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In my Street Fighter group we call this being "salty".

Eugen, for sure. He is really informative and mostly professional. But have you been reading Rocket's posts recently (http://www.reddit.com/user/rocket2guns)? His posts seem to be much different than they were in the past and way less common.

They aren't posting as much on Reddit. /r/dayz is a cesspool. This forum is very mild in comparison AND they can moderate the content. Perhaps that has something to do with it.

These problems are related to server/network performance, I believe. I was on a 40p Experimental server for 5 minutes last night. I couldn't play due to invisible and magical zombies like you describe. This morning I got on an Experimental server with about 10 people. Hackers had fucked up all of the loot spawns (they are using their magic loot pickup tool to force loot spawn) but the game was sooo fluid. My GF asked if I was playing DayZ or another game because everything looked so fluid.

Nah. I just won't use the Makarov anymore. And he died, too. :D

I believe it was an attempt to reduce KoS. Totally didn't work.

There definitely needs to be some kind of balancing done eventually. I unloaded a full Makarov clip into the back of a guy on Experimental. I couldn't even KoS him because he was wearing a mountain backpack and I guess it absorbed all of the damage. I was wearing a blue shirt, some cargo pants and a crafted backpack so he just turned around (blood pouring from his body) and killed me in 2 shots...

This is pretty much what development in a production environment is like. Before you write your first line of code you should know how you want the wall to look and its dimensions. You know basically what materials you need to build the wall as well as an estimate of the number of bricks that will be needed to complete it. As you finish setting each brick you make sure to add safeguards so the bricks stay in the correct positions and aren't getting bounced out of place. If your safeguards fail you need to figure out WHY and adjust the bricks so they fit the original plan. By the time you are ready to let other people look and and jump on your wall you are fairly sure that it they won't break it by leaning against it. There will definitely be problems with the wall, since not every situation can be tested for by the wall builders ,but zombies won't be able to walk through it.

This is a funny analogy. Are you calling us all stupid for playing DayZ? :D So in this fantasy situation the dough/bread (DayZ) is given to Awruk by a baker (BIS). The baker sold him this bread stating that he shouldn't buy it, but after a certain amount of time it would probably be edible. After 70-80% of the time has passed and the bread is still nowhere close to being edible are criticisms about the development of the bread justified?

Sorry. I do not have the gift of eloquence that you have, sir. I will attempt to make my posts as informative and entertaining as yours in the future. "ALPHA !== Add stuff <_<" How am I doing?

There is already a really good thread in the suggestion forum about this: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/208679-wallets-and-player-identification-dog-tags-and-russian-ruble/ And in the General Discussion forum here: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/210278-about-wallet-usage/ Not trying to sidetrack your thread but it be more productive to post in an existing thread instead of making a new one.

Why do the forum moderators continue to allow you to use abusive language repeatedly against other members of the forum? You are not contributing to this discussion in the least. Get out of here with your ad hominem and strawman arguments, please.

That is my point. In a typical alpha the game design concept should have already been finished. All features should have been implemented with at least placeholder functionality. Otherwise there is little point in doing black-box testing since this kind of system would always be in a flux... What is the point of testing something with no point of reference as to its correct functionality? -_- DayZ is not a typical alpha in the least. It is an Early Access alpha where significant structural changes are being done at the same time as new features are being added. This is why there are so many fucking bugs all of the time. If you build a house on a shaky foundation you end up with a shaky house! :D

I'm talking about "concept" from a game design perspective.

I agree and disagree with your post at the same time. Yes, it is hard to make a game. But people with "real professional" jobs are also criticizing DayZ from a more opportunistic viewpoint. They just aren't fans of the game because, let's be honest, it current sucks. There are many awesome things about DayZ but it does not feel like a polished concept. I work as a senior developer at a European game publisher. We often have big projects and those projects take a looong time to complete. That being said, there are many things to genuinely criticize about the DayZ development process. In fact, many industry professionals have made similar remarks to me at this years GDC in Köln after one of the workgroups. After 2.5 million in sales the big dogs in the gaming industry are now looking for ways to capitalize on the permadeath hype because they know they can do it better than "indie developer" BIS. Sony is just the first giant to come out with a clone. More will follow.

It is only like this now. It seems the devs are focused on eventually creating some kind of virtual survival experience. The weather effects, hunting, fishing, cooking and gathering are only the first steps.

I think our imagination just changes as we get older. I can't imagine a box is a rocketship anymore. That shit is boring. But if I have to figure out the solution to a problem while I am on the job, or I have to find somewhere to hide my stash, I tend to get quite creative. I guess it seems like I am able to focus my creativity better and not waste time imagining I am a survivor in an post-apocalyptic situa-- oh, wait.

"It is our intent once we have addressed the core issues with abuse of item duping, as well as resolved issues with the protection of player storage and opened game server providers rental of private shards, to wipe the stable branch clean." http://dayz.com/blog/status-report-week-of-18-august-14

Isn't he correct? Simply switch from DX9 to DX10/11 won't magically increase performance. As I understand it, the DayZ devs are replacing the current rendering engine. Right now the rendering engine is tightly coupled with the simulation engine which is, perhaps, why game performance is so CPU bound. They seem to be decoupling the rendering engine so rendering performance won't be as affected by what the other parts of the game engine are doing.

Off-topic: Intrinsic rewards aren't really discussed or seen as important in many societies/cultures. Nothing "poor and sad" about that apart from the fact that capitalism itself places such a strong emphasis on extrinsic rewards.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman

Do you remember this video?

This is why I hope base building is centered around existing building that are barricaded and then expanded. During an apocalypse no one will be building huge structures by themselves. If the devs want to maintain this concept of "authenticity" they used to talk about then building a new structure, from scratch, should be so labor intensive that only a big clan can do it. And by that I mean, For a stone wall with 100 stones you should have to go and harvest 100 stones. For a log cabin you should have to collect and carry every single log to your cabin in your hands. Like in "The Forest" but more intense.

You are correct. It isn't that bad. It is my expectation of progress that is making it so. Before you read the next part I will add a disclaimer: The following is only my personal experience with development and some genuinely objective criticism of a game development schedule gone awry. Personal experience: My team is now working on a new user management platform and the concept alone took 3 months. But after we created the concept we consistently meet our deadlines because we 1) are all experienced developers, 2) we make realistic deadlines and 3) we have a real plan. We didn't take a list of features that we would like to implement, we created a complete concept first and then implemented it step-by-step. Criticism: I think my point is, I don't believe the DayZ devs are horrible but Rocket said he has been working on SA for 3 years. Did he not realize the rendering engine was broken before then? Shouldn't the project basis be completed before working on feature development? In my personal opinion, secondary gameplay elements (hunting, cooking, fishing, bow/arrow crafting, compass lids, etc.) should have been added AFTER the core game elements (item persistence, loot respawn, global economy, barricading and base building) were finished. I think the roadmap itself is flawed: http://imgur.com/a/CDb92