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The War Z AKA "28 Scandals Later" AKA "bury the ones we love and plagiarize the rest"

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Zee-Row

Banned
Whats the secret to staying alive? i hate dying and having to wait an hour to come back. The living are more threatening in this game than the zombies themselves. Just like a horror movie!
 
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ROBOKITTYZILLA

Member
Zee-Row said:
Whats the secret to staying alive? i hate dying and having to wait an hour to come back. The living are more threatening in this game than the zombies themselves. Just like a horror movie!
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Why don't you just create more characters and play those in-between? You have 5 character slots.

If you delete a dead character and create a new one, do you still have to wait an hour?
 
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Zee-Row

Banned
ROBOKITTYZILLA said:
Why don't you just create more characters and play those in-between? You have 5 character slots.

If you delete a dead character and create a new one, do you still have to wait an hour?
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I saw that the characters themselves earn xp , i don't know what it does but i didn't want to start from scratch again.
 
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blitzcloud

Banned
Zee-Row said:
Whats the secret to staying alive? i hate dying and having to wait an hour to come back. The living are more threatening in this game than the zombies themselves. Just like a horror movie!
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Well, then you will love the full version. The actual timer will be 24h. That makes sense for avoiding an attitude of "bash everything", care zero about the character itself. dont heal up, dont eat, dont drink.

But out of the five spaces ill probably have two for hardcore, meaning there's no actual skills involved... and just recreate character.
 
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ROBOKITTYZILLA

Member
Just bought a Survivor package. Umm.. where do I update from a guest pass to a retail license? I clicked on "My Account" and it just says "Account site for The War Z coming up ASAP ". I clicked on "Register Account" and entered the license and it tried to create a new account instead so I backed out. I hope that doesn't invalidate the license... ugh
 
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Zee-Row

Banned
I ran into a crappy glitch , i was running down a hill and jumped. The jump made me go 30 feet in the air and when i landed i died.
 
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Stasis

Member
If anyone has a spare key let me know... I'd take a shot at this. Played DayZ for a while and I'm kinda curious about this.
 
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blitzcloud

Banned
androidcandy said:
Yea thanks for playing with us! That was my first time playing, but I had fun. Sorry we got killed at the end, but we had a good run. At least I got that guy that tried to take Robo's stuff lol
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Yeah lol. You were like y'aint getting that *smashes with flashlight*. The guy tried to get you though.

and then it just happened.

Thinking back, the best we could've done against that pistol player would have been you sprinting out sideways and me coming out half a second later. I think i'd have been able to shoot him down in that case and we would have survived. But that way it felt like a complete story that met its end.
 
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Ianan

Member
Would love to get playing this with some of you guys this weekend! Anywhere I can get details on TS etc? Anyone got a spare guest pass also?
 
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mkenyon

Banned
I have not had that much tension, excitement, and fear since the heyday of Shadowbane.

If fleshed out right, this game could be one of those milestone games I often look back on and smile about. Like Shadowbane.
 
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ROBOKITTYZILLA

Member
New patch!

  • Fix for weapons in quickslots showing no ammo
  • You can now sort the server browser.
  • Fixed the some safe zone exploits. Players should not be able to kill other players in the safe zones now.
  • Various map updates
  • Fixed an issue with players being stuck and getting kicked from server when logging in
  • Zombie damage was increased
  • Various crash fixes
  • You can now see the name of the player that killed you.
  • Two more characters have been added.
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Also:

Updates anti cheat engine - It's a Ban time!

Hey guys and girls !

So today we've updated our anticheat engine - okay "updated" is a wrong word - we've been updating it non stop for a last few weeks, today we just turn on ban engine

Over last few weeks we've been gathering information about cheats and hacks being used and being perfecting our detection system. Goal was to make system with potentially zero false positives. today we've decided we're at state when we can turn this system on and ban all those who're abusing game.

So let me go over all hack/cheat types and tell you how we address them:

1) ESP/ wallhacks.
While those being less game ruining than others, they're hardest to detect. Creators ( okay - one of the creators, others didn't even bothered to think what they're doing ) of those cheats are pretty clever guys, so it was a challenge to create system that detects them. We've started with system that gave us 95% false positive results, and at the end we come up with solution that gives us only 15% of false positive results. Yet it still to high to allow system to decide who deserves ban - so we're feeding information from the system to real human operators, who will analyze data and logs and will decide if person deserve ban.

2) Stats modification
Stupid, stupid hacks. Number one only few not exactly important stats are calculated on client, so by hacking those you won't get much of the advantage. More important - our system right now have 0% false positive on those types of cheats. Means - try to use it - you'll get automated BAN.

3) Ghost mode, engine exploits, getting inside geometry, etc.
Once again - we're detecting those hacks, and automatically ban users. Yet - each ban case is also sent to operators for review.

How we ban ?
First time we've detected you're cheating in a game, we'll give you 24-72 hours ban. After that time you'll be able to play game. Second time you'll try to use hacks - you'll be banned permanently. No refunds. BTW technically at least in USA this is also criminal offense - but clearly we won't be going after each person who's hacking unless they'll be persistent

My biggest problem with all this is that spending time on hacks are delaying release of the game features we've promised. For example clans/friends have been delayed for more than a week. YET, we firmly believe that hackers issue must be addressed first.
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Nekrono

Member
Man I want to try this game so bad! Anyone has a guest pass? I have Dead Space, L.A. Noire and some DOTA 2 beta keys for trade if it's a pass for more than 2 days...

There are passes for more than 2 days right?
 
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tamaster92

Member
Nekrono said:
Man I want to try this game so bad! Anyone has a guest pass? I have Dead Space, L.A. Noire and some DOTA 2 beta keys for trade if it's a pass for more than 2 days...

There are passes for more than 2 days right?
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All guest passes are for two days only.

And why did they increase zombie damage? They are fine as is they need to be a little slower.

EDIT:

And here is part 3 of my War Z let's play, better thanks to generous feedback!

http://youtu.be/blHLgQLVilA
 
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Oxigen_Waste

Banned
Anyone have a spare guest pass? I'd love to try this...

One question only... I loved Day Z but the user interface (the ridiculous amount of buttons) absolutely killed it for me. Is this "simpler" in that specific regard?
 
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tamaster92

Member
Oxigen_Waste said:
How does it compare to Day Z, overall?


Man, it really boggles the mind in these types of games that they don't make a 2 day pass available for everyone for free. That's how you reel people in goddamnit...
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It's only in alpha, getting lots of people to play it when its not finished and not polished is a bad idea,

as for its comparisons to DayZ.. I'd say its quite different, it feels a lot more arcadey but it is certainly just as difficult.
 
Woo-Fu

Woo-Fu

Banned
I hate the way alpha and beta mean whatever the developer in question wants them to mean. They're practically useless terms at this point, particularly for online games.
 
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tamaster92

Member
Woo-Fu said:
I hate the way alpha and beta mean whatever the developer in question wants them to mean. They're practically useless terms at this point, particularly for online games.
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I'd usually agree but trust me - this game si very much in alpha. There are entire features integral to gameplay that just don't exist yet.
 
Subterranean

Subterranean

Member
I have question about purchasing the game.

Does buying this equal having the full game upon release or is this just a alpha/beta purchase? Above the Legend tier it says "Be part of the game forever, become a legend!" Does that mean if you purchase the Legend tier that is the full game and buying the Survivor tier is just alpha/beta access?
 
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JambiBum

Member
Fourman said:
I have question about purchasing the game.

Does buying this equal having the full game upon release or is this just a alpha/beta purchase? Above the Legend tier it says "Be part of the game forever, become a legend!" Does that mean if you purchase the Legend tier that is the full game and buying the Survivor tier is just alpha/beta access?
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Buying it gives you full release. The legend thing basically just gives you special in game features like your name highlighted in chat, a star by your name in the player list, and a good amount of in game currency.
 
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Plumpman

Member
If anyone still has some guest passes I'd love to possibly trade a steam game for one.

Game looks increasingly interesting, always thought the arma engine was too clunky to handle many aspects of dayz, wanted to see myself how they handles it here.

Steam Name: Kinetic22
 
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Sykane

Member
Anyone wanna play sometime? I picked up the game today and while fun, the game might as well be a FFA deathmatch right now. It would be nice to actually team up with some people
 
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zugzug

Member
so what happened I was on a server playing for my first hour.....and just walking in the wilderness on a server with only 9 people on it and I just died and no message on who killed me and no zombies around me. Just suddenly your dead.

Edit: Don't think it was me bleeding out believe last I looked it was 90% health. and not hungry or thirsty, not sure if that can kill you.
 
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Raijin_Cain

Member
I have to say that since I have this game since day 1, that Im a bit bored.

I mean they still have a bunch of features to implement yet, so I guewss Im gonna take some time from it and come back later.

I do want to see the whole map, the stores in the safe zones etc, but right now I feel like I already did everything you are supposed to do. lol

Its a good game just needs more content at the moment.
 
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Jerrod

Member
Playing this game just to kill other players is fun (love raiding the apartments in Campos) but I wish they locked the game to first person perspective as people just sit around corners with shotguns all day making my assault rifles and sub-machine guns worthless.
 
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crimsonheadGCN

Banned
How do you activate the guest pass? My friend gave a key to me and I am unable to input it into the client.

Nevermind. My friend gave me all 3 guest pass keys as one and I thought it was just one really long key.
 
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Wolf Akela

Member
Uh... shit just hit the fan? Ex-War Z mod reveals some stuff about the game.

So, since I didn't sign any sort of NDA for those fuckfaces here are some interesting facts.

WarZ is a direct port over from War Inc. They literally took the game and added NPCs, made a large map, and changed around camera angles and gun settings while adding more functionality and switching over some things. ALL ART however was actually done in-house by their amazing ART team. (Those were the best guys to know, they were in touch more with the community than Kewk)

They randomly ban accounts that have a certain amount of time spent playing in-game, knowing they are hooked on the game so they re-buy the game.

Their anti-hack is actually functional but here's the kicker..wanna know WHY their bans are TEMPORARY the first time around? 0.8% hacking? Try an EXTREMELY LARGE PORTION of the player base is hacking. If they banned everyone they'd have a mass refund issue on their hands, and no one to play their piss poor of an excuse game.

they plan to HALT DEVELOPMENT AND ABANDON THE GAME in SIX months if revenue is not enough for them (I.E. People are not buying GC and spending the fuck out of it) -- take note, if they do not get ENOUGH revenue. They will have enough revenue to pay for the game development for over a year at this point in time already, but if they don't get enough to give themselves regular raises they will stop making the game and shut down the servers and website.
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