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This is wrong. AI has to be top priority. It is the feature furthest from being on par with the rest of the game, combined with the melee system. No clear words on whether it is completely scrapped or "only" postponed as pointed out by @WOLVERlNES. And to top it off, this patch will make dealing with this barebones feature of the game, WAY more tedious. Please rethink the decision making here once more.

I made this post at a time where the devs communicated in a very vague manner to put it mildly. I wanted to remind the people of what they were led to believe and inform them that I was of the opinion, should any of these things they were led to believe be discarded, that that should be openly communicated by the devs. If they keep up the pace, then I'm sure there will be more by the end of 2022. Personally I would like to see carrying characters, ragdolls and cars that are actually reliable and fully functional. (In my understanding this doesn't feel into the category of necro threads, as it was never meant to be one where there would be alot of discussion, but instead one to be there for me and others to return to when things change in regards to the things that were once dangled in front of peoples noses.)

I'm happy to say, I was able to tick off another one of those boxes, with the amazing addition of contaminated areas. There isn't much left now until all the boxes are ticked 🙂 GREAT JOB DEVS!

@Kyiara Thank you for the post! Great job! Do you have any insight that you could maybe share with us, on the thing that @Derleth mentioned?

This is great news! I love that you used the word "returned" and that last paragraph really hits it for me. I believe you again. I'm convinced that you have the vision and the passion. What the team has delivered this year has been solid. Bit by bit the team is fulfilling the promises and that makes me very happy, because DayZ is my favorite game ever. Thank you very much! Looking forward to whats to come for DayZ in 2021!

Hey, ya'll remember when we were disappointed, that there were only 5 updates planned for 2020? Well, we get to be glad, that we will be updated, if the release date of the 3rd update in 2020 is going to be later then SEPTEMBER. hahahahahAHHAHAHAHHHCCHHHHH......

A little update on this important subject. It is currently possible for server owners to set a value of 0-1 for the parameter lightingConfig=X with 0 being a brighter night, as is default for all official 3rd person servers and 1 for the darker nights as is default for all official 1st person servers. The only issue is, that the dark version only makes sense in a very VERY strong overcast situation. Then the darkness would be realistic. But even when the sky is clear, vegetation is not illuminated whatsoever, as can be seen in the screenshots below. What we need is not a bright night for casuals and a super edgy dark night for the hardcore players. We simply need realistic lighting, with it being almost pitch black on full overcast, and very nicely visible on full moon and clear sky, as is in the current bright night setting. @ImpulZ Can you please tell us wether this very important part of DayZ is currently being considered?

When you lie to people and charge their hard earned money upon those lies, do not be surprised when they don't like it, once they find out. The point of this post was to put the truth out there, to remind the people of it. Because there is a distinct difference between sweeping it under the rug or making it official. As long as the official promises aren't officially broken, there is no reason as to why we should expect any different. In case they keep the lies in the air to make more money of it, that would be kind of wrong don't you think? So...as the title states...a reminder.

And it might just happen... Excerpt from the Bohemia Recap - May 2020 [https://www.bohemia.net/blog/bohemia-recap-may-2020]

Excerpt from the Bohemia Recap - May 2020 [https://www.bohemia.net/blog/bohemia-recap-may-2020] "A number of new features". I am curious.

Holy shit, had to come back to this comment. So clean.

With all due respect, but I don't see how it is for you to say what should be the most important thing to all players.

Hi, DayZ currently offers 2 endgame-goal-features: Cars and Bases. But they're not really working, are they? So as we've learned in this lovely "DayZ in 2020"-article, we will get alot of stability, bug-fixing and improvements and "some new small-scale content" So as it stands, if we can't have Helicopters, can't have Bows, can't have Ragdoll, won't get Two-way doors, nor be able to Carry Characters, see Contaminated Areas, or be able to Color Items, or any of the other things you've promised to us Bohemia, can we at least expect this barebones DayZ to function properly with it's two endgame goals? Without having to worry about a car despawning that you have worked hours to build and collect for, because it's physics fuck up when a server gets restarted, a bug that has been assigned on the "Feedback Tracker" on May 23 2019, 12:55 PM? Without people being able to break into every base in a matter of minutes? I assume there are less then 10 people working on DayZ right now. They knowingly ignored my request for an official statement. As always we can only hope for the best, but I'm kind of done with hope when it comes to DayZ.

I wonder if I will ever be able to rightfully check off another one of those boxes...😕

Better. Safe. Than. Sorry.