It is unplayable, all you can do is take a look at the new fancy hurdle. I swear to god, thats literally it. No vehicles, loot is ONLY on server restart, no bases, most content not working or missing, crafting not in, entire systems not in and no hope for them ever to make it in. Seriously, if you buy this game right now, you have wasted money, its one of the worst games ever. It has 2 or 3 years before its even HALF of the mod, wow. #realtalk

I hate to be Debbie Downer on you guys, but they weren't making money off a mod, like they would a game. Stand alone is a money grab, period. It will take this game 2+ years JUST TO ADD IN WHAT IT ALREADY HAD, then start moving forward. Maybe. Or since they have made millions, they will open the modding up- let others do the work for them... And let all the easymode hackers take over the game. Game dies, they still driving nice ass cars. These were modders, just ordinary dudes with little to no skill in programming. Now they have money and couldnt give two shits about Dayz. Its their 9 to 5 and for them its not about the players, its about the potential buyers. Just look at the build youre playing in Stand Alone. Seriously. That was like 8 years old when the mod was being tested. Its the same exact thing, roflmaoooooo. So you guys went out for breakfast, paid for it, then cooked it yourselves in frustration. No loot, no vehicles, no bases, rubberbanding combat, lag, server issues, glitches... Yet there are still weirdos playing this game 24/7. WOW.

The only real problem is too many people try to understand the "realism". Stop, zombies are adorable and fun, but are not real. Also while cheetos crumbs fly from your shirt as you type how you dare imagine you understand hunger and what the human mind is capable of. I was going to say that and be like most people who didn't read your post and replied anyway. Then I read it and concurred completely. I had similar suggestion when this game was a mod. Basically it was "stress makes you need more food/water". This was to combat the ENDLESS camping weirdos WILL INEVITABLY DO in this game. I mean no offense or racism, its just a global game and there is absolutely no limit to what some people, from odd countries, will do in games like this. Ive seen people spend weeks just laying down somewhere, others in spots it was impossible to stop them (without helios), spawn camping, loot cycling, military base camping.. You name it. Now before someone jumps on his high horse to call me a fag, I only play this game for the PvP interactions. Im just a little bit older, so I know in a game like this they are only rewarding when you cultivate them... Like not killing new players, letting them get established and then assaulting them. Therefore I think stress is a must have addition to this game, without it or something similar this game will NEVER see its full potential. I promise you this, with 11 years PAID experience in the industry to speak on. Letting odd gamers from all over the globe "dictate" player boundaries will never ever ever work. If hacking stays as prevalent as it was too, then its already over before this game even launches. They need to get to work, add in a 'stress' system, and work to make this a great game.

Non-SD weapons can use both regular and SD. SD weapons can only use SD ammo. Non-SD weapons using SD rounds: 1) Zombies dont hear shots, but players do. 2) The shot shoots really low, exasperated by range.

This game is 100% about PvP, or else it would be single player. The 'sandbox' is how you choose to handle that PvP. Be it a heads up fire fight, trickery, the old car bait, or simply avoid the town and go to the next one. It is all PvP because this game is 100% about PvP. If towns had a set number of zombie spawns and much better AI, maybe just maybe, it could be more then just about PvP (even then its still a PvP game lol).. But it isnt. Locations are gear ups, zombies endlessly spawn depending on how many you kill/how much racket you make. Its all is side mechanics for getting you ready for the inevitable PvP. Some people are mean, some nice, some nice who turn out to be mean.. ect.. But the games problems have jaded almost everyone.. If the game wasnt so bad at times, people would be more happy and helping, willing to work together. I play servers with the worst of the worst players, seeking only to be really angry about killing or being killed. Most are really really socially awkward (or maybe foreigners are bad about sarcasm and witty dialog) and seem to be convicts playing from prison. But i like the action, not the interaction. I am good at the game, so I tend to get more of the angry they lost, which is rewarding enough to keep playing. Stand alone wont fix a lot of this games problems and thats the sad thing, people like the game because at its core it is brilliant and fun.. But im telling you youre wasting your time holding your breath for magic stand alone that fixes the thousands of problems this game has.

When you fire SD rounds in a non-SD weapon, they are SD (little sound) to zombies. They fire above your aim, as video shows. Other players can hear them at a muffled range.

Spawning into a populated server without a weapon, makes you people's play thing. Its so creepy, awkward, and so not entertaining to have to spend hours running around JUST to defend yourself.

The argument was 'realism' and the point was you wouldn't 'wash up' empty handed, literally would throw punches or a shoe at a zombie or person trying to take your life. You guys think its "true DayZ" to play it the terrible way it was incidentally presented. It is not. With the bugs, glitches, exploits, cheaters..Spending a REAL hour running down a virtual highway to be hacked a moment later, lol, get real. I will never again play one without a starting weapon.

I wanted to quickly address some terribly exaggerated misconceptions in this thread. Ive played/seen 2 servers with sniper rifle spawn loadouts. Maybe 5 or so with basic weapons, low ammo, like a winchester, double barrel, or low end pistols. Yes this does create scenarios that are mentioned in here as complaints, where fresh spawned players battle on the coasts or starter towns, but seriously if you watch or do a few of these you will see they end up being epic starts to a "life". Ive gotten many situations where instead of being bored having to pick a spot to go look for stuff, im 'forced' to go get painkillers, a morphine (ever rolled to a car and driving forever to a hospital?), or leaked blood all the way to a residential spawn in the hopes of a bandage. On the same token, you seriously cant ignore the reality of 'vanilla' where some socially awkward guy camps a rooftop of a town with a lee enfield he found right away- meanwhile his targets are lucky to find a hatchet to defend themselves. This happens ALL THE TIME and the TRUTH is a mildly geared player should overcome someone spawning with a single mak PM clip. A small group of fresh spawns should be able to purposefully or incidentally cordinate to make a bunkered down bandit flee.. or good forbid kill him after hours of sitting at the same roof lip in prone. Too many people try to FORCE this slow, devastatingly brutal gameplay that ends up being a HUGE waste of time (talking several HOURS), because youre getting tin cans. Although I did find out you can cause concussion and very rarely a broken bone, hitting a player with cans/bottles.. Last thing is this push towards "reality" as if this apocolypse happens and I dont even snatch a crowbar from home before heading out into the woods. Having hapless people in this "situation" is this most unrealistic thing humanly possible. Id snap the damn antenna off a car and beat you with it if you starting talking some "hit the dirt while go through your pockets!".

I keep seeing the argument that this encourages too much PvP and I just dont understand. The game is meant to have player interaction, without plentiful vehicles you have people just staying around "hot spots" doing the same (if not MORE) "PvP" there. Seriously on high vehichle servers, people spread out to regroup or get some quiet. Ive rode into towns, seen someone else near their vehicle and we just pass each other by, too concerned with losing our vehicles to risk PvPing. Picking people up or just trusting someone for once, is something more common place when it doesnt take 6 hours to get an ATV working- only to have flipped it 200m later. In 'vanilla' there has not been a single time where someone hasnt tried to take my vehicle or just shoot at it in the hopes it explodes just because they are mad im not on foot too. Ive honestly seen only the opposite of what you describe and this complaint seems like more of a whine that playing the fun active servers, finds people on your favorite loot cycle location. Eventhough ONLY players give anyone whose played longer then a week, any sense of thrilling excitement. Seriously.

I play with several other people and lots of vehicles, map/compass, pistol with 1 clip, basic survival gear, is awesome for us. The server we play on (Origins) has all helis in need of complete repair and most vehicles are busted minorly. This makes it exciting, to repair a vehicle and regroup with the others in an hour or two. Not of all us can play for 4+ hours a sitting, consecutively. It just makes the gaming experience better for us. Getting good weapons, full repairs on good vehicles/helis, and getting backpacks/food/blood/ect, is still important and thrilling. Honestly I cannot even stomach playing a vanilla server, where your things can be destroyed in seconds by inevitable hackers. Also getting to a location and repairing a vehicle in vanilla takes hours and hours, sometimes DAYS. This is just unacceptable time commitment to this game, in its current state. Maybe in stand alone it would be tolerable, but right now the types of servers you describe are vital to my group continuing to play.

We are tired of hackers and its almost to the point where we dont want to play anymore. I figured its time we try a whitelist server. We are East Coast USA. We seek a server on namalsk or standard map. We prefer added options, like LOTS of vehicles, base building, ect. Full day time is a bonus too. Above all though it must be an active server before we get there. The group is around 10 players, so if its not at least 15-20 active players, we wont have fun. Please add a link to your server's status so I can check its activity. Then of course any website or place we need to sign up for the white list. Thank you!

Youre spoiled. When I first played DayZ, I crawled around elektra avoiding zombies. A friend who had played for two weeks met up with me... Ran right by me towards fire house with a stream of zombies, then hatcheted them all. After that I never cared about zombies again and id actually get upset when id be killing another player and a zombie would dare hit me or get in the way.

I dont understand people's logic. Always with the "THIS NOT REALISTIC" in a zombie mod. ROFL.

I felt like I was listening to 3 teenagers hit puberty. The jokes were stale and socially awkward, the a.d.d banter was annoying, and the gameplay was meaningless. You made this video to showcase what you thought was "funny", a few minutes of which seemed salvaged over weeks and weeks of playing the game. That should of been your first red flag. Anyway I wont leave you with just honesty, check out my website, www.MentalPoison.com. Listen to a few episodes and how to be funny will naturally come to you. Or on you.. Whatever. Good luck.