Gsizzle

I think they made a huge mistake using this engine, but it's too late to change. I'm a new player to the series, never played the ARMA mod, just found the alpha through Steam. I love the direction the game is taking, but the engine itself is a massive problem. Combat as it stands feels absolutely horrible; melee combat is simply a swing-and-pray scenario, with very little ability to aim and poor hitboxes. Ranged is slightly better, but issues with desync make it an effort in futility at times as well. Physics at this moment are non-existent, AI is questionable at best, and then we get to performance issues, which this engine has in volumes. While I see that the team is making progress, it's been said many times that this is basically a new engine, and from my research, it seems that's the case. However, it's a "new" engine built on an old, out-dated engine. Had the team simply worked on their own engine from the ground up, I think the game might not be as far along, but would have more potential. Instead, I see the game being further along, but future additions will require significant amounts of recoding, if it can be done properly at all.

Hey all, I bought the DayZ alpha a couple weeks back, and have to say I love it. It obviously has a long way to go before release, but the game has huge potential. That beign said, I think there's one easy fix that could help players enjoy the game more during the alpha. We need more morphine/wood sticks. I think the drop rates of morphine/wood sticks are perfect...once the combat system is fleshed out. Right now, though, the combat system is too unreliable to not need these items on you at all times. I can't tell you how many times a zombie has teleported on top of me then one-hit broken my arm, walked through a wall and broken my leg, was unable to be hit due to the combat hitboxes, etc. Right now I feel like I'm just being trolled by the game at some times, and that's not a fun feeling. Once zombies have better AI/combat mechanics, I think the drop rates could be tuned down again. But for now, I think it would greatly help to see more of each.