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Igor come on, we’ve done at least 2 live streams this year only before this one.

San Jose and Washington DC! :)

Hi - the supporter edition was a PDF version of the map, not a printed one.

We were sending them out in December after 1.0. If you did not receive the e-mail, please contact Bohemia support using the email address you purchased the supporter edition with and we’ll set you up.

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Vigor team helped us with making the cinematic in Unreal, also with artistic direction and creative ideas, but the general direction of these promotional assets is always in the hands of our DayZ community/marketing team, devteam leads and our Bohemia video production team :)

Also: glad you found it honest and decently made, thanks!

I'm proud to say that we have no disconnected PR team on the game (we're literally sharing the room with game designers and producers) and that the same team produced both trailers! :-)

This was our goal - to set the mood of the game world and show how you can be experiencing stories with the cinematic trailer, and show the real gameplay experience on launch day.

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...

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.

Still one of the best game intros ever made.

It’s a wedding on a different continent than our office. We have one other fulltime community manager and another part time one. I’m not sure why I’m even explaining this, but there you go.

Modding is currently planned as a PC exclusive feature - mostly because we just don’t have the resources to figure out and support mods on another platform. It’s a rather new an unexplored idea.

That was a mistake, not the intention. It's open now.

Yes, and the fact that it's a self imposed deadline is the whole point (the point you're not seeing). Like i said, drawing the line at some point IS important. Game development can keep on going forever if you don't draw the line. But you never have forever.

Brian Hicks no longer works here, he's not actively involved in any part of the DayZ development, and he's not around the office now, so his thoughts are very much his own. And I don't think he's ever implying otherwise.

The same way Brian can't, I can't answer for any single person on the team, but the general feeling I see around the office is that of course a lot of people wish we could take longer, that we could add more things or have more time to polish the game.

But the thing is, having a clear release deadline on your ass (pardon my french) accounts for something. You know that the year is your deadline, and so you make sure to get the most out of a situation you have.

Realistically, I find it hard for anyone to be happy with the situation we have - from our QA, through department leads, to our CEO. But the thing is, if we keep pushing for more features and content now, we just keep on adding half-finished things into the mix. And you can always ke...