First evening of play

[law1977 17]

Okay big moment followed this game for well over year and it was finally here to buy, so got me mates on skype and joined servers.

 

I have not played the mod in a long time and was just getting back into the swing of things. First life no loot died falling of a cliff, oops didn`t see it to late and was lost anyways. 2nd go was much more amusing I spawned next to a zombie eating a player who was dead on the floor, so thought good as time as any to test zombie stuff.Rolled up my sleeves and let go with old thunder and lightening. One quick quite enjoyable fight later, zombie dead me bleeding and looted the poor player corpse and ripped his shirt up for bandages then proceeded into the village to look for loot. 

 

First two buildings nothing then found a played said "hi", no response over voice. Had nothing to gain from fighting him (he had basic tshirt jeans etc..) and looked around, found another corpse but had a crash helmet so quickly put then on and some rocket shades which were on corpse. Then the bloke who I said hi to came over and started hitting me, I said over mike "I have nothing so its pointless" but he proceeded to punch the seven shades of you know what out of me. I sighed and left him to it, he followed me around punching me for at least 1 min, my helmet thou was winning the battle easy!! So I kept ignoring him and told him again "its not worth it", naturally more punches rained in. Well a man can stand so much its time to unleash old thunder and lightening again, so a few choice lefts and rights and he was down, I made sure he stayed knocked him out looted corpse (naturally taking more bandages). Then onwards I went to electro and the fire station and power station, all empty of loot and died from not eating or drinking anything.

 

Last go spawned in a place by a petrol station and store, all looted so thought time to move on, ran the wrong way of the edge of the map. Cursed the game and turned around and ended up bottom left town by beach, still no loot. Right then before I die again, i`m going to go inland to the army base just of the coast. Made it their finding backpack and compass on route. Lots of loot in army camp here found another backpack, jacket, rifle rounds, shotty ammo, food, drink, axe. After some more zombie dodging left my char near the base.

 

Negatives 

 

3 disconnects today, in a 3 hr session but not to bad.

loads of servers were full so couldn`t play with my mates 

lack of zombies (not a bad thing at the mo, but needed to be said)

annoying text all the time feel hungry/thirsty 

do we need to know about people logging in, just find it distracting

the odd inventory glitch, where you have to do things twice or more but worked eventually with patience.

will reserve judgement on graphics until i see daylight dayz

maybe stretch eating and drinking, seems you have to eat alot all of the time and drink.

can`t make a judgement of zombies due to lack of contact defo WIP anyway

15second delay ish on your items appear after logging back in even thou you can move about, until you realise its annoying

still got some KOS issues but meh what can you do its people!

I miss the text to say roughly where you are at the start, i understand why its gone but still for finding ya location etc..

sometimes spawn next to zombie or other player, happened to me mate as well hopefully can be fixed

 

positives

inventory system, simple, clear and does the job well

night time proper spooky, torch looks cool.

varied items and gear, always exciting to find ammo an stuff for first time.

still has the dayz feel from the mod, noticeable tension as i got more stuff

on the whole smooth connection to servers

very quick compared to the mod

loads of enterable buildings (heaven),

lots of fun looking for loot and you got to really look on top of cupboards etc..

 

Conclusion.

 

Really enjoyed my last go, was getting into the game properly moving of the beech inland helps finding gear. Always worried about food and water, feels proper survival game in that sense. Early early days but the basics are there for a cracking game. Now would I recommend it to a friend, currently no I would leave it for a month and then look at it again. Especially if they had no experience of the game before hand. By then big bugs will be sorted and game balancing issues will be on the go.

 

*Oh yeah just saw the update which address some of the issues I stated but left them there as my review.*