My Experience....

[ThePeephole 0]

          My friend started telling me about dayz and how it worked, I watched some Youtube videos on it and thought it would be the greatest game I'd ever played. I bought it reluctantly, it was between this and 7 Days to Die, I wish I had bought that instead... Yes I do understand the game is in alpha and i never experienced any bugs. They want this game to be realistic, yet it takes 20 hits with a pristine shovel in the head to kill a zombie. Not only do I have to worry about snipers looking to boost self-confidence by shooting new players 2 minutes after they spawn, but I need to worry about zombies literally spawning out of my rectum. I was running with low health and thought i was a safe distance away, I looked around and there were no zombies anywhere near me. I stopped to bandage and BOOM a zombie merked me.

 

         Not only are the zombies bad, but the spawn is wretched. Spawning new players on the wide open coast with no civilization near by, with a hill perfectly set right in front of it for worthless over-confident teens with no social skills. I had also seen people encountering the problem of when they shoot people in the head, the rest of the person's stuff is damaged. My whole goal for this game was to start a civilization and help out the people who don't wanna go rogue and kill everything in their path, but I cant do that if I cant even get started. Yes this game is in alpha, but I think the developers should focus on fixing the stuff that's in right now before they try to add some other stupid crap into it. My overview, I give this game a 4/10 just because I know it can be made into a perfect game. If you're thinking on getting this game, definitely take into account all the people who just wanted you to waste your money so they could amuse themselves. I would take 7 Days to Die over this game right now if I could.

 

[arcticmoose 4]

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/01/15/the-early-access-report-dayz-rust-and-7-days-to-die/

 

I'm just going to leave this here.....

[CGNoodlePot (DayZ) 149]

Dayz is not for the faint hearted.

[arcticmoose 4]

All I have to say is go buy 7 Days to Die then.

 

What's stopping you?

 

Oh yeah, the fact that it's more expensive and utterly worse than DayZ.

 

But ya know...have fun :) 

[doctorrayray 76]

Zombies don't even respawn. Also, 7 days to die the top most helpful reviews are all negative and DayZ are all positive... You probably haven't played enough to know how to play the game. You can't judge this game because you poorly handled being spawned on the coast.

[conan the librarian 99]

I know what you mean OP, however things I am sure will improve dramatically.

 

I think that at it's current stage it pretty much panders to the FPS type player, who simply loves easy loot, little or no zombies and running targets. I believe the reason for this is that a lot of the basic FPS components have been done over and over again, and this was the easier aspect to add to the game as early as now. However, as the game is developed I reckon that the teenage KoS spawn brigade are going to be in for a shock when their 'shooting skills' are secondary to other, more important survival based skills such as cooperation.

[on3c3nt 185]

They want this game to be realistic, yet it takes 20 hits with a pristine shovel in the head to kill a zombie.

 

Yeah so... what is your reallife experience with Zombies & Shovel hits? I normally need about 20 Hits, so the game is very realistic in this case.

 

 

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There are a lot of spawns where there is no sniperhill nearby. Zombies have a huge attraction distance sometimes and can be very fast without you hearing them until it's too late, but this is no bigger problem and will be fixed. With more and more of the "other stupid crap" (as you call it) added, the Killing on Sight mentality will change, at the moment there isn't much more to do than shooting other players. With new "other stupid crap" there will be much more things to do.