Lady Kyrah

The devs are not going to chat with you directly, they are busy. Your questions may have already been answered here and some people WILL try to help, regardless of what you think. If they answer, it will be here so that the whole community can benefit from it.

I do like the idea of a firing delay on double action revolvers, some of them have some seriously hard triggers, even if you cock the hammer.

Because it's not the walking dead, and because food spoil. See? no dev needed there :)

Isn't it great when people compare an alpha game with video showcases of another game that isn't even out yet? Does nobody remember Alien: colonial marine? For every shiny thing they show you, they conveniently turn away from the stuff that is hopelessly broken or not even done yet.

The meaning of "better" is very subjective in this regard. People tend to consider "better" anything that give them an edge, better gun, better backpack, better camera view.

Warning, this is my personal belief, it's not going to please everyone, feel free to disagree but at least explain why. Every kill is motivated by "something" so claiming that you have been killed for no reason is irrelevant. Beyond the simple idea of killing someone to acquire his loot, there is also the idea to kill another to prevent a future threat. Now there is another possibility, it's that the player who killed you doesn't see you as another player with a right to enjoy the game. In essence, you are not his equal, you are an animal or an insect that simply doesn't get to live. A player may very well make his DayZ about hunting other players, if possible stacking the odds in his favor, because why would a hunter take risks? (that's exactly what we do with animals that have a hunting season, feed them and park them into an area that puts us to an advantage.) Feeling insecure about a random stranger buzzing around you, IS a reason. Sport killing IS a reason. There is always a motivation behind and DayZ is a very "open" game in this regard, there might not be a reason directly tied to the game mechanics, but there is always a reason. This is a game where you do not exist in a vacuum, the actions of other players play a very important role in how the game will be for you, and in every firefight there has to be someone alive and someone dead, assume that you will be on the losing side at least half the time. We have been cuddled for too long in games that drown our ears in tales of heroic adventures and heroism. You are not a hero in this story.

Hello! Every game out there is a horrible mess held together by duck tape and silly string, you usually don't have the "luxury" to write the very best code you can due to time constrains, and because the end user doesn't care in the end (read: will never see it).

Congratulation you picked up the essential part that none of the "engine people" seems to get. They can change the source code, anything they want literally, provided they have the right people doing it. All this engine talk is from people who have been modding things and only know game creation from this aspect, aka, working around the kinks of an engine you cannot modify.

Not for or against, but... WHY? Why do you believe DayZ would benefit from such feature?

Too much military gear IMHO.

Why go to such length, plenty of poisonous plants and mushrooms in the wild as it is.

Check how force feeding work on space station 13, if you do not "resist" (or cannot) you get force fed. Sometimes it's useful so medicine can be administred to an unconcious player. Otherwise ... well there is the odd case of getting clubbed and force fed death nettle. My opinion? put a progress bar on both player's screen (or something else but it has to be more obvious than status text) and force feeding will fail if the play is concious and "move" (even if it's just a tap on W)

And that's impossible, you cannot create a compelling experience if you also try to reach everyone, the point of being an independent studio without publishers to satisfy is that you can follow your vision and try to deliver something unique that is not designed to be the blandest and broadest entertainment in the world.

So a pump action shotgun should require one inventory access for every inserted shell? reloading the internal magazine of a pump action is EXACTLY the same as chambering a single shell. I'm sorry, loading a single round or a magazine can be done in complete obscurity, we have fingers, and unlike wet sausages, they can sense touch. Balance wise I'm not convinced that reloading a single shot is much longer than swapping magazine, the main difference being that with a magazine , you don't have to do it again for the next 15/30 shots.

Perfectly understandable, however buying a game gives you no say in the direction it's development goes. Buying an alpha game is basically supporting it's ongoing development, you don't really buy a product whose content is frozen in time.

Excepted that first person, unlike 3rd person, provide a "symmetric" experience between the observer and the observed that 3rd person doesn't offer. If you still can't figure out why being able to scout an area, watch for other players/zombies or check if your car is still where you left it, without having to expose yourself is a terrible idea, we are beyond the world of reasoning or logic and there is nothing i can say that will change your mind.

Yeah but he doesn't, there is no disadvantage to the FPS only view if everyone on a given server is constrained to it.

How is anyone supposed to know?

The problem i have with the fourth wall is that it doesn't hide everything, and really, it should. When you wander in a town in dayZ, if you don't exactly know how the next intersection is laid out, why should you be able to aquire that information by 3PP peeking?

Mortars would probably be even more unpopular than snipers. Considering line of sight isn't even required once the mortar is sighted. Shelling the same high value target multiple times is then trivial and consequence free.

Mortars. Because everyone like some jackass hidden in the hills, shelling constantly the only water well around :)

Friendly means: "Don't shoot me... so i can shoot you first." But really... 10 minutes are not enough to declare another player trustworthy and neither is 2 hours. You can be a gentleman without being careless too. The comfy cocoon of the western world legal system doesn't really prepare you to interact with a random stranger in the middle of nowhere.

That's the thing, you don't. We feel pain level, we don't necessarly know how close we are from death. When you are full of morphine, you don't necessarily know that you are bleeding out.

This isn't even needed, the real issue is how those infinite mags came to be, if only the server is able to create new loot, how is a hacker able to create out of thin air a magazine with more bullets in it than it's maximum capacity?

Try Alaska for the population density of Chernarus.