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Yeah...I imagine that's what they meant by that tweet...but they really need to work on their communication skills and realize just how little credibility they have left.

Correct! And say what you will about Brian....at least he was smart enough to know that if he ever wanted to work another gig in the game industry he had to distance himself from this train wreck as quickly as possible!

Wait!.... What?... No Status Reports in December?? As in....Complete and utter Bullshit, about Beta? No way....Wow.... Shocked..... Yuk yuk.... Morons....

Best way is to find someone who can join you on a server and walk you through the basics. You will be less discouraged if you have an initial feel for how to survive the first few hours in-game. And...of course...you will either die or be killed quite a few times...so don't sweat it...We all have left our fair share of corpses in Chenarus! Cheers!

Welcome to Chenarus, @Coldlandlord….. sounds like you "get it"....and we are happy to have you. Cheers!

I was just about to go off on the OP....because I did not catch the "Xbox" in the thread either....Ack! Kind of funny to read Flame Posts from the new crowd, though... Have patience @bent.toe You guys have it pretty easy, compared to the PC supporters like us that have been suffering through the past 4-5 years of development. Not sure how the Community Servers are going to work for consoles, but I imagine there will be a form of server-specific persistence available... Server Ghosting/hopping losers are a problem for all Public Server players, and I hope you will have the opportunity we now have, as PC players, where Private Shards are readily available. The original question was a good one...but I chuckled that it was in the form of a temper tantrum....(already)…. Stick to it, and glad you are giving the SA a chance...

Forward Progress... This is encouraging, guys... Thanks for digging in, rolling up your sleeves, and getting the work done. It always feels like forever when you near the end of a long, hard project...and this is no different. Keep pushing, guys, and remember...4 million Survivors are counting on you! P.S. Give me my Key binds! ;-)

Oh Boy.... YES...It is a screenshot of total darkness.... I get it.... Nice pic!

So? By your comments am I to assume you were not interested in night time adventuring? I know you might have looked forward to doing some real testing and exploring in the new build...but I hope you give the deep night an honest try, my man...(at least if you are a bit geared up).

Remember the times where you were stuck in unknown terrain (because you did not know the map)...in the dark (because you preferred not to Gamma cheat)...and you hear a gunshot in the valley close by (because you still feared PVP)? The "new" darkness is a welcome trip back to those moments...where you are NOT the master of your destiny. I hid in the hills overlooking Novodmitrovsk and watched a group of Survivors messing around in the dark with flares and a couple fires and it was epic. I had an excellent time just spectating...full value!

If it happens...I would hope that it requires us to fill the damn things with a shovel! If we can just "craft" it and then place it (like the MOD stuff) then immersion just gets killed. But having Hescos just as single-row structures would still be fine as long as they allow building on top of them....lots of possibilities there.

Yes! I like to run on triple monitors and it just cant be done with the current UI.(well...actually I can...as long as I don't need to use my frickin inventory!) Key Binding is still keeping me away from the test versions so definitely looking forward to FINALLY having full control of my experience. BUT WHY HAS THIS NOT BECOME A "MUST FIX" ITEM?? (It sort of sounds as if it is something they are "eventually" going to touch on, and it is going to need tweaking, I bet...which will probably delay an actual "fully working" key bind system deep in to next year!) Hope not, of course...But.... I have a sneaky feeling the console version is going to get a lot of their attention, though, over the next two months...especially as they mention "weapons" as being a top priority (sigh). Overall, I was expecting a more definitive roadmap. (or rather, I was expecting different priorities, perhaps).

I am almost ready to free up some rack space at a Data Center I use so maybe my dream of having my own CUSTOM experience will finally become a reality...but for now, if I had to do it again I would still go with Fragnet for a server in the Eastern US and Canada. Oh Boy! Holy Price Increase, Batman! Just Checked the Fragnet lists again....after the Euro conversion to Canadian Dollars it's highway robbery! Time to donate to your Server, GK!

Yep. Its a case of Fragnet being "OK" as long as you don't have an oddball issue. Twitter is not their thing...and email is the only option that at least is easy to track. If a particular issue turns into a long and painful nightmare then you have a bit of ammunition to hammer out a free month or so. Seems like it's luck of the draw, though...as sometimes you get a support person that actually knows what an SLA is...and other times it's like waiting for features from the SA Devs! ;-) On a side note, GK, keep up the good work, and I hope a few more regulars here from the Forums stop by and dabble in a bit of Low-Latency US East surviving!

Not looking for trouble, here, Dude... But don't forget to mention that your experiences are console-based...so it avoids adding fuel to the fireplace ;-)

Living in Canada has one particular benefit, if you are a devoted Standaloner…. Sat back this weekend and got mildly toasted (now that it is legal and easy to get good stuff)...and I actually had a great time in-game! It was EXACTLY the same experience as the times back a few years when 04.xx builds plentiful. About the same amount of content...except of course, back then there were more Survivors playing. Being off-center, mentally, makes the hours wandering around Chenarus, with nothing to do except zapping Infected and collecting 7.62X39mm ammo (and playing the "Stamina Bar Mini-Game") a heck of a lot more enjoyable. Pretty soon reality will kick back in (and my supply of Doritos and Pepperoni will run low) and I will have to accept that I'm just being a desperate dweeb... But hey!... A worthy experiment, my friends!

Is a frog's ass watertight? ;-P

I'm afraid you might be closer to the truth than you might wish, my man... But maybe that be the ultimate saving grace for DayZ? Just cut it loose to the passionate modders out there and I will gladly part with a few more of my hard-earned dollars so that the game can be everything it needs to be to earn the right to be called a Standalone.

It is a little bit comforting to know that the majority of posts on this thread are inline with my own sentiments on this SR. What sort of softens the internal rage I'm fostering toward these amateurs is the way they talk in their Status Reports. It's almost as if they think/feel as if they are impressing us. It just makes me laugh now...as I visualize the Lead Devs high-fiving each other as they walk past in their offices...and dreaming about how many job offers their going to get post-launch... Not a single sincere hint that they realize how hollow and exasperating the changes and "updates" sound to the Survivors that have been around for these past many years... I had a good grasp on the impending content flush when I started seeing all those "Stress Tests"...actually...as it became clear they really had NO idea how to proceed with the critically important features we ALL are expecting to see in BETA (or at the very least 1.0!). So...to clarify...because I am in my fifties...and prefer clear and concise explanations... The "game" won't really be the "game" we even remotely expected back a few years ago...until Modders get a chance to work their magic (which clearly is beyond Eugen and the gang) and servers start showing up with an experience worthy of the DayZ moniker...Right? And having the console versions "developed" (not "ported") along the same-ish timelines isn't an overt insult to the dedicated followers of the PC Standalone..right? And I'm not supposed to be legitimately offended when I play back the interviews these guys pushed out at the games expos? (in other words...pissing on me and telling me its just raining)? It's about god damn time someone ELSE spoke about the projections and timelines for this project WITHOUT the schizophrenic and contradictory SR getting in the way...is it not? And lets call a spade a spade and admit that Bohemia simply could care less about DayZ as a game title, and is only concerned that they get their shiny new Engine...right? And...and...and....so on... Whew! Pissed off for way too long, and finally starting to run out of empathy. It's not where I want to be, and I don't feel this is the end of the disappointing news...but been in it for too long...and I see too much potential for it not to be worth suffering a few more years of this...right? ( But at least I get to laugh out loud every Wednesday evening until then...eh?) Thanks for sharing your time in-game, all you fellow Survivors...and thanks for giving me a platform to vent, occasionally, in this bizarre journey through the Early-Access. I just hope we can look back on this as a humorous anecdote in a year or so...instead of looking back at what a colossal screw-up it became... ….Right? ;-P This is just an on-topic "vent"...so chill out with your replies, folks...I'm still here...and I'm still playing... Just letting off steam to the crowd that lives my dream...yuk, yuk.

Just getting this out there...in the hopes all you Survivors will pick up on this as soon as (or in the event it ever finally makes it) this is available. I've been picked off a few times already, as I wander through 0.63 and I have had my share of the odd kill (but you gotta take me on my word they were justified) and the ONE thing I think would add so much immersion and increased personal connection with the server player base is the ability to write notes on paper... Pretty simple, really...but finding a note in the backpack of a dead body...and reading the words of the poor soul whether its just some juvenile BS or maybe its a deep RP message to whoever finds it... It just needs to be in the game. Having a note sitting on a kitchen table as you loot...maybe telling you which way to go for better gear...maybe warning you to get the hell out of a Clan-Owned area, or maybe just saying "You're" Dead" (even if there is no player lining you up in their gun sights it would scare the crap out of you) is just one example of how much it could add to the depth of the gameplay. Notes can serve as a means of admission to bases or controlled-access areas. Notes can even just serve as general information for those looking for crafting or other help. And....They give you a PERSONAL investment in your character and the time it has spent in Chenarus. This is big, folks...really... Getting attached to your character, I would argue, is essential for the deepest immersive experiences and notes are such a "simple" way to let it happen, organically. So...I wonder where this is, on the Devs' roadmap? It's hardly been mentioned as there are so many other priorities for them.... ….but I wonder if maybe this should be added sooner?....since it requires so little time to implement? (not discounting the CLE) and why it never made it into any of the previous builds? Almost afraid to ask if, possibly, this was scrapped...in favor of other content...like Teddy Bears or Clown Masks? Ack! What say you? If the ability to write notes was in the game...would you make use of this? Cheers!

Dude... I was not asking for them to be removed....but I apologize if I upset your keen perspective on what is appropriate to post in these forums. And if content is in the game, then so be it...I bought two copies...and I love playing it...and if I happen to think certain aspects infantile...then that is my opinion... Should the devs spend "X" amount of hours working in implementing something, versus something else? That is pretty much what I was alluding to. Please try harder next time, to perhaps see the intended message versus the interpreted one...my time on these forums have taught me the value of fully reading before I, myself, decide to chastise someone. Cheers.

Yeah....That's gotta be a no-brainer for the Devs. Torch is in front of you for general illumination around you....then hit your "raise weapon" key and BAM!...torch gets raised above you and glare is dramatically reduced! This has to be a common sense thing for them....just has to be.

100 harvested Thumbs...pointing straight up, for that reference....my man.

You know what, @pilgrim* I honestly thought people were just RP-ing when they mentioned finding Notes! I always look at paper when I find it as loot or when I go through a players' inventory....and have NEVER found text written on them. (maybe they are just client-based right now?) Books, BTW, are kind of neat, I agree...but waiting for the Tolkien Trilogy to make its' way in (copyright, notwithstanding....as it IS an apocalypse!)

I know the spawns quite well...but honestly had not "seen" a working crash site since 0.62