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WTF are you talking about, BI has just demonstrated that this business model can work, even without false advertising and lies. They just released ArmA 3 through the Minecraft model to both reviewers's and customers's delight. They even slashed the price of the full game. Also stop getting totally surprised about slipping deadlines, this has been a byproduct of Rocket's happy go lucky approach to game development, since he promised us dogs in August. Yo dawg, where my dawg at Rocket? Ever since Rocket was forced to delay in December, which he btw already had stated, he'd do if he had to, it's been common sense to take all continued deadlines with a little healthy skepticism. Anyways he's told you what he's aiming for and right now he's aiming for June. With Rocket you get what you get, unheard of accessibility both to his philosophy and process, front row seats to his successes and his mistakes. You know he can deliver, because he delivered in full in 2012, you know he loves to capture his audience, he's an optimist and he refuse to learn that the gaming community clings on to his every word, which gets them outraged when he fails to deliver something he never promised in the first place. Just make another WarZ video, while we wait for content. :D

Never shoot unless I have to. I used to shoot bandits on sight, but they really don't qualify as humans, they are just like armed zombies, only slightly more retarded. If I see another survivor, I take cover and tell him, I'm friendly and tell him to please not to point his weapon in my direction. People generally react well to this, because I'm not commanding them to do anything, I wouldn't do myself. I'm not telling them to disarm and place themselves completely at my mercy or render themselves utterly defenseless, if another player comes by. I just find a position, where I demonstrate, I can't easily shoot them and they can't easily shoot me. Whenever player realize, they are not in imminent danger of being shot, they seem more relaxed and easier to talk with in direct. Whenever I meet another friendly player, who simply turns him back at me, saying "friendly, friendly," I usually leave as quickly as possible, because if he's so reckless about his own security, his recklessness will probably get me killed, if I hang around him.

Since you already KOS everyone you see, I guess this is more a society made me KOS, it's not my own fault thread. To me it seems like if you present an easy target, you become one. Instead of waiting for other people to shoot you, you can actually make it difficult for them, simply by taking cover. This also happens to make you less of an imminent threat to other players. Remember that when you're looking in another player's direction, you're most likely pointing your weapon in the general direction of his head. Anyone pointing a weapon at another person is a direct threat, because all it takes is a little incompetence to accidentally mis-click the fire button or a deliberately little click to execute the other person. When you have two scared people, both a single mouse click away from wasting each other, staring down each other's barrels, it's only a matter of seconds, before one of you thinks: "Better him, than me." I you break line of sight, instead of standing in the middle of the road, saying "friendly, friendly" while you point your big caliber weapon at the stranger's face, you can't shoot ot get shot easily. So be friendly, don't be stupid.

Got fond memories of Berezino, broke in my m16 m203 on the hospital roof. Dude and his lady friend came at me guns blazing in the supermarket. Lady missed my head by inches with a bolt and I hauled ass up the ladder at the hospital. Mr. Up to no good, follwed me up and his face said: "Hello!" to Mr. Burst. Chick missed again with her crossbow from below and while she was busy dodging a few zombies, Mr. 40 mike mike said: "Do not pass start, do not collect my beans." I take no pleasure in killing other players, however they forced my hand and my hand just happened to hold a grenade launcher.

smasht you're effing awesome. I've been playing a lot of other games, getting a little distance to DayZ and a little less hysteric about the imminent need for a SA release. I love that they've learned both from the December delay, the WarZ release and also now, instead of confusing people with Minecraft models, Foundation released, they can simply point to ArmA 3 Alpha and say, we're doing it the ArmA 3 way. This is how we're going to do it and here's a clear example of how it's done right.

It may have been a sniper rifle, but two magazines at 20 meters, I'm not sure that qualifies as sniping. :)

We're all victims of our expectations and assumptions.

How do you think I got 10K kills, you gotta use sniper rifles to draw them out in hordes.

Standalone needs to be harder not easier and I fully support that spam-respawn-cooldown-into-the-ocean-timer. The faster you teach your teammates to read a map, the easier you guys can hook up.

Still alive :D

^^What Gary Oldman said. :)

If you switch between standing and crouched running and are aware of the surface you're running on, you can lose zombies after cutting two or so corners. If zombie aggros run fast around a corner, running might alert other zombies, but after one or two corners, switch to crouched running to lower your noise profile and they will lose line of sight and wont be able to hear you.

Hate this weapon. Hate any mission that has this weapon available. Perfect Rambo weapon and it's absolutely deafening playing with someone, who uses it.

BattleEye is like a clan, where the only requirements for playing on their servers are that you protect your game-key and don't get caught cheating. Remember you're not banned from playing multiplayer, you just can't join servers with BattleEye enabled. ...so they are not shit actually. Your friend is a moron, who tired to cheat, but was to dumb to cheat and got cheated out of his cd-key and somehow BattleEye found it within their heart to give him second chance and a second key, because they realized he was intelligently impaired. So they are actual the opposite of shit, they are in fact an inspiration, a company with social consciousness.

I bet you would, you cheeky bastard.

Chainsaw is too heavy for melee, I see it more as a trope, than actually useful.

Anyways read the stickies in the Ban Appeal forums. You either hacked and got caught, someone with access to your pc installed a hack or you had your game-key stolen by downloading something ArmA-related from an unsecure source.

Passed 9500 kills today.

DayZ don't judge, everyone dies.

As you already know, the correct answer is indeed any M4 variant. Easy to come by and more sexy than it's AK counterparts. While all the FN FALs and M14s have a greater stopping power, they also have smaller magazines and alarm hordes of zombaloids. With the M4 you have a tiny, hot package with 30 headshots or 15 double taps, it's also pretty silent, if you just use a bit cover to shield the sound for all directions. Chicks love the M4!

Ever seen a zombie movie? Don't ever lean against a door, wall or boarded up window, while trying to impress all the hot survivor chicks.

Okay how about a fundraiser for cloning an army of Rockets with the purpose of infiltrating EA and Activision, obviously we'll have to develop the clones over 30 years, sending them on survival exercises to Malaysia and encourage them to take up wake-boarding, rollerblading or whatever extreme sport that made Rocket the man he is today. Shit... since we're already breeding an army, instead of a second game, maybe we should just infiltrate the NZ army and air force, conquer Australia and socialize their their wildlife and force them to sell their PC games at half price?

I'm looking forward to rediscovering Chernarus+, but I miss the feeling of being disoriented, helpless and clueless.

Clearly an office bromance gone sour. #E!

I don't know if I'm head over heels in love with the jumping, but it's nice to get a small proof of life update. :)