***Dayz: Stand Alone Thread***

Rufus, your clarification post hit's the nail on the head with a few things, I think if you'd of explained so in the first post you'd of had a lot agreeing with you straight off the bat.

The problem now is, DayZ SA has sold over 1m copies. This isn't a small community of zombie game enthusiasts anymore, it's wide scale pressure. I really hope they can handle it and provide the game with the features they promised.
 
arknor said:
Pic of loads of zombies
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That looks great, its should make looting a little more challenging, did you notice any performance hit on the server?

I can imaging having that many clipping through the walls of a building and you wondering which wall there coming from is going to get pretty intense :p

EDIT Ahh! thats not standalone is it? have never seen death messages on SA
 
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I am going to get stuck into it tonight.

Bought it weeks ago and played for about an hour and really didn't get it despite wanting to get into the game for well over a year.

Can't quite make it tick for me just yet. Will try tonight.
 
Ok so DayZ stand alone has sold over 1 million copies, thats roughly £20 million they have earned. Thats more then enough to invest in people to help speed up and polish the game surely?
 
LateX'Dog said:
Ok so DayZ stand alone has sold over 1 million copies, thats roughly £20 million they have earned. Thats more then enough to invest in people to help speed up and polish the game surely?
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You'd have thought so... but then they aren't exactly going to be made to give it back if they don't bother, so why not just let DayZ SA fizzle out of existence and either retire to a life of luxury, or put the money into developing a new game...

The funny and tragic thing is I bet if that new game was DayZ SA+ on the Arma 3 engine; another early-access alpha build with their ass-covering messages plastered all over it the fanboys would still praise it like the best thing ever and jump at the chance to flush some more cash down the pan :rolleyes:

Maybe it'll become like the COD release cycle except the dev team have to do even less between each release?
 
uncle_rufus said:
You'd have thought so... but then they aren't exactly going to be made to give it back if they don't bother, so why not just let DayZ SA fizzle out of existence and either retire to a life of luxury, or put the money into developing a new game...

The funny and tragic thing is I bet if that new game was DayZ SA+ on the Arma 3 engine; another early-access alpha build with their ass-covering messages plastered all over it the fanboys would still praise it like the best thing ever and jump at the chance to flush some more cash down the pan :rolleyes:

Maybe it'll become like the COD release cycle except the dev team have to do even less between each release?
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This is where i fail to understand.

If over 1 million people have bought an alpha, why on earth would you not carry on development? :eek: :eek:

Why would you then invest that into another project, when you already have a massively successful but unfinished product?
 
LateX'Dog said:
This is where i fail to understand.

If over 1 million people have bought an alpha, why on earth would you not carry on development? :eek: :eek:

Why would you then invest that into another project, when you already have a massively successful but unfinished product?
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Because Rufus is making up pretend scenarios again like most of his posts. He rages a lot about a game he doesn't own. He has no idea what is happening behind closed doors yet likes to post as if he does.


The fact that they have said beta will be out late 2014 points out pretty clearly there is going to be at least one year of further dev, beta and release.
 
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What qualifies you to know what is going on behind closed doors more than me then?

Oh wait, hold on a sec!!! You're saying they said it's going to be out by a certain date?! My mistake!

That is clearly an absolute ironclad guarantee that a totally finished and polished DayZ Standalone is definitely going to happen in the future - I can't believe what a fool I've been to ever raise any doubts

Edit: Actually while your there hank, I've got this great idea for a game... now I don't really have anything to show you up-front, and I can't promise if it'll ever be finished, but I could use some capital to get it going, and then some totally unpaid testing from you... well actually... how about if instead of that you pay me a few thousand quid for the privilege of testing it? Cash or cheque is fine I don't mind
 
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Again more made up scenarios, you should write scripts, just don't ask for any funding :D

Exactly the same as you, I don't know what they are doing but I can assume something just as you assume nothing.


I didn't say it would be a perfect finished game at the end, you said you think they are going to stop dev and make an arma 3 version, if you read what I wrote you will understand its clear to see they are planning to dev SA for at least a year and im sure they will want to do a good job (you probably think they don't), you can't ask for anymore then they use all this money to carry on developing it which is what they have said they will do, if its great its great, if its plop its plop, just like anything you get good and bad products.
 
Agreed, of course it's a pessimism vs. optimism argument here, but I never claimed to be doing anything but speculating on what is really going on (as you say, the same as you are)

I actually didn't say I think they are stopping and making an Arma 3 version, just that there would be no consequences for them if they did decide to (highlighting that it's a bit rich charging people in the first place), and that I thought that if they did decide to do that it would be defended by fans of the game despite their actions prior to that (highlighting how blinded some people seem to be to any issues with how they are going about things)...

If you read my posts from about a page back (mansize-pages) you'll see that I also hope that they are doing something and that it all works out, and I will happily change my tune if/when things start happening on the development front that convince me that they are capable of executing what they are trying to do
 
Renton said:
That looks great, its should make looting a little more challenging, did you notice any performance hit on the server?

I can imaging having that many clipping through the walls of a building and you wondering which wall there coming from is going to get pretty intense :p

EDIT Ahh! thats not standalone is it? have never seen death messages on SA
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it's breaking point for arma3 we were talking about it on the last page :P


wanted to show you guys how many zombies that game has...

I made it to one of the big cities last night one with like an army base/research station outside it near the bottom right corner of the arma3 map.

so many zombies I could hardly loot lol, I didn't find any melee weapons :( running around with an ak47 and a pistol that looked a bit like a magnum and only 30 bullets :(

ended up getting overwhelmed by zombies and dieing lol...

I guess that's why when you spawn there's an option to be put into a buddy queue


I give up on dayz sa until they add stuff.

breaking point apparently has hundreds of different weapons, vehicles are in , helis are in etc you just have to find and repair them.

finding loot is easy just not the kind of loot you normally want.

waste of time playing dayz sa when it's so basic. maybe in 6 months I'll see if dean got of his arse or not

zombie game with no zombies hardly VS
skip to near the end hes been looting to long and all the zombies are gathering towards his location.

can hardly loot without getting overwhelmed unless your careful and a gunshot draws every zombie within a fairly large radius.

some of the zombies have backpacks with loot as well, some of the ones in military gear have ammo and guns in them etc

they move in a retarded way but it's nice they are actually dangerous
 
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Yeah I saw the post on the previous page that there had been an update then jumped to the conclusion your picture was the result of the update...damn my optimism :D
 
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uncle_rufus said:
You'd have thought so... but then they aren't exactly going to be made to give it back if they don't bother, so why not just let DayZ SA fizzle out of existence and either retire to a life of luxury, or put the money into developing a new game...

The funny and tragic thing is I bet if that new game was DayZ SA+ on the Arma 3 engine; another early-access alpha build with their ass-covering messages plastered all over it the fanboys would still praise it like the best thing ever and jump at the chance to flush some more cash down the pan :rolleyes:

Maybe it'll become like the COD release cycle except the dev team have to do even less between each release?
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Know I take it back, I thought you was trying to put togther a good argument for against. But you need to get a life and lol at "I worked on software", you clearly haven't not a high end title anyway as your understanding of all this is hilarious.


Cant you just leave the thread and find a game you like. I think you have made your point now and its becoming tiresome. We all get it "YOU DONT LIKE THE GAME"
 
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Anyone pleased with the SA must be either have not played the MOD or be retarded because it is so far behind & we should expect more considering we have paid.

Blah blah Alpha Alpha blah blah, I expect more, that is all.
 
I havent played the MOD this isnt the MOD shut up about teh MOD...

If it bothers you so much ask for you £20 back you seem pretty desperate for it. If it shuts you up ill pay pal you it myself.
 
Spils said:
I havent played the MOD this isnt the MOD shut up about teh MOD...

If it bothers you so much ask for you £20 back you seem pretty desperate for it. If it shuts you up ill pay pal you it myself.
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Just me or everyone that would rather have their money back?
Paypal would be great ta.
 
GIBURROWS said:
Anyone pleased with the SA must be either have not played the MOD or be retarded because it is so far behind & we should expect more considering we have paid.

Blah blah Alpha Alpha blah blah, I expect more, that is all.
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Yes because the mod was so perfect :rolleyes:

Arma II has different set's of developers working on all sorts of mod's, Overwatch, Epoch, DayZero etc etc.

I've already had my money's worth of SA. Does that mean I should be satisfied with it if they stop all updates and development now? No, I still expect more in the future, a lot more.

Jumping in with such a 'bullish' opinion and calling people retarded if they are pleased? No need.
 
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