Russian vs. Czech Ingame Assets - quo vadis, DayZ?

[Element47 2481]

the current ingame assets are largely a wild mixture of "off-the-shelf" premades from the Arma depository, and custom textures.

 

Most scenery items are russian: police cars, location/road signs, landmarks. Small objects like food/drink items have been adjusted with textures pointing to the czech origins.

Of course we are at a point in development, where most art assets are merely placeholders, and devs - rightfully - concentrate on base mechanics.But somewhere in the future game art, textures and assets will need to be consolidated into one direction, and i wonder which that may be.

 

What do you think, what rumours have you heard, what vision do you have for this game, its lore and thus, its art. Will it be a fictional former soviet republic, with the cyrillic script we have come to expect from road signs? will it be a slavic country, modeled after the "České země"? will it be something completely different?

Edited January 4, 2014 by e47

[hombrecz 832]

Small objects like food/drink items have been adjusted with textures pointing to the chech origins.

 

 

I don't want to nick pick, but please call us czechs, so "czech origins". 

I'm a bit unnerved by people mistaking Czech republic for Chechnya.

 

Regarding the rest of your post, I feel that mix of russian and some czech stuff is not a bad choice.

For most of western people it will hardly make any difference.

Edited January 4, 2014 by Hombre

[Jonson (DayZ) 31]

I don't want to nick pick (...)

 

Then don't. ;) 

[hombrecz 832]

Then don't. ;)

 

This time I have valid reason though. It's polite to call a nation by it's correct name and it is both polite and wise.

[Element47 2481]

edited OP to correct spelling. my apologies :)

[Mookzen 67]

I think its much easier for the west to understand russia so going that way is probably wiser, also much more material to be inspired from.

[The_Man 393]

I'm still confused. Where is the Czech influence other than in the level design? I thought the fictional country bordered Russia unlike the Czech Republic. 

 

I don't want to nick pick, but please call us czechs, so "czech origins". 

I'm a bit unnerved by people mistaking Czech republic for Chechnya.

 

Regarding the rest of your post, I feel that mix of russian and some czech stuff is not a bad choice.

For most of western people it will hardly make any difference.

 

Anyone who confuses the two is...well, a doofus. 

[Element47 2481]

I'm still confused. Where is the Czech influence other than in the level design? I thought the fictional country bordered Russia unlike the Czech Republic. 

 

 

Anyone who confuses the two is...well, a doofus.

Soda cans (and the soda vending machine in cherno) for example have czech textures (although it got me confused, as a supposedly strawberry-flavoured soda hat "malinove" - "raspberry" textures)

 

also to clarify, as my ego is hurt now :P - i have not confused the czech republic (which i visited on different occasions) with chechnya (or with the chech region in macedonia) - as a non-native speaker i misspelled it, as "chech" and "czech" bot use the "tʃ" pronouncation.

Edited January 4, 2014 by e47

[hombrecz 832]

edited OP to correct spelling. my apologies :)

 

No problem and thanks  :thumbsup: .

 

 

 

Anyone who confuses the two is...well, a doofus. 

 

 

You would be surprised then. After the bomb attacks in Boston, commited by some dudes from Chechnya, some americans thought it was work of Czech people. I mean I can not blame them completely, for I don't know every single state that USA consist of by heart, but still, it's a bit annoying.

 

I hope I did not sound like old grumpy hillbilly though :-).

 

Btw I'd like to see old trusty Sa vz.58 assault rifle in DayZ SA. Takes the same ammo as AK47/AKM, just the magazine is slightly different.

Could be the civilian semi-auto version as well.

Edited January 5, 2014 by Hombre

[Guest]

I think its much easier for the west to understand russia so going that way is probably wiser, also much more material to be inspired from.

 

:o - y should it be easier for the west to read/understand cyrillic?

 

i like how it is, mixed :)