healing process.

Autorun would be nice, however when wehicles arrive it will not be a priority for many players anymore. Why run, when you can drive?

Two things would be nice: - More zombies and even more zombies and then even more zombies, make them a real threat (now is just more of a nussiance, when you receive an axe not even a nussiance anymore) - Transportation (wehicles to be assembled, maybe once a working train cart) ps: I know that both of this are being implemented and it is just a matter of time!

Also having this problem... I am playing on one server and then I got killed. 30 sec to respawn, then you are dead message, etc. Sometimes it helps if you go to a different server, respawn after 30 sec and then go back to the server you wish to play or you were before. I also went to the hardcore server respawned and then when I logged back to regular server I respawned.

Survivor: 89% KOSer - 40% Hero - 31% Bandit - 9% ps: Usually when I arrive in the Airport - DEAD!

All my deaths were on different airports in the building with prison on the ground floor. Lost all kind of loot (from Mosin, SKS to M4,...). In each instance I died because of a slight drop in concentration. Once I died, becuase I saw a new New Zealand military beret, next time i died because of Rocket glasses, etc. So I blame Rocket, not my incompetence.... ;)

Impressive for a game which is not friendly to its players... It just shows that some people (like us) wish for a challenging game with sandbox mechanics. Big pristine :beans: to all the developers! ps: We hope you get 2 million games sold shortly... ps2: More money to developers, faster progress in DayZ SA for us ...

The game is in alpha and vehicles are not yet ready... Once they are, I hope they add ultimate zombie vehicle: or another ulitmate zombie killing machine:

How about a nuke, which must be assambled and then when it is detonated it kills everybody who is logged on server or logs on in 5-10 minutes after detonation .... It should be only 1 item per server, assembled from 10 different parts which are tough to get ... Not a rare item, but a mythical one! :P

I wont bite, but I can give you a mercy shot if you start biting people and become a zombie .... :P

I also think server hopping should have repricussions. It would be a nightmare for server hoppers that if you are in a "team" and everybody from the team would spawn in different locations on the map. However there still should not be any penalty if you server hop only once. Like you log on one server and the server is bad (lags or whatever) and then you change server, because of it. If you do the same thing twice then you and your team should spawn in different location.

We are very close to release, the preparations are happening (changes to name of this website is an obvious clue). I think a public alpha release will be before Christmas this year.

Keep up the good work DayZ team and make us DayZ SA we all are eagerly waiting for!

We do not want a skill system or micro skill system for Dayz standalone... No grinding is needed for this kind of game. You should be as good as you are in the game based on your skills, not the skills of your character. A simple idea which would help beginners and would also teach us is helpful handbooks in a game. An example: Handbook for flying a helicopter This handbook would be like simple in game manual (press that switch, turn the lever, etc.). Picture yourself a simple tutorial. So if you are a novice and it is a first time you see a helicopter, you can still fly it with this handbook as it shows you how. If you are a veteran and you have been playing a game for some time, you can do all the stuff from your head and do not need a handbook to show you how to fly. Also the whole process of flying a helicopter would consist of pressing the switch, turning the levers etc., or in a case of changing a tire, unscrew the bolts, put tire on, screw the bolts, so the whole process would mimic real life as similar as possible, so you can learn of doing different things by playing a game. Handbook is not a requirement for doing any action, only a helpful tool for beginners ... The time of actions and probability of successful action would be the same without the handbook or with the handbook. The similar idea could also be translated into repairing a car, fixing a leg, adjusting the windage and elevation of your scope, repairing a gun,... Many handbooks throughout the zombie infected land. Handbooks for flying a helicopter, windage and elevation would spawn in military zones. Handbooks for healing people, setting bones, giving IV would spawn in hospitals. Fixing a car, fixing a helicopter would spawn in a industrial zones. Changing a tire, making camps, getting meat from animals would spawn in regular houses. The DayZ SA would teach us, how to survive in the wilderness, repair cars, set bones etc. The similar way it taught many of us how to navigate with compass or only just the watch.

My greatest critique is that zombies are too fast! Zombies should be slow, but there should be a ton of them, so damage in numbers not in speed and jumping... Other aspects look fine to me and I understand it is still a work in progress. I am loving that sentence where there will be only four thermal scopes in the world, this will add the feeling of accomplishment when you will find a really good gun like M4A1 (just an example)...

Why should there be a penalty for killing people? F**** it, its the end of the world and all kinds of people survived. Some are good and some are bad... People would probably form a small communities (some of them would be good and others bad)... If people dont like the killings then they should form some kind of police (bounty hunters) within communities and minimize the killing with them and not through the rules of the game. The game should have at least amount of rules as possible, like the sign says: "This is DayZ, this is your story!"

Mr. Kojima is not sure what he wants to do, make games or make animation movies.... Thats way his newer games are becoming more and more animations and less and less games...

There could be something like a text when you are spawning or maybe a journal with a paragraph or two from your previous life in journal in your inventory.... This could be also added to the journal idea which was circulating some time ago... Everybody should write an automatic journal and when you die, other players could pick it up and read your DayZ story.... Maybe something like this: I was an accountant and was doing numbers in Excel when I heard a sound of scream. Looked out of window and there was some bloke biting a hand on the football field. Thought he was just mad and will receive a red card, but then others started biting, screams and cries quickly followed. Panic.... I ran! And now here I am all alone, trying to survive.. Before I ran I also picked up my pack, flashlight and soda quickly, all the things I had in the office. Hope of seeing my daughter and my wife again keeps me going... Something like this would be the first chapter and it would be pre-written all other major entires would be written automatically as you play.

Rocket posted picture on Twitter: Katmandu via Heicopter We should also expect new devblogs. BTW the game will be released in alpha version, Ninjamark explained very good what that means. voddler we all hate the wait, however you know the saying: Good things happen to those who wait!

Yes, please!

BTW news from the Adventure Consultants (about 4 hours ago). 100% summit success for AC Everest team! Golli summited a short time ago and Lukas and Deano have just began their descent. Meanwhile Ang Dorjee, Cason and Rocket are at the top of Triangular Face so will be back at the South Col soon. Everyone else is doing well and making their way down. Fantastic effort to all and CONGRATULATIONS!! Adventure Conslutants Facebook Congrats and have yourself a good can of beans for great successful climb!

A cave is a great idea, so I can build myself a batman cave :P A random cave generator for caves would be an excellent addition. Just imagine, slowly walking into a cave with a few zombie sounds in the distant. The whole experience would be legen wait for it dary, legendary!