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From my understanding there won't be a Scenario Editor/Map builder (at least not at first) for security/antihack purposes. The team wants to make more maps, but that's WAY off into the future (we're after the FULL release, not Alpha).

*Crosses fingers* Fedoras and Tommy Guns...Fedoras and Tommy Guns...Fedoras and Tommy Guns...

I agree, day/night should be at a RL ratio as it was when the mod first started, and it should be based where the server is based, or possibly have a few 'reversed' servers. Say theres 10 West Coast (USA) Servers, 5 would be normal (6AM = 6AM), and 5 would be reversed (6PM=6AM). That way for the people who say can only play late at night won't be limited to either a further away and laggy server or never seeing the light of day in game. And of course it lets the 'omg night too dark' crowd to server hop. (As far as I know there won't be any private hive servers, at least at the start, only public hive servers)

When it's done.

STOP STALKING MY STEAM PURCHASES!

Horsemasks confirmed for Standalone!Rickrolling confirmed for Standalone! Kidding but just thought I'd post what he said here.

Orlok has returned! All hail the amazing horse! *knocks over the shrine to the Infinity Turtles and pushes the shrine to Orlok back into position*

Probably not since it's an ALPHA. The pic was more than likely taken by someone who had his/her graphics on low, and then posted the picture to twitter, which probably compressed it further.

WHOOO WHOOOOOOOO! Station in sight! (Keep in mind the human eye at sea level can see 9 miles to the horizon)

I never did play the Arma2 story, but it's been summed up enough times to explain why there's US/NATO equipment in a Former Soviet Backwater. Basically there was a war there that involved the US/NATO and Russian forces. Think Chenarus was moving to be more 'pro west', Russia didn't like that and moved in, the US didn't like that and moved in too, minor civil war ensues with US and Russia backing their respective sides. The US leaves behind a lot of equipment when they 'end' a war rather than ship it back, sometimes they sell it to the locals (government or civilians, usually deMIling it depending on the type of equipment and the buyer), and that's not assuming for blackmarkets or just lost/looted/abandoned equipment. The same would make sense for Russian forces, not to mention being a former Soviet country they were probably 'issued' (read dumped) to Chenarus or even just stored in warehouses.

I'd have to agree with Enforcer, a lot of risk/work for very little reward. Not to mention that it's not that realistic. A factory is for mass production, something we won't really need post Z Day (except maybe bullets). We can get away with small scale production for the most part. Unless you just slaughtered an entire herd of cattle you won't need a factory to preserve all that food, and even then there's a lot of human prepwork required as well. You don't just toss a cow carcass in one end and get steaks out the other. The simpler means of production would be a small workshop (which is probably what one of the points of base building will be in standalone) as opposed to restarting an entire factory. To be honest, a factory would be best for what your base point was, a cool place to have a firefight and collect resources/loot.

Think they already did some mocap for that. Rocket (I think) was beating on a CPR dummy while wearing the pingpong suit.

That's...actually a very good suggestion. I mean after all with degradation we'll have to be careful where we shoot. Our standard headshot might damage that NVG we were killing for. Spray and pray will turn that warm jacket we needed into bandages. I think we will take some item damage from zombies just in the course of their normal attacks, but them beating on/eating the corpse would degrade a lot of things. Sure you might still get something off of your corpse but it'd be a crap shoot.

Speak for yourself sir! I have 1 confirmed kill and 4 unconfirmed kills.

We do have a few factories in there now, I would imagine there would only be more. There should be more loot in factories (say 10 tires on a conveyor belt every restart, a bin of scrap metal, ect). I'm a bit conflicted about 'restarting' factories, I do think they should be in at some point but they should be 'endgame' and complicated/difficult. IE restart one of the generators at the Electro power plant, have one group hold off zombies and bandits there, repair a substation between there and solnicihy, cut off power to the towns between the power plant and the factory, isolate the machinery you need, hold off bandits and zombies at both ends. Can't really just take a Honda generator into a factory and start pumping out tires or various car parts. Where are you getting with the steel from? What about the Rubber? Assuming you found a tanker truck and a factory that had it's own back up generators in the basement, now what? It's very rare for a factory to be fully automated.

Fixed that for you.

Kind of a random post. Honestly who would be giving missions? Rocket wants things to be player driven. They can be player created Events I think set up by clans or groups. Announce it on one of thosue webradio shows, '(Random Hero Clan) ((sorry if that's really your clan)) Is offering medical treatment, food, and warm clothing in exchange for vehicle parts and building supplies, report to the camp outside of Berezino hospital on US156204134791340randomness184127.'

I believe it was said that it would have to be instanced. Goes without saying but the Engine would not support 'minecraft' style building. My speculation is that there would be a few 'hub points' set up around the map where a player with the right tools and materials could build a base entrance, then from there build the different rooms required, everything would be 'underground' to prevent the map from being cluttered up with half finished/abandoned buildings. The other way I could think of them doing it is having it set up like how tents/stashes are. You plop down a 'tunnel entrance' and through both animations (time) and building materials (resources) you build a spider hole, which would act as the entrance. From there there wouldn't be anything visible other than the entrance/spider hole.

I think everything except Anxiety has been confirmed for the standalone, and Anxiety has been confirmed as something Rocket DOESN'T want in Standalone.

Id have to say you'd need to be a total virgin to get that Fresh Off the Beach feeling. Standalone won't recapture that, not completely anyway. It would be more like playing without patch notes, 'What the hell is this bible for?' You'll still have an idea of what you need, where you need to go, and what you have to do. If anything it'll be like your 10th time playing, 'okay I need to find an ax, oh sweet, found a kitchen knife!'

The SA will have different blood types, (think the mod was working on it too). Dog and cat food (or any canned food where the seal is intact) is safe for human consumption. Probably the only thing separating the meaty chunks you feed your dog from what you eat is that they use the CHEAPEST cuts of meat (or the same if you constantly eat Taco Bell). The canning process itself boils/heats the meat and sanitizes both the can and food and cooks it in the process. If you could get an infection from eating dog/cat food, our pets would constantly be getting sick.

Actually I'd say that would affect it more than COD or BF since the studio is in the Czech republic. Even if it was 'Rocket was 5 minuets late today because it was raining'

We can already do that can't we?

I'd go with Commander. There's still vanilla servers out there (mostly the public hives and a couple private hives). I've not played any of the submods but Epoch seams to be the most popular currently.