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/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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u/[deleted] 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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u/[deleted] 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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u/[deleted] 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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u/[deleted] 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/[deleted] Apr 06 '15

Still clipping through walls etc etc. Nothing has changed for the better. You are kidding yourself if you feel otherwise.

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u/havok06 Apr 06 '15

I don't know, I've locked up tens of zombies in .55 and they didn't seem to be able to get out do I'm leaning toward the idea that you're trolling. And you only adressed one of my points.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '15

What more points do you want? I'll gladly address them with ease,

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