Rezzed - June 2013 - Developer Session

[anorexy 47]

I'm so booooooooooooorred. Can we have the SA now?

man ..... i'm bored for a half year .......................................... rockettttttt just say where i can put the money to get saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, i think i'm gonna kill myself ..........

[Wayze 549]

I would buy the Standalone right now for 50€ or more. I just wanna finally play it and tell my opinion about it. I don't care how much bugged it is, I played the DayZ Mod at the first few months when it was really buggy.

Guys, got some questions. I got like 40-60FPS and 25-30 when I am in a big city. (dayz mod)

Will DayZ SA run at 60FPS? And will the death delay be fixed? In DayZ mod it's like shooting a person and he has 2-3 seconds to shoot back like some superman who is bulletproof.

These two things and the SA is ready to play for me. :)

Edited June 28, 2013 by Wayze

[NightmareGER 21]

As far as we know it will pop up all of a sudden on steam at some point.

When will this happen? Nobody knows!

[Jgut90 71]

I would buy the Standalone right now for 50€ or more. I just wanna finally play it and tell my opinion about it. I don't care how much bugged it is, I played the DayZ Mod at the first few months when it was really buggy.

Guys, got some questions. I got like 40-60FPS and 25-30 when I am in a big city. (dayz mod)

Will DayZ SA run at 60FPS? And will the death delay be fixed? In DayZ mod it's like shooting a person and he has 2-3 seconds to shoot back like some superman who is bulletproof.

These two things and the SA is ready to play for me. :)

Don't expect it to run constantly at 60 when in big cities though. We'll find out when we get there.

[Katana67 2907]

Is it me, or is this a for reals lull? I feel more bored than usual...

[SpecOpSpruce 22]

Valve may end up putting a store-refresh block on me if D-SA doesn't come out soon....

[triggy89 171]

Really not sure how well the radios will work, as long as it is a entirely user generated thing (ie broadcasts) and you cant just slap any junk on it. IE blast out random music will running around chreno with a boombox on your shoulder. To do that you would need to find CD's ( maybe in the supermarkets) and they were incredibly rare and play them in the correct cd player. Or even find any MP3 but it only has a limited amount of charge. Also you would have to tune the radio to find stations ( if there are any, and they should be server specific, ie you can only hear what over people on the server are broadcasting.

Also people say the trolling will be amazing, like its a good thing. I can imagine a small feature becoming terribly annoying after a short period of time, even rocket was getting annoyed by it in the videos.

[twinturbonet (DayZ) 294]

Will there be headphones for the radios? Maybe the option to have one ear bud uncovered so you can hear half music and half environment? Would also help on the radios playing out loud everywhere.

Edited July 2, 2013 by twinturbonet

[He29irn 27]

Will there be headphones for the radios? Maybe the option to have one ear bud uncovered so you can hear half music and half environment? Would also help on the radios playing out loud everywhere.

Yes there is if you find or craft them.

[Rek Seven 37]

Hmm the more is see of day z standalone, the less i like it.

Having live radio in an apocalyptic world is about the most immersion breaking thing i've seen in a game. These radios should only be for player communication and detracting zombies.

I was hoping that in the stand alone we would see an improved zombie spawn and behavior system but it looks like little has changed... I want to go into a town full of zombies, clear it out with some other survivors, and then cordon the area off so they couldn't get back in until they overwhelmed our barricades.

The last thing i'm not keen on is the new zombie diving attack. It looks like there might be some issues with collision detection and it could be overpowered, especially if they can cut you or break bones while you are running away... but i' guess i'll have to wait for more info on that.

Graphics and improved items aside; i'm not impressed. Needs more game play additions.

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

Hmm the more is see of day z standalone, the less i like it.

Having live radio in an apocalyptic world is about the most immersion breaking thing i've seen in a game. These radios should only be for player communication and detracting zombies.

I was hoping that in the stand alone we would see an improved zombie spawn and behavior system but it looks like little has changed... I want to go into a town full of zombies, clear it out with some other survivors, and then cordon the area off so they couldn't get back in until they overwhelmed our barricades.

The last thing i'm not keen on is the new zombie diving attack. It looks like there might be some issues with collision detection and it could be overpowered, especially if they can cut you or break bones while you are running away... but i' guess i'll have to wait for more info on that.

Graphics and improved items aside; i'm not impressed. Needs more game play additions.

I have to ask, did you actually watch any of the vids or absorb any of the information within them? The zombie spawning system has been completely overhauled, zeds will now all spawn together on server start up and wander around the map, if you clear an area, it's clear unless other zeds wander in. I'm not even giong to bother addressing your concerns about the zeds hit detection etc, Rocket has made many posts explaining that it's basically broken and using placeholder animations and not synched up in the DEVELOPMENT BUILD they showed at E3 and Rezzed. It'll look like crap until everything is in place, thus is the nature of development builds.

Sorry if I sound a bit snappy, it's just getting frustrating seeing so many posts made by people that clearly haven't watched the vids in full, they just see a broken animation or a radio playing 80's music FOR DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES and then switch their brains off.

Edited July 2, 2013 by Fraggle

[jamieledgeway@hotmail.co.uk 216]

Radios shouldn't be used to troll.

[Rek Seven 37]

I have to ask, did you actually watch any of the vids or absorb any of the information within them? The zombie spawning system has been completely overhauled, zeds will now all spawn together on server start up and wander around the map, if you clear an area, it's clear unless other zeds wander in. I'm not even giong to bother addressing your concerns about the zeds hit detection etc, Rocket has made many posts explaining that it's basically broken and using placeholder animations and not synched up in the DEVELOPMENT BUILD they showed at E3 and Rezzed. It'll look like crap until everything is in place, thus is the nature of development builds.

Sorry if I sound a bit snappy, it's just getting frustrating seeing so many posts made by people that clearly haven't watched the vids in full, they just see a broken animation or a radio playing 80's music FOR DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES and then switch their brains off.

Watched the Rezzed video? I'm sorry if i missed it but i didn't hear Rocket mention the zombie spawn mechanic...

I was lead to believe that i would be playing this game by now but it seems to get pushed back further and further so i gave up trolling the forums for information and reading dev blogs about how beans can be found under beds now.

I'm sorry if you are frustrated but i don't live and breath this shit. I just want to play my dream game.

If you can point me to a single source that tells me everything i need to know about the stand alone, i'll be happy to read it.

Edited July 2, 2013 by Rek Seven

[triggy89 171]

actually he does have a point fraggle. Unless you frequent the forums its hard to keep up to date, there is no single place where everything is collated. I instantly did a double tack and thought AH the devblog tumblr, then when i looked it hasnt been updated in a month, none of the rezzed vids are up, no game play, nothing!

Dont get me wrong i dislike the radio idea, and would only like it provided it was VERY limited and very hard to troll with. Either way what he (Rek) has said is wrong, but he does have a point, its bloody impossible to fine one space where all of this stuff is listed. It might even be good to have a sticky listing all the devblogs, gamplay vids in one thread and just add to it as and when stuff is released. Again it just goes to show they need to increase external communication, if indeed it is as important as rocket has said.

I am starting to dislike his methods more and more in the last few months, and its upsetting as the I love what he is trying to do.

Edited July 2, 2013 by triggy89

[Rek Seven 37]

Okay so i listened to the questions and answers section again ( i glossed over it the first time because the 80's music pissed me off so much). I have a couple of suggestions:

"Zombie swarms" - I'm assuming this will be something like a 20 zombie roaming gang. Will these zombies be the same as the normal type (i.e. running at Olympic speeds, zig-zagging all over the place and leaping 5ft to drop kick you to the ground)?

Melee - Will we be able to punch and rifle but in the SA? Maybe even use riot shields?

Will there be any goals/mission type activities in SA? Things requiring multiple survivors to complete would give people more ways to interact other than shooting each other.

Will there be NPCs? Maybe i can capture NPCs slaves to work in the fields for me or i could, Moses style, set someone else slaves free.

Edited July 2, 2013 by Rek Seven

[King Tubbs 224]

Okay so i listened to the questions and answers section again ( i glossed over it the first time because the 80's music pissed me off so much). I have a couple of suggestions:

"Zombie swarms" - I'm assuming this will be something like a 20 zombie roaming gang. Will these zombies be the same as the normal type (i.e. running at Olympic speeds, zig-zagging all over the place and leaping 5ft to drop kick you to the ground)?

Melee - Will we be able to punch and rifle but in the SA? Maybe even use riot shields?

Will there be any goals/mission type activities in SA? Things requiring multiple survivors to complete would give people more ways to interact other than shooting each other.

Will there be NPCs? Maybe i can capture NPCs slaves to work in the fields for me or i could, Moses style, set someone else slaves free.

1 no they have been changed completely that's why the game is not out yet all the zed stuff you listed is gone, and fyi there will be at least 3000 zeds per sever so there could be a swarm of 100 +

2 punch yes, rifle but dont know

3 no

4 no

[Ninjamark 15]

Okay so i listened to the questions and answers section again ( i glossed over it the first time because the 80's music pissed me off so much). I have a couple of suggestions:

"Zombie swarms" - I'm assuming this will be something like a 20 zombie roaming gang. Will these zombies be the same as the normal type (i.e. running at Olympic speeds, zig-zagging all over the place and leaping 5ft to drop kick you to the ground)?

Melee - Will we be able to punch and rifle but in the SA? Maybe even use riot shields?

Will there be any goals/mission type activities in SA? Things requiring multiple survivors to complete would give people more ways to interact other than shooting each other.

Will there be NPCs? Maybe i can capture NPCs slaves to work in the fields for me or i could, Moses style, set someone else slaves free.

Perhaps you should watch the video a few more times, you still seem to be missing information plastered all over the place.

The normal type you described isn't even the normal type anymore hence the massive zombie over-hall. Rocket has said Zombies are a massive work in progress. Path finding has been updated and as such the zombies dont have to run turbo speed to be a threat anymore. That said, they are still very fast. Seriously just watch a video and look at the zombies and its obvious.

Riot shields probably aren't in and they are adding weapons each week after release, but i have no idea if its on the agenda

As to the other two, no, if you listened to Rocket at all he has said literally a million times the SA is GOING BACK TO BASICS TO GET A SOLID FUCKING FOUNDATION.

[sausagekingofchicago 4711]

There's lots of external communication. It's just that we, the community, are doing a terrible job of compiling it. Especially us addicts.

The videos they show seem to showcase possibilities rather than the planned and final state of the game. For instance, when they show a room with beans hidden all over the place it's not that there will only be beans as loot or every building will be packed to the gills with loot. It's simply showing the possibilities of loot locations by showing all the diversity of loot spawn posibilities.

We shouldn't even worry ourselves with the radio until we know how rare it is and how rare the batteries will be. Hopefully finding batteries that even work will take quite a bit of effort. We'll have a problem with radio spam if they're growing on trees. I'm also pretty sure he said the radio was just something they were looking at and it wasn't even guaranteed to make it into the game.

[AnarchyBrownies 1383]

Watched the Rezzed video? I'm sorry if i missed it but i didn't hear Rocket mention the zombie spawn mechanic...

I was lead to believe that i would be playing this game by now but it seems to get pushed back further and further so i gave up trolling the forums for information and reading dev blogs about how beans can be found under beds now.

I'm sorry if you are frustrated but i don't live and breath this shit. I just want to play my dream game.

If you can point me to a single source that tells me everything i need to know about the stand alone, i'll be happy to read it.

The self-entitlement is strong with this one.

You led yourself to believe that you would be playing this game by now because absolutely no one who would officially be able to set a release date has said you would be playing it by now.

You're hoping DayZ can be your dream game, yet you can't devote 40 minutes (or much less) a couple times a month to informing yourself about it. Then you come here fuming about WRONG information.

Then you acknowledge that you don't really pay that much attention to the information coming out now. Alright. My first piece of advice to you is a piece of life advice: If you're going to be critical and emotional about something, first acknowledge how much you actually know about it and consider taking a more neutral approach.

My second piece of advice:

<--- Start watching that or a channel like it since your time is too precious for informing yourself about your dream game. My math tells me that if all the videos are around that length you'll only have to devote 16 minutes a month to paying attention to DayZ news.

[AnarchyBrownies 1383]

We shouldn't even worry ourselves with the radio until we know how rare it is and how rare the batteries will be. Hopefully finding batteries that even work will take quite a bit of effort. We'll have a problem with radio spam if they're growing on trees. I'm also pretty sure he said the radio was just something they were looking at and it wasn't even guaranteed to make it into the game.

Exactly! All that sort of thing can be adjusted and even taken out of the game if necessary. That's why constructive feedback will be important when the Alpha is released to the public :)

[Rek Seven 37]

The self-entitlement is strong with this one.

You led yourself to believe that you would be playing this game by now because absolutely no one who would officially be able to set a release date has said you would be playing it by now.

You're hoping DayZ can be your dream game, yet you can't devote 40 minutes (or much less) a couple times a month to informing yourself about it. Then you come here fuming about WRONG information.

Then you acknowledge that you don't really pay that much attention to the information coming out now. Alright. My first piece of advice to you is a piece of life advice: If you're going to be critical and emotional about something, first acknowledge how much you actually know about it and consider taking a more neutral approach.

Start watching that or a channel like it since your time is too precious for informing yourself about your dream game. My math tells me that if all the videos are around that length you'll only have to devote 16 minutes a month to paying attention to DayZ news.

I don't appreciate your condescending tone...

I guess the developer never said he expected the SA to be out months ago. That must have been a dream.

I never said Day z was my dream game but it's the closest thing to it I've played so far.

Look i'm sorry if i don't want to sit around on these forums all day acting as you, the self important know it all but as i said, i got tired of hanging around here dealing with pricks like you in the vein hope that i could get some new information, so forgive me if i don't pay 100% attention to a 1 hour video that, apparently, isn't even a true representation of the upcoming release.

Edited July 2, 2013 by Rek Seven

[AnarchyBrownies 1383]

I don't appreciate your condescending tone...

I guess the developer never said he expected the SA to be out months ago. That must have been a dream.

I never said Day z was my dream game but it's the closes thing to it i've played so far.

Look i'm sorry if i don't want to sit around on these forums all day acting as you, the self important know it all but as i said, i got tired of hanging around here dealing with pricks like you in the vein hope that i could get some new information, so forgive me if i don't pay 100% attention to a 1 hour video that, apparently, isn't even a true representation of the upcoming release.

I believe I clarified at the beginning of my post that you hoped DayZ could develop into your dream game.

And don't act like my condescending tone came out of nowhere. I'll gladly take on a condescending tone if someone comes in here complaining, yet they admit to being willfully ignorant about what they are complaining about. That's a ridiculous way to be about anything. Contrary to what you believe this board is full of great people and it's a very friendly and helpful community. I don't think it's too much to ask that people hold their judgments and complaints until they are informed.

You don't have to "live and breathe this shit" to know that no release date has been given. If you feel there has been one given, you could first clarify before being critical. No one here will give you a hard time simply for not knowing something and asking. And I think you should bear in mind that this game will be an Alpha release, so it's going to be full of issues that need tweaking. You're lucky enough to be able to be a part of shaping the game to how you think it should be. So before you start losing faith in the pre-released alpha version, you could await the alpha and eagerly provide constructive feedback to help mold the game into its final identity.

[Hadden 16]

Look i'm sorry if i don't want to sit around on these forums all day acting as you, the self important know it all but as i said, i got tired of hanging around here dealing with pricks like you in the vein hope that i could get some new information, so forgive me if i don't pay 100% attention to a 1 hour video that, apparently, isn't even a true representation of the upcoming release.

Then don't expect people around here to spoon-feed you. You want condescending?

Hey guys!!! Rek Seven showed up. You can announce the release date now!

Wait no? He doesn't matter? Oh ok...carry on then.

[Zeppa 562]

Okay so i listened to the questions and answers section again ( i glossed over it the first time because the 80's music pissed me off so much). I have a couple of suggestions:

"Zombie swarms" - I'm assuming this will be something like a 20 zombie roaming gang. Will these zombies be the same as the normal type (i.e. running at Olympic speeds, zig-zagging all over the place and leaping 5ft to drop kick you to the ground)?

Noone truly knows yet. X amount of zombies will be spawned when servers starts, then they start derping around the map, who knows what kind of groups they will form(or will be spawned) when players lure them in the same spot..

Melee - Will we be able to punch and rifle but in the SA? Maybe even use riot shields?

Noone truly knows yet

Will there be any goals/mission type activities in SA? Things requiring multiple survivors to complete would give people more ways to interact other than shooting each other.

99% sure wont happen, unless players do this themselves.

Will there be NPCs? Maybe i can capture NPCs slaves to work in the fields for me or i could, Moses style, set someone else slaves free.

99% sure wont happen..

Just watch bunch of E3 review with rocket from few different people from youtube and you get better picture.

And these were more like questions than suggestions. :D

ps.. And page refreshed million hours ago...sry ^^

Edited July 2, 2013 by Zeppa

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

actually he does have a point fraggle. Unless you frequent the forums its hard to keep up to date, there is no single place where everything is collated. I instantly did a double tack and thought AH the devblog tumblr, then when i looked it hasnt been updated in a month, none of the rezzed vids are up, no game play, nothing!

Dont get me wrong i dislike the radio idea, and would only like it provided it was VERY limited and very hard to troll with. Either way what he (Rek) has said is wrong, but he does have a point, its bloody impossible to fine one space where all of this stuff is listed. It might even be good to have a sticky listing all the devblogs, gamplay vids in one thread and just add to it as and when stuff is released. Again it just goes to show they need to increase external communication, if indeed it is as important as rocket has said.

I am starting to dislike his methods more and more in the last few months, and its upsetting as the I love what he is trying to do.

I kind of agree :/

I think it would be nice to see Rocket and Co. making nice organised progress reports on this (the official) DayZ forum. It would certainly solve a lot of confusion if there was one locked thread where they could post status reports, however small.

Having said that, the recent presentations at both Rezzed and E3 reached out to a much larger audience than this forum ever will and by watching one or 2 vids including the Q&A sessions from those events you can get the most recent info and state of the game there is so far and with that in mind if people are genuinely interested in the games progress that should be thier port of call for now, as with most games that presented there. Rocket used Twitter to address some of the concerns about zeds etc after those events and that info was then discussed at length both here and on Reddit.

tldr; Yes it would be nice to see Rocket making organised status updates on these forums but there is really no excuse to not be informed about the game at this point in time if you're genuinely interested in it.

Edited July 2, 2013 by Fraggle