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A friendly warning, don't listen to the interview while you're on Teamspeak yourself, I had to alt-tab a couple of times, because "someone entered my channel" or "posted in chat." :)

But I want to force everyone else to adopt my personal preferences, so my preferences are guaranteed full servers too.

You've got every right to attempt to predict a 9 months delay, but we're just pointing out it's pure speculation. If Rocket is forced to cancel his Everest climb, then you might have grounds. But it's way too early to add 9 months, out of the blue.

The 2001 title Operation Flashpoint was released for console as OFP: Elite in 2005~2006. With zombies getting severely optimized and basic Chernarus being a 2009 map, I don't see why it can't be optimized for current or next gen consoles. It might not be a 1:1 conversion, but it don't have to be.

Adding nine months based on so little seems groundless at this point.

So far we're 8 days past the original very ambitious ETA. I agree a release in the next 8 days is way too optimistic too. But c'mon what are you basing a 8-9 months delay on?

Great insight.

Beans reloaded, fire on my command!

wtf ran out of beans!

An alien crash site, I called it, I knew we'd be moving more towards a more Independence Day like scenario!!

OP makes me wanna check out DayZ+

The gift that keeps on giving!

Traditionally slow zombies really don't work so great in games. They work best, when you're forced to stop moving to rest or seek shelter at night, otherwise even your granny could out walk them. I'd love to test a more elaborate stamina system, where you're forced to not run all the time, but that could change the game into something it's not.

Ever since Matt decided to wear men's clothing again, he's been out of the spot light.

I just think Rocket is tired of handing over free ideas to WarZ, even though they are fucking them up as fast as they can. Rocket chose the term "foundation build" trying to define, what the initial release of DayZ would be like. Something beyond a mere alpha/beta, something that would a game ready to play, but still offered room for future features and upgrades. WarZ smacked the word "foundation build" on top of their alpha and released a mockery of a game, pretty much destroying the whole idea of a "foundation build." So while they never were a true competitor or a threat to DayZ, their sheer incompetence can still hurt DayZ.

Obviously BI has a hand on it, they are developing DayZ together with Rocket. Don't have anything to do with Steam sales, just wasn't ready for release and with the whole WarZ clusterfuck, what would DayZ gain from a rushed and bugged release? They can't, because Sergei Titov is standing ready to rip off any idea Rocket releases and announce it as his own.

GIMP is a decent, cheap, free, legal alternative to photoshop.

Cheap cd-keys form unofficial cd-key retailers, are usually bought in bulk with stolen credit cards and then sold very cheaply to people, who don't want to pay full price from Steam, Sprocket or any other official store. The problem is that a 5 dollar discount isn't actually cheap, when credit card theft is detected, the sales are cancelled and your keys banned.

Ill be back from NZ soon.

Yeah love it when people, who initially tried to kill you, end up abusing you in side chat for defending yourself well. I was once stuck in the supermarket for 10 minutes. Two Cz550 shots missed me, just as I entered the supermarket. So I just sat there in a corner, wanting really badly to log off. The minutes kept ticking and I wondered, why no one was closing in on the supermarket, so I decided to run out the front door and head around the back side. I rounded the corner and say a survivor with a M4 quickly taking cover behind the far corner, so I forced myself back into the market. I figured they were at least two people, one with a Cc550 and this guys with a M4, I only had an AK-74 I think. For a minute or two, we would walk back and forth, listening to each other's footsteps. I then decided to open the back door and throw a smoke in this room. While the coming zombies covered my footsteps, I changed position to the opposite backroom and few seconds later, I heard his footsteps on the other side of the wall. After a few long seconds, I peaked out and saw him approaching the smoke filled room, between the shelves, with his back against me. I started shooting and watched him panic, when he got stuck between the shelves and couldn't turn or move to cover and then he just died. I killed the zombies with my last ammo, picked up his M4 and buried him. Then I can out the supermarket towards the west kill and instantly came under fire from two other weapons. A Cz550 and something else, as I reach the treeline, I was bleeding hard and my vision was blurry. I ran for one and a half minute more, constantly looking at my decreasing blood. At this point the shooting appeared to be far behind me, focused on the zombies they alarmed and I found a pine tree and bandaged with a little more than 2000 blood left. Then heading north, looking for a friend with a blood bag.

STRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIKE!

All work and no play.

Two different products, engine versions and audiences. While DayZ is locked down, ArmA 3 will still be open and easily accessible for user content. While I'm sure many are interested in both, DayZ will continue down the survival route and ArmA 3 will focus on moddable milsim. ArmA 3 will be the next generation of the RV engine, DayZ will be an upgrate based on ArmA 2, AO, TOH and go it's own way. DayZ will look more like ArmA 2, than ArmA 3, but there's a good chance some of lessons from optimizing can be used in between DayZ and ArmA 3. DayZ can be released as soon as Rocket and Steam agree they had a stable and defined build, while ArmA 3 is at least going to be held back until the situation in Greece had been resolved.

dammit, now I'm hooked...

FinKone oh no, you didn't!