Parazight

Hey. Go look at all of the job openings available at BI right now. Then do some research regarding the overall lack of skilled developers in the market. While you’re at it, browse the history of developers who have quit BI. Finally, look at the great decision making done by Spanel.

Lol. Yea, No. You are wrong. see, other people can express opinions too!!

We don't really need rewards and punishments for moral choices in the game, in my opinion. Why start now? It's not like there's repercussions anyway. Okay, your new player friend put some fat in the food stash. Maybe he found it. You ate it by accident because maybe you thought you had put it there earlier. But you ate it. Now you have to commit suicide because it's the logical thing to do. Who goes on playing with that?

I agree. Kuru would be just fine as a mod and not in vanilla.

There shouldn't be Kuru at all. The laughing nonsense as a result of kuru was discovered after a ton of research. The research concluded that people were getting 'the laughs' because of cultural traditions of indigenous people eating the brains of dead family members. It took decades for the folded prions to procure the laughing. There is no way, in real life, that a person would start getting these in-game symptoms as a result of eating human meat. The idea is quite ridiculous and not authentic. If anything, the laughs should last an hour. Eating human meat in game is a death sentence. No one decides to not kill themselves as a result. It's just not worth it.

We need blockchain level technology to have a magical baby with mother server sanity checks. Or something like that.

This is a hardware issue. Not a code issue. Of course this happens on Playstation 4. This doesn't happen on high end PCs that are running on the highest settings. The solution is to throw your PS4 in the garbage. Seems unreasonable to update the program for antiquated hardware. And creating a whole new game for various platforms is not practical.

I suggest to figure out a way to have some moderators on this forum. For the traditional obvious reasons. It's clear that no staff have been on this site for at least a week.

I disagree with your opinion and assessment. Sounds like you haven’t mastered the keyboard yet. No offense intended. Not going to explain why.

Button Bloat is a real thing. MMOs, including this one, are designed with this issue in mind. Console platforms exacerbate the problems. it’s also apparent that BI did whatever they wanted to, back during arma 3 development. Now, it really ‘feels’ like consoles have mitigated that temperament, but that’s just my opinion. There are other players who feel the same way. Now, we have Microsoft and Sony to help define the rules.

They got rid of the cool billboard of the lady smoking when the game went to console. You know, the one by the train station in Svetlo. And they got rid of cannibas because of Australia. Overall balancing absolutely had all platforms in mind. It's difficult to pinpoint specific examples, but absurd to think that decisions weren't made holistically. Everything is viewed through the lens which sees money. Sure, BI wants to promote the image that they do what they want, but that's garbage. Consoles are the money makers, everyone knows it. When consoles became confirmed, the development process was definitely affected by that, which makes total sense. Good or bad, the port to consoles definitely affected the game. Doesn't look like a rant. Looks like a discussion on a public forum. No, they didn't ask for it directly. They asked for it indirectly because games on console with hit indicators are more desirable. Producers simply have to look at the reactions of players of other games.

Sorry but the cheating is beyond BattleEye and Bohemia. It is state sponsored by China and Russia. By Putin and Xi Jinping. The directive comes from the top in these totalitarian regimes. Always has. Biden asks China "can you please stop hacking our institutions and holding them ransom for hundreds of millions of dollars?" TenCent is the biggest gaming company in China. They're invested in BI and are worth 590 billion dollars. They're completely at the mercy of the government. Please write a strongly worded letter to these people and tell them to knock it off. The best option is to optimize code instead of embedding 'security measures' like putting cars server-side and then play on a LAN, or Whitelisted server, I guess.

We don't need a bunch of charlies running around with bows and bottles on their Blazes. Like a Chilly would fit on a over/under anyways. I would love to fly my helicopter through volumetric clouds!

Yes. They dedicate X amount of time towards discussing the matter every week. >.> Yea. You're right. I recently bought two new towers and was going to turn one into a server, as the GPU wasn't high-end. I looked to find recommended hardware, but found none, so I gave up.

ikr. The only option we have is to relay these issues. The company is still in business, it's still making updates, new games, and is active in some media. But the communication is really bad unless the news is rosy. Like, how about some acknowledgement of anything, tell us that it can't be done. We're adults here. Even if it's the worst news possible, it's better to hear it. Go ahead and tell us that it can't be done, if it can't be done. Explain that it can't be done, so we can prepare and plan, it's really not hard, or damaging. Not doing the right thing says "we're a bunch of bads".

This probably doesn't help much but, keep spamming the forums or their twitter feed. Bohemia simply does not hold BattleEye accountable. Their PR is garbage. Their official forums are littered with week-old Pr0n ads. Moderators don't visit this site anymore. BI will tell you to talk to BattleEye, but they don't respond. They're not going to respond here because holding BE accountable requires effort. Nice little blame-circle they have set up, I guess. It's mind-boggling. You switched houses, computers, and steam accounts, repurchased the game and stream (so people would be able to tell you're cheating). Still nothing. That's a shame. I hope you figure it out, good luck.

I dunno, I saw the alpha disclaimer that we would have to suffer through bad design decision. That's fine and all but the bad design decision never got fixed. Instead of optimizing the code, they decided to implement security measures during the engine assembly. Sure, everyone knows that to fix DayZ the engine would have to be reassembled. Whatever. I assumed that when I hit "I accept" that those things would be taken care of. Instead, they DIDN'T fix it and I can't play with optimized code on my home LAN. Really, we shouldn't have to know all this technical information and be expected to obtain above average hardware just to have a reasonable gameplay experience. When my kid asks me "how come I can't play the game when I press the button?" I have to respond with "sorry, they said there would be problems, but they never fixed them, deal with it". Then we got TenCent. A 580 billion dollar chinese company invested in BI. Still, so many problems. Seems odd that there's nothing that can be done, other than make bad decisions.

A garbage server to that guy is anything under 3000 dollars. His post history can verify this. Azazel isn't willing to compromise, he'll tell you to spend lots of money on servers instead of accepting the fact that the game should be able to run on reasonably priced servers. Which would make sense because the average player uses average hardware. It's unreasonable to have to spend thousands of dollars to make the game run, you'd think.

What are you offering in terms of compensation? What is the base salary and how much 401k do you match?

Pretty good thread. You've addressed a critical balancing issue. Inertia and mechanics that strengthen perma-death make the game much more cutthroat. But with this, there's still nothing to adequately replicate moral consequences. So, the inertia you experience in real life is fine because people don't regularly kill each other. In this game you have a sandbox, people, and ways to kill them without penalty. But as you've noticed, there's the business of attracting consumers. If players die easily after spending enormous effort then they tend to quit playing sooner out of frustration. The point being, the developers are very much aware of the situation, but the solution is not easy. Yea?

Pretty much this. Dead men don't talk. Seems unfair that I spent all that effort to be stealthy, hunt you down, and kill you only for the careless victim to say "Hey squadmates in discord, the game says the guy who shot me is over in that building to the northeast, He's got an M4." There is no 'next life' in the gameplay loop. You start over. The information you desire isn't actually needed. Avoid those mistakes by developing better tactics ahead of time. This is an old debate and the designers have kept killfeeds out of vanilla on purpose. A good decision, in my opinion.

Why would we need a DayZ 2.0 to add these things? Why not continue to improve mods?

Sometimes, organized groups will wear a similar piece of clothing, like a helmet, and then each squad-member will wear a different color armband so everybody knows who is who. Surely there has to be a way to distinguish friendlies and foes other than just armbands. Why must factions be defined by armbands? I mean it's fine if they would add more, but seems strange that it's necessary. Have you tried other indicators, by chance?

This topic was discussed literally 4 days ago. It can't be done. Go read the FAQ

The choices available for vanilla seems fine to me. Maybe you should consider playing on PC if you want a more customized experience?