Max Planck

Your silly argument gave me an idea: Someone (not me) should set up a dueling server to sort out disagreements that have gone askew. The server would have two slots open and the players would spawn with matchlock pistols and silly hats about 20 paces apart. The umpire counts down and 'Bam!', argument settled. I think this could be a great help in the cheat/server report forums as well.

COD and Halo are made by American companies for an American audience. Arma/Dayz is made/being made by a Czech company and is not a mainstream game. Demanding that products made in other countries should be changed/localized for the American consumer is just the usual cultural imperialism and we can do without that this time.

Switzerland. But yeah, having guns in every building is another good reason not to locate the game in the US. Firearms should be valuable and hard to come by, that's why the starting pistol was taken away. Because DayZ is a survival game, not Counter Strike on a larger map.

How much are you guys shooting? Because I hardly ever fire anything other than a pistol outside of the rare occurance when I have a non-peaceful encounter with another player. Running around in the woods all day, and night, long would turn anyone's feet black and purple though.

If servers can't opt out of 3rd person I'm going to throw a goddamn tantrum. If you spot another survivor you shouldn't have to worry about whether he can see you through his magical invisible eyes in the back of his head.

Eh... So which european countries do you consider enemies? Can I expect a drone attack soon, should I duck and cover? ^^

I just hope it will remain a server setting, that way everybody can have it their way. What is your source on this? You sound fairly confident. You can! Come over to BMRF#2, it's pretty good if you can ignore the yadda-yadda in side.

To me it sounds like there won't be crosshairs in the third person, so people will have to go into the options to change back, or just aim down the sights. It it's true, it would really ruin the game for me.

A horse is really just a lower tier bicycle.

Q: Will default aiming stances change so you don't look so threatening when approaching players? A: Yes, there is going to be a lot of work done to make sure you walk around with your weapon lowered or on your back or something like that and because of some of the changes to how first/third person works (you aren't going to be able to change between them as quickly as you can now. You're going have to go into your menu to change it) it means if you actually want to shoot someone (you now don't have a cross hair), your going to actually have to look down the scope at someone or look down the iron sights so yes, I think it's a key focus. This has me worried. It sounds to me like crosshairs and third person is going to be less optional than it is now. It sounds like it will be the default mode of playing. I really hope there will be servers where these things are disabled. Having a glowing crosshair in the middle of the screen does not at all help with the immersion from my point of view.

Let's not get Rocket started on any more animals, he spent enough time playing with those no-show dogs already.

Nice work smasht, thanks for taking the time to do it.

I don't know, the second one to the left of Rocket kinda looks like Fraggle.

Nope, not me. My ingame name is 'Max Planck' and I play on BMRF only. I'm still miffed that you would even think about shooting me though. Now go play Stalker.

You, my friend, need to go play Stalker. Like, right now. EDIT: If you are busy, just start with the 3rd one. It's the most open one and also the best.

Yes, yes it is. You have won a prize.

As do I. That face fits the picture just right. So happy, not a care in the world. Just mowing, mowing, mowing.

Nah, just more bloody tin cans. Or ammo for a gun I'll never find.

Newsflash honey, most people aren't americans.

Uhh... Can't you see all the shadows??

Yeah Rocket, you never post any screens. Make with the info, you reclusive hermit you.

Thanks for the information Harry, and how is your lovely wife Mrs Palms?

Having zeds of both genders would help some of us a lot with the immersion. ^^ edit: RhaAaARGH! I'm a necrophiliac, and I'm offended! We have feelings too, you know.

"We are exploring spawning all zombies and loot at the start of server initialization, again a huge departure from the previous mechanism. This solves many design and technical issues with the spawning and respawning of equipment, such as being able to metagame by telling whether players are in a village by seeing zombie’s have spawned." I guess this would work if the server was restarted on a fairly regular basis.

We're finding loot in cars now? I like this, I like it a lot. EDIT: Also: Comparison screenshot. It's good.