JamesButlin

June 10th, next Monday mate

Just.. please say you're not keeping that font for the UI. There are a million and one better ones you guys could use!

This.. Keeps the immersion immersive ;)

I do really hope we get some form of lottery with this, but I fear it could be already decided who gets in! This is why I'm not fussed. :D I seem to be one of the few people that actually enjoyed frankie's videos, staged or not. -shrug-

I say take it, or limit it to NV only

With this and Sui Generis now getting made, 2013 is looking to be an awesome year for unique and somewhat revolutionary game alphas :D

Lmao, those console names.. :D

Looked really fun, love it when people come up with ideas for things like this in games :D Reminds me of races I used to have on FarCry online! :D

That ATV is having none of your shit :P

Hiding inside objects is the cheapest trick in FPS games, stop it and play like a real man.

As you do! :')

Me too mate, me too. Checking the forums and dev blog pretty much daily in anticipation, I reckon we'll have standalone alpha by the end of the month. Fingers crossed :D

In this post on the development blog they state the following: "When the world is as complex and changing as that which DayZ creates, it has created an environment where hacking and performance issues abound. This is not an issue with ArmA, this is an issue of the designer (me) making a design that far outreaches it’s foundations. It is a testament to the Real Virtuality engine that this is even possible. So, what we are doing right now is removing these operations completely from the clients and ensuring the server runs the world. DayZ does not require the complex array of player and AI interactions that ArmA does, so these are all gone. What we are left with is a very heavily optimized solution where the server “call’s the shots” so to speak." Tl;dr - Completely removing the ability to script anything into the game unless it's done via the server (only the admins will have control of this - if at all). I imagine they will give the admins the ability to trace and ban people if any hacks do start to arise. Also what Erizid said as they posted at the same time as me :)

Yeah the Arma II engine isn't very forgiving with multi-core CPU's, until one of the newest Arma II patches I was better off disabling the other cores!

This is the community build that will eventually be 1.7.4, though it's subject to change further, it is by the community that have just released 1.7.3 yes. As to whether this Drifter guy is involved in the production of 1.7.4 i'm not too certain, the changelogs are very similar except his additions!

I'm quite a fan of those weapon changes (and the extra bandage at start, those one hit bleed zombies are annoying!), and would like to see them implemented, however no (official) plans seem to be made for such a thing. Maybe send the additions to R4Z0R49 in the hope that these ideas could be pulled in as well? Could be worth a try :)

Quoting for emphasis. Most of this is gonna be in the game soon buddy! :)

That's pretty disgusting man haha :D

There was a thread about gathering all the private hive servers, but I saw no thread about community updates else I would have been straight in there.. Did I miss that one or is this the thread you guys mean when you say this?

I think he'll release the alpha at a really low price, it may not be as new or shiny as people expect but in due time it'll shape up to be a bloody fantastic game and I for one think he's taking it in the right direction and really look forward to see how many of the features he's mentioned actually get implemented. Love the idea of player-built underground settlements, boarding up doors, reinforcing vehicles and zombie life cycles etc. Can't wait until the animations are all sorted, the textures are all high res, new zombie models are introduced and the game really begins to set itself apart from the mod. :D

God are people gonna cry any more?! I for one am glad about this update and think it's brilliant. I've never alt+f4'd anyway. Been killed by a few hackers but fgs don't get so attached to your gear in an alpha of a mod! Lighten up, hackers wont be able to teleport themselves/you much longer.

Knowing how many zombies there are is bullshit* How on earth would a survivor know that? S'cheating. :P

It... has been fixed for ages..?

Good point :'). I've been quite lucky I guess! Seen many of my friends slide to their demise though haha :thumbsup:

No screenshots or anything? :)