This game is really hard now

[Torothin 2]

I have been playing this game for 2 weeks or so. Ever since the new spawn with out a gun mechanics were put into place this game is just too hard. It always seems that as soon as I get all geared up I die. The last time seemed like the final straw. I get all the equipment I need, 3 canteens, alice backpack, compas, map, knife, hatchet, matches, blood bags, ammo, and then die due to blood loss and no food.

Is the general strategy to get just what you need to hunt and survive off the land then make your way inland? Discuss!

[frenchy789 15]

I find that staying too long on the coast is the best way to die, just head to the closest loot spawn once your life starts, get whatever you can, then head inland. Theres no point in staying in Cherno or server hopping at Balota just to get everything, places like Stary Sobor and Berezina have loot and a lower concentration of griefers and death matchers, there still very risky, but you have less of a chance of turning a corner and seeing some dude sprinting down the street with 30 zombies on his tail and getting shot in the face.

The point of the game is NOT to get everything you need on the coast then go inland, its to survive. The most essential item you can get early on is a compass, then work towards getting gear to cook your own food, then worry about everything else.

[fjudin@gmail.com 0]

Well, as it is now, as soon as a zombie see you, esc -> respawn, since you can't outrun them, you can't defend yourself, they have unlimited stamina and they can sometimes hit you even thou you're sprinting away from one, resulting in bleeding and dying...

[Nate (DayZ) 7]

The first and only time i died with this new mechanic in place, I managed to dodge zombies and armed players with nothing at all, without being hit once. I managed to get up north near the NE Air, and I killed one player and got all my shit back. It isn't too hard, you just need to adjust your play-style to it. It used to be hard though, like when the zombies had a fucking radar that detects the fuck out of any human being within 500 meters away (Aka broken LOS).

[Neokolzia 3]

The current Hotfix is bugged with absolutely no Soda or Food spawning in buildings.

Once thats fixed, we'll see not insane loot spawning in residential area's like matches watches galore, alice etc.

[Torothin 2]

Well I had everything that I needed. Then a zombie hits me through a wall. I take him out with a cross bow. Then I am at 1233 blood and passing in and out. my only hope is to crawl to the woods and hope I come across something. I get outside the building a zombie approaches I fire my cuz that I looted at him and then that was all she wrote.

Realistically(as real as it can get) based on the stories and most zombie moves. They should only be able to walk and not run. They are too fast and sometimes it's very easy to unload 7 shots on a single walker. I think if they implemented something where they would walk endlessly in the direction that they saw you as opposed to sprint it would make things far more interesting.

Roaming herds of zombies and things like that... Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining and do not care about dying. But some of this stuff is really really hard and discouraging.

[fjudin@gmail.com 0]

I don't mind them being fast, i just mind them being faster and more athletic than the player, i mean, they do have a decease after all.

[paulmx 1]

As the man has said...

Food Water to be fixed in a hotfix released tonight. Along with maybe some other goodies...

PS. Don't stress guys! Someone people get really upset the direction of the game is destroyed... trying things out here' date=' and things break occasionally... such is life in the zone, man!

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Its Alpha don't forget, now stop whining, chill the frick out have some faith FFS! *rollseyes*

[Nate (DayZ) 7]

I don't mind them being fast' date=' i just mind them being faster and more athletic than the player, i mean, they do have a decease after all.

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Their disease makes them faster and stronger than a normal human being. The zombies resemble the ones from a film called "28 Days Later". (Along with the sequels)

[Torothin 2]

I'm not whining. I'm just stating that it is very hard right now. To the point where it is almost broken.

[airborne01@comcast.net 23]

I agree with them making the game harder.... and they should continue to do so. Games that are too easy die an early death, and this IS about survival. The harder they make the game, the better.

[paulmx 1]

I'm not whining. I'm just stating that it is very hard right now. To the point where it is almost broken.

Redundant thread' date=' check Rocket's latests posts on the subject and stop stress-posting!

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[Yammazul 0]

I have been playing this game for 2 weeks or so. Ever since the new spawn with out a gun mechanics were put into place this game is just too hard. It always seems that as soon as I get all geared up I die. The last time seemed like the final straw. I get all the equipment I need' date=' 3 canteens, alice backpack, compas, map, knife, hatchet, matches, blood bags, ammo, and then die due to blood loss and no food.

Is the general strategy to get just what you need to hunt and survive off the land then make your way inland? Discuss!

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3 canteens? You sound like a pro survivalist.

P.S Why did you bother getting blood bags if you had no friends to use them on you? Forgetting food and having no bandages means you fail at this game, you had the tools to go hunting, should have went hunting, running around with anything less than 2 bandages at a time is a real dumb move also, sounds like your death was deserved tbh.

[Torothin 2]

I found all that good stuff after I hit 1233 blood. I don't think I fail at the game. I thought I just ran into bad luck.

[Yammazul 0]

I found all that good stuff after I hit 1233 blood. I don't think I fail at the game. I thought I just ran into bad luck.

Judging by the title of your thread "This game is really hard now" seems like you were indicating that your death was due to the increased difficulty, now your saying it was due to "bad luck" If that's the case then I don't see what the problem is?

I'm not sure what you mean by "all that cool stuff" but if you were at 1233 blood and you had a knife, matches and hatchet, your first priority should have been to go find an animal to skin and eat to get back to full health, not going into populated areas to look for "cool stuff"

[Torothin 2]

Lack of blood was caused by the lack of food spawns. Which apaprently, is going to be fixed tonight.

[Yammazul 0]

Lack of blood was caused by the lack of food spawns. Which apaprently' date=' is going to be fixed tonight.

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fair enough but personally I wouldn't have been looking for tins of beans to get my health back up from 1233, I wouldn't even like to hazard a guess at how many tins of food would have been needed to reach 12k. Meat is the most effective way to restore blood when your solo.

[Jex =TE= (DayZ) 218]

I just updated the last 2 patches so I missed the previous one to the current one. Read the release notes, got in and thought ok cool, not a believer the zombies need more vision but we'll see what it's like.

So I am near elektor or Cherno and I make my way to the docks. I'm crouched and running. I move from cover to cover, checking the area out ahead of me. Mmm no zombies. So I sprint across open terrain to a house and suddenly I have zombies all around me and now I'm being chased. I run into a warehouse, up the steps to hide in the back room after bandaging myself. Zombies are blocking the gantry back down now (I new it was a dead end btw, but it was the only place I was going to get gear and I was bleeding so needed to bandage).

So now I have no way out, the zombies aren't coming to me but they aren't moving so I had to go and crawl upto them (I suddenly got a broken leg somehow) and got myself killed.

Respawned at Kamenka, went through every house, found a revolver. CRAWLED everywhere, had zombie spawn inside houses u can't enter and pop out to attack me. Managed to survive a few encounters and am now in a house, logged off and going to starve to death because there's no food or water. So far not impressed but I'm going to give it a go and see how it works out.

[Yammazul 0]

I just updated the last 2 patches so I missed the previous one to the current one. Read the release notes' date=' got in and thought ok cool, not a believer the zombies need more vision but we'll see what it's like.

So I am near elektor or Cherno and I make my way to the docks. I'm crouched and running. I move from cover to cover, checking the area out ahead of me. Mmm no zombies. So I sprint across open terrain to a house and suddenly I have zombies all around me and now I'm being chased. I run into a warehouse, up the steps to hide in the back room after bandaging myself. Zombies are blocking the gantry back down now (I new it was a dead end btw, but it was the only place I was going to get gear and I was bleeding so needed to bandage).

So now I have no way out, the zombies aren't coming to me but they aren't moving so I had to go and crawl upto them (I suddenly got a broken leg somehow) and got myself killed.

Respawned at Kamenka, went through every house, found a revolver. CRAWLED everywhere, had zombie spawn inside houses u can't enter and pop out to attack me. Managed to survive a few encounters and am now in a house, logged off and going to starve to death because there's no food or water. So far not impressed but I'm going to give it a go and see how it works out.

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Well bugs are bugs and will be fixed but I'm all for harder zombies, they were a joke before, now zombies are to be respected by the players if they hope to survive, this is an apocalypse after all, most people are supposed to die.

[fundan@gmx.de 82]

I agree with them making the game harder.... and they should continue to do so. Games that are too easy die an early death' date=' and this IS about survival. The harder they make the game, the better.

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Yep. Although it was not intended...having to search for food and water is making it harder=better. Restricting weapons (especially military variants) also would make it more intersting...IMHO.

[Torothin 2]

I just want to clarify that this is hands down the best game that I have ever played. It just gets very frustrating when I die due to a bug IE: zombie through walls or falling off a cliff when I'm not even close to the edge when I worked hard to develop my guy. But oh well, it's alpha and I am enjoying it and thankful for what this game has to offer. Arma 3 is going to make some serious cash....

[osiriszoran 33]

I have been playing this game for 2 weeks or so. Ever since the new spawn with out a gun mechanics were put into place this game is just too hard. It always seems that as soon as I get all geared up I die. The last time seemed like the final straw. I get all the equipment I need' date=' 3 canteens, alice backpack, compas, map, knife, hatchet, matches, blood bags, ammo, and then die due to blood loss and no food.

Is the general strategy to get just what you need to hunt and survive off the land then make your way inland? Discuss!

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oh. please tell us more about how you should never die and be decked out in the best gear.

[Torothin 2]

The first time I died due to falling off a cliff which I wasn't even close to. That time I lost NVG, a silenced m4, a silenced hand gun, GPS, compas, MAP. I'm still bitter about that but welcome the challenge of starting all over and being with everyone else!

[Reaven1911 48]

Actually I've done better since the no gun spawn and it needs to be kept in IMO.

It makes the game a less of "I hope there isn't some guy with a makarov that is trigger happy around the corner" and everyone doesn't make the coast as much of an battleground and makes it easier to scavenge, I've found food and water decently easy (mostly off dead bodies tbh :P)