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They havne't been implemented yet. These features are planned for the future. Rocket/Hall has also talked about underground bunkers/bases as well as a possible feature.

Well...I wouldn't really call telling people you're friendly then killing them a "whole new level of douchebaggery." That's pretty standard stuff actually.

I hate to sound like a broken record but from the first paragraph of the game's product description: We strongly advise you not to buy and play the game at this stage unless you clearly understand what Early Access means and are interested in participating in the ongoing development cycle.

If you were using your flashlight, there is currently a bug where flashlights can be seen through buildings & structures. Also, he might have heard you and also he was probably camping from a position where he had a good vantage and might have been able to see your silhouette. Or he might (but probably not) have been a hacker. Although, they usually hang out at Balota.

To quote the game's product description which you may or may not have read: We strongly advise you not to buy and play the game at this stage unless you clearly understand what Early Access means and are interested in participating in the ongoing development cycle.

Not to mention people who just died, would just go straight back to Balota and then server hop at the camp/airfield until they had full gear again, and then go ghost people at the airfield. Now, they actually have to play the game? Scandalous!

Lol, they removed his "chutzpah." :P

So...you're saying, if DayZ SA hadn't sold a lot of copies the whole staff would be working through the holidays...but since they sold a lot of copies of DayZ SA, instead of celebrating the holidays and spending time with their families all those selfish pricks should be working? It's funny you bring up "Ad Hominem." Your entire argument appears to be "DayZ sucks. It's gonna fail. The devs are selfish and unprofessional because they're not working through the holidays. Anyone who argues with me is just a fanboy." and that's all based off the fact that the dev team dared to take a holiday break. Wow, so...you're saying looking at the developing speed, this game will never leave alpha? I assume this is from all your experience as an award winning game developer? Well, thanks for your honesty and insight into game development. So, again you're saying the developers taking time off during the holidays to spend with their families (I mean diving into piles of our money, right? lol) shows like a total "lack of professionalism"? It's funny how just last month, all these companies were all the news being protested and taking flak because they were having their employees work on Thanksgiving and the day after, because according to you they should be working through the holidays. That's real professionalism? And while you've been painting yourself as a martyr and claiming all the "fanboys" are unfairly attacking just because they mad that you're pointing out what everyone already knows, that this game is going to fail according to you, you've been insulting people left and right. In another thread you were calling people autistic fanboys. Mighty classy, right there. On top of all that, you haven't even bought the game and played it yourself. I wonder why people aren't taking you seriously? And if you truly believe DayZ SA is going to be a massive failure, well there are alternatives. You could always try out Infestation or Nether. I've heard good things.

So it's no fun if you don't spawn in Cherno or near Balota? I don't wanna sound obvious here but if you're spawning "so far up North on the East coast" you could always go to NEAF. Why does everyone have to spawn at Cherno? Why shouldn't it take you 45 minutes to get to Cherno? DayZ isn't supposed to be an instant gratification game.

So...? Everyone has to spawn at Cherno/Balota or the game is no fun?

No need to get pissy at other players. Not a great way to make friends either. Simply killing yourself and repeatedly respawning isn't supposed to be a mechanic in game to spawn you at a more ideal location, regardless of which location it is you want to spawn at.

Yeah, bayonets don't currently work as a melee weapon attached to a rifle. I think the M9A1 bayonet can be used to open food but not the other more common bayonet. They're still not fully implemented. But items like kitchen knives, axes, screwdrivers all work to open cans of food as well. I've got a guide specifically written for players new to the DayZ SA Alpha which might answer other questions you have as well. Link is in my sig.

While it would certainly be convenient, eating/drinking is something that makes you vulnerable in game. If you could shove an entire can of food in your mouth at once this would essentially be making the game easier for players. Maybe at most, if would be okay if eating a whole can of food took 4 times as long as eating 25% of it at a time, dependent on how many normal actions it would take to consume a specific food/drink product.

Most likely you joined a server that wasn't running the latest version of DayZ and your character data got desynced from the main database resulting in you respawning. Don't feel too bad. After playing for a full week and getting fully geared without server hopping in an airfield, my character fell to his death after clipping through what was supposed to be a solid wall. Stuff like this is going to happen in the alpha. The real fun in my opinion though is starting with nothing.

Not to rain on your parade but all we can see is you killing someone who is AFK.

Currently, server operators are using periodic restarts due to current bugs with loot not respawning. Things like tents and camps aren't implemented yet but in the DayZ mod, server restarts wouldn't effect tent contents. Hall has also talked about personal underground bunker/bases as well. These would probably be a persistent feature for normal server restarts.

Yeah, there's a difference between posting feedback/suggestions, reporting bugs and then complaining about bugs because they're ruining your gameplay. It's the latter that often gets people chastised. As far as "Oh look it's this thread again.", I personally prefer Spiderman. :P

Yeah, there are some people who come off as a bit abrasive, either because they're tired of seeing the same posts repeatedly (lrn2search syndrome) or because they're just kind of lacking in the manners department. But by and large, I think responses to constructive feedback and criticism are for the most part positive.

Pimps don't commit suicide @ 1min2sec in. :P

People who post garbage like this ^^ are why other people post stuff like, "It's an Alpha." Who paid "40 FREAKING DOLLARS"? It costs $29.99USD on Steam. You said, "the devs just go on vacation and say screw you"? How old are you? Have you ever even had a full time job that wasn't for 2 months in the summer if even that? Just because the game has sold well they shouldn't have a holiday break? What exactly have you been doing over the holiday break? Working in the coal mines? And you said you're doing the devs a favor by testing the game? Did you not read this in the game description before you bought the game? WARNING: THIS GAME IS EARLY ACCESS ALPHA. PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE IT UNLESS YOU WANT TO ACTIVELY SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF THE GAME AND ARE PREPARED TO HANDLE WITH SERIOUS ISSUES AND POSSIBLE INTERRUPTIONS OF GAME FUNCTIONING.

If you read the update notes they did more than add a revolver. It doesn't matter how much money they've made. Hall already said the game is a little over a year from release state. 5 million dollars isn't going to make the DayZ team suddenly able to put out a year's worth of development in a month or two. There is a lot of behind the scenes stuff that goes on during development, such as game engine development, improvements to server/client architecture, etc. The point of the Alpha isn't to make the game the most fun possible right now and to immediately fix anything that "ruins" your gameplay experience. The point of the Alpha is testing, server/hive stress testing, providing constructive feedback, reporting bugs and exploits, etc. If you have actually followed the development team, they're highly transparent, they openly request feedback from the playerbase and have also said there are hundreds more items in the works during the next few months. If you had bothered to read the game description before you bought it and what Dean Hall has publicly repeated numerous times, the Alpha is for fans and people who are able to deal with bugs, features not fully implemented and the game being in an unfinished state. It sounds like you've never played an Alpha before because this is actually great for an Alpha release. Most Alphas I've played have been massive crashfests, often barely playable with large amounts of server (hive in this case) downtime where you can't even play the game. On top of that, in other Alphas I've been in, if you didn't actively provide constructive feedback and report bugs and just complained about your gameplay experience being ruined by some feature, bug, OP weapon, other players, etc. you would actually get kicked from the Alpha testing.

First, I think you have a misconception about what an Alpha is and what the point of an Alpha is. If anything, this is a step in the right direction towards the game release. Less is more. There don't need to be M4s littered everywhere. Secondly, nothing is going to stop people from just server hopping at airfields/military camps and getting all their milgear in 10 or 20 minutes anyway. Thirdly, "get guns and kill people" is not the ONLY thing you can do in the game. You could actually explore, provide constructive feedback and report bugs and exploits...you know...like things people regularly do in alpha testing.

I would rather see weapons that fit Russia and the setting of the game which seems to be more WW2/post WW2/Cold War era than modern. I suggested under other in the poll, the PPSH41 SMG, Nagent Revolver and Beretta model 34 which I think are more in line with the setting of the game. I think more modern weapons should be avoided or very minimal.

I think one thing that hasn't been mentioned aside from all the unfair gameplay arguments is its uses for creating Machinima. It would be nice i think to actually see more camera options for this reason, although it would make sense to have them as server options not default settings.

It's impossible to take anyone seriously who comes here complaining about DayZ and trying to compare it to WarZ. This thread probably would've been deleted and got the OP temp-banned if not flat out banned on the WarZ forums. WarZ was so bad they had to pull it off Steam and refund everyone. WarZ moderators were highly abusive throwing bans around left and right to anyone critical of the game. Later Titov, the lead developer said that the "vocal minority" (lol, right...minority) who had been pointing out all these fatal flaws were right to do so...still didn't unban them though, trololol. Titov and the WarZ team ripped off art assets from The Walking Dead, ripped off UI and other elements from Crysis, and the whole game was pretty much just a heavily recycled version of the last crapfest they produced, War Inc. They even issued DMCA takedowns on people who posted fan made videos for WarZ, you know like actual good publicity? Pretty much everyone involved with WarZ/ISS has been one big drama bomb...and that's putting it in the nicest way possible.