Judopunch

This is truly sad. You have not further convinced me that only people who want an exploitable, peak around corners, stealth-less game, with no repercussions to actions because of gained omnipotent knowledge want to play third person. You have convinced me that the experience I have when I play in first person is far richer and superior, and that I should still champion the developers to remove the omnipotent view mode because it is contrary to having a survival simulator.

I would challenge you to convince me why its preferable to be able to lay on a rooftop and only expose myself to targets miliseconds before I kill them. I would challenge you to convince me that your lack of claustrophobia is preferable to actual tactical and stealth driven game play. Disagreeing with me does not address these points, or facilitate my understanding of your preference. This then leads me to believe that you simply like an easier, less rich, watered down game. Where the aforementioned, addressed, points left from our discussion.

I believe that good or bad, given the choice most people will take the easy road that makes them feel powerful. I also believe that if the game had been released with only first person it would still remain just as popular. Are you saying that you prefer all of the detriments to third person simply because you like to have an omnipotent view? You clearly are avoiding addressing my points as to why third person is harmful to DayZ's game design by spamming your color'd text button and saying 'people like it'.

Not even remotely. The fact that third person allows me to lay on the hospital in Electro, watch someone run below me, and shoot them with them having no knowledge of my existance is what bothers me. What bothers me is every standoff in third person is about who can see around the corner or over the wall. It bothers me that if im found by an armed group my chance of escape is greatly diminished because hiding behind walls, fences, bushes becomes impossible. I find it difficult to understand why you equate field of view to omnipiotent knowledge of the environment. I hope my examples above clearly indicate the obvious differences and reasons to prefer first person. However, the next argument that comes up is 'fix it so you cant see around ...' ect ect. There is a fix, remove 3rd person. Every other solution is a hack job at best and creates more problems then it solves.

Right but the idea of not having omnipotent information about your environment and situation creates 'claustrophobic' feelings. By removing that you are removing fear, uncertainty, things lurking in the distance. If you mean by 'claustrophobic' that you feel squished against your screen, your field of view needs to be widened as the default is very narrow for a fps.

I agree with the comparison with COD. I would like to ask you why you think that having extra-situational awareness is better for the game? A horror survival simulator.

I disagree with you. The shirt can prevent you from bleeding in the first place. And the rags will still be craftable even if the shirt takes some damage. I believe that while you have good intentions that you could have possibly offered something more to the op then belitteling someone who has valid advice. My advice to the op Is to watch a twitch stream for a little bit to see how the game kind of works. Its complex and what you need to know will depend greatly on your gaming experience.

What if you make a contract, with an investor, that they can have 'early' acces to a game as its being built. Lets call it an 'alpha'. Do you think that this contract would be enough to inform people that the game is unfinished? "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." Lets make sure they are informed and click on it at least twice before they invest, and once before they get to play each time they load up the program.

You were shot in the head because you where in Cherno. Thats good enough reason :P

Always wanted someone to articulate this preference. But the only reason they ever give is 'because i like it better. Why do you like it better? There are several compelling reasons this game should not have 3pp included. I never seem to see any articulate, compelling, game design and gameplay influencing reasons to keep 3pp in the game. Can you offer any?

My friend and his buddys wiped the zap guys twice in a row. They killed him than banned him from their server. Thats why we dont play there. Now ya the 1pp servers are slim now. I hope with a shard and persistence there will be a couple well run servers that are populated.

I wasnt directing my response to you. In both instances you were near the most heavily trafficed military weapons spawns in the game. Why in gods green earth would you sit in the top of a glass tower and mess with something thats not working and be surprised you got shot?

In .49 all the doors for buildings are randomized.

Ya IRL that would be funny, but in the game with damage mechanics it has the potential to be awkward.

There is so much win in this... I dont even...

I would be concerned about the stopping power of the weapon. But I guess thats all in how they are going to Balance it.

Leave the coast. Especial Elektro and Cherno. If you die there I have no sympathy for you. You go for the low hanging fruit and you deserve what you get. All the pvpers and the noobs go there. Guess which one preys on the other. If .5 somehow makes it to live half as crazy as it is now players are going to be in for a surprise though. Starving and hungry you need to get help. My friends and I all had to band together to keep the less fortunate in our group alive after spawning because the amount of food you need is insane. Because of this our game prioritys have changed from Get guns/gear > do whatever we want to whoever, to Get food, clothing, matches, and things to help hunt and gather food> help friends not die, find weapons for protection of food and extra equipment. You need to be really close to hit zombies. I have ghetto-net and I can still 1hit them with a fire axe or punch them to death without much problem. You need to be closer than you used to but thats all.

I still remember the ladders.... The ladders man.... Im sure this will be replaced, the clunky unresponsive one is there to prevent one of the ways of getting stuck in walls. Press V before you get to the obstical instead of at it.

Well two things. One, it will look crappier than that, its spray paint. Two probably will happen, they are adding procedural coloring to weapons soon.

Perhaps they are waiting on the new rendered for much of this as it is very graphics intensive?

Oo

The blurry effect is a visual representation of your health. The color of your screen is an indication of your blood level. I disable post processing because I have a general understanding of my health. If you are very blurry you are most likely low on health and must recover.

.5 Only comes after .49999999999999999 and has no relationship to how done the game is. The game is developing at a blistering pace.

Being privileged to be a part of an alpha test you are being tested. You are testing how much cold is to much. Personaly I find the levels of 'cold' manageable.

Seems half finished.