Some feedback from a fairly casual player

[tehtk 11]

 

First I'm sorry for my English, its not my first or main language. So don't hate, just point it out that i wrote something stupid. 

 

 

 

So after playing the game for some time these are my main points with it. 

 

The main problem is that you don't know what to do, and the game lacks tutorials or tips. Now this is alpher and maybe they are planned and are not in, maybe not. But for new players there should be something in the future to explain how the blood/health ,  chat channels  works and stuff like this. Also something to tell what your character is feeling but you know this already we got an update on that. 

 

Then there are interface/hud problems. Again this maybe an alpha thing . So you can easily drag the battery into the flashlight and attach it to it. Great but how can I open that damn bean can?! I tried holding the can in hands drag the bayonet into it, nope. Then holding the bayonet and dropping cans on it, nope. Both in inventory and then combining them also nope. 

 

You really need some tutorials in the future and I don't mean NFS:Rivals tutorials but something like the TotalWar encyclopedia. Where you hit a key and have a wall of text explain things ( with a search button ). Maybe throw the wiki into the game somehow.

 

Also explain keys. 40% of players that I meet don't know how to type in chat or even use the voice chat. They will eventually figure it out but for all the newbies out there you could somehow explain the standard keys. 

 

Combat. 

 

Now to the fun stuff. While shooting is ok there are some problems. Like when you aiming with the m4 why is my fov so small ?! Other than that I think the pistol is OP. The rifle being OSK is ok because it makes a LOT of noise. But the pistol, i would say is better than the m4. ( ofc not if the m4 has scopes etc ) . 

 

Melee combat, oh boy. Now there is so much wrong with it. First I say that I do like how you swing your weapons it need some work but the basic is ok. One problem is that only the ax is useful. I need to hit the zombie 15 times with a baseball-bat or crowbar to kill it,  its OSK with an ax through...   While I had no problems swinging the ax I cant see where my bat or crowbar ends from first person so hitting something is just hard. Even if I sand in front of the zombie i cant hit it with the bat sometimes ... 

 

The other part of the combat are ofc the zombies. The worst thing is that you cant really tell when they hit you. Normally it should be visible. When they swing their arms you would except that when they reach your body you get hit, but now even if you  step back you can get hit. So now the safest way to kill them while not having an ax is to run in small circles because then they cant really hit you and you can swing your weapon correctly to hit them. There is ofc more to it  things like the zombies aren't a thereat because the attack that they are making is so slow, I think you should look more at state of decay where the zombies can grab you. 

 

The Loot. 

 

Now we know the lootsystem isn't in the game so we cant really tell more on that other than after a few hours there is no loot on the server... I spawned yesterday and headed to the north looking for something to drink/eat I was in three towns and almost every building. Nothing was in it. So after my vision got blurry  I just jumped off a building. This is what needs an update ASAP. Because we cant really test all the different items when they are not there. 

 

coming back to the zombies , they are to few. 

[Tegla (DayZ) 112]

The game is fairly new (the standalone that is), and people are still exploring and finding out how stuff works. There will be tutorials in the future, i'm sure of it. Check the steam community for guides though, i found a few.

 

About the m4 fov, take a look here, you may find some answers.

And about the loot, the spawn is bugged atm meaning loot spawns only after server restart. If you are playing on a high population server, it is possible someone has looted the building before you.

 

Zombies will be added later, the few numbers is intentional

[Wookieenoob 191]

any sharp impliment other than bayo will work now.

there is can opener

 

tuna doesnt need knife or can opener

 

my advice is for you to just work it out. you need food, water, weapons, medical supplies, clothes, maybe spare boots.

 

pistol can get a scope too, its just rare.

 

melee is being developed. 

 

baseball bat is for concusson. you use it to knock a player out ideally.

 

crowbar needs buff

 

just use the axe for now. chainsaw is coming, and the rest of it will be fixed later on.

 

running in circles is always good

 

i havent had any issues with loot

 

zombies are in development, more will be added. the original standalone suggestion thread suggested there would be herds wandering about eventually.

[tehtk 11]

any sharp impliment other than bayo will work now.

there is can opener

 

Yeah I know there is a can opener and that you can use sharp object to oepn it, Well guess the bayonet just dont work havent got anything post the second patch to test because of bad luck finding loot...