hefeweizen

Loading times of less than the entire day and a half it takes to load a DayZ mod server.Completely revamped inventory system that is leagues ahead of Arma 2.A focus on civilian weapons instead of the DMR/M107-fest of the mod.Zombies that even in their buggy alpha state, make the mod zombies look like total garbage.No more stupid side chat. Hooray!No pay to win servers, which is pretty much every mod server now.Melee system that blows the stupid mod reskinned shotgun/terrible hatchet out of the water.Attachment system.Item condition system.So many more enterable buildings.Survivors are customizable through the clothing system. Pretty stupid that everyone has the same hat/vest combo in the mod.New cities, which are all waaaaaaaay more interesting than anything in Arma 2.Performance, even in its unoptimized state is amazing compared to Arma 2. Especially in full servers.Hackers, they exist in the Standalone. But when was the last time one of them nuked an entire server at once? Happens every weekend in the mod. I think people get angry at you OP not because they're too defensive of the standalone, but because to most it is fairly obvious that with the foundation laid down for the standalone it is going to be unquestionable which will be better. The mod was nice in its time, but retrospectively it is kind of embarrassingly bad. The zombies, the three or four enterable buildings, waiting 10 minutes to load a server, the terribly random feature list for every server, the hackers... oh lord the hackers. It is all really terrible, and really makes the mod unplayable.

Yeah, but they're idiots. When idiots talk people have a right to make sure they know how stupid what they're saying is. A right to speech doesn't include a right to escape ridicule. People bitching about the games alpha state are too stupid for Early Access, that is the long and the short of it. They're going to keep bitching every step of the way until release and then go about their merry way playing the full game right along with with everyone else while never being called to task for the prior year of them being a total ass hat.

and you're on this forum because you have important business to conduct here, I assume? Your own ass, climb out of it please.

I didn't say the market was saturated with shooters when CoD plopped. I'm saying that because of how lowest common denominator CoD was (its a game where you shoot people in the face made for people who played nothing but Madden or FIFA beforehand, lets be honest.) it became one of the most popular games on the market. Seeing how popular this style of "Think inside the box" shooter was becoming, of course every stupid greedy studio wanted a slice of that pie. Now we have bad shooters falling out of our collective asses. More and more people are getting wise to this situation, and eventually this type of shooter will become a cliche. Something that people know right from the get go is going to be terrible. Like video games based off movies were in the 90s, or bands that blended Hip Hop and metal in the early 2000s, or 3D movies, Retro Platformers, gritty Nolan-esque reboots or guys who wear Fedora hats are today. I'm 27, by the way.

Ehhh... When the market saturates with something god awful people who were into it early like to justify their liking something terrible by saying the early version was way better. You know, people saying that a bad musicians first album was their only good one or the first movie in a terrible series "wasn't that bad" (Transformers). CoD is bad, always was. The whole series is like a terrible old school rail shooter from a crappy arcade with the added bonus of WASD controls to give the illusion of control. But don't you dare walk outside the small designated area you're allowed to move around in, or try to get through a level without blowing up a big stupid set piece because CoD won't stand for you trying to think outside its basic formula. Honestly, really lowest common denominator stuff. Down the line people will look back on this era as the time when there were just too many damned FPSs and will no doubt make the connection to CoD. I mean seriously, I've seen internal documents from Microsoft that say the chose "XBox One" as the name for their new system because that is exactly how many non-FPS games their planning to have on that system. Wanna play something besides FPSs? Well you damn well better be into indie PC games, or Nintendo cause otherwise you're SOL.

Okay, then why are you complaining about people pointing out said douche bag? Just because someone has the right to do something doesn't exclude them from criticism.

This of those things where people look back a couple decades later and are like "Man... everyone in that era was a f*cking idiot." Ever seen any building built in the 1970s? Stucco and drop tile ceilings as far as the eye can see. As far as I'm concerned everyone alive during that era must have suffered brain damage during Vietnam.

Because DayZ (the official version at least) has been one thing since its inception. He isn't the one trying to change said thing. In that sense the game already caters to his play style, these idiots are trying to game the system to f*ck everyone else playing the game as intending.

Lol, sure thing Canada. Whatever you say. We'd all be sorry if people didn't take Canada seriously.

The virginity is strong with this one.

Why are certain folk so adamant about defending douche baggery? You understand that doing certain things makes you an assh*le, right? People have the right to dislike assh*les and to come together as a community to hate assh*les together.

All servers are connected, that's why. When that is no longer the case, then people can f*ck off to do whatever they like on a private shard.

What is it like defending the worst people that play this game?

'Cause douchebags, mostly. Douchebags are douchebags, they exist on the internet and they ruin everything. Eventually there will be explosives and whitelisting. Hopefully that'll change the currently "Camp in a popular building and lean through a wall so you can get the jump on people." strategy that is so popular. Lol, and the people who defend such assh*les are just the worst type of person in the world. If this was the 1940's you'd no doubt be defending Hitler against "cry babies".

If by "improving" you mean that its devolved into an idiotic PvP/horder f*ckfest that is so far removed from anything resembling a survival game that it is laughable that they still require you to eat and drink, or include zombies at all for that matter.

Ughhh... You people. Here is a thought, none of the mods are very good, just throwing that out there. None of them (and I've played all the popular ones), not a single survival game in the pack. There is one decent attempt that was never really finished (Vanilla), a bunch of decent attempts that nobody ever played (2017, DayZero) and a bunch of PvP f*ckfests (or in the case of both Epochs, horder-fests). The inventory system in every single one is garbage, the mechanics for food/hunger/disease/weather/zombies in every single one is merely passable at best and in the long run they're all going to stay that way because they're all hacked together jobs that are forced to work within the confines of Arma2/3. The only people who think any of the mods will in the long run outdo the standalone are A. Looking for a completely different game than DayZ in the first place (They want a PvP f*ckfest) B. Really caught up in the whole "Some idiot on the internet said this game is crap and won't ever be finished. I'm too stupid to have my own opinions, so I'll just go along with them" bullshit that seems to plague every game that is an early access alpha at the moment. Seriously, go check out the forums for games like Rust, or StarBound, or hell; even Kerbal Space Program. All full of the same type of idiot sh*tting on 'em because they're still in alpha. These people are just too stupid for Early Access Alpha, that is the long and the short of it. They're cynical idiots, who are too damn foolish and egotistical to even understand that they have no idea what they're talking about. The bullsh*t part of the whole process is when they're eventually playing the release along with everyone else they'll never be called on the stupid crap they said and will be free go on to sh*t on something else with the rest of the bandwagon. Such is the internet, people are allowed to have the most idiotic opinions that you think humans could possibly be capable of and then when they're proven absolutely wrong they can just disappear without being called to task for the proceeding twelve months of idiocy.

See my above post. You have to aim above zombies if you want to hit their head. Baseball bats, Shovels, fire extinguisher and the Hammer are all pro if you swing correctly.

Well, they already said that changing the renderer is the plan. Probably switching out DX9 for DX11, possibly OpenGL. They've said that such a change will key for making night time more playable. As it is a lot of things that have to do with lighting can't be fixed without a tremendous amount of work, that would have to be redone if they changed to a new renderer.

Or they're just waiting to change the renderer to something that'll be closer to Arma 3 during night time and jacking up the gamma won't make such a massive difference.

Need to headshot a zombie? Aim slightly above their head and you'll never have a problem again. They're still suuuuuuper easy. My wife handles 'em no problem and she rarely plays games like this.

God no, don't you know that as soon as your allow people on the internet the ability to customize anything it instantly turns to penises? Like within the first day, half of the custom faces would be dicks. The other half would be like smiley faces, or my little ponies. It would be totally sh*t.

Steam is awesome. No legitimate reason to not use it, I get all my games through Steam for the most part. Wouldn't be caught dead buying a physical copy of something in the day and age. Hell, my PC doesn't even have an optical drive.

I have a feeling this guy was searching for threads specifically so he could talk sh*t about DayZ on the DayZ website. You gotta be a total douche if you think this is an appropriate way for an a adult to act.

Went into epic wall of text mode, decided against it. Don't care about authentic calibers at all, there seems to be plenty of bullet types already.

DayZ is entirely playable, and but not feature complete hence: alpha. Guess you should go correct Wikipedia, the dictionary and every other source I've ever seen...