Spinnyd223

I guess i don't really understand what it takes to create a game considering the frequency and miniscule size of the updates.. But if the stars aligned in just a certain way, and dreams could be made. These are the things i would like I KNOW NONE OF THESE CAN BE DONE THIS IS JUST A PIPE DREAM 1. Fully fenced in military bases that can be overtaken by a group of players giving them complete control to the entrance gates and manually open/close it to let in whoever they want. Perhaps a security camera pointed at the front gate and a little button speaker to talk to the person inside. 2. Huge rock mountains with natural formation holes in the sides where players can sit and make fires and be safe from the rain. 3.Fully customizable wooden houses with an unlimited amount of customizations like stealing end-tables and small mirrors from buildings just to use them inside your house. (imagine seeing a player using both hands to hold a giant painting he found in a building in elektro just so he can run it back to his house and hang it on his wall lol) 4. Actual survival- Not just soda's laying around. Players must boil water they find to disinfect it first. Or they can find the parts to make a de-salination still for their home so they can filter the salt out of ocean water. Players must find sticks and tinder to create a friction fire.. 5. Spotlights on helicopters. Imagine being in the middle of the woods in the pitch black night and a huge spotlight shines down through the trees searching for you. I would shit. 6. A train on the only track in the game that only goes when someone sits in the driver seat. 7. Little things.. Like being able to set a zombie on fire and watching it run around engulfed in flames. Or being able to wrap a shirt around the tip of a baseball bat and use it while walking down the road as a torch. 8. Swamp part of the map with 12 inch layer of floating spooky fog

In dayz alpha, loot and zombies do not respawn. At all. The only way loot and zombies can be spawned into the world is if the server admin physically shuts down/restarts the server resulting in every player being disconnected. So officially hosted bohemia servers with 40/40 players you should stay far away from because there is no admin available to manually restart them. So what happens is the server just runs for a month without ever being restarted.. This baffles me because you can wipe the entire map of every zombie and loot within just a few hours with 40 players..Nevermind an entire month Personally i find this unacceptable.. And dean hall doesn't think this is a priority?? It makes the game unplayable.. Whats a survival zombie game without any zombies.. or food to survive? I think they really need to make zombies and loot respawning as the number one priority.. Dean hall said they are trying to discover a better way than "unrealistic" loot respawning.. Ok thats fine and all, but whats even less realistic than respawning loot is servers being forced to restart every hour just so we can have zombies in a zombie game. If there was a more realistic method of spawning loot into a video game than every video game would have been using that method for the last 15 years..Get real.. In the meantime while dean hall ponders ways to make new zombies arrive to chernarus in a taxi-cab, spare us the bull*** and just give us respawning zombies already! -If you ever go into an "experimental" server with 50/50 players, within two hours there is not a single zombie or piece of loot remaining anywhere.. It leaves you with nothing to do but punch other people in the head or find another server

Yeah you are right, lets stick with the state of the art cooking pot and just leave it at that. The only way you could think these are bad ideas is if your a grumpy 65yr old arrogant drunk who hates everything under the sun Something about some people in the dayz crowd are super arrogant towards people with suggestions i noticed. Like an arrogant old alcoholic farmer or something.. Kind of like when you go to explain something to your parents and they say "ABSOLUTELY NOT" before you even get the first words out of your mouth. Being that dayz is alpha im pretty sure we bought into "EARLY ACESS" to play the role of testers who can offer input.. A lot of you guys are like overflowing with pre-prepared defensive arguments about why an idea is bad in one way or another.. Its like you are looking for a reason to discredit someones ideas.. Conservative much? What does dayz have in it now thats so great? Seriously.. tell me. I guess i shouldn't be surprised that a lot of the people here on the dayz forum act this way because 1. You have to have a certain degree of self prominence to be one of those people who make security recons around on the forum to keep people with suggestions in-line.. and second because you have to be hipster/vegan/atheis enough to be dayz fan to begin with.. I could understand people being conservative if the game was a finished masterpiece and you didn't want it to be touched... But it isn't a finished masterpiece.. So i don't get why people can be so objective to new ideas.

Lol at your large "this game is in alpha" sig They should just call it dayz alpha as the official name because its been alpha for the past two years since the start of the mod Should rename it to Yearz lol

Thats cool but i was thinking more like.. tall rock mountains with natural divots in the sides you can camp out in. Not caves

how are security cameras arcadey? you know military bases use security cameras right? So zombies fit your bill for realism but cameras are too arcadey? So if a zombie apocalypse happened all cameras on the planet would vanish? If you wanted 100% realism you should go out into the woods with a stick.. Dayz needs more things in general. A train would be entertaining and a great way to travel. The fact of the matter is that dayz in its current state provides minimal entertainment value and less and less people are occupying dayz servers with each passing day. An awesome rusty noisy steaming train could only help not hurt. And fuel is not any more or less outlandish than soda's laying around on every shelf. There is no fire in dayz, there is no fuel in dayz, there is no water in dayz.. There are just pixels and your imagination

Ok einstein.. what are the alternatives?? Restarting server every hour? Wake up.. loot not respawning doesn't work no matter what you argue

The rate of these patches are taking so long. And for what? A cooking pot? Idk about you guys.. But this is starting to seem pretty hopeless. Yeah i know they doubled the size of the dev team but from 5 to 10 people isn't that much of an improvement.. A game of this scale needs a studio.. and massive manpower if they want to ever seriously consider bringing us the features they originally hoped for.. Bohemia is the publisher i understand that.. But whats the developer team name of the people who make dayz? Dean hall? Created by dean hall on the main menu page? Even WARZ has a developer studio and a group name "hammerpoint" Is dayz team even real? So why is bohemia and dean hall only employing "indie" manpower to a big name game? Dayz has been one of the most sucessfull pc sellers in the last decade.. Where is the money? I just keep looking everyday for patches to come for dayz on steam and it just never happens, And im not surprised honestly. I dont think people fully understand the man power and resources required to make a game.. If you look at a game like interstellar marines who has a developer team of 12 (more than dayz).. They have been working on that game for about 8 years and the progress is minimal at best. There is not even a crouch button yet. Indie games take forever.. Just making fez took one man three years to make. Another example is, grand theft auto4.. ONE THOUSAND people working on it.. 5 years to make. When i saw the sucess of dayz standalone i was 100% sure that dean hall would open his own game studio, give it a name, than hire hundreds of developers to bring us the best survival game of all time.. dayz has been one of the most sucessfull pc games in the last decade.. They have made more money than most triple A developers do on their pc titles. So we know they have money.. Where is it? So the excuse of "small dev team" is no longer a viable excuse..

Damn random person on the internet you really just wrecked my feelings i am hurting so badly right now. Nobody even plays dayz.. They just like the idea of dayz. Thats why they bought it. To be a part of the trend. I have 14 people on my steam friends list who all have less than an hour played on dayz. And the other 20 people have about 2 hours played max.. Dayz is more of like.. a mirage than anything. It's the imagination in all of us that gives dayz its value, the thought of what it COULD be.. Unfortunately its lead by someone who has a completely different agenda. Capitolize, profit. evacuate. Go on dayz right now and take off the ping limit.. every server has 0 players.. Maybe 1-3 topps. Warz has a ton more people playing right now than dayz does. At least 100x more players at any given moment in this past month. Even friday at around 6pm usually when all games have the most players the dayz servers were just mostly empty. People are now becoming aware that dayz offers very little in terms of entertainment value. Just look at all the servers right now it speaks for itself. its just a shame because they made millions off dayz already.. Its been on the top of the steam charts since its debut.. Someone is seriously withholding funds. Dean hall is just the one guy smart enough to see this and capitolize on it with minimal effort and made millions.. He has made enough to hire a company of hundreds of people and create the next "valve" in terms of PC gaming.. But he doesnt give a crap about dayz.. He is witholding all the funds for himself and can't even pretend he cares (already announced leaving during alpha) The amount of time it took between the moment the free dayz mod popularity skyrocketed, and the time it took to produce the standalone was evidence enough that the game was going nowhere. Now that dayz standalone has finally come out and a number of months have passed with nothing added is further proof that dayz is just a road of empty dreams. It's just not gonna happen. dayz is and always will be just a mirage of what COULD HAVE BEEN. **teardrop**

That video of the dayz devblog just further proves the point that this game is going nowhere. -Flashlights now work during day time..uhh what? -Physics.. Physics have been in every game since half life 2.. Should have been in alpha from the start. Certainly doesn't warrant playing the game any more or less. -Hunting.. Cool now i can be bored with a pig to accompany me -New house in the map.. Changes nothing -Permanant backpacks that you can hide.. cool i guess -Desync fix.. Should be ashamed this was even an issue to begin with. Never heard of a game having "de-sync" in my 15+yrs of gaming. -Bicycles. Only part of the video that i was happy about. Seems like the finished product will be nothing more than the free dayz mod we've always already had.. Seems like they are just putting in stuff for the sake of putting in stuff.. Dean hall mentally checked out of dayz a LONG time ago. Now he is just milking the clock until he can get the hell out of there

Wow they are just too kind (zombie stuck halfway in floor takes out tissue and wipes a teardrop from his cheek)

If you are in some weird way suggesting that they are doing us a kindness for not charging us $60 for dayz that is just hilarious. I've seen free mods provide lightyears more content than dayz has for free. Dayz IS just a mod.. Call it standalone if you like but its always going to be a modification of arma no matter what. Its like putting a moustache on and trying to pass yourself off as a completely different person. Its like "hey dayz, heads up, your arma is showing" The content that the dayz standalone team has actually produced on its own would probably amount to about 30 cents worth of content from a real game. 1. Male and female player model 2. Motorcycle helmet 3. Minor cosmetic items 4. Axe, baseball bat, Wrench... 5. Two zombies The engine, the map, the weapons, the textures, the interface.. Are all arma2's.

The whole "EARLY ACESS its alpha its alpha" thing would be FINE if they did not charge a full retail price for it.. You guys are stupid if you honestly think its just a coincidence that all these games started popping up out of nowhere the moment companies were allowed to start making money off "early acess" How many games do you remember playing early acess of a long time ago for free? Virtually NONE. Because there wasn't a way they could make money off it. Ohh now they are able to charge for early acess and what a coincidence.. all these half-assed games start appearing out of the woodwork and stay in early acess forever.. Early acess is the perfect crime and everyone wants a piece of it. If the game companies could only get 30% of the money when it was 30% done.. Guess what.. there wouldnt be a thing called early acess. So many games go into early acess than just sit idle in it forever.. And why wouldnt they? It would be stupid of them to NOt exploit early acess. 1.Get to skip out on all the expenses and legal requirements of releasing a game traditionally. 2. Reap all the same benefits of final release while also shielding themselves from the bad aspects of final release (review sites being able to review them) 3. Get shielded from a big yellow damning metascore number on the steam page 4. It EVEN shields them from PLAYERS criticism because early acess generates an army of "its only alpha" warriors who attack anyone with an opinion. 5. Get to have a bulletproof excuse of doing half-assed work. The second a game should become susceptible to reviews is the SECOND they put a pricetag on it. Period. We have a product here thats not finished, its nowhere near ready, its completely broken.. But we will glady accept full price for it. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE BALLS OF THAT??

I want to see trucks where people can ride in the back, new characters, new huge mountains with caves you can hole up in and create fires in, secret hidden passageways with boobytraps, new military bases with multiple fence clearence that a group of players can take over and control from ground/or watch tower and have full control over open and close fence gates, AK47's,M1 carbines, armories with ww2 weapons, bicycles, camoflauge quads, long tailed fur raccoon hats, Heavy machine guns mountable on trucks ..Seriously its been two years in development of dayz and we have 99% of all weapons removed, 99% of all zombies removed, 100% of vehicles and animals removed.. and a motorcycle helmet to show for it I just can't wait for the day where a real game company takes up a dayz type project

And the fact that the 0.4 version of the game changes absolutely NOTHING.. is frustrating.. Than when i stop and think that they are only working to make the 0.37 patch STABLE? So in other words we have to wait for 0.37 for another month than 0.4 to be stable?? Why they hell are they wasting the time to make TINY little alpha patches stable?? What the hell is that I just want them to work on bulk content as fast and as sloppily as possible just so we have SOMETHING.. ANYTHING.. Cars, bicycles, small planes, boats.. jesus christ. Working super hard to make tiny little incremental alpha patches STABLE is basically like.. such a waste of time. Putting dayz and stable in the same sentence is just funny to begin with

Im on the experimental branch.. They never update this game dude

I know bohemia interactive owns a studio. But he said "bohemia is the studio" which makes absolutely no sense.

Quite active? Uhh.. Theres NEVER any updates, days just keep passing i see updates for all other games in my steam library just none ever for dayz. And if they really cared about "polishing" each update.. We wouldnt have zombies walking through walls

Ha at least im not some 50yr old fighting with young people about a video game and actually getting mad.. Grow up dude. And you calling people 12 is a pretty immature thing for a grown man to say considering you are at the age most grown men would be parents by now and bohemia interactive is the studio? What? Do you even know what a studio is? It's a damn room or building an artist or developer rents or owns. So you are saying bohemia is a room? Bohemia interactive is to dayz as EA is to dice. They are the publisher. Bohemia granted dean hall project lead and a large signing bonus.. So bohemia is the studio? What the hell does that even mean? And bohemia is not an indie developer.. Fail x2

Well now they have bajillions of dollars to unflaw it.. so whats the excuse now

Screw first person mode. Third person is easier on the mind and its just much easier to take everything in. First person is just nauseating tunnelvision. One of the key elements that makes dayz so desirable from outsiders looking in is third person mode.. Dayz became a youtube sensation because of the way it can portray a survivor reacting to the environment around him.. Dayz would not have any sucess right now if it was only first person..Like a movie. Do you want to watch movies in the first person view of the main character? Hell no. Oh and by the way its not like one player has an unfair advantage.. We ALL can see around corners.. Case closed When you click on a game in a store page and just see first person view screenshots.. It's just like.. oh just another fps game.. X out

Madbreh?

Would like to see the servers display twelve hour normal time (not military time) For example a server could say 9:30 AM with little sun icon next to it (and maybe with a raincloud icon if its currently raining) I know some self righteous people will say how military time is better. But its not a military simulator and the average person has no idea what military time reads. Add a nice current players list in server by pressing tab (pressing p currently brings up an ugly arma military-like current player index) Would like to be able to hit zombie with flashlight. The amount of time required to physically stop, put away your flashlight, take out your fists, and ready them is almost impossible in the pitch darkness of night because you can not even see if your fists are readied or not... Putting away flashlight and trying to take out fists is extremely time consuming and frustrating because you must be completely still to do so. This gives the zombie plenty of time to use you as a free punching bag. Remove the unnecessary step of readying weapon/fist. Usually in gaming you just select your weapon and thats all your need to do, your character should automatically lower his weapon partially when moving and raise it upon aiming (just like every other game). I say keep it simple. Pressing another key just seems redundant, frustrating, and time consuming. The character we control should bring his own share of common sense to the table (Or should we instruct him when blink and breathe as well?) Zombies should not be able to see you when it is pitch black night time. Just smell and hear Add option to disable on screen hud entirely, nothing takes me out of the survival immersion more than seeing physical text on your screen (JohhnyyXx5 is losing connection) and i also dislike seeing the red chainlink ping icon as well as "My stomach grumbles" constantly. Perhaps they can move these notifications to the inventory menu.. Just please not on my display while playing. Add option to disable crosshair. Hate seeing this white little dot scurry around my screen while i sprint.. Total immersion killer and looks like a flea on my monitor. Add a different loot player icon than the arma m16 assault rifle. Also add a less robotic looking open/close door icon. Perhaps something like a cute little hand? Like the caretakers little hand in scary movie2

How hard would it be to just add a 12hr clock and not having to do any math at all.. Typical dayz logic.. "Why would pressing 1 take out axe when you could press 1 then F

Yeah you are right me and everyone who i show the game are just making up the fact that the game has the wost controls they have ever seen in their lives