Ben_uk

I think it's a slippery slope. How many great pc developers have moved to consoles only to totally forget about the pc platform, or treat it with utter contempt, still kinda support it but in a poor fashion. Even if dayz is negatively unaffected by the console development, what about the next title? I also consider it a shame that the pc is losing one of its killer exclusives. I think it's probably a boost for BI, it might even help dayz's development, I'm not sure, but the one thing it's definitely bad for is pc gaming as a platform. The pc needs titles that you can't get on console to keep the pc alive. Too many once great IPs have moved to console and turned to s***. I just hope that isn't the case this time.

I am basically turning this game into a ammo collecting simulator. I got a new larger jacket last night, I think it was 12 slots rather than 8, guess what I then did? Filled it with more ammo. I have ammo for every kind of gun I think, I just never want to throw any away. I have loads of rifle lead, lots of 9mm, loads of another handgun (ACM?), and ive recently picked up 3 drums of 75 AKM and last night I got two 30 clip AKM mags too. I recently dumped the M4 that I was carrying as I could never find any ammo for it, I also dumped the shotgun and a massive pile of shells because it just wasn't as effective as it should be as a weapon.

Scared, coward. I've played for maybe 30 hours and still not killed anyone yet.

I'm not sure dayz will find an audience on the consoles. Most of the console guys I talk to dislike games like battlefield and prefer cod, why? Because apparently the maps in battlefield are "too big". Now if people find the maps in battlefield too big, how are they going to cope with dayz? It will blow their minds. The majority of console gamers prefer near constant action, the gameplay in dayz is the opposite of that. It's a real slow-burner. I just played for an hour on dayz, what was that hour made up of? I was sneaking through fields and two towns, and I killed 2 zombies, not exactly a action packed session, but it is what it is, and that's the gameplay, it's tense and spooky, but not "constant action". I can appreciate not every gamer is the same and there are bound to be people on console who will be interested, but will it have a mass audience? I don't know...

I too have seen invisible zombies.

Team Fortress 2 is the only one that springs to mind, which was given a terrible EA port to consoles (maybe that's karma for PC gamers everywhere).

I can think of very few instances where the change of direction of going multiplatform, didn't impact on the PC development in a negative way. For a start, I cannot see how they can totally translate this game to a 8 button controller, something just has to give in terms of functionality, or it gets "streamlined" (that dreaded word for PC gamers).

I just ditched my shotgun and all my ammo at one of the airbases. Maybe I should have hung onto it...

It wasn't perfect before by any means, but now it's just plain broken. I got hit from about 15 feet away, and the hit registration is total luck.

We still can't run up hills either...

I've not played much in a while, I was keen to try out the new build. Performance seems a lot better. I was in a town earlier and when I last played maybe 2 months ago the game was really choppy, but it was mostly quite stable, a few drops here and there, but much better overall. I also found a AKM, I've been carrying a m4 for ages but never found much ammo for it. So I've ditched the m4 and grabbed the akm. I then found 2 drums of 75 mag ammo. I've not seen any animals yet.

I hear these random noises all the time, zombie noise, ammo sound and so on.

I would hope that there are new zombie attack animations in the pipeline.. The current ones look a little goofy.

I would love to see the long grass rendering moved further back so there is less pop-in as you are walking along.

Since my last character spawn I keep hearing zombie noises everywhere I go. Obvs when I first started hearing them I kept spinning around to see what was there. Its been going on now for weeks on this spawn. I also keep hearing the ammo pickup sound (sounds like pocket change) over and over again. Perhaps this has already been reported, I don't know. Cheers, Ben.

Ive yet to kill anyone. I dont really meet that many people in game, not too sure why.

It varies very much. I started a new character a week or so ago and it took me over an hour of looting to simply find an axe.

I know some people may be horrified for me to compare dayz to left 4 dead, however, the one thing which l4d did really well was that it's melee combat and just general physical contact with zeds was really convincing. Great ragdoll, faultless hit detection and so on. That's kinda what dayz should be looking at.

It may struggle a bit. We still don't know the final performance of the game as there are going to be major changes and additions soon, like the addition of physics and a new renderer. It will probably get better (the performance) but by how much? Who knows. I would personally recommend something 7XX flavoured, something like a 770 gtx.

No idea. Just "you were kicked" message. Its increasingly frustrating as at least on my setup there is some kind of bug where as soon as ive left one server, I have to restart the game. When I go back to the title screen everything is all white and if I try and get into a new game, everything it glitched. So I need to restart every time.

I'm sick of being kicked from servers only for then have to wait 2 minutes for the spawn counter to end. If you are kicked there should be no spawn counter.

I agree. For whatever reason the melee combat seems very laggy and imprecise. I've been stood next to a zed, swung my axe and no hit was registered. Then on other occasions I've swung my axe, then the hit registers some 2-3 seconds later. Then there is the zed hits, they can seem to hit you from miles away, or even if they have their backs to you etc. The whole gig just seems really glitchy at the moment, I'm sure it will improve though.

I got my torch out whilst stood on a metal balcony, then I fell through it to the ground and died. That sucked.

Things that I would like to see to make things more "apocalyptic" - Air raid sirens (not sure what context or use, but the sound is positively haunting). - Road blocks - More burned out cars / houses - More blood/body parts everywhere - Mass grave sites - Maybe even radio stations broadcasting warning messages (not sure about the language though), or even just broadcasting static. etc

You can't sprint uphill (yet) or on uneven ground.