DemonGroover

Very nice work.

I've never killed anyone in cold blood just on the off chance they have drugs on them, but that may change in the future.

Let them get the SA sorted and fully released before any other maps are included. Utes is included in the SA though.

With less ammo and the possibility of a victim's ammo being damaged if you shoot them perhaps highway robbery will be the new norm. With the new option to handcuff someone and then steal their stuff perhaps killing someone wont be the only choice we have. Of course there is nothing stopping you from killing them afterwards.

I think presentation and artwork are very important. I am far from being an artist as i can barely draw stick men, but i like the fact that extra effort is made to make something look good rather than just serve a purpose. Just look at the art change for the mod recently - it looks slicker. Of course if a game is a great steaming pile of shit then no presentation in the world will save it. Leonardo Da Vinci's ghost could have worked on WarZ and nothing would have changed that fact.

I think the issue of KoS will be reduced somewhat with limited ammo. If you have 3 bullets in your gun you arent going to spray someone the moment you see them. You will have to assess the situation and possibly get into a position where one bullet is all it takes. I dont know how you can conclude that KoS will increase - most people i have come across take a lot of bullets to get one to hit in. You may find that players continue to play the way they do in the mod, but i dont think that the mod tactics are going to work very well in the SA. And this is even without taking into consideration of the increase zombie numbers, their new pathfinding and ability to run indoors.

Yep, me too. Anyone else?

Get a hatchet (or machete) asap.

As Fraggle said its early and i am pretty sure they understand that an AK cant be stored in the top pocket of a T Shirt. If a T Shirt has a pocket then i cant see why you cant store matches or other small items in it.

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The giveaway to those pics is in the name. The game will not be called DayZ Standalone. As for release - no one here knows a date and we are unlikely to be given one. My guess is you'll wake up one morning and it will be sitting nicely in the Early Access area.

Ive never understood the call for cannibalism. There still seems to be plenty of food around. If i had a choice of eating a can of beans or a flea bitten bandit corpse i know what id choose.

It's not a very hard thing to figure out. It ain't Rocket science.

Who hates Martin here? I don't think anyone here encourages or condones someones work being taken and sold in Russia. However i work for a software company and our product has managed to be hacked in Russia and given out by these hackers. What can be done?

I don't think anyone supports work being taken without permission. I totally agree that permission should be given by the author before the addons/models can be used. No one here is arguing that point. The original DayZ mod was a free mod and never made any money. It was when private servers and hives were allowed that the donations started to roll in to those servers. Then the modifications of the mod began including new skins and maps appearing such as Lingor and Taviana. Was permission ever given to these? Maybe the issue began because Rocket/BI didn't really say no to DayZ being modded? There was a time when it was frowned upon but there was never any official word to say "Stop modifying my Mod!" I think a lot of people took that silence to being allowed to do what they wanted - including taking anything they could find on Armaholic etc. Look, i don't think anyones work should be used without permission. And if you want your models etc not to be used by any DayZ mod then they should abide by your demand. There isn't really much we can do about it on the forums though. Apart from say "Don't use others work without permission!" We don't have that much influence or power.

I think the issue with Origins has always been - they didn't ask for permission (like all the private mods) but they started getting heavy handed with their own assets sending out threatening emails and so forth. I agree that the DayZ community is very lax when it comes to using other's work. A lot of DayZ modders/admins etc have never been part of the Arma community and unfortunately don't have the same sense of respecting other people's work and asking for permission before placing it in their mod/server. A lot of people never knew Arma before DayZ and perhaps quite a few believed that any addons they find are fair game. However this doesn't excuse not giving credit to the addon maker. Hopefully the link the OP gave can help alleviate some of this.

I agree. If you have not given your permission then you have every right to ask that your addons be removed. But supporting Origins - which has used other assets without permissions as well...that doesn' sit right. Have you messaged the creators of these mods (Epoch etc) which are using your work without permission?

And what about Origins using DayZ mod assets without permission. Does that even enter the equation?

Well if you haven't sold these skins to Origins then i apologise. I am not condoning people's work being used without permission. It has happened a lot with DayZ maps not being given the right permission from the mapmaker. As far as the Voodoo mod we actually helped out Icebreakr when he found out it was used without permission. But you pretty much came on these forums all guns blazing saying only Origins are paying you so no one else can use my addons. I dont think that was the right way to go about it.

I think they are pretty confident that things will be better.

I am all for the mods getting all the credit for their work. Permission should be gained before anything is added to a map/mod. However the same goes for the modders. Can they seriously expect to make money off Hello Kitty skins and skins for BMWs, Audis etc and not to be seen as a hypocrite if they themselves never got permission to do these skins and sell them to Origins? I would be very very surprised if Vilas got permission from Sanrio to use the Hello Kitty image and make money off of it.

Doesn't sound like the apocalypse to me.....

You want SA to become like Epoch, Origins etc? That's like asking Half Life 3 to be more like Doom.

Using Google Translate (i didnt realise that Gibberish was a language) i have deduced that you have been banned. Please elaborate in English.

As has been said before i am all for .50s being introduced if Rocket is going to go ahead with his global economy on weapons/items. Make it so uber rare that only one or two are ever in existence across all servers. And if the player who has it doesn't play for a few months it gets deleted from his inventory.