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It's the number of people logged in and playing the game at that point.

"Properly displaying these skills is dependent on the new UI" -Hicks Do people even want to see the skills/progress in the UI? Personally, I'm fine with not showing any of that. No need to, it could do more bad than good. edit: Don't get me wrong tho - i love the idea of skills and if done right, that could add a lot to the game imo. But maybe a system that runs "silently" in the background is more immersive and less distracting.

although perks could imo add a lot to the game as well, Zomboid style... pick "shortsighted" perk and your character will need glasses to see properly. Sweet!

@skill system talked about at PAX: "Properly displaying these skills is dependent on the new UI" -Hicks Do people even want to see the skills/progress in the UI? Personally, I'm fine with not showing any of that. No need to, it could do more bad than good. edit: Don't get me wrong tho - i love the idea of skills and if done right, that could add a lot to the game imo. But maybe a system that runs "silently" in the background is more immersive and less distracting.

Wait, what? Can you clarify on what you mean & tell us roughly how many vehicles we will actually have at release? Nobody expected DayZ to have dozens of vehicles like other big releases these days - but I hope Bohemia realizes that they will be tarred & feathered if they release DayZ with ~5 ground vehicles. DayZ mod initially had maybe ~15 vehicles total, which most players don't consider a "large variety", but the bare minimum...

Well, imo that depends a lot on the game you're making and its target audience. For the average gamer, EVE is way too complex, slow, and generally hard to get into. It's a niche game with a niche audience, but that niche audience loves it. Of course, a game should never be confusing for no reason, but in this case, it serves a purpose. You have no idea what rifle and what kind of ammo you just picked up? Well, too bad - now your only option is to try and figure out which ammo fits that rifle, just like IRL. Some players are going to hate that, but others are going to love it. In the end, the question is this: Does something "fit" the overall game experience and add to it, or does it feel out of place and unneccessary? And imo, inspect information like this simply feels completely out of place:

2 things that weren't mentionied so far. Maybe not many players are bothered by this, but anyway: - Inconsistent map design Afaik, it's officially been a few months since the start of the zombie apocalpyse. But there are rusty car wrecks in the middle of the street and old shipwrecks at the coast. Some buildings look new, others look like they were taken straight from the chernobyl zone. Example: The ship wrecks from the last SR: http://i.imgur.com/MvE3Vwk.jpg - Infos from "Inspect" Inspect a weapon and you get half a wiki-article about it's history. Imo this is simply immersion-breaking handholding that doesn't even add anything to the game...

Title says nothing, really. What exactly are you refering to when you say "Exile Mod"? And why do think it is better? Let me take a wild guess: You watched Frankie's video but didn't even bother to read the description. Afaik, there is still no such thing as a "DayZ Exile" mod. Frankie's video is an early preview of a private server that runs 10+ mods at the same time, including Exile mod (which is quite different from DayZ and doesn't even have zombies). That server isn't available to the public because it doesn't actually work properly, there's no ETA when it will go public, and it's not certain that it will ever go public at all.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/248262/Dean_Hall_on_his_losing_battle_with_the_New_Zealand_government.php In a nutshell, he went all "I'M A GRENADE, GRENADES DON'T PAY MINIMUM WAGES!" on the government. The government was not impressed. He then invested some millions to have another company based in UK develop ION for him: http://www.pcgamer.com/dean-halls-next-game-is-ion-an-emergent-narrative-mmo/ It's inspired by Space Station 13 and games like Space Engineers and Kerbal. Rocket is credited as "creator". Not sure how involved he really is with the development of the game, but he's pretty active on the ION reddit.

Yes, occlusion culling is supposed to happen, but it won't make a difference here. This sounds like the server is constantly processing all those items as soon as a player gets near them, even though they aren't interacted with in any way. The server is choking on its own terrible servercode.

Ha, finally a good argument. I completely forgot that Steam has built-in VoIP. I guess that kills "blocking 3rd-party programs" for good, leaving only "all mics on" as an option. What do you mean with "pass through sound"? It's true, some people will set up their smartphones to use them for communication - but it's kind of a hassle and not much fun to play that way. The majority of griefers hopefully won't bother and will simply play on regular servers instead, and admins can try to filter out the rest. That's the whole point. If there is no deterrent to griefing at all, tho... have fun being an admin dealing with all the griefers on an "ingame comms only"-server.

Of course BattleEye can prevent DayZ from running if certain other programs are running at the same time - in fact, it already does that right now. Malware is a program that causes damage to your computer, so that has nothing to with it. Though it sounds like too much work to maintain a list of all third party programs and block them. Not sure if "all mics always on" is a good solution... But i guess it could be a nice server-option, even if there's no way to enforce ingame communication 100%.

What? I don't think Stranded Deep or Survive the Nights switched engines, never heard of that before. Engine switches during development are quite rare, especially with more "professional" games.

The Road is generally quite unrealistic because afaik there is nothing that could simply wipe out all plant life - especially not in such a short time. It's an extremely artifical scenario. Anyway, my point was that the scenario in The Road is completely different from a "zombie apocalypse" - In fact, they're polar opposites: The Road apocalypse: 100% of humanity left + 0.01% of food left = scarcity Typical Zombie Apocalypse, happening extremely fast: 0.01% of humanity left + 100% of food left = abundance DayZ Apocalypse: ? The walking dead is a bit of a special scenario - the spinoff will explain the beginnings, we'll see where they go with that.

Mental retardation in TWD? Why? The show had the farm, prison, woodbury, and now that community in washington. Well, and terminus. Some of those communities were fairly advanced. Oh, and while we're at it: Starvation was never an issue in TWD, either - up unitl Season 5 i think, but that was mostly because they were travelling a lot and kinda messed up. edit2: It's also kinda silly how some people say DayZ is supposed to be like The Road - the scenario in Road is completely different from a zombie apocalypse.

It's a "Whooosh"-ception!

Nice presention, the one thing i didn't like was that fresh spawns essentially start with 100% combat effectiveness - this just means that PvPers won't really have more of a reason to fear death, only survivors do. Stuff like reloading speed isn't a player skill, so i don't see anything wrong with a soft skill for it. Imo it's unlikely to make a huge difference, anyway. edit: and i wonder how base raiding and offline time will be handled, that's hard to balance.

Like what? edit: the one thing i didn't like was that fresh spawns essentially start with 100% combat effectiveness - this just means that PvPers won't have more of a reason to fear death, only survivors do.

Good topic! It doesn't have to be "sudden", tho. Let's look the following scenario: 1) An airborne virus is spreading real fast. 1 week of incubation time. Scientists realize too late what is happening. 2) 1 week of worldwide severe illness, only 1 out of 10K is immune. Infrastructre can't be maintained, food chain is breaking down, people are running out of food. 3) "Zombification" or death. In this scenario, most food would be gone. But you're right - everything else would still be there in abundance. There's thousands of cars / survivor now. No matter how much stuff some survivors may hoard, there's still shittons of stuff left for everyone. Having only a dozen or so vehicles on a server is imo way too unrealistic.

if you mean the video, it will be released with the next status report (hopefully today).

this is true, tho - he wasn't quoting Hicks directly and the article is indeed a bit of a mess. Does anyone have better sources? edit: in this short panel, Hicks says "coming soon [...] 3 new vehicles & new functionaily". Very different from what was written in wired. https://youtu.be/1rdRiGKoKyA?t=1m46s fucking media distorting the truth, it's an illuminati conspiracy!

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-06/17/full-version-dayz-this-year This article says "It will also launch with a trio of vehicles to use". So it's not "release of 3 vehicles", but "release WITH 3 vehicles". Quite a difference... it's essentially a confirmation that the release version won't be anywhere near complete.

What is the offical day for status reports right now? Last time i checked, it was Tuesday. edit: oh, and while we're at it: http://dayz.com/project-timeline I mean.. why even have that thing if it's never updated anyway. All it does is look bad.

Granted, it was something like "no sooner than" end of 2014 (and it was right on the Steam store page the whole time). But this is nitpicking now - the point is that a lot of features that were announced for 2014 and/or outlined in the roadmap took much longer than originally estimated. Many features still aren't in the game to this day, or have simply disappeared from the roadmap (bikes, boats, snow...). Some people are fine with that, others not so much. Both is entirely understandable imo.

I agree with most of what you said - but nothing changes the fact that people were told that DayZ would be in beta in 2014, and now it's nowhere near what most gamers would consider "beta", and compared to other games, things are indeed moving very slowly. Nobody forced Bohemia & Rocket to use the Arma engine. Or to start with a public paid alpha on Steam instead of releasing a closed alpha for fans only. Or to announce a 2014 beta instead of playing it safe. So if you were trying to say that "considering the circumstances, DayZ development isn't slow" - i agree. If you were trying to say that "DayZ development isn't slow, anyone who disagrees is wrong/uninformed/dumb" - then you are simply refusing to see the critics' perspective.