daze23

I think it's clear that if nothing else, the lack of conclusive information is a burden on these forums and it's staff. people sign up everyday to ask the same questions. it's easy to brush them aside with a "use the search function" or "didn't you see rocket's post on reddit", but at some point I think it's an obvious breakdown in communication

I haven't seen one yet in DayZ Namalsk. I'm familiar with them from the Namalsk Crisis sp campaign. I think I heard them a couple times on DayZ, but I've yet to see one I think it would be cool if they would also attack the zeds. also if the zeds attacked animals. yeah, I've been playing Far Cry 3...

the real "holiday rush" was back in november. Far Cry 3 was released at the end of that 'rush'. notice it's pretty much the only game in Steam's "top sellers" that's not on sale. it maybe on sale at some point in the Holiday Sale, but my point is that in general Steam doesn't use these big sales to push new releases. and any game seriously trying to be out for the 'holidayz' would have been out awhile ago

Steam always has stuff on sale though. for that matter, (very) new releases are seldom part of their big sales

you have to make sure the benchmark throws everything the game has at your computer. Arma 2 has two benchmarks: one seems too 'easy' and the other seems too 'harsh' that leads me to another pet peeve I have with PC games: make sure the first 'levels' push the engine as far as it's gonna go. it sucks when you think you got your settings all right, and then there's some part late in the game where your performance suffers. the first Portal did that to me on the crappy PC I was playing it on. my performance was fine, then in the Glados end-game battle I was at like 3fps but yeah, I guess I'm proving your point that these things aren't that easy and will cost money

well it would be "open to exploitation" just as much as any 'demo'. but I imagine they could limit things to make it so there's not much you could do with it. ultimately I would prefer a playable demo for every game, but thought a benchmark tool was a good compromise (because like you point out, these things do cost money/time) I was thinking something like the benchmark tool that comes with Metro 2033. Arma 2 also has 2 benchmarks in the 'scenarios' I think in general it could help reduce piracy, as many people do pirate games to test performance (at least that's what I told the judge) edit: I think many people have had experiences with games where they met the 'requirements', but got very poor performance from the game. you could argue that the industry likes that situation. but in the long run it can lead to refund demands, bad press, etc. that game "Miasmata" is going through that right now. many people are holding off on buying because of reported performance issues

DayZ, and pretty much every PC game, should have a free benchmark tool you can download

apparently they've deceived me into thinking they're not very well organized

the OP was your fellow mod and it does seem like 'censorship' to move topics about the standalone to "off topic". perhaps I'm being hyperbolic, but it seems like an attempt to move the discussion out of the limelight. if these forums aren't the place to talk about the standalone, fine, but just make sure you're consistent with that and now I notice the last few mod posts I referred to in the original thread have disappeared...

yet mods are still posting in it and this thread got moved to "off topic" for I don't know what reason. kinda reminds me of the shenanigans on the forums of another game with "Z" in the title...

the WarZ presented itself as a finished game. that was the first thing that struck me when I saw it on Steam. I thought for sure it would have a disclaimer about being unfinished, but there was nothing. they actually modified the description at least once, before it was removed I think it's clear that it's important to be very clear about what people are spending their money on

I was saying this awhile ago, as far as if Steam wants to get involved in an unfinished game. but since then Rocket said Steam was supporting his model, with "delta patching", VAC, etc ultimately BI should know that people prefer Steam, but we would gladly give our money directly to them if need be

good to know :thumbsup: do they need to be converted, or do they just work?

one thing I've noticed is all these extra guns just means there's that many more different clips to sift through

how insensitive. maybe I celebrate kwanzaa :trollface: edit: again, it seems the best people can do this holiday season is calling each other: kids, immature, impatient, too invested, cry babies, entitled, etc

it's not like I arbitrarily picked this time to be invested in the idea of the game being released

that's fine, it's just there's a lot of people throwing insults around, and framing their argument around 'maturity', when we're all in the same boat of just wanting information and we've still received no real confirmation that it is or isn't coming out this year (aka this week). just tell us "yes" or "no" so we can enjoy the holidays

you can't act like you don't care when the game is coming out, and then post in this thread. it seems there's a lot of cool guys acting like they don't care, while at the same time hammering F5 on twitter, tumbler, reddit, this thread, etc

that's not really fair it never denied it's STALKER influence http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=14194

if that's true, it won't make people happy. it basically means he lied about being 'depressed', 'stressed', etc, and just played with our emotions so BI could juice Arma 2 a little more

that's one way of looking at it. but it's also been about a month since 1.7.4.4 came out. also the lack of update with the standalone. I don't wanna be melodramatic, but all these issues compound on each other, and people around here get antsy

what question is that? is it: why do people claim to not care when the game comes out, but post in this thread?

but I promised Tiny Tim the DayZ StandAlone for Christmas. bah, humbug!

this needs to come out soon to ensure I get my 2012 Holiday Sale Badge from Steam

at some point it's like if you know you're gonna be busy for the holidays, don't make other plans for that time I have a job too. and if I have a deadline, no one wants to hear about my family and all that. maybe I'm just mad... >:(