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Well, this game is so far behind right now I don't really know how or when they will be able to add more zombies. For example, say they add 5 or 10 times more zombies into the game this week..... Well, the controls are still so fucking unresponsive that when you try to right click to raise your weapon and aim your gun...... the 2 or 3 second delay to just aim down your iron sights will get your clothes ruined or get your bones broken..... People will start to notice how bad the controls and networking really are if they try to add more zombies now. So yes, we want crap loads more zombies, but Jesus Christ, with the current state of the game, it would not be fun at all..... It would be a big cluster F.

This whole effort to avoid giving us good sniper and machine guns is probably why people pay for hacking the living shit out of this game. It's the only way to have fun until they give us more zombies, cars, and better guns. I don't mean that it's a good reason to do it, no one should ever hack no matter what. I just wonder if that's why so many people hack is because there is not enough fun things to do yet. Anyways, yes, I am all for MORE heavy guns but they should be very rare to find in the game.

I don't understand the reason for experimental. Why doesn't having experimental out first not catch huge bugs like this before stable gets updated?

Is it just me, or would everyone rather see a small horde of the infected traversing different parts of the map making things really interesting. That kind of view and possible interaction would make for 1000 times more interesting gameplay than commando kiddies or loot farming server owners hogging up the damn truck that is coming. I don't think this is a suggestion because I shouldn't have to suggest this at all. It should be a priority so my question is, what is the projected time table for larger numbers of the infected? Please, more resources on small hordes, not trucks. Why can't they delete say, 75% of all the animals on the map, devote that game memory to more, and more zombies........ and sit back and enjoy all the praise and love?

LOL. That's amazing because on an earlier post, some guy was trying argue that every patch addresses the problem but then the "problem" is re-written so that it works again. I tried to tell him this was untrue but you just proved me right. As there is no way that the patch that came out 24 hours ago stopped any of "the problem". thank you for proving me right, if only we were allowed to talk about it. I feel like I'm on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall circa 1970.

Agreed. And I didn't mean anything negative towards the admins or the staff. The game is heading in the right directions so I'm happy with the game. Sorry I got off topic.

I don't know how this was missed during the entire time on experimental, but on stable .50 I'm getting the "warning can't find character" message 100% of the time I play any server. Is this the same for everyone? My character loads fine but how can we tell if our character really isn't loading and could prevent us from backing out in time? Seems like the server to client networking is getting more broken with each update. :(

Yeah, I'd rather there bee too much loot and pristine, then no loot or all damaged. How is this game breaking? Game breaking would be if your character dies too easily, for example. We can't test the game if our characters die too easily. I also like the rangefinder, I can't wait to find one...... I'm finally excited about a new item... But for the love of all things good and Holy.......... I'd freaking give anything for more zombies or the ability to knee cap zombies.... I'm freaking bored.

That's a good point. Even if your character spawns as a freshie, if you don't move at all and immediately smap the escape key out.... it usually works. So I guess we just have to be more careful. Thanks for the helpful comment.

To be fair, Orlok. I think what he meant by the "circle jerk" comment is that on this forum, the rules that are enforced guide mostly positive threads and comments. Many of the fair criticisms of the current version of the game are not even allowed to be discussed. So the "circle Jerk" means that in order to participate in the forums here, we are not allowed to discuss very imporant problems with the game. While on other forums, people are allowed to talk about all aspects of the game. Not really sure why this is hard for anyone who is truly objective to understand.

Wait, War Z game was also made by a Eastern European company? Ah, I'm starting to see a pattern here.........

Thank you. I realized that. But as my OP states, how do we know if our character really isn't found by a server? We could possibly lose our character now because we may not know intime if a server really couldn't retrieve our character. Did this happen the whole time on experimental as well or did it only happen on the new stable?

What I really want to to be able to open a can of beans or tactical bacon with the still warm jaws and teeth of the guy I just killed on the North West side of the map. Now that's a bad ass game when we can do that.

First let me repeat that I think Bohemia and Dean are doing an awesome job of working on this cool game. I love Dayz, it's the coolest game I've ever played in terms of concept. I also think hacking will be fixed in beta and final release. So there is no reason to panic... The game will be fine I promise guys.... now, to the quote above..... But we have not seen any evidence to support what you are saying what soever for the case of Dayz so far. Dayz is unlike any other game in history. It is attracting a very different kind of player. Lots of Eastern European players I've personally never played with before, for example. How can you compare the "market value", and "players" of Dayz to any other game? How do you know that Dayz players are not 50 times more likely to pay for 5 different copies of Dayz and Steam account so they can keep ruining people's day with the fun hacks that are so easy to buy? Because from the actual real experience of me playing the game for 10 months, reading up on different forums,..... etc...... I believe 100% that for some reason, there are a lot of people who enjoy ruining people's day in Dayz more than other games.

And here is why I think many game companies just pay Battle Eye to ban a few people rather than bother making their game cheat proof.... They sell 5 to 10 copies to one scumbag cheater so they make more sales. Think about it... Even if a cheater makes 2 or 3 people give up playing and supporting the game...... that cheater will purchase 5 to 10 different copies of the game for when he gets banned by BE. Has no one else asked if this is why companies just pay BE to simply ban people every now and then rather than make their game nearly cheat proof?

can you provide a link to where the patch notes say... "fixed current esp hack", or "fixed current speed hack".... or "fixed current "steal people's gear" hack". ?If what you are saying is true, that they did stop previous esp and speed hacks....... then my God, we have the fastest hack writers on the planet that only devote their hacking skills on the latest Dayz version of stable. Because I've never noticed a drop in hacks except sometimes from BE global bans. I'm not talking negative about Bohemia. I actually don't mind the current hacking status because I think they will prevent it a lot more in Beta and Final release. If what you are saying is true, that they are trying hacking currentl in each patch, then they need their money back from BE and they need to just give up until the engine is rebuilt.

Wait are you sure you know what you are talking about? I thought that there are zero patches that have anything in them to prevent esp and other hacks.... I thought they let Battle Eye do all of the updates to find and ban hackers.As far as I know, they only update patches to address duping and exploits that crash the whole game. Can anyone else confirm I am correct? I don't think they have ever patched to stop the hacks because 1. They let battle eye do all of the anti hacking... 2. the engine will be so different by beta and final, that that will be the time to stop more hacking.

Yeah, I agree. I see the point that it's not just a critical development need right because they are working on a shit load of stuff..... but at the same time, it would have been a really cool feature to help make it more fun with so few zombies.

I really don't understand why they didn't add the same damage and resulted animations to zombies that they already have implemented for players. It would make the game much more interesting while we are bored out of our minds with no vehicles or hordes of zombies. One city with 2 zombies that are either walking or flat on their back (before they disappear in 10 seconds sucking the immersion out of the game) is just not cutting it. Now a city with 2 to 4 zombies that we can shoot in the knee cap and make them surprise "ankle biters" while crawling around.........? Now that's something that can get us through these extremely boring days. Sorry for the typo in the OP title... "Addred" what the fuck is that? LOL I meant "added"

That's cool man. I went back and re-read your post. All I can see is that you are saying... "all games have hacking in them so what is the big deal?". (not word for word but that's what I understand from your post) I guess the rest of us have really bad luck. Tons of people with less than 300 hours have reported many times seeing something you have not seen at all in 3000 hours? How is this even possible? You are lucky man. I'm happy for you.

Sorry buddy, but I really don't think any persistance is stable enough to be expected to transfer or work. It's definitely awesome they are working on this but you can't really trust it to work yet.

Let's speak honest as men to men. If you can't agree that the current Dayz stand alone has a much larger percentage of hacking going on than a typical game, then this can be seen as an insult to our intelligence. I personally feel that perhaps the hacking will be stopped in the beta or final release so I'm OK with the hacking we see now. But honestly, to sit here and tell us that the amount of hacking we see in Dayz is just normal, unavoidable levels? I'm sorry, but with all due respect, that's really kind of insulting.

I said thanks. Chris was cool doing the interview but how exactly am I out of line getting called out by admins and others because I would like to hear about progress on how the game and controls work? I apologize profusely. I will get more excited about trees and a 100 year old pistols (c-96) and give less questions about how the game runs.

God I can't waint until they start updating the engine and server/client networking. It's just God awful design so far. I've never heard of such a fantastic concept game with such a God Awful game mechanic. It's like getting a girl with the body of Jennifer Anniston but the face and voice of Elmer Fudd. I'm just so freaking torn on whether to love this game or hate it with all my guts.

OK. Thank your the kind explanation. Admins, you can delete my posts about the hacks as I just realized they are not really allowed to be discussed. Chainreactor gave me a good handle on the current situation so I don't have any more questions about duping or hacking status.