You get dropped onto the shore or somewhat inland. Spend countless hours dodging other players, being chased for nothing, dying because of rain, and finally outrunning walkers. I personally have spent over 100+ hours playing and complaining about the way DAYZ has been . Yes, i realize that the game is in ALPHA and by no means am I saying Im not loving the game so far. It has its glitches and so forth but hey... whats not to love about spending hours stalking someone to watch them pick up a mosin scope and planning your attack. The real reason im writing this isn't to say how much i hate hackers and I wish it would stop raining or there isn't enough loot. I want to know where the game is going, I've read the mission statement showing what the goals are for each quarter this year. Honestly is scares me, I also play Arma 3 and I find myself just getting p.o.'d at the server list and every-time i click on a server it disconnects me, kicks me, or i get in and the server lag so horrible I starting doubting my computer systems ability to hand Arma. Now i know Dayz "isnt Arma 3" but with the talk about being able to customize the game I see this turning into the same issue. Shoot the only way i'm even enjoying Arma is Battle Royale. I would hate to see Dayz get like this, the game is going to push machines to there limit once the game is optimized, but I dont want to have to download a bunch of crazy non-scene mods. I wanted to experience Dayz from the mod it spawned from. I download DayZ mod for Arma 2 and jumped in, made one noise and im being chased my at least 15-20 walkers. Yes i get this is suppose to be a “zombie survival game” but is it going to get this crazy? Walking into a town and cant really do anything but worry about zombies? I think there needs to be a happy medium for this, even on the website for the mod it says average survival is 1.5 hrs that is way to short… I want to try to keep a toon for a couple days and explore not just run from Elektro to Balota and hope i dont get 100+ walkers running for me or God forbid another toon sees me and kills me. Can we expect a good balance in this area and not just throwing in a bunch of walkers because the game engine can handle it. I know there is plan for more things in the game and more walkers but how crazy are things going to get. I would hate to spend the time enjoying the game now to end up hating it in the end because there is just TOO MUCH going on.