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[olemars]

Hotfixes are rolling in daily right now, so the state of things are generally a bit fluid.

[fenrif]

Hotfixes are rolling in daily right now, so the state of things are generally a bit fluid.

It's a shame that the hotfixes generally add in new untested features and horrendous bugs. I know about as much about game development as I do theoretical physics, but it seems to me that if you're releasing a hotfix for a gamebreaker bug, it's not a good idea to introduce new untested potentially gamebreaking things along side it?

[sluissa]

Sounds like you are not doing it right.

Stealthed trough the entire Balota army base without attracting a zombie, got a nice AKM for my troubles.


Remember kids, empty tin cans are usefull!

Every time I've tried throwing tin cans, the zombies run directly at me. At this point, I honestly think anyone who suggests that is trolling.

I have no problem having to sneak around zombies... but when out of nowhere one comes running from the other side of a building I"m not anywhere near. That's when I have a problem. And this happens ALL THE TIME. There still seems to be no way to run from zombies effectively either. I've heard about breaking LOS, and I've tried it, but it doesn't work for me. The zombies are still just as fast as ever and still just as persistant as ever. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I can't think of any other way to do it from an unarmed starting position.

[Whitefoxsniper]

The only way I've ever successfully escaped a zombie is by running through a 2 exit building, the hard part then is not picking up another as you sprint away from agro distance. The zombie will be forced to walk as you run as fast as you can in the opposite direction.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Sounds like you are not doing it right.

Stealthed trough the entire Balota army base without attracting a zombie, got a nice AKM for my troubles.


Remember kids, empty tin cans are usefull!

Every time I've tried throwing tin cans, the zombies run directly at me. At this point, I honestly think anyone who suggests that is trolling.

I have no problem having to sneak around zombies... but when out of nowhere one comes running from the other side of a building I"m not anywhere near. That's when I have a problem. And this happens ALL THE TIME. There still seems to be no way to run from zombies effectively either. I've heard about breaking LOS, and I've tried it, but it doesn't work for me. The zombies are still just as fast as ever and still just as persistant as ever. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I can't think of any other way to do it from an unarmed starting position.

Make sure that your not within LOS when throwing a can and aim up, you can do it with smoke grenades too, I once accidently threw a smoke grenade indoors and had to hide behind a wall while a horde of zombies were playing with the grenade. I ended up getting an axe for me troubles.

If you're near the coast, run onto a dock, zombies refuse to step onto docks (It's against their religion) so you can dance all you want. It also works with those concrete extrusions in Cherno and elektro

[head]

I think the LOS raycasting is still a tad broken so.

I haven't played latest patch so im not sure they fucked it over.

But yea dont throw cans while infront a zombie just makes your more visable.

You throw it to lure them away

[fenrif]

Totalbiscuit WTF is... DayZ

Notable for two reasons, he plays it with Rocket while conducting an interview, and they both start with makarovs and plenty of ammo. And before anyone says, yes this was filmed after the patch that removed the starting gun, since they find a double barreled shotgun and talk about the changes.

So I guess removing the starting gun was such a great idea that he doesn't play that way?

[Vendayn]

Totalbiscuit WTF is... DayZ

Notable for two reasons, he plays it with Rocket while conducting an interview, and they both start with makarovs and plenty of ammo. And before anyone says, yes this was filmed after the patch that removed the starting gun, since they find a double barreled shotgun and talk about the changes.

So I guess removing the starting gun was such a great idea that he doesn't play that way?

He is the creator/admin. If he wants to nuke every city in the game, he can do just that.

Whether people like that or not is a different thing however.

[Fayrik]

Totalbiscuit WTF is... DayZ

Notable for two reasons, he plays it with Rocket while conducting an interview, and they both start with makarovs and plenty of ammo. And before anyone says, yes this was filmed after the patch that removed the starting gun, since they find a double barreled shotgun and talk about the changes.

So I guess removing the starting gun was such a great idea that he doesn't play that way?

So, having a starting gun was reason one...
What's reason two?

[Descan]

He plays it while having an interview with Rocket/playing with him.

[Fayrik]

Oh. I must be blind.

Although I may not have played the game in some time, it looks like things are actually slowly getting better. I stopped playing 'cause I thought some of the directions it was headed in where a little uninteresting, but his goal of more teamwork sounds promising.

Not that I don't want player versus player at all, it's just, I'd appreciate it much more if the environment was more menacing than the other people playing.

I have to say, though, after watching that video, I absolutely must commend his spirit of "We'll try stuff, and see how it works.", there's just not enough of that going around in games any more.

[MasterFancyPants]

Totalbiscuit WTF is... DayZ

Notable for two reasons, he plays it with Rocket while conducting an interview, and they both start with makarovs and plenty of ammo. And before anyone says, yes this was filmed after the patch that removed the starting gun, since they find a double barreled shotgun and talk about the changes.

So I guess removing the starting gun was such a great idea that he doesn't play that way?

I'm pretty sure that they had just met up, or that that Rocket spawned them next to each other with weapons for the sake of the interview.

[fenrif]

The enviroment will never be more menacing than the other people playing. No matter how balls-hard he makes the zombies, how much he decreases food spawns, or how stingy the equipment spawns are. Other players are unpredictable, intelligent, creative and quite a lot of the time evil. That is where the meat of this game lies.

I'm pretty sure that they had just met up, or that that Rocket spawned them next to each other with weapons for the sake of the interview.

I doubt they'd been playing very long at all, since TB didn't seem to know any of the controls (how to run, vault, use inventory, mousewheel, etc).

And the problem is that if Rocket spawned them close together with weapons he's essentially saying that the bit before that, where you spawn on the coast and can't find a weapon for ages or die a handfull of times because you can't defend yourself, isn't what he want's people who don't know about the game to see. Either because it's not fun, or frustrating or whatever. Which begs the question as to why it's in the game at all. I mean he obviously want's a new players experience to be kind of frustrating and difficult, so why not present that in a series specifically designed to give new players a first impression of a game?

[Whitefoxsniper]

1.7.1.5 is out

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Developer's Note:
* A designation of [NEW] doesn't necessarily mean a new feature, 4chan, it means a change in operation not directly related to a bug. Could be for better performance or rebalancing.

Changelog:
* [NEW] Infected raycast for line-of-sight less often (improves performance)
* [FIXED] Infected can see through terrain ( https://dev-heaven.net/issues/33787 )
* [FIXED] Raycasting being taken from wrong body position (ensured it is from eye level)
* [FIXED] Infected sometimes spawn close to a player (previous check once, now up to ten times)
* [NEW] Infected bodies will despawn after 5 minutes of their death (improves performance)
* [FIXED] Sometimes infected will stand still after loosing line-of-sight ( https://dev-heaven.net/issues/33715 )
* [FIXED] Can dupe tent's by right clicking (forgot to close the window)
* [FIXED] Poor performance caused by infected search behavior (MAJOR performance increase during closed testing)
* [FIXED] Audibility is far to high (completely rebalanced, in line with how it was in previous updates)
* [FIXED] Can dupe food during cooking if click really fast (now you cannot)
* [FIXED] Trying to pick up a hatchet would create fake ammo (now will not)
* [FIXED] Hatchet takes up too much room (can now be transferred between toolbelt and primary slot through gear action)
* [REVERT] Hatchet now collected as an Item (toolbelt) and can be equipped to primary (gear action)
* [NEW] Flashlights can now be packed to toolbelt also (gear action)
* [NEW] New players will spawn with flashlight added to their toolbelt not backpack
* [FIXED] Infected sometimes not inspecting thrown items (they will walk to the location of a noise, 20-40m away)
* [FIXED] Unlimited Infected spawning (now has a cooldown enabled so it won't spawn too many at once)
* [FIXED] Melee weapon sounds non-existent/terrible (now has placeholder sounds)

You can make flashlights and axes take up utility spaces now so that you can actually carry them!

It seems like a performance update mostly.

[fenrif]

A whole load of [FIXED]. Just what I like to see.