Fun to done in less than 30 minutes...

[septuscap 42]

How much "alpha testing" does this need? Now we get to pay more to keep testing? That's fun and not completely retarded in any way.

Rocket didn't need this many testers. He's gone out of his way to focus on optimizations in order to facilitate the huge groundswell in popularity b/c obviously it's in his (and the mod's) interest to let players play it. But if you think he gives a single fuck about some one who is annoyed that an alpha is buggy, you'd be wrong. You didn't have to buy this game yet, it is clearly marked ALPHA.

At best, this can be considered a "pre-order to get you into beta" (buying ArmA2 in order to play-test DayZ), nowhere were you promised a finished game.

[ken@thekab.com 37]

Yes, I don't understand the word Alpha. That's it. It couldn't be because I basically paid for this(I didn't get Arma 2 for Arma 2).

You do realize Steam is basically advertising this mod right? I shouldn't "be grateful." They are using it as a selling point for Arma 2. Of course you don't. Go to Arma 2. The first thing you see under the video is is Day-Z Mod requires blah blah blah...

In the end, the patches shouldn't be going out until they are stable.

Bull. The patches go out whenever they bloody want and Rocket can do whatever he pleases. What Steam does and how they market is not under their control. DayZ hasn't been advertised by DayZ staff as anything other than a mod very early in it's development. That you chose to pay for a game to be able to play the mod does not put ANY burden on Rocket or anyone else to provide stability or QA.

[Sgt Abraham Ford 82]

Awesome, I'm getting hosed. FWIW, minecraft isn't horribly buggy to the point of being aggravating.

Yeah, you're getting hosed. Take your ball and go home, we don't need to see you cry (any more).

[Hendrix27 54]

You are incredibly stupid, of course there is bugs..ITS IN ALPHA IDIOT. And your a tester, your job is to report the bugs so they can be fixed.

[fml 29]

You guys, I think he is being sarcastic.

[Sgt Abraham Ford 82]

You'd think so, with the near-obvious-troll level of stupidity, but he's on other topics spewing his pity party nonsense. So he's getting the attention from this pathetic thread and also polluting the forums afterwards. He said he was done, he should get a permaban from the forums and alpha lol. Let him pay for the retail version.

[coolboynaked 0]

Um all of this is Arma not Day Z. You actually are giving $0 to Day Z by buying Arma 2. If you want to wait for all of these to be fixed, AND give money to the creators wait for the standalone version.

[Samsquanch (DayZ) 8]

I know the feeling. I was all for it when it first was released to the public, like very early release before all the zombie fans. Since then I've moved on, mostly due to un-solvable performance issues that popped up back in 1.5. It's hard to stay committed sometimes to a game like this, especially when the mod is buggy and totally alpha-y/beta-x.

This is my first post in a few months and I'm not planning on going back to playing just yet either. It's nice to see it progressing however.

[Maderas 12]

You'd think so, with the near-obvious-troll level of stupidity, but he's on other topics spewing his pity party nonsense. So he's getting the attention from this pathetic thread and also polluting the forums afterwards. He said he was done, he should get a permaban from the forums and alpha lol. Let him pay for the retail version.

You view the topic as being "forum pollution" and yet you still just had to post your canned "LOL CRY MORE GTFO!" response, eh? The hypocrisy on this forum is out there.

Edited July 13, 2012 by Maderas

[bad_mojo (DayZ) 1204]

You should have stoped reading at "Let me start by saying I really enjoyed the game until now.." then.

You should worry about yourself and let me live my own fucking life?

[DarkRaven123 602]

Honestly, I generally don't get angry and keep cool under most situations.

But you are such a blatant moron its getting under my skin severely.

You are acting as if Steam and Bohemia conned you into spending your money.

You're a fucking idiot.

Grow the fuck up you whiny bitch. Stop spewing your whiny 12 year old bile all over this forum.

Its sickening.

Edited July 13, 2012 by DarkRaven123

[Whattteva 32]

Honestly, I generally don't get angry and keep cool under most situations.

But you are such a blatant moron its getting under my skin severely.

You are acting as if Steam and Bohemia conned you into spending your money.

You're a fucking idiot.

Grow the fuck up you whiny bitch. Stop spewing your whiny 12 year old bile all over this forum.

Its sickening.

I'm not taking any sides or anything here. But you sound just like the very 12-year old (not even sure if he is really 12) that you loathe.

Adults (usually) are the more mature and rational ones. That feisty post of yours hardly depicts such traits.

[DarkRaven123 602]

I'm not taking any sides or anything here. But you sound just like the very 12-year old (not even sure if he is really 12) that you loathe.

Adults (usually) are the more mature and rational ones. That feisty post of yours hardly depicts such traits.

If you look at my other posts on this forum you'll see that you are mistaken.

Besides, I generally have better etiquette, this just my Aussie side coming out, when I talk in real life every 3rd or so word is C*** or fuck. Its just our way.

Regardless, the guy has somehow fooled himself into thinking that he was forced to buy the game, and didn't like it, so he came here (among other topics as well) to whine.

And I'm actually 20.

[Partypants Pete 7]

It boggles my mind some of you are so stupid. I feel like these kinds of topics are insta lockable. Or should be. All they ever are is "boohoo bugs whine whine bugs I have no clue what an alpha test mod is sniffle sniffle"

Know who cares if you quit? No one. Go quit and leave the players who are playing the game with the alpha mindset in peace.

However, if you truly want to contribute offer suggestions instead of just "somg bugs r so eazy to fix luls why rnt they fixed yet" threads.

Last thing. OP is so butthurt, haha.

[Whattteva 32]

It boggles my mind some of you are so stupid. I feel like these kinds of topics are insta lockable. Or should be. All they ever are is "boohoo bugs whine whine bugs I have no clue what an alpha test mod is sniffle sniffle"

Know who cares if you quit? No one. Go quit and leave the players who are playing the game with the alpha mindset in peace.

However, if you truly want to contribute offer suggestions instead of just "somg bugs r so eazy to fix luls why rnt they fixed yet" threads.

Last thing. OP is so butthurt, haha.

True that it gets old seeing the same threads everywhere, but I also get tired of seeing this kind of reply in all of those same threads also.

No one really cares whether or not you care about the OP quitting or not quitting.

Why don't you take your own advice and stop getting so "butthurt" about seeing these threads. If you actually don't reply to these kinds of threads, it would actually die out on its own once it gets off the first page of the forum, you know. You're just helping them bump and keep it on the first page by stating the obvious that everyone else already knows as well.

Also, I may have quoted you, but this is really targeted to everyone that posts similar things. Yours just happens to be the easiest one to quote cause it's the last post.

Edited July 13, 2012 by Whattteva

[Macenzie 79]

FFS this is an alpha, it IS GOING TO BE BUGGY.

This is not a finished game, this is just the core gameplay that WE ARE HERE TO TEST.

If you didnt have fun because of glitches go fucking play a AAA game.

[Hyperien 0]

Let me start by saying I really enjoyed the game until now. No other game could provide the same thrill this did. Sadly it's become too broken to enjoy...

Decided to show a new person how to play the game (because I like to inroduce people to things I enjoy) so we go to a 3 person server and he's in Cherno.

I give him a gun and then another friend wants to play but can't get on this particular server. Fine, let's go to a more populated one. Right as I'm telling him what to do I hear three gun shots. and I see smoke from his character. I assumed he fired his gun because he's not dead. Then some guy pops in and shoots me once which knocks me unconscious then I'm killed. My friend then tells me he's also dead.

I'm a three-time bandit so I'm not mad about getting killed fair and square... but it doesn't seem like it was that way...

I run back to Cherno to see if he's still looting my body. Well, he took off with my M4A3 CCO and mags and left me (my corpse) with a Lee Enfield. Turns out my friend died fucking standing up and the game didn't bother to put in the death notification until after I was also dead. Fucking fantastic. Yes, he's dead standing right the fuck up like he has a pistol in his hand. No wonder I didn't realize what exactly happened until it was too late.

Strike 1.

Whatever. I have a Lee Enfield and nothing to lose so I head to the most dense server I can to go get my kills back. I eventually get killed again inspecting a factory roof. I know he's going to still be there so I check the roof when I respawn. I think I see him proned and not paying attention (tunnel vision while watching over the town) so I prone up and loot his alice pack for a hand grenade. I crawl back and toss it. Boom nothing. Turns out that was my body. How did it get so far away from where I actually died? How did it get proned? I will never know

Strike 2.

Even still I really don't care because this guy is about to get destroyed as I noticed him on an adjacent roof camping and confused about the grenade that has gone off. All I need to do is take my Lee Enfield and end him. TOO BAD I CAN'T TAKE THE GUN OFF MY BODY. I can loot another grenade but he's too far for that. FINE IT'S OKAY STILL I can just log off and on to fix that problem. I couldn't loot my other dead body at first either. Re-join, I fall over and pass out. This is the slowest recovering passing out I've ever done. I'm talking at least like 3-5 minutes. Maybe he'll still be camping there when I wake up. I think I'll go get some water. I come back to be greeted by YOU HAVE DIED

Strike 3 I'm done.

I was recommending this to new people (especially because Arma 2 is on sale) but now until I see some sort of fix coming for this I am going to have to tell people to steer clear and put their money elsewhere.

Dear Angered Citizen of the internet Gamers today seem to have forgot what an ALPHA TEST is. An alpha is a buggy broken bairly working idea of a final product this is a test the mod is not any where near done this is not a game this is a test every one playing is helping rocket test his idea. is there fun to be had yes, is shit going to be broken and buggy yes.

[Macenzie 79]

Every patch IS going to fuck things up. This is because this mod is still under heavy development.

People who do not understand this concept of TESTING need to fuck right off and play a finished game.

[Whattteva 32]

Dear Angered Citizen of the internet Gamers today seem to have forgot what an ALPHA TEST is. An alpha is a buggy broken bairly working idea of a final product this is a test the mod is not any where near done this is not a game this is a test every one playing is helping rocket test his idea. is there fun to be had yes, is shit going to be broken and buggy yes.

People, stop saying things like it's not a game, it's just retarded. Think of the word mod, which comes from the word "modification". For there to even be a modification, there needs to be something that is modified. What is that something? *gasp* a fucking game. A modded game may not play the same way like the original unmodded game, but by extension, it is still a fucking game. Just cause you modified a game a little doesn't morph it into food or drink or book or some other damn object that it is not.

Here's an example. A hybrid car is just a normal car modded with an electric motor for better fuel efficiency. Do you now start going around and tell people that it's no longer a "car"?

Edited July 13, 2012 by Whattteva

[BoomBoom (DayZ) 4]

The amount of people who don't think this game is popular only for Day-Z is astounding. Furthermore they believe that The Arma people aren't actually profiting from this. They are profiting heavily. The mod should have been left at 1.7.1.5 (which was actually fun and that if they reverted back to I would probably go back and play) and the rest of the work put into the actual standalone. It's quite obvious it would outsell Arma II because again, Day-Z is why it's popular in the first place.

Considering this is paid developer work I should be expecting paid developer quality. Someone told me the standing death bug has always been here(even though that had NEVER happened until now). Why is it NOT fixed? Alpha isn't an excuse to drink martinis and watch bugs go unfixed.

Edited July 13, 2012 by SirAdmiral

[Macenzie 79]

People, stop saying things like it's not a game, it's just retarded. Think of the word mod, which comes from the word "modification". For there to even be a modification, there needs to be something that is modified. What is that something? *gasp* a fucking game. A modded game may not play the same way like the original unmodded game, but by extension, it is still a fucking game. Just cause you modified a game a little doesn't morph it into food or drink or book or some other damn object that it is not. Here's an example. A hybrid car is just a normal car modded with an electric motor for better fuel efficiency. Do you now start going around and tell people that it's no longer a "car"?

He's saying this is not a game not because this is a mod but because IT IS A MOD UNDER HEAVY DEVELOPMENT.

It's not finished enough to be considered a game yet.

Do you look at a car chassis that has no wheels, engine, glass, seats, paint, lights and still call it a car? Do you complain that you cannot drive it around yet?

[Whattteva 32]

He's saying this is not a game not because this is a mod but because IT IS A MOD UNDER HEAVY DEVELOPMENT.

It's not finished enough to be considered a game yet.

Do you look at a car chassis that has no wheels, engine, glass, seats, paint, lights and still call it a car? Do you complain that you cannot drive it around yet?

That's not even a valid analogy. This *ahem* mod is built on a game that's already finished. It's just icing on a cake, if you will. It's like a finished car with extra parts like turbo-charger. Beyond that, you're even playing it.... how are you playing it? like any other freaking normal PC games (keyboard and mouse). No matter how you slice it, it's a fucking game, finished or not.

Really, unless you're performing some sort of chemical reaction (altering their atomic properties), your end result when you modify something will always be close to whatever it is you modified.

At the end of the day, after all is said and done, it's a computer "software" that you play on your computer, which gives you control over a set of pixels that represent yourself in the virtual world. How else do you describe that? a freaking computer game.... It's just a game that is not quite fully polished yet, but regardless, it's still a game.

Edited July 13, 2012 by Whattteva

[Jugg 33]

You bought ARMA2. Arma2 works perfectly fine.

You then installed a mod in alpha, this mod is under heavy development. You did not purchase this mod.

Do you notice the difference? OP and a few others need to go have a cyanide breakfast.

[Whattteva 32]

double post

Edited July 13, 2012 by Whattteva

[Whattteva 32]

You bought ARMA2. Arma2 works perfectly fine.

You then installed a mod in alpha, this mod is under heavy development. You did not purchase this mod.

Do you notice the difference? OP and a few others need to go have a cyanide breakfast.

Not sure if "few others" include me or not, but just in case.

I'm fully aware that the mod is free and such. Also, I'm neither agreeing with the OP nor the ones that disagreed with him.

I'm just saying that "it's a mod, not a game" statement is just retarded. Yes, I know, unrelated to the thread, but it's just one of those things that I gotta' say something about cause it's annoying me.