Wayze

You dont see the point, because of games like COD the people actually think you could use a riot shield against bullets. Like I said so often now, you gonna be dead in seconds. Riot shields are not made for lethal combat. People play CoD and think you can actually stay behind a riot shield and survive a bullet. Do that in real life and you are dead in seconds. Riot shield are not for protecting from bullets, they are used in demonstations and police if the weapons are not high powered. And if you actually want a riot shield which is bullet proof against weapons you need a really heavy one. You have to hold it in both arms so you cannot hold it on one hand and on the other a weapon. Unrealistic. And if someone shoots you while you are holding a riot shield you will be knocked back because the force of a bullet is so immens you could even lose the shield from your hand. Like I said in real life you never use freakin riot shields for military operation because you will die if you do so. They are not bulletproof like I said. And even if they were the impact would be to strong to hold the shield.

It is no Call of Duty, if you are alone walking with a riot shield you are screwed. If you want a bulletproof shield it has to be a heavy one made of steel or something. Normal riot shield are not even bulletproof, some are but only against low velocity like pistoles or shotguns. Second problem is that if you are shot you will probably fall down anyway because the bullet is very, very fast. I don't think you could implement them good.

This was removed because it was really annoying. + the first who raises the weapon wins, so you dont even want to lower your gun You got your weapon lowered and you see a bandit, what happens? You are dead. Noone will run around with a lowered weapon.

Both things you can do in the mod.

Better take the chances to break something than to die. And your second argument is even a better example for pro bandit. Weapons and ammo are very rare so you dont want to lose it. And on the other side if a player has a weapon which is really rare you want to have this weapon. And I think banditery is pretty much something like a domino effect. Look, lets say there are 1/20 who want to play as bandits from the beginning. They betray people etc. every single person they betray is going to be very paranoid, they will kill other survivors to survive. The people who get killed will do the same... after a few weeks or months it could change the gameplay immensly. So 1 guy can cause huge changes to the game. I dont think that anything can change that and I dont think it should be change. Like u said everything will be rare, you will maybe kill other players just for food or water. What if there is one can of food and the other guy does not want to give it to you, but you need it to surivive. What do you do? You kill him. The same with medicine, kill to survive.

I am not sure but does Dean want to reduce Bandits with the new medical system? I heard you have to trade to survive, or more it is really hard to survive alone. But why should I trade if I can just kill him? Why should I risk it? Shoot him, take the medicin and I am good to go.

Ok, if the game is not coming this month I gonna be really pissed and frustrated. ^^

And most important, if you were shot by someone your aim should be dramaticly decreased. You should not be able to hold your weapon perfectly straight after being shot in the chest.

WarZ looked fantastic too.

Maybe, but that was not the point. So even Blizzard is not capable of launching an alpha without problems, and Dean thinks he will just do it like that? But ok, let's say everything goes well, the biggest problem is still there: Dean wants to get feedback from the hardcore players, but how should he manage this if the alpha will be played by hundred of thousands, maybe millions? And why is he doing this, if 50% of the potential buyers will buy the alpha Dean would make much loss (in terms on money). I just don't understand him...

Yes, but you have to keep in mind that this is no launch, it is just the start of the alpha. And I am pretty sure Blizzard or anyone else this huge hadn't any problems with that, probably because they limited the amount of players. And like I asked before, is the system with servers the same before? If there are 10-20 servers at the beginning, how will you even manage to get 5000 people on it?

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to know what will happen. First week DayZ SA will be unplayable.

I know, and like I said I think it is a huge mistake. In my opinion it's a bit naiv to think he could manage what other expirienced MMO devoloper (arenanet) could not. How will it even run with the servers? Is it like in the mod where everyone has to buy its own?

I think Dean is clearly underrastimating the DayZ community. He wants just the DayZ core gamer to play the Alpha, but I can garantee that after 2-3 DayZ they gonna be a hell of a lot more than 50.000 players. 1. Every gaming news site will report about the beginning of the dayz alpha, they will also say it is better to buy it now because the price is low 2. Dozens of youtubers like Frankie or JackFrags will post about the DayZ Alpha, and in the buisness of youtube the faster you post the better So that means that in the first 5 dayz they gonna be probably more then 500.000 people aware of DayZ Standalone (just with youtube) and like 2 Million other players with other medias (I actually think there will be way more people). But lets say there are 1 Million people aware of DayZ SA at day 2. Let's say 50% of them played DayZ before, let's say all of then know that the alpha is way cheaper to buy than the finished version. So there will be like 100.000-200.000 people at day 2 who bought the SA.(probably way more) Of course they want to test it. Think about it, how should Dean manage 500.000 people at day 5 who all want to play DayZ SA? I bet there will be a disaster, server crashes etc. In my opinion Dean is forced to limit the DayZ SA access, at least of the first 1-2 weeks. If he does not... well he will learn from his mistake.

Disabled shadow and gained maybe 1-2FPS. Can't disable HDR quality, normal is the lowest.

Launchparamters: -cpucount=4 -maxMem=2047 -world=chernarus -skipIntro -nosplash -noPause ~20 players

My system spec: CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Processor 3.40 GHz RAM: 8GB 64.bit OS GPU AMD Radeon 6800 I got DayZ on lowest settings and it is not even getting 60FPS. Sometimes I got like 40 (when there are 10-20 players on the server) and in Citys 23-27. Is that normal?

Thanks man it's working now! Awesome, it's running on 60 FPS and I got killed by a guy with a Sniperrifle :D

What the hell? Is the alpha out yet?!

I didn't mean reasonable, but couldn't find another word for it. Probably "understanding" would fit better.

Great response! I feel like being discriminated for my bad english. ^^

Would be really nice if you could actually tell us about the logistical and technical issues they work on. Maybe after you tell us we could be more reasonable.

I understand that Dean does not want us to tell the magical week when DayZ is supposed to release. He does not want to get too much players for the start, it would most likely overload the servers. But he told us all he wants to be transparent. And if he really wants to be absolutly transparent, then he has to tell us that magical week, no matter if it's just a guess or a final release week. Transparency can not be hold up with secrets.

I would buy the Standalone right now for 50€ or more. I just wanna finally play it and tell my opinion about it. I don't care how much bugged it is, I played the DayZ Mod at the first few months when it was really buggy. Guys, got some questions. I got like 40-60FPS and 25-30 when I am in a big city. (dayz mod) Will DayZ SA run at 60FPS? And will the death delay be fixed? In DayZ mod it's like shooting a person and he has 2-3 seconds to shoot back like some superman who is bulletproof. These two things and the SA is ready to play for me. :)

Well, you could ask him what he meant with the release date, because it's driving some people nuts as you see. ^^