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Nope! It's quite clear! No later than 2 months after E3 and they have a general week they want to release it! There IS no confusion. If people are confused then they have just misunderstood. That's all! So we're all clear. Unless you have any other questions? No infidels. Promise.

Oh did it get pushed back again? From what date? Edit: And you're right. They are doing a full public release of the alpha!

Why wouldn't you get to run it!? Your parts will be in soon and you'll be good to go!

You're right! Good point.

On the contrary I think the point is they want to REMAIN confident in their product.

I think in the Standalone though you have to hold a button to even raise your weapon. By default it's down and wants to be down. Just a minor stance change that could make a difference. Correct me if I'm wrong though, I can't remember 100% if that's the new default in the standalone.

Haha best just to not expect anything at all and distract yourself with something else!

I think the point I've made is that they've repeatedly said that there aren't a heck of a lot of goodies right now and they've shown us the "goodies" that are currently workable. Of course, there are probably new things added every day but it just isn't their job to show us everything that's going on all the time. Far from being because they want to generate "hype" I think it's more like they have more important work to do. If that's hype then I guess they're a hype machine.

The only people who were hyped up were the people who didn't listen to any sentence after that. When he first said "window of about a week" I was confused too and then he elaborated and it was quite clear. For some people it wasn't, and that's fine but once they came here or went to whatever reliable DayZ source they had, they could be told to watch the video again and there is no mistaking what he meant. And he has already said no more than two months. Which still stands. People have to stop blaming others for their own misunderstandings. If you're making the point that Rocket is trying to hype the game then you haven't watched enough videos on the standalone's development. "Yeah this needs to be fixed. This needs to be fixed too. We'll get around to fixing that as well. It's pretty buggy right now. People shouldn't expect much from the Alpha release. We're definitely looking to add that later on. We're definitely looking to add that later on. We're definitely looking to add that later on. We're not setting a date and rushing the game. We're not setting a date and rushing the game." - Rocket. Every video. There is no hype coming from the development's side.

No. Actually the only people who "know what you meant" are people who also thought there were multiple release dates. Am I missing something? There was LITERALLY only one release time frame blown and that was back and December and it was blown for a good reason. Since then there has been nothing. I'm serious, please elaborate on what you mean.

Well from what I hear it's being offered by a vendor in a moon colony of one of the planets orbiting Vega (of the constellation Lyra). Ask for a guy named Ted. I don't think he's liable for any 4th dimension risks such as the warping of time or space that may or may not leave you stranded in a parallel universe.

Psst. Balota Buddies. Link in my signature. Kirk out.

Yarr! Aye matey! Me tanks ya for thee links! P.S. triggy89 your signature (the harsh reality) is why I recently went out and bought a new build. Here's to females! Cheers! I'msolonely.

I believe I clarified at the beginning of my post that you hoped DayZ could develop into your dream game. And don't act like my condescending tone came out of nowhere. I'll gladly take on a condescending tone if someone comes in here complaining, yet they admit to being willfully ignorant about what they are complaining about. That's a ridiculous way to be about anything. Contrary to what you believe this board is full of great people and it's a very friendly and helpful community. I don't think it's too much to ask that people hold their judgments and complaints until they are informed. You don't have to "live and breathe this shit" to know that no release date has been given. If you feel there has been one given, you could first clarify before being critical. No one here will give you a hard time simply for not knowing something and asking. And I think you should bear in mind that this game will be an Alpha release, so it's going to be full of issues that need tweaking. You're lucky enough to be able to be a part of shaping the game to how you think it should be. So before you start losing faith in the pre-released alpha version, you could await the alpha and eagerly provide constructive feedback to help mold the game into its final identity.

Exactly! All that sort of thing can be adjusted and even taken out of the game if necessary. That's why constructive feedback will be important when the Alpha is released to the public :)

The self-entitlement is strong with this one. You led yourself to believe that you would be playing this game by now because absolutely no one who would officially be able to set a release date has said you would be playing it by now. You're hoping DayZ can be your dream game, yet you can't devote 40 minutes (or much less) a couple times a month to informing yourself about it. Then you come here fuming about WRONG information. Then you acknowledge that you don't really pay that much attention to the information coming out now. Alright. My first piece of advice to you is a piece of life advice: If you're going to be critical and emotional about something, first acknowledge how much you actually know about it and consider taking a more neutral approach. My second piece of advice: <--- Start watching that or a channel like it since your time is too precious for informing yourself about your dream game. My math tells me that if all the videos are around that length you'll only have to devote 16 minutes a month to paying attention to DayZ news.

Yeah but what does that have to do with some unarmed guy being shot by someone with an AS50 camping a big city?? I'm not really complaining, though. KOS is an important part of the game I just wish it was less unanimous that it's the only way to play. I do take issue with arguments in favour of it based on ideas like "itz apawcalipse peeple kill evry1" EDIT: @TheDesigner yeah I'm whitelisted on Balota Buddies and there is a lot of KOS but it's (usually) of a different nature. Someone killed me on sight last night and they came onto my teamspeak channel and were like "Holy shit you scared the hell out of us." I guess I wandered in front of them heading East-West while they were going North-South and all of a sudden I was right there. It was a good kill and it was like I was all of a sudden being ambushed so it was exciting. I get KOS like once a day but then I'll play with the people who killed me all night the next day. It's more of a nice community feel.

It's a good question but I think they'll just use the term completely arbitrarily. One day they'll just be like "Alright, we're going into Beta." Then again, that's assuming your criteria for Alpha and Beta are correct. I don't know if there are very technical definitions of when something is Alpha or Beta.

I can't understand why players have this preconceived notion that complete strangers wouldn't be friendly during an apocalyptic event. Because, you know, humans have a long history of struggling to survive completely independently. :rolleyes:

First of all, I'm not that great. I'm a bad shooter. I can gear up pretty well but I mostly just panic when I get shot at. I'm fine at the game in general, I just can't PvP. I wanted to tell a story, however. I got shot at so I went into a shed and laid down, looking out the door to a hill. I saw someone come onto the screen and before I can even react I was dead. It turned out it was Inception. It was one of my top two deaths as it was quite impressive. Very fast, very painless. I hadn't even finished my thought "Ok now just take aim aaaaaand..." before I had to disconnect and respawn.

I think he's calm. I think "discriminating" was another word he picked because he had trouble finding the right one. He's saying that he thinks people would be more patient and understanding if they had more of an idea of what's going on. Not that they're being completely unreasonable. To this I'd say that the development team has been quite open about what they're working on and what they're planning on working on. There's no reason they need to update us every day on what they're doing. Just have some confidence in them, be patient, and remember that there is nothing requiring them to tell anybody anything and they don't mind if some people are mad enough about that to not play the game.

I'm going to echo what a few people have talked about on here. My frustration with KOS is never with the death. I die like once a day. It's more that KOS is so bad (I'm sure it's worse on some servers than others) that it takes a lot of diversity of experience out of the game. In a sandbox type game that diversity is important. It's safe to assume that when you see someone they will kill you if you interact with them. The game has come to the point where seeing someone and thinking "what's going to happen?" is just not practical. Which is unfortunate. I get why it happens though. KOS the easiest thing to do because it doesn't require thinking. Point and shoot, go about your day. I think the majority of people think like this (don't think much) in real life and when it comes to video games the mentality is driven by the last decade's proliferation of first person shooters. It's so mindless so I think what happens is when people expect a more sophisticated or at least new experience in DayZ, they're let down by the fact that it ends up being like every other first person shooter. That's my take!

I have no idea why Steak and Taters hasn't been given at least a suspension yet. The dude is never to the point, never straight forward, and never helpful.

Yeah I can see how people would be confused initially. My first thought when he was saying the whole "week timeframe" thing was that it would be within the week. But then he elaborated and I was like oooooh they have a "release week". Then if you actually read the thread where it's clarified what he means there are no excuses. After following the standalone development for this long I have concluded I could never be a game developer. I couldn't handle the general public misquoting and misunderstanding me constantly. LUCKILY I've never had the intention of doing so. So I can leave that to the patient and talented individuals :)

I guess I'm really naive, but I can't believe how many times this has had to be clarified already. I don't know if it's a language barrier or people just don't listen. Either way it has to stop.