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DayZ - zombie apocalypse online FFA permadeath survival Arma II mod
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tamaster92
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The lighting really does remind me of ARMA 3, hopefully they get the nights as good
littleworm
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Dat Gas Mask. I want it.
I was actually super duper impressed with the bat.
The fact that the damage varies based off the point of contact in the swing? Additionally, Rockets stated that there was a bug the when the contact is made, the animation follows all the way through instead of resetting, which will make a big difference on the total animation of the swing.
Add to that the sounds are planned to be reworked....I may rock the bat the entire time...from my horse. Maybe I'll ride a deer instead. Or I'll keep rats in my bag and throw them at people once the physics is fixed (explanation why grenades aren't currently in; he wants everything to be throwable)
And the M4 sound is whacked. Far too quiet.
I have a feeling its the same or more than the mod. But since zombies dont spawn ON the player you dont notice them as much.
IIRC they said they wanted ~3K (which is 3 times more than the mod amount) zombies. As you said, right now it looks like the usual 700-900.
so good
That's pretty cool, so instead of shooting dudes I'll just have to hold them at gunpoint and rob them.
Or you can headshot them and only damage their head gear.
300+ zombies in cherno, which is a lot.
Cool script to get a feel for the amount that will be in the game: http://jsfiddle.net/WDy7p/7/embedded/result/
No.
Yeah, but there will be microtransactions. For instance you can buy a starter pack for $9.99 which will give you a Lee Enfield, three bandages and 2 cans of water and beans when the first spawn in. Keep in mind that if you die you'll lose this stuff forever, though.
The_Player
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Ew. Doesn't sound like the developer has high regards for consoles.
Doesn't give me confidence, after suffering from some obvious Master Race ports that got the redheaded stepchild treatment on consoles. Valve's Counterstrike:GO & Overkill's PayDay2 for instance. No patches, no DLC, etc.
Will be giving this a more critical look-over before thinking about picking it up on PS4.
By the time DayZ Console Edition shambles its way to consoles, The Last of Us 2 will probably be an option.
Oh boy, I thought I would never see the day when console gamers complain about ports quality. Welcome to the reality we're living in. Also Rocket was obviously joking.
You can use ducktape, bindings, or handcuffs to restrain people now. The tools are there, the motivation is there, I think shooting on sight will go down dramatically.
I'll just kill people after I rob them now. I'm not interested in them running off to find a melee weapon to hack me in the back of the head with. It just adds another step but doesn't completely remove KOS. And if someone tries to rob me, I'm going down fighting so that if I do end up dieing they'll just get a bunch of ruined gear.
When firearms are basically insta-kill, you shoot immediatly because you don't want the other to even think of shooting (thus killing) you: because you understand, as soon as you meet someone, that if he does intend to shoot, you're already dead if you just give him the chance.
And thus I sincerely think the effect of the equipment damage will be negligible: immediatly and radically eliminating a concrete deadly threat, even at the cost of ruining loot, is still far too convenient.
What must be done IMO is to make shooting sorta inconvenient.
Zombies attraction to gunshots for example, is one good solution that needs to be properly tuned now that melee is in: when you are in a town crossing into someone else, you would think twice before shooting, knowing it'll pull zombies onto you (that's why I lamented the seemingly low amount of zombies in the stream).
..and the very same gunshot sound mechanic helps with promoting teamplay too: if even the bog standard pistol has a good zombie attraction factor, the lone "shoot&loot" wolf will have hard times, he'd need comrades to help deal with the zombie wave if he want to do it reliably and in relative "safety".
Leveraging like this the gunshots influence will make scavenging very melee+sneaking, especially if you're alone. I'm sure many wouldn't like this, but it has been stated that the game is about survival and I would keep pursuing the survival aspect above everything else; after all there's literally plenty of games about shooting around.
And thus I sincerely think the effect of the equipment damage will be negligible: immediatly and radically eliminating a concrete deadly threat, even at the cost of ruining loot, is still far too convenient.
What must be done IMO is to make shooting sorta inconvenient.
Zombies attraction to gunshots for example, is one good solution that needs to be properly tuned now that melee is in: when you are in a town crossing into someone else, you would think twice before shooting, knowing it'll pull zombies onto you (that's why I lamented the seemingly low amount of zombies in the stream).
..and the very same gunshot sound mechanic helps with promoting teamplay too: if even the bog standard pistol has a good zombie attraction factor, the lone "shoot&loot" wolf will have hard times, he'd need comrades to help deal with the zombie wave if he want to do it reliably and in relative "safety".
Leveraging like this the gunshots influence will make scavenging very melee+sneaking, especially if you're alone. I'm sure many wouldn't like this, but it has been stated that the game is about survival and I would keep pursuing the survival aspect above everything else; after all there's literally plenty of games about shooting around.
Yeah, makes sense. I would be less likely to shoot on site if I knew a horde of zombies would attack me immediately after I killed someone. Because I need time to go through their loot but I can't do that if I'm under heavy zombie attack. Having tons of zombies that are hard to deal with could definitely keep people from shooting like crazy when they run into each other. Stealth becomes popular. So a massive threat in the background could even things out a bit better.
That business model would be evil incarnate
Pretty sure Rocket confirmed during the stream that it's buy to play and no micro-transactions or DLC to buy. And that the Alpha price would be cheaper than beta or retail.Rocket Scientist
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Damn, some guy I couldn't see (saw a dead zombie so assumed there was someone) kept pissing off zombies, but they were attacking me inside a building... I was hiding constantly so it must have been him tripping them off anyway. They did damage to me and when I started running around looking for bandages or something he pops up and shoots me. Machete =(
indigo-cyclops
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DO want now.
Add to that the scarcity of ammo. It's been reasonably abundant during the streams, but Rocket pointed out that he shouldn't really have been finding whole mags - these will be largely removed, and we will be more likely to find empty mags and individual rounds. You may find yourself in a position where you have ammo to kill someone, but not enough to defend yourself against the zeds you attract in the process.
arts&crafts
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i missed this stream, is there a video of it? or am I shit out of luck?
http://www.twitch.tv/rocket2guns/b/485686449
That's the archived video from Rocket's Twitch account.
arts&crafts
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If you have issues with Twitch crapping out, someone has re-upped it to Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln1g2yNRNjE&list=PLhL4liEFkjCgjPu2-onWYc2VWPKTSaS1Z
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln1g2yNRNjE&list=PLhL4liEFkjCgjPu2-onWYc2VWPKTSaS1Z
Piercedveil
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littleworm
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Fantastic!
mercenar1e
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Nay, I'm thinking mid-January.
I reckon before Christmas since Dean mentioned wanting to go back home for the holidays.
They really need to improve the melee. :/ Scare healing items and needing to bash something 20 times wont cut it.
littleworm
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So who of the old crew, (Knox,Mikey,Zero,Ryan DG, Trapfire) and so on are coming back for SA? I miss playing with you guys.
I hope Ryan comes back. That silky smooth voice calmed my nerves. Was trapfire the one that hates Zen now? Because Zen shot him in cold blood for taking a gun out of his backpack? Can't remember if it's him. Gonna be a shitload of people in mumble when Alpha hits. We'll need to split up into teams and assign some leaders to avoid all out chaos.
littleworm
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Hehe yeah, that was Trapfire. Spends hours stumbling around in the dark in Lingor, ends up running in a large circle. So we cross the entire map to get him. Only for Zen to shoot him in the face.
littleworm
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Thought that they were gonna take the day off today. No updates to the SteamDB but Rocket says they where hard at work.
Huh. The fact that they are working weekends tells me that they are really trying to get this thing out before the end of the year. I guess that would be obvious, but it's nice to see them working extra hard.
Is it me or is the fps much more smooth than the mod? Looks good regardless.
littleworm
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Probably due to the fact that SA pushes a lot of the calculations server side which would take stress of the end user.
