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True, it was planned from the start. However, if I am correct, the scope of the engine was increased significantly after the surprisingly huge sales. I think that is something everybody can agree on. I'm fine with this version we currently have, but there was no reason to call it 1.0. Too buggy and it misses to much things. The Steam Forums have (unsurprisingly) been over-flooded with toxic trolls due to this.

Time to start thinking with your head instead of emotions. I only point out the most logical things, while you are acting like a blind hater. The game got an engine change due to its huge success and I personally can't even understand in its slightest why anybody would have been against the huge change the game got this year. So you would rather had them finish this game back in 2016'ish on a shitty engine that was not meant for this game? If you call the devs idea to up their ambitions and bring out a brand new engine instead of finishing it with an old outdated engine for this game dishonesty, well then there is no point in continuing this.

Some clarification on this would be very welcome. I'd expected that 1.0 would have diseases working properly to be honest.

Yeah, you do not think that it sounds reasonable considering an engine change more then half way through? A change that requires a re-do for most of the animations, features and content. It seems that you know more about their motivation then the rest of the community. Or perhaps you are just yelling things without any substance?

I totally agree with you on this. The current situation of the game does not bother me much, it is that they release a version that will be seen as a full release by basically anyone that does not follow this development thoroughly. That is what is bothering me as well. The potential will be ruined as the game will be flamed for its buggyness and lack of content. Ha! Don't start talking about buildings and most specifically the interiors. It is one of the things I simply can't wait to get reworked. Anyhow, I am confident that the game will see full development throughout 2019. What happens beyond that remains the question, which can be influenced by its reception.

I was talking more about games within the same genre and not about the mainstream gamers that play any game that is popular. Why does it bother you anyway? Sincere question. I mean, as long you have a thriving community you should be fine and find enough servers to play on.

Looking at similar games, there is not really a competitor that is of much higher quality than DayZ. Some competitors have elements that they do (currently) better and vice versa. But there is no game that makes DayZ abundant.

Sadly it doesn't surprise me. Issues like this can just not be in a version that will be open for reviews and will be regarded as a 'finished' game by the general audience. I know that it will be fixed, but people who will buy it when it is 1.0 will not.

You obviously miss the point, considering your snarky remark. The whole debate is not about the content/features that are not in yet as they will be added after 1.0. The discussion is about the fact that the game is too buggy for a 1.0 release in a marketing sense.

Plans change, we already knew for a year that 1.0 would not be the 'full product'.

Uhm, in the long haul it worked out good for the us, the customer.

Most people do not complain about the game itself though. I agree that the devs did some great work this year and I wholly support the fact that they focus on bug fixing now to create a stable platform for future content. However, what annoys the most people is that releasing a 1.0 is the best marketing tool available to any developer. The game will get lots of attention and will be reviewed by most game websites. Now what do you think will happen when the game releases in a pretty buggy state? Low review scores on Steam and elsewhere, new people dumping the game and returning players will be disappointed. I and most others want to game to succeed and releasing a buggy version, even though we know they will fix it eventually, will scare away lots of potential new players.

Oh well, if the rooster stops making sound, you at least know that there is another frustrated player in the same village

There is a difference between a broken release or when a game releases with just some bugs. This game is just pretty buggy right now. Look what happened with Fallout 76.

I am sorry but what?! If I play for like 30 minutes I already encounter 5-10 bugs or balancing issues........ So you are going to tell me that all the main issues will be fixed, diseases will actually work, we can build bases without being afraid of it dissapearing all together over night, balanced temperature system etc........ Man, I hope you guys are going have a huge weekend crunch session. PS: Don't take it the wrong way, but I hope that the launch trailer will look a bit more professional. It doesn't look bad, but I would expect something more from a large studio as Bohemia.

A game does not necessarily have to be feature complete to be released. Look at Arma 3 for example. Also, lets see what happens in the next week before calling it a buggy mess. With that being said, it would not surprise me that there will be quite some bugs at launch with just a few weeks to go. Personally I also don't think that the version we have now, feature and content wise, is ready for a 1.0 release. The game will be reviewed and judged and it will be it's last huge PR moment. It would be better to postpone 1.0, get some more content and features in and then release it.

Mmmh I think that procedural snow should be possible (if they choose to code it in) but that they are just not aiming for that. I could be wrong but that's the idea I get from the devs. Same with the map border, I think they just don't care that much about it. I myself am not bothered by it as well but if they really wanted to do something about it, they could easily create a mountain range that blocks the side of the map. Besides, to add trees at the border and some tree billboards behind it doesn't sound that difficult for an engine to do. But yeah the lightning.... I do hope some improvements can be made. Like the lighting effects of the sun when it comes up and goes down. It is pretty average right now. Indoor lightning is sadly something that probably will never see much improvement due to the old code. I still think that Dayz can look gorgeous for the most part. If they can replace some old hideous textures like on some houses, furniture, car wrecks etc. then I an a happy man.

I completely agree with the majority in this topic. The dev team made some huge steps this year and the game got so much improvement, and I totally understand their reasoning to focus on bugfixing now instead of content. But why call it 1.0?! Even beta was already a bit premature with the lack of balancing and too much game breaking bugs. And still we saw a huge increase in players. 1.0 will do the same. It will increase the player count, has the potential to increase steam ratings, but in its current state I fear the game has too many bugs. I'm fine with Bohemia's style of game releasing, with much more content and features post 1.0, but even Arma 3 had much more stuff at release. Point is that this game will also be reviewed by all kinds of gaming websites. And I'm afraid that the review scores won't be high with the minimum amount of content and probably buggyness. I really hope that they can fix the majority of bugs though! We will see. But we really need some more patches this week, otherwise I'm afraid for the 1.0 release.

Several large towns/cities have the new police station. Smaller towns have the old one.

No, but they did mention it on their Twitter after people asked similar questions.

They re-balanced the location of all the waterpumps. In some places they added pumps and in other places they got removed.

It surely will be exciting to see how the game will look in one month time, but I keep my judgements till that very day. Am I a bit worried? Yes I am! I encounter plenty of bugs in a few hours game time and the game still needs lots of balancing. I am pretty sure we will see enough noticeable differences when the 1.0 release will happen, but will it be enough? That's where I do have my doubts, especially with new bugs coming with each patch so far. I mean this game is going to be officially reviewed soon, it will be sad to see the game getting low scores because of possibly too many bugs, lack of content and the odd urge of the devs to call it 1.0.

If I'm correct, diseases also make you throw up which increases the need to drink. Anyhow, diseases are pretty rare as I have are all kinds of raw meat and drinked from every pond and even disinfectant. Never got sick. There is some balancing coming in the upcoming weeks, according to the devs Hopefully it happens much more often and also that some diseases become even deadly.

Played with a car a bit in the modded offline mode. One thing that is for sure is that you have much more control over the driving and no slippery moments when going above 50. Big improvement

Currently you can already find seeds and other items related to farming. The feautre itself is planned to come before 1.0. Meaning that we can expect it somewhere in the upcoming weeks.