DayZ Dev Tracker

This just made my day :) What an accurate, level headed evaluation :D

There’s no intent to misrepresent the game, that’s not the goal, I am sorry you take it that way (we by the way also have a gameplay trailer in production for launch day to represent the actual gameplay).

And I (the “marketing departmemt”) am sitting right opposite to Eugen FYI :)

The thing is (and I am not sure why it’s hard to understand it with a trailer that’s very specifically named “cinematic”, cinematic trailers are common and don’t represent gameplay!) that this does not present how the game looks like. It presents the idea of DayZ, the world, the mood, the context. It’s meant to communicate how it feels when you’re in your own story in the game, how it’s playing out in your head when you’re immersed into roleplay in DayZ. I can see a whole lot of people who understood what the trailer did and they actually enjoyed it. It saddens me to see comments like this.

I am not happy that some of the things we used in the trailer are things you can’t do in t...

Let me clear that up a little.

We used the Unreal Engine because we already have an existing trailer production pipeline in that engine (thanks to our friends at Vigor team), and the engine also has tools that make a cinematic trailer production possible in general.

Without those tools (they are just not necessary for our game development at the moment, so they are not available in Enfusion) , we can't really make a good looking cinematic video in this style.

I am pretty sure that when Enfusion gets to that point, the render output it will produce will be pretty damn impressive even with our current renderer! :)

I would argue that anyone from the dev team ever said it's going to be "easy" (though it's possible and then that person was a big mouth and unfortunately set wrong expectations :D), but the pipeline is definitely better/easier to work with for our devs now. No technology is magical and it can always happen that we discover a really stupid bug last minute that prevents us from releasing something. So this approach of saying which weapons will be in at the very last moment is just us in the community team covering our buts in case of something like that happens and we're not able to deliver.

Well thought out post, thank you. Let me address three points:

1)Changing a frequency of Status Report is mentioned as a prep of what's likely to come. In our planning, it's now starting to make more sense to have one monthly Status Report where we provide a good report on development towards the upcoming Platform Update (Stable Update). It should also make more sense to all of you when we start applying it in practice, but it does not mean we just communicate something new once a month. We may also still rethink this. It's a part of our planning that we still have to tackle.

Another thing with Status Reports is... well we have already shot all the rounds we've had. You (= people that have been here since 2013 or even before) already know about pretty much every new piece of content that can possibly come to DayZ, because these things were teased way, way before they were implemented in playable builds of the game, or worse, they were already available on the legacy...

Because we can’t spend years after PC version to learn about console development. We need to get a head start.

Yes and all of that can change, but we wouldn't be able to have cars and no desync potential on old technology. These things can be fixed here. We sacrificed content to switch over and have a better future. I still firmly believe its better choice longterm. But its hard to argue about it short term. We had the new technology for little less than three years aka we made what we have now in that timeframe. We can do better :)

Why would I leave now? Now I can finally become competent enough for your flair to be obsolete.

/sarcasm

This is disturbingly authentic despite being WIP - I love how it (accidentally?) totally accurately represents that type of winter here in the Czech Republic when it's not really all that snowy just yet - that kind of inbetweeny, not really sexy annoying winter where everything is just moist, cold and unpleasant and you wish it either still was a warm, sunny and colourful autumn or it finally snowed properly.

Great catch