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I wish Alpha meant: Have the core of the game done, and done well, Knowing exactly how you want your game mechanics to work and having them placed out early on. I wish it meant that content was missing, the Map wasn't so big, lots of missing items, products, weapons, vehicles, clothes, skins, etc. What I mean is I would be ok with Dayz if it had 1 pistol, 1 rifle, 1 can of food, 1 clothing, 1 vehicle, 1 backpack if everything else was already working as intended with some minor bugs. I know game development doesn't necessarily work like this but currently this Alpha game trend is getting out of hand on Steam, Why should Developers bother to Produce complete or at least Good Solid Foundation Base of a game when they know they can Sell a Sloppy Alpha version of the game and cash in on it early with no responsibility to finish it fully. It also removes the need of really pushing your game over the boundaries so that when hits the market it hits hard becoming a revolutionary game. DayZ has already made quite a sum of money so even if they just push out the basics and call this game done, it’s a win.

You will all die... Seen it countless times on streams, a whole group of people get slaughtered. Some will be Friendly fire... Some will be from the delay of working out IF friendly. Some will be from hackers toying with you guys.... Some Will be Imposters who worked out your dress codes... + Any Desyncs, Invisible / 1 hit Zombies, Lag, Fall, Glitch, Bug, Character reset, wipe, etc. I'm calling it now, a bambi going to run off with your engraved 1911!

When I log or combat log I want this to happen: otherwise /riot

I'm either having fun and laughs with friends on TS whilst messing about in DayZ or just out hunting people in PVP areas. For the life of me I couldn't just watch people with the intention of doing nothing or trying to survive alone in this game. Take away multiplayer from this game and I give this a honest 1/10 game review, there are just wayyyyyyyy better games for single player. What would the review consist of? Saw some buggy ass zombies, punched them to death, went round looking for loot, eat, drank, found a gun, shot a few zombies, went up the police station fell through the building and died... day zzZzZZzzZzzZZZZZZZZZ.

Here is how I see it, and the generally people who don't come to these forums, as my steam friends. You try to survive, you try to loot, you have no contact with players in other cities that are not hot lootspots you get bored because there is absolutely nothing to do once you geared up to a certain point, there just isn't any purpose in the game if your just going to survive with no interaction. You end up saying "Fuck it" lets go to the PVP zones, you get into a gun fight, you kill some people you die, overall it last 5mins you say holy shit that so fun! You spend the rest of the hour, commiting suicides to get better spawns, dying as a bambi trying to knock out other players, running for 10-15mins because thats the closes spawn you had. You get a gun and again you enjoy your 5-10mins of gun fight, Then: You spend the rest of the hour, commiting suicides to get better spawns, dying as a bambi trying to knock out other players, running for 10-15mins because thats the closes spawn you had. You and your friends get bored after realising how much time goes into the down time, rather than the fun part. You log off and come back to the DayZ after some hours when the the delusion sets back in and you forget the pain and remember that 5mins of fun gun fights. But yeah Alpha, so we got a wait a year for it to all be sorted. If you don't believe me go watch the most popular DayZ stream out there on twitch, get a note of paper and write down what happens within 1-2hours whilst you watch, then read your notes, you will realise how much times goes into just doing absolately shit, for that 10 mins of action pack fun.

How do you not come across the Hacked Ammo that I see nearly every day...?! Go watch 5hizzle on twitch he's always having a hard time throwing out hacked weapons lol.

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You are a deranged delusional man, you are making things up in your mind, and even my grandma with alzheimers can comprehend my posts better than you could ever possible imagine. Never have I stated that I can create fantastic artwork in 3D (like that Crysis weapon), how did your mental mind conjure this up? The POINT of my post was to say how Basic DayZ graphics is, How I can remake those low poly geometry props and buildings within hours. You can compare that SKS to a crysis 3 Pistol or a Even "Metro" games weapons to see how basic it is in comparison. Why are you being idiotic and missing the point on purpose? Why are you hijacking someone else's arguement and going in the completely different direction. You accuse me of being a liar? That I somehow lie about being a 3D artist? That I don't know anything about 3D art. I don't know what to gain from lying, I ain't going to disclose my portfolio here and reveal all my details. That is just pure stupidity on your side. Now where the hell is my ignore button to wipe your sorry ass from existence from this forum (at least on my screen). Be gone forever petty Pest!

"unlodge your face out of your anus" You sir have no ability to work in a professional environment. Your debating skills are no where near adult levels. You butt into conversations and ignore the point of the discussion, the point I was trying to make, do you do that in your work place too? I'm going to be the bigger man and walk away from this. Have a nice day :)

Go ahead, I'll be waiting. While you're at it, would you mind fixing everything else? I mean, you folks clearly can't stop the tears flowing so why not do something about it. Read it. /didntcare You started making insults, grow up kid, I ain't got time for this. PS. You're not paying attention to any details in the posts and making redundant comparisons, you're here to just argue with utter nonsense, please write some more I will go get the pop-corn.

Don't butt into a conversation that you're not following, the debate is not about crysis 3 vs DayZ, He was saying that he doesn't believe we produce graphics to DayZ, as if the DayZ graphics were amazing or something, therefore the reason I posted the crysis 3 image. Like I said don't butt into a conversation if you're not going to follow the whole thing. Your one liner to aggravate is amusing. It doesn't matter which gun I post from crysis they will all wipe the floor clean with any DayZ weapon. But DayZ is correct to use simpler graphics for what it is.

Oh heres comes the you are lying BS. Yes man I am lying, happy? Maybe that will stop you right at your tracks. IT and educatonal insititution, hum, this relates how? I use to work in IT once... Our projects were for oil/power plant/construction/etc. companies abroad. Nothing to do with schools or instituions. I think you are irrelevant here. If you go around DayZ's city and looks at the buildings and like the factory area and think those graphics are anything special, I feel sad for you. Go play some other games that are known for their graphics, then you can realise how blocky, low poly, simple shape the DayZ environments are. Here we have a IT guy telling a 3D guy about 3d graphics, I might as well come to your work place and tell you how to set up your network, hilarious stuff. This here would take a few weeks to model: approx freelance price: $3600 This here will take a day or 2 max, approx freelance price: $240 (you wouldn't even need a pro 3D artist, just a junior and it will cost even cheaper)

Did you join an empty server? If not just run about the city for 10mins you will come across someone. I always do.

Thanks for pointing out that Dean Hall created DayZ not like everyone doesn't know that already, I just didnt feel it was necesary to point it out. My last job was as a contracted 3D artist in educational games, we were pumping out single levels in a month, granted the level was the size of one city of DayZ but still... 3D models, landscape, AI, mini missions and interactive objects all done within a month, just needed to test it and fix bugs after. Small team too, had 3 guys on the programming side, about 3 on 3D and a few people helping here and there from other projects. Graphics were very similar to DayZ, it was construction sites and basic. But yeah I clearly have no idea or experience in any of this.

Nah... They already stated that players have nothing to do except PVP thats why they are focusing on the survival aspects now, It has nothing to do with TESTING, it's just what happen. Link me one official source saying that PVP is forced upon us right now for testing purposes only?

EXACTLY! Thats what happen they saw their famous Mod (which was free) can rake in the $$$. Heres a story, Valve Bought Counter strike from modders long ago, they didnt make a paid SA for it, they kept it free, Then came Half-life 2 and Counter:Strike Source, again the mod was free, CS: GO is the first one to come out as a SA and I think it's because CS: source is outdated and there is no Half-Life 3. CS:Go was always cheap $15, Conclusion: fair, not a cash grab. Cash Grab = Trying to make money with little effort, such as poor sequels to great games/movies in an attempt to cash in on the actual title as opposed to the quality of the work. Like those games that come out at the same time a movie, for example The amazing spiderman 2 currently. The game is poor, but it will still sell due the the combination of the Movie in theatres now. Kids will want it, parents will buy it, etc. (hence why it's all kiddie games) Why I am leaning on the cash grab idea: They basically took the Arma III engine, which they already had. They took the Arma II elements which they already had. They took the DayZ mod elements which they already had. They mashed it all like this and sprinkled some updates since Dec 2013. I've seen Rockets road map to the end of 2014 at which point they hoping this game will be live. The road map is not very impressive, I won't outline all the things that were mentioned but there is no big game changer in there, what you see now is what you're going to basically get with some extra items thrown in such as vehicles, loot and animals for cooking, few other things go check it out yourself. FACT: people are still going to PVP, I mean seriously you think they going to all hold hands together and go kill zombies in an engine that cannot support a lot of AI characters? Forever dedicated PVP zones. That is DayZ. They could already make this game a 10 times more fun if they just removed dedicated Weapon spawns (airfields, military bases, tents), Why not just give every house a very low % of spawning a weapon so that every house... every location... is worth checking, and looting and exploring?

Scam!!!!1110101010 I didn't say scam. I said cash grab. Cash grab relates to greed. Not Fraud. 2 Years ago DayZ was created as a Mod for free. Today we have DayZ SA at $29.99 offering basically less than what the mod did. Currently DayZ is just a Cash grab, whether or not that changes in the future depends on what BIS do with it. If they make a solid finished game. We shall see, but no, it's not a scam.

Can feel the butthurt when people make direct insults at people. "I can't make proper arguments and win by conveying my message, so I'll just throw in some insults, name calling and singling out someone." ~best forum posters ever. Here, I will help you like my teachers helped me in primary school. "I don't think DayZ is a cash grab or that it will fail because..." <insert couple of paragraphs explaining> <Avoid shit answers like a single word or short sentence>

I hope they all prove me wrong, I'll believe it when I see it, talk is cheap. Long ago (during the closed beta) in the official forums I said "TERA - ONLINE" was going to fail and why, people hated me on the forum and trolled the thread but in the end I was right. It was dying until they made it FREE to play, then it regain some life, but the fact that it went F2P already indicated that it failed as a paid product.

I agree with this thread. Honestly the more I think about it, the more I think DayZ SA is just a fast cash grab for BIS & Rocket. "Hey dude this mod is very popular, more so than even Arma II itself... How do we cash in on this? because technically it's free" "I know dude let's strip out a shitload of things and make it a Stand alone product, then with the time we will make lazy ass updates to make the game seem alive." I really hope I am wrong but I'm doubtful, they will keep adding little bits and bobs to this game but if you want to stop hackers they will need to redesign the whole engine and make everything Server side/controlled, doubt it will happen though... Also that disclaimer on the steam page, reverse psychology, do NOT buy = but I want to buy it, lol. It is the disclaimer for any shortcomings that they already knew will exist.

I find DayZ to be the most hacked game I've ever played, granted I've mainly played popular/top games out there. The thing about DayZ is that the hackers are not discreet at all, You can see their hacked ammos "21414717e+04194585", they teleport, they speed hack, they esp hack and find you hidden around all these trees and bushes where you cannot even see your own character in 3rd person, they don't reload and they dont die after spraying them. (Ok some of these may just be bugs or glitches, but not the case on every occasion). At least with other games the hackers are sly, If you play Counter-Strike, you dont see people obviously hacking, you end up having to spectate the hacker to see if he's got wall hacks/ aim bot by watching his gameplay carefully. I never see God mode, unlimited ammo, etc, and all my years on counter strike 1.6 I only saw speed hacking once. Another example is Starcraft 2 you have maphackers, you cannot really tell if someone is hacking or not, you need to watch the replay, people dont hack 10514514149 minerals and they don't go god mode. They can't anyway because the way how the game is programmed, server side checks all the important aspects of gameplay, I've never come across such obvious hacking in SC2. BIS need to step up their game at this VERY CURRENT ALPHA STAGE and start right now, Why? Because if DayZ Alpha becomes a hacks fest then forget about Beta or Retail, game would be dead by then for it's infamous hackers.

Any game that forces you to log off imo is a shit game, you decide how much you want to play, not the game no matter how unhealthy it may be. You might have this one whole day off in a week where just play DayZ all day. Also relogging to overcome this problem is a rubbish idea with the amount of time it takes to get back into a game, queue times, server hopping times, yeah just no thanks, I want this game to be like most mmo's where once you log into a server you don't need to log back / no restarts every few hours etc. (Loot respawning soon). Also having your character idle for even 5 mins in a world where other players can come and kill you while you're not even in a game is Absolutely a No. Game is frustrating enough, we don't need zombies / animals / and players killing us off screen or camping our bodies. If sleep becomes essential than I suggest a nap mechanic, your player lays on the floor for 30 secs and naps, then you get whatever benefits that may come with that. Overall I vote: No Thanks.

You know you been playing DayZ SA too much when you go outside and mind = blown, so many vehicles everywhere, can't look anywhere to avoid seeing one.

Awesome aiming...

What's with all these hackers running loose right now? Guy with SKS starts chasing me down in NEAF, I got a mosin, So I run for it, he's shooting more than 10 sks ammo at a time without reloading, bang bang bang constantly, I run into the forest and do a long ass turn around in the forest and come out into the fields near the town cutting across to the other trees sudden the sks guy that I was so sure that I had lost appears out of no where and shoots me dead, I'm on the floor and he's still shooting more than 10 ammos of SKS at a time, maybe 40-50, Kind of like pointing out blatantly that he's hacking. These things have recently started happening a lot this week, I was Watching 5hizzle DayZ stream and he's constantly pointing out the hackers with unlimited ammo and making it his mission to try and kill them. Anyone else see an increase to this stuff lately? Please don't delete this thread it serves a purpose even if the topic might not be in the best interests of DayZ.