FrankDaTank1218 (DayZ)

Why are people SOOOO against Military gear and PVP? Its a survival game I got it, you guys said it a million times. What's your idea of survival? Everyone being lovey-dovey friends? Killing zombies with their pure friendship? No, PVP is part of survival. Its should be supported but have its pro's and con's. And people's logic against armed vehicles? You keep saying "No armored vehicles!", I never suggested armored vehicles. I suggested technicals, MG UAZ's, and Humvees with M240's that have exposed gunners. They are not bulletproof, they are not armored, and they are by NO MEANS tanks. These Car's MG's would also need ammo boxes that would be rare, so it wouldn't be possible to camp the shore with seemingly unlimited MG ammo, you would have to be conservative with ammo as always. And to people saying armed vehicles, and even military gear in general, is "unrealistic" are ,honestly, fucking morons. How is assault rifles, snipers, combat shotguns, LMG's, and SMG's and armed vehicles being present in an eastern european region with multiple military installations "unrealistic"? Like I implied, its because some people are mad that the game isn't full of completely trusting, generous carebears. Wanting that in a "zombie-survival" game? THAT is unrealistic. PVP and banditry have their place, deal with it, if you keep getting killed by it (I have MANY times), just deal with it.

Really? A truck with a gun in the back is undefeatable without rockets? Someon is too bad of a shot to hit drivers and gunners.

I live in Florida and its thunderstorm season, I get forcefully disconnected all the time, would this be counted as an ALT F4 d/c by the Hive in this anti ALT F4 system?

This, and have tents show the number of slots as well.

Goal: Create a winning formula that creates tension and fun, and then deliberately ruin it to upset the community all for the sake of "experimentation". Examples: Create a stable build with a fulfilling diversity of features in 1.7.1.5, where persistence, AI, and community enjoyment are at a satisfactory and balanced level. Then, rather than simply attempt to polish the "winning build", proceed to change the game to unstable build with more bugs and game-breaking difficulty as a result of those bugs just to add in Bear Traps and give people with low end hardware a 5 frames-per-second boost . Basically this equates to the belief in the naive, failure-prone doctrine of "Ambition over basic functionality". In addition, create a rather cruel and unfun scenario of spawning with no weapons while simultaneously having to deal with poorly coded zombies, that despite being half-brain-dead meat puppets, are able to very quickly and accurately see and react to human beings moving in a stealthy manner up to 100 meters away in a very unrealistic way which should be viewed as a complete failure for a "simulator". To allow further belittling of "noobs" and those who have understandably died in this very harsh, unfair, and unrealistically hazardous environment, not only are trolls allowed to simply block people from quality loot effortlessly with barbed wire that is too glitched to be able to remove (the prompt for someone with a toolkit to remove wire does not come up 90% the time and requires one to be in the exact spot and angle to look at the single polygon on the fence that brings up the "remove fence" context sensitive action) , bear traps now allow players to outright kill players with no effort simply because they are troll-minded and find enjoyment from ruining people's fun, they do not gain anything from it,besides the satisfaction of ruining someone's fun and it requires no survival skill. Defense methodology for naysayers: Simply respond to all blatantly valid criticisms and complaints with statements along the lines of "its an alpha shut up, I'm in charge" along with the followers of the mod who are stupid enough to believe that this is an acceptable form of logic. And label anyone with reasonable issues with the unrealistic difficulty curve as "carebears" and belittle them. In summary, the plan suffers from being overly ambitious, having very poor priorities, and honestly, a sense of enjoyment from frustrating the playerbase. While I will admit I do not posses the potential coding and developing skills of the mod creator, I do posses the prioritization and common sense (not saying much and is hardly flexing my ego, only very basic prioritization and common sense would be required) that would allow for one to properly make this mod with minimal frustration and dips in quality gameplay experience.

How am I butthurt? How am I crying? The only thing I am a bit upset with is the overwhelming hostility from the community. I am criticizing the game, perhaps you are truly butthurt for lashing out because someone criticized your precious DayZ.

Troll?

I read the replies, most of them just tell me "its an alpha" acting like that's an excuse for ANY failings of the development team. Or they just call me names like troll or idiot when I have VALID criticisms. Once again, like in most areas of the internet, if someone doesn't like what you say, they will convince themselves you are wrong, regardless of how much evidence and logic supports otherwise.

I have responded to that excuse because hordes of you guys brought it up. What? Just because I didn't reply to YOU you're gonna ignore it? The glitches can be justified by it being an early build, the horrible prioritization of what is put into updates, and the fact that many updates cause the game experience and quality to go WAY backwards is not justified by it being Alpha, its just bad development.

Uh, they are just mindless human beings, they should run as fast and coordinated as humans or worse, not jitter around like they are stuck in some sped up time-warp.

So you believe "The game function on a basic level=hand-holding"? Like I said I have no problems with harsh games that don't guide you, I have been playing/enjoying the ARMA series for years. You are just trying to imply the same insult that many others bully me with "this games too hardcore? Cry moar and go back to Call Of Duty noob!". You guys really can't look at yourselves and see how overly angry, defensive, and insulting you are being all over me criticizing your mod? What could be more childish than that?

Well seeing how this isn't a retail game I don'rt see how that is a valid comparison.

Okay people stop with this "Where are these impossible zeds? I don't see them this guy must be bad at the game", in the comparatively short time I have played 1.7.2, I have had numerous instances zombies see me in excess of 50 meters while I was prone.

He sad he wants to frustrate us and his detrimentally bad development decisions have done just that. What else needs to be said? BTW that AK is actually a converted Saiga 7.62x39mm and its VERY SWEET I recommend it.

You cannot dismiss anything I said as untrue and I was criticize it. How is that crying? It isn't. Here is what's really going on: "I really really like Dayz and practically worship it in a very zealous manner. This guy is criticizing it and he's right, all attempts to logically dismiss him have failed, it is now time to throw the words bitch, crybaby, carebear, casual, noob, whiner and idiot at him until he somehow thinks he is wrong so he slinks away and shuts up because we have successfully bullied him into thinking we are right."

Rocket himself has said that among other things, he is trying to generate frustration from players. So I would say I have a good understanding of THE TRUTH.

Why? This exact thing has happened multiple times in this thread alone. People are WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too defensive of this mod.

What world do you live in? All I see here is hostility towards ALL criticism.

No, in Arma 2 I could always: -Get into the majority of servers with my mods (or at first lack thereof) and version with no problems. -Not have the game GREATLY fluctuate in quality from update-to-update. -Not have numerous actions randomly cause deaths and complete loss of gear -Not have the game randomly be ruined next time I get into it -Not have trolls be able to 100% dominate and control me like Barbed Wire. -Not numerously have my progress be suddenly and inexplicably be erased by actions from the CREATOR OF THE GAME THEMSELVES. -Not deal with people getting ulcers every time I criticize the game.

Let's analyze: "Dude, no-one is forcing you to play this." True, but by what convuluted logic this immunizes the game from criticism is beyond me. "But you don't to get what's going on here - we're all testers in a project, which will one day - hopefully - become a fully-fledged game." We are players too, this is a mod with dreams of retail, not a retail test, and mods are expected to have some level of quality when purposely released to the public and are ALLOWED TO BE CRITICIZED! "It can't be 'broken' as you describe, because it's not even been built yet. It's being built as we speak; you're literally watching the walls go up around you." 1.7.1.5 didn't seem too broken, but 1.7.2 plunged the mod backwards in quality, something that should be allowed to evoke criticism. "Usually, Alpha tests are done behind closed doors. I have no idea why, but this is being tested in the open. The only thing you can be in response to that is grateful. I have to say, that's not how you're coming across." That's because those are alpha trails for FULL RETAIL GAMES, and not mods. "If you don't have the patience for what's going on here, then fine. I would posit that it's your loss." I have patience, I just am frustrated by unnecessary, simply avoidable backwards progress in quality at the expense of the enjoyment I was previously having. Basically, patience has nothing to do with tolerance for stupid, criticism-worthy, mistakes. You obviously prefer Arma, so go play that. Nobody's going to miss you and with 500,000 other testers, your loss won't even be noticed. More hostility and alienation for criticizing you "beloved" Dayz. Perhaps you should build a shrine to the game if you worship it enough to be that defensive.

1. You increasingly and unnecessary hostile response to my criticisms is childish and simply proves my point of the shroud of blatant over-defensiveness put around Dayz. 2. This is not an unfinished retail product, this a mod deliberately release to the public with the intent of quality and success that may very well someday become a retail game . It may be a work in progress, but it is not an Alpha trial of a retail product and the progress of this "work in progress" has been stunted and often completely reversed by bad design/development decisions at the expense of people's enjoyment and that warrants some criticism.

Glitchy, yes, arguably its very glitchy. Broken? No.

This is a poorly made mod with ENORMOUS POTENTIAL that may someday become a full game, it is not a full game in developement, its installed like a mod, distributed like a mod, and from a software stabndpoint, behaves like a mod. EVERY OTHER MOD is entitled to criticism, but Dayz is put on an untouchable pedestal by its creators and its fanboy forum commandos.

Bro the game is broken, and I am a longtime Arma and original Operation Flashpoint ( I learned the Opflash editor before most kids master long division) vet who has no qualms with playing a WELL MADE brutally realistic game. Like I posted, the best retort you guys can come up with "Ur a casuwal gaming biotch, its in alpha so dat means they can make da game as bad as dey want u criebaybee!! Sak up dood!"