Roecky

First things first, thanks for all of your responses. So to give you an Idea, in my 560 hours of DayZ i killed MAYBE 3-5 people. Im not a pvp Person. I go to military bases because i want more space, i want camo clothing so other players cant spot me that easy, i want weapons to defend myself mostly from Zombies. Im mostly running around with a Winchester/ B95 with a hunting scope and a silenced Pistol-/smg. Why i use a Sniper Rifle? Because i like to observe other people and i like spotting from distance. Sure the Scope alone would be enough for my needs but i like to be prepared "what if i have to shoot because someone "hunts" me or what if i see hostile people killing new spawns, maybe even friends. Why i criticize some survival mechanics? Because nobody uses them. You spend idk 6 hours to grow some plants on public servers? Go fishing while other people could shoot you down at any time? Maybe some people do exactly that but from my experience they wont do it. That is stuff most people do on roleplay servers. Most people prefered the DayZ MOD i wonder why, think about it. You also can tell me what you want i bet you play exactly like everybody else. Rushing to end Gear and i am pretty sure you are mostly the pvp guys.

Yeah well maybe you should have read it because i am not a pvp player. And i find it slightly disrespectful, just because im a "first time poster" for you to respond like that. Honestly i don´t really know what gave you the idea that im a "pvp only" guy. But if its your opinion, im fine with that.

Hello Guys and Maybe Devs So i don´t exactly know how i should start this topic or even if its the right section for this. Im also pretty sure alot of people are sick seeing other people complaining. But honestly i need to write it down and just rant a little (sorry for that). So lets start this. I´ve been playing DayZ Standalone for more than 500 hours, i also know people that played the SA for over 1500 hours but mostly on Roleplay Servers. My biggest issue with DayZ is : It´s empty. It´s so empty that it´s boring. Sure in my first hours it was all new and exciting, sneaking around, looting, learning the map, discover the hotspots for loot and pvp and so on. But lets be honest. All you do at the moment is rushing to a military base and get your loot. That´s it. Most cities, villages are abandoned from the players because theres almost no loot or just bad loot. The whole North-East Part of the map - no players at all. The North - East Airfield - Useless. Nothing to loot, nothing special. Why should players bother to go there? The old police buildings (that one with the field beds on the second floor, mostly found on airfields or military bases) no loot at all for years. Total useless unused buildings. These were just a few examples but the list would go on forever. The loot system overall is just..sorry bad. It makes almost 75% of the map useless. Nobody bothers anymore to loot through cities. The clothes most people like are mostly on military terrain. Well honestly almost everything you need-/want is on military bases. Sure when i spawn i look through houses and stuff, until i find a melee weapon and thats mostly it. Then i try to find an Apple tree, eat dozens of apples until im healthy and then i go straight to military bases. Cans of Food, bottles or drinking cans - i dont really care anymore. Best and easiest Food are Apples, they fill up your hunger and thirst almost equally - Perfect! That´s another issue i don´t understand, when your character spawns for the first time "Hungry" or even Hungry and Thirsty so you don´t even have alot of time to think what you need to do. It´s just dumb. In my opinion new characters should spawn hydrated and energized. So i don´t need to rush in an instant to the next Apple tree, abuse the apple picking bug and then i start to "explore". Okay let´s move on to the next issue. Useless Junk and mechanics almost nobody uses. I NEVER repaired a vehicle on public Servers. Why? Vehicles are so damn useless in DayZ SA its not worth the effort. It´s loud as Hell, it´s clunky, your frames go down after a period of time, you need way too much stuff to repair it. I mean come on, i know its a survival game but look at the DayZ MOD - it´s done way better than the SA. We don´t even have Quads and bicycles the most popular vehicles. Fast, fairly "quiet" and just a nice thing to get from point A to B. Helicopters in DayZ SA? No way. The game cant even handle the trucks and cars that are implemented yet. Just imagine flying over a bigger city with a helicopter and the game tries to load all kinds of junk items, tries to spawn the "dynamic" Zombies and human players ..it will crash instantly. You even notice the laggs when you drive through cities.. Next. Plant Growing Stuff. THATS Dumb. This seems like a mechanic created for private role playing servers but not for public Servers. Total useless for 99% of Players. "You dont like it, dont use it then" right? Well yeah of course but think about it, seeds packs are items, vegetables are items, your tools you need to grow them are items. Its valuable Space. Think about it how often you find tools, seed packs and nobody cares to take them. These are items your game has to load and makes the perfomance more worse. Pretty Sure in the whole world there are like 500 "useless" tools lying around, lots of seed packs and so on. Same goes for mechanical Stuff for repairing vehicles. It´s just too much and makes the perfomance more worse. But enough of that, i think (or hope) i showed my points here. Next One: Who the f*** did decide that there are NO Ammo or Magazines if you find a weapon? How dumb is that? Yeaah of course it could be a weapon a player left without any mags or ammo but most of the times you find a weapon at the loot spawn. Sometimes you get a magazine but for most of the time you only find a Rifle and thats it. Even on Military bases you only find the weapon. What logic is that? And again thats something the MOD did better again! Okay i´ll try to shorten this a bit. - A Game that is about survival and Zombies, lacks in Zombies and the threat of them - Almost everything seems empty - Big Map Parts, buildings, cities are useless (Loot-/good Loot) - Some Spawn locations don´t even make sense or the loot itself doesn´t make sense (weapons without mags-/ammo) - The map itself is boring due the lack of content and threats - Still performance problems in form of FPS Drops mostly in cities and villages - overcomplicated Vehicles (for repairing, just not worth it) - Animations are still really bad and not fluid ( New Melee Animations are still horrible, stiff and artificial. They look awful to be honest) - Unused Buildings, locations for YEARS even on military terrain - Lack of different Terrain (look at the MOD again and its different maps, most popular Namalsk) - Lack of loot spawn locations (what happened to the loot locations on defect military trucks, cars, tanks and so on?) - Useless Mechanics for most public players (Fishing, Plant growing) - Lack of different Weather states - Lack of Different good-/unique weapons - Lack of really unique clothings I could continue the List much longer than that but it should be enough..I really don´t hate the game and i know that some things got better but it´s just frustrating to see less and less players. The community is shrinking every Day and the Problems are obvious (atleast for me). Its taken way too much time and we are not even in the Beta yet..after almost 5 Years. No wonder why the community lost the hope for this game..but i still have faith in it. I wouldn´t be a Fan if i wouldn´t have some Ideas to make the game better (atleast in my opinion) So here we go with some Ideas: - New / Different kinds of Zombies like "Walker, Runner, Crawler, Zombies with a chance to infect you, Zombies that you see and you KNOW thats a tough one - Radioactive Areas or poisoned Areas where you need Gas masks to survive and to make the threat even bigger --> Zombie Hordes or something like this - More threatening zombies so that you really think twice to get to this house, area, base or if you really want to risk a shot-/attention (And i don´t mean Zombies that gives you unfair onehits...we all know the problem of lagging zombies, clunky melee.. so just stronger Zombies is out of competition) - Maybe something like a safe Zone for Trading with others (idk if that would be a good idea because of campers outside of this area) - Give us some unique stuff like weapons, clothing that you only can obtain from an Heli crash or a specific area (f.e. "bulletproof" vest with 12 Slots so you can survive a critical shot or survive 2 shots more, special helmet which has more endurance (or looks cool), A different Sniper Rifle, Assault Rifle with a better accuracy or slighlty increased damage, Special shoes so your footsteps are more quiet, a full gillie suit with pockets or compatible with a backpack, Night Vision goggles, special SWAT-/STALKER suit with some kind of an bonus or just cosmetic, there are so many possibilities) - Better dynamic weather -/changes (slightly Raining, Heavy Raining, Overall Foggy, Maybe snow, Thunder and lighting, Heavy Storms) - Better -/More vehicles-/better perfomance and more stable, maybe even more userfriendly in terms of repairing - More different Character Models So i know that there are some things planed like growing a beard, getting scares, base building, open for modding and so on thats why i didn´t mention that stuff. I also hope that i don´t need to say that they need to improve the things i mentioned on the "negative list". I´m also pretty sure (sadly) in the end the talent of the community through modding will make DayZ the game we really wanted... but i kinda feel reliefed after i wrote this down. I really really like the game but its frustrating me for years now. So thats my overall feedback until now..pretty sure is missed bugs and other important stuff. Please ignore any tipos, my keyboard is kinda broken (chattering keys). Greetings Roecky