Tyrone Chicken

Yes, I understand that literally everyone would rather have more than three guns, but saying nothing has happened because there are only three guns is completely wrong. Again, you don't have to play the alpha, but don't say nothing has progressed simply because there is a lack of guns.

You're assuming it will never have mod support and also assuming the average player even plays and cares for the currently available DayZ overhauls (guess what, even if a lot of people play mods like overwatch, they are still the minority, meaning the average player couldn't care less) and once again, you're wrong, modders do have to worry about breaking the game; one bad release could easily kill the mod. Hahaha you have no idea what you're talking about. Literally everything you just said is simply not true. The server is complicated, because it is the game. The server processes the game and therefore needs to know how the game works and no, we don't have access to the engine code so we cannot just rip the new AI system and throw it into the older Arma II engine (not like it would even be as easy as C&P anyway) without lots of reverse engineering. As I previously said, the average user doesn't even play the current mods, so no the game won't die in 6 months without mod support and also, again wrong, not changing engines doesn't mean you cannot improve models, textures or even modify the current engine to support newer technologies (provided Arma II is actually a bottleneck). As for the Arma III engine: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/151842-standalone-voting-has-the-delay-effected/#entry1521277 I hate +1 systems; I want to neg all of you.

Yes, lets branch off of and modify an engine that was more than a year off of its official release. Using something like the Arma III engine that early and majorly modifying it would have been extremely stupid and extremely time consuming, because when you want to merge back to the stable branch, even with version control systems like git, there could be A LOT of conflicts due to how much could change in that period of time. Would neg you if I could.

*snip* nvm lets just reinvent the whole genre

Then don't, but also don't act like literally nothing has been done because they'd rather actually do something more productive than C&P weapon classes and add different models.

Delay is a bit annoying as I had been looking forward to it, but I don't really care how long it takes provided it's better than the mod. DayZ is about the only thing in this genre that has actually done it somewhat right.

You're acting like they haven't done anything because there isn't a hundred guns in the game yet, when in reality most of the work is probably put into fixing up a lot of the issues with the Arma II engine, reworking the AI and polishing it, which is pretty much all backend stuff you won't be able to see from a screenshot. Unless they are doing guns wrong, it should be pretty much tedious C&P work to add new ones anyway.

Because many highly functional, bug free, innovative, AAA games get release in under a year, like our favorite game Call of Duty!

Don't purchase the game on early access. Wait for the full release.