apollovulcan

If you think my response to the patch update is because this game is an alpha and not a finished game, you clearly didn't read my post. Whenever someone is testing something, especially with multiple steps or pieces, there's a priority list for fixes and bugs. It's not about what isn't working or what I think should be fixed first, the direction they're going in right now is NOT a good sign. Rain being fixed or redone, now matter how easy, quick, or simple compared to fixing the flashlight bug, is a joke. The flashlight needs to be fixed, yesterday.

Honestly, no trolling and no shit talking, I admire your optimism. I wish the game had more of a Walking Dead feel to it, so that survivors wouldn't be so inclined just to freaking off each other. But I'm just being honest, this game turned into "it's going to be you or me", and it's going to stay that way unless something drastically new is introduced. Without the incentive of, oh, this guy is a freaking surgical doctor, he can heal us up and blah blah blah for less, with less, etc. Why not off a stranger? It's one more mouth to feed and someone you don't know to shoot you in the back later. We've all been shot in the back by a random before, and I'm sure we've all met a nice stranger before. Fact is a few bad apples is enough to ruin anyone, and I just don't think a restraining system with the other issues going on, should have been added before other things were fixed and/or added.

Interesting, I haven't attacked or shot at a single player on Standalone yet. Nice try though.

They're all there in bold, one line under your response to mine. Yeah people have really been stopping to wave. Servers who don't "play by the rules" will be blacklisted, it does say that all over these forums. Care to have anyone from the actual company make a stickied post on that? Players apparently can't lock their own servers, or kick people they don't want playing there without the fear of being removed from the public hive all together. It may not say that explicitly, but that's what the players are left with. An unconscious bug that will now kill you because the developers think that's a smart thing to do for testing. You say that, yet that's not going to actually be the case once everyone starts handcuffing players, taking their stuff, and then killing them afterwards. the Mod didn't start off with everyone KOSing each other either, if you honestly believe that, you're kidding yourself. I didn't buy Standalone, during the alpha testing period, to play the Day Z mod with better graphics. I came here to test. If myself or my friends and I want to spend money to have a controlled testing environment, without other players around, why the hell is that a problem? We'd be spending money the company should and wouldn't have to, to get testing done. Isn't that what alpha tests are for? Finding bugs, reproducing them, and reporting them? Or are we just here to play the mod with better graphics and a new inventory system?

This is NOT the same as the mod, in the mod, people are free to take each other's pbo mission files, and edit them however they see fit. That is the exact opposite of what is going on right now. Anyone who says people owning their own servers, keeping them locked to their friends or clan, would prevent reproduceable bugs, from a public hive database has absolutely no idea what they are talking about. If the public hive database doesn't have a file signature check for a server connecting to it, that's a major issue. Kind of like how when clients connect to servers right now, there isn't a file signature check and people can delete items from the world and still load into the game... But yeah, I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Maybe where you've been playing. Everywhere I've tried to do my testing, people KOS just like they do in the mod. So yeah..

That must be why there are so many public hive servers of the Day Z mod :)

I am making constructive feedback. If you think you don't run forward after you've stopped pressing W when unshouldering a weapon, maybe you should try it. Everything I said is spot on, you may not want to hear it, but they certainly need to. This game is a mess right now, and it isn't the bugs, it's how it's being managed. Threatening server owners with a removal from the hive, what a joke. If they really want such a controlled test they need to get 10,000 servers up on their own dime. Otherwise, the players are going to keep PLAYING DayZ and running into bugs, not TESTING it and playing as they go. TOR didn't lose all the subscribers it did because of bugs, it was because Bioware didn't listen to the players, and didn't make the changes they NEEDED to FOR the players. Honestly, with posts like Yeah? Start hosting those servers, for those shards, on your own dime! Who the hell are you to tell people that they should be conforming to what YOU think the "community" needs for modding and server types? I guess that's why we only have one version of the Day Z mod, and not a different mod for 20 different maps and versions.

Hooray walls!

Yeah facts and logic hurt when you're not intelligent, it's okay, I understand.

It's a good thing the developers didn't let the people testing the game run their own reliable servers and people are forced to do it through inflated "server providers". You guys do realize you're all getting VM servers off of a machine right when you rent from these guys right?

Why would having sound and actual architecture for buildings be on high on the priority list? I mean hell, flashlights DO illuminate through hardwalls, don't they?

Yes what a prick, he used the fucking way the game is designed to survive. How dare he!

Um.. it's a public hive. Why are you idiots playing it like they're private servers that you have to start over every time you switch to a new one? This is how Rocket and the dev team wanted the game to be played. Enjoy it. Oh and if anyone actually thinks that the dev team will ever be able to get around combat logging, you're delusional. They can't. Because it'd be illegal. No Windows program can disable ctrl+alt+delete, or prevent users from instantly closing it. People will be able to end the process, hit esc and then alt+f4, it's never going to change. If you really think it'd be that hard, all you'd have to do is pre-load an end process for DayZ, whenever you want to get the hell out, alt+tab and hit spacebar. This will never be avoided and can never be fixed. So get used to it, until these people get with it, and add a simple saving database per server, and turn them all back into private hives.

Yeah I'll tell you what, I'm definitely going to slow down on the highway for someone wielding a gun. Who the hell is actually dumb enough to be running along the main highways with other players around? Probably players like your friend who handcuffed a guy and then shot him because he used his microphone in the game.

And there it is.

That in itself is the biggest hypocrisy of this entire thing. They give the server files ONLY to people who CHARGE others to host a server. Are you fucking kidding me? So not only do we have to pay $30 to even try the fucking game and HELP TEST THE GAME, we, the playerbase are expected to shell out at a MINIMUM $50 a month, per server. With no control over your own server!!! So they really expect us to buy two copies of the game each month, just to test it. Hilarious. What a fucking joke, these guys have their heads so far up their asses it's not even funny. They may not want people to be editing the files or what the fuck ever completely illogical reasoning they want to spout off, but this game is destined for disaster. I'll stick it out for another week or so, but if they don't turn things around like Bioware never did with TOR, I'm getting my money back from Steam. I don't give a shit if that means I can never purchase another game from Bohemia or on Steam ever again. This is heading for a nuclear disaster.

Duh guys, all you have to do is switch servers and your character will be wiped because that's such a nice feature and apparently at the very tip top of the buglist.

With the direction things have started off from, I can't say it will be ever worth buying it. Why they decided going back to an outdated and clearly unpopular server saving with a public hive is a huge mistake. They're threatening server OWNERS to "play nice" aka don't actually use your server how you want to, if you're kicking people unnecessarily, they'll fucking remove your server from the hive. How many servers are they paying for with the $10,000,000 they've made? 0.

Handcuffs are a joke. I think they put them in for roleplaying kinky sex. I know they didn't put them because they legitimately think that people will be restraining other players instead of killing them. No one trusts anyone in this game beyond who they already know, that's exactly how it would be in real life. The only painstaking difference is the fact that no one gets on DayZ to play Suzy Homemaker and wash kids or cook food for a camp while people go on loot runs. That's not what DayZ is, never was, never will be. People will restrain their friends to be dicks, that's it. Or they'll restrain a victim to then shoot them in the face later, handcuffed. What a great addition.

Status: LiveNew:Config: greeting with 2 handed weapon now possible without disarmingBecause we're all going around waving to each other.Engine: Servers with incompatible version marked in the server browserServers with incompatible versions should be BLACKLISTED OMG!!! THEY'RE NOT FOLLOWING THE RULEZZZZEngine: The „Player uses modified data“ message is removed from CHATDesign: you can craft splint and fix broken limbs with itDesign: players who disconnect when unconscious will dieThat makes sense, let's take an extremely buggy alpha and make it so players die when they're rendered unconscious... indefinitely.. Really?Design: players who disconnect when restrained will dieYes because that makes so much sense. Why not leave them restrained, what could they do if they server hop? Run around hoping someone will kindly unrestrain them? Logic = none.New weapon: Magnum .357 Revolver + ammoFixed:No one is going to be playing dress up and surrendering or using handcuffs on anyone, it's going to be just like the mod and everyone is going to kill everyone else on sight. Until you actually give players a reason to work together, this won't ever change. This isn't a PvE game, it's a PvP game with zombies.Config: fixed an issue where unshouldering/shouldering weapon while moving forward caused the player to stopAnd what you actually did was cause the player to keep moving forward AFTER they've stopped moving, while unshouldering/shouldering a weapon. Nice one.UI: Early Access warning dialogueEngine: Updated rain texture with refractionIt's a good thing the rain got updated yet our flashlights still go through every other wall, yet are rendered useless when colliding with objects inside buildings... interesting. You guys aren't off on the right track. Bioware and The Old Republic didn't start off on the right track, and they ended up derailed. You guys need to step up and fix the real issues that are actually preventing game play. You either need to start hosting OFFICIAL servers, by Bohemia, or stop telling people what to do with their own servers. I feel bad for anyone that's renting a server, and shelling out the money BOHEMIA should be, and being told they can't even kick people or lock their server down for LEGITIMATE and CONTROLLED testing, or their server will be rendered useless by the hive. You all want to act like people server hopping around for protection, loot, or whatever you think shouldn't be happening; when you all are the reason they are doing it! Why would you EVER think that going back to a public hive would be the smart thing to do? Is that why there are so many public hive servers of the DayZ mod right now compared to Private hives? Oh wait... Public hives died out as soon as privates came along. Gee, I wonder why. I wonder if it had anything to do with the fact that a new player couldn't just hop to the server YOU were hosting, that YOU were paying money for, just to disrupt everyone's time. They'd have to start a new character and start from scratch. People couldn't just log out somewhere nice, and while you're looting that somewhere nice, suddenly log in behind you. But hey, that's what you guys decided to go with. Good one. Either turn on some simple database saving per server, start hosting official servers that YOU ALL are paying for (out of that nice $5.1 million you made in one day, now $10 million), or get the fuck off your high horses. You don't release an "alpha test" with NO official servers, and then tell people what they can and can't do with their fucking servers. If you want to be in such control, stop being so cheap.

You know what would actually be testing? Being able to choose where you spawn, being able to test weapons that don't actually work without having to spend 6 hours finding them again. "Well I think that was a bug, but then the game decided to wipe my character so I can't really confirm anything". What a beautiful testing environment.

You won't be doing anything of the sort because dipshits don't know how to run a game and this is going to end up worse than TOR.

Actually fucktard that's exactly what hosting a server of a game means. You're the end fucking user. If they don't want people doing such dirty and naughty things, they shouldn't be so fucking cheap. They need to start hosting their own servers, or this game is REALLY headed for a fucking disaster. Does Rocket and co want another TOR?

Fuck everything about your post buddy, sorry. Who the fuck are the devs to tell anyone how to run their server or what they can or can't do with it? If the devs want everything to be so locked down, they better start shelling out some of that $5.1 mil they made the first day to buy some proper fucking servers and host the god damn game on their own. If I rent a server I will kick whoever the fuck I want off of it and test on it how I see fit. If that means kicking everyone off so I can actually TEST things in peace, who the fuck is anyone to tell me I'm doing something wrong?