SniperV (DayZ)

Based on what I've seen so far, I don't think it has any future. The developement... it feels like we had plenty of status reports where great plans, ideas were announced, they either ended up being massively underhwelming (barricading, horticulture, cle, new persistence) or are just still work in progress that we don't get to see. Yet again, great things are announced for .60, but I don't believe it anymore. Too many disapppointments in the past. There are other concerns aswell. Supposably there are some builds that are only dedicated for internal testing. What's the point of experimental servers then? Why every single experimental patch comes without a changelog? Why not just list the new additions and let players test them? What's the point of players wasting all those extra hours on exp, trying to find out what's new? And if the SA actually is doing fine and you are confident that massive positive changes are just behind the corner, then what's the point of censoring negative posts both here and on steam forums?

Some people are unhappy with SA, get over it. Right, lets just gather all the people that don't agree with your opinions and take away their freedom of speech.

How about they show us some real progress instead of love?

Or maybe they just like PvP?

I thought that one of the greatest things about DayZ was and still is: play it the way you like. Moreover I would focus on the "fun" part. Obviously different people enjoy different things, but I'd really like the survival to be properly rewarding. I don't want to be forced into survival. I'm ok with the idea that we spawn hungry, without gear and we immidiately have to go and look for some basic items and food, but I don't think that getting from that to the point where our character is healthy and happy should be a massive challenge. There are some ways to make hunting, farming or fishing more interesting. I would definitely be more interested in farming if I could grow potatoes and then turn them into vodka, that can't be obtained in any other way. Hunting - I see quite some potential in leather crafting. What if we could craft clothing and backpacks with biggest capacity from leather? Just an alternative for people that don't want to rush into military zones to grab good clothing and backpacks.

At first I expected that SA will mostly just move the mod to the new engine and eventually maybe add some new features. I don't mind more complicated mechanics as long as they make sense and work at least decently. From my point of view the major improvements are: opening buildings, inventory system (that is still far from perfect) and that is pretty much it. They have worked on zombies and failed. Old mechanic of zombies spawning in the proximity of players was still better than empty cities and villages. Working on persistence and loot spawning was the right move, but so far it is a mess. Turn on persistence and loot spawning gets crazy with entire empty cities, yet lootsplosions in other places. New melee, to my surprise, is as bad as the old system. Medical system is just different, not more complicated. Crafting is fine. Vehicles are about 1 year behind the schedule. Hunting/fishing/farming is not far from being acceptable. One of the trully new mechanics is the equipment getting damaged. So far that system is broken as fuk. Right now it's difficult to say what future holds for DayZ. Status reports are always full of supposably brilliant new mechanics that are WIP, renderer is comming or not, nobody knows at this point. Hopefully, 0.59 will come soon and with awesome changes.

If you want more people to play 1pp, make it more attractive, don't try to force people to "like" them by removing 3pp options. The other option is to slowly make people get used to 1p perspective. Even on 3pp servers, when you aim down sight you are in 1pp. You could for example implement obligatory 1pp view when driving a vehicle (or just when you're inside one). Then throw in biplane - on 1pp servers only and people will have incentive to leave their usual 3pp and try 1pp, just to look for that plane. Carrot on a stick, not smacking someone with that stick.

It's not a bad idea, since there are no random spawn points yet. With random spawns you will have a risk of spawning in the middle of the forest, no clue where you are and no nearby buildings or zombies to kill yourself. Tbh, on full servers I'd rather spawn in the middle of the field than next to Electro, where everything is looted, all around the city are bambi snipers and few alive survivors are busy punching anything that moves.

One character per server. Would it really be bad? Server hopping is one of the main reasons why I exclusively stick to private hives. Tents, cars, loot doesn't teleport from server to server, so why can our characters do that? Just like you mentioned, loot on private hives looks much different than on public ones.

Imo, survival is just quite poor right now. Canned food is still too good to bother with anything else. You can craft improvised stone knife in the first minutes after spawn and that's all you need to open canned food. Picking apples and berries, which is one of the favourite activities of all the survival fans, is broken as fuk and I really hope that eventually it will have a different mechanic. Currently a single apple tree has infinite amount of food - so hardcore. Gardening can eventually become fun, but only if we won't have to find a special tool just for making holes in the ground. Why not use a stick and your bare hands? It will take much longer but should be possible. Same with watering plants. In theory I should be able to carry some water in my hands or just increase the spawn of empty plastic bottles ffs. They should be easy to find, right? Fishing is quite fine, but having to find or craft a fishing hook can be annoying at times. On top of that I'd like to have an option to dig for worms using a sharp stick. I don't care if it takes longer or has a smaller chance of success, it's still better than running around and looking for a hoe or similar tool. Hunting is just bad. Animal locations seem to be quite random. Just the other day I've encountered a herd of cows wandering on the starting trip of an airfield. I guess they came to eat some tasty concrete. There is no tracking and animal soundds are too quiet to be usefull. Anyway: both fishing and farming are more reliable. Why not make leather more important? How about using it to make extra pockets for your clothing? Grab some leather, sewing kit and upgrade your 4 slot pants to 6 or even more slots. Similar with jackets, vests.

Big mistake.

New renderer would be a good start.

Aha, good representation of how many people are actually still playing...

I know, but there are still some good ones. Just ignore all the troll reviews: "Ate a fruit, died. 10/10 Would die again."

.59 that hopefully will be better.

If you can - try out Breaking Point mod for ArmA 3. DayZ Mod has more content, runs smoother - but isn't very popular anymore and you might have trouble finding active servers. SA is work in progress. It might be decent in 1 more year, but it's not certain. If you want decent opinions about SA check Steam reviews, don't bother asking here. Whichever you choose, have fun.

All the replies "It's a feature, not a bug." made me giggle a bit, but then I realised those posters were serious...

I would be disappointed, since it would mean that devs changed the major aspect of the game, simply beacause of the whining minority. If you think about it, in the long run it could actually make the whinners unhappy, because their made up argument "I'm better than you because I play 1pp." could no longer be used.

Small civilian plane that you can only fly in 1pp camera.

Find SVD, snipe bambies at the spawn points.

People might start treating you seriously, when you stop claiming that your personal opinions are facts.

Fanboyism? Do you even know what it means? You completly ignore the reasons why some people play 3pp and hope they will be forced to play 1pp or quit. We're done here, you're either stupid or trolling.

So better ruin the game for them? 1pp servers are ampty because too many people focus on destroying 3pp completly rather than advertising 1pp and trying to convince 3pp players to join us. You know, choosing the easy way. I believe they should have a choice of 3pp if they dislike 1pp, same as we have a choice of 1pp when we dislike 3pp. And you still fail to realize that in this case you want to force the guy working out next to you to make few more reps.

You know what? I play on 1pp servers. Some of them have low player count, some are full. It takes few seconds to find the one that has as many players as you like. I don't play 3pp anymore, I don't care about 3pp. BUT If someone who plays 1pp exclusively starts complaining about 3pp, suggest to change 3pp view because of "reasons" even though 3pp players like it just the way it is now. Then, I DO CARE. Why the hell people can't accept that some folks like apples, while other enjoy oranges? Stop forcing everyone to east apples even if they don't like that. Any 1pp player that suggest, that existence of 3pp is ruining his experience, is a dick. Why? WHY do you care? He likes to see his character, nothing wrong with that. I always know that nobody is abusing the camera against me. My secret is playing 1pp servers.

Tried it on experimental. A bunch of zombies in bigger cities and military zones - better, but still far from good. On the other hand, small villages usually have no zombies at all.