Death By Crowbar

That's the concern. Startups typically have a "white knight" that makes or breaks them. Dean has that persona now as far as everyone is aware, until someone arises that it's clear they have the chops to take it and run with it everyone will be concerned. This has been seen time and time again. And anyime a firm hires nearly a dozen people to replace one it's never, never a good sign.

Oh, wonderful - you hired how many people to add cooking? You added HOW MANY PEOPLE TO REPLACE ONE IRREPLACEABLE RESOURCE? In the industry there's a term - bankable assets. When you have someone who is irreplaceable you pay them whatever they need, irreplaceable. I'll bet the 12-20 people hired will have nothing to do with any of the following areas of concern: Zombie pathing and vision - they come through walls or whatever they want whether they can see you or not to attack you. And when they do attack you their AI is laughable. Just strafe around them and because they attack linearly they'll never hit you. I can barehand kill an infinite volume of zombies as if it were a joke. Object pathing and boundaries - why can an log out in a tower, then log back in and arm a weapon only to suddenly fall to my death for no reason? Why can a zombie attack me from nowhere and knock me into the walls of a building where I ultimately get stuck?Forget baking, farming, or whatever - these are they types of issues that the users want addressed. If the manpower you've obtained doesn't have the chops to tackle this small piece of work - fire them all and look for new management. That's a challenge, please rise to it.

One of many bugs. I've posted about this before. It's alpha, a great fun game but with many many many things not working properly (for better or for humor).

With Dean Hall leaving - there are big shoes to fill. My main question is - can the litany of major problems as follows be solved WITHOUT Dean Hall? All of these have been problems without resolution for quite some time. As someone who's purchased the game (I know, ALPHA expect nothing, if you say that punch yourself) there's a certain amount of expectations put on fixing glaring issues. There's a large contingent of the community that will simply not put up with certain bugs/development plans going unresolved. That list includes: Zombies being far to stupid/weak. Zombies pathing through anything they desire, walls, buildings, etc. Structural integrity being a joke (zone out in a building and fall to your death, a zombie pushing you inside a wall of a building from which you can never escape, odd noises funneling to you from across the server, etc)\ Issues surrounding server hopping and loot farmingThe devs are focusing on adding a lot of content to the game, but until they fix the clearly broken content they're going to struggle. The real question is whether or not with Dean Hall leaving the remaining Dev crew has the chops to fix the truly major issues plaguing the game. I'm giving it 1-3 months to see if these mechanical issues can be fixed or not before throwing in the towel and moving on to something else. If they cannot fix the major bugs then what's the point?

I log out in a tower near the cost yesterday or the day before. So tonight while the lame Oscars are on I log back in and try to check things out. However, the second I arm my SKS I fall out of the tower to my death. Really? Can we get the pathing, wall interaction, vertical issues some priority? Never camping again while up high, what a crock of shit. Hoping I can find a friendly to help re-gear me, otherwise my limited 1-2 hours per night is going to take some time to get any sort of gear again. I know this is alpha (or pre-alpha) but wow, let's fix the mechanics. Zombies ghost through anything they want, it's kinda getting old. Fix the big bugs please, unless you're incapable since your main Dev defected a week or so ago?

I decided to try my hand at sniping today, and was perched up high in a tower near the coast. The strangest thing though, I kept hearing someone eating and drinking. I looked all around for half an hour and didn't see anyone, the only thing I could see was a zombie parked at the base of the tower directly under me. It sounds crazy but, do zombies eat and drink so they don't die? Is that what I was hearing? Munch munch munch, gulp. Crack can open, glug glug glug every few minutes. Really weird!

My opinion - it's a worth while enough game to purchase NOW. However, once purchased the whole "it's alpha, shit is broken and you must deal with it" mentality goes out the window. Once purchased you are responsible to support any users who've purchased it, regardless of what disclaimers you put forth. That's the reality.

Searched and couldn't find anything on this - anyone see the weird thing where someone could be skating on top of their shirt or backpack? The dude who was skating on his shirt incidentally had no torso (I have no screenshot), but I saw a dude skating on his backpack and then the same thing happened to me - when I put the backpack on it went to my feet instead of my back and when I ran it stayed under my feet as if I was skating on it. Wild... http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=230587017

Were you the one who we ran through a city or two (with that dude with the black tshirt following us) and whimsically came up with this idea to sneak attack the first well outfitted dude we saw, then when we ran into two well outfitted dudes the one died of hunger right in front of us, then you hit the other guy with the shovel so he shot and killed you? If so, that was hilarious.

Anyone else seen this before? It was by a lighthouse... The tree is literally in the air! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=230586680

I'm getting the same. Faulting application name: DayZ.exe, version: 0.35.115.188, time stamp: 0x52f91301Faulting module name: DayZ.exe, version: 0.35.115.188, time stamp: 0x52f91301Exception code: 0xc0000005 - System - Provider [ Name] Application Error - EventID 1000 [ Qualifiers] 0 Level 2 Task 100 Keywords 0x80000000000000 - TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2014-02-21T19:00:43.000000000Z EventRecordID 10251 Channel Application Computer GOKU Security - EventData DayZ.exe 0.35.115.188 52f91301 DayZ.exe 0.35.115.188 52f91301 c0000005 0028dea1 2758 01cf2f2cfaff59e4 E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DayZ\DayZ.exe E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DayZ\DayZ.exe 7600fb38-9b2a-11e3-a04b-902b3457c42f

I tend to hit servers with 10 or less people. What's everyone else's preference?

Well that was a first. Was at the airbase, looking for friendlies (maybe that is where I went wrong in the first place). Saw 2 dudes run into the control tower, coulda brained them, but they looked friendly. Went in to meet them, they talked to me then handcuffed me and held me hostage, rummaged my gear, then the one guy defibbed himself on accident which was funny. They were sorta silly, its unclear if they planned to kill me or not. However, then another group of dudes came up and killed us all. So - ever been taken hostage by one group then killed by another? That was my luck tonight. I shoulda worn my lowering of the expectations hat tonight. Dang.

"looked friendly" is subjective, I know, that was probably my downfall. This is what they looked like after the one dude defibbed himself while I was captive. LOL. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=230090022

Just tried one with a population 30/40 - didn't end up so well. Got taken hostage by what looked like 2 friendlies then killed by another group. F me!

A "rotten" kiwi being "pristine" is akin to SPAM being present on your grocery store shelf. How can a "rotten" kiwi, or any fruit for that matter, possibly be "pristine"?

I want to be able to chop someone else's leg off and use it to replace my broken leg.

The whole zombie pathing and attacking through floors issue is bad enough, but a stupid zombie attacked me near the airfields and somehow managed to knock me into a void of a military drop building and now I cannot get out. Any suggestions? Here's a link to a screenshot of where I'm stuck currently. I've tried logging out and logging back into another server and that doesn't seem to help. Do I need to contact an admin or something? I don't want to kill myself! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=229449214

Finally free, logging out for the evening. Check the cowboy hat and mask, I look half respectable. I ran into a dude tonight that I thought was a zombie at first and he didn't shoot me even though I look sorta like a bandit. Fairly civil night, minus the building that ate me and held me hostage for a half hour. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=229455612

Ok - triumph, I have broken through! After trying everything logical and silly I finally managed to somehow vault myself into that room with the computer. I'm out.

Well, yeah, of course I know this isn't a finished game. But getting trapped in voids is kinda a big deal. I'd imagine a developer would want to see this and put preventative measures to prevent it and/or allow escape, no? If I just kill myself how does that help further the game? I'm trying to find out: 1. Do the devs want to see this and review any logs to see how this happened and analyze the situation. 2. Is there a way for me to escape? I realize it's a game in progress, but when you pay $29.99 USD for it on Steam there's a level of support that should be expected, even if not a finalized product yet. The fact that it's a paid for game is where the "it's not done yet" argument falls off the tracks and becomes irrelevant, you've bought it and are expecting help/support.

I've tried log rolling and other crap to get out. I cannot get out of this damn building! Are there really no dev/gm resources to help with insane situations such as this? I'm wondering if this shouldn't be reported as a bug. Another screenshot - I've tried nearly everything I can think of across 2-3 servers now and cannot break free of this damn prison. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=229451486

Like an idiot I even tried chopping out with my axe for a while but I know that wasn't going to help. I tried various things going from 1st to 3rd person (I've had this do weird things like ghost me onto other side of walls before), but that didn't work. I've also tried crawling or vaulting, with no luck. I've also tried shooting to attract other zombies to knock me through the wall again but that didn't work either. Would suck to undermine a few hours of gearing up because I'm stuck in a building void. Arghhh!!!! >:(

I sense a sniper in training...

I actually found one, a rabbit! I tried chopping it, punching it, etc and I couldn't kill it. Then I turned my back for 1/2 sec to see if anyone was around and when I turned back around it was gone! Like a ghost! I got a screenshot of it here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=225416300