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from reddit:

Nope, no need to worry for australian classification board! Rocket said on Reddit something just about that issue

This is an attempt to end all those "standalone wil fail" & "why the delay, they didn't do anything" threads. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let's have a look on the SA improvments and features that have been confirmed and shown so far : --Engine: -New Server/Client structure: completely new server system mmo-like system, making hacking & cheating nearly impossible. --Map : -All buildings enterable (providing detailed and immersive interiors) -7 cities revamped so far (ongoing) -new areas like the new Cherno suburbs , swamps, new large military facilty ( thats the new areas we have seen so far, there will be a few more) -airfilelds and military camps redone and added (Balota and NW Airfiled shown so far) -Utes has been added to the map -better textures for the landscape , trees, grass, roads and buildings etc -a lot of eyecandy like wrecked cars crashed airplanes and stuff has been added -new structures (prison has been confirmed) -they bought new satelite map data ( far distance view is a lot better) -improved rendering ( far distance view is a lot better) -ToH improved weather sytem including volumetric clouds -completely new inventory, clothing and item system (has been explained to death) -Completely new loot spawn system -Crafting! -new UI -new character models -new zombie skins ( one female has been shown so far) -a completely new skeleton (much better animations) -a huge amount of new motion-captured animations -improved 1. person view -new anims (jump for example) and idle anims -improved Zombie pathfinding and AI -all weapons will be remade from the scratch ( AK, M4 and Mauser Riffle confirmed so far) -new crossbow model -overhauled ingame chat functions -radios, with changeable frequencies & muteable microphones & speakers -readable books, notes and journals as well as usable pen and paper -tons of new items ( like gasmaks, desinfection sprays, can opener etc etc etc) that's only the stuff we have seen ( no secrets) and has been made in 7 months by a small team. They had to decide: release standalone early and let it basically be the same as the mod or take some time and then make THIS. ---------------@All: please add stuff that's missing or correct what's to be corrected.---------------- thx to Private evans for his post that I partially used for this. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/133190-long-time-fan-and-player-faith-in-sa-and-rocket-is-gone/page__st__40#entry1295728

what u mean?

now from what i've seen from the SA, i think this would be possible: Make the zombies so that they are using clothes just like the player. And have it kind of random. This would give us HUGE variation on the zombies, not only a few always-the-same models. Also: the could even be randomly naked (underwear,like player) . Imagine u scavenge a house and suddenly in a room there is a fat zombie guy in his underwear, trying to eat u. fantastic. Edit: also you could loot those clothes from the zombies, but with a really high risk of it beeing infectd with al kinds of diseases!

s and here the "fleshsword" got a new meaning

so in the changelog of the coming update it says: * [NEW] - 6 New decayed Zeds - Harder to kill and Do more damage. Don't get me wrong: I love new stuff. I love new zombies. It's just this: Rocket clearly said numerous times, that the Z's are NOT dead, but just infected, still alive , people! And i like that perspective. So why the "decay" thing? Also the harder to kill thing: i hope this doesn't mean it's something like the "only killed by headshot" thing. that'S one of those annoying game-mechanics things. They are not zombies by black magic. they are not summoned walking dead. They are people struck by a horrible disease. People die when shot. Zombies die the same way. Take the same amount of damage.

as for the "change appearence for Z's" : posted this suggestion a while ago: "Z's wearing random clothes or none at all" http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/129676-suggestion-zombies-wearing-random-clothes-or-none-at-all/

ah leiwand, a wiener! begr

this threads title is just simple ridiculous

nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

nope, actually it's the other way around: people open threads bashing the SA stating things that clearly show they don'T have any clue. That they don't know about all that stuff listed here. Most of them think like "bwaa, the devs didn't keep their release goal and they didn't do anything" most people actually think that the SA will be the same like the mod, and thus don't understand why it takes so long. that's why this topic is really needed...

this post should be stickied.

WHERE IS THE UPDATE PLS PRETTY PLEASE

dear mods, am i allowed to say that i want to punch people like op? like, in a virtual, forum-kinda-way. my problem with op: Having ZERO knowledge about why things really have been like they have been, having ZERO knowledge about anything regarding the developement process, yet have the disgussting attitude to come here and act like that. THESE THREADS ARE ANNOYING AND ANGERING. that's what i have to say to this topic.

3 New decayed Zeds - harder to kill WTF??? rocket said multiple times the Zeds are INFECTED not LIVING DEAD. also: why harder to kill?

WTF IS THE POINT OF HITMARKERS??? is this generation really THAT stupid? what an annoying feature! and NO please NO having some stupid read arrow showing me from which direction i got shot. what i really HATE about modern games is all that fancy colorfull blingblingbling on the screen. ugly as hell.

Hunt Bandits. simple, but will lead to HUGE experiences!

any news on the 1.7.7 update yet?? we waitin!!

I WANT A FLOUR ITEM TO PUT IT ON MY FACE

BANDIT HUNTING is probably the BEST awnser to all guys that wonder what to do, once they hae geared up and need something special. the thrill of strafing the known bandit spots, hearing gunfire,tracking them down, battle them... its THE BEST FEELING YOU CAN GET.

what a crap opinion. it's ur opinion man, but its like, uhm yeah, CRAP. appeal to the masses? HAHA GO F OFF with the rest of the dumbed down gaming society! this here is OUR LAND, OUR RULES. ur just like the bunch of "gaming market analyzer" that talk bullshit into most game companies. Having no effing clue, just talking as mutch rubbish as possible, telling shit like "if its too complicated, people wont like it." get off ma interwebz please.

Suddenly i don't have the options for formating my typez here in this forum. all the options above that window i write in here are greyed out. Helpz?

You Sir, have my beans. I thank to you for an awesome story was this. "And this, Ladies and Gentlemen, is Day Z."

So i nearly love everything about the new SA, except one thing: the "new" sky. It is extremely blue. It kind of looks cartoonish, or more "game" like. Like TES:Oblivion colors. plastic game world. Dayz(Mod) has kind of a more realistic color scheme. although not 100% correct, it still gave a better realism feeling. better then most other games. I'm a painter and also do a lot of outdoor painting studies. When you want to paint a realistic picture, you don't just take pure "blue" for the sky, and pure "green" for the grass. maybe in elementary school you would do that. you shift colors a lot more to the white/grey spectrum then they actually look. also, although somedays the sky is really blue, it gets DEsaturated and whiter/brighter closer to the horizont, and more saturated the more you look upwards. also there is most of the time some dust or steam in the air, taking away a lot of the blue. full blue days are rare days. especially for a "russian" climate zone. It really needs to be a)less saturated (more into the grey spectrum than in the full saturated b)brighter c)whiter d)more occasional clouds n stuff. here are some comparisation screens: DayZ Mod: http://i.imgur.com/IOajy.jpg DayZ SA:: http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2013/01/DayZ-Standalone-5.jpg http://media-titanium.cursecdn.com/attachments/45/723/tumblr_mh6sv0lgyw1rd90z0o1_1280.jpg also here is a nice post on that topic: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/127518-dayz-developer-blog-8th-march/#entry1227874 thank you for creating the best game ever and showing those game company "market analysis" idiots where they can put their analysis to! ;)