Undeceived

Hello Bohemia, could you please consider releasing less updates but with the same or more content over the whole year? Every update the modded community servers - at least the one I play on - need to wipe everything because of changes to and problems with the mods, which is kind of frustrating for the players when the "seasons" are so (way too) short. Thank you for another year of support and development.

Why is that?

Hello Bohemia, thanks. One question: Will dragging or carrying of dead / unconscious players be implemented at one point?

This article reminds me of the more recent Arma 3 report-ins. "Menpower shifting to other projects" "Nothing big coming, small-scale content, etc." Except Arma 3 looks back at a long and proud history full of content, DLCs, inoumerous updates, developer dedication and a support that really deserves to be called "post-release support". DayZ can not look back to that, it can't even look back to a complete release. This is why this article is so frustrating for me personally.

I read the article again and this time this quote really left a bad taste... As if you wanted to write "with the time and resources left", but weren't allowed. Sorry, this might be unfair, but reading this article with the whole year still ahead of us it pretty much knocked me out... 😒

I'm sorry but "post-release support" just feels out of place and totally wrong. Instead I'd say that you're still completing the release. With that said it's really sad to see the priority (ressources) going elsewhere. This is really disappointing and feels like a partly abandonment - certainly not full commitment as it should be (remembering the promises and seeing what is still missing in the game). Instead we read about intentions, like if you aren't sure you can do it. So you try to reduce the expectations. Sorry to say that, but as a die-hard BI fanboy since OFP this report just feels frustrating... EDIT: I hope that you prove me wrong, but seeing the facts you write (ressource shifting + "small scale content") I feel pessimistic. How long shall your customers wait for the game to be complete?

The connection to the server fails (official DE server). Picking an alternative one throws where God knows where, which I don't want, so... Can't play as intended - thank you very much. 😞

That's a really nice patch! 👍 I hope that the NVGs are as rare as e.g. the VSD (maybe only at heli crash sites) as they give such a huge advantage. And they are way more universally useable than the NV scope for the AKM.

I can confirm the loss of loot when dropping it close to a tree. The bug is back. Still didn't find any of the new things (new weapons, not even ammo). I tried out approximately 20 servers with low population (or empty) (night and day time) at Devil's Castle as well as the hunting lodge settlement south of Troitskoe base - nothing, not even a bullet. The personal camera light is too bright in my opinion. I'm not totally against it as of now but it looks weird, running through a forest, and close trees being illuminated that much.

Merry Christmas, Bohemia! Don't mind the moaning and have some good dayZ with your families.

As much as I'd love a winter map, snow doesn't necessarily mean it.

Played a six hours session with two friends and we didn't have any problems (apart from getting ripped apart by land mines, carefully placed in military bases.... :-/ ). Some little freezes when the time skipped, but this is all. FPS were good (around 60). No crashes or so. Keep it up, BI. Good job.

Congratulations!

Just keep your Steam running and it will download irgendwann (as soon it's there).

CTDs anyone?

He says that it is pointing forward now.

I noticed something like this in the breathing-out particles as well.

After this catastrophic experimental patch from yesterday I'm not really in the mood to switch back from stable, but are the CTDs fixed when joining and when viewing the server browser?

I never understood what the maintenance does. Does it apply the experimental patch on the stable branch? Restart the servers? Wipe the servers?

First I was able to join some servers, but the last 5 times nothing worked. It loads, then crashes to desktop. This isn't fun at all! >:-( Unplayable. EDIT: Ok, it crashes everywhere. Ingame, returning to the server browser, joining a server... This is a f***** mess! EDIT 2: Yes, I deleted the DayZ folder in my documents and yes, I verified the filed integrity (both several times).

Good point. We played around 2 hours with the cold, taking codein and antibiotics (these tetra...... tabs). Up to now there's no sign of recovery.

Unfortunately this doesn't work in the current version (Experimental). A friend ate 4 packages of codein and drank until the stomach symbol appeared - no dice. You can see the bacterial symbol changing the direction (with three dots), but this isn't sufficient. It's bugged as it seems. :-(

Has anyone managed to get rid of the cold? Antibiotics don't seem to work, even after approx. 1 hour play time I'm still sick, coughing and sneezing like mad. One small feedback to BI: We (3 friends) loved to see the contagion of the cold but this happened way too fast IMO. It started with me and in no time (I think less than 5 minutes) we all had it. This should take way more time. And it also could "grow" slower, e.g. starting with some light coughing or some harrumphing sounds. It could very well be that it wasn't a contagion but we all got sick by coldness and rain. But this is rather unlikely.

On the ominous subject of wells disappearing: My impression is that BI slightly reduced the amount of cans , which is fine IMO (really found a lot of them as the beta came out - yesterday only a few). While less cans are ok, the missing wells are a bit problematic. Even as an experienced player I had some struggle to survive (found a dirty pond eventually with my health being red and blinking, almost couldn't move anymore). Two of my friends that played the game for the first time died 3-5 times right away though because of dehydration, as they did neither find cans nor wells. Just my impressions.