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Oh look it's another of the "use XYZ instead of battleye posts". If fairfight protects APB then I'm, hardly impressed. The amount of hackers I seen there would almost put COD to shame. :lol: Anyway.. no matter how much protection you throw at any game, there will still be hackers. Thinking otherwise is delusional.

I wish people would stop saying that. While early access players provide some metrics in development they do not equal actual paid QA testers. They don't even come close. What you said is your opinion of early access. I don't agree with it personally. Either way, nobody is holding a gun to your head making you buy early access games. If you don't like the concept, simply don't buy the games. One thing I'd like to say that if a company goes back on their word and delivers something less than was promised in EA, they pretty much sign their death warrant. Something very similar happened with WarZ or Infestation or whatnot. The company is pretty much done now and that is something which relatively established companies like BIS cannot afford. Either way, we moved a bit off topic with this, so let's stop this here.

Alpha -> Beta -> Release =/= DLCs I don't really understand what would make people think otherwise. Also, BIS is hardly a big company.

Complain about that one more time and I will hide more than your posts. In case you still didn't get the message: "Don't publicly discuss moderation. If you have an issue with a moderator, take it up with the moderator or ultimately Boneboys". We are not beyond criticism, but you have to do it the right way. It's not that hard to understand, is it? The thing is Mos1ey and SmashT are constantly proving you wrong, posting links to relevant information whereas you are just singing your song like a stuck record without any evidence to back up your claims. One would expect to see some evidence of BI being money grabbers, but let's just pretend it's the mods who are trolls and not yourself, right?

It is, isn't it? Hats off to the QA guys who saved you from bitter disappointment and frustration over a broken version of the game!

You expect me to hide all the poop in this thread with bare hands? :lol:

*puts on rubber gloves* Cleaning time! EDIT: Whew, done! Whyherro and CJFlint, if you have a personal issue sort it out yourselves via PM and don't derail a topic with it before I derail you off the forum. <_<

Like I said.. 50 yards is plausible with an improvised bow. Shooting a bow at 70 yards definitely requires you to be stationary and focused. If someone is shooting at you with a gun, you don't stand much chance of ever hitting them at that distance. Unless you are shivering uncontrollably from cold, I don't think anything else would really affect your shots with some practice.

If you know steps how to prevent it from happening, it might be worth trying to find out the opposite, which is how exactly it happens. Such is the information the devs need to fix the problem.

I'm in love with the Steyer. :wub: I'm throwing my virtual beans at mr. Torchia for this.

A splendid one! Except this topic is stickied in this very forum section. :facepalm: Locked.

"Oops" <_<

1. You probably know all too well you aren't 2. In time Now I have a question for you. Why don't you try to calm down before posting a pointless rant?

This is untrue. I am able to hit a 60cm diameter target (mostly within about 5-15cm around the centrer) at 120 yards with my recurve. That's really the absolute limit for accurate shooting with that particular bow though. A stronger recurve could possibly go up to 150 yards. 50yards is very easily doable and is pretty much the distance every "competitive" archer is training at in outdoors environment. 70 yards is still fairly comfortable shooting. Depending on the quality of the makeshift bow I could imagine it could be dangerous up to 50 yards as well. But it will mostly be shite so the current in game model does seem alright.

What he said. Cheers!

The point that you missed is that there is no starting gear. The flashlight is there for a tutorial purpose to teach players about simple crafting and let them see stuff at night. Nothing else. It is likely that it will disappear as well once night time is adjusted by the devs or there are different way of handling tutorials. Please read through the thread before asking a question that has been answered.

Yes, they are connected to it, but that's not the point of it. I don't think I can explain it any clearer than the quotes I used. Your poll is titled "What are you doing when Private Shards are available?" It is very much within the context of the poll to consider the public hive. The way you set it up it seemed like there is no other option than to play on the private shards as Fluxley rightly pointed out. Even if the poll was titled "What type of private shards do you intend to play on?", it would be reasonable to include the option "I won't play on any private shards".

I was going with a terminology that most players are familiar with. It's not really nonsense if it gets the point across to the majority of people. You are technically wrong though as the public hive is indeed a hive. Although DayZ Standalone is only in alpha, thousands of public servers already exist for players to use. DayZ servers are all connected to a central database called the 'Hive', which is responsible for remembering character data and allowing players to use their same survivor on different servers. A public hive are the common servers, connected to the central database, run and operated by BIS.A private shard operates on a separate shard of the central database (run by the devs), this allows communities to have their own private servers without it affecting the main hive and without giving server owners direct access to the database. The system is also flexible enough so that a group of servers could run on this shard of the hive too (or just one single server). This gives the best of both having a database and having a private community, without those private communities affecting the main database. Players would only be able to jump between servers on that private shard http://dayz.gamepedia.com/Servers Over the next few weeks we will be working with our game server provider partners to begin the final steps required for the central hive, and their respective back ends to support renting private shards of the DayZ central hive, which will enable dedicated communities to create their own private DayZ worlds. http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/206640-status-report-week-of-04-august-14/

Yes you can ;) We do like our polls to be unbiased after all! ^_^

Could have been robbed and left for dead, washed out of the sea after a boat sank, whatever. There are a lot of possible scenarios. That's off topic though.

Yes, I was actually thinking of saying that, but didn't feel informed enough to make such a statement. Somehow I thought GPS could sort of just keep going.. My man! :beans:

I don't really like this comment or reasoning. Literally every game out there gives an advantage of some sort to people who have the most time or have nothing to do. Either way, to not go completely off topic, there should not be any starting gear and I don't think there ever will be. The flashlight is not starting gear per se as explained in this thread already. Either way, no one is forcing anyone to keep it. I myself usually throw it away right after spawning in.

I've never, ever experienced such a night and I've camped in the middle of nowhere (~20km to nearest town in any direction) for extended periods of time a few times. I mean it can get close to being pitch black, but you can still see some stuff. Definitely enough to navigate through a town to scavenge stuff. I'm currently a fairly busy person and I would still prefer real time. I don't think DayZ was ever supposed to be fair.

Um.. yeah that's kind of what I was suggesting and I'm completely fine with it. You'd still be able to play during daytime say on weekends and such. It would also "simulate" the "reality" of such an event better (I feel kinda silly using those words) as in reality you would probably end up being more active at night or evenings and not really risk running around during the day. And like I said, it would somehow force people to actually play the game the way it should be played and not just skipping/exploiting 1/2 of it. And that's kinda what I was saying as well.. Ah! Beans to you then! :blush:

I think I've played more DayZ than you and a couple of people put together. The reason I didn't think of that is that if a real (heh) zombie apocalypse break out, I would be more than capable of surviving without a phone.. or a car for that matter. Still I don't see much benefit in having phones personally. The only valid reason (imo) would be the GPS, which I imagine will make it into the game as a separate item at some point. As for music - without the ability to update playlists I would probably go nuts myself listening to the same stuff over and over again. I don't think you need to really keep track of time or date in an apocalypse (you can guess what the time is roughly by looking at the position of sun). Taking pictures in a game is kind of pointless wihen you have the printscreen button. And notes you can write down.