Judopunch

hold down W as you login, you will most likely lag through the wall and be ok

Than why does it warrant attention of any kind, if it doesnt affect peoples game-play in any noticeable way? You cant have it both ways, either I am right and it has a measurable impact on game balance, or you are right and it doesn't affect game-play in a meaningful way its useless to discuss in the context of the game.

I am missing some kind of billboard file. I think there was a small issue with the patch :P

Hey, most of the people that need to read and comprehend this, they didnt read any of the alpha warnings. I mean, I suppose people can link to your post, but i prefer just to copy paste the disclaimer. You could have probably used your time more productively because you seem very articulate :) Help with bugs and feedback!

Maybe your arms are getting tired :)

Yup, better get used to it. Because many not now, many not in 2 months, but someday adjusting those sliders will not help you much.

There will be many bugs, some very obvious, for a very long time. There is a rather large list of things to take care of and in time they will be. Imagine you have a VERY messy garage, that will require several trips to the dump and store to get cleaned out. You have you and your car. You cant do it in one day, you have to continue to make progress. Sometimes you spill some paint and need to clean it up and it sets you back (last patches bug that pushed it back to tuesday), but you keep going and making progress. Couple days later you have a nice clean garage. Cept this is a game, and its going to take over a year.

As per your example "At 50 meters, about 5% off. At 150 meters, about 15% off." In the case of the .45 the round is slower at 150m than it is in real life. This changes how the player must lead his target, even if only slightly. When combine with dispersion this adjusts the effective range of the weapon. The question becomes "what is the benefit of having weapons resemble real world velocity's, in the game DayZ". Weapons with high velocity will be innately more accurate because the time to target is going to be less. This means you dont need to lead as much and your target has less reaction time. It also increases the effective engagement range. By lowering velocity you make leading the target more difficult, and allow an evasive target to have more luck in zigging at the right time to avoid bullets. In the case of the .45 above, the weapon is clearly superior at 50m because the bullet is moving faster, even though the dispersion of the weapon is quite wide. However at the 150m mark the dispersion is massive and the bullet is slow complicating the shooters ability to effectively engage the target. So if we adjust the velocity of the .45 to make it faster we make the range of 150m have less of an impact on accuracy because we decrease the time to target. Therefore velocity has an effect on weapon balance, if not there would be no balance change if you had a gun that fired at 1 meter per second or 10,000 meters per second. Edit: Now a discussion on the impact of current weapon velocity and dispersion, and how it effects gameplay would be more valuable how comparable it is to real life :)

Id personally like to have 2 hour cycles or something like that, or 3 hours of day 2 hours of night. It would make the experience more well rounded for people who like to play on one server or another because we dont play for 24hours a day..

This is legitimate. There are a couple things that will be helping this. One of them is fixing flashlights so they dont go through walls. Fixing video settings/textures (they can fix this to long to explain how) so people cant just 'adjust their brightness'. Allow people to melee with the flash light. And other things. However right now it is a bit obnoxious due to the above. Patience will see how it goes, but it may be a while. In the mean time, try it out, its crazy creepy even if you adjust your settings.

Did you know this was an Alpha?

Ive been trolling the forms for weeks. I have yet to see anyone 'cry' about American weapons....... Your basically like faux news up in here, creating a crysis and fanning the flames so you can feel important. That aside i have a sig, and I love the hell out of it.

why does everyone claim hacker. Anyone who has played this game with a friend for more than 10 minutes realizes that lag and desync makes the characters do funny shit. People rubberband through doors and appear to walk through walls as the server reconciles their position. A known problem with players in the supermarket is getting stuck in, or appearing to be stuck in the floor. The closest thing to a hack that I have observed is lagwalking into walls, or deleting the building file client side allowing people to see through buildings. Both of those exploits generally only happen in places like electro where the blowhards are tryharding.

Shotgun has spray, you can fire from the hip/while moving and cover an area in front of you :) And its cooler. but its tough, because magnum is also cool....

Make sure you are on the correct direct hive, experimental or live. I logged into experimental 3 as a new spawn, logged into the one I was playing on last night was my proper character. There may have been a change requiring you to log into the same server you were previously playing on. No info from the devs at this time. However as this is an alpha be prepared to die/get erased/rolled back often. If you can not handle that dont play for a couple months. Good luck. Edit: Rocket just posted that "hardcore" and "softcore" characters are going to be different. This may have to do with some of the problems people are having. Make sure if you are using a 3pp character, that you stay in a 3pp:on, server and vis versa.

Did you know this is an Alpha and not a game? Did you know you can expect game breaking bugs preventing you from playing? Did you read any of the 200 warnings every time you logged in or the 4 you get before you buy the alpha?

This is where your logic train fails. Changing the velocity of the round changes the weapon characteristic called velocity :P Ones level of training has a lot to do with how the weapon behaves. For instance im still trying to break the habbit of pulling left with my pistol while I pull the trigger.

The game isnt done yet first of all. Second of all people should stop expecting moc reality. Though these exercises are fun, this is not infant reality, it is a game. Reality must be sacrificed for the sake of the game. If you dont believe me how fun would this game be if you could never log out? How would you recreate the entire world? Why are we not wet if we washed up on shore? If weapons are as accurate as they are in real life they should be shot in real life. There is no draw distance in real life. There is no bush rendering max in real life. You can pivot your head in real life. You can not sprint indefinitely for 4 hours in real life. So what is the benefit, from a game play perspective, of having laser accurate bullets? If thats the case they better work on something better than occulas rift or the alt button so you can be more aware of your surroundings, among the million other real life things. How about how scopes would have to fog up on cold days? Or letting us lean and slide into cover? Or allowing me to kick a door down or a time switch for me to turn a door nob. Shoot i should be able to master key a door with an underberral attachment. there will always be a million ways to make the game more real. The challenge in GAME DESIGN is how do we make a compelling GAME that provides a good experience for players. Realism can be an inspiration but it is not the master.

Forum admins have such power. Or new post.

I generally appear at where i logged in at. However I notice that when I log in sometimes for a moment I see another location. There could be an entity or spawn origin issue that causes you to rubberand to the entity / spawn location. One of these locations (possibly a bug) could be in the ocean, or under the world. I say you may have fallen through the world because depending on the code the edge of the worldbox could behave like water, and you would most likely not be able to see the world depending on where the geometry is in relation to the worldbox. TLDR: Maby you ran through a mountain.

Ya. I realy didnt know how deep the rabbit hole whent tell i started learning Maya.......

Can you update the OP with that info?

I generally appear at where i logged in at. However I notice that when I log in sometimes for a moment I see another location. There could be an entity or spawn origin issue that causes you to rubberand to the entity / spawn location. One of these locations (possibly a bug) could be in the ocean, or under the world. I say you may have fallen through the world because depending on the code the edge of the worldbox could behave like water, and you would most likely not be able to see the world depending on where the geometry is in relation to the worldbox. TLDR: Maby you ran through a mountain.

They did, its the arma engine, modified for DayZ. I dont understand what you are saying.

Ya, delayed is a bit arbitrary. Not updating the announcements is... we will go with inconvenient.