HumanBeing25

Why doesn't Dean just tell us already whether the "large scale" testing includes 100+ people or not. It's tiring waiting very slowly for more and more players to join in. By this slow progress, the game won't be out for many months, maybe half a year even.

By this speed they'll reach a full server long after the fall of 2014

Guys, is it just me or has the DayZ testing server "(developers only)" been name changed to DayZ testing server only? http://www.game-monitor.com/dayz_GameServer/37.220.18.218:27016/DayZ_Steam_Testing_Server-.html

Uh-huh, well that explains it then :D

hmm maybe but there're probably better ways to check for that, such as generating "synthetic" events that player would normally create. Afk for 20 hours? Implausible but possible.

HICKS HAS BEEN ON THE DAYZ SERVER FOR FUCKING FOUR HOURS!!! This must mean something! The fucking hell? 20 hours in-game, SmashT? Unpossible! http://www.game-monitor.com/dayz_GameServer/37.220.18.218:27016/DayZ_Steam_Testing_Server-.html

You should come play Killing Floor - it's an old game but some people still play it. They've recently changed the looks of zombies so some of them (those that spit puke) look grandmaish or Helen Thomasish lol

How about Helen Thomas instead?

Too old to go with other adults, too? ;) come join me, I'll go trick and treating with you.

Let's just say it like it is, you're all monitoring this thread and Twitter right now in hope for a devblog. There ain't gonna be one, so stop it >:O

Yes. That is (hopefully) exactly why!

This is exactly the kind of action I didn't want anyone to take!

Good lord, somebody bean'd your post out of ignorance of philosophy. You do realize that a fallacy is ONLY committed if, and only if, the conclusion is reached by fallacious reasoning. For example, arguing "against the man" can only be said to be true if the conclusion in an argument is reached by arguing against the man. That I may call you a prick or something like that is not the ad hominem fallacy - and many don't understand this simple thing. I never made an argument, you idiot fool! I never once made even what can be broadly be called an argument. All I did was make assertions - and no assertion is ever fallacious. An assertion is a (truth statement) proposition and can either be said to be false or true, but never inbetween and never fallacious. But now when you're at it, I might as well make an inductive argument for why you're a total waste of time: P1. People are unlikely to ever change their opinion if they haven't changed their opinion when that opinion is shown to be false. P2. I have shown your opinion to be false. P3. It is a waste of time trying to convince a person who is more likely not to change his opinion than he is likely to change his opinion. P4. You haven't changed your opinion yet. P5, from P1 to P4 and P2 to P3; and P3 hence P5; I am more likely going to waste my time trying to argue with you.

Suck it up and live with it OR die trying to change things--but I don't hope you'll go so far to change the chat system that you'll sacrifice your life and possibly other lives as well--that was my "LOL" joke part. Where's the fallacies? Show me the fallacies and I'll tell you why they're not actually fallacies (because I've taken a class in philosophy, you see).

Good, and so am I. This does remind me of public school when I had to argue to the dumb kids about whether the window could be opened. The majority wanted the windows closed while the radiator was on and it was hot inside, and I had to endure through that because I wasn't a part of the majority. Likewise have I had to endure throughout my childhood and adulthood in other situations. That's life, sometimes you get what you want and others times you have people tremble upon you whit no mercy. Suck it up and live with it, or die trying to change things (don't LOL)

Whatever you say it's just not going to happen. Rocket knows better than doing as you suggest. Btw, when dedicated servers become available then admins will probably have global chat blocked if they share your opinion. Don't force the 90% of players under one "feature" because you're one of the 10%.

That's impossible with the hardware we have today, because the hardware is not fast enough for some algorithms to be useful--they'll slow the game down and make it impossible to play, and other security ways too such as encrypting memory and making memory replicas. Get used to it. Arma 3 DayZ has cheaters (many in fact) and DayZ Standalone will if popular have just as much or more cheaters, who use aimbots, wall"hack" and so on.

Yea, giving the dog a bone is a bad idea, so maybe the owner will make a bone lookalike out of meat.. no. Dean's not going to make an admin chat for non-admins. Not going to happen. Either we get global chat or probably 9/10 of all players are going to be extremely annoyed. Did you play BF3 when the kill-all-players-with-1-button-"hack" was available and many people were using it? Basically the cheater would spam his kill button while everybody was dying and nobody could type "admin" in chat (which directly calls the admin through a server plugin) to get the admin to ban the cheater because the BF3 developers' got shit in their brain and have no idea how to make a useful UI.

Everytime someone makes the stupid suggestion of removing global chat, it makes the people furious who've caught a cheater and need it reported to the admin--but they can't. It's as freaking annoying as when your chat UI is deallocated (i.e., removed) when you die. So anybody camping a spawn and using aimbot will make it 100% impossible to report that aimbotter because some retarded developer thought it was a good idea to deallocate the chat UI EVERY_FREAKING_TIME you die. Global chat is needed for many reasons, such as for newbies who're not familiar with controls, people who want to report exploiters/cheaters, and many other reasons.

I think they're trying to keep the hype alive while they spend another month or week or so desperately trying to get something fixed--but they're freakishly slow. It's as if Dean goes to his office, then stays there drinking coca cola or eating candy from the vending machine, and then says, "Oh, well. Been a tough day at work, better go home." Seriously, what can take so long??? They got the network bubble as they said they needed so then now what's the fucking holdup? Just invite pre-alpha testers and get it over with!!!

Don't use those shitty Reddit memes in here, please. And that picture is a fucking annoyance.

"DayZ Standalone will be our before the end of this year [2012]. It has to be. It's not a, "it has to be," it REALLY has to be out. We must get it out before the end of this year." - Dean Hall in 2012.

You're stealing my generic comment.

Maybe Rocket will reward us for keeping up the hype for a 100 pages?

Make that two weeks. edit: make that a month