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This is one of the best interviews I've read RE: DayZ dev in a long time. Hicks' answers are really clear and well fleshed out. Thanks for sharing, Tatanko.

It all sounds good in theory but I'm just afraid the average player would be more prone to abuse such a thing. Hicks said he did not want to see people farming abilities and I guess they can implement daily diminishing returns for soft skills and stamina (I hope). Increased stamina would then have to take a long long time to achieve to be authentic. Like the in-game equivalent of 2 hours of running a day for 90 days for maximum stamina. The day counter in the mod gave me a real sense of longevity and I felt more and more invested in my character every day the number rose.

Wooden walls, like in the first camp style, should be extremely susceptible to Molotov cocktails/fire bombing. So far the size of these bases would make them stick out quite a bit, especially without camo.... "How do we keep that guy playing that character?" I like the lifespan idea but I want to be able shave and still look weathered/scarred. Softskill development for non-tactical skills is a fine idea. Progressive stamina for lifespan, I'm not crazy about. It takes months/years of hard focused work to build up a persons athleticism.... It would seem someone with a stamina bonus from longevity would have an advantage over a fresh spawn in a PvP situation, which is something I thought wasn't wanted in DayZ. Edit: There is some pretty juicy stuff in this youtube video, thanks!

You're right, though my statement still stands RE: no infected found.

Thanks, devs/all! I'm looking forward to .58 and .59 experimental! I wish I cared for .57 nearly as much as Hicks does.... 200 hours with no infected? Wow.

I always look forward to your catch and release videos. Thanks for sharing. :thumbsup:

DayZ only needs one thing. TIME.

Thanks, devs/all! Like a True Survivor I spell action with a capital INFECTED. The Hoff™ has a message for you Byron Hix @ Hicks_206....

Oh hi, Rick. Are we comparing dick size now? I was extolling the virtues of cycling there mostly.... I'm surrounded by people that are worth far more than you could ever dream of being worth. Multi Billionaires and incredibly humble (unlike me). 6 vacations a year.... lol. Oh man, my girlfriend the concert pianist and music director, took me to a blues show in the village tonight that was incredible, and it's super cool to hang with the band.... world class act..... Where were we? Multiple accounts? So this is another account of yours after banning or an alternate ego? How does that work? I didn't think people got 2nd chances around here. As far as I'm concerned your join date is January 23rd 2014. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Monetary investment in a hobby does not equate to passion. I am proud to NOT own a 10,000$ carbon road bike. (Yes, I can afford one.) What a pointless machine for anyone who doesn't do at least metric century rides regularly. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am anti-KoS because too much of it (which there is currently) skews the game away from survival and more into just another PvP game. What the are you proving when you shoot someone who doesn't know you're there? Where is the challenge in gunning down someone who is either far less skilled, has no useful gear, or is obviously not a threat? Whether you intended to grief those people or not, you probably did. This then perpetuates more KoS game play as revenge becomes their motive. Will you be able to adapt your play style to the upcoming changes to stamina, infected, and in depth medical procedures? What if you have to play a modded version because vanilla includes something you detest? Edit: There should be murderers, bandits (people who hold you up and don't shoot first), and all play styles to make DayZ a complete tapestry but if everyone adapted your philosophy (which most do currently), it would completely ruin DayZ. KoS, murderers, and bandits should be the minority, because they should be extremely difficult and risky, and the future might just bare that out some.

I don't KoS, for anything. Never have, never will. Cycling is definitely not a big deal at all but it is certainly an enormously beneficial lifestyle that shouldn't be taken for granted. You should move to NYC, with 8 million people, and try cycle commuting through Manhattan, in rush hour. I doubt most Portlandians have a commute anything like mine. It's like Frogger meets DayZ, only the patterns are more difficult and the zombies are more easily aggro'd.

Are you fucking kidding me? You've been on here half the time I have and YOU'VE put with the shit here? The revolving door of KoS kiddies that RAN this board since SA release was embarrassing. You are a prime example of what is wrong with a DayZ SA devoid of zombies and stamina systems. KoS is the definition of troll play style. I've this conversation for too long now.... You derive pleasure from the grief of someone else. For the record, I don't do spandex. I wear liner shorts under baggy athletic shorts, or nylon cargos. I am not a wanna be Lance Armstrong type. I ride Hybrid bikes, everywhere, in all weather, and it's awesome. If being passionate about something instead of fucking dead inside is wrong, I want to be wrong all day. RE: unsatisfied wife; if you spent less time spanking it over the corpses of your prey, you might have some libido left at the end of the day.

I am familiar with what you consider a constructive post, Rick. You're the last person who should be name calling, and the first person I expect to chime in, king troll of troll mountain. His post is a troll post, about troll play style, and anyone with half a brain knows he's ignorant. Thank the DayZ gods that we have some new blood in experimental who contribute to the discussion and progression of the game. Edit: We're not friends cash, I can just unhide a post if I want to. My body carried all of the stuff I listed and I did everything with just a knife. If I wanted to have company they would have to be similarly beastly and able to carry their share. No passengers, only riders allowed.

If you know or are close to a real life cyclist you would NEVER post something like this. You're also a spineless and shameless troll cash. You're the guy who when I said I was a cyclist told me to grow up and buy a car and had your post removed. I hope everyone who "hates" cyclists for no good reason here are weak unhealthy people who will die a horrible death hooked up to machines breathing through tubes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A couple years ago I decided I wanted to test myself physically on the bike and use some of the survival skills I learned from survival shows and videos. So I planned a solo self sustained camping trip on my bike 70 miles and 5,000 feet of climb to a state park outside New York City. I carried an ultra light tent and all my gear on my back including food and a solar panel and kept the weight under 25 pounds. I used many tricks learned to improve my campsite like batoning branches and submerging foods in the lake in sealed bags to keep them fresh. The site didn't have potable water so I had to get to a ranger station with my 2 liter hydration pack every time I ran low. SURVIVE. Now I have a real bug out bag and can be out of the city regardless of traffic in very short order with everything I need to try to make it out into the wilderness.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I ride 400 miles a month to work and to visit friends and family. I am 90 pounds lighter, rugged, and my stamina for all things is massive. MASSIVE. My girlfriends love it. Cycling is a glorious lifestyle and the answer to many many problems in our world. Obesity and pollution are merely the obvious first benefits.

Everything gets posted here on the forums and in wiki pages. Someone with the most basic ability to google questions regarding anything in DayZ will be met with forum posts and youtube videos. There is no need for Bohemia to add an official survival guide either in the game or online. There will however be a single player mode which will probably be easier to learn on, especially if infected can be turned off.

This is combining matches, not crafting them.... Nice to see this in. Let's hope for the same for water purification tabs.

Alpha Stable 0.57: Zombies are not in the game. Persistence is off. Loot respawns at every restart. PvP is the order of the day. Read the status reports and follow the devs on twitter and trello. If you do not enjoy the current patch, take another break (which is smart). There's still a ton of game left to be devloped.

Thanks for news, devs/all! As stated by others, I anxiously await the next wave of infected. I am also interested to hear more about stamina and weight systems progress. One day, hopefully soon, the loud and stupid murderers will eat gory horde claws.

Fences more often run through sheds all over the map. It can make entering those same sheds tricky. I like when the cop cars spawn inside residential buildings.... :P

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The cop car in the field and flare particles.... :thumbsup: :beans:

Thanks for news and hard work, devs/all! Good luck with those bugs! I wouldn't mind hearing about progress with infected AI, or thoughts on the return of infected respawn, or higher infected numbers for stable or experimental if possible.

I hope windows will be much more dynamic in 1.0. Opening and closing, entering a house through a window, and breakable windows would be ideal. At the least I would think we will have the ability to obscure windows if barricading includes boarding them up.

Not true. You haven't played 1.0 so you can't say this.

One thing that will effect the entire game will be increased infected numbers. I expect to die on the coast to nearly anything come 1.0. Kind of like the mod. You might suicide a bunch, get a spawn you like, and then get killed by infected in your favorite spawn point. So much of how people play is going to change fundamentally. A lot of times I find many points made about the current way the game is played to be irrelevant.... Successively longer respawn/rejoin timers would be good for a number of reasons but I think random spawn points are here to stay. Also, hopefully modding will shift the PvP guys away from Vanilla DayZ where the infected will get in their way and those servers will have custom respawn choices.

40 character heads planned including more of the dev team.