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Dean's Eurogamer talk in London was very well structured and speaks to a stand alone product which will be quite a different beast from the DayZ mod. Well done, Dean and DayZ dev team.

Wrong thread, so I moved it. :)

Playing on UK172 right now... man, it's dark.

Learn from my mistakes, lads! If you're interested in more, check the video page at SpiderGaming.org.

If you're looking for an international, fun-loving, & mature group to hang out with on DayZ and other games, look no further. SpiderGaming.org

Vehicles seem to have an increased spawn rate and zombies appear to spawn (1) more quickly and (2) in larger batches. Woo hoo, just had a great drive around Chernarus on a variety of vehicles. If you added more vehicles Rocket, you have done the world a favour. This cries for "drive by" shootings implementation in stand alone, longer term. Separately, the old graphics glitch triangles are gone. I only experienced one new graphics glitch. In a 2-seater white pickup truck, heading north to south past the Electro power station, I hit a glitch for about 5-10 seconds. Similar to the looks of the old one, but smaller more acute triangles and spiralling in colour and black and white and was showing triangles of day even though it was around 9 PM game time at night. So, after a solid 4 hours of play tonight, just the one glitch. Halleluiah!

Join us in Cherno. Cars, guns, and mo' ammo. Public Vent details on the site. Woo-hoo, patch partaaay. http://www.spidergaming.org/

Free candy for EVERYONE*! *Excludes bandits

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Age counts. Good thread. The power of youth is that if you do not like the world as it is, you have an unbridled opportunity to change it. Start your own community founded upon the principles you value. The Internet is great for connecting like-minded people, so take advantage of that new canvas. As for an upper age limit on gaming, we may have not cycled through enough time to meet a high volume of old-time gamers yet, but I imagine it will get to that stage. Hell, I'm not going into an old folks home unless it's got at least an Atari next to my bed pan.

Nearly 19 minutes long, but may be entertaining to some to watch SPIDER "getting it on".

You've been in crunch mode for months and are still going hard at it, Rocket. Well done on keeping up with the high intensity of industry and community focus. Aside from unintended and unwanted side effects of your ongoing alpha patching, I would stress that one of the main attractions of DayZ for me is that you are making changes to the game (a.k.a. experimenting) and forcing the player to adapt and think on their feet, whilst experiencing new survival scenarios. It would be interesting to know if you plan to build in a dynamic element (think Left 4 Dead's weekly 'Mutations' or even an extrapolation of Minecraft's procedural level generation to other DayZ game elements) to include changing rules in the final product. Unpredictability of the non-player aspects of the game is important and attractive to many gamers. Personally, I think it is something that fades in a static game environment as the player becomes more familiar with their surroundings. Change shakes a player's sense of control and helps to build upon that great sense of unease by unleashing those base survival instincts which I'm sure the majority of DayZ players felt in their first week of play, but which perhaps has died off slowly as they keep coming back for more. Best of luck with PAX and kudos for (1) keeping your vision, (2) making medium-to-long term plans, and (3) taking the time to feed information to us all through various public channels. You are doing great things for the industry and paving the road for many up-and-coming developers. Show 'em how it's done, Dean!

Looks like the Russians are in town...

:beans: Here, have some beans on the house.

Hi all, FYI - Having not seen a thread about the custom squad info and icons on the forum, I wanted to highlight this fun little option in ArmA II which works in DayZ. After having seen some icons and custom squad information in the player menu (press 'P') on various servers, I got curious. Thankfully, I got the ArmA II player profile enhancement working in DayZ. Thanks to the helpful guide on the link below, my mates and I can now roll like a proper squad. Also, I understand vehicles will have the logo emblazened on the side, but will need a tester to help me try that out. (Will post results) Perhaps they don't work in DayZ, but a custom logo on a jeep or chopper would be neat (Rocket permitting, of course). For more details, see: http://community.bis.../wiki/squad.xml Related images from the tutorial: Example squad logo on helicopter: Example squad logo on jeep: You will need someone to host the .jpg or .paa image file and to keep the .xml file in the same location to make this work. I got ours working in just 30 mins. Example: http://www.spidergam.../dayz/squad.xml Cheers!

Another one caught in the web. B) Not sure though... I'm thinking this Rhino has "web repair work" written all over him. Big fella, ha.

European? Looking for some mature lads to hang out with and play DayZ (and other games)? Join our public Ventrilo server. Visit SpiderGaming.org for details.

Check us out, guys.

New SPIDER promo video is up. Only 2.5 mins long. Go watch!

IMF2000, your DayZ server is the friendliest place I've been. Bumped into 5 separate individuals and grouped up. Of course, then someone nuked Cherno. But, overall, a really fine place to hang out. Kudos! http://www.zimtok5.com/filespace/spider/dayz-013-chernonuke.jpg

Well done, DayZ team. The future sounds very bright indeed. The Q&A and Gamescom video were both filled to the brim with your plans. Thank you for being open!

Here is a DayZ compilation video highlighting our international, open gaming community. More videos are up on the website at SpiderGaming.org. We are actively seeking new members, so join us on Ventrilo if you're interested. Details on the site. Cheers! "Petrol Explosion" in DayZ

A public invitation to any friendlies out there who want to try out gaming with us in Elektro tonight. Be in Elektro for 19:00 UK time (14:00 EST / 20:00 CET) tonight, 11-Aug. Bring a mic and ID yourself as friendly. If you're not friendly, then bring it on! Elektro is SPIDER's town tonight. Server is LU132. SpiderGaming.org For details, visit the site for details on our international, "open door" community. Ventrilo details also listed there.

Find friends here: SpiderGaming.org

I have the same issues. Very odd. Was working all fine and then yesterday, my Six Launcher and ARMA II: OA off Steam won't launch. Neither of them work, despite 3 hours trying to get a working configuration going. Re-installed DayZ, the Battle Eye client, and the beta patch. ** tumbleweed rolls across screen **