Lady Kyrah

Why do you think rocket is using as a base a MILITARY SIMULATOR?

The inventory system is an heritage of arma, in arma you pick one or more guns and the ammo you wish to transport. For this kind of gameplay it works fine. Arrowhead added the backpack system to allow soldiers to carry more ammunitions, that's a functionality from ace that they implemented basically

what does e-sport has to do with dayZ?

I believe the point is that you shoudln't be able to outrun them. Otherwise you could just do the chernarus marathon and be perfectly safe.

Why bother playing online if you're playing PVE. Hell why bother playing dayZ instead of dead island, which does PVE very well.

Personally i think it is necessary for the game to function properly. We technically have an infinite "source" of items. We need an infinite "sink" in order to get older objects out of the game and replaced with new ones. RIght now the only degrading items are food and bullets. Once you got the gun you want you'll never pick it up again until you die. The effect we see is a bit like opening a pack of M&Ms and only keeping the blue ones, while you put the other ones in the trash. The blue ones represent valuable/rare weapons, while the other colors are those items you do not bother taking. If you eat the blue ones progressively as you get them, there is roughly the same percentage of blue M&Ms and other M&Ms on the table at any time. However if you do not dispose of them you will end up with more and more of it as you go. The reason such rare weapons are so present in the game is because they never degrade and even when a player is killed, they are rarely left unlooted so there is only a small chance of it being "purged" from the game.

Dude are you for real? :D I used to cheat a lot in Counter strike 1.6, old times.

You assume that making a mod is a popularity contest. Some people have creative urges, i create 3D models for a living, i do whatever i like and if peoples like it, they can buy it. Would i stop if nobody did? I would have to find another job but i sure wouldn't stop making things i like. Creative people are not all motivated by business or fame, some simply have an urge to create.

They can do it, but it doesn't mean they have the right to.

Pretty much what everyone said, you would have to have a very intimate knowledge of DirectX or OpenGL (same shi really, whichever you would prefer using). For a specific project you can get it going pretty quickly, but to create a reuseable, moddable and flexible one, you are going to spend quite a while on it. At least a good year before you get something worth selling, but it all depends of the features really, if you need good physics, or procedural trees it might take you a while to write your own, or you can buy a ready to use physics engine from Havok or tree generation engine like SpeedTree. And to the kids who bitch about the arma engine, go on, go create your DayZ on CryEngine, hell go try with Unity3D, it's free now. And come back when you can handle 50 players, plus 200-300 npcs and simulate a 225sqm island, all in realtime on a single server, lets not forget you also have to make all the assets, while dayZ borrow 95% of it's assets from Arma2. Until then, let modders use the engine they feel comfortable using and stop moaning that this is not using CryEngine, or UE3, or whatever. Most of you know nothing about game development and modding but come give "enlightened opinion" about this or that engine based on pictures, videos and tech demos, graphics rarely have anything to do with the engine, and everything to do with the art team who produced the assets for the demonstration.

Considering how few answers where added and how no one has been beating up this idea to a pulp, i guess it means it's a good idea :D

Awesome

Well where is the unfairness, you shouldn't be able to get your gear back in the first place :/

This is what i saw.

Ultimately the best engine is the one the devs like working with.

Those are anti material rifles, from a realistic standpoint, they aren't even designed to be used against peoples. Just give us more reasonable precision rifles instead of those handheld "cannons". It keeps making me think about the LAR Grizzly Big-boar in the "tremors" movie, which was chosen simply because the character using it is a gun nut.

Yeah i love how peoples are drooling on cryengine videos. But hey that's marketing at work. "It looks so good, it MUST be superior!"

God i love those "expert" discussion. </sarcasm>

Seconded, you should really try the original game. There are hundred of different missions and PvP gamemodes that would do just that.

Yeah the idea is that it only affect your next life, the point is not to end up with a penality so long it prevent you to play at all.

Sheesh, Crytek sure know how to make theyr engine look awesome. Excepted it's not really that awesome. You guys need to realise that one thing that really show in these videos is that they have exellent artists preparing the demos. That's all.

It's a common... mistake from gamers to think that if a game cannot do something, it's because it's running on the wrong engine. All those features are nice, but they all have a cost. The arma engine isn't a "bad" engine, It does a lot and tend to do it well. Rocket being a BIS Employee, this says a lot about his affinity with the company's engine.

Could be cool, only issue i see is that then you don't have to make a choice between a high powered rifle, or a more versatile main weapon anymore. Not being able to have your cake and eat it too add flavor to the game.

Just kidding.

That or they could make AT4 more common (with hillarious results)