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not further from the truth. your thinking more along the terms of beta. Many games dont even alloow the comunity to play test during alpha. many have a handfull of staff play test key features with most of the game missing during alpha's.

the way i see it spec the game for mid range, but dont hard cap view distance. if someone wants to run a $2500+ PC build that can run max render distance with everything on high they have a right to use it. That said i can run 25-30FPS on stable @ default with a ~$800-900 build. sorry but im just a wage laborer and cant drop nearly a months imcome into a pimp meachine :P

This is one of the many many issues associated with only allowing pre-installed servers thru thier "approved providers". It means that while you may secheduale or choose one thing theres nothing to stop your provider from doing something also. Atleast with the mod we had the option of installing our own copy of server instance and A2 onto a windows server and had root & access to windows desktop of the server and alll process running on it. (this also oppend up the posibility for 3rd party logging and anti-cheat tools useful for catching server hop abusers, combat logging, etc)

engraved 1911 doesnt have the range. me no likey getting cloes to players.

modders. soon as modding happens well have the ability to build fortresses like epoch. walling off entire compunds and vehicles... infact the vehicles already work. funny- people with pirated copies can play unofficial builds with working modded in UAZ and infact all the vehicles from the mod. but those of us with legit copies are screwed with "rockets vision". gee thanks. modded private hives were the best thing to happen to the mod and they'll only be 100x better then offical build of the SA too. In the mean time while there is only one rendition of the SA the forum wars between different play styles will continue for sure :P

Interesting point you brought up there. I think people often forget how small a cross-section forums are of a game's total community. I remember while working on a mod project (one of the first i had gotten involved with) i had a heated argument with the project leader over his refusal to include a feature the "forum warriors" were spamming petitons for. Even taking it on my own to write the code for it over a weekend and say "see it took me 3 days theres NO REASON to no include it when everyone wants it". It was at this point i was introduced to an interesting fact and linked to several blogs and other forums with threads about or little project- ones where people had sworn they would not even try it if that feature was in! Suddenly i got it- Forums are a Vocal majority, but a numerical MINORITY of the over-all player base. generally exlcuding all the people who dont speak the project's native language, or simply dont bother registering for forums. Completely off topic but thought that worth bringing up considering the last few posts :P

Im all for this if they can get it *officially* integrated in a propper manner that doesnt result in delayed flickering/popping/etc. basicly it needs to be fully prolished and perhaps ignore terrain/vegetation for the reasons mentioned earlier with running in the woods. No people need to stop trying to make everyon play the game according to thier own vision. I will rejoice the day modders get free reign and private hives return. then i'll never have to wait for rocket to piroritize features i like, just play a mod that does (Ie clan play focus, Bases, vehicles, etc). my bottom line tho; THERE IS A REASON YOU HAVE HARDCORE MODE, USE IT AND LEAVE EVERYONE ELSE ALONE. removing 3pp is a easy out for devs rather then simply changing camera position.

only reason people object to it is because its useful for PvP.

Yes it would just be de centralized in the apocalypse. literally neighbors shootign eachother over bread based on which side they went with...

Best explination/solution ever. In the post-apoclaypse people will factionalize and militarize in groups pure and simple its been seen in ever major societal collapse in history. Some times along racial lines, along religious lines, blood lines, etc but you always end up with factions led by warloards fighting over dwindling resources using those previously stated reasons to justify continues violence in an attempt to hoarde resources. With that said, the idea that "this isn't a military sim" goes out the window. Military equipment will last for some time especially guns and land vehicles like Hummvees, trucks, even APCs. those wont require extensive maitenances while just sitting around. the problem, as you pointed out is the "gamey" slot based system used for the mod. Rater- let players have effectively infinate slots and the limits restricted by max VOLUME in a compartment and total weight of kit. the heavier you are the shorter you can travel before needing to stop and rest, use more watter, and move slower. if we do all that extremely OP weapons can be in as rare spawns- but if you want any kind of defensive capability you'll have to work as a GROUP. let people have thier M107s- and since they can't carry anything else without passing out after 3 mins of jogging let them also convince people to carry thier food, water, medical, and extra ammo while sittring around guarding the sniper who is only carrying his one man shoulder arty.

meh? dayZ is and always will be a PvP game. simple as. hopefull when tis released modders will have thier awesome way with it and well have 40 different variations so everyone can play what THEY enjoy. That will put a stop to all this "OMG THAT DOESNT FIT MY PLAYSTYLE" threads. in the meantime i say adapt and overcome. please try to add things that stop PvP so i can defy them and then turn it around as a sick way to troll those why cry about being killed xD

Confirming that the Mosin is indeed the sexiest piece of hardware in the SA unless your basicly in clubbing range.

^ Eaxctly. I can take serious things serious. I can do my job at work, etc. I can also be a drunken moron while playing video games for FUN. sometimes just "going with it" and having a laugh is way more enjoyable then trying to be mature. Edit: to qote a friend of mine "Being mature doesnt mean always pretending that immature things arent funny, Its being able to appreciate both immature things and serious ones at the apropiate times"

I like how that roadmap eluded to Private hives and letting the comunity "run with it" later :)

Epic poo thread is epic. Also to the whole gross factor chasing away female players.. really? are we all like 10 yrs old? Theres already vomiting sounds and what not. is that not gorss? I know atleast a dozen female dayZ players, my wife included- and im pretty sure most of them wouldn't hinge thier choice to play this game on rather or not theres a pooping animation that your character does every now and again. How it effects gameplay? sure. How big of an inconvienece it my be being forced to do it at the worst possible time? sure. but just because thiers an animation that eludes to doing something "gross"? not at all. As for me? I dont really care one way or another. it wont hurt the game for me if its there because its just one more immature thing i can crack crude jokes about in TS with my mates while playing drunk. Im 25 and i still think Sex, race, and poop jokes are funny- especially with beer. deal with it xD

That last bit, so much so. If your foced to deal with other players its no so bad. the problem with Epochs' apporach atleas from a true dayZ player's view point is that it means you can basily just cycle a ural full of "rubish loot" sell it to the trader and leave with a Blackhawk packing miniguns. A few things SA could do with it to take advantage of whats been learned without all the draw backs; 1. Get rid of the gold bars concept entirely. its there to make an easily quantifiable currency for the sake of coding the AI traders. P2P trading barter sysetm ONLY. 2. I like thier system for crafting multiple of one into a larger version of the same thing and sysetm for base building using this meathod. However, remove the whole plot pole/ownership mechanics. no one is going to respect your ownership of anything in the apocalypse unless your standing there with a gun. 3. No super-advanced vehicles like blackhawks, Hinds, etc. they wont remain operational for long in the apocalypse and even if a few individuals had the training to maintain thier intricate electronics or turbojet engines, finding the precision engineered parts (often built in various factories hundreds or tousands of miles away) required would be nearly impossible. 4. Vehicles based on more more primitive designs (such as those common in 3rd world countries with simple Internal comubstion engines and early diesel engines) would be somewhat manageable for a civillian with some mechanical background to maintain. aditionally simpler designs allow "back country enginnering" or... fashioning of simpler parts from materials avilable. 5. Any helicopters should be based on early designs for the same reasons above. a civilian worked as an mechanic or perhaps even an aircraft mechanic could concievably maintai simpler helis that are more akin to ultra-lights then modern choppers. (think ver early vietnam era prior to the advent of the huey)

not sure whats worse. the stance or the fact he cant keep sight pegs aligned and thus needs a rds (or holo? hard to tell) on his pistol

Console FPS pro right there LOL.... however framerate is way to high for a console xD

I just realised while reminising of my times in vanilla nd the other mods in Arma II, that i find myself missing Side chat. Now im not talking about voice on side- I hated hearing peoples dogs, babies, and kids whining about being sniped in cherno as much as everyone else. But i DO miss being able to go into a server, scroll thru player list and start baiting the bigest clan on there into an all out blood feud. Im a lazy sod, now i have to actually try to find them to start a fight rather then simply trash them in side untill they come get us :P "so and so got nothing! You all suck! if you have any *insert profanity* come to devils castle and prove it". Its amazing how many "pro" clans would come up there and file thru the door into a hailstrom of AKM fire one after the other to give me all dat epic loot xD

base building 100% want. Easy for 5 people to have infinate everything, dont want.

I honestly never new about deerstands and kept looking. I avoided useing internet maps and loot tables. After playing to mod to DEATH since the days of spawning with pistols in vanilla i wanted my SA experince to be a fresh start and learn as i go.

If theres one thing the internet teaches us, its that everyone's inner asshole is released when they get to be compleetly annonymous.

Yup. to an extent i meant that you really learned who the regulars were. big servers developed a certain community. EG. you would generally know certain groups as PVPers/KOS, others might be RP crews or Medics, etc. the vanilla server i our clan was on saw our rivals run regular party bus routes in an attempt to gain public favor xD Literally going around picking up people in a bus with music blaring on direct lol.

That's how i felt about it. as long as it was text only its not disruptive to gameplay for those who dont care at all. Sadly i feel that we will never see it in any form in SA as it would kinda go against the hardcore realism that the devs are going for (being able to instantly broadcast messages to everyone in the countryside in the midst of the apocalypse)

yeah i guess to some extent thats why it "worked". the clan you started calling out couldnt do anything to shut you up other then come to you campy spot to prove a point- which 9 times out of 10 resulted in zero effort PvP and epic loot for us. on one occasion howver they brought satchels and leveld the entire castle with us in it all the while playing "who let the dogs out" in direct as they set the satchels and ran away lol. i couldnt even be mad. epic counter-trolling was epic.