DayZ - To be released in 2016

[Churchill]

The bandit AI spawns when you're near. The AI we're running is different than most Epoch servers (who normally use Sarges AI) while ours are based on the OA version. They are turned down to 1% accuracy and no awareness and they will still kill you fairly easily. The AI that spawn for the AI Missions/Events (Red/Green circles on the map) are not turned down and if you go near them during the day time without a plan or heavy weapons, they will put a bullet in your head instantly.

The AI Helos are also turned down extremely low because prior to doing so they were better than any players in the history of ever. Basically, if you drove a vehicle around they would shoot your tires out within 3 seconds and you shortly after.

Our server pop is really weird, we do have ~12 regulars, but they all play different timezones. The population data is here, it's pretty difficult to get a Dayz server populated but I think we're making fairly good progress.

[djzombie]

im loggin into epoch right now. you on church?

[6souls]

[BaneTheBrawler]

game is doomed

[Waraji]

Live Stream going on right now. This thing looks mad playable for alpha testing!

http://www.twitch.tv/rocket2guns

Gdit Dean can take all my moneys right now.

Edit: Dean possibly spilling the beans about them Locking the Build.

[Brill Weave]

game is doomed

You're full of shit.






























Get it?

[BaneTheBrawler]

ha haaaa!


i dont remember what the context of my post was, but i think i was being sarcastic because people always say that shit after seeing early footage, regardless of how good it is.

[Trocian]

So yeah, Standalone is out. Kinda pricey for an alpha, but oh well.

[Zetanio]

Almost done downloading. Hyyyypppppeeeeetrainnnnnnn

[Maaglin]

$30 for an alpha relase? Out of your mind.

[Arelian]

I don't understand this logic. It's $30 for preordering, basically, and you get access to the alpha/beta versions along the way?

[Zetanio]

It's buggy and the food/drink system is broken. Fun for a little while but it's a long road.

[Burningthought]

$30 for an alpha relase? Out of your mind.

Yeah this is a little too alpha for my $30. I'll wait for beta or the release before I pick it up.

[guartz]

well worth 30 bucks

[djzombie]

think the price is only going to increase as they release more content/go into beta. even if you have no desire to play it in its currently buggy state, no reason not to pick it up now if you do intend on playing it when they add enough content to make it interesting.

as of now i think there is like 6 guns. most of their efforts seemed to be concentrated on making a variety of clothing/new inventory system/crafting

no vehicles either, so if you're gonna play i hope you <3 running. lol what am i saying, i play on an epoch server with 500+ vehicles and still end up running everywhere.'

most of my squad has already picked up the standalone, i'll be gettin it tomorrow morning after i get paid. hype train is a rollin... chooooo chooo.

[guartz]

Oh man, everybody's toon has been wiped lol

[djzombie]

bought the game yesturday, got to play a little before i let for work. really loving what they've done with it. the multi layered clothing adding inventory slots is a really cool idea, especially with holsters that actually function.

i put a chest holster on, dropped my pistol in it, and my pistol actually shows up on my body in the holster, and as a result, frees up 4 slots in my main inventory.

Heres a look at my character yesturday, before i got home and had to start over. Btw, one of my friends said you're going to lose your character progress with every one of these early updates until they fix that problem.

pic, spoilered for large.

Spoiler: show

so as you can see i've got on a hoodie(4 inv), tac vest(6 or 8 i think), and then on my head is two separate items as well, wolf mask(from payday2) and a tactical helmet. each piece of clothing offers its own individual inventory slots and protection.

performance is great once you tweak it to your system. for some reason(my just be my crappy video card) there was a haze of blurry fog around trees far away from me. in the rendering settings you can change it to render trees and grass like operation arrowhead. this simple change gave the game beautiful looking trees at distances and about +10fps as well.

after you get steady fps and some acceptable level of eye candy, the interface and the controls are really fluid and intuitive, especially if you're familiar with the arma/dayz control scheme. the only thing that is not really intuitive is the mouse wheel menu. they completely changed the look of it, and now instead of left clicking to select an option, you use the mousewheel to underline the one you want and then hit the f key. this is gonna be nice once you get used to it because it prevents things like accidentally firing into your buddy with a high caliber rifle while you were trying to blood bag him because he had low health and the mousewheel menu started fading just before you click the left mouse button. true fucking story. many lulz were had.

my only small problem so far with the game is the proximity inventory. its a good concept but they need to increase the range by like 1m or 2m, just a slight increase. this is just because the new loot doesn't spawn in piles, it spawns where you have to look for it, sometimes under beds. which means if the item is completely under the bed, you can't get close enough to it for it to show up on proximity inventory. so you have to go to first person, prone, look at the item and use the take mousewheel option.

one last gripe. still no autorun key. wtf.

[djzombie]

seriously, most fun ever in dayz.

just had a situation where i ran to balota... i had just found a pack, but only had a pipe wrench on me, heard someone running around, he ran up but didn't have a weapon, i swung at him, he backed off ran out... i knew there was a wrench in the building but i didn't really care, takes so long to kill someone with. so i ran outside away from him and said over direct "stay away from me and i wont kill you"

so i get a good distance away while hes at the opening of the building i was in, and then i do the wave emote, he does it back. i run off down the airstrip towards the next building.

so i see this other guy with a baseball bat or axe or something, clearly different guy running at me. so i say over direct "we can do this the easy way or you can come at me bro" and he comes at me, we start hitting each other. then i see the guy i just let live, coming up behind this dude with the wrench i left in the building, as we're meleeing each other. so we both just start pounding this dude with wrenches in a violent circle of threeway melee combat, eventually the bat guy goes down, unconscious or dies, i couldn't tell. and we wave at each other and go on looting the airfield in separate directions.

so rewarding to have a situation where i didn't kos someone pay off in not only my favor, but the other guys as well.

[AvidLoki]

That's amazing lol

[Arkanna]

That story makes me want this game. I'm intrigued by it but I couldn't get into DayZ the mod. Just didn't work for me, so I'm really hesitant to drop the bills on this one. Someone help me out here lol.