rickyriot

Sort of yes and sort of no. Things like Epoch and Battle Royale is great fun, however the vanilla mod can feel a bit "empty". For all the whining that goes on about SA, it's quite noticeable how much the game has moved on even though it's Alpha.

I liked them for their ability to cocktease. "oooh, is that an ungaurded vehicle I can use...?" "No... just another wrecked car.. "

I miss the broken vehicles lying about the place. There might not be any usable vehicles in the standalone,. but why remove the broken ones too? :(

I've not had a chance to play DayZ in what seems like months (but is probably only a few weeks) and after downloading several patches my experimental version number is sitting at: .45.123905 yet the highest version number of a server I can find is .44.123800. Are there any experimental servers anywhere or am I forced to drop down to stable and play there?

Thanks. Let's hope so.

Definitely odd, as I run a 8320 (unclocked) with a 7770 card (also unclocked) and I don't suffer anywhere near the issue you have. Ok, it's less FPS in towns (as you would expect) but I'm talking high 30's not low 1's. Granted I have 16Mb of memory albeit shit quality, but still. Reducing resolution/quality would of course be a sensible place to start, and without knowing what else is running on your rig it's hard to tell if there is a memory leech going on somewhere, so the blindingly obvious suggestion of killing everything that doesn't need to be running is also advice I'd give. However from someone with pretty similar technical specs I would looking at problems other than the actual game - even though we all know it's a dog. Edit: Oh, and make sure you have enough disk space free for the swap files. Empty your recycle bin and clear the usual temp directories. While 500Gb is not a small HD in general it's amazing how quickly that shit can get filled, especially if you haven't emptied your recycle bin in a while and the system is showing free space when in fact there isn't. We've all seen what Windows does when it freaks out at having next to no space available for it's swap file. I'll admit, it's not necessarily going to effect you only in the cities, but hey, no harm in suggesting it.

Ultimately I suppose I (we) can drop to the stable build and have a playable game, just a bit odd that the experimental servers have vanished. I had assumed, as I had been away for a while, that the downtime was due to a rebuild and they would be back up within a few hours but from reading this thread it seems they have been gone for quite few days.

* bump * Still waiting for some to come online. Was there anything said when they "disappeared"? Was it some sort of irrevocable bug that had kiboshed things or have they just fallen over and nobody has got round to rebooting them?

In 1PP I hope the animation, if included, is coupled with the bandage sound.. ;)

I've not checked the thread, but has there been a discussion on whether shitting would be possible in 3PP. After all, which dev wants to do that animation?

You see the way I see it, if you set yourself up with an experimental build in Steam you shouldn't have to keep switching between stable and experimental based on what the devs need to test out. IMO, and it's only that so perhaps I am not correct, the experimental servers should always be active with the latest build. If that's broken, so be it, that's the nature of both alpha and experimental, but they shouldn't be taken down whenever the devs no longer have something worthy of testing. Least of all they could still be benefiting from feedback on a test branch that hasn't gone to stable.

Certainly not going to read 20 pages of people's opinion on the merits (or not) of needing to have a shite, but personally I think it should be added for several reasons, one of which being the "Vincent Vega Gambit" which involves dropping your gun as you curl one out, pinch a loaf or drop the kids off at the pool, leaving you unable to defend yourself but also open to ridicule for being killed during the act.

So just a delay? Sorry for being so out of the loop. If it's just a downtime I'll wait for them to return - just wanted to check they were still "a thing" and not somehow knocked on the head.

Jeezo, I go off grid for a few weeks and this sort of post (edit: the op) is still being made? :rolleyes: Why is it that people have such a difficulty in understanding that the game progression is neither sequential nor linear. For every two, three or four steps forward there will always be steps back. That is the nature of game development and certainly the nature of an alpha product. Here is a very simple pseudo BASIC program structure for those struggling with the concept. 10 update20 play30 if (problem) goto 1040 enjoyment++50 goto 10Spot how there is no whineLikeChild in there, nor postAngryMessageOnForum or makeMelodramaticAnnouncementToNeverPlayAgain?

You mean other than the zombie apocalypse? ;)

I think you'll find that Eastern Europeans absolutely love their footy.

Is this something you can taunt the Muslim or Jewish zombies with?

I had this idea when they introduced the football pitches to the game, and I started designing a league and even different football crests/logos and back histories for the teams. Of course, this never made the light of day and I got distracted on another project, so I'm glad to see someone else pick this up. 1) I am happy that you've used sensible Eastern European names for the teams, rather than Western ones. 2) Like you, in my setup I thought that 16 was the most amount of teams available. 3) I had 2 teams in both Cherno and Berezino, yet one in Elektro (and other towns). There are several reasons for this. One of them being the number of football pitches in Cherno allowed there to be two teams, but also I believe it gave a nice weighting in terms of intra city derbies as well as national ones. For example if you look at the major leagues you will find multiple teams in big cities but in turn those derbies are not necessarily the main derby. Manchester City/Manchester United (England) is one derby, however Liverpool and Manchester United is considered a "bigger" derby. Barcelona and Espanyol (Spain) is the local derby, while Barcelona and Real Madrid is the main derby (El Classico). So in summary, all that is pretty close to the stuff I had sketched out, although I would change the B team to being a full outfit. You would never have a B and a main team in the same league.

I've been away for a week or so and loaded up Steam to find I have a new patch. There are some notes on the DevBlog but no official patch notes either here or in the Announcements section of this forum. So... what's new *and confirmed* in the 116146 patch?

I don't mind character wipes to be honest. I'm playing an Alpha on an experimental branch! Christ I'm lucky it runs without crashing! .. ;)

Got to say I am a little confused. It was a 300mb+ update, and on the devblog, twitter and reddit there is some mention of client side changes yet that tweet suggests there isn't.

Sorry as I said I haven't played in a wee while, when did the character wipe happen? Bit of a shame too, my last logout I was sitting pretty.. :( ..oh, well.

Yeah, I mean I'm not bitching (as I said in my previous (edited) post) but I don't think these are confirmed as to being part of the new patch, just a list of things they are working on. Obviously I've just updated at the "wrong time" in the sense that the new patch arrived just as I logged into Steam after a break, and now I'm left with now servers to play it on.

I've seen a few "unofficial" comments regarding what will come, but nothing official. From the DevBlog: We are committed to not releasing builds onto stable to introduce new game breaking bugs. Now that we’ve fixed those bugs, we’re internally verifying and fixing any new bugs that have been introduced. We will do an unscheduled update the moment we are confident we have a suitable build to release. Which is all fine and well, and I applaud them, I'm not sure if pushing the patch out before updating the experimental servers is the right order to do things in. Not that I'm bitching, there could easily be a bug that has risen it's head and resulted in the lack of experimental servers.