Yet another standalone thread

[disgruntled 38]

After watching plenty of E3 vids whilst on holiday I like the way it's going but after hundreds of hours of the mod I'm becoming certain that when I eventually get my mitts on a standalone key it's going to bake my brain. This is the one downfall of the long development, long term players so so used to the inventory as it is are going to have a hard time adjusting for a while.

Whilst I'm on inventory what about FOV adjustment, although it hasn't been said outright it seems that my trusty mouse wheel is going to be taking a back seat for looting, item pickups will be pushed towards first person with the vicinity mechanic that has been shown. If I adjust my FOV (if it is still enabled) this long mouse drag across the inventory screen we've been shown will be a pain in the backside if the mouse is doing it's dicky fit cos I've dared to want a more 2 eyed first person perspective.

Am anxious to see the prison, I see that the shipwreck model has been put in at Rify which is cool.

With rocket saying that the northern area close to debug is being reworked this makes me wonder where a base could be placed, every man and his dog knows to nosy north west of myshkino and lopatino for tents and vehicles and my favoured base spot has always been right on debug line, either on the ledge or the tucked in slopey bit which depending on the server and it's regulars/admins is either a good plan or it's gone in 5 hours.

Plus the question no bugger seems to be asking at E3 (or I haven't caught that vid) - are we due for any sort of physics? Like at all? They've said vehicles will be redone after initial release, will we still be getting the bizarre high speed drifts that I've grown to enjoy?

After recently watching my team mate attempt suicide by driving a bus off pik kolova and failing miserably I really hope they actually add some gravity as currently he might as well have been on the moon.

I'm not trying to be negative just most of the E3 stuff has been moronic arse licking crap, would love to have been there to ask some of the juicier questions that need to be asked...imo

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

As far as the inventory question goes;

Does it have to be overly complex?

It would feel like a gimmick to use a scroll wheel to open a menu, go into gear, and click on the stuff to move it into your inventory, or go into gear, open your backpack, and then do the same -- if it wasn't like that years before DayZ even existed.

Having to aim at an item and press E to pick up doesn't kill the game. It's a minor convenience, which isn't even required from you to perform. (You should note that the whole drag-and-drop wasn't the only way to do things.)

Edit; As for physics? Yeah, general physics are no doubt fixed so that a gently opening door won't slap your ass so hard that you break both of your legs. Vehicles won't be in the foundation release for the Standalone at first. (You knew that, right?) I'm sure they will get tweaked as well.

I don't think the E3 was "ass licking." They were showing the current progress on the Alpha that we hadn't yet seen in the devBlogs. Probably not all of the changes, but at least the major ones.

Edited June 15, 2013 by Dancing.Russian.Man

[disgruntled 38]

As far as the inventory question goes;

Does it have to be overly complex?

It would feel like a gimmick to use a scroll wheel to open a menu, go into gear, and click on the stuff to move it into your inventory, or go into gear, open your backpack, and then do the same -- if it wasn't like that years before DayZ even existed.

Having to aim at an item and press E to pick up doesn't kill the game. It's a minor convenience, which isn't even required from you to perform. (You should note that the whole drag-and-drop wasn't the only way to do things.)

Edit; As for physics? Yeah, general physics are no doubt fixed so that a gently opening door won't slap your ass so hard that you break both of your legs. Vehicles won't be in the foundation release for the Standalone at first. (You knew that, right?) I'm sure they will get tweaked as well.

I don't think the E3 was "ass licking." They were showing the current progress on the Alpha that we hadn't yet seen in the devBlogs. Probably not all of the changes, but at least the major ones.

Yes I'm aware vehicles aren't in at first.

Once you get used to mouse wheel looting it is the quickest, I can honestly say that after hundreds of hours I have mastered the arma inventory and will miss it. Thousands won't I know but hey ho

My comment regarding ass licking was of the G4 VG247 vids. "Let's have a question from our viewers! Hi Dean we love you can I still be a spanner in Cherno kthxbye" I would have loved to have been there to actually ask a pertinent question as opposed to the same question 18 times over in several videos of the event

Edit - as I stated I'm on holiday and am now quite bored so I've trawled a hell of a lot of the various E3 vids available looking for that little tidbit of info other vids didn't have. It wasn't there...

Edited June 15, 2013 by tehfapper