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Don't quote me on this but i'm pretty sure that's what they're doing.

Don't be sorry guys! You made it very clear that this could be delayed if unexpected issues popped up and, well, unexpected issues popped up. We know you guys are working hard. Thank you so much and keep up the good work!

I wouldn't mind longer satiation times as long as food was made more rare. Food should be valuable and precious. I wouldn't mind eating less but also finding less food overall.

The one thing I really want from SCUM is the process of butchering the animal. Skinning it first, then process it into smaller and smaller cuts of meat. That's really cool. I like the idea of tracking but I don't want any neon lines or paw icons popping up on my screen. I want to find physical tracks/blood in the actual world, not icons or HUD elements.

I was just discussing melee with some people on Reddit and someone suggested I share this idea, so here I am! Currently, killing zombies with melee is too easy, there's little incentive to shoot zombies, and I find the heavy attack to be a little too bland (it stuns the enemy and does slightly more damage for a small amount of stamina). Here's a possible solution to these issues (as well as making the map feel smaller by making players shoot guns to give away position and making melee more interesting in general) - Standard melee attack can only temporarily knock zombies down after several hits. To kill them, you must use a heavy attack multiple times to the head or a single shot to the head from a firearm. The heavy attack should cause more damage and use a larger amount of stamina, maybe 1/2 (or adjusted along with damage for each melee weapon). This would strongly encourage players to use the more reliable bullet to kill the zombies rather than risk being caught without stamina to coup de grâce them via melee. This would require additional balancing of melee for pvp. In pvp, light attack should do a short stun (which can be broken with sidestep). Blocking a light attack should take a little stamina and give the defender a small amount of shock damage, adjusted for each weapon. Blocking a heavy attack should take a significant amount of stamina and more shock damage (adjusted for each weapon, some weapons should be better at blocking than others) - dodging an attack should be far more rewarding than blocking, especially against a heavy weapon. This would make strong attacks more useful in pvp and would give them a higher risk to reward ratio and would raise the skill ceiling in pvp melee. Also, (i'm sure this is being worked on but figured i'd mention it here anyways) we need distinct blocking sounds in melee. Currently when you block an attack it is kind of confusing as to whether the attack was blocked or not. Thanks for reading!

Do you have a source for this? Thanks.

Stress test with the new content patch. I like your FO2 avatar :)

lol really? Then why the hell are they still coming in from 9 - 5? Why don't they use their millions of dollars to pay someone else to do the dirty work?

Cooking pots are in! Stashes are in, haven't tested their persistence. In fact you can bury the cooking pot as a stash.

Great work guys! We believe in you!

I would imagine Monday or Tuesday.

Take this as a great opportunity to see how long and difficult game development can be. This is just the reality of game development, the stuff you're normally oblivious to and might not know unless you had the privilege of early access. Red Dead 2 was stuck in development hell for years, it's been in development for 8 years. The difference is we didn't have access to broken builds, we didn't see the specifics of game developers posting blogs regarding the status of it, etc. This is all very normal, especially when implementing large engine modules and making them playable. It seems most games that come out these days are made on complete engines, that's not so with DayZ. It adds many layers of challenge and time onto development but it will be worth it when we have the DayZ we've all been waiting for.

Thanks guys! We love the updates and communication. Thanks for all of your hard work, can't wait for the patch :)

Thanks for the acknowledgement!

Funny, most of the critics say that Reddit is a circle jerk. There's plenty of us who truly love DayZ and BIS on Reddit. The trolls mostly come out on the weekends.