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"The ambitious narrative and gameplay of Human Element required an innovative set of features in order to achieve our vision," said Bowling in a press release from Crytek today. "CryEngine is the perfect fit for us because it delivers so many powerful features straight out of the box such as the physical-based shading system and the infinite terrain from segmented worlds to create a massive open-world experience but still allow the visual fidelity and detail our players expect from a first-person experience from our team." http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/21/5534742/robotoki-human-element-cryengine-pc-consoles-ouya-canceled

Some of the (A3) weapons are really nice. The axe looks like shit, though. Yup. Think of it as durability. Wrong. I have grouped up with randoms on many occasions while playing as a Survivalist. If there is a guy wearing a mask, shoot him. If you are playing a guy with a mask, kill everyone else. I have found several vehicles. You actually have to repair them, though... and traveling Altis on foot is pretty awesome. I have ran from one side to the other multiple times, hitting all of the high-value loot locations (e.g. Ghost Hotel, Stadium) on the way.

You might have misunderstood me. I don't want to be able to identify friendlies through buildings and across mountains. If I am face-to-face with another player I don't want to have to say, "Is that you, mate. Right in front of me. Is the guy that is directly in front of me you? I am standing next to the police station. Are you standing next to the police station too?" I would much rather have aural and visual indicators for these things. If you leg is broken just show a bone popping out of my right leg. If I am hungry my stomach should growl and my face should look emaciated. If I am dehydrated I should look grey/de-saturated and my lips should be chapped. If I am healthy change my character to pose to one that shows confidence and the fact that I am ready for battle. I hope they will add a system like this eventually and, if not, just show me a damned smiley face icon that changes based on my healthy status. Within a range of 150m I can immediately tell if I am staring at a friendly in real life. This is impossible in every single game I have played. Player identification isn't casual. It is realistic.

The insinuation was made that since there is an Alpha warning customers should just feel privileged to be a part of the DayZ Early Access.

I, too, thought the game would evolve past Mod but I fear it is doomed to repeat the "failures" of its predecessor. The first open world "survival" game that progresses past the "slow deathmatch" stage to something that approximates survival in a post-apocalyptic setting will be incredibly successful.

Rocket has already announced faction/party identification. I simply want this on an individual level to encourage grouping among randoms. It is the one that that I really appreciate when playing Arma 3 missions like Breaking Point. KoS and PvP both exist but it is also much easier to find a random group of friendlies due to their faction system and "Add to group" feature.

The main reason Rocket wants this is to encourage cross-server hopping for rare items once there is a global loot table. It is a bit confusing that he thinks server-hopping is both good and bad for gameplay but he has mentioned this on a couple of occasions. I do think that at least player locations should be saved on to a specific server even if he wants a global loot table...

If player location was saved per server instead of per hive this would not be an issue. Log into a new server and get a random spawn location. Player locations should be reset upon death. This would also fix ghosting and server hopping for loot.

Your statement is only partially true. Generally you don't recognize your friends by their clothing and hair. Your brain makes an assumption that you know a person based on many factors and, even then, you are often wrong. This is why eyewitness accounts have been found to often be wrong, since to really know someone you need to have multiple indicators that the person you are talking to is truly who you think they are. If it were possible for DayZ to simulate height, weight, gait, facial features, hair color, skin color and clothing style you would still be missing out on indicators such as smell. It is impossible for a game to approximate this which is why even the most "immersive" games rely on in-game gimmicks to simulate friendly identification. Stupid magic indicators? Like the status messages telling you that "You are wet. You are not wet." or "Hungry. Healthy. Energized." DayZ already has many unrealistic interfaces in place and I have no doubt more will be added in the future. This is not a good enough reason to not put them in the game.I would really like Rocket to simply make it a server option. If he did, however, I am sure that virtually every Regular server owner would turn it on.

I agree with you! I just misunderstood your statement. I thought you implied that getting KoSed was adrenaline inducing. :)

No, but you would never mistake me for one of your friends if I just put on his clothes either... unless you had prosopagnosia. That isn't a valid argument.

Are you being serious? It is quite natural to feel disappointment after investing hours of playtime into a character and then being KoSed. It is also natural to feel slightly guilty after KoSing another player. I am not talking about getting into a firefight with other people. I am talking about killing other players without engaging them in some way (e.g. torture, banditry, a firefight, etc.)

I can only speak for myself but positive, non-violent encounters are rare for me in DayZ. After getting shot in the face on too many occasions I am more willing to err on the side of caution and put a bullet in the face of anyone that points a weapon at me. The reasoning for this is actually explained quite well through game theory. In an asymmetric game that places such a strong emphasis on staying alive and keeping gear (i.e. a random DayZ encounter) the rewards for KoSing greatly outweigh any benefits from a friendly encounter. Players, more often than not, the path of least resistance and greatest reward. There is nothing adrenaline pumping about running through the forest and then seeing a black screen saying "You are dead."

I don't particularly want to see my own statistics because I don't care but statistics don't magically turn a game into an arcade shooter.

Stop this. I am sick of hearing fanboys insinuate the DayZ devs had some kind of altruistic motive for releasing their game under Early Access. They needed funding. They sold a product. Full stop.

So a fully-loaded (Magpul) M4 is the second most accurate weapon?

PvP doesn't need to be balanced. It is fine as is. Once the NPC AI is finished there will be a bigger environmental threat but it still won't stop the Deathmatch mentality a lot of players have. Player's just need more in-game mechanics that encourage social interaction and groups will naturally form.

Even though H1Z1 is trying to be "hardcore" I have a feeling they are going for exactly this. Project Zomboid MMO. Have you seen the compounds/strongholds? It is an amazing idea. It seems players will be able to build a small stronghold and "upgrade" it by increasing the size and resources of their faction. The Day development team seems unwilling to center the game around groups/factions as they feel it would break immersion even though Rocket himself is a huge fan of Project Zomboid. I remember reading that this is exactly why he called DayZ a flawed concept, because DayZ is simply meant to be a sandbox and not much more. He seems ready to simply let the modding community implement these features instead of creating the game he actually wanted to make. I wish he would just say "fuck it" and make a great post-apocalyptic, social multiplayer experience that is only based on the Mod and not imprisoned by it.

Can the mods sticky a post in the suggestions forum so we don't have to read comments (from the same people) over and over again every 2-3 days?

I wish you would actually read my talking points. I am not talking about friendly identification as that will come. Rocket has already announced it. I am talking about personal identification.

The word "realistic" means "representing familiar things in a way that is accurate or true to life." How is realistic that we are unable to tell who your friends are? Lack of UI != realism...

We all have prosopagnosia in DayZ.

Stop using the realism argument since it is invalid. In real-life we have way of identifying other people that simply will NEVER be available in DayZ.

Don't be surprised. The Arma series is filled with vets. Also, many military vets are gamers since that is one of the only ways to keep from being bored when down-range/deployed. I was a "medical specialist", 91-B (later 91-W). I was stuck on an APC (M113). When I was stationed in Baumholder, Germany we paid one of the mechanics with ecstasy tabs to hook a generator up for us so we could play Dreamcast/XBox wherever we went. What happened AFTER I got out of the military is actually more interesting since I now work for a video game publisher in Germany as a developer. :D I still don't accept that but I have confidence that when modding support is adding someone will simply copy over the hexagonal 3D marker from A3. It is a shame that vanilla mod will probably only take care of this issue on a squad level, though... :(

People would just unplug their mics or utilize a sofware-based workaround. This probably wouldn't work. BattleEye could, theoretically, ban all 3rd party chat programs.