So what version is actually DAYZ?

[dashx73 (DayZ) 168]

This past week I have been playing dayz, or at least what I thought was dayz until I joined a different server, and found that everything from the world, to loot spawns, to vehicles, game features, and even buildings were changed missing, added, swapped, or modified in some way or another on one server and not on another. So I was curious what even is dayz? because I haven't found one solid gameplay that is continous on each server, some will have different elements and game settings edited and I found myself liking one feature but disliking another, later to find out the things I like weren't even in the game (DAYZ) to begin with, but was a server specific feature that I could play without even downloading any extra files. How was I to know that wasn't even dayz?

So this is a big problem, especially considering I think the community is really curious what version of dayz is actually dayz, and after playing some of these modified versions of dayz, I became less than satisifed when I found out that you couldn't even use a blood bag on yourself in the "real"? version of dayz, or at least you could on some servers but not on others. anyway here is my experience from day 0 to day z. :)

My first experience of dayz on the very first day I played, I downloaded dayz commander installed dayz, joined one of the 4000+ servers listed and spawned in next to a beach. I opened my gear to find a flashlight, a bandage, a can of coke, and a can of beans. I started walking down the beach, and heard the sound of gunshots, then some guy yelling my name as blue text appears on the bottom left cornor of the screen, while everyone else started typing in text to shut up and more blue text began to fill the bottom left cornor of my screen. Seconds later, I was at a black screen with a handprint that read. "you are dead" from there I couldn't figure out what to do, i tried pressing restart, and it would just say "you have died" over and over everytime i pressed it, so i closed the game, by pressing control alt delete, and clicked on a new server..

this time I spawned in with a macorov, and 2 magazines, a map, a gps, a knife, a hatchet, 2 bandaids. I wasnt on the beach this time, but in the outsqirts of a city in a forest area. I started walking along, and found a toolbox, then slightly down the road was a car parked outside a gas station, I walked up, and scrolled wheeled the car to try and get in. It said "remove tire" remove fuel tank, repair windscreen, and refuel. I pressed refuel and it said refuel complete. I then scroll wheeled down to get in driver seat and started putting down the road. Hey I recognize this place I thought, but wait all these buildings werent here before,and there is a big military base here. I pulled over and startred searching for loot.. Everything was completely empty. Got back in my car and started driving down the road, this server had a little banner on the top right of the screen that displayed my fps, kills, bandit kills, murders, and then the server ip. I started running over zombies with the car, but my kills didn't increase, I wondered why but kept driving down the road. Oh my Gosh, its another car, I pulled in front of it and got out, walked over to the new car, scroll wheeled and this time it said "Repair tire, gear, tow, and refuel with jerry can" I clicked the tow button, now it said click the object you would like to attach this vehicle to, I clicked my car, and suprisingly the other car, warped behind the car I was driving in, and attached itself... looks a bit weird I thought but that gets the job down. I started driving down the road. My friend joined in and sidechatted me to join his ventrillo channel, I figured since there wasnt radios in the game and I just watched somone get banned for someone using voice in side chat I didn't want to go their route so I joined ventrillo. We met up built a tent, and parked the cars, minutes later we got a notification about a server restart in 1 minute, and then lost connection. I closed the window and rejoined the server, on join I spawned back in standing next and one of the vehicles that was now on fire. I had put my backpack full of items in my tent, that was now empty, and the time of day was strangly different than it was before. Since nobody was on the server anymore after the restart we decided to try a different server in hopes to meet some friendlies.

I Chose the next server and my friend joined in, upon join, I was right next to a car missing one wheel, and my friend mentioned that he had found a wheel on another car that looked good down the road, but didnt have a toolbox, I looked in the gear of the car and suprisingly there was a toolbox, I went to meet up with him to get the wheel from the car and we would be on our way, when I got to the car, I scroll wheeled like I had done before and this time It didn't have any of the options to repair or remove parts, just gear, and get in, strange I thougth, so we left the cars and started to walk away, later on a zombie hit me one time, and i became unconcious, my friend had found a machette, but upon trying to swing it, it did nothing, thankfully I wokeup while all the zombies were chasing him and bandaged myself. I scroll wheeled down, and it said "give self bloodbag" This is new i thought, i pressed the button, and it said, cannot while in combat, I stood still a bit, and it still said that, I crawled around, and finally it let me give self bloodbag, after about 10 repetitive anitmations, I was finally able to get blood and join the non black and white world again.

sadly, minutes after that we met the end of a enfield, after a guy on a bike pulled up and began shooting. another you are dead screen. well I had enough for today, I thought and logged off..

after doing a bit of reading online, and trying a few different servers, and finally talking to an admin that told me he would give me a loadout if it went to his website and made a donation. and that they had converted devils castle into a base by spawning themselves in items. I decided that the dayz I wanted to play just didn't exhist yet. It didn't have the immersion that I heard about, and it seemed that what I wanted was server specific, I then read a blog post about dayz origins, Im downloading it now and going to give it a go. It sounds promising, and looks alot more like the game I wanted to play. Despite everyone saying in the comments that "they ripped off dayz" Ill make up my own mind. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this read, would love to hear your comments.

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

TL;DR go public hive on a low pop server to find what the original dayz was like

[stapo 188]

TL;DR go public hive on a low pop server to find what the original dayz was like

i will be doing this in a week or so, time to live up some memories.

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

I did it last monday had heaps of fun and honestly did not get thrown from the sky once in a 2 hour period

[h3retic 224]

exhist = exist*

just sayin

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

exhist = exist*

just sayin

Well played brethren

[h3retic 224]

I did it last monday had heaps of fun and honestly did not get thrown from the sky once in a 2 hour period

i am fortunate enough to have found a good hack free server (almost a month with no incidents), with 'real' dayz which is best in my opinion.

the 'modded' dayz is just too much. who needs hundreds of vehicles and being geared up from the very start? that juts takes away all the fun from the game

Edited May 12, 2013 by h3retic

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

i am fortunate enough to have found a good hack free server (almost a month with no incidents), with 'real' dayz which is best in my opinion.

the 'modded' dayz is just too much. who needs hundreds of vehicles and being geared up from the very start? that juts takes away all the fun from the game

Pm me the IP we can frolick through meadows with winchesters

[applejaxc 2500]

A problem you're dealing with, I think, is a problem I have: Private hives have the power to do (essentially) anything to their version of DZ, including parachuting T90s driven by cows into Elektro while a nuke flattens Stary Sobor. The current DZ version is v1.7.6.1 I believe. That's the version my server is on. The "Up and coming" post that was made today said that v1.7.7 is coming out, or at least going to be soon. Can't wait for machetes and crossbow quivers. Only good things that ever came out of private hives.

[Saethkept 134]

@ the OP. Do yourself a favor and never donate for in game items or any other reason. The best part about DayZ is discovering the phenomenon it has become on your own.

[boneboys 7988]

1.7.6.1 Public Hive.

You need a retail copy of ArmAII/CO.