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Hi Lakevu, While I want to see more authentic, unforgiving, horror, survival, post-apocalyptic elements implemented in DayZ and no infestation of arcadness (including those that you mentioned: movements and gunplay, etc) I might disagree with you on the claimed part that DayZ is a simulator. (though I might not know that the original idea might be but let's proceed to continue reading to try to understand this because I might find myself unsurprisingly agreeing with you on the accurate matter that DayZ should be a simulator). I promise you. I'd definitely want it to be a simulator too and I do firmly believe that it would tremendously and absolutely enhance its experience (at least for me) but to my knowledge, it is not what Bohemia Interactive describe it in their official website. I do not criticise Bohemia Interactive unfairly on this because they do not market it as a simulator. Can you provide me the proof that DayZ is officially described as a simulator? We also need as much matter as we can about physics simulations that have been degraded by Bohemia Interactive later on, at least with videos, etc. Because the unfortunate part is that everything that you talk about can be cowardly claimed as hypothesis or subjective preferences by those who don't have any gain from it. Until then, the defence of Bohemia Interactive innocent until proven guilty is applied. However, I think that pushing more for authenticity, horror, brutal, unforgiving, survival and post-apocalyptic aspects are currently easily justified because the official description of DayZ is: "DayZ is a gritty, authentic, open-world survival horror hybrid-MMO game, players follow a single goal: Survive by any mean necessary." DayZ | Official website "Embark on an unforgiving journey in DayZ's Frostline Expansion, set within the icy Sakhal archipelago, covering 83km² of winter wilderness." DayZ | Official website "The post-soviet country of Chernarus is struck by an unknown virus, turning the majority population into frenzied infected. Fighting over resources has bred a hostile mentality among survivors, driving what’s left of humanity to collapse. You are one of the few immune to the virus - how far will you go to survive? DayZ is an unforgiving, authentic, open world sandbox online game where each one of 60 players on a server follows a single goal - to survive as long as they can, by all means necessary." GENRE: fps, survival DEVELOPER: Bohemia Interactive Welcome to Chernarus. A 225 km2 open world post-soviet state and one of the areas hit by a new and presently unknown infection which has wiped out most of the world's population. You are one of the few who have survived and now you must search this new wasteland in order to fight for your life against what is left of the indigenous population, now infected with the disease. Go Solo, team up with friends or take on the world as you choose your path in this brutal and chilling landscape using whatever means you stumble upon to survive. This is Day Z - This is your story. DayZ was created by Dean "Rocket" Hall, and is a trademark of Bohemia Interactive Details About DayZ - Official Facebook page Authentic, open world multiplayer survival game. Developed by Bohemia Interactive. - Official Facebook page I too find Bohemia Interactive is still too complacent, very soft and most of time even incongruent with its own official description and there's still a tremendous amount of things to do about it but let's keep things honest and accurate, question ourselves too and let's not judge Bohemia unfairly by using the word simulator for DayZ If a game simulates something, it is indeed a simulation as well because a game is what you make it to be (to the margin of the systems possibilities) but our unfortunate matter is that DayZ is not officially described and marketed as a simulation. We can only be grateful if simulation elements are implemented in DayZ but we can not blame and bash Bohemia Interactive for not doing it. However, we can read two words in the official description of DayZ: authentic and unforgiving Authenticity: Realistic works strive to depict reality as accurately as possible, avoiding idealizations or exaggerations. Dean Hall, best known for coming up with the idea created DayZ that was originally a mod from the roots of ARMA II ARMA II is officially described and marketed as: "Built upon over 10 years' of experience, Arma 2 thrusts gamers into the heart of the most realistic military combat simulation ever developed, featuring the vast, detailed Chernarus and Takistan environments, and a massive library of authentically modeled units, weapons and vehicles. Enjoy a wide variety of official and unofficial single- and multiplayer content, ranging from large-scale co-operative missions to total modifications such as DayZ. Arma 2 opens the door to one of the most dedicated community in gaming. GENRE: TACTICAL SHOOTER DEVELOPER: Bohemia Interactive RELEASE DATE: June 9, 2009 PLATFORMS: windows pc Did the modification DayZ originally came as a simulator? Was it ever? Was it intended to be? Does it need to be to be congruent with its official description? Was the mod itself complex enough to be a survival simulator? Was the legacy versions like the 0.62 complex enough to be a simulator later on? One thing for sure: DayZ came from a system that is officially described and marketed as the most realistic military combat simulation ever developed That is one of the reasons why I encourage Bohemia Interactive to put a strong foot and focus on the realistic implementations for DayZ regarding of the liking of any audience with its tuppenny. Because it is on par with its identity, its official descriptions and its roots. Dean Hall said in an interview that the idea of DayZ is to be realistic but he choose to avoid the word realistic because people will come and say that the infected are not realistic. That's how he preferred to use the word "authentic". The infected and the unknown virus are just a vehicle of what drove the world to collapse but everything else is realistic. The realism of everything else is crucial because that's the intrigue of the post-apocalypse. That's the sub-genre and the market spoke for it even when it was unstable with a lot of issues, bugs, etc. There's a market for it and not just for DayZ but for the sub-genre itself. Following this, the infestation of arcadness (for lack of better term) should not stay in DayZ and we should get rid of it as much as we can because it does not stick to its official description. I can confidently argue that there's many aspects in DayZ that are too forgiving and inauthentic. (This includes movement and gunplay that have been mentioned here) those are just a couple of examples and there's still tremendously more in this matter to be addressed. This leads us to another question: Can authentic content stick to its identity without being a simulation? I too conclude that the modern ideal of authenticity does not lend itself to a coherent and rationally compelling account, and will more profitably be seen as a mixture of logically unrelated concepts. The nature and value of authentic behaviour has been explained by associating it with personal identity (being/remaining oneself) and fidelity to self (being true to oneself). An example of one of the most paradigm cases of inauthenticity from Bohemia Interactive in regards to DayZ is in the art concept of the trailer 1.20 premiered on Valentine's Day on Youtube. It was alarming, cynical, puerile and devoid of any seriousness and commitment to its identity. I don't know... maybe I'm the one who doesn't know what DayZ is and DayZ itself doesn't know either. DayZ: being true to myself means being true to my own originality, and that is something only I can articulate and discover. In articulating it, I am also defining myself. I am realising a potentiality that is properly my own. If authenticity involves being true to one’s “originality”, it will presumably also be a matter of avoiding blind conformism and undue deference. The value of being true to oneself: the borrowed truths are the ones to which one clings most tenaciously, and all the more so since they remain foreign to our intimate self. It takes much more precaution to deliver one’s own message, much more boldness and prudence, than to sign up with and add one’s voice to an already existing party. I believed that it is above all to oneself that it is important to remain faithful. We behave inauthentically because it is easier than “delivering one’s own message” The result may be what D.W. Winnicott calls a “false self”. This is among reasons why I despise the wide audience, anybody and anything trying to cater to it at all costs and I really do think and firmly believe that I'm better than this audience (I know that it may sound narcissistic but it is what it is). I see them as below me, I firmly believe that they are, all packaged and blindfolded. Yes, I'm better than them! The unfortunate matter is that it's a number's game and money talks. I'm the minority and they are the majority. I am and they are the piggy pinky party animal. I'm the untamed and educated and they are the tamed by the virus. I'm the immune survivor and they are the majority of the infected population. No, we cannot live together! Last but not least, There's officially no zombies in DayZ. In the horror-sub genre, there's a difference between zombies that you find in different medias (Resident Evil, Night of the living dead, The Walking Dead, etc) and infected (28 Weeks Later, DayZ, The Last of Us, etc) I believe the letter "Z" in DayZ stands for Zero - Day Zero.

It is not about making everyone happy. It is about sticking with the identity of the game. To stick with the identity of the game, you have to follow some rules and those rules don't care about anyone being happy or not. Valuing what the audience like instead of valuing sticking with the identity of the content is the first major step to betray the identity of our content and by extension, our audience. I ask people here who are defending the matter to make an effort into being accurate in the given information to avoid miscommunications, misinterpretations and interpretations of exaggerations. What was meant here is that there's no inconveniences (for example: affected weapon sway) when sprinting and stopping to aim and even a total absence of sway when you hold breath. This is among the very least of the inconveniences for a content that is officially described as authentic and unforgiving because this aspect here goes against the official description. Here again, for the least to say. You are asking this question to the wrong one because getting DayZ big at all costs is the main problem here. "I don't cater to anyone to please, I unapologetically stick with my identity and the official description. You either get on with it or I show you the door." Sometimes you have to lose. DayZ had that charm of not being for everyone and was already big while honest in that. Let it stay in its place, develop its potential in its own path and don't try to "please everyone" for more financial gains. Don't be afraid to be alone. Just stick with the identity and the official description of the game. Some might go and some might come. Yes it did. We're discussing it here and elsewhere. Yet, you still wrote it above. You put arguments about success being about adapting the game to the wide audience. The engagement of the player rather than the content. You are focusing on the big wide audience approach and you relate success to that aspect instead of sticking with the identity of the content. DayZ lacks a solid direction in sticking with its identity, its official description and its roots. Thank you for your kind words but I judge by actions. The "not that bad after all" depend on the type of audience you are attracting. If we push our content into arcadness (for lack of better term but I think you'll get it). It will sure have its audience too because this audience doesn't know any better. Do we ever ask questions about statistics and try to understand what they hide and mean with depth or we're just celebrating numbers regardless of anything else? Do we ask ourselves "who are we attracting?" "Who is this audience that DayZ is now attracting?" and "what did DayZ do or didn't do to attract and keep attracting this audience?" Again, you value success by the wide audience and numbers at all costs. My subjective threshold and enjoyment is irrelevant. Sticking with the identity and the official description of the content is. It's up to me as part of an audience to cater to that. Don't meet me half-way and don't try to cater to me otherwise you'll compromise yourself. Video game concept art is one of the most important aspects of game development. It's responsible for setting the tone and style of a game and can be used to communicate the game's vision to the rest of the team and by extension, the extended audience. Yes it does and more than we think. Bohemia Interactive is already gone against its players by simply not sticking to the official description (authentic and unforgiving) by removing and not working on things that are related to this aspect and by extension, the identity for financial benefits. Bohemia Interactive have done many great things for DayZ (fixing, adding content, etc) that I'm grateful for but many other things out of place that betray its identity and this need to be addressed. Thank you. The potential for DayZ can be greater than this. Please start by following the rule of going on par with its official description and don't forget its roots. I'm thinking of putting suggestions threads soon and explaining with as much detail as I can think of why and how it will affect the game and I was wondering if devs do actually read this forum. That's what brought me to this thread.

A game is what you make it to be (to the margin of the systems possibilities). Are you talking about your own subject threshold of the enjoyment of a game's mechanics? Because If I designed a game and described it in its official website as authentic and unforgiving to come visit its forum and be a witness of this kind of attitude that you have here then you'll be the one sent packing with your damned money.

Jared Martin and Sean_87__, I definitely agree and upvote this suggestion. Removing the possibility of switching servers while keeping the characters gear on is another step toward the good direction. Not only switching servers with the gear on allow survivors to loot up in low-pop servers to join a high-pop server and consequently, have gear advantage but it suppresses facing the time and space constraints. - Facing the night - Facing the weather - Changing player's unwanted spawn and position on the map with previous-server gear on - The possibility of combat log and server hop to avoid a hostile encounter when position is revealed with previous-server gear on - Finding more bases to raid because the uncommitted-server raider keeps switching servers with his gear on, raid in multiple servers and get the loot to import to his server and come back to his server to stack his character/base/stash without constraints and diminished inconveniences. - A step toward a more focus on the committed and authentic survival and less rushed death-match couloir - It might also prevent duplicating glitches like Jared said. The possibility of switching servers with the same character and its gear on is incentivised by absent/low-commitment behaviour, non seriousness and it has an avoidant behaviour aspect to the authentic and unforgiving experience of the game and we need to get rid of this feature. Sean_87__, Can you please link me to the suggestion thread that you mentioned above?

I might be misunderstanding you on this one. Why do you want "compensation" in an equal increase in slots on vests and backpacks? The carrying capacity of vests and backpacks is unauthentic and should be reconsidered too. I don't like the fact that DayZ is officially described as authentic and unforgiving and that you can still carry a Mosin in the backpack, a cooking pot in the vest, a shovel, a jerry can, a car radiator in the vest, a big wooden log or any other ridiculously massive item in any inventory or storage system that wouldn't align with honesty and accuracy. I think that the inventory system need to put a full confident step and embrace realism with detail and meticulous care. Same here: if I have no pocket in a t-shirt then I shouldn't be able to carry something in that worn t-shirt and the vest or the backpack shouldn't compensate for it by increasing the carrying capacity unrealistically just for the sake of compensating, easing on survivors and giving them relief. Giving them what they want instead of what they need because I fear that they might not buy or play my game anymore. No, sir! Betraying the identity of the game is not the right direction. Yes! Now we're getting close to it. But... Putting a block of certain objects in certain clothes is a good idea. Unfortunately, it doesn't resolve everything. The inventory and storage system need to be reworked in the carrying capacity and reconsidered with what, how and if a certain content or contents all together can be carried in a container with a meticulous touch of realism in mind. What do you mean by this? A game is what you make it to be (to the margin of the systems possibilities). As a developer, I think you can manage to fit the inventory and storage system to fit realism if you want to. This is true. That's why half work doesn't work. BI need to rework the inventory and storage system with depth and I suspect that the "only slots design system" might be limiting in the capacity to approach realism. I wouldn't choose the word "reduce" for everything. (Of course now we instantly think of reducing and it just indirectly shows how the current state of the inventory and storage system is ridiculously big, unauthentic and forgiving) I'd phrase it like this because accuracy here does matter: You can't rework the storage system to be authentic without also reworking the size of the contents to be contained on par with authenticity because It creates unbalance. Authenticity: Realistic works strive to depict reality as accurately as possible, avoiding idealizations or exaggerations. Two words in the official description of DayZ: authentic and unforgiving Sean_87__, I really hope so and in the right direction.

Hi Andrey, High TTK is not realistic and would betray the identity of the game. There's already too much of "arcadness" (for lack of better term but I think you'll get it) in the game. So please don't ask for more of this latter, ask for less. It's always good for information to keep in mind those two words in the official descriptions of DayZ: authentic and unforgiving. You'll need to learn to adapt to those aspects. I understand your frustration about being shot by surprise but we are all in the same boat. A bullet is dangerous and can be deadly. Just as it should. Be glad and thankful that you can still respawn after being shot dead and continue to play the game. See, that's your balance! That's the balance you're asking about a game and realism.

The filtering bottle might just be too overpowered if all we need to do to drink safe water is to fill it with snow and drink straight after that safe and sound. Once the filtering bottle is found, dehydration problems have been resolved. If that's the case, i'll be good that this filtering bottle is extremely rare and that we still need to wait quite a while for the snow to melt (and the time to melt depends on the temperature and the storage condition as it might never melt and stay frozen) or if we want to accelerate the melting process, we should drop the bottle close to a fire or pour that water in a container that boils it as a faster and safer option. In addition to that, warm water will warm our body a little bit and give us a heat bonus for a little while. It's good to think in details and in slow-paced manners. Collecting snow in the filtering bottle should take time and effort to give us a descent quantity and it should be revolved around anticipation and not as a direct to instant resolve to counter dehydration issue and quick safe liquid ready to drink.

Great! Looking forward to see how the temperature rework is implemented along with the additions that come with it. I hope everything is done with.a slow-paced taste.

Inventory system is too big in Dayz with too many slots and putting big items inside the jacket or pants will always be absurd and immersion killing.

They can at least add the need of sleep and rest. Your character can jog and sprint eternally without any need to rest his body and sleep. You might like it but I don't, I prefer at least some authenticity, involvement, seriousness, things to take into account and immersion. You might even tell me then they should even add the need to pee and poo while we're at it and I will tell you yes why not? Those outhouses can also be used. Worried of getting shot while doing your thing? We're always doing things. Skipping things is the enemy of immersion and if you're about less icons cluttering the screen then remove the hud.

A new map that is cold with snow coming with new assets is a good idea. Hopefully Dayz will continue the route of the challenge and push the game more towards the slow pace. I noticed that food is defrosting way too fast, please push things into slow pace. It only adds to the immersion. For example: -A hand drill kit shouldn't take the same time as matches or a lighter. It should literally take minutes, making the character put some efforts into it and losing some calories while trying to start a fire. This will add more to authenticity and in parallel to that, making other fire starters more valuable. - Efficiency and chances of starting a fire shouldn't be the same outdoors and indoors. (I know that the rain making the fireplace wet and impossible to start fire is already existing in Dayz but the temperature and the force of wind should also play a role and matter, making the chances of failed attempt higher outdoors compared to indoors and thus chances are also depending on the type and the efficiency of the fire starter) The best efficient way to start a fire should be a blowtorch coupled with a gas canister or maybe a torch that is already lit. It takes more place in the inventory but it is efficient. We think compromise. - It will also be good to see that a torch must require long stick, rags or a cotton cloth and fuel or lighter fluid, or rendered animal or some fat on rags to keep it lit, not just a long stick and some rags.