Originally posted by SaintPhilip

Originally posted by quickshotz

Im not saying more people is bad. Im saying we dont need as much as people think. Eve survives with last I checked about 400k-500k players in a world of games with 1-10 million players. Just because your population is lower doesnt make it a bad game nor does it nessicarly effect gameplay.

 

You can be bad, thats not the problem. Its the bad players who dont want to get better! If your willing to learn and adapt then your really not a bad player, your just new and learning the game. Im talking about the winners that want the game catered to them and refuse to learn to play better

But eve subsides because it isnt combat centric. There is so much to keep a player of a variety of playstyles in thhe World from crafting and Politics to mercantile and banking to PVP and actual wars between corporations.

Again, I have not played this but my impression is that this is basic FPS persistent universe game with zombies- I mean, thats a very cool thing- VERY cool. But does it have the depth of a game like Eve (or is that in the plans?) because if NOT you will need a much larger player base to make this work and be populated enough down the road when the "newness" wears off. If you basicly log in, gather loot, survive and kill its going to get old quick for those who are not very skilled at the FPS combat- This, in turn would really negativly impact this type of game far mopre than a game like Eve.

So lets bring that depth into the game instead of fighting for players off the bat. And catering to the "average" person. Depth first please

Im not saying more people is bad. Im saying we dont need as much as people think. Eve survives with last I checked about 400k-500k players in a world of games with 1-10 million players. Just because your population is lower doesnt make it a bad game nor does it nessicarly effect gameplay.

You can be bad, thats not the problem. Its the bad players who dont want to get better! If your willing to learn and adapt then your really not a bad player, your just new and learning the game. Im talking about the winners that want the game catered to them and refuse to learn to play better

Originally posted by SlickShoes

I haven't watched the video yet but your condescending tone and putting yourself on a pedestal is not really going to endear you to people. 

You have basically already said " I am a good gamer, you are not, you are wrong, I am correct ".

Most people that play football (soccer) are "terrible" at it. I play football every week but I am never going to make it pro.

You do have to realise that not everyone that enjoys doing something enjoys it because they are great at it.

I understand where you are coming from with regard to forum whiners though, but companies must realise that those people on the forums whining are a tiny percentage of the player base of any game. 

Making a game is very difficult and takes years, you want it to be as balanced as possible, you don't want to cater to the top 1% or the bottom 1% you want to hit some sort of middle ground as that is where most people will be skill wise.

But as a player do you want "more players" or a "better" game? Eve is a good example of this. They tuned the game to id say about the top 20%. The bottom 80% complaiend and bitched but that didnt matter. The game thrived and is considered one of the best most well balanced and mature communitys out there. You also find a lot more intellegent people in eve due to this.

When games start thinking about "more players" and less about a skilled challenging game it always goes downhil. Simple examples: Cod,WoW,Battlefield. All great games that over time and new released started focusing more on getting players in the game then making the game itself good, and quality wise have suffered for that. Ow but damn this game has x million players, it must be good <--- bad logic, its normally the opisit.

Games should reward getting better. Not reward playing like crap over and over and over. People do the same thing and fail multiple times. But instead of trying something new they say its broken and cry about it till "there" way works. getting better should be a goal of players AND game design. Lazy people shouldnt be catered to. I agree you can have a lot of fun if you are bad at something.. But lets use your own example. should the rules of soccer be changed so you can be better at it? The obv answer is no. So should a game be made easier just because a lot of people are bad at it? no

So this is about a 20min discussion/rant about the War Z community (not so much the game itself). Everything I talk about here can be found in the public forum sections and has no actual War Z footage (so this does not break the nda!). Some will agree some wont, that cool bro. Thats one of the awesome things about this world we live on, everyone has a different view of things, so keep that i mind kiddos. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkHOwHAxVE0  <--- Watch or why are you here?

I would love to have a debate/discussion about some of the subjects I bring up (key words debate/discussion NOT a argument). Very interested in your thoughts on it all. Im just so worried the WarZ devs are going to listen to the flood of complaints (not even bugs, just complaints) coming in and take them as what the community wants, THEY ARNT! Most (not all) of the intelligent people are not even bothering to post as they dont have the time for the flame war that is bound to come of it. 

NEVER base a games design around the low tier of players, it will never work. As I said in my video could you imagine dota/lol/sc2 (whatever competitive game you watch) if they were based off the low tier lol, it would be horrid. (simple example. sc2 shortly after release: 4 gate needs MAJOR nerf, omgz the 4 gate is sooo OPPPPP). Then what happened? The competitive pros slowly (it did take awhile lol) learn ways around 4 gates and how to stop them and got to a point (before nerf) where a 4 gate wasnt even a good viable option anymore in competitive play. Things take time, and things need to be examined by the best before you can say theres something wrong. MANY games went the way of designing there games based on the lower tier of players and where are they now???? Exactly (im sure there are a few good/fun lower tier based games but thats not the point. We are shooting for the top not the bottom)

I myself have fallen into the "rage mode" and started unloading on some of the idiots yesterday. Just relax and let yourself cool down before responding to the idiots or better yet, dont respond at all. As for my "rude" comment I made yesterday sorry, I guess. I stand by what I said but I really should have just bit my lip and said nothing. But yea. Enjoy the video and leave your thoughts below guys. Also as I said remember, everyone's going to have a different view. Dont get mad at them for it K? :o:o:o:o:o:o

**Added because its a good argument on the subject*** Games should reward getting better. Not reward playing like crap over and over and over. People do the same thing and fail multiple times. But instead of trying something new they say its broken and cry about it till "there" way works. getting better should be a goal of players AND game design. Lazy people shouldnt be catered to. I agree you can have a lot of fun if you are bad at something.. Should the rules of soccer or football be changed so you can be better at it? The obv answer is no. So should a game be made easier just because a lot of people are bad at it? no

I expect more dislikes on the video then likes (as due to my whole "most gamers are bad" theory) Meh. My ego is so hurt! :D lolz

http://youtu.be/O_VE5yqNbLg

You have never needed a nvidia card for physx. ANY game with physx you can have it offloaded to the cpu instead taking a identical performance hit as if I had a Nvidia card, less actually. See Physx on cpu sucked back on dual and single cores. Now adays with 4-12core cpus its not a issue. So dont buy into the Nvidia hype. You have never needed a nvidia card for physx, nor will you ever. Game devs just lock the option out for us AMD guys but a simple ini change fixes that. Enjoy!

C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Games\Borderlands 2\WillowGame\Config\WillowEngine.ini

Search for:

PhysXLevel

Change

PhysXLevel=0 (low)

to either:

PhysXLevel=1 (mid)

or

PhysXLevel=2 (high)

For those wondering I have a 6850 with a i5 2500k

http://youtu.be/lucxv4LIlDw New updated video for 80 and WvW

*new* http://youtu.be/lucxv4LIlDw  This is my SA build (Save Adrenaline) for level 80. I explain what to stat into, what traits to grab. And of course why your taking these things in the first place. All in all you keep a 50%+ crit at all times and even hit 80% on the right rotation. You also can focus more on the battle and less on your health pool since your hp is always regen'ing at a fast rate.

*old* MoAcSFztHos Simple warrior build for leveling I have been using. Really easy to use as its a very passive ability build. Lots of hp regen while holding a high dps/crit still. I forgot to say this in the video but you want to gear towards power and crit, as you only need the passive hp regen to survive.

 I have tried going full tank and full dps and both resulted in small improvement for each department (no shit) but it was a small 10-20% gain, for for a 100% loss in the other department. What im saying is atm this game plays much better with a hybrid spec imo. Is it worth losing all defensive abilitys/stats for a 10% increase? or vise versa? I certainly dont think so.

Not sure on its pvp viability. I only did a few matches with this build but it felt good. The fact I could basicly ignore my hp and just focus on the fight is kinda nice and allowed my eyes to relax a bit ^_^ Same goes for WvWvW. The lack of condition removal kinda hurt at times though.  Enjoy

Video of new map in DayZ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM_shJRvmy4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM_shJRvmy4

Originally posted by Homitu

Originally posted by BilboDoggins

Originally posted by Deathenger
I would love to see more replys from thoes who are running max graphics and what their specs are. It should provide a good baseline for "current" minimum specs to run max graphics. I'm sporting the same memory, processor not oc'ed and 2x5770's with a similar HD. Be nice to see who has a similar spec and what their performance was like

Its CPU bottlenecked so no matter how good your GPU is its not gonna matter right now.

I have a 6970 2gb GPU and 1090t Black Ed. 3.6 ghz OC and it doesnt matter if I run the game in the lowest or highest settings, the frame rates stay virtually the same.

 

When they optimize it most of these problems should go away but for now most people will get awful-poor performance except those with either REALLY high end CPU's or people who have OC's their CPU's well beyond the default settings. at least 4.0ghz but probably more around 4.5-5ghz which I would NOT recommend trying unless you know what your doing.

They've definitely put much more of the load on the GPU now.  Mine was barely working at all during the first 2 BWEs, but it's getting a good workout this time around.  

I'm using a single 5770, I7 860 clocked at manufacturer settings (2.88GHz) and can run every setting pretty much maxxed (only shaders toned down to medium) without any framerate issues.  There's no in game option to view FPS at the moment, and I haven't gone out of my way to use an external program to find out, but I can confidently estimate that I've kept over 40 fps for the majority of the game and around 25-30 fps during the most stressful moments.  

I noticed the same. Went from 30-40fps in certain areas to 60+ (and with more players around) so there deff working out the kinks. I even saw a few 80+ moments in WvWvW :o (thats with a i5 2500 and a 6850 oc'ed)

Will update on release with new Info and actual performance benchmarks

Thx all. Im going to also create a how to hit 80 guide using crafting. The cheapest cost as well.

That was a interesting closing event :D See you next BWE all

I will update the post with more info on discovery later this weekend.

im going to have to spend more time crafting then :) But I wanna WvWvW :( The video is a basic guide to getting started and I feel it still accomplishes what I set out for it to do. Perhaps when I get deeper in il do a quick  1-2min video focusing on discovery

http://youtu.be/2zyumiL1eqo http://youtu.be/2zyumiL1eqo

A simple look into crafting. Hopefully helpful to new players who have no idea how to start crafting but want to give it a try.

This was a new type of video for me so any feedback would be fantastic, positive or negative.

For those who dont want to view the video (I know a lot of people wont view videos posted on forums) here is the ROUGH transcript for the video. It is in NO WAY a 'full clean' script, just something I could use to keep me on track while recording.

Act 2 Inferno cleared, Video added to Original post

40% and 2.18

Original post updated with Inferno Butcher clear video and build.

The fact you just called act 1 inferno easy when thousands upon thousards of players cant even get out of nightmare or hell difficultys shows how stupid you are. You were prob massivily over geared or did it in a group (or used the wizard shield  bullshit)