Bisonman80

same, happened twice. report it in the bug reporting section of hte forum

IDK about you but my character doesn't need to drink every 3 min, or pass out after 30 minute. maybe you need to slow down and not run everywhere. sit and rest for like a minute. drink every once in a while, eat some food. seems to be fine to me...

I'm 100% sure I was running faster than these two fresh spawns I just met, and I was holding the long pointy bayonet in my hands and had a full backpack on.

I just want to thank those of you who have been arguing for reason despite the hoards of people complaining (here and in other communities) and trying to turn mold their impatience or misunderstandings into pseudo-logical arguments claiming irresponsibility, creative dishonesty, etc. on behalf of the Dayz developers and testers. You are heroes in my eyes. Keep on truckin'

I've been lurking for months now, and there's almost always somebody claiming that reddit's /r/dayz community is not the "actual" dayz communty. What is up with this dayz community elitism? Why is it always an "us versus them" issue? Why is it that one community, reddit or dayzmod or another, always seems to bash the other? People here constantly bash reddit for their hivemind effect (which was largely responsible for many mis-understandings of yesterday) and then hypocritically act out of a very similar groupthink. Don't get me wrong, I see the same bullshit on /r/dayz, just from the other perspective. How about instead of pretending that one community is inherently superior to another, we embrace the amazing fact that this game is so popular that it has multiple large communities based around it that all can contribute to lively discussions on content, planned-features, and general game issues? I mean, isn't this what Rocket was getting at in his response to this whole canned food issue? How about instead of this 'loyalty' for one community and animosity towards the 'others', we all realize that we're all fans of the same mod?

I recently started using Open Broadcaster, because it has features I wanted (full-screen game capture) that were only in the premium versions of xsplit and fraps. My only complaint is that right out of the box, so to speak, you don't have a ton of control over where the audio can be pulled from, i.e. i have mumble running and all my buddies chat gets thrown into my streams/recordings and i can't only choose dayz audio. http://obsproject.com/ It's free, open source, and generally awesome. Hasn't impacted my FPS too much, and i'm streaming at compressed 720p video to my twitch.tv account: http://www.twitch.tv/bisonman80/new I like twitch/justin.tv because its free, and it stores all my streams, and even has a nice little highlight feature where you can cut large videos into small ones to show to friends. I can't say much for fraps, but I really dislike xsplit just for dayz streaming. If you just want to record to your HDD, Open Broadcaster or FRAPS seem like the best options. For editing, that's a whole other issue. Lots of different camps on what's the best video editing software. I personally like Adobe software, and have experience with Adobe's Premiere (more for films), and After Effects (more for short vid editing, special effects stuff), But honestly, there's a ton of good software out there for video editing. Take your pick. Once you've captured it with recording software, then edited it to your liking, it's ready to upload to youtube and elsewhere.

Pretty much sums it up. If it makes you feel better, one of the highest rated comments on this issue in reddit acknowledges you guys weren't responsible for any of it.

If this is truly how you feel about it then I'm sure you're fine with the fact that this post: "What a bunch of faggots and the names are retarded" on /r/dayz has 142 upvotes and only 56 downvotes. Language matters, even when it comes to discussing a "silly game". If you wish to engage in a rational discussion, do not call people you disagree with faggots.

Because it's very easy for a random Dayz player to read the update log and ask the question: 'who are these people being referenced in the log'? and with a few clicks after a google search find out that they are forum moderators like yourself. Hence the mis-interpretation of hoards of people coming to the forums wrongly claiming that this is a case of self-gratification. It's much, MUCH rarer that one will actually do the digging through the forums to figure out that this isn't the case. Take a moment and try to see how somebody would perceive all this as an average Dayz player who doesn't hang out regularly on the forums. Put yourself in their shoes. You can get pissed off all you want and how people are mis-interpreting it. The better response is to ask yourself: what can we do as the forum community to better explain the decision-process for updating the mod so there isn't as much misunderstanding in the future. Right now it's very confusing to the vast majority of dayz players, even one's who've been playing for many months.

I will attempt to represent the legitimate and most salient concerns that I have read today (I'm copying and pasting many of these and will attempt to show the original author) YassirX (copied from the 1.7.6 update topic):"Updates are no longer targeted towards the player-base (which still exists), but the small community of this forum." "Guys... this mod is not free, you need Arma 2 to run it. DayZ is an official trademark of Bohemia Interactive now. I spent 20€ for Arma 2 to play this labeled trademark, this is the Alpha of the Standalone. Heck, Bohemia Interactive is even advertising the Arma 2: Collection on Steam to be recommended for "DayZ". Arma 2 only sales because of DayZ. Some experimentation is fine... but this food thing is just totally awkward. Basically I (and many others) already paid 20€ for DayZ. So...Why should I have the forum moderators names on my food in the game?" SoulReaver797 (from reddit): "Eh I do kinda have to agree with the people that are upset by this, it does break immersion, I'd rather see something more realistic, I understand they've put work into the mod and it's good to give these people recognition, but the way it's been done feels like it's been shoved in my face and force fed to me." NewClearWinter (from reddit): "Second, DayZ is a game that's always had a serious atmosphere and is a "serious" type of game. It's supposed to be much more like a simulator in the aspects that it should be as realistic as possible, without comprising gameplay. So silly things such as "Herpy Dooves Canned Muffins" are just odd and are out of place. It takes immersion from the feel of living in a post-apocolyptic wasteland because of a shitty pop culture reference or peoples internet aliases on every piece of food." maxnmike (update forum topic)"My main problem with the new food and drink names is the amount of space and time they take. Instead of being able to look in your backpack inventory and see what you have quickly you now will have to scroll down forever to see what is in there. You already had 6 different kinds of meat to deal with now you add several new food and drink options. The inventory and pack UI is already a pita to deal with and you just made it much worse. SpunkMayo (update forum topic): "I've already stated why, it breaks immersion, and clutters up an already broken inventory system. If they called the M16 "pew pew jesus gun" and the AK47 "IN SOVIET RUSSIA", people would be a little more upset, because those are more "worthwhile" items in the game. It's the little things that make this game good. Putting real-world names in all over the place for your e-peen is just against what this game is about, IMO. While we're at it, why not have Dean riding a lawn mower, and maybe even make all the zombies sound like JackFrags. I mean, they're just sounds, right?"" Bobby Darin (update forum topic): "I don't think it really is a question about ruining immersion, more that it looks quite ridiculous - I am sure there must be other "cooler" ways of thanking everybody who has devoted their FREE time to this mod. Thanks again to everybody involved in keeping this mod updated, even though my comment may seem ungrateful" I am very grateful to those involved with this mod and the forums. I do not think it was a case of self-gratification. However, there doesn't seem to be much of an awareness here on the mod of the fact that the playerbase of this mod is vastly larger than the small community here in the official forum. I'm posting this here because I saw forum moderators asking for real concerns about the changes. The quotations do not necessarily reflect my own personal feelings, but I saw value in them and decided to copypaste them here.

TagMor is way out of line here, but who's to blame really? Without delving into the forums to read the backstory, the update changelog can easily be interpreted as this being a strong case of self-gratification. I had to actually read through 14 pages of the update's forum topic to even get a sense of how this decision was made and carried out in the first place. The fact of the matter is, the vast majority of people who play Dayz don't spend most of their time here on the forums. I myself was a lurker up until today as my badge on the left clearly indicates. Case in point: the top post in /r/dayz right now is: "So the guys working on the Mod now basically just named a bunch of stuff after themselves and their friends?". The reason for this is because, without context, this is how the changelog appears. It's very easy to be mis-interpreted. You can throw blame around all you want, claiming that redditors are ignorant and thankless asshats, but the dev team should take this very seriously. The reputations of those of you working tirelessly on this mod, and the reputation of the mod itself are at stake here. Simply dismissing the complaints will only anger the community more. Diplomacy and transparency are at the heart of this issue more than anything, in my opinion. I'm suddenly reminded why I prefer reddit over forums for pursuing a rational dicussion with actual arguments, despite the hivemind effect I already described above.

Thank you for your serious response to an issue that many dedicated players have real legitimate concerns about. Perhaps a poll is in order? If reddit is any indicator, disagreement over these changes don't seem to be coming from only a small minority. And to those of you dismissing concerns about this creative decision, calling us 'cry-babies' or 'fucking retarded', you're not doing the mod, or the forums, or yourselves any favors by acting as childish as you claim the complainers to be.