DarkwaveDomina

It's the range your weapon is set to in metres, use page-up/down to change it based on your target distance to ensure the best possible accuracy.

I haven't tried the latest patch on experimental but I'm not going to hold my breath for this. :P

You will not lose your current progress but you will have a fresh character on experimental, as they are on different hives. It's just like if you were switching between hardcore and regular on the stable branch.You can still use the stable servers but you'll have to change the option back in Steam, this will result in a small (depending on what you consider small) download as it switches version but you won't have to download the whole game again.In my experience the servers on experimental are usually completely rammed and at peak times there can be a shortage of loot, your mileage may vary.

The man plans to leave when he is no longer needed, as in at all, and he wants to go back to his family. On Reddit he essentially said that residing in the Czech Republic for much longer would be akin to seeking citizenship there (for most EU countries this can occur after five years of residence). Can't you guys just be grateful that he plans to see it through to beta and that he trusts the team can do anything he can do and follow his example? In the statement I quoted he seems very confident that he's embedded a certain culture in to the team, if you trust him as much as you seem then you'll trust the other ~30 members of the dev team to continue growing DayZ as it was intended. Edit: And before I'm accused of being some sort of fanboy again because I am trusting the team, that is not to say I won't be annoyed and vocal about it if they screw up. I still expect the game to be completed and to live up to the expectations we have been given, it's just too early to write it off.

It's how I choose to label this mass hysteria and such, quite poignant I think.

If he thinks DayZ is a poorly conceived idea that's his prerogative, I happen to disagree with him and clearly so do many others judging from the response he's gotten, but at least he is still going to stick with it through the alpha phase and leave it in capable hands. They could just have easily have chosen to can the project entirely and that would have been a dick move. Seriously, your 'internet outrage' is seriously wasted on this non-issue.

I am no libertarian, but I completely agree with your reasoning here. I don't understand it either.

I'm going to quote the man himself:

I'm not even going to ask what makes you think this because I think we both know you pulled it out of thin-air. The question I am posting to ask you is this: What makes you think the team members working on features are the same team members working on stability?

They have a point, I already explained what it is. Now you have changed your argument from "point" to "practical purpose" though, sure, they do nothing that is actually productive in any way, what's wrong with that though? It could be said that you posting in this thread serves no practical purpose, you're just killing time right?

A lot of people find it fun to collect them and badges are a good vanity item, especially if you like a game enough to go for them. That's the point. There's also no reason to oppose them as people have already said, I could make a set of Steam trading cards for DayZ myself in about half an hour.

Being at such an early stage of development, there's no reason to assume you won't be able to use your axe on a tree to get wood or forage for rocks in the future.

This is what I mean when I keep saying people don't read. He's leaving at the end of the year.Alpha is scheduled to be over at the end of the year.Why are you so blind to fail to see the words on the screen in font of you?

"Hurr hurr Domina is such a Rocket fanboi, hurr hurr." Didn't I tell you to go find the posts in which I criticise him if you care so much? Even the mods have noticed them so I'm surprised you didn't. At least change the record, calling me a fanboi doesn't refute anything I have been posting today.

The way you're acting makes a very petty, very small part of me quite happy. You're in full forum rage mode and acting like a complete something-the-mods-won't-like-me-saying, but in the end no matter how many posts you make or how much you stamp your feet BI already have your money for this project, you staying or leaving is completely inconsequential at this point. Luckily for you development will continue, the grown up part of me (which I like to think is by far most of me) sincerely hopes you can look back on these posts in a year and think "wow, I was such a muppet when I wrote a hundred posts of pure nonsense, the game is actually getting along quite nicely and I am having fun playing DayZ". You know that's actually quite ironic considering how often I see "africanhungergames liked a post you made" in my notifications, it's funny how rage-mode some people can get just because you disagree with them on one issue. I don't even know what you are on about here, I am pretty sure I have given him beans and replied to his posts on numerous occasions, though I don't do that for every post I like or I'd be forever giving beans and replying to people.

You just can't stop talking bollocks, can you.

That second link was just sad to read. We have people like that in this very community.

You're still acting like I'm some Rocket fanboi after me explaining to you that I have actually criticised him a lot lately, I'd recommend going and finding those posts if you actually care that much about what I think of Rocket. Something tells me you won't, it's just easier to act like anyone who disagrees with you is a fanboi and gets your post count up in the process.

It's hard to tell in this thread with some of the crazy predictions people are coming out with. :D

I hope you're making a parody of the doom posts, because if you're serious it's a shame. I usually like your posts in general. Edit: And I just knew pacific_coast would have redirected blood flow over it. You'd actually think he was enjoying this news, despite claiming to be upset by it.

You claimed the alpha wasn't going to be finished, despite the fact that it's only Dean leaving and the project isn't being canned. That was a knee-jerk reaction. And believe me, I removed what I said for the benefit of making the mods' lives easier and because I don't like having a meltdown at people. No other reason. I normally wouldn't quote a whole post with so many lines, just pick out the main point to make my reply, but your post (and all the others you keep making today) are exactly what I am talking about so I'm going to frame it here for posterity. You feel slightly let down? That's fine, I will miss Dean myself, but the rest of your post? Why do you feel ripped off? Not only were you warned not to buy the game, you have probably got your money's worth out of it. That's not to say it shouldn't be finished, it should, which brings me to my next point: You people are acting like the world is ending. The project isn't being cancelled, it's going to be worked on by the same people who have been working on it since the inception of standalone, yet you seem to take every opportunity to attack them and claim they'll screw it up. Then why stay? You keep saying it'll be left with a skeleton crew who will screw it up, you're talking about the current team when you say that even if you don't realise it, so why stay? You're so certain this game is going to become a shambles, fine, if I were thinking that way I know what I'd do. I did criticise the intelligence of some of the members of this forum, not all, and I stand by it. The ones who clearly cannot read and launch in to full-scale, knee-jerk conspiracy theories and rants are the kind of members who I feel won't be missed, not just on the forums but probably in-game.

Dean is staying 10 months, when beta is scheduled to begin. He is also leaving the other ~30 members of the team working on it. Edit: I decided to remove that part of my post. If you saw it, I stand by it, I just don't like having a meltdown and snapping at people even if I do think it's entirely justified. Seriously, please read things before having a knee-jerk reaction and assuming the worst because the forums have enough of it right now.

Maybe what you need is less weed, because he's staying for 10 months (when beta is scheduled to begin) and is leaving the rest of the team to work on it.

These posters getting mad and leaving (if they leave) is totally fine with me, if they're this way on the forums I can only imagine how they are in-game. We have around 40,000 concurrent players every day at peak time, that's more people than play Gmod. We can afford to lose a few people who freak out completely and utterly over something like this because they don't understand the simple reasoning behind it. If they are the kind of person to make up conspiracy theories about how Dean is abandoning the project and running off with our cash, like some sort of thief in the night with sacks that have dollar signs on, they're probably not contributing much of worth. He said he's going to work on it for as long as he is needed. If you trust Dean so much, why not accept that at this point he believes the dev team he picked can be trusted to take over in 10 months time? I trust him on this, and I trust the dev team since they have been working on this game since before SA released.