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It's not that tough. It's actually just a mild "update". Turn beta on, it updates to latest experimental, turn beta off, it reverts to latest version.

It will be the toppest of keks.

Hats, boots, weapon cleaning kits, pants everywhere. So many loot spots are floating, unlootable loot now :( Saw two (pristine looking) LRS that I couldn't get, in the same yellow house.

Here's why basically everything you've had to say is a moot point and of about as much value as the posts asking for "at least a gun and some ammo" at spawn. First, $30M. They made quite a bit less than that dude. The game was on Steam. Go research Valve's cut of profits. You still don't seem to comprehend that Bohemia is an existing entity. All their eggs are not in one DayZ basket. They have investors, they have a portfolio, they're a profitable company that paid the development team of DayZ (granted, a smaller one) for a year and a half before seeing a penny from the work. This isn't some indie project with a bunch of fresh-out-of-art-school first timers. It's also not the kind of company that can or would disappear in a night, with executives uhm.. sleeping on peoples' floors? Really? That's some shit right there. The fact that your perspective overrules all these facts in how you're having this conversation makes just about everything you have to say have little to no value. PS - this thread made me run out of Beans.

Changed it up. It was late enough that I couldn't be assed to change it to something better once i realized how bad it is. If it wasn't so difficult in these forums to begin/end quotes out of a block of quotes i'd have replied point by point, but I simply don't have the patience for that *and* ranting at strangers on the internet.

Taloon. It's a Taloon backpack.

I'd like to take your post point by point. My replies will be bold and peach. TL;DR it's clear you have no idea who Bohemia is, who Rocket is or how DayZ came about. I also hiiiiiighly doubt you're a developer - at best you're a highly inexperienced developer. In another post you said: Think of Dean as a film director (and I use this because I'm very familiar with it). He has gone from directing a short where he had to take on so many jobs to directing a big budget film. He doesn't have to be superman anymore (though he could still be) but rather his main job is to direct the rest of his collaborators towards his vision in a clear fashion using the money that they have. You're just ceaselessly showing that you have no clue about anything about the topic of which you speak. It's not like suddenly Rocket went from being a guy coding on an EA floor somewhere and suddenly he inherited $100M. The guy has been with the developer he is at doing what he has been doing for a considerable amount of time. Sure, he probably has more people to oversee and it's got to be weird to have a team of managers reporting to him, but he's still doing what he's been doing for a long time, and with a project that is basically all his. I honestly don't know why I got so invested in this thread. I just get worked up when someone is so full of nonsense and wrong on my precious interwebs.

Actually it gives you "magnum rounds" - a 6 stack of magnum bullets in one square of inventory. Reload those, eject and they'll be 5 again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STANAG_magazine It's a STANdard AGreement Magazine design style.

Good thing you're at the helm of a massive development effort by some of the best pros in milsim ever. Good job on that 1M sales in 40 days of Alpha. Thanks for all you do Rocket HEY! YOU'RE NOT ROCKET! Seriously though, first and foremost "hire more programmers" doesn't matter. Adding even a couple more programmers, as I'm sure has already been done, won't have an immediate impact on the game's development speed. Those new programmers require time to learn what the team is about, become immersed in the vision, become familiar with the tools used and the general theme of things. Then they get to 'practice' develop and build for a couple months, then finally when they're turning out work that matches the devs who have been working on this project for years, then they will begin to have a net positive impact on the development speed. In re: your "pre alpha is..." .. nonsense. Fucking anything before release is what it is, in the order the people footing the bill and who do this professionally with much experience determine. Anything else is nonsense and probably wrong.

The idea that while playing an Alpha game that you were beseeched not to purchase at least 3 times before you could purchase it, your top recommendation is "schedule and announce all updates with accurate ETAs".

BWAHAHAHahahahaHAHAHAHHUEHUEHUEHAHA Kind of a dick response, I know, but there are plenty of valid an more appropriate responses in this thread.

The thing that seems to be most confusing to people is that there are so many effects beyond hunger, thirst, blood, pain, broken legs that the mod had. Merino DayZ youtube channel's videos are fantastic (one is posted 3 above by VincentNZ). Here's a brief synopsis of some of the effects your DayZ body has: Stomach contents - "I feel full" Energy level - aka hunger "I'm hungry" Thirst - "I'm thirsty" Blood - filled by blood bags or saline bags Health - "Healthy" The opposite of sick status, which includes/will include: food poisoning, illness from bad water, infections from wounds, exposure to the elements Healing status - natural healing when you have a significant amount of energy (from food)/drink. Broken legs - Can't walk Shock - Can cause blurring of vision, unconsciousness, shaking Pain - Pain noises can give you away, shaking, can lead to shock -- Obviously many of these things are not yet implemented, but that's quite a bit more than the basics that the mod had.

Steam support has always been awesome - but especially so in the past 6-9 months. Totally stepped up their game.

Energy is not health. Energy is food.