Extremely Non-Fun Game. But Fun, Strangely.

[Monkfish (DayZ) 339]

DayZ. The anti-game game that's fun but isn't.

 

its a beautiful thing and that's the ugly truth

Yup!

 

In my 67hrs of game time, I've killed one single person (who shot at me first) and died more times than I care to remember. Sometimes it's annoying, especially if a group of bandits catch up with you as a Bambi and hose you down for no reason, but that's DayZ and you just have to suck it up.

 

What's pissing me off at the moment though is the utter dogshit system I have and the way it runs DayZ. Or doesn't, really. The graphics are all but off to get a playable framerate out of it and it crashes often enough that I've put it down for the time being, simply because it gets up my tits so much. I was being plagued by Windows DEP (Data Execution Prevention) killing it randomly, so I switched that off and it still crashes. Buh.

 

I'll pick it up again after the next update/when I've got a better machine. Until then, I'm avoiding for a bit.

[Cullis 7]

 

I was being plagued by Windows DEP (Data Execution Prevention) killing it randomly, so I switched that off and it still crashes. Buh.

 

I'll pick it up again after the next update/when I've got a better machine. Until then, I'm avoiding for a bit.

Weird. Are you up-to-date on drivers? 

The game runs crap, but solid for me. Never crashed, I believe.

[Cullis 7]

Later with bases and other stuff added you can RP more and by that time you'l have learned how to use guns so you can defend yourself. 

 

 

Learned to use guns? 

That's not a problem in this game. The problem here is fukken combat hopping and clunky interface.

 know how to use guns, as I have those in real life. 

 

DayZ. The anti-game game that's fun but isn't.

 

its a beautiful thing and that's the ugly truth

 

It's more like a compulsion or something. 

[Cullis 7]

This game is extremely good at simulating mental illness. 

0) The douchebag factor promotes paranoia.
1)  hoppers again promote bat-paranoia.
Imagine how people in real-life would behave if at any moment a deranged killer could appear, soundlessly behind them. 
2) random bug I have recently encounterd - I hit a zombie and 1s later  I hear  a gunshot impact. This is news to me, previously, the fire-axe wasn't doing that.
3) the random gunshot bug. I'm minding my own business in Elektrozavodsk, picking over loot, sprinting through the streets because I'm paranoid some asshole is out there taking potshots at me.

At random times I hear gunshot sounds, but no impact zings or pings or nothing.

What's weird is that I can't seem to get even a sense of direction, they seem to be equally loud in both ears.  Eh?

[Monkfish (DayZ) 339]

Weird. Are you up-to-date on drivers? 

The game runs crap, but solid for me. Never crashed, I believe.

I believe so, although the display driver occasionally shits itself (resulting in a black screen but the game still running) so I should probably check that.

 

Mind you, the system is ancient (AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ @ 2.3Ghz, 4GB DDR2 800Mhz RAM, Gainward 8600GT 1GB with Vista 32bit dragging it all down) so it's due a change. I'm tempted to put a new HDD in and bang Win7 64bit onto it to see if that helps, but there's only so much in the way of a damn good whipping you can give to a lame donkey.

Edited February 1, 2014 by Monkfish

[Cullis 7]

Weirdest thing today. I went through Dubky, Novoselky and Chapaetsk, tussling with zombies and scavenging. Found an M4 and later some ammo for it and even a sawed off at a police station. Then I went to check out the hospital, thinking, I'll grab some meds and then I'm set, survival wise. On the roof, my controls get stuck and the character keeps strafing right. This has happened to me once or twice, but third time was the charm - and I fell off the roof. I respawn near Kamyshevo, thinking.. I'll run back and get my stuff, it's a pretty infrequented area. 

So I take 20 minutes running back, only pausing to drink and such. At present, it seems to me the characters run about as quickly as I can bike comfortably, ~30 kph   :D

I get back to the same place. I'm crestfallen - my gear is nowhere. Then I remember there's a 10 minute decay time?

Anyway, in the meantime I've found a backpack and a fireaxe, so I'm not that bad off.
 start exploring the buildings a little. First ?school? building I find, there's a dead guy on first floor with lots of nice gear, including fully kitted M4, a revolver, pistol, ammo and lots of food. 

There was a bleeding zombie on a lower floor. In that funny position where it can't be harmed.
I just frantically stripped him of his stuff, put it on and then gtfo. 

I guess I can be lucky at times..  but I'm still mystified how he managed to croak? WTF? Maybe I've stumbled into a fight where the other party was somewhere upstairs, or two guys managed to kill each other out. That went through my mind, but as that guy had enough for me, I was not willing to risk exploring the situation further and there was no point in that anyway. 

 

Edited February 3, 2014 by Cullis

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