Zippo99

Ok I'm signing in on this one and only occasion to specifically complain about the experience I just had in DayZ which perfectly sums up why I gave up playing DayZ 3 months ago: Downloaded, fully updated: Ready to go. Logged in, run into two mute sociopaths who both try to kill me with axes (and fail) I carry on my merry way. Five minutes in: What sounds like a teenager speaking bad English comes round a corner in Svetlojarsk pointing a gun at me telling me to stand still. I refuse and he misses repeatedly. I run into a hospital to hide, he pops out of nowhere in front of me. I escape (again, thank God he's a bad shot). I run outside of the hospital in Svet, and what a surprise, there's another guy who looks exactly like him waiting outside for me despite the fact that he was behind me in the hospital. Must be an associate of his I suppose, he shoots me in the arm but I escape (again). I hide in a hut, bandage up. POP. There he is again right in front of me. Misses again (told you he was a bad shot). I run away again, running into the trees, WHAT A SURPRISE THERE HE IS AGAIN RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. Well I'm about to just give up at this point and quit when all of a sudden... He levitates about 200 metres in the air and appears to fly away like in the Matrix, Neo style. Will wonders never cease. At least he's gone right? NOPE he's right behind me again and shoots me square in the head. The End. Great story right? Doesn't this sound like fun? I can only imagine what it must feel like to spend hours crawling through hedges avoiding sniper fire and being stealthy only to be brutally murdered by Neo from the Matrix before he literally levitates away into the great beyond. What is the point of DayZ? This game is being straight up kicked off my hard drive until this is fixed, which I expect to be in the next decade - give or take 5-10 years. Because this is just a slap in the face, especially when you read the patch notes and all they've changed is "oooh new cow animations! Thank God for that, I really had my suspicions about DayZ and whether the devs would really get a handle on this game or not, but now that the new Cow Animations are here I think we can brush over the rougher edges of this game. /Rant off.

Hi all 27 y/o dude from England live in Germany and looking to play some Day Z but with a regular group instead of randomers. Add me on steam and tell me if you want to join up Hastings298 is my steam name. Peace

Hi all, I've got a relatively specific question that I would really like to hear other people's opinions on. Here are my specs: Windows 7 x64 i5 2500k @ 4.4Ghz GTX 660 8Gb DDR3 ________ I like to think that my machine is a respectable enough gaming machine but the *feel* of DayZ has just never felt 'right'. I feel like I'm controlling my avatar from behind a lengthy fishing rod, like I'm controlling it from a distance away - slightly laggy but not laggy enough to actually make it unplayable - just slightly 'slow'. I've done all sorts of messing about with performance tweaks - render frames ahead = 1 etc, but somehow it just does not feel snappy and responsive in the way that a game like, say, Battlefield 3 does. And i really feel like it's putting me at a disadvantage when it comes to quickfire shootouts and encounters with others. My question is this: Is this something experienced by a lot of people or is it just me? I love DayZ but this is like chinese water torture, it just wears you down until you can't be bothered playing it any more because of the handicap it feels like it gives you. Thanks Chris

Too soon for a Christopher Dorner joke?

I also think this is a totally badass and awesome idea, especially vis a vis the cigarettes. One other possibility though might simply be coins... there could be vending machines in the stores for example that you can only use with coins or bank notes. There could even be a kind of server-wide quest to crack open a vault somewhere to distribute (or quarrel over) a finite number of coins / notes (this way they will maintain value and there can be no duplication). What money would mean is that essentially you are always able to get a set number of supplies from the vending machines, and hence they would be very valuable as trading items..

@bfisher I haven't played enough yet to be certain but it sure feels, to me, like since it became harder to survive and the zombies aren't such pussies, that the instagibbing-CoD-Style has waned slightly. Which is a hugely good thing.

The problem here Draxx, is that it's very unlikely the participants in the rudimentary trading system would ever coincidentally happen to have the specific desired commodities which they would gladly trade for the types of food/manpower/materials to which you refer. This is why 'money' exists, so we don't have to carry around a whole random bunch of **** just in case the guy who has that morphine you need only accepts payment in the form of car parts or something equally hard to find. A stable, trustworthy medium of exchange, would probably be something along the lines of common ammunition types (bullets are all nice and regular, easy to transport, easy to count, easy to subdivide) or something like cigarettes which have similar qualities as a medium of exchange.

There are no recorded instances in history of barter being the go-to default trade system. The only time barter is ever used, historically, is when stuff is so messed up there's literally no other alternative so we're talking about 1951 in Hungary (a period of massive hyperinflation, in fact the hyperinflation was so bad you needed scientific notation to write it correctly). In Day Z... well yeah it's a zombie apocalypse so stuff is messed up... but in reality people would still revert to some kind of 'currency' given any alternative whatsoever, so a kind of hybrid currency like cigarettes for example. Cigarettes are frequently used in prisons as a means of exchange because they have many of the characteristics of fiat currencies - as in they are a unit of exchange that can be easily divided up, they all have a similar mass, and everyone instantly recognises them. Ammo would be a good alternative. But straight up barter? As in, me wanting to buy your 4x4 in exchange for a load of bandages or beans? Very unlikely.

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Hi all I'm looking for a group of mature, preferably also 20+ fellow DayZ players to group with. No ridiculous map mods No people who barely speak English EU only TS3 or Mumble Friendly, sociable, do not spend all their time hoarding beans in some tiny corner of the map that takes 3 hours to find, actually willing to properly co-operate and communicate with both each other and me. Be cool Regards Hastings296 (Steam User) Chris (my name)

I'll join, 26 y/o english guy.

I hope for your sake English is like your third or fourth language.

Did you come up with that comment by yourself or is your social worker typing it for you?

I hear all these guys telling awesome stories about how they met person X randomly in the wilderness/fire station/wherever and how they communicated and after a rocky start eventually hung out and became allies etc etc. WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLE? I encounter no one and nothing except unspeaking murderous children who should be playing CoD. I have yet to have an encounter - post the initial few euphoric weeks of playing this game - that did not involve them running straight at me with whatever is at hand or simply blowing my brains out with a high-powered scoped sniper rifle from 3km away. I would dearly, dearly, love to be able to say "Hey whats up" over in-game VOIP and get a friendly response, or for someone to offer a friendly "Hi friendly?" before they just bulldoze my corpse into a ditch and walk away with what little I own. I confess, I'm not a huge PVP fan in most games, but PVP in this game feels... futile. There are no attempts at contact or negotiation or communication whatsoever. When I've spent days crawling around looking for a GPS (I actually found one, and a whole bunch of awesome stuff the other day) and just getting one-shotted from a speck on the horizon I just haven't logged in since. I wasn't even annoyed at that point I just thought to myself "What is the point?" Thoughts?

"You're playing the game wrong." Didn't Steve Jobs try something similar?