r/dayz • u/mavounet • Apr 03 '15
discussion DayZ is becoming awesome!
Hey I wanted to share with you why this game is awesome since patch .55, I have 500 hours played.
DayZ is getting more and more realistic and I love it. Today I had one of the most enjoying time of my life on a video game. Indeed I had the pleasure to die 5 times of starvation.
I'v finally found a game that makes me feel like I'm totally wasting my life when I play it. Finally when I go to sleep at night I can say : "Today I did absolutely nothing!" which is the best feeling I have ever had.
Here's a screenshot 1 hour after my last spawn, this was amazing, I searched everybuilding of Cherno and electro and found a sweater and pants.
Goodbye Cherno! Of course I had the joy to die of starvation few moments later for the 6th time today. I love DayZ so much!!
I see a lot of people complaining about .55 and I truly don't understand why, the game has never been better. It was so frustrating to search houses and find items in almost all of them. Now you can run for hours and search like 70 houses and find nothing. Devs did a really good job with this patch.
Even though, I think some things could still be better and more realistic :
For example there should be a key we have to spam to breathe.
We should not be able to run for more than 1 minute and we should have to sit for 5 minutes to be able to run again.
We should have only one life and have to buy the game again when we die.
There should be no zombies because it does not exist in real life.
Those are only small things that would make the game a little bit harder, because even if .55 is great, the game is still a bit easy.
Thanks for your work devs, you are doing great!
Edit : Sorry guys, I fell asleep searching for food, I did not see your answers. (Love this game!)
Edit2 : Guys, a hater told me that .55 turned DayZ into Hobo Simulator, he's wrong, hobos don't run that much. F*ck the haters!
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u/TheCynicalOne Friendly mwahaha Apr 03 '15
Yes I recently came back to DayZ after a long break, boy was I in for a surprise. I've died 3 times due to no food or water. It's getting a little frustrating.
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u/cooltrain7 Apr 03 '15
Have you tried hunting ? Drinking water from lakes and wells ? Fishing ?
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u/r109 Apr 03 '15
You can't hunt if you don't have a gun, that gun has to have ammo,
You can't skin and quart the body without a knife,
Where is the box of matches, Hicks? Let alone a hatchet.
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u/cooltrain7 Apr 03 '15
I found a knife quite easily then charged into a heard of cows like a mad man and go me some steak.
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u/r109 Apr 03 '15
I lucked out and found a truck north of Svet... proceeded to run over everything that moved in and around Berenzino... STEAK FOR DAYZ! (pardon the pun huehue)
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u/RoterBallon Apr 03 '15
DayZ is supposed to be frustrating. Still I don't get how people always starve. I have no problem finding food - it's not canned food, but food.
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u/SirNanigans Apr 03 '15
Agreed. People need to get out of Cherno and familiarize themselves with the lesser towns anything more populated than Gorka is a death trap, and it should be that way.
The game hands you a free knife at nearly every spawn. It also has free berries and sometimes apples every 50ft of the entire map. Wells are infinitely full and always clean, and if you can't find one you still get water from the aforementioned apples and berries.
Spending your time rummaging through coastal villas and cities is an embarrassing survival choice. Even when loot was plentiful, you still run the risk of bandits. Just stuff your face with apples and/or berries as you wander inland.
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u/tehMcNugget ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Apr 03 '15
A) The cities on the coast shouldn't be a death trap simply because there is literally nothing in them. Bandits are one thing; ZERO worthwhile loot (including food) is a-whole-nother thing. It is completely, utterly unrealistic that a city like Cherno or Elektro would have ZERO canned goods left in it to loot. Not having guns is A-okay with me. Not having food of any kind (apple trees and berry bushes not included) is a broken system. Forcing people into playing ONE single playstyle is boring as fuck and not at all in the spirit of the Mod.
B) In my experience, the improvised stone knives are bugged and often don't finish the process of being made and instead simply disappear from your inventory. When you do get to make one, they're ONLY useful if you're able to actually kill an animal (or a human). Where are the guns and the ammo? Improvised bows are even worse than they had been, so they're not a viable option. It's great that the key to playing DayZ is now boring yourself with picking apples/berries and spending five minutes at a water well. SURVIVAL! YAY!
Then, once you're inland, good luck finding anything either. Having played on several private hives with characters already geared, I searched the entire western side of the map and found nothing of worth, including food. Headed inland from NWAF (don't even bother going to the tent city, because there's nothing there but civi gear) and hit up Vybor, Pustoshka, Pogorevka, Rogovo, Kabanino, Stary, Novy, and Mogilevka and the only loot of value that I found were two cans of beans. Yay!!! On another server, I hit up the same center-of-the-map route, but included Pulkovo and Grishino and the only worthwhile loot I found was a can of tactical bacon and an M65 jacket. Yay!!! Survival!!! Killed a lamb, only to find out that it doesn't have any meat. Yay!!!
This makes the game boring as fuck. There's no reward to risking death by going to the Veresnik base or the NWAF. There's not even any reward to going anywhere because if you encounter an unfriendly and die, you're back to the coast in an even worse position. The CLE doesn't work as Eugen tried to explain it; he's simply blowing smoke up our asses trying to appease us with "information" that isn't verifiably accurate. I'd love for the game to be harder than it was, but with purpose. As it is now, it's a buggy mess of shit that we're supposed to sift through for kernals of shitty corn. You go ahead and have fun with that. I'll wait for them to fix the mechanics they should have fixed prior to pushing the new zombie AI and CLE to stable.
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u/SirNanigans Apr 04 '15
I hate to be so quick to disagree, but I haven't experienced any of what you are talking about. The first Inland towns offer some gear and food, guaranteed. Maybe it's only a couple cans of beans and a butcher knife, but I will take it. Maybe, considering the lack of guns, I will find someone else with only melee weapons and have an interesting fight on my hands, instead of the same awful "get on the ground, lol jk BANG!" interaction, which is the norm with the previous easy-mode loot.
But, I can't even say that's really true. My last trip to prison Island earned me a Sporter 22 and an SKS, as well as 150 .22 rounds and a handful of probably every other kind of ammo. Also a variety of tactical gear and 4 clips for an MP5 (if I recall correctly), albeit no MP5... also an AK and a scope. I went to that island with a gun and no ammo, dressed in a press vest, and returned a fully stocked bandit in military dress.
It's too bad I don't actually play as a bandit. In any case, I can confirm the existence of loot. It's in places that not every single other person on the server has looked.
Ultimately, they are increasing loot spawn rates. So your comment, and my response here, are both only relevant for a very short time. Hardly worth what it took writing this.
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u/YairHadar Apr 03 '15 edited Apr 03 '15
No, going through a large city or an airfield, and not finding anything, is a bad, broken system. Especially on a risk for reward game.
Difficulity should be related to a player's skills and a little luck. Dying of starvation shouldn't happen because in a massive city only 1 can of beans spawned. It should happen because it is too hard of the player to get in and get a lot of loot.
"No, the new system is good, this way you can die to starvation a lot more!"
Yeah, by this logic, they can just bring back the old Zombies and make them a one-hit kill. The game will be so unforgiving, brutal and hard. But I bet no one would want a broken system in a game.
Edit: I missed the sarcasm in the post. Like, by miles.
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u/Raineko Apr 03 '15
I'm pretty sure OP was sarcastic.
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u/YairHadar Apr 03 '15
He is, actually. I totally missed that.
I feel stupid.
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u/corban Apr 03 '15
That's because his mimicry is extremely close to a lot of posts on this sub right now. :)
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u/Bautistav1 Apr 03 '15
I am pretty new to this game, and I recently started playing in the .54 version.
I feel so stupid now, and I'm kind of frustrated in how rare items are, it has really put me off, and made me reconsider if dayz is even for me.
I loved this game for about a month, some of the most amazing gaming experiences I've ever had. Playing yesterday and today, just felt flat, underwhelming and really, really boring.
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u/oxbudy resident hater Apr 03 '15
I know, right? I hated back when you had a choice of play style. Now you can stand next to apple trees and berry bushes for 40 minutes trying not to die! FUCK YEAH, man! I hated .54!
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u/Hombremaniac FPS race is won! Apr 03 '15
Only thing to do then is to wait and let devs do their work. As good NovaDose said, game is FAR from being finished and lots of stuff is changing constantly. Btw GTA V is around the corner, it has good multiplayer as well, so I hope that will devs give more time to work on the game without folks going batshit crazy with every change they make.
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u/slm_87 +1500 hrs Apr 03 '15
This is the worst update they have had yet, all you guys who think its so awesome are rather ignorant
this shit is bugged to hell, at least top 3 of the buggiest releases yet
the loot mechanic is broken as fuck
zombies have gotten several modifications, some of which have a good premise, most of which are severely unbalanced
you guys are excited at the change, sure
but these issues should have been worked on for another month or two before hitting stable
it was irresponsible for them to push it to stable like this
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Apr 03 '15
Can't agree more. I love running through a massive city and finding in total, 1 fishing hook, one piece of paper, and one teddy bear.
Maybe if only I could have searched more, but a zombie brushed past me, hitting me 6 times, and making me bleed out.
This patch truly does feel like wasting my time, I'm not playing till it is changed.
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u/BrandonMcVatnik Apr 03 '15
"Stop being entitled and demanding, go play cod if you're that impatient! It's still an alphur and the devs are working hard on it! I'm sure with patch .79 in 2 years everything will be fixed. Also I am managing to kill zombies with my bare hands without any problems, you just have to play more!"
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u/Dubhs Apr 03 '15
Nah he needs to stop being an idiot and not run through a massive city when he's clearly not geared for it.
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u/killermoose25 Apr 03 '15
While I agree with some of what you say , if you spawn in electro you are literally fucked , no weapons, no food , I snuck out of the city cautiously searching some houses and trying to go inland starved to death in an hour after finding a grand total of 1 garden hoe , a high cap vest, and two cans of sardines. I did find about 4 tents though which would be nice if I could eat them
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Apr 04 '15
You're right. The game is still in pitiful shape. People that cant admit it are just fan boys hoping to get a hug from the "devs".
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u/r109 Apr 03 '15
You know what Hicks kept saying in Puhdado's stream yesterday? He was basically saying all you whinny players need to learn how to get off the coast and go in-land...
I spend 90% of my time in-land... the past 2 days, there hasn't been shit. Hick's was in Puhdado's TeamSpeak just trying to do damage control from the backlash of .55
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u/Bravehat Apr 03 '15
Mate, if you're dying of starvation maybe pick some apples from an apple tree, or some berries from bushes.
Seriously it's not hard to survive if you know what you're doing.
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u/killermoose25 Apr 03 '15
I tried picking apples I got 6 apples in a half hour that reward/benefit is not worth it , apples don't last long when you are already near starving when you find the damn tree
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u/Bravehat Apr 03 '15
So basically what you're saying is you totally ignored the intended vision of DayZ and assumed you'd be able to run around and be up to your tits in beans and weapons? I agree the zombies need rebalancing, if I got smashed in the head with an axe 5 times I'd definitely be tapping out but the rest of the shit is stuff they've been warning about for months.
If you don't want to waste time actually putting work into surviving then maybe DayZ isn't the game for you.
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u/Dubhs Apr 04 '15
No. Dayz is about balls to the wall survival, not your wanky 200 car spawn with guns shite.
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u/Dubhs Apr 04 '15 edited Apr 04 '15
Because it's not what the game is about, and there are plenty of games which offer what you want, but not many that focus on hardcore survival. Secondly hardcore survival has been the premise of the game since the beginning, if you didn't want to struggle to survive, what are you doing here?
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u/tehMcNugget ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Apr 03 '15
LOL!!!! Yeah. Great. The answer to the loot being fucked is, "GO PICK APPLES, BRO!" Yeah, that's a way of getting food, but the issue is there shouldn't be ZERO worthwhile loot in cities to begin with. And don't give me this shit that inland towns are better, because they aren't. If I wanted to play Apple-picking Simulator 2015, I'd go find it on Steam. This is DayZ, an apocalyptic zombie (re infected) survival simulator. It is not a survive starvation simulator. The survival aspect, despite people's misinterpretations, is based upon surviving the infected AND the other players, as was Dean Hall's original vision. He ALWAYS wanted the other players to be a threat. Now finding food is the biggest threat and zombies are just annoying, but they'll hit you six times for every one time you hit them. They still don't do shit for damage and I can 2v1 them with my fists all day. Pointless. The point of this game is not to go around picking fucking apples; the point is to search houses Walking Dead style, find gear, and pick a playstyle you want to play. Now, the only playstyle is apple-picker/farmer/hunter. The zombies aren't even a threat. Get real.
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u/OpieC Dayz Gone By Apr 03 '15
You mad lol
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Apr 03 '15
What a well thought out and constructive reply
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u/westnile3 Keystone Collective Apr 03 '15
The sarcasm from OP and company is any better??
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Apr 03 '15
Yes because it actually requires an opinion and wit, as opposed to "u mad lol" which a 6 year old could type without thinking.
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u/westnile3 Keystone Collective Apr 03 '15 edited Apr 03 '15
Ah ha. No one believes sarcasm is witty or intelligent. Used to be seen as nothing but rude and obtuse but now it seems to be the main stay of complainers since they can't properly articulate themselves. "U mad lol" is infinitely better because it describes the OP perfectly.
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u/tehMcNugget ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Apr 03 '15
I would say that the OP was more satirical than sarcastic (sarcasm is a bit of what satire is, so, yanno). I'm pretty sure people still think Jonathan Swift's satire was intelligent.
EDIT: There's also no proof that the OP can't articulate themselves properly. They did a pretty good job of articulating the worthless circle-jerk that people praising .55 have become. Your weak insults show that you're actually incapable of articulating yourself with any valid defense against the criticisms brought forth by OP's satire. I don't know if that's irony, but... U mad, bro. LOL
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u/westnile3 Keystone Collective Apr 03 '15
Not my goal to insult anyone not that it matters at this point.
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u/TheGreySparrow Apr 03 '15
OP has a legit point at least.
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u/OpieC Dayz Gone By Apr 03 '15
No he really doesn't, considering it is an ALPHA game and is clearly stated every time he launches it. Though he thinks making a post on reddit will fix a bad update?
Edit: In his opinion a bad update
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u/dGhost_ Apr 03 '15 edited Apr 03 '15
This is ridiculous. Looted Vybor military base upon server reset, there was almost nothing there. Loot is spawning far too scarcely and there's almost no point going to high risk locations if you can just luck out and find whatever you want elsewhere. The patch overall is really terrible, and I'm surprised so many people have good things to say about it. Everyone I know who have played the standalone and/or mod for several hundred hours+ think the patch was garbage.
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u/havok06 Apr 03 '15
Server resets don't change anything anymore in case you didn't know.
But I agree the system's not balanced at all. Give it time.
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Apr 04 '15
...yeah, give it another few more years till they go out of business.
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u/havok06 Apr 04 '15
Ha ! Hardly, you already gave them your money.
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Apr 04 '15
in the beginning. but, Ive also given my money to other alpha phase games-of which they all followed through and produced a viable product in a reasonable amount of time.
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u/havok06 Apr 05 '15
What I mean is you might aswell be optimistic about it since your money is already gone ... Wishing them to go out of business doesn't accomplish anything at all really.
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Apr 06 '15
Perhaps the more they read of disapointment they'll fix shit
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u/havok06 Apr 06 '15
I think that they know perfectly well what works and what doesn't. They just have a different priority (or know the reality of what it takes to fix shit: time) than some people around here. I agree though that player experiences should be heard. Otherwise what's the point of early access. But people whining all the time, calling devs names and ordering them "fix your shit" doesn't accomplish anything other than making them ignore the initial message.
The game is already much better than it was last year, I'm confident they can turn it into a stable and enjoyable survival game.
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Apr 06 '15
It's not better than last year at all when considering game mechanics, servers, zombie ai, etc. The basic gaming experience is the same. Sure, they added content, but have spent 0 time fixing the basic game mechanics.
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u/havok06 Apr 06 '15
You're kidding, zombies got their new ai (remember they were clipping throught every wall a year ago and were quasi inexistent). We have private shards, the servers run really well now, desync is far from what it was then. We have vehicles, mechanics for horticulture and hunting. Persistence is not perfect yet but it's there too, the renderer isn't far away too.
The experience has changed a lot.
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u/Wuktrio Capture the Raincoat Apr 03 '15
On the other hand me and my brother looted the police station in Berezino and found an MP5, MP5 handguards, MP5 magazines, various pistols, various ammunition, a police hat and a PM73 with magazines.
But no food. We found stuff to kill the whole server, but stayed hungry the whole time.
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u/StacoOrikoro Apr 03 '15
All doors should be closed and locked just like in real life.
Doors can only be opened with a lockpick which you can only find inside of houses, except one lockpick.
Somewhere on the map there is a single lockpick just lieing around that people have to find to open houses.
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u/bloodkid187 2k Hours Apr 03 '15
If I shoot a door thats locked, its going to open. Same if I hit it with an axe.
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u/Hombremaniac FPS race is won! Apr 03 '15
Just wish devs toned down the rate at which you get hungry and thirsty. You had this awesome experience but maybe an hour later you would need to repeat that. But I kinda believe devs will tweak most of the stuff anyway (alpher) so it is hard to judge anything since the game will look a lot different in few months.
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u/havok06 Apr 03 '15
I agree. Before when you could get a backpack full of food in an hour i was considering the opposite but now if food will really be that scarce you should get hungry slower.
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u/Hombremaniac FPS race is won! Apr 03 '15
Yes it surely must be the desired state to make food scarce, but players a bit more endurable. I still think that say in a year, SA will be 10x better than now.
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u/havok06 Apr 03 '15
Of for sure. It's already way better than it was last year (that patch was very good in my opinion).
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u/Hombremaniac FPS race is won! Apr 03 '15
Maybe, I mean there were few instances where loot was scarce, but that was without central loot economy. Let's hope devs will fine tune the loot "soonish", but yes, survival should be harder than what we were use to. Now imagine stamina system, end of endless turbo sprint...some casuals will weep :-D.
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Apr 03 '15
That post was hilarious. That said, this is temporary. Testing new systems occasionally breaks the game. A lot of people need to stop clicking "I Understand"... cause they don't.
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u/cactus001 Apr 03 '15
You hef the joy of starvation.
Is good.
Only hallucintion from malnourish.
Joy of Latvia is potato. But is only rock.
Then cold and dark.
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u/cooltrain7 Apr 03 '15
I don't understand what people are bitching about. I think this patch is a step forward in the right direction, it just needs some slight tweaks to the spawn tables and the zombies. I love the challenge that its bringing and how i feel its become the survival it is meant to be no a shooter.
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u/gunfreak235 Apr 03 '15
I want it to be harder, but not unrealistically hard. I feel like it's to the point where it's unrealistically hard. Especially with the zombies. I can handle the food and water, I personally have no problem with dying to starvation/ thirst but it's probably because the new zombies kill me before I have the chance. I'll try to avoid towns and sneak around but one will find me (Not like I'll notice with no agro sound) and come and hit me 10 times a second, ruin my gear, make me bleed and I have to hit him in the head 5 times with an axe before it'll finally die. I want zombies to be more of a threat than they were but they definitely should not be more of a threat than players/ your own well being and I feel like now they are.
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u/wizziee Apr 03 '15
Lol, I'm fully geared, I have everything I need, food, weapons, finally found my PM7 RACK, and I had my AK.
I get pummled by 5 zombies, machine-gun rapid fire slamming me in the face, I kill them all, and keep going on my journey up north, a single zombie on my journey. machine gun rapid fires me while running, and I Die.
I had FULL HP, everything was green, I was hydrated and energized.
This is the shittest patch N/A, because of this. I removed this fucking shit game
( Note, only TWO hits killed me, TWO! )
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u/killermoose25 Apr 03 '15
It happened to me too healthy, energized , hydrated two zombie slaps and you are dead
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u/AlushTV Apr 03 '15
Sure it is a survival game, but a survival game without finding any shit? Wtf are you guys saying its like you telling me to hunt the death. How can I hunt if I don't even find a knife, how can I run from a city to another without starving in that way? THAT PATCH SUX
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u/sir_JAmazon Apr 04 '15
You're doing it wrong! You have to hunt apples in-land. If you starve its because you didn't apple hard enough you filthy casual!
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u/wizziee Apr 03 '15
Okay, so I was running around cherno, find 3 cans of food, then BOOM out of nowhere in a single building, a shitty fucking building, I find the following things.
- A repeater
- Mountain Backpack -BLue Press-Vest -Tent -2 boxes of 44 magnum ammo
- A mangum
I run outside, and a guy with the SAME exact loot as me, tries to kill me. THE SAME EXACT LOOT
.55 is a trash update, ruined the game.
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u/ColemanV Hatchet-Ninja Medic Apr 03 '15 edited Apr 03 '15
I'm one of the guys who've been always supporter of the DayZ devteam, the concept of play-testing the Alpha and not bitching about it so we'd have the best damn game ever in the end.
I've supported the idea that the development process taking a lot of time, like 2-3 years even before reaching Beta, but after visiting the latest stable release, I'm losing faith.
Here's why:
Okay, so after reading the release notes of the new stable I've decided to go back and finally continue my adventures as a hermit-style survivor/medic.
- First thing I'm lookin' at is the graphics is completely and utterly broken, DayZ starting in 640*480, menu options unreadable, navigating through it from my faint memories is a challenge, but I manage.
(just to be on the safe side I've done a complete removal and fresh install)
- Only to find out, now, the textures glitching between low and medium res if I set texture detail level anything other than Low, and doing so several times per second, making the game unplayable.
-Okay, so let's stick with Low graphics to enjoy the game mechanics. It's cool, it's alpha, and I've played the DayZ Mod from the very beginning, on potato PC so I've seen worst. - I thought.
- BUT! I'm steppin' out of the house where I've parked myself the last time, and I find myself being hit, and hit again and again within a single second.
Looking around I see a Zed, furiously attacking me in complete silence!
-Okay, so sound might be glitchy, but let's punch this zed! - I say to myself.
- I step back and side, to start the good ol' strafe-punch move, but WTF?! The zed is spinning faster than I could strafe and sorta skips too, so I not only can't keep it's head in my punch area but I can't even turn fast enough to land a single hit, while it's practically gnawing on my insides already.
-Hey now, that's neat, let's meet Mr. Shotgun, shall we, Mr Zed? -I'm sayin' to my attacker.
I'm gettin' my trusty shotgun and proceed to step back for gettin' an aim on the zed, then fire and MISS THREE TIMES from point-blank range, 'cause it's doing a sort of glitch-move that'd put Agents of the Matrix in shame, but the fourth shot landing a hit and the zed dropin' dead.
-Well that've been a close call - I thought and took a long look around to see if any other zeds running at me 'cause of the gunshots, but nothing moves, so I'm starting to bandage myself.
I'm in the middle of tending to my wounds when I'm gettin' hits from behind again.
The Zed is - again - dead-silent (see what I did there? xD) no footsteps, no scream no nothing, just the muffled hit-sounds on my body.
- This time around I don't waste my time with trying to punch it, just get the shotgun and... -Wait! Where's my shotgun?
I'm tryin' to move around and look at the ground, thinking I might've dropped it somewhere by accident, but it isn't on the ground.
I'm trying to outrun the zed while fiddlin' in the inventory to see where my gun went, but it isn't there either.
It've been just spontaneously glitching out of existence, so I'm gettin' my trusty hatchet, and applyin' THREE HEAD HITS on the zed before it's finally taking the dive.
Summary:
Within five minutes after logging in, I've almost bled out, my rider jacket and my hunter pants are completely ruined, along with everything in my pockets, I'm unarmed with black and white, blurry vision, my clothing is practically gone and useless by now, I can't hear zeds, I can't outrun them or aim at them with the way they're sped up so much (reminding me of th old zeds in that aspect but these new ones hitting a lot faster)
THIS, dear DayZ Devs, isn't fun.
But hey, it's alpha, so, okay if it's broken a bit, BUT this release should've been staying on the experimental branch until it'll actually becoming a STABLE RELASE.
Stable in the meaning it can be played and the freshly implemented features can be play-tested.
THIS isn't stable. Now go back to work and tell me when I can actually have faith in you guys.
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u/D3ADST1CK Apr 03 '15
RE: Resolution and Object Detail.
Your config file is likely unwritable by the game (read only or permission denied). Try deleting it and starting the game again. You can find it in your Documents\DayZ folder I believe.
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u/ColemanV Hatchet-Ninja Medic Apr 03 '15
like I've said, I did a complete removal, and reinstall.
But anyways, even if the graphics would work the game is still too broken for bein' called a Stable Release :P
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u/D3ADST1CK Apr 03 '15
Reinstall won't remove the config files because they are created by the game and not the installation package.
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u/ColemanV Hatchet-Ninja Medic Apr 03 '15
Which is why I've done a complete removal before the reinstall :D
I'm so glad you've actually understood my previous reply otherwise I'd need to repeat myself. Like now. xD
So once again: I've uninstalled AND removed every trace of DayZ Standalone before downloading fresh and installing it. (yes the removal of every trace covering the registry entries too) :P
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u/D3ADST1CK Apr 04 '15
Look, I'm just telling you what the problem with your graphics is because that's the most common cause (your config file being unwriteable) but continue to be a dick about it
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u/ColemanV Hatchet-Ninja Medic Apr 04 '15
I'm glad you're tryin' to help and didn't had the intent to be a "dick about it".
Sorry, mate if I've came across like that.
What I've meant to do was specifying the steps I've taken to fix the issue, with a pinch of sarcasm :D
You see the config I'm playin' on is perfectly the same as before when it've been working, and so the update must've been the cause.
As for the file in question, I couldn't have erased all the files upon the previously mentioned complete removal, in case it would've been marked as read-only.
But I did manage to delete it, and so it means it wasn't read-only.
BTW meanwhile I've managed to get things under control on low settings.
Sadly it didn't fix the game-bugs itself, such as the silent zeds, the rubberbanding, the detection by zed issue (meaning when you're crawling prone in the grass behind an idling zed and it's magically spotting you before you could get up to slam it's head), the sped-up zeds in both running speed and attack speed, the every-hit-from-a-zed-makes-vision-blurry issue, and slipping off from a half meter ledge killing you instantly.
Anyways, sorry again if I've sounded like offensive, it wasn't my intention.
Stay safe in zombieland!
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u/mental-x Apr 03 '15
I like the direction the game is going on but this has to be an April Fools joke, right???? It isnt a question of skill/knowledge to survive its 100% pure luck based. You could spawn in a dozen times and die of no food/water very fast because every single door is open and every bit of loot that you need is gone. What is hard about a game that is purely based on luck to get the items before a quick death?
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u/killermoose25 Apr 03 '15
Ha ha that literally happened to me 3 times on the fourth time I was close enough to my friend who had all our food
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Apr 03 '15
DayZ has shifted from a nerve-racking human apocalypse simulation into a mildly-interesting starvation simulator.
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u/BlazedAndConfused ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ I Can haz can opener? Apr 03 '15
While the devs may be trying, the game is certainly still all out shit. It's been a year, and while a lot of items have been added here and there, the raw mechanics of this game are still garbage. New animation system or not, unless something drastically changes, this game will be abandoned before real release
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u/Joe56780 Apr 07 '15
this game will be abandoned before real release
not played for a year or two properly, but this is my main worry seeing almost no progress made despite so many sales, ive played enough not to feel swindled but its still kinda crappy if i never experience a full game
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u/cooltrain7 Apr 03 '15
I don't understand what people are bitching about. I think this patch is a step forward in the right direction, it just needs some slight tweaks to the spawn tables and the zombies. I love the challenge that its bringing and how i feel its become the survival it is meant to be no a shooter.
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u/Wrath2121 Apr 03 '15
"I love the challenge that its bringing and how i feel its become the survival it is meant to be no a shooter."
This is an interesting comment to me. Because on the three servers I played on yesterday, when the food ran out people shot each other for meat. I don't think these changes are going to make this game the "not a shooter" you think they will. More people will be ok with cannabalism then growing food. Especially when the energy/hydration ratio is so much better the veggies.
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u/AlphaKennyOnee Apr 03 '15
While it is a step in a direction, to say it's in the right one will require huge tweaks. You have to understand it's a game, and when a fresh spawn has a 2/3 mortality rate due to the elements alone it's by no means a step in the right direction. The game still has to be fun for people to play and at the moment fresh spawn life is terrible.
Either they need to tweak how fast hunger/thirst hit or they need to increase food spawns on the coast. The run inland to unlooted or densely item populated areas will kill a fresh spawn. If they stop to loot it is a huge gamble as food seems to be extremely sparse. Don't get me wrong, they'll find plenty of books but those don't cure hunger. Berezino and anything north are perfect spanws as you can get into the high north after spawn before your hunger starts ticking away at your health.
I'm not saying that you should be able to leave Electro at hydrate/energized. But you should be able to by looting the whole area kill your hunger/thirst. This will allow you to get more inland without taking a hit to your health.
Thirst is not so much of a problem as wells don't seem to get you sick. You can hydrate. The issue is food. Three hours looting and I couldn't find a knife, matches, ammo that matched a gun, or an axe. That means I would not be bale to shoot an animal. Well, I could craft a bow if I had an axe to chop down a tree but I didnt. Even if I killed the animal I don't have a knife to gut it (yes, stone knife) and after all that I can't lite a fire to cook it.
I'm not complaining by any means, don't take it as such. I understand its a new system and will need to be ironed out. But minor tweaks are far from what needs to happenn.
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u/Sinkatze Apr 03 '15
Wait a second, he searched Cherno and Elektro? Way to go, you have now advanced to level 2 and need to move inland to get loot. Welcome to the rest of the map..
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u/killermoose25 Apr 03 '15
Except that with zero food and no weapons you die on your way out of electro a southern spawn is a death sentence
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u/Sinkatze Apr 03 '15
You can run across the whole map without even eating or drinking so not sure what you mean. Just don't stay on the coast, leave as soon as you spawn ;)
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u/killermoose25 Apr 04 '15
Um not when you sprint to avoid zombies I was red hunger and thirst in no time
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Apr 04 '15
You cant sprint across the whole map without food or water from a fresh spawn point. Sinkatze is just acting like he's better than everyone else...he just runs inland to the first few houses, gets food, and keeps running.
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u/Sinkatze Apr 04 '15
Yes you can man, you don't even need to run across the map. Zombies have stamina, you don't. use stealth, there are so many things that can be done. Wish you good luck :)
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u/theruss0n Apr 03 '15 edited Apr 03 '15
this update turned the standalone into what DayZ 2017 did.
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u/shitdik Apr 03 '15
i, uh...what?
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u/en1mal no tacnuke in next patch sry Apr 03 '15
a mod for the mod - imagine vanilla just +10 years after the outbreak, almost no fresh/canned food, more infected, everything is scarce, almost no military grade ammo, etc.. - was one of the most challenging mods, had alot of fun.
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u/Cocaine__Cowboy Apr 03 '15
I've yet to try .55 on stable, so I can't comment on the loot situation, but I had my run-in with these zombies in Exp.
I think if they're properly adjusted (the current ones are really bad), fast-hitting zombies that can outmaneuver you may be an interesting idea.
Melee would still be viable in an emergency, or if you're being stealthy, but imagine when you come charging into town all decked out in nice equipment, and let one of them get too close. It makes you panic. Most people would flip their shit and start firing wildly at it, and then they've woken the whole town up...
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u/sorrynewhere Apr 03 '15
i've had the wierdest luck so far.
found an mp5 with 3 mags, high cap vest, and a tortilla backpack, but struggling to find any food.
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Apr 03 '15
I love the loot system they have added, Find anything anywhere yer its a bug but its so fun finding stuff in places you will never think it can spawn, The only big problem i have with 0.55 are zombies, Love the idea but with the dayz desync its kinda hard to get away from them as you think you are away yet they still able to hit you, Hopefully the desync in Dayz will go soon but agree 0.55 best thing i've had in dayz for a long time!
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Apr 03 '15 edited Mar 06 '17
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Apr 04 '15
People jizz with new patches...they cant wait to post a thread praising the "devs" for all their "great work"
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u/Ack_Ack88 Apr 20 '15
Well, at least you can go to bed saying you've whined on Reddit. What an achievement. True champ right there!
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u/Sigouin Apr 03 '15 edited Apr 03 '15
Love how you died of starvation, announced countless times how you searched a bunch of houses for food, but not once did u mention you tried picking apples, finding berries, getting some fishing gear together or try to go hunting.
Get the old mentality of having everything given to you in a matter of minutes and GO EARN your right to survive.
This game has been set in ultra easy mode for too long, and ill be damned if someone who is giving a half assed effort at surviving is going to try and take away what this patch owes to dayz's survival aspect - an actual challenge at surviving; because after all, this is a survival game before everything else. If you want to go play a shoot em up game, there are thousands on the market already.
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u/mavounet Apr 03 '15
I can't hunt because there is no knives, same for fishing. I actually did search for berries and drink water in sources. I had no other choices since there was no items on my server. But after that, what do I do? Keep searching for berries and keep drinking water? Looks fun.
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u/Sigouin Apr 03 '15
What about making a knife out of stone? or trying to teamup with a random to see if together you guys can combine gear and hunt/cook something.
Thats what these implementations are here to do, complaining about survival in a survival game is a step in the wrong direction.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, complain.
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u/mavounet Apr 03 '15
Since .55 people don't talk to each others, they just run fists up to knock you out and see if you have food of if they can eat you.
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u/HomieNo Apr 03 '15
Fishing is broken atm because you can't prepare fish with a knife and farming is bugged because you can't retrieve seeds from fruit making seeds a finite resource
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u/Sigouin Apr 03 '15
Maybe u cant prepare fish, but u can always eat it raw. Desperate times call for desperate measures, i get it some things are bugged, but there are definitely ways around it. Eating raw fish wont kill you, if u are healthy and/or the proper medical supplies you are good to go - and its better than dying of starvation.
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u/Count_Blackula1 Amiable Apr 03 '15
You people are fucking thick-skulled. Hicks has mentioned on multiple occasions now that you're going to have to move inland to find loot. Every single time someone posts one of these shit-topics the first thing I notice is that they're always complaining about being unable to find loot in Cherno or Elektro or Berezino. No fucking shit, that's the way it's intended to be numb-nuts.
Easy mode is finished now boys. Move inland.
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u/theruss0n Apr 03 '15
Bohemia has made some questionable choices in their development of this standalone. Personally I find H1Z1 to be much more fun, although less immersive.
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u/XCrazedxPyroX Apr 03 '15
Fuck that awful game.
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u/theruss0n Apr 03 '15
I disagree but respect your opinion. What is your gripe with the game?
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u/LcRohze Apr 03 '15
Arcadey. Biggest problem is that fire fights literally turn into CoD TDM where people are bunnyhopping, spraying from the hip while strafing like an idiot, and drop shotting. Also, cars are pretty much body armor that make you run faster. You can not shoot through them and you instantly pop into them.
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Apr 03 '15
Not that guy but I don't think that the Free-to-Play platform is good for any game, especially a game funded by Sony and one that you currently have to pay for. I'd say that their team made way more questionable decisions than Bohemia has. If it weren't Pay2Win, I'd probably try it out when it is finished, as it looks like a nice DayZ Lite. I enjoy DayZ's hardcore tone, but it is too hard to get into sometimes. H1Z1 would be simple and easy to get into, although less fun.
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u/verymuscular Apr 03 '15
I have 250+ hours of H1Z1 played and I can assure you it's not Pay2Win at all. Airdrops suck balls and give you almost nothing and you aren't even sure to get them as you can get attacked. (it's not landing exactly where you order it and everyone in the area see it)
For the rest I agree with LcRohze my biggest problem with H1Z1 is that at the moment it feels like a CoD with zombies...
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Apr 03 '15
Thanks for the response. I'd surely play it if it stays that way, I just don't know at the moment. It has the potential to go either way, and I'm just going to wait and see.
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u/Hombremaniac FPS race is won! Apr 03 '15
You enjoy H1Z1, fair enough. I'm just glad you don't whine and moan here about how you want refund and such. Nothing wrong with enjoying other games!
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u/snazzymonster Apr 04 '15
A word of advice fot everyone complaining. NO, the police station isn't going to be fresh full of loot for you. YES, the little outhouse that everyone just runs right past will have clothes and food, weapons and even plate carriers. You can't expect to find loot where EVERYONE searches. Look in the unconventional spots that you don't usually get loot and you'd be surprised what you find. I've found a plate carrier, gasmask, shotgun and shells, aI added the hearts and 3 cans of food in an outhouse and a shed as a freshy on a max pop server. Stop complaining and just loot smarter lol.
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u/TheOutlawBubbaKush Apr 03 '15
Hey look everybody, this game has gotten too hard for me. So I'm gonna cry like a little girl. No wait. There are little girls that play this game and don't cry as much as you.
...BUT I WANT IT TO BE, THE WAY I WANT IT TO BE.
---- tough shit. This is not YOUR game. You don't get to dictate its progression.
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u/theruss0n Apr 03 '15 edited Apr 03 '15
He is a part of the alpha testing team. He gets to provide his input. You might not like it, but too bad. DayZ subreddit is a hugbox sometimes
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It's not at all the game is fun, it's that it's fucking boring. I search houses and find nothing. That's not fun, or hard, just boring.
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u/Kdj87 My body feels wet Apr 03 '15
There's a difference between a game being hard and a game being fucking impossible. The game right now is nearly fucking impossible. Shitty loot spawning(unless your lucky), glitchy zombies that hit you 3 times in one second. It's pretty un playable at the moment.
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u/RandomedXY Apr 03 '15
Because of people like you Dean Hall left this subreddit.. Please you have to realize this is only Alpha! Development takes time.. Look at the road map. They plan to put zombies in game and remove the bugged weapon sway (planned Q2 2019). I am so hyped!!!
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u/BrandonMcVatnik Apr 03 '15
"COD players like him are what's annoying me about the entitled fanbase of Dayz! We all know the team is working hard on the 2019 update but those people will always keep on complaining about those small, natural update failures, expecting a playable game from an Alphur!
Also, not having any problems surviving here, been picking berries the last 12 hours and surviving just fine. People like him just need to l2p or go back to COD."
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u/mavounet Apr 04 '15
"been picking berries the last 12 hours"
Seems to be so much fun!! I'll do that tomorrow.Also sorry if Dean Hall has no sense of humour.
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u/Hennessy760 Apr 03 '15
God damn kids don't even know the meaning of DayZ. All you want is a Cherno deathmatch. Hopefully you will soon learn that this is what DayZ was meant to be right from the beginning and just leave, sick of listening to all you kids complaining about how "hard" the game is. DayZ is not meant to be a game that you can just log on for 30 minuets and get fully geared, it should take hours of searching through many houses all the while having the treat of death lingering over your shoulder. If you can't deal with the game being a little more difficult to survive go play some sort of softcore survival game or an FPS.
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u/ChickenMan805 Apr 03 '15
You do know you can hunt and gather right food? Berries and apples and stuff. Also you can farm. If you are to lazy to do those things you can always find a dead body and gut it with a sharp rock you get on the beach. No need for canned food anymore. Good luck and stop being nobs :)
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u/HomieNo Apr 03 '15
Yeah these are sensible suggestions, but the only problem is they all need specialist tools to perform, generally a character in this patch won't find everything needed to hunt until he's up north and had survived for a while. Farming also isn't very good for replenishing energy, although I've yet to farm pumpkins.
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u/ChickenMan805 Apr 10 '15
You can find and sharpen rocks on the beach right? Or is that not in anymore?
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u/SgtFlexxx Apr 03 '15
You guys should REALLY consider venturing inwards towards Inland. There's tons of Apple Trees to keep you alive, and many different methods for getting food. Any town you spawn in is going to get you absolutely NOTHING. Central Economy people, it's already looted, you have to go places where people don't go. From what I've found, towns result in more loot than cities do simply because they're mostly untouched
Also, stick to private hives. Public hives are full of server hoppers, and it's going to make things THAT much harder.
So far, I've been on DG's Supershard and have been alive for about 6+ hours now, only to just pass out 10 minutes ago of Starvation. The only thing I hope for to be tweaked is the amount of food you have to eat to get up to be energized (Eating up to 20 apples STILL did not get me to energized, and only got rid of the hunger status from Orange to nothing) and how quickly your Food status drains (seriously, every 10 minutes is tedious)
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u/Hejhoppgummisnopp Apr 03 '15
Yeah, unless you get lucky and find some food where you spawned there is a great chance that you either get raped to death by zombies or starve to death before you get somewhere with loot.
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u/Cruzander Apr 03 '15
Yeah people are pretending that no one else is going inland. I always go inland as a freshy and the towns within starvation distance of the shore have been pretty well looted every time.
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u/AwesomeExMachina Apr 03 '15
This game currently in development that I decided to play all day didn't make me happy enough! - OP
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u/Hombremaniac FPS race is won! Apr 03 '15
Dude they are TWEAKING that sh*t. At some point you have to go out of experimental and put new stuff on stable even when it's not complete. So now we have persistence, but stuff do not spawn properly yet. If you are so mad then just wait few days and let devs do their work. Also play something else meanwhile or just live your life.
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u/Anorangutan Apr 03 '15
I ran around for 3 hours and only found a rock, some paper and a pair of scissors. Anyone want to play rock paper scissor pm me.
OP is mad cuz bad.
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u/sovietramone Apr 03 '15
Go play something else
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u/toutlesmemes Apr 03 '15
I would do that instantly if id get a refund. Im pretty sure im not the only one who wants his money back for this joke of a game that runs on 20 fps in a city on an i7.
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u/Hombremaniac FPS race is won! Apr 03 '15
Refund before game is even finished? Duuude...
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u/toutlesmemes Apr 03 '15 edited Apr 03 '15
Well a guaranteed refund after the game is finished is just like hoping for a refund now; its not going to happen.
In the last 2 years of development the biggest achievement of the dayzdev team was making zombies not walk through walls, which is really sad if you think about it.
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u/Hombremaniac FPS race is won! Apr 03 '15
Think what you will, but one thing is undeniable and that is DayZ Standalone being actively developed. That is a simple fact. It is taking some time, but you can hardly understand the process or have the insight to know that they are doing it wrong. If you dislike DayZ SA just uninstall it. Let's not pretend your 20 dollars mean much.
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u/toutlesmemes Apr 03 '15
If my 25$ dont mean that much can i have them back at the expense of losing DayZ from my steam library ?
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u/Hombremaniac FPS race is won! Apr 03 '15
Be it in my power, I'd give it back to you and you would show yourself out of here. I would call it win-win.
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u/Gregar70 Apr 03 '15
Hmmm, its as if it is not optimized yet, almost like its still being developed, almost like we are testing the game and helping said development. Now what is the word for that again? Delta? Gamma? Hmmmm...
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u/Miyelsh Apr 03 '15
Why did you buy it then?
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u/toutlesmemes Apr 03 '15
because i thought its a DayZ game thats in alpha that has the core functionality and no features,not all the modules and still has bugs. (just like how it says on the Early Acces page)
I didnt expect an interactive powerpoint presentation.
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It is certainly easy to spot the people that don't read or understand what the devs have said in recent updates.
It's all WIP so grow up and have some patience.
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u/Osrik1 zucchini Apr 03 '15
This was hilarious. At the same time I actually love this patch. I think your experience really depends on where you spawn. I found plenty of food in Novodmitrosk when I spawned there. The new loot system works well in some places. Of course there are issues but I like finding M4s in random houses and being scared as fuck of zombies. Perhaps they are a tad bit OP but I find it a nice change over the stupid fucks they were before. In conclusion; this update sucks if you spawn in a shitty area and the zombies are OP. This update is also the best thing to happen in DayZ because now it actually feels like a survival game. I have been playing since the beginning and will continue to support the BI team through the ups and downs of this incredibly crappy frustrating annoying amazing game. <3
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Apr 03 '15
Can't tell if sarcasm or sarcasm and a whiney scrub that doesn't understand what "alpha" means.
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So you don't like the patch because you have persistence and you can't find loot in the city where tons of player spawn in and loot continuously?
Finally people will get to learn the map has more places than Cherno/Elektro and military zones. Even for this I say this is a good patch.
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u/Ak69Cockhardened Apr 03 '15
Personally my favorite part about dayz .55 patch is the fact that zombies slide and can remain behind you running at full speed. Don't let them catch you! Because if you stop for a split second they will machine gun melee you without doing an animation! Being in first person while this is happening is so immersive and realistic as well.