Current state of the mod?

[billw 1]

I haven't played for about 8 months, but have been watching a few LPs and am excited about giving it another go. Also considering trying to get a few friends into it, but only if they aren't going to be put off by bugs, so I am wondering what the current state of the game bug wise is? The major ones I remember from when I last played were inventory switching sometimes making weapons disappear, dying randomly from geometry/physics freaking out, tents not being reliable, zombies hitting through walls.

Could someone tell me if these are fixed, alternatively where I can get a list of current issues?

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

http://dayzmod.com/f...mmunity-builds/

Read through that and the past updates to get an idea what's changed. Regarding bugs, well, it's a mod, and it's in development so it's always going to be buggy to some degree.

Some people will post and tell you the mod has been ruined by the community devs, others will post and say it's still the best thing since sliced bread, the only real way to find out is by giving it another go. My one piece of advice though would be to find a well run private hive/server. If you do that you can kiss goodbye to hackers. If you start jumping on random public servers that are badly admined then your gonna have a bad time.

Edited March 4, 2013 by Fraggle

[Victim187 23]

None of those things are a huge problem anymore. You may have some problems on newer maps but for the most part the Mod works pretty damn well.

[tiresomehoopla 37]

The only issue i've had is zombie's seeing me through walls, not hitting me through walls.

Weapons now ussually just drop to the ground which is sometimes annoying.

The only time i died from physics was when my friend's gun hit me and broke my legs, and when I broke my legs in a door on purpose. (I find it amusing :)

[GOD™ 2795]

Hmmm...the last time i got ArmA'd was...when i was walking down some stairs and apperantly the floor was slippery so i slid off the stairs and to my short fall death.

Then the child of my group turned into a fucking vulture.

Edited March 4, 2013 by GOD™

[ammohunt 0]

The latest round of patchs have increased my enjoyment of the game they mod community had done excellent work in my opinion the zombie zigzag issue being huge and the tightening of the headhsot area makes it much tougher and frankly more realistic. The major issue now with Dayz as i see it is "hacker" jerk griefers they are prolific.

[TheBambiAvenger 146]

After the standalone comes out, there will still be patch support for the mod, so don't worry, they haven't forgotten about us :P

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

The major issue now with Dayz as i see it is "hacker" jerk griefers they are prolific.

And that's why the info in my first post is important. They are prolific on badly run servers. On a well admined server they are a rare occurence, it's worth spending some time finding a good admin.

[flamecrow 0]

The bugs I am experiencing still are:

1) Weapons disappearing if you don't have large enough inventory space and you try to move a gun into your inventory/bag

2) Exiting helicopters can sometimes exit you under or on top of the chopper and you instantly break legs/die.

3) Repairing of choppers still buggy (will not give you option to repair the part you need, or sometimes 1 repair of glass and the whole chopper is somehow fixed without needing other parts, etc)

4) Recently have been respawning in the air outside the ocean upon death.

Even though I am experiencing these bugs, I'm not sure they are "confirmed bugs" but at the moment, it is really a turn off trying to play a glitchy game. Really hoping the standalone is a lot better.

Edit: 5) Also zig zagging & glitchy zombie AI

Edited March 4, 2013 by flamecrow

[joinnkakashi@gmail.com 31]

The bugs I am experiencing still are:

1) Weapons disappearing if you don't have large enough inventory space and you try to move a gun into your inventory/bag

2) Exiting helicopters can sometimes exit you under or on top of the chopper and you instantly break legs/die.

3) Repairing of choppers still buggy (will not give you option to repair the part you need, or sometimes 1 repair of glass and the whole chopper is somehow fixed without needing other parts, etc)

4) Recently have been respawning in the air outside the ocean upon death.

Even though I am experiencing these bugs, I'm not sure they are "confirmed bugs" but at the moment, it is really a turn off trying to play a glitchy game. Really hoping the standalone is a lot better.

Edit: 5) Also zig zagging & glitchy zombie AI

I haven't expirenced any of these bugs, I have deleted a weapon once but that has always been in the game as a bug so I guess besides 1 no

[Grumpy Monkey 396]

Yeah I had bug #1 a day or two ago. Rifle to backpack and poof... it's gone. O well, minor inconvenience. ;)

In some video i heard Rocket say that the zombies zigzag due to the fact that they use the same AI as the soldiers of Arma 2 (makes sense to me) and that they gonna change it for that standalone.

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

Everything is being rewritten for the SA. Read the devblogs for detailed info.