Kirby12352

It's called feedback. That's the whole point of early access. Without it, we'd probably have a way worse game at this point in development. Don't get me wrong, sharing and reading stories about the game is all well and good, but it's better to dissect the game and find the issues for the devs to deal with than it is for us to sit around a campfire, telling stories and singing Kumbaya.

For one thing, wolves blindly chasing people should not be blamed on the disease. It was never said to affect animals in what little lore the game has, and it's kind of stupid to blame half baked AI on something like that. That's the same as saying the reason everyone's character gets thirsty so fast is that they're all diabetic. For another, I don't want the wolves to be a super major threat out in the woods. They should be a concern if you're a hermit or if you're injured, but if you're charging through the woods with a group of 10 guys, they should run away, not attack, which is what I'm pretty sure they're gonna end up doing once they're implemented. They look like they're just gonna be zombies in wolf form, which is disappointing. I'd say if you're by yourself and/or bleeding in the woods, you should have a better chance of a wolf pack attacking. If you're with a large group, they should run away and generally keep their distance. Also, gunshots should scare them off, and maybe swinging a melee weapon in their direction should scare them as well. I hope the wolves act as another way to discourage the hermit playstyle and encourage players to work together. This is supposed to be a survival game, not CoD with survival aspects sprinkled in, so I'm happy that they're making the environment a bit more of a threat. After all, in a real zombie apocalypse, I'd be rolling with a group, not hiding in my lair by myself counting how many guns I have in my secret stash of military gear.

I would wait until Beta before returning. I'm also burnt out right now, and I won't be returning until Beta hits or there's a significant change added to the game.

It's already here.

I'd say he's basing it on the fact that progress has been relatively slow in terms of development, which makes people want to wait for Beta, when the game will be more worth playing. I will probably come back to see how things are when 0.59 comes, and if the game isn't substantially changed with that update, I'll be waiting for Beta to start playing again. After all, when an update takes this long to come, most people want to see a real change. I don't know how many players will consistently be playing after the initial hype of Beta dies down, but I expect it to be more than the current number.

Taking a shower is pretty different from pouring a bit of water from a bottle on your head. If you dumped the entire bottle, it might cause hypothermia though, so maybe if it were implemented, pouring a bit of water would cool you down, while pouring the whole bottle, or almost the whole bottle, would have a good chance of giving you hypothermia? Did he actually get hypothermia, or was he just a bit cold? After all, hypothermia is having a dangerously low body temperature, not just a bit of shivering.

To be honest, I want them to take their time with 0.59. This update is supposed to bring some actual changes to the game, and if they rush it, we'll just end up with another "new gun, new hat, new shirt" update that we've been getting for the past while. But yes, I agree with everything you said. There is zero reason to play 0.58. It's a broken mess and I feel sorry for anyone who bought the game during this update and had this horrendous nightmare of an update be their first impression of the game.

I doubt that water sitting in a backpack for 10 hours will be ice cold. I get what you're saying, and I agree that it's a terrible idea to throw someone into a hot/cold shower, but I doubt pouring a little bit of lukewarm water on their heads is gonna be a death sentence. Besides, I'd say that being able to instantly heal a broken leg with morphine is less realistic than pouring a bit of water on someone's head, especially since said water won't be slightly cold. No working fridges in the apocalypse.

I've had this happen to me before too. I shot a new spawn who was about 10 feet away from me in the torso with a shotgun and he just kept coming. I can deal with not dying instantly from a bullet from a pistol or something, seeing as it's more than possible to do so, but if someone shoots you in the stomach with a shotgun, it's game over for you. But nope, apparently characters in the game can just take a blast from a shotgun at 10 feet away.

It's not meant to be a PvP focused game. From my understanding, it's supposed to be a survival game with PvP sprinkled in. If they made DayZ less hardcore to the point where loot is even more easy to come by and such, at that point you really might as well just go play Arma or CoD.

If you're looking for a new game, I recommend Ark: Survival Evolved. It's not really a mega gritty survival experience, aside from the dinosaurs that are really dangerous for low to medium leveled players, but it's a lot of fun building a fortress and hunting/taming dinosaurs. Plus, the devs constantly push out updates in that game, and I've never seen an EA game with such frequent updates. I personally have had more fun with it than I've ever had with Rust or DayZ Standalone, but that's just my opinion. Word of advice though, if you do decide to buy it. Join an unofficial server, because the official ones have tame times that can take up to 7 hours for the higher level dinos, although 3 to 4 is the average. But if you join an unofficial one that has the tame time sped up to x3 or x4, it's much less of a grind but is still a challenge to tame things.

I live about two hours from you. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) The thing is, if survival isn't much of a challenge and is just "fun", then everyone just kills each other because there's nothing else to do. Currently we have a survival system that's very easy, which is why everyone's running around gunning each other down for no reason.

Hmm, that's odd. I haven't been playing for the past couple months though, so I'm mainly going by what others tell me.

Those videos are pretty misleading, as they do not show the amount of zombies that have ever been in stable updates to my knowledge. That's just one experimental update in that video, and hardly represents the actual game. In stable, I have never found a group of zombies larger than 5 or so. In my experience, they've almost always been solitary. However, apparently they're supposed to spawn in greater numbers with this next update.

Do you expect the devs to completely abandon the idea they had in mind for their game, just based on what the community wants? The community's role is to help develop the game the devs had in mind, NOT to make a completely different game. The idea for the game was set in stone from the start. If people want a completely different game, they should go play something else.