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Problem is that we heard this for several years now, and most people have a hard time believing it now before they see it, which is understandable I guess...

They confirmed again just a week or two ago that they also plan to release 1.0 this year. So yeah, thats gonna be pretty interesting to see...

Pretty much... The announcements from late 2017 sounded like an early 2018 beta release ("we don't quite manage before christmas, but it will come out asap next year"). Now it feels like we are already again another year behind even that schedule...

I will definitely be back to test it. But I think the chances are high that even people who are positive now are ultimately gonna be disappointed by 1.0,as it basically still doesn't contain a lot of gameplay, mainly he things that were there all along might be working better... But feel also free to prove me wrong.

Can dozens of people go to the same apple tree, all around the year, and pick as many apples the want? no? All houses looted for food, but nobody took the apples? Besides that, its just stupid and not fun as the first thing you do in the game to go there and spam F until you have everything full of apples, what kind of gameplay is that?

Very one-sided view on things, but what else to expect here. You just believe every excuse and are blindly optimistic that everything is gonna be great in the end. It's always "the next patch" when the issues are finally gonna be fixed. Sorry, but that is simply the definition of a fanboy. Also whenever you criticize anything in this forum, everything you get is an answer is always "you dont know anything about game development" (as if most of the fanboys here really would), and then a long list of excuses why the game is not really improving. You know, the average player does not give a damn why stuff is not happening, the problem is that it isnt, there is only this neverending promise that things will be fine in the end. There are hundreds of games whose development has gone better than DayZ, so I dont really care if some people think there are good reasons why DayZ still sucks. p.s. The main problem isnt even that .63 is not coming this year, the main problem is that .63 has even less features than .62 and no mentionable new gameplay elements, mainly that stuff that has been there for years supposedly is gonna work better - we'll see about that.

Well this is just stupid. Some other games like, for example Elite Dangerous, have some small cosmetic addons to buy for people who like them. So somebody might buy a "brazil hoodie" or whatever if we likes. But to add all 22 available Hoodies to the basket, which adds to over 100 dollars, and somehow claiming that you would need all of those to "get the full H1Z1 experience", when the basegame costs a mere 20 dollars, is juts childish. You are behaving like the typical DayZ Fanboy.

Is it? What is huge about this status report? https://dayz.com/blog/status-report-29-august-2017

This is actually a good video which has a good balance between appropriate expectations and doubt. If things work out like in this video, I am all open to really start playing again. But after what I have seen, I am totally against celebrating it as long as we just see videos of it. There have been "too good" announcements before. Sure, things look smooth and responsive in the video, but they also do in the live version when you play on an empty server with a good connection. If I the first time log into a 30-40 pop people server in 0.63 and everything is unresponsive, lagging and what not, then I will probably just uninstall for good. But I am all open for a positive surprise, let's see how it turns out.

So what will you say in case it does not fix many, or even any of those? I think that is at least a real possibility. And I am quite sure then many people will just write exactly those kind of sentences but replace 0.63 with 0.64, as has happened many times before....

Yeah thats great, a year back zombie AI was worse than in Half Life (1), now its improved but still crappy, in two years zombies might even be able to open doors. Thats really fantastic.

It was a valid question, and I think he just didnt have a good answer for that...

What we see here is once again disappointing. This should be the great update that everyone has been waiting for? The one that finally concentrates on "content"? The sad truth is that this forum is mainly ruled by a handful of hardcore fanboys, while most normal players have left it months/years ago and just check in here every few weeks at most. These fanboys will defend and praise everything they see, and especially always have the same argument: "yes, they are working on core features you cant see yet, but the next patch will be a breakthrough". Time to wake up. Do you really want to sell me that what we see here is "a completely new engine"? Really? Obviously it is the same engine, and some small things are tweaked here and there. Every small change in the game is called "a new engine" since the guy that invented DayZ and then left the company since he realized its not getting better (forgot his name, sorry..) invented this trick. Call every small improvement "a fundamental engine development" to justify months and months without any real progress in the game. Quote from above: "This is a demo of an early version of their first build on the new engine." <--- you really believe that? How can any sane person call this a completely new engine? Most things look and work (dont work) exactly like before, with some visual tweaks here and there maybe. Also the main hobby of these fanboys seems to be to call out people like me the second they see them, those "crybabies" that just complain all day, do not see the great progress in the game etc. I know that I can't convince those people anyway, probably with time they will have to learn themselves. The same people that told me 2 years ago "Mark my words, next year DayZ will be feature-complete, in beta, helicopters will be in, zombies will be fixed, no rubber-banding, meele combat will be largely overhauled" and so so, still say the same today. Some of these people might have understood their mistake and also long left this game, but many of them are still hanging around here and preaching the same old lines.