hells high

After the mod got big DayZ became a brand. You don't just fuck with that. Once you start changing the name and saying "nonono its DayZ but with a new name" that whole thing is lost. People don't see it in the store page and go "Ooo! DayZ is now a full game, wow I used to play that mod ages ago", they just say "oh great look another zombie game..." You'd even get people doubting that the projects are even related, maybe even that Bohemia just built their own ripoff instead of hiring Dean and bringing that entire IP with him. Either way its just a name. Don't get so worked up over stupid stuff.

Also, the experimental patch has me REALLY excited for what kind of things we can expect. So your point about there not being much to do is in the process of being taken care of, and my faith was restored in what this game can be. Hunting cooking and fishing are all already there on experimental. You can build fishing rods and dig up worms with a shovel to go catch your lunch. I killed a cow with a machete and skinned it to make a backpack and fill said backpack with steak.

I disagree. If you build something in the world of DayZ you should have to protect it, or hide it well. I like the idea that you can build in the world and get your own little setup going but it should be just as vulnerable to looting or even being taken over as any level designer placed structure. You should have to set booby traps or maybe even loot padlocks and chains and whatnot (that could be broken of course) to protect it.

This isn't a bug report, this is a rant thread. There is a bug tracker for bug reports.

There's a section especially for Experimental discussion, you'll have better luck there. I also experience a lot of crashes on it.

Raoul, I'd like to know where you live. I live in a town of less than 200 people out on the Alberta prairies. There is tons of light pollution even here. Street lights, drilling rig lights, those lights out on the front of a farmer's shop. But every once in a while you can get completely away from everything (not unlike the mass loss of electricity in DayZ), and you know what? Its bloody dark at night, especially if you are out in the woods. I've had times where I literally could not see my hand in front of my face. Now that's not saying I disagree, I think night time could be much better coming from a gameplay standpoint. However I just have to disagree with your perception of night time.

Hmm its almost like we're in the middle of the zombie apocalypse and people might have to use what they find, and can't just Just like in the other thread where you complained about the PSO1 on the AKM. Would you be looting an abandoned military base, see the PSO1 on a rack or in a locker and go "Ew no, that sight wasn't even designed for the ballistics of this weapon's round. Gross." even though your rifle had the universal mount? If so I hope we don't get shacked up during the apocalypse. :P I don't really care that the bent bolt isn't authentic, I just don't like the way it looks. :P A lootable bent handle bolt would be nice because I'd never pick it up.

I stopped reading right there. I'd like you to go and take a quick look at the average development time for a game. A title maybe even less ambitious than DayZ? Anywhere from 3-4 years. See what you are used to seeing are the demos that companies put out, branded as "alpha tests" to get gamers all excited. They last a few weeks, maybe a month tops? Yeah, no that game didn't go from initial meetings and design discussion to beta in that month.

Its pretty frustrating on EXP but for the time being we just kinda have to either not play, hang out in the woods, or learn to deal with it in the mean time. I already automatically take a stop and look around outside of the door so the server and client can take a second to agree on where my model is.

At least you won't have to worry about the zombies eating your brains.

Why is it not realistic? The mount on the side of the AK is the same as the Dragunov's mount. Maybe if it didn't have the mount I could see where you are coming from.

Right here! :P Found this little guy wandering on the sniper hill above Berezino. Rather than give him the chance to KoS some fresh spawns with his Mosin I took him down with a single .22 shot to the brain.

Working as intended. You could stuff your gut full of gummy bears and scotch but it wouldn't mean you are healthy and ready to go. Eat high energy foods like rice or peaches and even soda. Little outdated but it should help you a bit: He has a few other videos on the subject I believe, and the system is changed which he did cover.

Yet your posts indicate that you seem to think it is.

Game development is easy.

Epoch isn't DayZ.

Because if this trend caught on nobody will put on a press vest or UN gear and go on a killing spree of trusting players, right? ;P DayZ is all about emergent gameplay, even if this happened people would use it to their advantage.

I like to lead them to small hills, they can sometimes seem to trip and kill themselves. Good times.

Jesus someone points out that its placeholder for someone that might not know and you launch into that? Just take it easy, this is one of the nicest discussion threads I've seen so far on the forum. :P It'll likely stick around until either a better system that can tell the same thing is introduced or the majority of the statuses and causes are in and working. Everyone says "do the mod thing" but I wonder if there isn't another way that information can be conveyed, without spamming us. Obviously a player should be able to deduce when they are getting wet on their own, but then even that could be put in the status indicator's nice colour coding system (very faint blue indicates getting wet, then transitions into the damp one we have now.) The problem with that is blending all of them together, and how that affects your playing. If you are holding your stomach that is its own uninterruptible animation, so can you not shoot or swing your weapon during that? Wheras you would realistically be able to fire your weapon and take cover, even if you were having stomach cramps. I just don't think its so simple, but I'd like to hear more.

Zeds aren't finished. Expect them to be completely redone, in the meantime provide feedback about how you want them to behave in the future and provide backup as to why instead of ranting. Cheers.

A studio like BI isn't a machine that writes code and generates assets faster the more money you shove into the slot. People need to do these things, and you can't hire 10 programmers to bugfix the same couple of lines of code. You can't hire 10 artists to work on the same asset. The biggest problem with early access is that uninformed people are given an inside look whilst they are used to seeing only the end product. Its not a fucking high horse its the way things are.

No it isn't. Clearly other people can. Strafe in circles and watch for the blood splashes in first person, adjust your aim accordingly. Not rocket science.

I wish people would be more inventive or interesting when stealing my shit. :/ The only time I thought I was subject to an interesting bandit experience the guys actually just held me at gun point until they were done looting Green Mountain, then they let me pick my weapons back up and left.

Here's his response when I asked about it: I was very disappointed. :c

If I ever start my server up again I think I'll have to rename it from the Balota Book Exchange to the Berezino Book Exchange.