Testers Laboratory

[Ashbelmont 0]

With DayZ expanding, everyone is getting excited in their own ways. Greeting new updates with either love, hate, confusion, or frustration; we as a community always fall back on one statement to refocus everyone's attention. That statement being "It's still in ALPHA" but with that said, how can we use such information to better see the mod's growth?

Suggestion forum? Maybe... but maybe not. As much as it does have discussions of game mechanics well suited for the ARMA II engine, there isn't a solid place for ALPHA minded players to speak full heartily how they feel about the mod as a whole and the how the changes between updates effect the world of DayZ. OH WHAT? General Discussion? Yes, that forum also has nice posts about game breaking elements but again, not a place where testing and tester discussion is the main focus.

While every bandit camps around joking about bloody beans and every survivor thinks he'll be the next savior of Chernarus (both extremes, don't get your Coyote packs in a bunch), can there be a place for us testers to solely focus on DayZ as an Alpha mod and its future? A "Testers Laboratory" if you will?

PS. If I'm bleeding and know that I have a bandage(s) in the small pockets of my combat vest (aka inventory), there's little reason to open up the window to select it for a single use. Bandages are stored where sidearm ammo is but we don't need to open the inventory window to reload our sidearms. Eating and drinking are suited with the new right click use system because cans and bottles are within a larger group of items but the bandages are separate thus should be allowed within the quick scroll wheel method of item consumption.

[oktyabr 53]

Currently there are only two types of DayZ players and forum posters: good alpha testers and bad alpha testers. Everyone posting on these forums *should* ask themselves which one of those two they are.

It's an open alpha and everyone (well, at least a fraction of the players) has something to say on these forums. Maybe once this mod hits "beta" there will be a closed forum just for serious testers but for now opening another forum section to the public is just creating a new place for the same discussions.

[Ashbelmont 0]

Though I fully agree with you; I think a specific testing board will at least ease the time wasted surfing through non-sense threads along with identifying who here are the good and bad testers you speak of. None the less, Thank you for the reply.