rickyriot

Ah, yes, the constant cries of "oh, for fuck sake, how did it hear me from way over there" while desperately looking for a hillside to climb up.. ;)

Only problem is that you have Apple users so high in your hierarchy.. ;)

On the controller issue, let's not forget that the SA menu offers you controller integration. Not that I've tried it. I used to use the controller for vehicles in the mod (swapping to keyboard/mouse as I got in and out) but I have never managed to get used to a FPS controller game. However I don't see why a clever use of a contextual controller mapping couldn't make it easier. We also have to remember most of us are coming from a keyboard/mouse background, there are lots of players out there who were raised playing consoles and find a keyboard/mouse control clumsy and less intuitive. In regard to the porting to consoles, who is to say that Bohemia themselves would do it? After all it's quite common for different devs to develop the console to the PC versions. If a known console developing company was to come along and pay a decent whack for a licence, why would BI turn that down? Seems like free money to me.

Doesn't everyone else use this as a tactic when looting towns? If there is sunshine I make sure it's behind me (which generally means coming from the South) so that if anyone is tracking me, or looking to shoot at me, will have to deal with the glare. Not so useful during the rain of course.. ;)

Disagree. The console hardware is more than capable of dealing with the game engine and to suggest a controller isn't complex enough is just PC arrogance (no offence, btw).

It is a bit of a shame that those who get introduced to the game in the current Alpha form didn't get the "OHHH FUUUUCK ZOOOMBIE, FUCK FUCK FUCK... ARRGHH" joy the first games of the mod brought you. Those who got introduced to the mod tended to ask, "how the fuck do you survive more than 10 minutes" rather than "I'm bored after 10 minutes" which is sadly what the SA offers as is. Not that I am knocking the SA. After all those who have followed it's development knows exactly why it is like it is now and what potential it has.

Bottom line? BI will want to make the most of the asset they have in DayZ. It clearly has more traction than they thought. As a lot of people have bought the Alpha it's unlikely to be a big take up of the game when it hits Beta. If you were looking at it from a financial point of view you would look to move over to consoles in order to monetise your user base in several ways, one being a higher price tag than the Alpha was and with further purchasable DLC. I am not trying to piss on anyone's cornflakes here, it's just solid business logic. Go to an audience that is already locked into high prices and a willingness to purchase extra content. Of course shifting DayZ onto consoles would have a fairly big negative hit on the game that PC players had got used to (granular controls like keyboard and mouse would clearly be out, replaced presumably by motion detection and game controller meaning the hitbox and interaction with the environment being altered to reflect that), but then on the flip side the PC modding community would take the job of retaining the PC game feel.

"Discretion is the better part of valour" ~ William Shakespeare

Considering the level of accuracy (or rather inaccuracy) things like the M4 has I don't tend to mess with the zeroing if I have a standard non scoped sight.

Generally your character survives up to the point you either say, "Hey, guess how long I've been alive" and/or you make a thread asking how long other characters have been alive. Quality > quantity.. ;)

The colour is relational to their heat. When stars are due to go nova they will burn colder as they run out of material to burn. Our sun cannot go nova, it's too small.

I don't want to offend you, but this highlights exactly what is wrong with console gaming. I'm all for statistics; distance travelled, zombies killed, longest character survival but to work in achievements is devaluing the game itself.

All the Eurogamer.net videos have been horrendous. For a "professional" outfit they make themselves look really amateurish.

And this is where Rocket works... ..before he left.

I'm torn on this to be honest, as on one hand I think if you offer suicide you'll just have people killing themselves over and over in order to get a better spawn point. On the flip side, I have broken a leg early on in the game, miles away from any resources and on a server that had most of the zombies killed so no way of ending it. Mind you, in you think about it realistically if you were stuck in the same position IRL there is no easy way to kill yourself either.

It's a minority sport, in the same way kabaddi is... ;) To be fair I saw the Feb devblog video and thought the baseball bat swing in relation to the new physics and thought that it looked pretty realistic.

My mic broke and I just haven't been bothered to get a replacement yet, which means if I need to converse with people it's via the local chat which brings with it loads of problems. Essentially I can't chat and have my gun ready at the same time as the chat system "locks" you out of other movements. Because of this, I've basically just been ignoring people. I will say thanks to a couple of people I met on the experimental server the other day, I swapped food for bandages (for some reason my medikit had "disappeared" from my inventory), however it was only really possible because (1) they were friendly and (2) I was massively better armed than they were so the logic goes I could have killed them for their loot rather than just asking for it.

Why would anyone in an ex soviet republic play baseball? Football, yes, and there are even football fields already on the map.

I could rewrite it in C, C++, C#, VB, Java, Javascript or even 8-bit non labelled 6502 assembler if that would help.. ;)

10 PRINT "Starts pointless thread to complain about pointless thread" 20 GOTO 10

"I bought a Director's Cut of a porn film once, and guess what? He fixed the cable in the end." "I bought Anal housewives 4 the other day, imagine how disappointed to find out it was just women keeping their living rooms tidy." Aye-ah-thank-you... I'm here all week, remember to try the veal.

Some of that is indeed looking sweet as a fucking nut. The ragdoll stuff with lighting will be really good fun once they hit experimental.

^^ This is spoken (typed) by a man who has clearly come home to find his wife giving head to a plumber.

Haven't you heard? Since Rocket announced his decision to leave the project in a year or so, everyone has given up on developing the Alpha and they've all been moved over to Arma4 development.