thelonewarrior

This was discussed not long ago so I'll repeat what I said thereHaving previous experience in modding (in other games) I can tell you that as a mod maker the game updates are a modders worst nightmare Everytime the game updates, it messes and creates bugs all over the place for your mod as you will always be working with an older version of the game And by the time you've fixed those bugs the next update is here and you go through it all over again While the game is being updated and stuff added, it would be impossible to keep up or even have a remotely playable mod

This is not a rant on my part But I've been seeing every day for months the same posts about people quiting the game for lack of content, slow development, things expected in updates and not appearing And all the time, people just say "This game isn't for you" "Alpha" "Don't play" Whether it's the community, Devs, lack of content or whatever A LOT of people quit all the time, you might not care about this but it is and will cause damage to the development and finished product If these people quit and tell their friends not to bother, over time sales will drop I know of around 40 people who didn't even bother (in my own gaming community) And still haven't got the standalone because they can't see any progress So stop telling people to quit and encourage them to stay, because all it's going to do is delay and damage the game if people (game magazines Ect for example) see that most of us arnt bothered about a player base and are hostile towards these people Thoughts?

Yeah they should have some kind of messages I've had people log in near me before in a building, usually in another room in a place they could never have gotten to without logging in there And I fired at a group of 4 once and killed 1, the other 3 ran into a building and for 10 minutes were taunting me to come in and finish the job, and how I was a pussy for not coming in After also being accused of being a hacker as their newspawn friend that I killed couldn't find the bush I was in, and he ran back in, got his stuff and all of them logged out I was there for a good 15 minutes before their group appeared nearby and searched around and finally found and killed me, I knew it was them because after I died I heard the same voices taunting me This would not have happend if these messages were shown to say they were logging out nearby

Im having the same problem If I change servers at any point I get 99 seconds then stuck on please wait, usually have to leave 3-4 times after stuck on please wait for a few minutes, after about 3-4 trys I can get into the server

Believe me it won't matter, the same thing happend on the mod when they made zombies badass 3 days and 50 tears topics later the Devs changed them back to hobos with wet paper towels Same thing will happen here as soon as people have to actually search further than Berezino for food

As much as I want that to be the case. If they do that, the pacth will last 2-3 days tops if they reduce food spawns The Devs will have to revert back to infinite food spawns or risk drowning in the tears

Havent played for a while, and jumped back in today got at least 800 ping for EVERY server, extreme lag, de sych, the works. No one else in my group has this, EVERY other online game I have runs fine but as soon as dayz is running my internet basically stops, anyone know whats going on? Its never done this before, but right now, its completely unplayable

Well I can't really argue with that True, but I'm not really concerned about myself I'm thinking more about the people who take one look and don't buy, or the people who give up because they feel no progress is being made, including the ones I've spoken to who arnt interested anymore because they don't like the way the game is heading

YesMy fallout 3 mods: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/users/518329/?tb=mods&pUp=1 Skyrim mods: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/users/2475748/?tb=mods&pUp=1 New Vegas mods; http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/users/2475748/?tb=mods&pUp=1 I spent nearly a year on some of those mods which have extensive scripting I know how things around here work I never said these were MY exact opinions If you think there's isn't a problem when my own community that had over 100 members with about 40 that returned to standalone from the mod with 3-4 of them buying it while the other 30 odd people not bothering because of what this game looks like So 3-4 of them are still playing, about once a week and hem others won't buy it because they have told me that to them it feels like what I described above I gurrantee there are many others feeling the same If there's no problem with that amount or people put off when they LOVED the mod then I must be insane

Ok ok My point is this: If you look at this from a person looking to buy the game Sure they know it's in development Still buggy, they can overlook that They might play for a while and come here, even to just look at the development and see the progress is slower than they expected They ask about it and get "alpha" or "don't play if you don't like it" They see rocket has said it's a flawed concept, and is leaving To anyone looking to buy, there is very little making them want to bother after the whole "game we shall not name" fiasco And most of it isn't even that's it's alpha, it's the community and slow development or updates People are playing, and will buy it, but this is the message that is being given out right now: "The game is alpha, it's going to be buggy and you should expect this, There's not much to do except death match as survival hasn't really been implemented, We haven't updated in a month, here's some new clothes, a gun and a few other things to keep you interested Don't bother coming to the forums, because your opinion is wrong and even if it isn't, we don't care, go play "my little pony online" And by the way, Rocket is leaving the project, good luck" Regardless of what's actually going on behind the scenes, this is what a lot of people are seeing when they look at the game So from what I gather, a lot of people here are saying: "It's ok to neglect new players or players that don't like the current way things are, either wait for updates for another month or get out and don't play" Like I said, a lot of people who I used to play with and wanted the standalone have contacted me over the last few months and none have bought the standalone because this is their impression of things right now So are we now saying it's ok to push people away? Because we have the statistics and money so who cares?

There's a good chance that wouldn't happen though, I had a similar experience where one guy in a group like this was picking us off one by one, of 8 only myself and two others survived and we died later to a wall glitcher but luckily no one panicked when the traitor started taking us out and we easily overwhelmed him

So the people who have 1 hour or 30min restarts have also been forced to do this Sure And I don't believe that for a second, there are servers run by gameservers running on 3 and 4 hour restarts, I just looked

Any server with 1-2 hour restarts are full of people just trying to get loot or admins Abusing their powers Don't play on these servers and find some servers where the restart times are in the bottom left messages Also make note of the server and add it to your favourites

That's interesting because I've had this happen to me before (the gun putting away part) while in a fight It happened when I hadn't even recently got my gun our or put it away, so it wasn't to do with spamming the hotkey I never thought it could be a hack, but it's possible as it's quite suttle and most people will put it down to a bug

Glad your enjoying it but 3 mins to kill the zombies? You can still one hit them in the head with an axe, and kill them easily with your fists in first person Not to mention that because food is so common, you can get healthy status and restore your health to maximum in about 10mins if you just eat and drink constantly I fail to see the challenge in this seeing as zombies do next to zero damage and you can outrun them anyway and shooting them doesn't really matter as only a couple spawn which you can easy take care of I was involved in a fight for 3 hours with another group and not a single zombie aggroed to our shots, so you can just shoot them really

I've met a few confirmed hackers Got killed by an infinate ammo shotgun on a server with just myself after a restart There's zero chance he logged in at the same part of nowhere that I was and happened to have a full auto sawn off shotgun The guy immediately logged off the player list after I died Also I was watching a guy on a roof once when I happened to look behind me and see a freshspawn running REALLY fast, I said to him "wtf was that you just did" (The speed I'm talking is he was at 200m, 100m, on top of me by the time you've read this) HIM: "oh Erm......I was really lagging out" Next thing he dissapears in front of me and 10 seconds later as I'm looking around me in one shotted by a faint pistol shot, yet there is no cover as I was in the open wearing a ballistic helmet Seen a few aimbots too, like I was hiding behind a building and the guy was tracking my head even when I was prone Ect, the moment I left cover I got one shotted before I could even fire

I know people are saying that the rules are there to prevent people kicking and banning for un just reasons But come on, those companies don't give a shit I was banned (not kicked, BANNED) from a server recently because it was a clan server and they kept kicking me manually at uneven intervals I knew they were kicking me manually (so I might have been trolling them by joining over and over, but only because they were clearly farming gear and restarting the server again and again) They had about 15 people with clan tags, set the server to some ridiculous restart every few minutes and in the end I got a banned message I contacted their host and it's been weeks with no reply, I've sent multiple emails I'm seeing little difference between admin abuse in the mod and the standalone in regards to getting gear easily and they won't shut down someone's server as long as they are paying them cash, regardless of what rules they break I'm also seeing similar stories to mine popping up

Yeah I kinda have one, that was our own fault really There were 4-5 of us and we ran into a group of 5 freshies teaming up, a couple of us made our presence known as 2 of them had loaded guns and we didn't want to panic them So far so good, we back off and watch them play around looting unaware we are still around when one of the freshies betrays the group and we watch them put him down Then we noticed a fully geared guy creeping up on them and we fire a warning shot and he surrenders so we have a chat He claims meh was just curious at what they were doing We patch him up, supply him Ect and tell him to leave As he's leaving another geared guy appears and seems friendly so now there's 4 freshies nearby looting, 2 randoms and 5 of us, we decide to leave and I hang back to watch and notice the second guy approaches the first geared guy and they sit there and then start following the others in my own group We surround them and tell them it's the last time they have a chance to leave or we kill them, we should have........ I'm hiding about 10 metres away in a bush and my team leaves, this time they both draw their guns and aim at my group I lean out and manage to kill them both before they can fire and I feel pretty good when.... ZIPP! One of my team goes down ZIPP! Second one goes down and they dive to the floor as suppressive M4 fire kicks in Myself and another teammate move to cover and the 3rd guy with us is pinned down I spot a guy running down the train tracks with an M4 when I get hit in the leg with a sniper round, then the teammate with me gets taken down as I'm using morphine by an M4 guy next to us I return fire and I'm out of ammo and he turns and runs, I figure he is too as he puts away his gun and sprints into the woods I reload and fire, hitting him but he's still running and bleeding My other teammate is dead by now and I want blood I run into the trees and I see the guy bandaging and another guy watching the road I fire and miss every shot, with my SKS from about 50m They ever so casually turned and fired one shot, killing me I respawn and meet a geared guy about 20mins later with a similar story He said him and 2 friends were approached by two men who as soon as their backs were turned.....another 7 (making it 9men strong) Tried to rob them, he said he got away but his friends got killed even after giving up their gear So yeah, we should have given them 1 warning not to follow us and then just shot them before their group set up positions

The solution isn't "don't go there" because every other player is there so he won't run into anyone I tried recently doing the elektro, Cherno, apartments and balota down to kamenka and then north to the military base, zenogorsk, green mountain and NWAF, then Vybor and starry None were looted and saw no players, I tried on full servers and servers with 10-20 people Must have done that route 3-4 times since the berezino death match update and have not seen a single player nor signs anyone had been that way There's no point saying don't go there as all that happens then is they wander around the map forever axing zombies that couldn't kill you anyway

This is a story I wish is recorded, but I died pretty early on in the most epic of standoffs between two groups At the weekend we were a group of 4 on a HARDCORE server Just after a restart we are looting the piano building in berezino when I go upstairs, the other 3 are downstairs and I'm coming down the stairwell when I see 4 guys in the room The new guy opens fire with his SKS and you can imagine the bloodbath as two more guys come in and every opens fire in a small space After the smoke clears I'm left standing somehow with 2 magnum rounds still loaded while all are dead except me and one of our guys who is unconcious Then a guy runs in and goes straight to looting, I put two magnum rounds into him but he doesn't go down and turns and luckily misses with his mosin and I have time to reload and take him out So I empty all the gear and my people start turning up hoping to quickly grab their stuff and leave 3 of us make it back when these guys are back, some new spawned with only guns and others fully geared That's when I see the server filling up fast, so we figure We have pissed off some kind of gaming community I checked the bodies, and two of their names were GelGill and CrOwD So we number the doors 1-3, and 1 of us watches each door as our 4th teammate is on his way back After a few minutes door 3 opens and a guy runs in, I shoot him with my mosin and door 2 opens, I move to the stairs and see him crouch behind the power transformers I take a potshot and some how I hit him and he's down And for over an hour they are outside opening doors at random and trying to take shots at us And then, I'm dead in one shot, not sure from where as the only door I could see was now clear unless he fired as well and lag caught up with me Over the next hour they open doors at random and they play music, while I find an SKS and creep into a nearby bush On the way to them though I spot a sniper on the roof nearby watching the building as well as 3 geared guys setting up positions outside And minutes later I see two newspawns and another geared guy join them, so at least 7 guys now Over the 2nd hour of the standoff I manage to pick some off from outside as they move to open the doors , I wait until the guy opens the door then fire as to appear that the shots came from inside Then the server restart saves us and I log back in to see if these guys are still there and already I see them storming the building so there's no point in the other guys logging back in All on all, we took 4 losses and scored about 10 kills on these guys, they just kept coming....... But I have two of their names, GelGill and CrOwD so feel free to tell us your point of view if you see this

27. The epeen addict No matter what you do, this guy had always won Gone against 4 men and taken down 3? Your a noob because he says so Bunch of guys camping the inside of the police station and gun you down as you enter, your a noob in the eyes of these guys because your a newspawn They will take every opertunity to tell you that you suck, while crying "hacker hacker" when you wipe out their team because no matter how good you are, they are always better, and if they do happen to die, you must have been cheating because these guys will not wait to tell you how they will headshot you at 800m with an M4 anyday These people can be found anywhere and will uses phrases such as: (actual real events) (After killing 3 of a 4 man group, 1 with my sks and 2 dropped with my mosin) "Come out bro, only noobs use mosins" (guy had a mosin......FAIL) "Why you hiding, scared? Gonna fuck you up big time"( group of 3 with M4s, I only have a 1911, they refuse to leave the building despite it having 2 entrances, they are far better geared and know I only have a pistol) "Loser ! Loser! You dumb shit hasn't even got a gun, what a noob, can't even find a gun" (to a newspawn he just shot, about 30 seconds after they spawned in) "We gonna own you, come out into the street so I can shoot you, I only need one shot" (I say I'm coming out as a newspawn runs by, using him as bait and the bandit missed every shot with his M4) "Your a hacker, fucking dirty hacker! There's no way you killed all of us!" (After I had been hiding in a bush for 10mins while a guy tried to find me after I killed all his friends and shot him when he stopped right in front of me and went prone in the open, instead of in a bush, they were standing comepletly still in the street trying to aim at newspawns, even after I started shooting they still didn't move until only 1 guy was left who then ran around trying to find me for ages)

It's 12 midnight and This made me laugh so loud I think I woke the neighbours :)

I once accidentally left my browser for the internet open once and a random advert played while I was in dayz All I could hear was some guy going on and on about some washing powder Took me longer than it should have to figure out what had happend

Not true, a seasoned player would know they can't possibly turn around and kill them if they are being held up, especially if there is more than one of them The only time someone tried to rob me they said they wanted my gun and there were 3 of them, I had a mosin and 2 of them had M4s, the other didn't have a gun, there's no way I could have got our of it alive and no way to take them all down with such a slow firing gun before they could easily kill me They took my gun and left me with my backpack, though they shot me in the leg and left me morphine Only reason I died is because their shot ruined my only bandage and I bled to death trying to find another one And I've been playing 2 years, if it wasn't for the unfortunate part about not having a bandage I would have kept all of my other stuff Which included a loaded pistol in my backpack

I encountered a hacker on an empty server once I was the first the join after a restart and was in the woods, 1 other player had joined and seconds later i got shot by an infinate ammo sawn off shotgun and before I could get the name he had left the server No one is safe from them