Etherimp

Nah. He's like 14.. Watch one of his youtube videos. He also claimed to have like a 200 IQ once..

Because the core gameplay ISN'T PVP, dolt. If you think the core gameplay of DayZ is PVP then you've clearly never played a real competitive game. Repeating the same ill-informed horse-shit over and over again doesn't get you any closer to being "right", it just makes you look dense.

"Majority" - "Minority" - "Cater" Majority = MOST people.. DayZ is not for MOST people. It has a specific draw. MOST people like Candy Crush. MOST people don't play hardcore survival games. MOST people who want to play a PVP First Person Shooter are going to download CS:GO and play that.. Or maybe BF4... Or maybe COD... Or maybe ARMAIII if they are more for realism. If they like zombies, maybe they'll play breaking point. Minority = A small percentage of... 2.5 million players is a SMALL percentage of the market. A SMALL percentage of the market was drawn to what DayZ has always said it was about.. DayZ never advertised itself as a competitive PVP First person shooter. Cater = To placate ... If you want a company to PLACATE and CATER to the MAJORITY then maybe you should go to the Activision or EA forums. I'm quite happy with being in the MINORITY. Nobody is forcing you to play DayZ .. You either like it, or you don't.. Honestly the gun-play and movement in this game is clunky and overall shit compared to something as crisp and clean as CS or anything from the Battlefield franchise.. It's even worse than ARMA. If PVP is what this game is about then it does it poorly by comparison to all other games. If you want a good PVP game, GO PLAY SOMETHING ELSE. I'm not saying this as an insult.. I really mean it. You seem bitter towards the community. You're calling people "crafting nerds" and saying that the "minority" is going to ruin the game.. Guess what buddy? We're not the fucking minority of the DayZ community. The MAJORITY of the DayZ community wants hunting, camping, crafting, base building, vehicles, player interactions, heroes, bandits, survivors. A wise man once told me, "If you ever find yourself on the side of the majority, you should start reevaluating your opinions." Have you ever considered the possibility that maybe this game just isn't for you? Maybe you'd have more fun playing something else. There's nothing wrong with that... But if you do insist on sticking around and playing DayZ then please do us all a favor and shut up about KOS, PVP, and Banditry.. You're not getting any closer to convincing the world at large that you're some kind of Billy Badass. Have you ever considered that maybe the game isn't ALL about PVP? Maybe you've just MISSED THE POINT of the game? Not trying to sound holier than thou here...or pretentious, by any means.. But honestly, I don't see how you can look at a game like DayZ and say "This is a PVP game"...Yes, there *IS* PVP in the game, but a few facts for you 1. There is NO competitive scene. 2. There are NO rankings 3. There is NO kill/death counter 4. There are NO meaningful statistics 5. There is NO end-game 6. There's VERY LITTLE in-game reward for killing other players. 7. The actual PVP itself is often very buggy and random. 8. There are no in game "groups" or "clans" (IE - Squads/Guilds/Clans/Teams/factions that you can affiliate with in game.. such as in WoW, League of Legends, or in FPS games that track clan stats or have league matches) 9. There's no real advantage to being a part of a "clan" 10. You can't even see the name of the person who killed you, and often cannot see who you killed.. So there's no real "bragging rights" 11. There's no way for me to compare my ability against yours. 12. There's no way to "LOSE".. Only to die.. And that's just a matter of regearing 13. There are no exclusive offers/advantages for anyone who kills more, dies less, or somehow survives the longest.. There's no measuring stick.. 14. There is no "league" of DayZ or any real way to have a tournament 15. The majority of the time, if you kill someone they weren't even aware of your existence and had no real way to defend themselves. See, to me, when I think about PVP.. I think about 1. Counter-Strike, Quake, Doom, UT, BF, where there is a competitive scene and you could potentially go to LAN tournaments and test your skills versus other players/teams. 2. World of Warcraft, or other MMO's where you have Guilds that compete for PVE notoriety or PVP ratings, that usually comes with exclusive rewards.. 3. MOBA's and RTS's, where again, there's a competitive scene. If there's no competitive scene, you can't compare yourself to others to see how well/poorly you do and there's no bragging rights, there's no money to be made on LAN and there's no advantage to doing "better" or "worse" than anyone.. The experience you make for yourself is the only reward. If you feel "rewarded" by shooting people in the back or sniping someone from 400 meters who wasn't even aware of your presence, I would say you have some serious self-esteem issues, but I would also say "good for you.. then enjoy that aspect of the game for what it is." But if that's ALL you're doing, then you're missing out on what the MAJORITY of the rest of this community seems to understand... DayZ is unique for the tense interactions and situations.. For the bandits which menace notorious areas such as Elektro and Berezino.. The Cherno snipers that have everyone looking over their backs.. The crushing feeling of losing all of your gear and your 2 week old character because you randomly came across someone by a water-pump in the Western part of the map... The rare heroes which will come running to a newbies rescue, blood bagging them and sending them away with beans and maybe a decent weapon.. The tension of having a squad of guys at NWAF and being afraid that your whole "team" is going to get wiped by an even bigger (or just sneakier) squad of guys who's just as afraid as you are.. The hilarious player interactions that happen on the coast.. etc...etc..etc. If you're just here to shoot people, you're here for the wrong fucking reasons.

Whatever rumors you heard are complete bullshit. SKS has never had LRS, unless it was hacked somehow.

Picked up 2 different magnums tonight and neither fired, but both showed as "Pristine".. Also, anyone notice how if you patch your cloths while you're wearing them, it works but shows no change in the clothing until after you remove it and put it back on?

Pistol was definitely "Pristine".. i dropped it and picked it back up, loaded it and unloaded it.. Didn't seem to matter. So either the pistol itself is broken or the quality indicators are.

Basically this.. if defense is too easy and attack is too hard, then it's imbalanced... if it takes 10 hours to create a functioning base that can be destroyed in 5 minutes, then it's not worth it to build a base. The time invested in creating a base should be equal or slightly less than the time required to procure the goods to break in and execute the break in. If it takes you 10 hours to create a base, it should take someone 12 or so hours to get everything together, find your base, and break in.. (just as an example.. Don't take that as proposing exact numbers.)

I think there will be and should be a combination of different skills that you will learn and pick up on... 1. Basic survival skills, you should have to apply common sense and learn what works and doesn't work through trial and error.. Same with loot areas, etc.. Nothing should be "spelled out" for you within the game itself. Certain things, like tearing your shirt into rags just come with experience and they're pretty obvious, but it may take a life or two for a very new beginner to figure it out.. Nothing wrong with that. 2. More advanced information like where to find the BEST loot and how to procure more high-end gear and more advanced survival techniques will either come with experience, or through a tutorial video.. 3. The deep mechanics of the game just come with experience. 4. Teamplay tactics and strategy will obviously come with experience and possibly through tutorials, etc. DayZ (and most video games that I enjoy for that matter) are quite a bit like Billards, Chess, Bowling, Poker, etc.. They're games of skill. Easy to learn, difficult to master. That should be what most game developers strive for in game design. (After all, the games I listed have survived for a LONG time..)

Uhm.. There is no basket weaving in DayZ. Please stop making stupid arguments that make no sense. Everyone knows you're up your own ass about being a badass PvP kos bandit who thinks this game is a death match. And for some people that is the game and nobody is trying to take that away from you. Nobody is saying you have to craft anything and nobody is saying you cant be a one dimensional killing machine. We are just saying that's not what makes this game different, special, interesting or marketable. There are better PvP fps games out there. Why are you wasting your time with DayZ if that's what appeals to you? Just stop trying to make the game what you want it to be and accept it for what it is. The game you want already exist - its called ArmaIII.

1. PVP and crafting are not mutually exclusive.. You can PVP and still craft and vice versa. 2. 1 word: Minecraft. One of the most popular indie games of all time, and is 90% about crafting.. Yeah, nobody wants to craft! PSsshh.. 3. What makes this game special/different is player interactions.. Do an experiment -Make a YouTube video of nothing but PVP in DayZ -Make a YouTube video of nothing but funny/interesting player interactions in DayZ. The player interactions video will get more views, hands down.. You can't get that same experience from other First Person Shooters on the market, but you can get PVP from those games.. SO if you love PVP so much, go play Battlefield4? Shit, go play ARMAIII.

Yes.

Teleporting/speed hack is not a game glitch, it's a hack. Infinite ammo is not a game glitch, it's a hack. ESP is not a game glitch, it's a hack. A hack = A 3rd party program either purchased from a hack site, programmed by ones-self, or shared amongst a group of friends or within a community which alters/changes the mechanics for the player using them, to gain an advantage or otherwise manipulate the mechanics of the game. And don't kid yourselves... Hackers go everywhere. They go to the middle of nowhere to kill you if you think you're safe. They go to hardcore servers. They go to low-pop servers. There was a teleporting hacker on a server with 5 population the other day. Yes, they GENERALLY go to high pop servers and GENERALLY hang around high population areas...but not always.

Unfortunately, that's not even a hacker.. That's just someone glitching into walls.

loollllll... lol.. haha.. This game isn't a pvp deathmatch, kos nerd. Go play Quake, UT, COD, CS, etc.. Not the same game.

Prob didn't read your post. Was on my phone at the time.

That video was shot from my friends perspective, but as far as I understand it could have been the bug or the hacker, nobody really knows.. I don't think it's a new cheat, I just think people are seeing more of what the cheats can do exactly.

The real shitty thing is that a. Hackers can make your character do things... I saw one guy being forced to drink his canteen while the hacker took off all his cloths b. You don't have to press "G" to toss your weapon.. It's a bug where if you roll too much or press too many buttons while rolling (?) it just automatically tosses your weapon... sometimes the weapon disappears sometimes not.

This player was invisible on my screen after we engaged him, but not invisible to my friend.. I was not 100% sure if it was something he was doing or if it was just a bug.. If it was something he was doing, then it means hackers can make themselves invisible to specific players, rather than to everyone.

I'm all for constructive criticism and constructive dialogue. Problem is the majority of these threads do not have that. Most people clearly do not understand the development process and a lot are simply entitled brats bitching and complaining because they can't have things "their" way. As I've said already a half dozen times - Criticize facets of the game. Criticize when there are problems which we feel are unacceptable (9 months of non-local sounds..hackers not being dealt with.. etc).. Those are things that the Dev team actually has some control over, or should, and that they should eventually get sorted out. When Dean responded saying non-local sounds are "A priority", I shut up about them because I did my job as a tester, I posted bug reports, I complained about it on the forums after 8 months of it being an issue and not being addressed, then I shut up.. After I saw the post about them wiping the hive and I had several mods/devs respond concerning my complaints about hackers, I backed off. Yes - Make noise. Yes - complain. Yes - Give feedback. But don't say "Dean's leadership skills suck he needs to leave he's bad for the team he's inexperienced and a bad coder", etc etc. That shit doesn't do anyone any good, it's rude, it's ignorant, and it's disrespectful. edit: and yes, people have been attacking Dean.. Read back in this thread. .Shit, read the first post.

For the record 1. I edited my post because it was admittedly rude, and I recognize that and fixed it.. 2. I wasn't saying YOU criticized Dean, but a lot of people in this thread have, and it seemed from my perspective that you had jumped on their bandwagon.. if you had not, then my apologies.

There's a difference between criticizing a politicians decisions, and criticizing the politician as a man. Saying "Obama has made decisions which I do not support, I think he should have done X Y Z instead of A B C" is a reasonable criticism.. Saying "I don't like Obama 'cuz he's an Islamic Terrorist!!" is an irrational attack on a man. Saying "I do not like the current direction of development.. I wish they would stop releasing clothing and fix the sound bug" is a reasonable (although ignorant) criticism.. Saying "Dean should leave the team because his leadership skills fucking suck and this game is gonna fail with him at the helm" is an irrational attack on a man. Make more sense now? Also, your statement about complaining about hackers makes no fucking sense. I guess you have no right to complain about murderers, because you aren't a murderer? I guess you have no right to complain about child molestors, because you aren't a child molestor? Apples and oranges, man.

So what you're saying is that bugs are expected in Alpha and the DayZ Dev team is doing exactly what they should be doing by ATTEMPTING to fix as many bugs as possible that hamper the alpha build, while balancing that against the fact that they are still implementing features and that certain new features may break other things, so they should just leave those alone until Beta? 'Cause, that's pretty much what they're doing... And I don't see you disagreeing with that. The only thing I see you disagreeing with is "Everything is supposed to be broken".. Perhaps you took that phrase a little too literal. I meant: Alpha is supposed to be a hodge-podge of unfinished features with a lot of bugs.. Once they finish adding the features to alpha, THEN they'll work on ironing out the bugs and making the game much more playable. As to your Software/dev experience, I really don't care.. I appreciate that you may have experience in that field and I didn't mean to say you DON'T have that experience; only that it seems like everyone around here acts as though they are in a position to judge Dean/BI/the DayZ Dev team, which they're not.. I don't care if you have 20 years of experience working for EA and pumping out AAA titles.. It really doesn't give anyone any right to judge how this project is currently going. We all punched the "I AGREE" button after reading, "Yo, this shit is borked." If shit is still borked once the game goes gold, THEN we ALL have the right to bitch non-stop ... And trust me, if the game is fucked upon release, or gets fucked after release, I will not hesitate to come strong and hard with the complaints. Go read my threads concerning the recent surge of hackers, or my thread criticizing them for not fixing the non-local sound bug; which, by the way, was acknowledged by Dean shortly after and he said it was "a high priority". I'm with a lot of people here on these issues, you just don't see me questioning Deans leadership or saying he should "go".. Because that's not my fucking place to say and it's not yours and it's not anyones. As I said before: Judge the game, not the man.. Keep the complaints rational and measured and don't attack the guy who has been nothing but kind to the community at large and has proven time and time again how much passion he has for this project. As to the teenager comment - I'm a blunt person and I'm losing patience with some of the people in this thread. "stfu" is internet vernacular.. Not sure how that is reminiscent of a teenager, but w/e.. Furthermore, I don't remember asking how old you were nor should you care how old I am.. Hope you enjoyed the videos. Oh, also.. You say you've helped contribute to a F2P project... Can you please link me to the forums so I can go there and tell everyone that plays that game how I don't think you should be on the project because you don't know how to code and your leadership skills suck? Can you imagine if I did that? How insulting is that? The mere suggestion is a slap in the face, isn't it? That was my point in asking for your software experience. Golden rule - Treat others how you would like to be treated. People in this thread have been attacking Dean, not the game. That's where I have a problem.

You're all wrong. Simple explanation here is that you slowly regen blood as long as you are not hungry or thirsty so you get no healing or energized or hydrated. Once your blood is at maximum you slowly begin healing. Once you are at full HP you are then "healthy". Watch merinos videos on the blood/health system and read previous patch notes.

Please show me the software you've developed so I can criticize it. And yes, everything is supposed to be broken in Alpha. Alpha = Add features, some features break other shit, some things are not done, most stuff is placeholders.. Beta = Bugfix/patch things up. Since you're a software Dev, I figured you'd know this. Now, seriously.. Where's your software? Have 2 million or more in sales? No? Then Stfu.. Anyone complaining about this game only has themselves to blame:

Ambient sounds = A bug. Bugs get fixed in Beta. Yes, they are attempting to fix it anyway, but they're rebuilding the sound engine. As for "DayZ Leadership", you're being ridiculous... Go re-read my previous posts where I completely shut down that kind of logic. You have no idea what you're talking about and you are in no position to question "leadership". Just drop it already. This thread has gone on far too long already.