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THIS. So fucking hard THIS.

Love it. To anyone that are about to say 'cry cry bandits' fuck off, your first thought when you picked a hatchet up was to see what happened when you hit someone with it. If you say you didn't your a fecking liar.

Its a damn good idea though. Brings the focus back to testing instead of players treating like a finished game and protecting their precious gear. The backlash will be a huge flamefest and show just how disgusting some of the community is i'm sure, but fuck them, if its a test lets fecking test it. It'll help give a much better idea on how each patch is progressing. Maybe set up a regular patch/reset rhythm? Like every 7 days or something is update day?

Really? Its an excellent way of encouraging it. Because of course, your going to Kill on Sight when you hear the big bad bandits heartbeat aren't you? So know your a PlayerKiller. Also the 'bandit' was going to shoot you in the face for no reason before, you've just given him a reason to shoot you, again, and again.

Strangely i was just listening to this when i saw this thread.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bqDCfof4FQ

Because this communities got its head so far up its ass that apparently one playstyle is nasty and bad and should be punished (see 'heartbeats'). Even though the boards of are of people crying about getting killed by other survivors. Nothing wrong with killing people. But theres something not right about directly or indirectly encouraging it.

Well mate, rocket called this in its early days a proof-of-concept. and it is an oxymoron, mainly due to having an alpha for a MOD smacks of illusions of grandeur. Many people have made awesome mods with a lot more detail in them and tested them hard before leaking them to the community. It does almost seem like even Rockets not sure what DayZ is anymore. Proof-of-concept mutated into a mod mutated into an 'alpha'. Don't get me wrong, I AM NOT HAVING A GO AT ROCKET. I can actually understand the tangled mess this thing has become, I'm starting to wish he'd just close the whole thing for a few weeks, so he can rebuild what needs doing, make the whole thing more solid in HIS vision, then give it back to us updated to where HE thinks he should be. I mean he was doing pretty good til he started listening to this lot.

Yes there is. The same kiddies exploiting and scripting see it as a 'hall of fame' and WILL do everything they can to get on the top. Now there'd be nothing wrong with a leaderboard is gamers had honour and sportsmanship, but they don't, they really don't. Without fairplay, leaderboards are pointless.

smh. Are leaderboards REALLY needed in a survival game at all? Its a personal achievement, fuck having a list saying 'ohh i hid in a bush for 2 weeks so i iz teh best pl4yer!' All leaderboards do is encourage underhand players to cheat their way to the top of them. Bin them now.

No, they shouldn't. EDIT: This was directed at the mentalist claiming they should ban everyone.

A large player base for an alpha is a good thing, IF those testing it understand the process and are capable of well thought out, impartial, constructive feedback, neither the fanboys or the influx of CoD kids are capable of that. Its a case of 'too many cooks'. Also people need to decide WTF DayZ actually is! IS it a MOD? or IS it an alpha for a game? sorry but if its an alpha for a mod, thats an oxymoron.

The fans are as bad for development as the cryers TBH. One can't stomach any complaints about the mod and try and drown any input out. The other wants to turn the mod into yet another FPS. Neither group has much valuable input. The only thing DayZ alpha has shown, is DON'T make an alpha public.

-.- it's alpha. melee weaps were just introduced. No matter how much you tell people that this isn't even a game yet' date=' it's an alpha and people playing it are devoting their time to TEST said alpha. They still talk like entitled fuckwads. [/quote'] And no matter what people seem to think that anyone that doesn't get wet about it is a hater. Not at all. I fully understand its an alpha, but if you haven't noticed the downhill trend since the mods popularity exploded your either crazy or a blinkered fanboy. Just because its alpha it doesn't mean that you should roll out such changes in one go. Just because its alpha it doesn't mean you should patch in a BRAND NEW melee mechanic without ANY testing. It crashes whole servers, its not a case of tweaking, its a case of bad code. The devs are trying to patch in to much at once to keep up with all the demanding entitled kids on here. Simply put, the community is effecting the development in a way that is starting to look detrimental. Stop coding in stupid broken shit to please the QQ'ers, and fix the fundamentals.

It was slowly rising anyway, from about 2-3 weeks ago. was @27 mins, now its @34. Don't worry it'll soon drop again now everyone will be hacking either other in the face as they run round cherno with a lulztrain.

Wow...... Well that needs a lot of work.

Apparently the coding for melee weapons is so poor that people just using and dropping them crashes the whole server. Quite a landmark of how this mod seems to be going.

You misread that, seemingly on purpose. What he obviously means is players = the most dangerous game. Player move differently to zeds, can take cover, react in totally unexpected ways etc etc. Even shooting unarmed players is actually a wise move. Helps you get you eye in. Its also arguably a dickmove, but its not without its purpose.

Ever since i was young my mum thought i had a screw missing, cos i'm the type of guy to head to a knife fight with a spoon with him, blades moving and arms swinging and people crying out "how is this dude with the spoon winning?" Sorry on topic, Agreed it should be messy and difficult to fight hand to hand, more so when your using a 5 inch blade against a blood thirsty psycho that feels no pain. Kind of half feel there should be some kind of 'one hit kill if not seen' thing though, just to piss off those lazy snipers that aren't careful to check their rears and relocate.

Hahaha you do have a point. Your going to get shot by people heartbeat or no heartbeat. So might as well make it no heartbeat.

Thats just lazy thinking. Lets make a situation up ok? You are on your own, you meet one guy and he seems ok, no heartbeat is working with you.He says 'lets go meet my buddies', you get there, all is fine until you hear the heartbeat from one of them! You panic, kill the 'bandit', but wait, they don't thank you for being a hero, they try and kill you for killing their friend, you have no choice to fight for your life, and have to kill them all to escape... ..After running to the woods to meet another survivor you hail them on chat 'thank god your here buddie i almo..BANG. They fucking kill you. Why? because you had a heartbeat. They didnt know you had to kill though self defense, they only know you killed. For all you know thats why the bandit YOU killed had a heartbeat, they are innocent but were forced into selfdefense. Seems to me you haven't thought though the full implications of this flawed mechanic, like most of the forum.

How about instead of heartbeats when you mouse-over a friendly you get icecream van jingles, and a mouse-over a bandit you hear Metallica? Its really that stupid this whole mechanic.