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The part that is frustrating for me is that I know that DayZ Alpha helped to fund the Enfusion engine but now we wait, with an incomplete game, and no updates from the 'engine team' ever. That's where we're at, right? Waiting for the engine team to figure it out because the Enfusion engine is the future for Bohemia Interactive. Can somebody link the latest public update announcement for the Enfusion engine? OR, just tell us that work on the engine has stopped and that's it. Give us bad news if that's the truth. We can handle these first world problems.

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I don’t even know how to emphasize enough how important cars are to the group I run with. Sure, others may say that vehicles are not as important to most of community, but those people are just speculating. They actually have no data whatsoever regarding what everybody wants. I know that many of the people that *I* run with bought dayz because it is an extension of Arma, which cars were a very important part of. Cars were definitely part of the high concept model that was pitched pre-production. It’s extremely disappointing to see the company (that’s responsible for taking my money and failing to deliver) repeatedly post non-answers to very direct questions. You regularly allocate time to find improvements? What does that even mean? This point doesn’t actually say anything other than “no one is actually held accountable”. We had to jump a hurdle to address this issue (make a new thread) but it’s just more of the same non answers. Typically, design has to establish a plan to appease its publisher, but I suppose that doesn’t apply when the two are the same entity. So again, zero accountability. Can someone explain to me why the people responsible for optimizing the code decided to implement anti-cheat measures instead of just making the game work? Why does BI make inferior code to fight cheaters, and when it happens anyway, they say ‘talk to BattleEye!’ What I would like is to be able to set up a server so that my personal friends from around the country can get together and drive around Chernarus! It’s a beautiful sandbox. We don’t need hacker protection. We need an optimized game, which we thought we were going to get. Please give us a VBS3, except updated with the Enfusion engine. Except without this anti-cheat bullshit that doesn’t help at all. We don’t need it. We have whitelisted servers. We have community admins. We have BattleEye. Please do not use this thread as a reference in the future as to how you’ve addressed the problem. We are way past 1.0 and “we are aware of the issues” is worthless to reasonable consumers. lol@sanity checks.

Get a potato pc with a hdd that can barely run the game. Watch as the terrain loads, then the loot, then the rest. Completely unavoidable if your hardware is bad. You can only see so far but it’s definitely the path of least resistance to locate hidden loot. Especially in city areas where the loot is above eye level.

Why you’d reply and open the door to criticism is beyond logic, but you did. It’s not yelling the time at the clock if people are calling out facts that leads readers not buying the product. So, in the ‘Dayz in 2021’ thread where it says that the team will support the title through 2021, but there’s no mention of vehicles, are we supposed assume you forgot? The detailed roadmap’s wording easily insinuates that support ends at the end of the year. This makes sense. Correct me if I’m wrong, but admins selling items is no longer against the terms of service starting next January, right? THEGordonFreeman asked for when the vehicles were going to be FIXED. You posting two ambiguous statements that only acknowledged the problem. It’s nothing more than yelling the time at this proverbial clock. Vehicles have been a selling point since the beginning. Sure, you may have inhereted this problem, but that’s not our fault. The community isn’t stupid, vehicles worked just fine on the client side with the ARMA series. They got moved to server side in the interest of stopping cheaters. Why on earth would a company do that? Optimize the game and let BattleEye do its job!?!? The decisions being made are not at all clear! BI claims to listen to the community but communication is atrocious right now. We have exactly zero active moderators on this forum as I write this! Perfect reflection of the lack of communication. The game went through ONE month of beta and called it complete! Shocking to all. Vehicles were part of the selling point from the beginning. BI slapped the 1.0 affix on it. Why call it complete when there are still so many issues? We are not dumb, but it sure looks like the company thinks we are.

Okay, I'm going to try and explain n a simple way what actually happened in this thread to accommodate for your lack of comprehension here. I need to paraphraze this before my pizza is done. Here we go. OP: "Hey, cheaters are bad. Plz fix!!1!!1" "Try private servers dude!!" Ivw06: "Devs don't do anything about cheaters. Cheaters are everywhere! admins too (read: are complicit)" Maverick: "NO WAI! admins don't cheat! I'm an admin! I demand proof" Other people: "Yea, we have to see proof !" Ivw06: "OMG. WTF this is hella cra-cra! How can you not see the cheats! Asking for proof is mind boggling! The only reason not to see what is obvious to all is because you cheat!!" (not the best tactical move in a debate, tbh) (this is where it goes off of the rails and people actually think he's accusing people, but he's not. Ivw06 explains in a bit Other people: "You're on drugs. We demand proof. You must be bad" Ivw06: (obviously frustrated because no one understands him...here lay the important quotes that really explain what he is saying. pay attention) Maverick: "dude, put down the meth" Ivw06: " "the reality is much dirtier and you refuse to admit it! One wonders why...." (more insults and not understanding) ImpulZ speaks. (finally, a voice of reason. someone in the thread that understands what Ivw06 is trying to say) "Hacking is everywhere. There's a fucking electronic pandemic going on and the whole world has to deal with this bullshit." SwissArmy1984: "(some solid advice about joining protected servers)" (a debate that deserves its own post) And this is where I stop explaining and when I enter the conversation. Later on, I'm supposed to be impressed because Maverick's friend, from germany, who he plays games with, and is really proud of, starts talking. This is the only quote I'm going to put in this post although there are many examples of straight-up wrong, uninformed, and absurd statements and opinions made by Dagiweh. Ivw06 responded to this thread saying that if you're not proactive in fighting cheaters then you're actively complicit. This is what people fail to understand. He's completely flabbergasted by the fact that you don't see how widespread cheating is. He tries to explain it again and again. His audience doesn't understand what he's trying to say. He's not actually pointing out people. That's not the point he's making. Note that he doesn't actually name the admins, tho I bet he could! Also, he doesn't actually attack anyone, only what they say. He's completely shocked that people don't see his point of view and wonders aloud "why is this happening? Are you guys cheaters, or something?" Again, not a great tactical move in a forum saying this, but w/e. The thing is. He's right about cheaters being totally widespread and is within his right to believe that admins are complicit. Because he's not attacking people, accusing them of doing meth, or sucking at life. He might be wrong, sure. "If you're not part of the solution then you're part of the problem." is what he's saying. Which is a huge other debate. He's absolutely wrong in assuming that Bohemia or BattleEye can stop cyber cheats, unfortunately. But that does not warrant assaulting him with personal attacks. Asking for proof is 100% nonsense when it comes online criminal activity. All you have to do is read the news. Read what ImpulZ wrote earlier! For example, the United States of America has a fairly substantial amount of funds to play with, okay? Just 2 days ago, President Biden asked Vladimir Putin to "please don't hack these 16 institutions" WTF! The US government has major issues fighting cyber criminals! The time for proof is over. Colonial Oil just paid 5 million dollars ransom to cyber-criminals. These are not easily solved issues. This isn't like breaking into someone's house. Not even close. Cyber criminal activity is a plague everywhere. The time for proof is over! It's true! Huge governmental superpowers have big problems with 'cheaters'. It's literally everywhere! Ivw06 shouldn't expect BI to solve these problems easily. It's a problem widespread, obvious, and way beyond the scope of just BI. Just because multiple people don't understand what he's saying (or real world facts, apparently) doesn't mean he's acting irrationally.

Would you say that all cheating is provable by video? You think videos are trustworthy? They don't give you the full picture and can be edited. The burden of proof is not on the average player. Providing proof via video is an unreasonable request. Cyber cheats are everywhere and difficult to deal with. So much so that it was a major discussion point just yesterday between Biden and Putin! Also, you quoted me out of context. Sorry, I must have missed the post where someone said ALL admins are cheaters. Maverick basically claimed that admins could not be cheaters and that is crap. I do not believe that all admins are cheaters. It's not reasonable to think that. That's not what I said at all. Completely irrelevant and nonsensical. When are you going to address the personal attacks coming from the people you're defending? Because that's what the post you quoted me was all about.

I get it. You call out some 'random forum dude' (Ivw06) and demand proof of the claims he makes which is impossible to measure. Then you make some wild claims stating exactly how all the community feels, you state that admins don't ever cheat, and you accuse Ivw06 of being on meth. I tell you to provide proof, in the same vein as what you did to him and suddenly you're 'not interested'. I'm going to call you out every single time if you're going to keep attacking other forum users instead of what they say. Try taking your own advice.

I can tell you're not interested at all because you've only posted nine times in this thread. You took that sentence out of a paragraph that was asking for proof of data because he was making claims and speaking for the community. I don't understand how your response relates to me asking for metrics from Maverick.

Okay. You've been an admin for 6+years and somehow that makes you an expert regarding 'most accusations'. Really? Where do you get your metrics? You speak for the community? Apparently we're extremely paranoid when it comes to cheats. Based on what? Show me your proof. Give me detailed numbers/percentages. Oh, you cant? Then why ask for it from Ivw06? You seem to think that admins don't cheat. Oh? Is there an application process to be an admin? Do admins have to pass some sort of moral background check? Of course not. Everyday gamers cheat, no doubt about it. Nothing separates admins from cheaters or non-cheaters. If I start my own server, does that mean my moral code is instantly good? Just because a person is an admin, does not mean they don't cheat. It's pretty simple logic. Asking for proof is ridiculous. The servers he mentioned are rife with cheaters. I've been on them all. I'm not going to provide proof because that request is beyond ridiculous. Further, the personal attacks on Ivw06, instead of what he posts, are not warranted. Sure, his counter argument is less than ideal, but maybe you can recognize the frustration when English is not your mother-tongue. I realize that moderators on this site are all on extended hiatus, so I will gladly comment on a week old thread regarding issues that have been going on for years. Great comment. Not as good as your regular personal attacks, but at least you tried.

I get the feeling that adding bow/crossbow physics will require an engine overhaul. Wouldn't mind seeing it, but doesn't seem likely. It's great flavor, despite the fact that it becomes less valuable as suppressed weapons no longer attract every infected from half a kilometer away. /shrug Well, after playing on vanilla servers, I have a few comments related to the current version. Some are comments on balance. Some I should probably report as bugs. 1. Ruined body parts of a vehicle change names, creating possible confusion. For example, a ruined ADA fender displays [+]ADA 4x4 instead of [+]FENDER. when pristine, worn, damaged, and badly damaged, it says 'fender' not 'ada 4x4'. 2. As a balance change, I would recommend tires on wrecks start out as worn or even damaged. It seems as if cars are more durable, which is good. As long as the car doesn't become completely useless, all is well. Cars are no longer completely destroyed when running into a stop sign, but the parts that take normal wear and tear dont require enough maintenance. I really don't use tire repair kit or the pipe wrench nearly enough. 3. Car wreck parts could be different colors, maybe. It's not out of flavor to find white doors on a blue ADA. Right now, I always try to find matching colors for my car because it wont stand out as much. I want my vehicle on Official servers to be somewhat inconspicuous. Purely for video game reasons. I imagine that in a pre-apocalyptic scenario that people would have mismatched colors on their cars. 4. Please let us combine Garden Lime. 5. I'm not sure but I think infected are attracted to barrels opening and closing. Would be a non issue if that sound effect bug didn't exist. 6. Okay, so we can only put empty barrels in the MS3. That's fine, but we don't need to see the inventory of empty barrels. If there's a way to close the inventory while it's in the truck, it's not obvious to me. 7. After using one roll of duct tape on canopy tents, my hands bug out and I can't repeat the action. 8. Starting a fire inside a home fireplace with just a piece of paper and lighting it works fine. But when the fire dies out the light is still there.

Because the developers have no control over the money flow or marketing. The question should be: Why does Marek Spanel do the things he does? Regarding DayZ; it looks like Dean Hall convinced Marek Spanel to start a new game based on an idea formed off of "make Arma, not war" incentives. This was to take Arma and make mods based on anything that wasn't war. Well, Hall spearheaded the DayZ mod. Spanel apparently liked it. Dean Hall, incredibly naive as he was, thought he could make a social experiment out of an ARMA project. A sandbox without actual repercussions for any actions. A world of people and ways to kill each other. Yea, great idea for a 'social experiment'. Seemingly random business decision. So, 4 years into development they decided to start over. OR, DayZ was originally, secretly, intended as a way to generate funds to create the Enfusion engine. Which they haven't actually done anything substantial with. This all lays on Spanel's shoulders. The CEO and founder. He's the one you would question. Not the devs. The developers here are doing their job, dictated by the boss. Maybe Spanel eventually concluded that this project wasn't going to work and/or the engine needed a lot of work. BI (read:Spanel) likes to say that the company is based on what the community asks for and wants, but that is clearly not the case. BI has always done what it wants. It doesn't relate to the community. Marketing has been non existent for decades. All the evidence that I see is that Spanel is a terrible CEO and business manager. It looks like he'll just abandon projects because they may turn out to NOT be easily profitable. That said, his current net worth is reported to be over 13 million (US dollars). Seems successful enough, right?

Amen. The time to provide proof is over! I can't believe people are asking you to provide proof! Cheaters are everywhere. Private and Official servers. Criminal behavior is always a step ahead of those policing. Those who say "there's no cheating on non-official servers" are delusional. In my opinion, it is completely unreasonable to ask someone to provide proof of the situation when. 1) How can you not see it. 2) People on all sorts of forums discuss it. 3) This is not limited to any one game. 4) It's been acknowledged by BI staff. For Years!! 5) In the last 2 years they've banned far more accounts for cheating than the previous 5. Go read about it. Saying "go to private servers" is a terrible solution. When I buy a finished product, I shouldn't have to invest more time into building it. I shouldn't have to spend an inordinate amount of time maintaining it. When I buy a new car I'm not expected to make my own tires. This is the age of specialization. We really have to figure out how to make the things we buy not be terrible? We have to set up our own servers and establish our own communities, just so we can play the game at entry level? That horrible. Not being able to play, and be happy, with the standards that the provider gives us, because it's plagued with issues is horseshit. This is how business and ideas die. The cheaters are everywhere! Why put cars server side to help fight cheaters? Why would the game company execute decisions like this? Why try to fight cheaters with bad design when you're just going to pass the blame to BattleEye? Really? This is the argument you use to counter the poster's claim that there are cheaters? This is a perfect post from you. Clueless any whiny. For all those claimed hours you still must suck at the game. This has to be a lie. Admin for 6 years. Claims all the community is paranoid. Actually asks for hard to get proof when the devs basically said this isn't true.

Is this a real statement? You call out me as the source of disappointment for this game? No way. I've made no decisions regarding this game. Don't blame me and then say "don't be offended" Absolute bullshit. Again, you're just providing opinion about what you like in the game. You're basing success on feelings and how much you like the game. Ellipses, feeling-good, and assuming your opinion is the popular one doesn't pay the bills. Arma 3 wasn't that great. It didn't make a lot of money for Bohemia Interactive. It wasn't 'absolutely successful' by any stretch of the imagination. Notice how the company adopted the Early Access Model to fund DayZ! Having a game that doesn't run well and expecting it to be successful is super ridiculous. Claiming that Arma3 runs great now is completely irrelevent. That's cute. You think you're part of some sort of special club. You're not. I played Arma3 before the DayZ mod was released. It wasn't that great. It was clear back then that the shit framerates was going to be a huge problem in the future. The decisions by the company reflect this. They did it with DayZ, too. Instead of just implementing everything and making it run smooth and optimize performance, they decided to implement security measures and not let BattleEye do its job. For example, moving cars server side when it ran just fine client side in Arma. Instead of letting BattleEye do its job, they decided to not focus 100% on performance. I did not make this game a disappointment. Framerates are paramount. Ask any game company. Please stop shit-posting.

The things that you don't like are entirely subjective. When the title hit 1.0, the performance jumped incredibly. If DayZ was officially released as it was, with 18 frames per second, the game would not succeed and BI would be famous for releasing new games with antiquated technology. What a death sentence that would be.

I definitely don't miss the glory days of 18 frames per second.

0x00040031 - PLAYER_STATE_TIMEOUT Player spent too much time in one state of the LoginMachine https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/DayZ:Error_Codes

Man, that sucks. Console needs the boost function. I've driven every back road in Chenarus with the ADA. Traversing roads has never been an issue. With the boost function, you can make tight turns in a forest, at night, while raining, uphill, and while intoxicated.

There's a mechanic where you can hold down the Shift key for extra boost. I don't know the keybindings for console, but driving works fine. You can drive the ADA uphill and through forests, easily.

1. Not a QoL improvement. Let's not make inventory management more difficult. Staying out of the UI as much as possible is a real goal for the team. 2. Please, no statistic improvements. Seems like a huge task to implement. Then would require waves of balancing. 3. Heartbeat idea. Maybe. It doesn't really affect my status or decision making in the game, however.

If that tease was about chicken houses, it wouldn't have had the end of a gun barrel in it. I give this a 1% chance that this is about chickens and 99% chance that it is a M16A(4) rename. That is definitely not a M4 in that photo. The end of the gun barrel on a M4 is slightly different than M16 variants. I think that if they wanted to implement an M16 as a super rare, they would have to add new models as the 16 is a bit bigger in size. We'll see!

If a player can make structures on ground that is otherwise uneven, then what stops any player from building a watchtower next to a base and just hopping the fence?

You could eat them, and get sick. I wonder, if you could still eat them, if one could build up immunity high enough so that you could just live off of worms. Imagine a diet of vitamins and earthworms. That would be the perfect meta. Probably why we can't eat them now. 😛

This is a great post. He's right. The changes to gardens/fireplaces, bugs or not, are bad. I'm not spending any time doing garden or fireplace stuff, which was a great time sink, when it worked. Devs, please make adjustments to the official servers so that they stick around! Lower the nutritional value of garden produce if you have to.