The Jackall

So this is just my opinion on what makes DAYZ so great and why the standalone will leave us feeling empty, and why more time should be spend getting DAYZ over on the Arma 3 engine. 1. Real guns. This I think this is one of the top attraction of the game for me. I love calling a Glock G17 a Glock G17 and not a watered down pistol to save some polygons. I love looking at the textures of my gun and feel like a am running around with a real gun in my hand. With the standalone they are trying to make guns look simple so they are better for online play and don’t kill the servers with data. This to me will take a big hit out from the standard DAYZ we know and love. In Arma 3 the guns are just amazing, and I personally haven’t played a game with such realistic guns in it. The sound the guns produce are simply breath taking. 2. Survival. I love taking one or two friends and we just survive with our hatchet, matches, skinning knife, water bottle with empty can to cook the water. I think some people enjoy the rush of the kill (pvp) and others love surviving with the bare minimum. They should have added some predatory animals like lions which you have to stalk in order to kill. Maybe even have tracking skills, so you can follow tracks of people and animals. Anyway imagine having to hunt certain animals to make gun straps, amo packs and backpacks? 3. Realism. Another major hit with the Arma engine is that everything is realistic. I don’t give a shit about the shoes that I wear and that this will impact my health if I decided to run bare feet. In Africa there are tribes called “Boesmans” that live of the Kalahari Desert and they only run bare feet. Your feet adapts and goes hard eventually after running with no shoes. Stop putting in shit that will spoil the game. Maybe add army boots that will make less noise and running shoes that boost your running speed. This way when you in attack mode (PVP) you wear your amry boots, and when you running across vast lands you wear your running shoes. In fact just drop the shoe thing its silly. 4. Loot. First of all what is so cool about running around with a Motorbike helmet? Rather give me an hat, balaclava, or army helmet so I can be slightly protected from headshots, cold and the sun. And maybe add some spray or marking system so you can recognise your friends or clan members. No I don’t want a radio in the game and I think it’s a silly idea. Who will even listen to the piece of shit as it will only give away your position. 5. Roles. The major hit of the game is that everyone starts of the same. You’re a nothing until you can find some gear. Other games forces you to select a role whereas Dayz putts you as close to being human as possible. Reward players with gear if they do select a role which they prefer playing. Some people might prefer being bandits and should get clothing unlocks for this. Some might prefer being a Dr and they should get their own clothing unlocked for this. Others might prefer the survival aspect of the game and should maybe get Ranger outfits. Imagine we get marines, Dr’s, special forces, rangers, looters and spy’s. Anyway my rant is this. I think once the standalone gets released, it will die a slow death and people who are working on Arma 3 Dayz (Zoombies) will benefit more from people coming back, lacking the taste Arma 2 Dayz left in their mouths for years to come.

Hi Guys. I have had shit luck when hiding behind trees and guys are firing at me. I get killed 9/10 times. Is there any specific way to hide behind these trees when someone is firing at you? I find that trees are just not viable for cover at all and it doesn't matter which tree I pick. I always pick the biggest tree when hiding from fire, or scouting, and it doesn't seem to matter how big the tree is. If a guy stands oppsite me, he always gets me.

So i decided to download the DayZero 1.0 mod this weekend. One thing i have to say is that the Standalone got some competition and on release it will be compared to this. I think the benchmark has been set. The game is really amazing and actually brings you back to when you first started playing Dayz. Performance is amazing, the loading screens, menus, new clothes and guns just feel brilliant. I dont know how the guys managed to take such a buggy engine and iron out most of the wrinkles. The game is so good i am actually willing to pay for it :) Just want to congrats the guys that developed the mod, and say well done.

You are a pussy who cant play the game cus its to hard :thumbsup:

i have to agree and i dont mind getting my items damaged if a zed hits me. The point is to avoid them and run like a mother fucker when you see them. Imagine having a M4A1 and you just picked up a Red dot scope for it, you encounter some zeds in town while looking for food and one zed smackes your gun and your scope is broken.....I can live with that and it will make us more afraid of engaging or testing the zeds hit range.

take that yellow shirt and shoot it....outcome ghillie shirt :)

good. i like the damaged looked of items. my question is can you shoot items on the floor to get them looking all warn. i would shoot up my own guilli suit :D

DeathStroke, on 08 Sept 2013 - 01:52 AM, said: You commented on DeathStrokes post. And Dean did say in the video that "ALL ITEMS" including guns will deteriorate. I think its not a bad idea, but it has to be after a couple hundred rounds and not after one shot.

this does seem extreme and nothing close to real life, and yes i like to shoot on site too. Guns are built tough and are not made from fucking wood. How about degrading after 200 rounds or so and needing a cleaning kit to get it back into shape.

after getting all the gear i want, my goal is to take my teamies and take out other teams. We end up having huge 3-4 hour battles. After a battle like that you end up with nothing, or hole team geared up with guillis and rare snipers rifles.

fuck dem trees and dem hackers.

i never hide behind pine trees when getting fired at. I am talking about maple/oak trees. I thought the guys hack with the way they shoot me behind them. To putt it plaint, the trees are fucking useless and all you need to do is spray at the tree and you will break the guys legs....in order to finish him off.

Fucking A

i have to agree. the american servers who give these package deals are fucking expensive, and i wont pay $1 towards it. I don't think the average player (under 18s) can afford them anyway. Now if you go look at the current servers, there are not that many players who do play in those reserved slots anyway. You might find one or two slots taken on some of those servers and most don't even have any in them. I think Fraggie is generalising, and he meant that they made money (even if it is a small amount) from something according to him, they shouldn't have made anything from.

yea Kudos to him and BIS dude. Sure hope the SA will run better and smoother than any of the mods. From what i have seen being done by the Dayzero guys, is that the Arma 2 engine is still next gen and can look very good if not amazing if tweaked correctly (running the game with X2 670 GTX's) :). This gives me great hope for the SA.

i would still like to know if Dean was sitting in BI when working on the mod why were they not allowed to edit the code like the Dayzero guys did? It doesn't make sense dude. If i recall Dean actually had comments where he said it was impossible. The things he said was impossible the Dayzero team got right.

i dont like it. Basically it means when you in a battle you can expect the guy back at his body in 1min flat. is this patch ever going to be released? I mean why is it taking so fucking long when it was submitted for review in July. At this rate we wont get the patch this year so why are we even bitching about the spawns.

lol he is a 16 year old kiddie, explains it.

regardless..the game feels closer to something out of a box than vanilla did, and kudos to the developers for adding so much detail into the game. We know Dayz vanilla started it all and this is Dean's idea of a great game, but do you see updates for Dayz or anything close to what these guys manage to do? I personally dont give a fuck if they tweaked the engine or did something they weren't supposed to do. The point is they made something we were craving since Dayz was launched, they fixed the shit bugs that made us rage at the game and gave us eye candy which Arma2 lacked.

your a dumb ass, and you think you speaking to a m8 where she is actually a girl. you got some issues.

not a bad idea. DayJ (Day Jurassic Park)

great post sir, you also have my beans. Would love to read more of your story's, so keep them coming.

1. No the performance is the same. I see more EU guys playing on the US servers as they find open slots there. The content in game are exactly the same on EU and US. 2. Yes only the US have done this and apparently have done this before Dayzero.

BI doesn't care, as these guys made a mod which they encourage. They not forcing anyone to pay nore do they advertise on their website. They have a donation page for people like me who actually want to give something back for their time and effort in making something i really enjoy. They did something that vanilla couldnt get right, wright better code, and design a better game in general. These guys still show real respect towards Dayz and you can see it in the design.

Tommes like i mentioned early in the thread, Dean was silly to drop vanilla and could have made some early money from his idea if he followed their path. He prob got a nice kickback from BI for all the game sales and said screw the mod. As i see it nobody out there has put so much effort and time into any of the mods (we dont even have 1.7.8 released yet after two months of waiting) and these guys should be credited and if someone wants to donate, let them. Hopefully the funding these guys do get will get them a bigger crew so they can keep on developing and give the standalone a run for its money. Like Fraggle said, the mod will live on after the standalone as not everyone will love what is done on the standalone.