Hmmm let me shatter your innocence to the cruelty of DAYZ!!
FLASHBACK TIME!!

Sure bro u can join LYN

If you die... you lose everything and start all over again. Thats all!

What u expect from TH?! LOL

Guys, BREAKING NEWS!

Dean Hall plans to leave Bohemia Interactive

[Those following Dean “Rocket” Hall’s reddit and twitter activities during the last few months foresaw what is now confirmed – Dean Hall plans to leave Bohemia Interactive behind him, and DayZ with it. This comes as a shocker for many others though, and many people will no doubt to start questioning the future of DayZ, which as successful as it may be, is still in an early alpha stage and needs proper guidance for a long, long time. Rocket hinted at his intentions in a recent AMA on reddit, but it was in an exclusive interview with Eurogamer that the lead developer of DayZ made his intentions brutally clear.

For the most part, the interview shows a Rocket that feels homesick. Dean Hall plans to start his own studio back in his home country of New Zealand. He wants to work on new projects and wants to keep trying to create the perfect multiplayer experience, something that he doesn’t see in DayZ’s future. ”I feel like DayZ is a fundamentally flawed concept and I’ve always recognised that. It’s not the perfect game; it’s not the multiplayer experience, and it never can be, with the absolute spark that I want in it.” he stated.

“I have a specific use. I’m really good at risk-taking and making other people take risks, I’ve always been good at that in my life. Like you say, maybe I’ve got the gift of the gab, so I can talk, I can explain something, I can talk people up to the ledge and get them to jump off it. That’s what I did with DayZ; I’ve done it twice now [once with the mod, again with the standalone] – two new code teams have separately done it. But eventually, that’s the bad person to have. Eventually, you don’t want the guy telling you to go over the top and get through. So at some point I’ll be a disaster for the project, at least in a leadership role.” is how Dean Hall backed up his decision.

Overall, it’s unclear when exactly Rocket will depart from Bohemia Interactive, leaving DayZ in other hands. His “by the end of the year” statement can be interpreted in many ways. The fact is, the community and fans are surely going to feel cheated. I’m not pessimistic enough to believe that DayZ will simply fail because of Rocket’s departure, but the team losing the creative director and project leader is a huge hit. By all accounts, DayZ’s beta was scheduled for the end of the year. This basically means Rocket will leave an unfinished product behind. Whether or not the team will manage to carry on successfully following his departure is not the question or the issue. The issue is centered on a lack of morality and ethics on behalf of Dean, and as much as I am a fan of his work, I cannot help thinking about the profits DayZ brought in and how this move feels like a hit-and-run.

What do you guys think? Is DayZ doomed, or was it doomed to begin with? Or will the remaining developers manage well enough without the leadership of Rocket?]

Directly copied from source: http://www.gamerheadlines.com/2014/02/dayz.../#ixzz2uF61Rhkl

The Big News came from here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-02-...-leader-of-dayz

He did go on to say after that that he will stay on for a year in his twitter
"I'm still working for another whole year, and more if needed. All I've said is that eventually, I want to do something else "

Whatever it is... wtf man. Breach of trust!

Nice one! But he really had it coming logging directly into an ATC. Bit comfortable isn't it

But i like the new dresscode rules...

all black or pants down

Relax, just another alpha death bro... thought we'd be used to it by now

Join us for a good time! But don't be too attached to your stuff... easy kill, easy death!

Hammie, we already started something like that on the steam group. Will that work?

OH! Is this the one where Jo accidentally drank disinfectant spray?!

Yup. We have a very fun, active group with lots of good members! Only reason why I keep playing Dayz

This is some awesome footage!

I died not in vain

This post has been edited by hamrog: Mar 4 2014, 07:28 PM

Awesome Footage!

Will add you when I get back from work today. cheers.

Yo where u at bro? been a while!

I think plastix is working or has some contacts working in this industry

Hey guys, sorry been away on assignment. Should play more often these days

Hey guys... so the devs have uploaded their anniversary video and their year in review.



And watching it I can't help but laugh out loud coz it does bring back quite a lot of good memories!

After watching the latest Christmas 0.52 update...



Doesn't seem too bad now... but yeah kind of nostalgic for the good ol days

Think I'm quite ready to come back to the game. But I'll be so noob... don't even know where to start!

Here's their year in review
Dayz year in review

And their roadmap for 2015. Looks like they're aiming to wrap up alpha in 2015 so they can focus on milking the consoles instead.

First Quarter

Basic vehicles
Advanced loot distribution
New renderer
New Infected AI
Basic stealth system (infected and animals)
Diseases
Improved cooking and horticulture
Advanced anti-hack system (Dynamic BattlEye)

Second Quarter

Advanced vehicles (repair and modifications)
Advanced animals (life cycle, group behaviour)
Player statistics
New UI
Player stamina
Dynamic events
World containers
New physics system

Third Quarter

Traps
Barricading
Character life span + soft skills
Animal predators + birds
Aerial transport
Console prototype
Advanced communication

Fourth Quarter

Animal companions
Steam community integration
Construction (base building)
Beta version

Seems kind of complicated now? So what does the tents do and need to keep warm and stuff?

It used to be so simple...

Find gear. Find friends. Take off pants. Find victims. Make em sing or Kill em all.

The no pants clan is back! Some of us did a trial run yesterday... met briefly and had good time indeed. Just like the old days. Doing the usual, killing people, getting killed... stuff like that.

Today I will officially come back to dayz!

Been catching up on the latest updates, and walkie talkie works!! Time to set up traps!



Hope to see you all back

A good few of us are back now. In yesterday's game:

Hazril
Kaeruzo
Hamrog
Paan
Wak Perang
Kenopi24
Beefball

Sorry in advance in case i missed anyone

Paging for

Skid
Hammie
Bestdo
Rotikaya
Dacane
Plastix

This post has been edited by hamrog: Jan 13 2015, 02:12 PM

Yeah! Love to have u back mate! Today only 3 of us playing. Not bad, first close up action, killed the 2 guys who shot up beefball. First close range encounter since we reunion-ed. Fun!