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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.

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!

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.

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.

This guy above is oblivious, no offense. Ill just be honest with you, a friend of mine I convinced to play got super paranoid. He thought everyone was a cheater and I purposefully downplayed the cheating going on. So he calls me one day and says he can see everyone on the map. Vehicles, people, and their gear. On a browser he just dragged to his second monitor. He had paid 6 bucks for a hack. I told him about hacking in the game and I said the same cliche things all these guys keep saying to play it down. I also tell him, well we play on private servers and they detect it better and youll get battleeye perma banned. No no, this didnt happen. He played 2 days straight with the cheats enabled and then he quit the game. The person who posted above just isnt suspicious enough of people, to realize he has ran into them. It isnt something you avoid like Hmmm looks like hackers play that server, ill not go there. LOL. No no, its everywhere. If you have played over a few weeks and say you havent ran into it, youre lying or are willfully ignorant. If you try to pretend it doesnt exist you will hate this game, you need to enjoy and have fun in spite of.

Seems like rage to me. Seems like you thought this was a military simulator and you were kinda the kitten's tits. Then some 13 year old made you look like an idiot in Cherno with a double barrel. He then said "Oh u hasnt no clipz, i only has 2 bulrits left!", and your emotional shit just snapped. After you calmed down from the experience you thought you would save face online with the other guys who thinks having a baby hold your firearm while you change their diaper, makes you extremely cool. Mature grown ass folks who would put you down before you could shit your pants; You most likely wont even know they own guns or know how to use (and maintain) them properly. They arent toys and are to be given respect. Pixelated versions, however, ROFL.. Who cares what the kids say, why even take the time to care that they said it. Just do you.

It happens. First off play private. Much less chance of hackers (although they still happen mind you) and also custom spawn gear. Ive played ones with minimal stuff and another with a m4a1 cco with 2 clips, but no bandages. Find what you like. Also zombies will get an overhaul, but enhancing AI is terrible idea, they shouldnt flank or make smart tactical moves. They are zombies. They see/hear you and scream, then run RIGHT at you. They just need a real script and not the modified arma 2 ai. Anyway dont be so sour, its a fun game and if you dont like it you have to remember that doesnt really matter much. Opinions are like.. Well you know the rest.

That parody song made my rectum close up. Seriously hasnt reopened since.. It was that bad. Doctor appointment tomorrow, hopefully no long term damage was done. Avoid that video though just in case.

Unless you have tons of free time, hackers WILL effect you and your friends. Ive been playing a month and there has been nights where me and 5 or so friends, are playing. We get a car, meet up, everyone gets a gun, have a few fun shootouts. Someone we kill gets butthurt. 5 minutes later the whole night is ruined and everyone logs out very sour. Other nights there is no ending like that, but at some point someone we never seen on server has an amazing gun.. Another guy shoots our guillie suit scout in a bush where WE COULDNT SEE HIM WITH DIRECTIONS... Someone is suddenly behind us at a bottlednecked location. Dont let people above lie to you, this happens and happens often. Ive played with random people and found out they've been using hacks the whole time. The game is absolutely OVER RUN with cheats, to the point where if youre a normal calm and sane person. If you think someone is cheating, youre probably right. HOWEVER, its not like this is an MMO. Honestly dont go for crazy items, get something you like, grab a vehicle, and help/kill other players. Have fun and find friends, your stuff stays around longer. If you find a decent server and just play for fun, then you will barely notice the hacks. Dont be fooled into stand alone changing any of this. Knowing how "bambi" the crew is to game devolpment, I wouldnt expect stand alone to be too much better.

Finding a server is the hard part. Me and my friends prefer LOTS of vehicles, because if someone dies (which can happen with bugs, hacks, lots of BS) then their night is over.. Hours and hours to walk places, thats taking the direct route that might get you killed again. So we play lots of vehicles, so they are used as transport and frequent enough where everybody doesnt hide/camp the vehicles. Admin abuse is a big thing too.. Almost every single admin you run into can see your location and/or gear. Some servers will absolutely abuse this power and sadly even some will have this "We're that good" attitude about the absolute impossible. Get on Teamspeak, make sure they arent teenagers or socially retarded. Do not delve into the server wholey until you can confirm the admins wont be pricks. A large MAJORITY will be. Example is GamersGoneWild Namalsk.. Mostly its because they are playing the game too, with you. Imagine the times you die and go WTF HOW? GOTTA BE HACKS. But you know its probably some nerd laying under a tree for 4 hours because his parents didnt hug him when he was younger. When these admins die like this, they kinda have to check if its legit. Cant unsee stuff. Sometimes its just a good admin, in a bad crowd (like US 1979). The admin is part of a 'cool' crowd of youngsters and they manipulate him into calling out locations of players, their gear, vehicle spawns, ect. This spoils the experience for anyone playing there. Pick a good server and learn the game, ride vehicles, shoot guns, and learn the mechanics. Wait until you find one that isnt fishy for like a week straight, before calling it your home.

Vehicles is not saved or destroyed, respawn during a restart. Loot must ALL be cleared from their spawn points and discarded. Best option is a zombie/player corpse, hide it when done. Then go 45m away, hide in a tree for 5-10minutes. The reason you wait that long is because a store has like 20+ locations loot can spawn. Stuff will pop up right away and be tempting, but waiting the full 10 minutes will ensure nearly every spot has spawned loot. Also another trick is to have 1 player at the 45m location and it will trigger loot to spawn while you clear it out. It still requires removing all loot for the next 'cycle' to begin.

Wrong. Deep scavenging is an intricate part of survival. Thanks though for your post, was a cool one!

Some consider that to be 'cheating' Elias :) while others have common sense.

Can you message me the server, ive been looking for one like this.