Have you ever had a good play?

[samzerks88 31]

I believe DayZ is one of the best games EVER made as well as being one of the worst games EVER.

Why?

Well i love the society, the atmosphere and thought that you could just die and lose all your stuff.

But in a way that's also a bad point. I've been playing for a few months now and i have yet to actually have a real adventure, yea I've traversed the map with friends and generally had a good time, but i find myself, time after time, spawning, collecting good gear, deer stands, supermarkets, bump into another survivor, die.

Repeat process.

Anyone else feel a bit dissapointed?

[Rott (DayZ) 218]

nope just you.

[FlamingDefibs 421]

Not when you play differently, make your own objectives, stray from your usual type of play, and make the world your playground.

Try making a list of things to do in DayZ, such as:

Look for bases at Devil's Castle

Try to play as a medic (either solo or with the RRF)

Counter snipe

The list goes on.

This is DayZ. Make it your story.

Edited February 6, 2013 by FlamingDefibs

[Aitchy791 78]

Move away from just trying to survive for ages, get a map and gun and go pvp on busy servers

Try other maps too

[Vertisce 158]

@samZerker, I know how you feel. Yes that is pretty much how the game is right now, but thats also the glory of the game. I think it would be cool to be able to pick a house in town or a building and truly fortify it. Put stationary guns in the windows, board up extra doorways and windows...really make it safe. Be able to lock the doors up when you log off the server and know that nobody can get in and steal your stuff without really having to work for it...pick a lock, blow a hole in a wall..etc...

Right now, what you see is what you get. Roam around...gather up gear, make friends, make enemies, kill and be killed, rinse and repeat. While I do agree with your sentiment, for now...this is still a kickass game to play.

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

You need to give yourself something to do. One of the biggest flaws with the mod is that there isn't enough content, it was only really designed to be a few hours fun, not hundreds of hours over months.

I became a whitelisted medic and then I had some of my best adventures ever. It gave me a purpose and a mission, without those all you're doing is collecting gear, dying and then repeating the process.

[hogscraper 328]

Fraggle has it absolutely right. This mod is a zombie infested choose your own adventure. Just because the choices YOU make return you through the same few pages, doesn't mean there aren't a ton of things you could be doing. I always laugh when I talk about wishing they would remove snipers and someone says, 'stop running through fields!'. I do run through fields like a noob, but its because I don't care at all about my gear. I have only been playing a month or so and know where to go, how to find the best gear I want and how to avoid any and all trouble if I wanted to. I purposefully do not do these things once geared because I actually enjoying hunting down loot and look forward to the adrenalin rush of each and every fight in between. I hunt gear, not because of what I can do with it, but for the same reasons people play scratch off lottery tickets, (which I don't). I am also always ready to come to the aid of someone else. Don't care if its a bandit or a hero or a guy with a hatchet wanting a ride to NWAF even though I know he will be dead in minutes. The risks and rewards are mine to make as I see fit.

[Claire Redfield 9]

Not when you play differently, make your own objectives, stray from your usual type of play, and make the world your playground.

Try making a list of things to do in DayZ, such as:

Look for bases at Devil's Castle

Try to play as a medic (either solo or with the RRF)

Counter snipe

The list goes on.

This is DayZ. Make it your story.

What you said!! Make it your story :D

What I also like is finding new buildings and stuff, I found a castle a while ago it was awesome :lol: could'nt enter it though but still it was awesome B)

I also like to just lie down on a hill en just look down to busy survivors/bandits (just looking) how they react on diffrent people or zombies but I never do it long.. to dangerous so I need to go on and survive it all my self^^

I saw 3 people today who came with a chopper and landed next to a driffent chopper to work on it the where like busy bees flying all over the place haha :lol:

[Dreygar (DayZ) 178]

You need to give yourself something to do. One of the biggest flaws with the mod is that there isn't enough content, it was only really designed to be a few hours fun, not hundreds of hours over months.

I became a whitelisted medic and then I had some of my best adventures ever. It gave me a purpose and a mission, without those all you're doing is collecting gear, dying and then repeating the process.

Fraggle nailed it. There is little to do in the game, and it gets very repetitive. Usually that means you need to take a break from it and come back when maybe something interesting changes or you feel the need to play it again.

I really enjoy flying the helicopters and planes around. I tend to always stick with the generic vanilla Day Z, but sometimes those custom private hives with 500+ vehicles can be fun too. I also, don't give a rats ass about my gear. If I'm in a friendly mode, I will even communicate to another play... "Hey man, kill me if you want, but I'm not going to shoot at you." Some days I feel like being nice, some days I feel like being mean.

So when you've done everything your imagination can think of, and you're still asking yourself the question of why you are playing the game then that pretty much means you need to find a new game; as sad as that sounds. Hopefully the Standalone provides us the tools and content we need, to really make Day Z our story.

[King Tubbs 224]

as most people have said change the way you play

1 of my best was when I got bored and decided to go zombie killing (one of my most loved passed times)

the net result was me stuck on the roof of a block of flats with zombies coming one after another up the ladder after me

with no way out and only 26 shots in my lee enfield I thought i was done for

then i herd a chopper who asked if i needed help and then landed for me attracting zeds enough for me to get out and to his chopper

because he had landed more zeds spawned so the run to him was surrounded by 30/40 zombies

it was like a set piece from so many other games but SO much better because i did not know help was on the way and it had happened organically

in short do what you would normally not do

make a camp

go and PVP

zombie hunt

save a noob

play at night

play a different map

play with more players

this game is what you make of it

[Hetstaine 10852]

Select an area of a town ( cherno apartment) or a smallish town like Zeleno on a full pop server and make it yours, tell everyone over side and all will have to pay in beans to enter or die.

Carve up the forests and light a series of ten or so fires down a main road , put a bunch of loot in the middle and then sit back and watch. When someone comes to take it tell them to leave your shit alone or you will go postal.

Follow some random around but dont talk to them except to salute, never leave their side and always be as close as you possibly can. Constantly try to bandage them.

Cover Kamenka bridge , tell new spawns nobody shall pass as you are the suicide prevention officer, throw cans at anyone who tries.

Have a life where you are only allowed to eat rabbits and drink water. No tinned food or drink. Hatchet is your only weapon to be used whilst rabbit hunting.

Tell people you need morphine then if someone comes to help you wait until they are about to morph you then get up and run away.

Collect all of the loot in Elektro shops and hospital and stash it in the church, make sure you leave one item in each location so nothing respawns. Defend your treasure.

[janus0104 212]

Cover Kamenka bridge , tell new spawns nobody shall pass as you are the suicide prevention officer, throw cans at anyone who tries.

Hahahahaha! Ingenious! You, sir, are a scholar and a gentleman!

[richjones19772000 9]

A couple of weeks ago I got close to starting to think I'd had enough.

Then I got into 1v1 with a helicopter and shot the pilot out....back in love with Dayz.

Still playing night and day.

Edited February 6, 2013 by Richjones19772000

[irl-calibre 744]

at the minute i'm living in a black log cabin up north, close to my house - until today I had 2 well stocked tents but i've lost them..

currently I was on the hunt for a cz50 so I could go rabbit hunting - ever been? it's great fun, so difficult..

now i'm back looking for some new tents, lost all my medical supplies so gonna have to repleisih then, lost all my weapons and ammo gonna have to replace them - haven't bothered with a vehicle for weeks, find them all the time and just vandalise the wheels rather than stealing them, usually take and dump all the fuel cans too that are stashed in them, let the oners work!.. longest i've stayed alive has been like 40 days, usually have something to do when I get a chance play, I don't look for trouble but it usually finds me, current server i'm playing on was gonna invite people round to my house for beers on friday night for a chat about the new standalone but they have now disabled comms again on the server.. DayZ still absolutely rocks..

[S1ippery Jim 139]

I really don't understand how people can feel this way about DayZ. I have been playing it regularly since it came out, I would estimate at more than 1000 hrs played and every game is a new adventure for me. There is no limit except your own imagination. I have played games where I have scoured every corner of bleak low population servers while exploring new maps, only to die lonely bleak deaths at the hands of zombies hordes in the frozen wastelands of Thirsk, I have been shot down with squad members embroiled in multiple helicopter dogfights over the skies of Taviana. I have been gunned down brutally by helicopters while attempting to raid crash sites in the jungles of Lingor and killed by packs of Bloodsuckers in Namalsk. I have died from EVR events while driving with low blood level in Namalsk, died from hypothermia in Namalsk, killed by camping bandits at Object A2 in Namalsk...generally died a lot in Namalsk lol. I have also mixed things up by raiding camps in the far north of Chernarus, stealing their Satchel Charges and selecting targets to blow up when unsuspecting survivors enter them (NW airfield Barracks, Devils Castle, NE Airfield Air Traffic Control Tower etc). I have tried my hand at sniping in Chernarus and Electro and the NW airfield as well as at Stary (until I realised I didn't have the patience for it). I have attempted to get 1000 zombie kills in one session after hoarding stacks of ammunition and weapons for weeks for the attempt, only to die 50 kills short in Cherno town square. I have attempted to drive a vehicle around the racetrack in Taviana only to have the attempt go very badly indeed. I have attempted to escape zombies in a boat only to realise they could actually swim faster than the boat itself. I have found, fixed and repaired every single vehicle in the game from scratch. I have trolled newbies by picking them up in PBXs and stranding them on remote islands. I have found my character overcome by the urge to dance uncontrollably in the middle of raiding the NW airfield (hacked) I have discovered an option in scroll menu while sitting at a campfire to 'play guitar' and played guitar music, only to find I couldn't stop playing the music (hacker/glitch?). I have sailed a PBX off the edge of the map and kept going over an invisible ocean. I have shot down an airplane in Taviana. I have fallen off the roof of a hospital and survived by hitting a fence on the way down. I have crawled for 45 mins until I found Morphine to heal a broken leg. A friend and I found two bicycles and staged a 'tour de Chernarus' circuit of the map. I could go on and on but really I never get bored of DayZ and every game is a fresh adventure where almost anything could happen. That said, if you don't enjoy playing a game, don't force yourself, go and play something you do enjoy. Just because somethings cool and popular doesn't mean its for you.

Edited February 6, 2013 by S1ippery Jim

[Gmanz (DayZ) 13]

I have had plenty of adventures in Dayz; the first time myself and a couple of friends found a chopper and set about the process of repairing it...the tension as we tried to get enough fuel to fly the chopper to a refueling point, all the while expecting someone else to come along and screw things up; the joy as we refuelled it and flew off in our new chopper.

The time myself and a friend set off up the western edge of the map searching for tents to loot; we came upon another survivor in the middle of nowhere, and ended up killing him in a rather nast little fight. That night ended on a high when a little while later we heard a chopper over the trees; we spotted it and my friend decided to try his luck with the AS50 (we had acquired the rifle only a short time before from the corpse of the dead survivor)...a couple of shots later, the chopper fell out of the sky.

On another night we set off to check out Devil's castle. We arrived and were in the process of scouting it out when we heard a chopper; it was near dark and suddenly the pilot turns on his lights and his door gunners open fire. We spent the next half hour being strafed by it before we finally managed to lose it.

There are numerous other small adventures I could tell you about; they were not always planned, but things happen and when they are done you are left with those "what a fucking story" moments :)

Edited February 6, 2013 by Gmanz

[victusmortuus 1074]

Part of me wants to get kidnapped so I get stockholm syndrome :lol: I've had a 'few' things happen to me.

Killing my first enemy in Devils Castle and then dying to the admin who said he was friendly.

Me and my friend being chased in the dark forests near Cherno or Elektro by a chopper with only torches lighting our paths.

Meeting up with two survivors a week later who so happened to be in that chopper that chased us.. making friends with them and using each other for blood/ect.

Plus...i'm not even close to being bored. :)

[shadowjack 254]

What you said!! Make it your story :D

What I also like is finding new buildings and stuff, I found a castle a while ago it was awesome :lol: could'nt enter it though but still it was awesome B)

I also like to just lie down on a hill en just look down to busy survivors/bandits (just looking) how they react on diffrent people or zombies but I never do it long.. to dangerous so I need to go on and survive it all my self^^

I saw 3 people today who came with a chopper and landed next to a driffent chopper to work on it the where like busy bees flying all over the place haha :lol:

^THIS!!!^

I have been very entertained just watching from afar the behavior of others and then choosing to interact. (or not)

Even though i have never teamed up with anyone for more than an hour i do get a thrill out of the random encounters and will put myself in situations where they can happen.

[AIRCAV 62]

Dayz is boring if you choose to do the same thing over and over. Get out of your comfort zone.

Likely you are too scared of pvp or losing your gear to take the risks necessary.

Try getting enough of an adrenaline rush that your real body shakes.

That's DayZ

Hope this helps, I'm not being a dick.

AC

[bad_mojo (DayZ) 1204]

Something that kept me going early on was to assume the role of an investigator. I posted this on another forum back in August.

I've been trying something different for the last week, I started to role play as a female scientist/investigator type. She isn't out to kill anyone, refuses to shoot at the uninfected all together. But, will dispatch a few infected if her or another persons life is in danger. She's attempting to make contact with the uninfected population, while studying the behaviors of those infected with the virus.

She usually doesn't carry a firearm. If she does it's always on her back and she offers it to the next person she meets. Favoring the military flashlight, and carrying a chem light during the dark hours she moves along the coast searching for any signs of uninfected life. Disregarding her own safety she will approach just about anyone. If things become too dangerous, she just bolts. She carries lots of food water and medical supplies, and is eager to help anyone in need.

Her time on the coast has made her familiar with the area, if you don't find her in a pool of her own blood, her corpse looted by bandits, you'll usually find her leading around those less familiar with the region.

It really kept me going. I even incorporated taking photos of the fallen as part of the story. I would make a point of getting the photo no matter the dangers. http://dayzmod.com/f...4-csichernarus/

It was a lot of fun to be honest. For me, it really reinforced the ideas of not caring about death and the gear you'll lose, but still caring a great deal about how you end up dying and scavenging the gear to help your journey to that point be as fun as it can be.

Point is, you gotta make your own fun. Decide what is fun to you, and build a story around that, then stick to it no matter what happens.

Edited February 7, 2013 by bad_mojo

[Josh225 129]

Becoming a hero fixes that sense of pointlessness.

[Droidlife 11]

Do this: break up all items that logically can be split up, and let players go after the pieces to put them together or make them better. Split up the "stats" associated with having gear into a wide "range" and let a shit ton of interesting loot items affect these stats. Do what mmo's do and put a loot treadmill into the game. Let most actions performed in game be affected by the stats. Medical, survival, combat, misc...etc. Let the stats affect time consumption, yield, success rate ...etc.

It works.

People like stuff, and they like to put the stuff into slots on their character and gain stat bonuses that affect game play very slightly in small increments.

If you have this in place it would not change dayz's core game play in the slightest, it would still be there will all IT'S richness, but going the gear treadmill route is a solid way to hook players into the game and give them something to strive for, just like in other mmo's.

Edit: Gray, white, green, blue, purple, LEGENDARY MORPHINE AUTO INJECTOR OF ELDER MIGHT!!

Just kidding :D

Edited February 7, 2013 by Droidlife

[ThuggleS 45]

The thing DayZ needs to have for me personally to get more replay value is base building.

I want to collect materials, fortify a base, and be able to at least somewhat safely store gear in it.

[DayzDavey 1]

I have epic adventures, asd I think the key to having these epic adventures is to always think " I MUST SURVIVE". I've driven 10km to the coast going in and out of consciousness to get antibiotics. I've rescued noobs in crazy places, and I've been in fights over choppers that lasted hours of stand off, bluffing and positioning...all to have a 10 second fire fight end it. I sorta roleplay the game, and it's certainly an adventure.

Edited February 7, 2013 by DayzDavey

[Michaelvoodoo25 3120]

I am seeing this kinda post more nowadays, What you lack is patience, either that or your young or this game is not for you for long periods of time.

there is a lot to do if you opened you mind, try being a cherno taxi driver for a day! that will open your eyes.