November Round-up

[Mazzar 231]

Can we have live stream? Rocket please.

 

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[rossums 2190]

Rossums, you lied. It's morning and this thread is only at 110 pages - not 120.

The big DayZ Steam chat provided more entertainment.

[mrmaniak 5]

12 people have the game launched but only 1 person on the test server? Doesn't make sense.

[rossums 2190]

12 people have the game launched but only 1 person on the test server? Doesn't make sense.

Many people just keep it running constantly - sometimes the servers go up and down so they are disconnected.

Sometimes the server is being sorted so only the devs are on.

It could be many, many things.

[dgeesio 1034]

possums i cant wait to KOS you in alpha :lol: you got your new pc yet ?

[EightBitPixel 9]

Do you think DayZ SA could run on my GTX 550TI? I hope so :P

[esgvirus 18]

Do you think DayZ SA could run on my GTX 550TI? I hope so :P

It'll run decent (probably), but if you plan on playing other games, you should consider upgrading.

[Cain42 18]

Can´t wait to craft my own shotgun shells.

[thehunter21 16]

Do you think DayZ SA could run on my GTX 550TI? I hope so :P

I hop so too becouse i got one aswell :D

[SmashT 10907]

Hicks, a hero? He's always shooting us at spawn lol

[dvsilverwing 241]

The people's hero.

[Cain42 18]

Dayz gonna be out when we hit 200 pages mark.

[esgvirus 18]

Hicks, a hero? He's always shooting us at spawn lol

Thanks for the info, I'll tell people who whine about KoS and killing freshspawns to blame Hicks. :)

[Ironhuge 69]

Dayz gonna be out when we hit 200 pages mark.

We better start posting for real then, this thread has slowed down :)

[dvsilverwing 241]

Unlock group.

[Zanders 65]

Why is the dayz group on steam locked?

[Cain42 18]

Why is the dayz group on steam locked?

Cuz we are unwanted.

[mzltv 2281]

Hicks, a hero? He's always shooting us at spawn lol

To be fair though, that is still Mike's fault.

[Dr. Goner 661]

 

Confirmed Items and Questionnaires --- Steam Chat (Formatted/Organized: Finished)

 

 

Brian Hicks (Hicks_206; DayZ Producer)

 

(opening this will be a wall of text; be advised)

 

 Chat Context

 

MOD RELATED: Hicks has discussed during the mod days, how he became a hero and had his own video channel. You can watch here if you wish: http://www.twitch.tv/hicks_206

 

 

Hicks_206: DayZ makes DayZ Mod feel like the difference between watching a cartoon from the 80s, and then watching the live action series on bluray.

 

 

Hicks_206: I look forward to getting my group back together, and forcing them to help me help fresh spawns

Hicks_206: (They hated it)

Hicks_206: They were all about the action, and viewed every fresh spawn as a potential risk.

Ridders!: even after release

Hicks_206: Now, with unarmed melee - that is DEFINITELY the case.

Hicks_206: Moreso than before, with the mod

 

 

Hicks_206: I leave(*Love) talking about unannounced features to Dean.

 

 

Rossums: Baseball bat. 

Rossums: Pfft.

Rossums: Glorious hatchet for all! 

Conductor of the Poop Train: Speaking of which... can I use random logs of firewood as melee weapons?

Hicks_206: Or, in Rossums case - an axe.

 

 

Hicks_206: My advice to everyone here - while the game is downloading, read the manual. You'll want to know the controls so you can survive.

 

 

Hicks_206: I'm insanely lucky to be able to have an impact on a franchise that I'd otherwise be playing on every free moment if I was still at my previous studio.

 

 

Hicks_206: Yeah, the hype train is a machine of its own.

Hicks_206: The discovery of the group after I uploaded a new header image is proof of that in itself.

Hicks_206: This group is like a year old, all I did was upload a new header.

Hicks_206: And the clincher is, its not even the final header - its place holder for now. Hah

 

 

 

 

Q&A's

 

Q: Hicks, speaking of melee weapons, something I've been wondering is how common melee weapons will be compared to guns?

• In short, I look forward to the hectic frenzy of trying to decide who is legitimately innocent, and who is not. It'll be like Ultima Online 1997 all over again. Well, think of how more common they would be in real life. 

Q: Go out in backyard, huge branch, melee weapon?

• Much easier to find a baseball bat, then a rifle.

Q: How many melee weapons are there?

• A wide array, with many more to come in the future. Melee is *definitely* a core pillar of the game now.

 

 

 

Q: Is it releasing tonight?

 

• No, I would not be in bed if it was releasing.

 

 

Q: Will the server only be run by you guys at first and dedicated servers after?

• Only time will tell. There will be a large quantity of servers at launch. Hopefully, large enough ;)

 

 

Q: Can you customise facial features or is it done the same way ARMA 2/3 in that you just pick a present skin?

• The game has its own unique controls like any other title, of course some controls carry between titles linked to Arma - but again, I highly recommend reading the manual beforehand.

 

 

Q: Hicks are we going to be able to have clan groups or no?

• As character creation is literally being finalized as we speak by Dean, I'd prefer not to comment, as it might change at any time. But the design is to allow a good array of customization to aid in a wide variety of survivor types, rather then the same white guy in a baseball cap 

 

 

Q: Personal Question: How proud are you of DayZ SA, on a scale of 1 - 10?

• Of the potential we have ahead of us, with the way the title is releasing and steam allows us to update? 10.

 

 

Q: Where did you work before?

• Microsoft Studios.

Q: Doing?

• First Party Publishing, a wonderful experience.

Q: How long have you worked there?

• Approximately 5 years.

Q: Do you prefer working there or with the BI?

• I am originally from the east side of Seattle, so we had all three of those companies, plus Nintendo, Bungie, Suckerpunch, etc all in the same city effectively. In the end, at Microsoft I found myself feeling the most alive when I was working with technology or projects on the bleeding edge, outside of the established process. DayZ is that and more, plus something I already obsess over - so, BI.

 

 

Q: How much did the development of the Standalone change your lives? Turned into night owls? Got you addicted to caffine? Etc?

• I moved to the other side of the world, left my family, friends, and a very well paying job to work on this project. I'd say it had a huge impact on myself. And *especially* Dean

 

 

Q: How is living in Czech Republic?

• Prague is beautiful, its definitely different from the States, but I like experiencing new things.

 

 

Q: How is launch night going to be? do you think you will have server problems like the big companies do?

• Listen, when it comes to launch - I expect issues. I've been #2 on the escalation chart for online only projects for other, very influental companies before and even -they- couldn't stop the inevitable. You can't ever truly prepare for what the users will do. The best you can do is prepare for the worst, and make sure you have a clear escalation chart, and a big red emergency phone to the data centers for when shit hits the fan. You can be certain, when the game launches - Dean will be staring at the feedback tracker with his eyes peeled back, and I'll be on a bridge call with the server host.

 

 

Q: What would you classify as "shit hitting the fan"?

• Well, an example would be a multi million dollar title releasing, skyrocketing concurrent active users faster in the first two hours than Call of Duty or Halo on XBL, and then seeing one of the backend dependencies hard crashing with no one picking up the phone on the other end ;) That morning even Phil Spencer was knocking on my door demanding to know what the hell was going on. Never a good feeling.

 

 

Q: Will zombies spawn in other areas now rather than the cities/towns? An example; in the woods.

• There is nothing preventing us from doing that, thats about all I can say ;)

Q: That reminds me. Dean once tweeted about using poop as chemical weaponry. Is that... a thing?

• The way DayZ is designed allows to maximum flexibility, and experimentation. So, its been discussed. I used to upload gameplay from DayZ to youtube. Mostly for my own amusement.

 

 

Q: Can you talk about the price of the Alpha release? If yes but nothing specific, what would you want it priced at?

• Can't speak to price. That discussion is still active.

 

 

Q: My favorite color is orange, can you confirm orange underwear in the SA?

• Underwear, at least for right now - is an offwhite-ish color.

 

 

Q: Who is usually last to leave the office? Dean?

• Usually me, about 5 minutes after Dean.

 

 

Q: Can we dream of a release this week?

• You are free to dream my friend.

 

 

Q: Speaking of which. Servers will be hosted en masse by you guys. Can we host our own stuff day 1?

• We're still addressing our approach to this, however at launch there will be large quanities of game servers.

 

 

Q: Can you talk about performance? I mean the average FPS you get in cities and plains?

• Client side? I've found the game to be genuinely much smoother experience, and lower demand than the mod.

 

 

Q: Do you guys think you will ever have steady 60 FPS?

• It's definitely a goal.

 

 

Q: Occulus Rift support?

• I know Dean(Rocket) is in love with this device.

 

 

Q: Didn't you get tied up during one of the tests?

• No, I did handcuff a tester that was AFK outside Vybor, I found him, handcuffed him -and then proceeded to dress him. He came back, and was fully kitted out. I was standing over him with a nagant - and I just said over direct. "I dressed you up purdy, boy"

 

 

Q: Dayz in general what is your usual loot run?

• I don't have real loot runs any more. Mostly because about 95 to 98% of the structures are enterable along with very few structures being non-enterable.

 

 

Q: I go to bed thinking about the Standalone every night and wake up with the SA being my first thought. Clinical or clinical? I am inclined to say clinical.

• Sometimes, I have nightmares that the game launched - and there are weird, obscure problems. I had a nightmare that the game launched, and for some reason twitch was attributing all the streamers. I think its because I played Worms before bed.

 

 

Q: Speaking of, will there be satchels in SA?

• Time will tell.

^{*Ending Questionnaire*} Hicks_206: Alright, its bed for me. Going to watch the post mortem for Maniac Mansion on Youtube and drift off. All good points, I think I'll leave the chat closed at the least until lunchtime tomorrow. Later.

 

Hicks_206 left chat.

 

Dean 'Rocket' Hall (Rocket2Guns; DayZ Project Lead)

 

(opening this will be a wall of text; be advised)

 

Chat Context

 

a SKOLLIE: ive been toying with the idea of some sort of stamina system for your weapons, the longer you keep your weapon raised the more tired you grow; which will force people to keep their weapons lowered until they expect some sort of gunfight.

Rocket2guns: we plan to redo the existing stamina system at some point, same time as we look at weight

 

 

 

Q&A's

 

Q: If someone were to produce a good quality model that includes all it's counter-parts, would you add it into the real game if permissions were given, or is there to much legality in doing so?

• Not much legality involved. its possible. but im super fussy

 

 

Q: Hows the onPlayerConnecting bug going?

• The optimizations got reverted and are in their own branch being fixed now. will be merged back once done

 

 

Q: Are the DayZ servers going to support IPv6 natively?

• Rigged models would be hard to do, you need a very specific layout and mesgh.

 

 

Q: Will there be a way to track people? ie. footprints, opened cans, firepits, other means of tracking?

• We actually have only one artist doing most of the rigged stuff.

 

 

Q:  Have you ever considered giving us a bit more update on whats going on as often as possible as far as bugs / optimization goes. While I understand youre trying to keep quiet i think it would shut a lot of people up with just a bit of an update on how things are going.

• Again, I'd just be happy with it not crashing and good server FPS

 

 

Q: Progress on Ragdoll physics?

• Ragdoll is in active development, but no idea when it comes through into alpha

 

 

Q: When are you testing with 50+ persons on server?

• Once we get the optimization merged back in. We'll test with more players.

 

 

Q: Whats you're favorite part of Cheranus thats been changed so far?

• I probably like the swamps best. The new swamps are awesome

 

 

Q: Are you playing DayZ now or working with it?

• Working with it. Trying to get Character Creation to work properly.

 

 

Q: What are you doing exactly on the character screen?

• Besides making it work, review past characters, set a default one, that sort of thing. 

 

 

Q: How many characters will you be even be able to create, rocket?

• One character at a time, but you can see past ones.

 

 

Q: When does the Alpha release?

• Once performance is acceptable we'll release the alpha.

(END)

 

Note: Upon review, Hicks had mentioned he'd close the chat until tomorrow lunch time which means they will resume the questioning if one of the BIS employees are around. I'll leave this up to opening on further editing. 

 

 

 

★DayZ Steam Community Group Chat

 

 

★ DayZ Steam Community Group Page

 

 

This is probably the most information we've seen in eight weeks or more. Thanks for putting it together!!

[Dr. Goner 661]

Why is the dayz group on steam locked?

 

Because everyone jumped in there and started typing random incomprehensible bull shit until it drove Hicks crazy. Mob mentality is horrible. I watched the chat for like thirty seconds last night before I lost faith in humanity. I then played Project Zomboid and died over and over and over and over, but I know how to cook food now. For crying out loud that game is HARD.

[Dr. Goner 661]

I would like to get an invite to that group strictly because of the way questions are answered promptly.  Of course the perk of being able to talk to the leaders of such an astounding project is truly grand, it is even more so grand to be able to get insight on the concepts behind their product.

 

Questions such as:

"What compelled you to bring forth this project?" and,

"How has this project changed your life?"  both come to mind.

 

There is no doubt that these questions have been answered countless times before.

...

I wonder, if after release and the dust has settled (no doubt dean and hicks will be frantic),  that they'll sit back and relax, or move on to other pressing matters.

 

Personally, with all the work they've been putting in, i would just worry about any issues they'd have with launch, and as soon as those were ironed out, take an undisclosed amount of time off.

 

Cheers to Dean and and the rest of the devs for making such a project possible.  Without their perseverance in the face of insurmountable odds, this whole project would not have been possible.

 

Truly, On behalf of me, and the DayZ community,  I thank you guys.

 

Did you read the Hicks Q & A that was posted earlier? He answered both of your questions.

[Wayze 549]

Hicks, a hero? He's always shooting us at spawn lol

Oh thanks for ruining my day. Showing me that I am not able to play the game and that you have f*cking access all the time. Yeah, just disguise it as joke.

"Me? I am playing DayZ and you are no-ot :P "

Very mature behaviour. -.-

[korrobravin 96]

Oh thanks for ruining my day. Showing me that I am not able to play the game and that you have f*cking access all the time. Yeah, just disguise it as joke.

"Me? I am playing DayZ and you are no-ot :P "

Very mature behaviour. -.-

 

 

Pretty sure all of the forum and reddit mods have access to it (Thought Dean said that in one of the devblogs)...  As well as some special people for some special reason (Wish I was that special...)

 

This one:

Edited November 13, 2013 by KorroBravin

[m.w. vindicator 880]

Dayz gonna be out when we hit 200 pages mark.

 

 

Time to be post spam heros

[Grabarz (DayZ) 95]

Has anyone ever had a chance to try the Oculus Rift?

It's a strange coincidence that I was just looking for such a device in another context (360° pano photos) and then to find it in this forum.

Can it be used with any POV style game or does it need to be optimized for it?