Hysterics

I mean come on, it's not even going to ever be what it was while it was a mod. It was highly popular and a great experience. I played a few DayZ mods using DayZ Commander, I think one was called "Echo" I dunno but it added a fair amount of functionality to the game including an in game currency and traders, vaults, and various other structures. Maybe that's not what the majority of people want from DayZ but that mod whatever it was called was wildly successful and very popular back then. That was five years ago. Now coming back checking into the game periodically I see absolutely nothing done, minor cosmetic changes, new glitches then claims of them fixing said glitches as if that's somehow productive. They're creating problems then solving them and acting as if that's progress... I don't buy it. This is a scam, outright. They took advantage of the name brand and BIs name, as well as the EA system, and tarnished all of it. DayZ will from what I can see never be a finished game. Even if it technically finishes the graphics and general gameplay will feel incredibly dated; they already do. There's really no excuse for this sort of development process.

And morons pointing out that it's in Alpha, yeah it's been in Alpha for a very long time. That's not an excuse anymore especially since when you load up the game they tell you it'll continue to be in Alpha for the foreseeable future... This is how you kill a game, not how you create a game. They know that they've got all the money they're ever going to make off this, even if it leaves alpha there's not going to be a surge of people buying it, and that's why the game is as it is. They don't give a fuck. They have no reason to give a fuck. You people give more of a shit than they do.

What's insulting is how egocentric these Devs are. They don't give two shits about DayZ or the community that supported DayZ and made it as popular as it *was*. It's no longer popular for very good reason. They've taken about five years too long to come up with something that even compares to what the old mod was. This is utter horseshit. The game is in my opinion utterly unplayable. I can't even tell if a server is dead when entering, you can't see how many are online, and zombies are disabled so you have absolutely nothing to compete with other than the weather........ This is what we get after five years of waiting, and purchasing Arma2 for the DayZ mod and then the Stand Alone. I deserve a fucking refund on the Stand Alone because this shit is next level scam artist bullshit. I can't believe they still have you ignorant neckbeards defending it and going so far as to insult players who suggest they use UE4 to speed the god damned process up, not to mention make the game look significantly better. Ark uses UE4 and has very similar in game systems to DayZ and while it has it's issues it looks infinitely better than DayZ, the inventory systems are infinitely better than DayZ, and flying around on a fast dinosaur is a significantly better experience than the bullshit you deal with while driving in DayZ. This game is a joke, and so is anyone who defends it at this point.

Seriously you guys can not let 330 votes make you remove this gun.

This gun is hardly a sniper. It's range ends around 400 meters, and is very tricky to aim properly at that range. It can be used to snipe, but you could hide out in obscure spots with a generic AK and snipe just the same. You people will always complain no matter what, get with reality and realize that it's not the gun that kills people, it's the douchebag that hides in a third story window for twenty minutes until you walk by that kills you, and those types of players will always exist, even if we only had hatchets to attack one another with. Hide around a corner in the dark and jump out at you. It's not the guns, it's the playstyle some people choose. Stop bitching and ruining the gameplay for the rest of us because you can't conform to a reality of FPS's. I do agree that in a game like DayZ, having anti material sniper rifles that shoot from 1600 meters and two shots most vehicles is a tad overkill though. :)

I also really dislike how many people are basing their opinions on "duping". Basically you're saying "This gun should be permanently removed from the game due to a short term bug that will eventually be fixed." That's just really really really daft in my opinion.

This is ridiculous, you're letting a forum vote at this point in the games devolopment decide whether one of the best guns in the game will be around? Honestly, most of the long time Day Z fans are just waiting for the stand alone at this point, a lot of us don't frequent the forum daily anymore. My input, guns like the L8 add a form of progression to your gearing up process. They're very rare, unless you're playing on shitty servers that have a ton of dupers, personally I play on servers where I've only seen maybe one or two cases of hacking/duping in well over a month. So please don't use that as a reason, it's not legitimate. I mean you start off usually find a pistol, eventually get a shotgun or ak or something generic, eventually find some nicer guns, etc etc, the L8 is like top tier. Remove that and you're just left with generic shit. There has to be an aspect of progression I think, without it the game feels very two dimensional. Please do not remove this amazing gun based on forum banter. You don't have nearly enough total votes here, comsidering your fan base size, in order to remove something that in my opinion is a huge aspect of the game. I've used the L8 plenty, and while I will not downplay how awesome the Thermal is, if you're using it by yourself it can be very tricky to utilize properly, it's more suited for team based play in my opinion. I'm trying to say that it's not in and of itself uber powerful, you need team work and coordination as well.

You should download a Zapp Brannigan sound board.

I like how he says "I should really start cheating too" Then the next paragraph he says "Or I could go back to playing legit." This kid either already hacks, or is just too stupid to figure out how.

Its funny though how most of you have no fucking clue how hacks even work. They use a program that makes BattleEye completely useless, a "Bypasser" these Bypassers are fixed by BattleEye every few days, and when they're fixed they get a group of players banned before the hackers come out with another ByPasser. Rinse and repeat. So if they could stealthily fix the Bypass, at the same time as a hive wipe, there would be a huge amount of script kiddies banned.

BattleEye and the Hives need to work together. The second BattleEye breaks the hackers "BattleEye Bypassers" they need to tell whoever is in charge of the hives to wipe them. Bam a ton of hackers will try and dupe items, but their ByPassers will be broken, and they'll all be caught. The only reason hackers still exist is because these guys are fucking moron slackers with no idea how to handle this stuff.

You might as well make a thread "Who wants to come kill me?" Enjoy. The majority of DayZ'rs these days are complete pricks.

Or maybe you're full of shit, as you're the only person I've seen say that "It's fine". I'm the same as the OP, lost every vehicle I've tried saving. I save multiple times, like upwards of ten times in a row. Server restart = Vehicle gone. There's no point to playing this game unless you're just going around killing other people. You can't save progress in any way shape or form, and no matter how much time you spend proning around looking for survival gear, it's only a matter of time until a hacker makes you drop from the sky to your death, looting your hard earned gear. This game is so fucking broken, I wish it wasn't such a fun game. Maybe I'd stop coming to the forums to check up on things if that was the case. Unfortunately it's a great and highly addictive game. Just sucks that it's completely fucking broken. I opened a door yesterday, and it broke my leg. COOL STORY BRO. Can't say how many times I've had zombies end up getting me because I had to aim some fucking bizarre angle at the door to even get the "open door" thing to pop up. How many times I've climbed up a ladder, simply to fall all the way down once I reach the top. Yet they're trying to ADD stuff to the game before fixing all the incredibly game breaking stuff. Awesome. Yeah fuck it.

Kind of off topic, but could be related to some people finding these hacked items at crash sites; I've had hackers follow me around and actually help me. I had one guy fix a Ural for me lol... I dunno people are getting bored I think, hard to say what's what.

Dense responses like this make my forum posting enjoyable... I'm not justifying anything, I'm trying to say that the reason we have so many hackers are because so many people are fed up with the game, and don't even care if they get banned.