doubleKlutch 1 Posted August 4, 2012 I'm uninstalling DayZ.If you care why, read on, otherwise, move along.I spend more time trying to play than playing.Sometimes, when I want to relax and play a game in my limited downtime, I boot up a game, play it, and then quit after playing enough.With DayZ though, I do it a bit differently.- I wait for a character to be created and ponder what that even means, I watch a minimum of 2 loading screens that too often hang for more then 10 minutes, load into a server at night, with no gear, and start over.- Then I wait for a character to be created again, and play for 20 minutes before my legs are broken in a doorway,so I spend 10 minutes crawling to a zombie so he can put me down.-Then I wait for a character to create, and load, again.-I have a 30 minute session where I stumble onto a sniper and jack her Enfield. Then I lose my connection.- Wait for character to create (pondering all the while), mystery loading screen lotery: loading?... Loading?... no, it's hung- sixlauncher is hung too??-install dayzCommander (yay, so much better)- wait for a character to create (ponder), load? Yay! ... Yay? I spawn in a house... an unlootable house... I try to crawl out of it. 'You have been glitch-killed.'-... All this loading, I better figure out how to play this in windowed mode so I can do something other than stare at a loading screen for 5 out of every 20 minutes. Alt-enter? Sweet. Oh, it's stuck on 4:3 aspect ratio.. crap.-try desperately to change the windowed aspect ratio. give up. Notice that I cannot change video settings (they always revert to default). Fuck it, framerate isn't too bad on high settings... I've only got an hour of downtime left anyway...-wait for character to create (seriously, wtf is it talking about?! If you wait for it before you create it, then you'll be waiting forever!). load? ... load?? ... I mean really, LOAD? ... yes. loaded.-20 minutes, find a shotgun. Running to Palona through the woods - Oh, wait, no I'm not... This isn't the woods. I've been teleported to a room? A room full of Bear traps? (Ouch) A room full of bear traps and the other 30 players?! We all look around in a moment of confusion. Then somebody shoots. An explosion of gunfire and beartraps. "You are dead"-Unistall.Honestly it boils down to one single problem: load time. All could be forgiven if I could just jump back into the game, but when each upset costs 10 minutes of loading and reloading... Honestly, I've booked more hours restarting and glitching than I have actually playing.Yes, it's an alpha. I can't change that, but honestly, I think it inherits most of its instability from Arma. I've tried playing the base game as well, and that is a similarly glitchy experience. (Is ArmaII in beta phase? I can't tell. Why does a beta have expansion packs?) And Arma3? Hands on the steering wheel is all they could say about updating the vehicle engine? I dunno, I'm just not seeing any bright horizon here."But it's free!" No, it's not. It cost me $23. Amra2 sales are up 500%. People are buying DayZ, not Arma. And I don't blame them. Arma vanilla is an interface nightmare. DayZ does it right by eliminating 90% of the Arma engine right off the bat. When your base engine is as rough as this, then less is truly more.I'll sit back and wait for WarZ, and hope. And in the meantime, I'll try MineZ... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NoRegrets 495 Posted August 4, 2012 TL;DRReally ... DR ... GL with your free hard drive space Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bozo 18 Posted August 4, 2012 How come I've never broke a leg to a doorway or a glitch like that. All the glitches I've died to is only z's being able to hit through walls and some weird login glitch. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hidden_Ops (DayZ) 27 Posted August 4, 2012 I don't understand why people are expecting a polished game when they are testing an alpha.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Larce 8 Posted August 4, 2012 Should of played on a dedicated server then, you can tell the difference in load times. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vipala 32 Posted August 4, 2012 (edited) its an alpha dumbwitgood bye and good riddance. Edited August 4, 2012 by Vipala Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sgt.Asshat 607 Posted August 4, 2012 OH MAN, what a big loss of a kid who watched a yogsacst video and thought this "GAME" (not alpha mod) was going to be a piece of cake to play..... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zyfer.nyholm@gmail.com 131 Posted August 4, 2012 (edited) no one reads anymore it seems, so many disrespectful kiddie, does people even know what respect is anymore? its not even a whine post and people write the same shit, i cant help but sigh and watch these people die by their stupidity. Edited August 4, 2012 by Zyfer 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anton17 97 Posted August 4, 2012 I don't understand why people are expecting a polished game when they are testing an alpha....I do agree with this but you gotta ask yourself at what point alpha testing becomes masochism. With loading times, FPS issues, hackers and game-breaking bugs, mostly what we test is our own patience.Fortunately, private hives solve most of my issues and can test the mod as intended. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stripes 92 Posted August 4, 2012 You sound like a console gamer Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
suspense 210 Posted August 4, 2012 (edited) Atleast now you know, never apply for QA jobs at game studios, its most definatly not something for you. Congrats on ruling out one of the many possibilities in life.I do agree with this but you gotta ask yourself at what point alpha testing becomes masochism. With loading times, FPS issues, hackers and game-breaking bugs, mostly what we test is our own patience.Fortunately, private hives solve most of my issues and can test the mod as intended.Not really, private hives are for 1, not allowed. And for 2, modified. If you are posting feedback based on private modified hives, then holy shit.... Edited August 4, 2012 by Suspenselol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sethliopod 4 Posted August 4, 2012 Wait, Arma is still in alpha? That would explain a lot. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RedLlama 8 Posted August 4, 2012 Wait, Arma is still in alpha? That would explain a lot.No AmraII is a finished game. It has been finished for a few years. DayZ is a alpha mod. It still has a long way to go. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Element47 2480 Posted August 4, 2012 your points are all valid. and since you obviously did not enjoy your experience, no one can blame you for quitting.you have encountered the typcial, unpolished, buggy, lagging, dragging, often frustrating experience of testing an unfinished software product. i am sure many will just post "tl;dr, this is alpha" - and as overused this reasoning is, its absolutely applicable in this case.many game developers offer a release candidate as 'public beta' for marketing purposes, basically to bait people and get interest and PR. this isnt the case here. this isnt a demo or a release candidate pretending to be beta. its not even true beta. its alpha. its bugridden, full of exploits, its hacked together, it is under heavy construction.you dont expect to have a pleasant living experience in a house, which is in the process of being build, without windows, without isolation, without heating, with construction workers operating a drillhammer in your living room. dont expect a pleasant gaming experience from a game in a similar state of development. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
christopher.hill449@gmail.com 314 Posted August 4, 2012 I like how everyone has quit for a unreleased game (That is said to be PVE)Go there,survive in your PVE world. Wah wah wah wah wah. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
suspense 210 Posted August 4, 2012 Wait, Arma is still in alpha? That would explain a lot.ArmA isnt alpha, the mod is. Have you ever played regurlar ArmA 2? You should try it, you would see how fluid it is, how few bugs there are, and how animations and gameplay just run 1000 better then Day Z. The mod is in alpha, the game is not. The mod alters a lot of behaviour and thus can make the game looke broken, when it in fact, is not. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Legacy (DayZ) 1091 Posted August 4, 2012 Great thread, actually... Great Common Thread.Locked We don't need anymore "I'm leaving" posts. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
christopher.hill449@gmail.com 314 Posted August 4, 2012 xD Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
