Quick update for 19 November 2013

[rocket 16567]

This week has started off great I'll give some highlights:

• Realized that a whole bunch of people equate sounds with change so some poor person on the team is going to have to do some extra hours to put placeholder placeholders in. It's a pointless task but if it makes people actually check for different mechanics then fine.
  
• Going to put the extra zombie models back in, we just used one for testing because it was the only zombie we'd changed to the new engine simulation tag.
  
• Server FPS is stable at the levels we have been testing (40-50 FPS with ~10 to 20 players, 15000 loot items, 1000 zombies). We had a very nasty stability issue relating to massive changes in the way the engine handles it's array of objects. Dynamic objects (anything made after mission start) were all handled in two very large arrays. The only way of checking them was to iterate through them. Simply put, we made a smart way of the arrays with a "dirty" and "clean" array. This removed significant overhead (orders of magnitude) but because it was a radically different approach we had severe instability. Appears this has been done.
  
• Pistol is in and usable properly now, although it's just placeholder animation wise because it's borrowing from the rifle animations until subclassing is complete.
  
• Client FPS in cities may have a boost due to some changes in the way occlusion culling is used for dynamic objects. Not a focus for now but it was something found along the way.
  
• Lots of new content pouring in, such as meat of many different types in cooked, raw, rotten variants. Also lots of new fruit, new orienteering compass, a down jacket, the zombies are using gestures not animations now for attacks (can attack while moving).
  
• HTTPS implemented for game server <-> central server communication.
  
• Steam integration for the server browser such as friends in the server etc. A favorites tab. A friend on servers tab. Etc...
  

So where are we?

• I need to go back and focus some on the player flow from menu to ingame as this needs cleaning up as it doesn't really support the release yet.
  
• Verifying the instability issues we had.
  
• "Dress Rehearsal" needs to occur, which is an all-signing, all dancing test of a server.
  

Much more things as well but I'll try keep everyone posted when I can.

[Macdeth 176]

nice

[TIC 1050]

Great to hear Rocket, keep up the good work :)

[Statik (DayZ) 2695]

I'm reading this on November 18th.

 

 

Fuck the system.

[kevsta545 451]

Now wait for all the redditers to come here and bring it to their websites probs lol

Edited November 19, 2013 by Kevsta545

[Mazzar 231]

[kevsta545 451]

I'm reading this on November 18th.

 

 

Fuck the system.

Murica'

Or in ur case Anada'

:P

[rocket 16567]

[Beck (DayZ) 1768]

ALMOST!!!!!

Edited November 19, 2013 by Beck

[AnarchyBrownies 1383]

Keep pluggin'! Good luck with further testing.

[NotRedd 51]

ok

[philbottle 430]

Ha! Glad I stayed up late :) in solidarity with the SA team!

 

These guys must be running on pure adrenalin. Rocket, if you ever actually stop working on the SA it might be your undoing. Moral: never ever stop :rolleyes:  :lol:

Edited November 19, 2013 by philbottle

[AnarchyBrownies 1383]

Because I'm a reasonable person I'm always looking for small indications that Rocket and co. can't handle the task.

 

Today it's: "all-signing" which I'm sure was supposed to be "all-singing."

 

So probably not habbening ever.

[konnelius 6]

exciting news! keep up the great work dean and crew!

[Skat3rat 1633]

Thanks for the update, Rocket!  Do what you guys need to do.  I'd rather SA be as good and stable as possible than glitchy and unplayable like a lot of games coming out lately.

[PhilB 230]

• "Dress Rehearsal" needs to occur, which is an all-signing, all dancing test of a server.

I'm putting on my hottest dress . . . ..

 

                   you sexy bitch.

[Cap'n (DayZ) 1827]

Good news to hear, I wonder if anyone else is going to get into the pre alpha.

 

Inception., we've went through this already.

[TIC 1050]

I have a question about clothing.

 

Will there be different materials? Because we all know that "cotton kills, friends don’t let friends wear cotton and cotton is rotten."  ;)

Edited November 19, 2013 by TIC321

[Mazzar 231]

 

 

 

[RedRumy3 (DayZ) 5]

Awesome Rocket! Keep up the awesome work! You and the Standalone crew! Hicks too!

[thedeathstroke 10]

My ankles can taste that the release is imminent.

 

Keep working Rocket. Keep. Working. 

[Oliver Riedel 176]

Glad to hear from you racket (lel). All of you dudes behined SA good work, keep it up.

[☣BioHaze☣ 7337]

Thank you, Rocket.

 

It will indeed be done when it's done and I'm excited watching the whole thing unfold in real time. The open production policy you've tried to manage is admirable.

 

the zombies are using gestures not animations now for attacks (can attack while moving).

 

 

 

Would someone care to elaborate on this?

 

Edit:

 

How many attacks will SA zeds have?

 

I would be interested in seeing a list of zed attacks and the baseline damage they do.

Edited November 19, 2013 by BioHaze

[ZlobaRUS54 441]

As my grandpa used to say, - Three things are always 25 years away: Nuclear Fusion reactors, Artificial Intelligence and DayZ Standalone. 

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

Would someone care to elaborate on this?

 

 

Safe assumption would be that whilst frolicking your zed can now swing out a limb to sock you vs a zed stopping in the middle of the street to perform a preset animation in order to attack as you run past.