Firewarrior64

Wow, I thought this thread would be dead o_o Anyways, thanks Vaylt for your helpful answer. You have my beans. You can wait. That doesn't mean that the rest of the community can wait 2 years, too. I am not someone who is spamming "ReLeaSe da fuck*ng gaMe U moRonS" but to be honest, I'm pretty impatient. And I'd say most of the community members don't want a completely bugged and rushed first release, but don't want to wait until it gets released in a completely finished state (because then it'll take as long as Half-Life 3). Furthermore, the devs want to release it as an alpha on purpose- to fund development towards the final product. If they want to release it as a finished product, they might not even have enough money to do so.

Just ask there: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/99986-need-medical-assistance-find-a-medic-here/ You will get help faster than in the trading section and you can keep your weapons.

I think they already added (or are going to add) zombie hunger and lifecycles, so when they get really hungry, they start searching for players instead of waiting until someone comes into the town.

I already know that closed means... well, closed. I just thought that the thing they call 'public alpha' would just be 'alpha for everyone who presses f5 all day'. Thanks everyone :D

Great. I asked whether it would be 150, 50000 or unlimited keys and now I have one answer saying 150 keys (inception), one answer saying 50,000 keys (Darryl Dixon) and one answer saying unlimited keys (Fluxley)... Thanks to everyone who answered though :D

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Beans for you. They really should have some disadvantages, for example overheating you after being in the sun too long with it.

When I heard of the addition of Utes to the DayZ map, I thought that boats and ships would finally get more use. But the boats which are in the game don't have much inventory slots, so after looting utes you might not be able to store all your loot. Then I thought: Why couldn't you bring your car (or even Ural) to the island? There are no amphibious vehicles in vanilla DayZ, so why not split it up? Car ferries could be used to store your loot and just use them as boats, but you could also put your precious car on there to load even more loot- and also Utes itself isn't small, so a vehicle could make sense to use there. What's your opinion on this? Btw, I don't mean huge ocean ferries but smaller ones like this:

That's what makes them balanced. If you are far enough from the coast, bullets can't hit you and people would either not even try to get there or die from cold while trying to swim to your boat. If someone has another boat or a helicopter, you would be screwed though. And flying the waters looking for people that think they're safe wouldn't make sence in my opinion, because it would be just one or two ferries per server...

Indeed. I was already wondering about how it would be possible to notice lack of food or water without a hud when they announced to remove the hud. But when Matt said that they would give the feedback in TEXT FORM (see 3:50 in the video) I facepalmed. I imagine a text appearing on the screen saying 'you are hungry' or, even worse: 'I should eat something'. The hud was a good solution, you should keep it. You have my beans. The main thing that makes you better than the average civilian is that you are immune. Why do you think there are military zombies? When they were soldiers, they were probably better then you. But now they are dead or zombies, because they weren't immune. Other than that, I think the animations should be made more civilian-like. It doesn't have to affect gameplay but just show wether the survivor is new or has been handling guns for a long time in his life. Still, just the animations, nothing that should affect your actual aim.

As Death Dealer said, the ferries wouldn't even be big enough for helicopters. Secondly, I'm praying that they don't add .50 cal turrets. I just want them to be civil ferries to just transport cars and people. I think floating bases would be a pretty cool way to play... Build a tent and a campfire and put your car there, drive to the edge of the map and eat some beans while watching the sunset.

Standalone is based on the ToH engine which is based on the ArmA 2 engine which means that it most likely has bullet drop. For all weapons.

I think that the take on helicopters system would be perfect for both cars and helicopters. You CAN fly them just with your keyboard and your mouse, so the average player could still use them to get from point A to point B. For more advanced stuff like assaulting Elektro you would need an experienced pilot with a joystick.

THIS IS SPAR-- okay, it's overused.... For me, DayZ has not 'ruined' gaming... It cured me ^^ I used to be addicted to TF2 and Minecraft before DayZ came (500 hours TF2, 3500 hours minecraft). Now I only play DayZ anymore (and a little bit of ArmA 3) and that's all I need. It's still fun for me but I'm 'cured' of my addictions to other games. I play less games in general, and DayZ taught me patience and that games don't always have to be action all the time. Thank you, rocket <3

I think it's actually a pretty good start. If you are new to fps, you can use simple logic and do whatever you would do in reallife- that's what you need to do in DayZ. If you are used to FPS, you tend to always reload and not think about the fact that you still have half-empty magazines. When I was new to FPS, I didn't reload because I thought I'd throw the magazine away and waste ammo- now I always have to force myself not to reload in DayZ to not have a half-empty magazine in my inventory when I need a full one. Things like boiling water are also simple reallife logic which you might forget if you play other FPS often.

No, all weapons will be hitscan. We will also have double jumps and laser rocket launchers. [/sarcasm]

lol yeah, I agree. I really enjoyed ArmA2 helicopters at first, but once I figured out how to fly them it got boring. It's even worse in ArmA3, where they react wayyy to fast. TOH however is still fun for me because it's a little bit of a challenge. Keeping it in the air isn't hard, but landing is. Hopefully the noobs won't even be able to start it up so players who can actually use it can find the helicopter and fly- It's just stupid that a noob can find a helicopter, repair it, fly it, crash it and make the other people on the server wait until it respawns, taking their chance to use it properly.

It isn't that hard... you just need to learn the steps, that's it. I got the TOH demo and could do it after just one failure. If people don't want to buy TOH or the demo, you can watch the tutorial online- just as you did. I could land my first time without crashing :P I tried it in ArmA2 free. I just was very careful because everyone said that they would be so hard to fly- and I didn't crash :D (I did crash trying to take off again though :D) I tried it in TOH demo and could fly them good enough to not crash after just an hour (with auto-hover though). It's not like it would be a hardcore simulation. Oh, and I know that this thread is pretty old, but I don't think the topic is dead. Of course the mods may feel free to lock it if they think it's no longer needed.

What will the helicopter system be like? Will there be the automatic engine starting and auto-hover? Or will those get removed to make flying helicopters harder/more realistic?

So if they included this setting the game would look like minecraft... I doubt that would bring a lot of people to the game.

I don't think Kamenka is a bad spawn. In my opinion it's the best spawn you can get. I would actually kill myself when I spawn at Cherno or Elektro because I hate those PvP hotspots (So no need to kill myself, I will get killed there by someone else anyways). I just want some food and water (and maybe a winchester) to start my way up. I hate the situation of elektro where you spawn with nothing and are forced into a pvp hotspot- getting out with the best gear or don't getting out at all is stupid at the beginning of the game. NWAF is 'all or nothing', too, but there you can decide when you will risk it and equip yourself with gear out of many smaller towns- not being thrown into a pvp center immediately.

But yeah, I'd love them, too. Soulless gas mask bandit... The last thing you hear in the world is the cruel breath... I don't really like the idea of being able to undress to the underwear either- if female survivors did that, all pervs on that server (so almost everyone) would chase her to get closer view on the textures... heck no. You should only be able to take your clothing off if you have other clothing available for changing clothes. (and then clothing should just switch instantly, without seeing the underwear)

Dangit, double post...

If they are still adding gas masks, that's the only thing that matters... But seriously, there shouldn't be any kind of very or cool-looking clothes like military uniforms, because them people will start killing each other for those. Ghillie suits are a different thing though, I think of them as sniping equipment.

Will all these questions ever be answered?