Our fun day, ended pretty sucky because of bugs

[KenobiDK 0]

Hey Guys,

Had a fun day with 2 friends, found a loaded bus, found a tractor, placed some tents, raided supermarkets, gas stations, generally had a lot of fun.

Then we went to the NW airfield, parked our bus and a tent and went for the airfield. Raided the stuff with much excitement and fun, covering each other, having powerful weapons helped alot. Our next mission was to raid the other part of the airfield, we started in the most NW corner barracks, tower and firestation. We go back to the nearby ATV spot and find it intact, except for 2 wheels, so we fix it up with parts from gathered runs, 2 guys sits on it, all green parts, and it randomly explodes, leaving both at 3k hp, bleeding uncon, i fix them up with blood transfusions and epi pens, and we're lucky to still be alive. Minor bug, lots of laughing still.

We then go for the bus again and tent, and want to move to the SE part of the airfield. When suddenly one of our guys randomly dies inside the bus. Not so much fun, but we get his eq, store it in the bus, and go to pick him up at the coast. We get over halfway there, in the same town he has gotten to. I teleport back to the NW airfield, the bus teleports into a barn, looses all wheels and my other friend dies. I try to head down towards them both, maybe i can find some wheels and we're still good to go. Zombies spawns all around me in the towns, aggroes from MILES away, i use up 3 bandages and 1 morphine within 5 zombie attacks. I then decide to play it safe and start sniping them from long ranges, since i cant pass them like i usually do. I start sniping constantly checking my 6, when suddenly 4 zombies is attacking me, some kind of random spawn, i go uncon and die.

I know this is an alpha game, and believe me, we had a session of 10-11 hours of massive fun and adrenaline rushes, but it all aruptly ended with sadly some massive bugs and weird teleports. Im not sure we pick it up again tomorrow, it was alot of fighting today, just to reset to zero because of bugs, id rather be killed by camping snipers somewhere.

This might be a warning to some, and might be some known issues to others. Just know, this game can be so much fun, and sadly so frustrating as well.

My biggest issues was a guy dying phrone on a rock, random exploding ATV, random teleports, random death in a bus, and zombies spawning out of nowhere on top of me, making me bleed, uncon, breaking my stuff. I stood up in all the fights as soon as i saw a zombie had spotted me. And zombies just spotted us miles and miles away, even though we were being silent and crouching along.

Bright side is, we got a broken down bus with gear in, 2 semi filled tents and a semi safe traktor. Question is if we want to continue, or wait a few patches.

Sorry for the long post, google a potato if necessary.

Edited July 17, 2012 by KenobiDK

[KenobiDK 0]

Fuck it, we'll give it another go

[dreman04 18]

Fuck it, we'll give it another go

That's the spirit. I am frustrated at this game lately as well. I've had a few similar stories to yours. I can't count the amount of times I've died due to bugs. The amount of times I've ​ legitimately died to zombies and bandits are much much fewer than bugs, hackers, exploits. I'm trying my hardest to do my part in testing the alpha build of this mod, but I can't full test the features if I keep losing items, respawning in debug forest, exploding when logging in, having zombies walk through walls/floors, etc etc. I hope bug fixes are prioritized over anything else at this point truthfully.

Edit: Fuck it, we'll do it live

Edited July 18, 2012 by dreman04

[HalloweeNGT 23]

This is a mod, not a game, this is and will ever be glitched/bugged/hacked till a bigger dev team leads the mod into a standalone game.

Give it another chance, maybe you have fun again but you can be sure that some other random glitches will end that.

Edited July 18, 2012 by HalloweeNGT

[GeeksterDayZ 55]

I'd say that if you managed to go 10-11 hours before you encountered a bug, then you had a damn good run!

Regardless of whether it is bugs, glitches, hackers, zombies, or another player simply sniping you all the way from Cherno, things can and probably will always end abruptly - such is the nature of the game. You can die at any second, every second, it's part of the tenseness, rush, fun and scares all together.

Have another go, and another, and another.... it's a different story every time! :)

[dreman04 18]

This is a mod, not a game, this is and will ever be glitched/bugged/hacked till a bigger dev team leads the mod into a standalone game.

Give it another chance, maybe you have fun again but you can be sure that some other random glitches will end that.

It's with intentions of moving towards a game. As part of the alpha testing it's our job to give feedback. I don't think hiding behind the "it's a mod" excuse is helpful. Even if Rocket knows these issues exist, it can't hurt to let him know what and how we're experiencing these bugs so fixes for them can be made in the future.

[HalloweeNGT 23]

It's with intentions of moving towards a game. As part of the alpha testing it's our job to give feedback. I don't think hiding behind the "it's a mod" excuse is helpful. Even if Rocket knows these issues exist, it can't hurt to let him know what and how we're experiencing these bugs so fixes for them can be made in the future.

Yeah but intentions are worth zero, we are testing a bugged mod from a bugged game, maybe its time to leave this and start working on a true game like some other companies are doing instead of wasting time on a engine that its about to be left to his own luck (if it isnt already).

I would not blame if rocket says that this mod is gonna be totally abbandoned cause they are gonna start work on a standalone game, even if we have no dayz for months.

Edited July 18, 2012 by HalloweeNGT

[Addicted (DayZ) 32]

Mmm potato.

[dreman04 18]

Yeah but intentions are worth zero, we are testing a bugged mod from a bugged game, maybe its time to leave this and start working on a true game like some other companies are doing instead of wasting time on a engine that its about to be left to his own luck (if it isnt already).

I would not blame if rocket says that this mod is gonna be totally abbandoned cause they are gonna start work on a standalone game, even if we have no dayz for months.

If that's what it takes for us to be able to play a build of the game we can actually test and give feedback on, I would be all aboard that idea as well. I hope Rocket moves fast enough so no one rips his idea off from under his nose.

[KenobiDK 0]

This is a mod, not a game, this is and will ever be glitched/bugged/hacked till a bigger dev team leads the mod into a standalone game.

Give it another chance, maybe you have fun again but you can be sure that some other random glitches will end that.

Im sure we're going to have fun again. I would rather have been swarmed, sniped, shot, rather than die from bugs. Id rather go down in a firefight or just die from someone outsmarting me.

[species5021 28]

I personally haven't died yet from the newest patch bugs but my brother sure has, over 11 times already just dieing in various strange ways. He even at some point got an earlier version of himself back after dieing in the air, respawning at the coast and dieing again. Then he was back on the hill at elektro with his NV goggles and rangefinder aswell as his main inventory gear but no backpack... I think this patch has introduced the most bugs so far.

[KenobiDK 0]

And at the moment i get zombies aggroing from everywhere, even when sitting completely still. Just died being phrone near the coast and a zombie came running from line of sight directly and attacked me. No idea whats going on