Gwraspe 318 Posted September 19, 2013 Hi all, I don't often make threads on here as pretty much all info I want is already findable, but I want to ask a question I haven't seen yet (though no doubt I'm just asking something that has been asked 80+ times already, oh well). I've just got back to playing DayZ after a while of inactivity due to house moves and such and have been playing 1.7.7.1 a little since getting everything back up and running and to be honest it feels like it did before my downtime, just with less bugs and smoother running. My questions is as the title states, do you guys think it's worth updating to 1.8 or just staying with 1.7.7.1 for now? I've read about a few new bugs with 1.8 that sound kind of annoying, but also a number of new features that sound pretty enticing - do the pros outweigh the cons, vice-versa or is it about neutral - and of course do you feel it is genuinely a better patch in any significant way? I'm not bothered about how it's affecting mods such as Epoch or Origins or whatever as I like to play vanilla and there are still a number of vanilla servers for 1.7.7.1, I see there are some reputable vanilla servers for 1.8 already too which is good - especially one I read on earlier which is 3DP OFF, hardcore difficulty and so on. Let me know what you guys think, pretty much any videos I've watched on youtube about 1.8 aren't helping me decide either way and most of them are pretty droll or trivial. Am I putting too much importance on something that isn't really much different at all? I don't know, you tell me :) Thanks guys. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CMoth 4 Posted September 20, 2013 I made the mistake of automatically patching to 1.8. It isn't that the patch has any problems but until the servers you like playing on ALSO update, stick with the version of the patch that they run on. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gwraspe 318 Posted September 21, 2013 Thanks for the reply CMoth, I actually ended up playing with a new clan last night - we played some 1.7.7.1 private hive then went onto public which involved updating to 1.8. I'm already geared so I don't know how different looting feels but the layout of stuff is good enough, safe to say once the servers you play are updated it is indeed worth updating too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
broguenz 333 Posted September 21, 2013 (edited) . Edited September 21, 2013 by RogueNZ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
