Q&A with Eugen Harton (Highlights)

[Tatanko 5591]

For those that don't have time to sit on Twitter and read every reply, I've compiled a list of Eugen's replies for those that are interested in getting the information. I'll try and sort it out in a logical manner, but I apologize in advance if it's confusing :P

 

NOTE: I am not posting absolutely everything that was asked. I am posting what I felt was interesting and worth noting. Also, he continues to answer questions so I'll try and update this accordingly.

 

NOTE 2: Due to limitations with the forum software, only the first few tweets have been "previewed" on the page. The rest you'll have to click through to see (it's important to see his answer with context, as sometimes it's a simple "yes" or "no"). Use the index to find what is relevant to you.

 

UPDATE: Q&A is now over. List has been updated through the end of the Q&A. Enjoy!

 

 

Index:

Vehicles

1. Vehicle Repair

2. Vehicle Inventory

3. Additional Vehicles

4. Firing Guns from Vehicles

5. Helicopters

Crafting & Base Building

1. Craft-able Tents and Shelter

2. Base Building

3. Crafting Tables & Advanced Crafting

Food & Cooking

1. Picking Fruit

2. Recipes & Storing Food

3. Cooking Without a Cooking Pot

Weapons

1. SVD Being Added

2. Additional Weapons

3. Winchester Model 70

Programming

1. Zombie/Animal AI #'s

2. NPCs/Enemy AI

3. Player Population #'s

4. Player-to-Player Item Trading

5. New Renderer ETA

6. Multithreading (CPUs)

7. Identifying Other Players

8. Bears & Foxes

9. Render Distance

10. Wounded Player Animations

11. Zombie Decapitation

12. Medical Tools & Medicine

13. AMD / ATI Optimization

Servers & Administration

1. Restart Intervals

2. Admin Tools

3. "Hardcore" Mode

4. Player Queue

Miscellaneous

1. Qhy Q&A is Important

2. 0.56 Experimental Release ETA

3. 0.56 Stable Release ETA

4. Game Controller Support

5. Expanding the Map

6. Electricity

7. Player Beards

8. Megaphones

9. Player Statistics (Leaderboards)

10. New Zombie Models

11. Character Customization

12. Military Tent Inventory Fix

13. Steam Workshop Integration

 

 

Vehicles

 

1. Vehicle Repair (1 to 2 months away):

 

2. Vehicle Inventory:

 

3. Additional Vehicles (including the Ikarus):

 

4. Firing Guns from Vehicles:

 

5. Helicopters:

 

 

Crafting & Base Building

 

1. Craft-able Tents and Shelter:

 

2. Base Building:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590120810683224065

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590127650825449472

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590127750217871360

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590142981686038529

 

3. Crafting Tables & Advanced Crafting

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590187315508686849

 

 

Food & Cooking

 

1. Picking Fruit:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590127164546273280

 

2. Recipes & Storing Food:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590117057741660160

 

3. Cooking Without a Cooking Pot (0.56 maybe?) :

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590116810168659968

 

 

Weapons

 

1. SVD Being Added (0.56 probably) :

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590114317015654402

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590187555271892993

 

2. Additional Weapons

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590159574260387840

 

3. Winchester Model 70:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590189782518620161

 

 

Programming

 

1. Zombie/Animal #'s:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590114190435692544

 

2. NPCs/Enemy AI:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590129265519284224

 

3. Player Population #'s:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590114608242958336

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590143751550566400

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590158283543031809

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590158458600759296

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590188438365806593

 

4. Player-to-Player Item Trading:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590133366319644672

 

5. New Renderer ETA (internal testing in late May) :

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590142830514941953

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590187450514939904

 

6. Multithreading (CPUs) :

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590128949272956928

 

7. Identifying Other Players:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590158011508858880

 

8. Bears & Foxes:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590158107151597568

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590159259557564416

 

9. Render Distance:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590158221651931137

 

10. Wounded Player Animations:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590158628147093504

 

11. Zombie Decapitation:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590159117064474624

 

12. Medical Tools & Medicine:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590159617004560385

 

13. AMD / ATI Optimization:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590187927612874752

 

 

Servers & Administration

 

1. Restart Intervals:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590128518329212928

 

2. Admin Tools:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590143337841197057

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590159201915265024

 

3. "Hardcore" Mode:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590158909966573568

 

4. Player Queue:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590159483323731969

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

1. Why Q&A is Important:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590116024273526784

 

2. 0.56 Experimental Release ETA:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590128208105885699

 

3. 0.56 Stable Release ETA:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590116471633739776

 

4. Game Controller Support:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590117473845911554

 

5. Expanding the Map:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590127217126014977

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590187800030535680

 

6. Electricity:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590128889768370176

 

7. Player Beards:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590129654834532352

 

8. Megaphones:

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590131728016105473

 

9. Player Statistics (Leaderboards) :

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590133133783228416

 

10. New Zombie Models (0.57 to 0.58) :

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590133403623813121

 

11. Character Customization

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590158484395712512

 

12. Military Tent Inventory Fix

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590187869026787328

 

13. Steam Workshop Integration

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/590188601738137601

[thewire 88]

sweet, son we will be able do the gangster way..drive-by shooting nice

[DURRHUNTER 597]

Someone sticky this now!

[BeaverProductions 441]

Superb work.  The spoiler previews dont work for me from the cooking section onwards.

[Tatanko 5591]

Superb work.  The spoiler previews dont work for me from the cooking section onwards.

Without knowing how the forum software works, I would venture a guess that it only previews a certain number of tweets per page or per post. The whole post is formatted identically, so I can only guess that something like that is going on. Sorry, you'll have to click the link  :(

[xCAPx 349]

Thx for your time Tatanko! :) Really interesting, some good news.

[BeaverProductions 441]

Without knowing how the forum software works, I would venture a guess that it only previews a certain number of tweets per page or per post. The whole post is formatted identically, so I can only guess that something like that is going on. Sorry, you'll have to click the link  :(

Thats perfectly fine.  Happy to click links.  A little extra work for all this tasty info is well worth it.  I gave up trying to track the answers in my twitter feed :)

 

Well done sir.

[Damnyourdeadman 1045]

According to the majority of responses,we seem to have a long wait ahead of us.

• Food recipes are a maybe
• Further map expansion plans is out of the question
• Only 75 player capacity per server
• 0.56 is probably planned for first week of May (maybe)
• Another vehicle addition other than the V3S is planned for 0.57+
• Renderer test is comming late May (only internally)
• Player custumization is a No (we kinda knew that but i held hoping...)
• Vehicle repair and inventory systems are tied to the new "inventory matrix" (propably 1-2 months)
• Multithreading is on standby awaiting new tech

 

On the brightside there were a couple of long awaited features confirmed,like Craftable tents and Electricity.

 

Personally i think that tech is the major restraining factor.

It's a vital requirement of great importance to features like multithreading support or even additional performance,essentilal for increasing zombie count.

The transition period to newer modules has only just begun and from the looks of it,seems like it's gonna be a long one...

Edited April 20, 2015 by Damnyourdeadman

[Tatanko 5591]

 

According to the majority of responses,we seem to have a long wait ahead of us.

• Food recipes are a maybe
• Further map expansion plans is out of the question
• Only 75 player capacity per server
• 0.56 is probably planned for first week of May (maybe)
• Another vehicle addition rather than the V3S is planned for 0.57+
• Renderer test is comming late May (only internally)
• Player custumization is a No (we kinda knew that but i held hoping...)
• Vehicle repair and inventory systems are tied to the new "inventory matrix" (propably 1-2 months)

 

 

Given that a lot of things are waiting on a new core system to be implemented (i.e. player controller, inventory matrix, renderer), I think we'll see a lot of good visible progress in a very short period of time... but it will seem like we waited forever for it ;)

Edited April 20, 2015 by Tatanko

[Bonappetit 117]

Good news, bit sadden on the customization answer as I would like some improvements there with more clothes variety so we all don't look the same after a visit to a military base.

[renpab80@gmail.com 41]

Hardcore mode? Where can i read something about it?

[Tatanko 5591]

Hardcore mode? Where can i read something about it?

Not sure, honestly. Maybe someone else knows more about it than I do...?

[igor-vk 909]

Who can wait for few more months for all those cool stuf??

[Damnyourdeadman 1045]

Hardcore mode? Where can i read something about it?

 

Here you go,enjoy!

[renpab80@gmail.com 41]

Here you go,enjoy!

Thanks, ah ok, i thought it meant something more in terms of a more hardcore survival experience(scarcity, etc.). But it heads in the direction of a private hive/perma death theme. Die and you can't respawn for 12 hours? Not bad, puts a lot of weight on your shoulders/decisions. I like it.

 

But i guess if i say i would play on a private server/first person only/day-night cycle+cold weather it would look like this -> 1/50 ;)

 

but i like the idea

[Coheed_IV 381]

Yeah, liked the hardcore mode comment, megaphones, and dismemberment of infected.

Also, he didn't say only 75 player per server, said it was a design choice 75-125, is how I took it.

[Tatanko 5591]

Also, he didn't say only 75 player per server, said it was a design choice 75-125, is how I took it.

That's how I took it as well. They've previously said they want a higher capacity (remember, 40 used to be the max) and his comments don't go against that in my opinion. I think what he was really trying to say was, "We'll see what performance looks like and set a limit from there." I imagine that server admins (or GSPs) will eventually have more control over that as well.

[pillock 850]

 

Q: Would it not be better adding the new render now and fixing bugs around that than fixing bugs and then adding new render?

 

A: No  [source]

 

This was my favourite.

Edited April 21, 2015 by Pillock

[ebrim 998]

Great work Tatanko!

[Inception. 9443]

Nice one. Mind if I add it to my signature?

Edited April 21, 2015 by Inception.

[Tatanko 5591]

Nice one. Mind if I add it to my signature?

Go for it! It's here to be informative :)

[xCAPx 349]

I've read all the Q&As once again and for me, this is the most disappointed part:

 

Q: Do you think more radical weather effects like snow, or maybe even a simulation of seasons will be possible in DayZ's future?
A: No sadly [source]

 

Does that really means we will never see snow, hail etc? No snowtexture layers for trees, buildings, streets, etc.? That would be really sad...

[Tatanko 5591]

Does that really means we will never see snow, hail etc? No snowtexture layers for trees, buildings, streets, etc.? That would be really sad...

That's correct. They've stated before that it's just too much work to be worth it. I'm sure the modding community will rectify that ;)

[xCAPx 349]

That's correct. They've stated before that it's just too much work to be worth it. I'm sure the modding community will rectify that ;)

 

Really? It is not worth it? A survival game without visual weather effects?

We get hundreds of guns with many different calibers and an authentic ballistic model, but no weather system?

This must be a dream? Am I in the right forums?

Sorry for this words, but I can't believe it.

I dreamed of a Chernarus+ with leafless trees and bushes, in a white Winter Wonderland or a beautiful summer with green trees and fresh fruits all over the place.

:(

+1 for modtools  :)  but it's not the same.

[scriptfactory 620]

Reading throught this Q&A I can only think: I had a lot of fun playing DayZ (600+ hours in 2014) but the game engine limitations are so fucking disappointing.