coleisman

Why not just play left 4 dead? DayZ is probably just not the experience you're after.

This mod isn't supposed to be "fun" in the traditional sense. Dev has stated this in many interviews, his intention was never to create "a fun game." DayZ is intended to be an involving and compelling experience and emotionally significant, and it is experimental in nature. The game is supposed to scare you, make you feel desperate and alone, make you struggle, become frustrated, disoriented and instill a genuine sense of despair. How you choose to respond to this despair IS the game. In DayZ the intent is not to form groups because "this is an MMO" or "you need 4 people @ lvl 25 to beat instance X" but because you are scared (or lonely, bored, annoyed, or have some other motive) and it's genuinely tough out there on your own. Necessity is the mother of invention, ideally the game will have a few more basic mechanics to allow more sophisticated interactions between players, but even in its current (and previous states) it has brought about some pretty cool examples of this. Yes, the game can be quite boring at times, but that is interspersed with moments of sheer terror, frustration, and agony, and every now and then the occasional triumph. In my view, boredom is an essential part of the experience, the point is NOT to cheat but find other ways to resolve it through the existing game mechanics, which is honestly pretty cool. If you don't see how cool that is then I can understand that too, but you're missing out.

The difference here is the developer spent his time creating this mod, trying to make something good and create something that would benefit a lot of people, OP was unwilling to abide by the basic tenets of involvement in the game which is that it's a shared experience and went about corrupting the game to suit his impulses, undoing the work that the developer created and damaging others game experience.

This is why he's concentrating on the standalone, he has stated in numerous interviews that the number one priority is to resolve the hacking issues before developing any new mechanics game content or bug fixes. Hacking will always happen but the standalone version should allow him to sufficiently lock it down to bring it down to a minimum (I dont know anything about this stuff, just going off what he said in a couple interviews)

Kids today and their goddamn internets and all the iPads and high fructose corn syrup. I blame his parents.

butt-hurt op is butt-hurt. absolutely zero people are giving any fucks about "why you cheated" especially when you state that it was because you were bored. you are a loser.

This mod is still in alpha (early) testing phase, you will have lots of bugs and glitches. What happened to you was a script exploit (hack) used "for teh lulz" by a teenager with manboobs. That is not part of the official experience, but it will be (a very small) part of your experience nonetheless. I like parentheses.

Every time I watch a let's play or commentary video and the commentator says something like "zombies aren't even a real threat, they just end up being an annoyance" later in that video or series of videos they will inevitably die directly from some zombie attack they underestimated or by injuries directly related to it. To qualify: Zombies are not difficult but they are everpresent and persistent, they will wear you down and catch you off guard, they certainly are a nuisance, but if you let your guard down and decide to use a loud gun and maybe crouch while running instead of walking you can quickly find yourself in a situation you are going to have a tough time getting out of, which often means you don't Survival is not that easy, every interaction you make in the world of any consequence carries the risk of death, watch a seasoned player and they are so cautious and paranoid, they loosen up on their discipline by a tiny bit and they are dead.

I'm sorry your honeymoon period with the game is over, but instead of just complaining and saying that it doesn't live up to your standards of unachievable excellence why not work to shape the community and make the game better?

You can't run from your past bro. Man up and take responsibility for yourself.

This is exactly like when a really bitter chick breaks up with you and is like oh and btw I've been cheating on you with everybody because yes I am a whore so in reality you're relieved to be rid of me and I will continue my empty and pointless existence of utter and complete neediness and complaining.

You don't need a clan for that.

Verbose. (good story though.)

I'm your huckleberry.

This happens all the time, most 'survivors' don't allow themselves to experience it because they are infected with a zombification of the soul, parroting the mantra "don't trust anyone" and killing on sight. Too afraid to let go of the illusion of control they spiral into paralyzing suspicion and paranoia, but hope springs eternal.