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My urge to response to your earlier post was purely because of you using other games as an example and the experience you had with a friend. I am all open to talk about the bigger picture though. Everybody will probably agree with you (as do I) that the development cycle of DayZ has rather been poor and that it is a bad example for future games in development. DayZ definitely missed their time (when it was so popular) and it has also been perceived as taking too long by the masses. However that last part, being perceived taking too long by the masses, comes mostly down to being uninformed on game development in general. Most games take easily 5-7 years to develop, so far DayZ has not passed that yet. Still people complain that it takes too long, simply because they see the development instead of an company doing it all internally. I do think the new engine was an necessity for them to make the game much better than the 0.62 version. I have no idea how to respond to this sentence as there is no logic: ''.63, as almost anyone will tell you who has played both, does not feel that much different than the game was 5 years ago. It just doesn't. '' 0.63 feels completely different in the sense of animations, sounds and user actions, especially if you compare it with Dayz in 2014. Sure it is three steps back concerning features and development and brings bugs and instability, but that happens when you basically change the whole game and have to reimplement (hence the saying Dayz 2.0). You also showed some examples in later posts, but you cannot really compare the graphics of the Hunt:Showdown to a game that has a map muuuuuuch bigger with tons of more stuff happening on it. I mean, graphically Ark looks much poorer than DayZ. Sure some stuff is outdated, I personally really dislike the interiors of houses (too bright and not enough detail) but the open world looks simply gorgeous! Please name one similar MP game that has such realistic looking world. How you can describe 0.63 as clunky is beyond me, it is much smoother than 0.62. Besides, there is currently no other similar game that really challenges DayZ. You got Miscreated, which I do like by the way and Scum. Scum has not been released yet but it shows quite some differences in areas. Miscreated is basically a copy cat, and a good one as well but it lacks in certain points in comparison to DayZ. Now I do not want to discuss other games but there is still enough room for DayZ to develop and mature. With that being said, I am not blind DayZ fanboy. Better yet, I would see myself as a realist, but one that also follows the games development and knows what is happening. Point is, I agree with you on how to world sees the development of DayZ. I can totally understand that that people think: Oh there is a new engine, lets try... Oh shit, infected still go through doors, damm I got a bug that misplaces my weapon. Has this been five years in development?!? But just because people think like that does not make them right, and that was the whole point of my initial response towards you. There are explanations to why there are these bugs and why the development took this long. I understand that your whole post is about how Dayz missed its mark and that the masses think the development is slow and how the masses think that the 0.63 release is bad. From a business view this is of course not ideal for the moment. We can both be realistic here and agree on this. Now lets also both be realistic that the masses are pretty uninformed about the development of DayZ and game development in general, shall we?

You suggest a lot in your response but completely ignore my arguments. Yes, I have read your first post when you started this topic and even read it again when you posted the message that I responded to. Point is, your first post has some valid points but the one i responded too barely any decent argument. Nevertheless, you should know that an new engine brings new problems. They recreated all the animations, sounds, rework the infected, vehicles and server and client side technology. You really think that it does not bring new basic problems? 0.63 is almost like Dayz 2. That you expected everything to be working fine while it is actually almost a fully new game is your own fault. Next time focus your response on the points given and do not put words in my mouth. Your whole post was basically that. Oh and btw, I'm no expert and will never claim to be, but logic thinking helps a lot.

You come with arguments that have been explained countless of time. DayZ uses crappy old engine, has huge sales, bigger ambitions, want to make new engine, needs to develop new engine alongside the game. There! Thats the reason why DayZ has not that perfect development cycle like games as Ark, Rust or The Forest. You should know that games like Rust were made on a stable engine and the devs only had to add features and content. Now that we get that out of the way, what do you think happens when they come with a complete new engine? Exactly! Basic bugs, instability and performance problems. Things that will not occur with games that are made on an engine that have been developed and made perfect over the course of 10 years (Unity/Unreal). That people actually think that putting a completely new rewritten engine in place comes without new bugs is just shocking. They released it on experimental so that we, the players, can find bugs and other problems, while also enjoying the huge leap forward that 0.63 brings in tech and the stuff that is already there. If you done any research you would know that it lacks in content and features because it has to be re-implemented all over again! That you and your friends are clueless about that is your own problem and I could care less, but you actually come to complain on the forums without doing any research or basic thinking whatsoever. But here I am, now I explained everything to you.

What lies exactly? I have not been following the development from the first day but the last 1.5 year I have not seen any lie. I do think that how they word things could be improved. Too many times it sounds like it is just right around the corner while it is not.

Thanks for the detailed response! But I am playing the offline mode version of the latest stress test branch

How did you get sick? I ate like 7 pieces of raw deer meat and drink gallons of river water but I was completely fine. I did throw up because I was stuffed though.

Go to your Steam library > right click on DayZ and then click on properties > Then go to the ''BETA'' tab > choose experimental from the drop down menu.

It is not delayed. The stress test comes this Wednesday

Probably won't be today as they have another play test with new fixes this day. They have more info on the patch with today's SR according to Twitter. Hopefully not a delay

Well it can be today, tomorrow or Thursday. Probably not Friday as it borders the weekend.

I do not agree. It is fine if a gamer does not care about game development, but then also don't buy an Early Access game that is in actual development and then start to complain.

Considering there was just one nasty bug left last Friday I expected to see a stress test today or at least tomorrow. They might talk about the experimental update instead of the stress test version.. But oh well, we will see what happens

It would not surprise me if we spawn on the NW Airfield with tons of cars around for some vehicle deathmatch during one of the stress tests :P

Looking forward to it! Keep up the good work!

While I can see that my sentence can be read in two ways, there is no reason to act like some wannabe wise ass. I only shared my experiences while asking for his. Obviously I know you can do it through your screen but I simply have not tried it myself.

I tried to up the gamma through both Windows and Nvidia control panel but both to no avail. Could you effectively increase the gamma outside the game then?

Glad to see the content patch coming now! It looks like it will be a Great patch with lots of content and fixes. Well done!

I'd expected the new content patch already a week or so ago on the stress test branch. Now tomorrow we will get the third status report since the patch got mentioned and I seriously hope they will not use the word "very soon" for the third time in a row.

Oh yes! The devs really need to update the houses, give them higher textures, including the furniture and add some good shadow effects as they are too bright. The game looks gorgeous besides the ugly interiors of houses. I really hope they do it after remaking the entire forests as well

Hahaha, that gave me a good laugh!

We will have to see how it goes when diseases are in but currently with every play-through I never see my icons turn yellow. I just eat and drink everything that I find and it does not feel that it is a chore. I just go inside houses and look beneath apple trees. I do think that the amount of drink and food you need to get ''stuffed'' is too much, but I am sure this will be addressed when features such as throwing up and actual stuffed comes back .

To be honest, I think that overall there is too much fog. I don't mind it in general and it can even create some beautiful scenery, but the fog just happens too much. I rarely see rain for example. Since we did not get any new stress test with stability fixes so far this week, I think that the next stress test will be the content patch. Especially since they mentioned that the patch will contain numerous stability improvements.

Only reason that I could think of is that the upcoming content/feature patch is just around the corner

No, vehicles like cars will come during experimental. Helicopters during beta and planes were aimed to come with 1.0, if I remember the 28th November SR correctly. Only two-wheeled vehicles will come after 1.0.

You keep saying that you die of hunger but that is just your inexperience. Keep eating what you find till the arrows pointing upwards won't appear any-more. You can go on for like 1.5 hour of jogging without the need to eat.