How is the state of the mod atm?

[Serged 0]

Hey everyone. I played this mod when it was just new. It was an amazing experience and I'm still looking forward to the SA version. I have not played the mod for several months now, since after a certain time my friend and me had a lot of the high end loot and the game got boring for us.

Now I wanted to start over again with a bunch of other friends who never played dayz before.

Can anyone give me an update on the state of the game atm? How is the hacker problem (Luckily I stopped playing the game just at the time when the whole hacker problem arose, so I never really had to bother with it)? Would it be wise to join a private hive and what about all those mods of the mod, are they any good?

I don't want my friends to experience a big hackfest because this will turn them off from this otherwise amazing mod. And it will annoy me as well. Don't really want to invest time in a character that gets killed by some script kiddie.

[ActionManZlt 160]

Yeah, a whitelisted private hive would not be a bad idea to cut down on the likelihood of running into the hacking issue.

If you know Chernarus like the back of your hand and want to be noobified like your friends, you could try one of the mods that changes the country (namalsk, takistan, etc).

[hazedaze 89]

well dude I've started around 20k pplayers. time when even joining to a game was pain in the ass as you remember. I also quit after cheaters popped out. havent played 4-5 months. now everything is smooth as butter, lots of servers, less cheating scumbags and NONE if you go and register to a whitelisted server group which I did cuz whitelisted ones have no cheats or poor performance and more populated than a normal server. I suggest you to play the mod right now. no bugs like the old times, you can do some crucial things like switching main weapon to backpack weapon without dropping it on ground, ridiculous reloading hatchet is gone, there are new backpacks, vehicle-loot spawn is less bugged blabla..those little details are taken care of and it feels much much better than early times of mod. look for a whitelisted server group giving you and your mates good pings and have some fun

edit: you have to try and see if you like modceptions. for some reason chernarus is still best for me. taviana is very good, panthera also. there are dayz+ and origins but I didn't liked em personally. there are also rMod servers, which unlocks all arma II arsenal vehicles - weapons. but the best servers in private ones if you ask me vanilla dayz + JSRS sound mod servers. jsrs adds so much to combat.

Edited March 20, 2013 by hazedaze

[Tr1x 53]

I would try to stick to a private hive or a whitelist, still lot's of hackers out there. Other than that, mods fine, game is still fun and intense as always.

[Serged 0]

Ye the old times when you got stuck loading all the time in "receiving ...." or whatever sentence it showed on the screen :) And when you spawned in debug forest XD

I guess I will go and search for some good private hive server. It'd also be great if someone can recommend me a good one though :) I don't care for timezone. When I played I always played at night in the darkness. Imo it's way more safe in the darkness, hehe. I'd prefer more hardcore settings though, like no crosshair, no 3dperson ... just everything off that takes away from immersion.