Death By Crowbar

I have a degree in computer science and I co-founded a software company. I participated in many alphas, including but not limited to Everquest, Dark Ages of Camelot, and other MMORPG's. You are questioning me why? Who are you again?

You clearly have no knowledge of software or what is being done behind the scenes. You response seems geared towards putting a "n00b" in their place and not providing any value in moving an issue foward. Do you have any experience in software or alpha testing big games? ... No? Thought so. Move aside, let people with experience have a conversation here.

You've not participated in many alphas have you? What's your experience been in general? Oh wait - it's clear you have none. Be gone, let the adults talk.

Troll, troll, troll. Looking for someone to respond that knows something about anything and isn't a troll/clown/highschooler.

I'd like to see someone respond who is not in high school and has a handle on concepts related to software design and quality assurance. That's severly lacking these days... we're mobbed by high schoolers and college kids amped up on Monster or Redbull drinks with barely an inkling of what software is and is capable of. What I'm noting and requesting is actually very small and simple in the grand scheme of things - it merely requires someone with a Customer Assurance type rule and/or some software devs adding triggers/events/whatever in place that can detect when paid patrons get manipulated outside of play and automatically re-equip them with an equivalent to what they had previously (or better). Its actually a very simple request and would only serve to motivate users trying to actively participate in this alpha project.

There are logs. The devs can tell these things. Fixing wipes and automating making good can/should be totally possible, I've seen it happen in other paid alphas I've participated in. Do you have anything constructive to offer beyond that? Or are you taking pot shots and second guessing both the original poster and myself?

Hello troll. Goodbye troll (unless you have anything to offer that is useful).

... and that is one of the major reasons I keep re-iterating that hiding behind "this is alpha, a game still in development" is a crutch and nothing more. "In development and alpha" means absolutely nothing to a company that knows that, and maintains state/logs - because they can "make good" on paid customer issues and even automate that. It's the apathy and lack of consideration that I've found appalling, a competent developer could detect these type of issues and automate making them right, alpha or not. That's simple fact, customers pay you, you take care of them, you don't simply turn a blind eye and let the "LOLZ @ U" crowd bury them.

This is the story of my life. I wrote a major rant after spending roughly 12 hours across several days running around, foraging, gearing up - only to log in a subsequent day and find everything gone. As a paid customer they should be able to see from the logs what happened and simply "buff" you back up and "make good" on the issue. Oh wait - here comes the hordes of clowns touting "this is alpha, LOLZ @ U!!!". A game company that cares would have logs and see when someone effectively gets the shaft and would simply make good on it. Period. End of discussion.

Woah.

Yep... check here - only 69 votes to be the 3rd most voted issue the community wants addressed. It's up there. The feedback I'm hearing is there's concern it can't be fixed thus why it's been outstanding so long. That's a concern.

This is amusing except all indications given are that the highest voted issues will be the most likely to be worked on. Of all the issues, this is the 4th highest on the "community's" priority list. I think there's concern that this can't/won't be addressed. I've played too many games with clipping issues unaddressed, the current zed state makes this bubble up to priority 1 imo. Addressing this would be received akin to Victor Cruz doing the salsa dance in the Super Bowl for a NY Giants fan, I beleive every survivor would be dancing in the streets, KOS risk or not! My concern and other concerns with folks I've talked with is that this can't be effectively addressed. As a paid player that's a big concern.

I agree with this as well. As I've said before, the zed clipping is the 4th most voted issue - clearly the community would like it corrected.

With the increased zed spawn and damage it would be nice to see priority put into the long outstanding zed clipping issue, which is the 4th highest voted issue: http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view.php?id=77 It's clear the community would like this fixed, and with the increased zed spawnage/damage one would hope greater priority would be put on finally addressing this long outstanding issue.

The higher you are (in buildings or towers) the more likely you are to hear random eating, drinking, and talking... or at least that's my experience. I swear to all holy that if you're in a tower sniping and there's zeds below they eat, drink, and poop non-stop. Devs need to allow us to bind them up, use the burlap sac, and steal their food - because it would seem they have an endless supply!

Apparently you can hit & blow up fuel pumps, and open/close doors. You can also pickup & drop items. Are there any other environmental things that can be interacted with currently that I've missed? I need to try the fuel pump thingy...

Zombies - do you kill, kite, or avoid them? Here's what I've found. When I first started (before I knew double run was faster) I would always try to fight them, even bare handed. What a sad hopeless newb I was (and probably still am). However, then when I learned hitting "w" twice made me run twice as fast, I started to flee from or kite them. When I say "kite" I mean run in a loop where they get tired and lose interest far away but you end up back where they originally were and like magic no zombie to deal with! Sometimes I'd kite hoards of zombies out of cities so I could loot uninterupted. However, once I realized how weak zombies were against strafing and weapons such as the two axes - I started killing them, every single one I could find, for fun because there's little to no risk once you have an axe (regardless of type).That's my evolution. If I have no weapon now, I avoid or kite them. If I have an axe weapon (or sometimes a baseball bat or fire extinguisher and I'm feeling motivated) I'll kill them all. What's your approach?

So here's an oddball question - if Steam is down DayZ is also down? Or? I'm able to log in for about a minute or 2, and it appears as though I see a few people popping onto the server I'm no then disappearing - I'm assuming they're all getting the Authentication Timeout issue. Are DayZ login and Steam login tightly coupled?

Yeah - I was about to post about this too, glad I found this thread first. So - you can't play DayZ if steam is down? I also updated the bug ticket about this with whatever information I could find. Steam is going down like a high school prom date today... http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view.php?id=5381

So - while starving and dying of dehydration and looking for food I managed to accidentally fall on the scaffolding of one of the industrial buildings. Now I'm completely trapped, I can't "v" jump or anything, there's no zombies around to kill me, I have no idea what to do. I have little to no gear, nothing to eat that will kill me. I cannot find out how to use my baseball bat on myself, doesn't seem possible. Is my only option to sit here and stare at the screen until I die from starvation or dehydration? Someone please flush out some options I'm missing. Screenshot of where I am. Maybe a medic can log into the same server as me and give me a stick or something? http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=237795009

I tried, I was hoping it would show up orange, but it didn't. I also had a hacksaw, that could have worked. Either that or eat the 9v battery and shove the flashlight up my butt or something, I dunno, we need a way to commit suicide I think.

I found a solution, although I think it's a bug that actually needs to be fixed. After messing around, I found that if I press "C" my char can stand up even though my legs are broken. How superhero of me! If I then press "v" he vaults! Stepped right over the scaffolding that was holding me hostage before lying right down again. I didn't realize that with your legs broken you could still stand and vault. That is probably a bug, but it's a good thing I could do it. Needless to say I lost consciousness and/or died minutes after this. However, I have a pic of myself crawling after breaking free (below). http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=237795831

Glad I ran around gearing up last night. That was hours well spent. I get that this is alpha - but this is a HUMAN cost. If me, as a human, buys the game for $30, do NOT wipe me, ever, period. The whole "this is alpha, read the disclaimer" thing gets old quick. It's a crutch. Take care of your paid customers, don't screw them and leave them out to dry for god's sake.