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I was killed by a guy with an AUG in Prig for no reason. Instantly got a Prig spawn and hunted him down as a freshspawn. Found him and tracked him for a few hundred meters. He went into the large tin building with the catwalk. I peaked inside and he was dead. Must have been sniped from the hills above Prig. I crawled in and swiped the AUG and ran away before I suffered the same fate, Never even got to fire it as the next day the server disappeared and has never re-appeared in the server list :/

I think you need to work on your comical content

For the love of god. This was an example of competition, not a real world example. I have 1200 hours in DayZ. I am well aware of the "go inland after you spawn" advice. I give out the advice frequently myself. Well done on derailing the discussion point.

Alright then, good to know you are not a person I would like to know in real life.

There doesn't have to be leader boards and "winning" for this to be a competitive game. I compete with everyone else on the server to stay alive. That is the "winning" aspect. I compete with every other new spawn to get loot in cities.

There is nothing wrong with being disappointed in progress to date. I too would like to be playing the completed game right now with helicopters flying everywhere and bases being raided left, right and center with hoards of zombies everywhere. But I don't complain about it because I realize that these expectations are not realistic and that the game has many many months left on its roadmap before these systems are in place. Its all about realistic expectations and reasonable perspectives.

Are you sure you didn't make a typo here? I think that that if a person isn't truly a pacifist, they are either ignorant, naive, or just flat out inhumane.

Erm have you seen reddit in the last few days? There will ALWAYS be hackers. Its limiting the number and frequency of them that is the aim. Expecting an online competitive game to not have any hackers is unrealistic. A good coder can write his own personal unique hacker which are very difficult to detect. Its been great since 0.53, I haven't seen a single one. In 0.52 the place was infected with them. Adding new content or code to the game will always have unexpected consequences. Some of these consequences will be undoing previously fixed bugs. That is the point of alpha, beta is for fixing these issues. The devs continually try to mitigate these bugs but sometimes its just not worth the manpower when more and more things are being added and will break them again. If you are disappointed in the progress to date and issues in the game, you should not be playing the alpha.

The spawns havent been balanced yet and vary patch to patch

No idea what that message is about, sorry.

If I see one more person stating that BI developers are idiots for adding more brooms/hats/items rather than fixing optimization, I may just have to blow my own brains out, live on my YouTube channel. My faith in humanity is being chipped away post by post. We truly are entering into Idiocracy territory. Trying to say that BI should fix optimization NOW is just like trying put your coat/jacket on before you put on your shirt. As Weedz stated above, if you have no idea about game development and more specifically alpha game development, go play a completed game and come back later. Stop making yourself look stupid on forums.

Post it on the bug traker

I was travelling on the south coast and my game started to spaz out just as a zombie spotted me. Almost complete lockup except when the zombie was hitting me I could hear the audio and got 1 FPS for 1 second then back to completely locked up. I had to alt+tab and manually and shut down DayZ and assumed I would be dead when I came back. Once I logged back in, I was alive, but my dead body was also a few feet away from me. I am now the proud owner of 16 mosin bullets rather than 8 since i unwittingly duped my gear :) That's all I had worth collecting on my dead body. Should I be banned for accidental duping??

I used to play a lot of 1PP, still occasionally do, but the camera height made me feel like it was either in my crotch or I was 3 feet tall. Also the heavy sex offender breathing was frustrating. I think if they worked on 1PP a little it would attract some people back.

Dsync is getting very janky with the last patch. I often get an uncontrollable character from time to time and he moves about randomly

Canned peaches are the bomb.

Best to do the F11 or holding W trick to make the knife

Most likely you logged off on a 1st or second floor, you dsynced when loading, starting running about and the dsync caught up with you and squished you.

But I do have a spoon :) And my real name is Mr Anderson

Me too. Like all games, it will experience peaks and troughs. Obviously lots of people bought the game during the early alpha days. Lots of these folks will have played for a bit then moved onto other games or will wait for the beta or later stages to return. Most players play like this. I am not that type of player, I invest in a game then play it for years. 14 years on CS/CZ/CS:Source/CS:GO. 8 years in WoW. WoW has had periods where they had 12 million subs. Then the dropped down to 7 or 8 million and the prophets of doom have always proclaimed that X game or Y game is the new big WoW killer, and 10 years later they are still top dog.

Quite the eloquent retort. If at first you cant win with words, resort to pictures.

The argument is not wrong. The game is NOT out there, people did NOT pay for the game. You are not playing the game, you are playing an early development build. You are right it was released as alpha. That means you paid to be part of the development process. No-pne has even seen the completed game yet as it still has years of development. So how can an assessment be made regarding to its downfall? Even if the argument could be made that it was over, how do you account for another 1M new purchases in the last few months alone? It's like discussing what we think of Prince Charles reign as the monarch of the UK and if he will abdicate soon even though the Queen isn't even dead yet and Charles isn't the King yet, so discussions cannot be revolving around the demise of his rule.

Good point, I didnt see it was posted in the mod section. Thought he was on about standalone

Considering that the game has not even been completed yet, it's a little premature to discuss its longevity or its demise.

Why would you ever risk a firestation ascent with all that gear? I only ever go up them as a fresh spawn