Element47

i shoot pristine things, because shiney new stuff is suspicious. except for optics. i can bear a pristine scope for a while.

full disclosure: author has been pwnd by bronies repeatedly in competitve FPS games.

oh but DayZ IS PvE for me. from my point of view, the hostile players are part of the environment - they are like zombies, just with working AI, and ability to use ranged attacks. dun nerf dem, pl0x.

the issue of lost progress will most probably persist until the game is feature-complete and well into beta, so in about a year. until then, random loss of progression due to one of many possible issues (servers not being able to properly load data from the hive database, client bugs, bugfixes requiring database wipe etc.) is to be expected. this has been answered many times, and hence the community lacks patience when yet another thread emerges with the same topic/rant. generally, if you encounter a bug, search it on the bug tracker: http://feedback.dayzgame.com you will need to create an account there. if you can find your issue, upvote it so the devs know you encountered it too, if you cannot find it, create a new bug report, be descriptive and precise, attach a dxdiag and a screenshot if possible. if you are just frustrated, then feel free to post a rant here. designate it as a rant so people know that its not supposed to be criticism but just venting your frustration. we all get angry at stupid things sometimes, and everybody is entitled to a rant now and then.

The game you paid for is not the alpha. The game you paid for is not released yet. But for paying early you got access to the alpha as a bonus. You dont have to use that early access. You can wait for the finished game - thats the product you paid for. But IF you intend to use your early access feature, you should understand what it means. And you clearly dont. the game in its current developent stage is not meant to be fun, or entertaining. it is missing features, it has serious flaws and bugs, and it will be unplayable at times. it could well be that you wont be able to play at all for weeks. if you do not understand that and are able to cope with that, you just should refrain from using your early access feature, and look forward to the finished game that you paid for.

you should not forget, that youtube videos you watched are heavily edited (and often staged) - they dont show you the 20 boring lives spent searching for food, they dont show you the hours of searching and searching.. they show you the 15 minutes of action, edited for effect, not the actual gameplay from spawn to fully geared...

actually, from my experience maybe one out of ten dayz players are kids. is younger than 18. and the most ruthless, asinine, dick ingame behaviour i ever encountered was from two very loveable, kindhearted, well-educated middle-aged men, both of whom i consider friends internet is a crazy place.

1. you are not reporting a bug. thats what the bug tracker is for. you are creating a rant thread in "General Discussion", whining about a topic that has been brought up by many others, and yet you think it deserves its own thread 2. you obviously do not understand what alpha is, if a character wipe makes you angry and you feel the need to complain. if your character gets wiped, thats testing. if you try to connect to a server and fail, thats testing. having fun in elektro and bitching about spawn points is not testing.

dont play until release in 1-2 years. simple as that.

"oh i know its alpha but <complain about a typical alpha incident>"

its not the engine. its a design decision. and a horrible one. you can always change the skeleton,t he rigging, the animations, the controls, no matter the engine. you dont have to use the default one provided with the toolset. currently, movement and interaction is horrible. i really hope that a lot is just legacy code and placeholders, to be replaced in near future

you can complain about his play style as much as you can, but from that angle, it was probably a shot at him clipping over the edge of the roof, which is really not something to be happy about..

with loot and combat balance still at least a year away, having a character reset option wouldnt impact gameplay significantly. any alpha (or beta for that matter) i participated had either a /stuck command or the option to restart a new character. its a serious oversight not to provide such a tool to the testers

gear up fast easy mode refers to server hopping i presume, which describes frequent changing of the server to clear the same loot spot on different servers? bunny hopping is a term describing constant jumping by a player, who thus wants to be more difficult to hit.

DayZ SA GODMODE comfirmed:

with the current state of affairs, i fear duct tape wouldnt remove hair but complete head texture, resulting in headless survivors.. :x

if you lack the balls or the mental capabilities to play the survival game with the provided assets, there are enough out-of-game ressources to dumb it down for you. ingame map is perfectly adequate to find your way around, i only hope we see a variety of maps in future, especially more tourist maps instead of the topo maps.

the files have been datamined for many weeks, we have screenshots of the untextured models, and we have discussions.. check http://r2.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1t9dt4/heres_a_full_list_guns_vehicles_items_etc/ for example for a comprehensive list of the items.. (thats from a month ago)

welcome to the internet, you must be new here.

the CQC after the "backpack kill" shows how incredibly raw and early this game still is...

what are you talking about, not being able to jump over a 30cm gap or climb a 40cm ledge is the pinnacle of realism!

in DayZ i just look around with ALT, but in similar situations in other games - like different cockpit views - i found logitech g13 and razer nostromo working quite well. i got rid of the nostromo because it doesnt quite fit my hand size, will be getting an orbweaver stealth soon for testing, but generally, having a peripheral with a d-pad or hat switch is really great edit: i do realize that suggesting an expensive peripheral isnt quite the answer you were looking for.. but maybe its worth a consideration :)

there is actually a trivial solution to that, but i think it is 1. not fitting the vision of the dev team and 2. not easily implemented with the ressources at hand (engine / dev team) instanced loot if you have for example cleared loot spawn 0xBC614E, it will remain empty for you for the next say 6 hours, no matter what server you join, while other players, who have not looted it yet, can see the loot fine and grab it. its a well-matured, established technology, used in many MMOs, and while it may detract from immersion somewhat if you're playing with a team, it would completely remove server-hopping for gear.

everytime i click the thread ready for a surprise... but no, its always the same... *sigh* its not of concern to the server WHY connection is lost. the character will remain on the server, visible and attackable to anyone, until the timer finishes..