Surviving the Apocalypse!

[kimmaz 63]

Hello. Have you been doing some surviving lately? Like surviving the Apocalypse? Feel free to share your experiences here! I think deathmatch, hunting players, camping loot spawn is really getting old so i decided to play like this game was about surviving. Kind of roleplaying, carrying light, valuing my life, making a camp and securing it.

 

I have been fishing and hunting a lot. living in the woods for 5-6 hours of gaming(several short sessions). I used 074 062 as a base/camp. fishing at Prud, and got 3-4 deer stand not far away. Using a B95/revolver and just civilian clothing. Been walking around the fields in between gorka-nwaf hunting for animals. going into Novy/Grishino for supplies/tools from time to time. Its great sitting in the tree line and looking for a deer. sitting on the wooden pier and fishing. Checking the house near Altar for stuff. I even found a helicopter crash site in a field near my camp!

 

One thing i noticed was that i was never in danger of zombies. I wish there was more random roaming zombies groups outside of towns but i guess that will come.  It was fun, But it gets boring after a while. I think barricading will add to this experience and maybe more variety in animals/fish species.

 

(my own print screens, made to one picture using photoshop)

Edited June 4, 2014 by kimmaz

[randomspawn 215]

by 'boring after a while', I think that equates to 22 minutes for me. Fishing/Hunting tend to be 'slow' in real life, much more so in video game versions. This does highlight the questions for the future though. Is it a hunting simulator, running sim, fishing sim, canned-food sim, pvp warfare, or some funky hybrid of all. 

[kimmaz 63]

I hope it will become a fight to survive. weather, sickness, hunger and the zombies. and that players will not shoot eachother. Atleast one some servers called RP server or PvE if its not on every server.

[Golden Child 73]

by 'boring after a while', I think that equates to 22 minutes for me. Fishing/Hunting tend to be 'slow' in real life, much more so in video game versions. This does highlight the questions for the future though. Is it a hunting simulator, running sim, fishing sim, canned-food sim, pvp warfare, or some funky hybrid of all. 

It's whatever you make it! & I believe all of the things you listed are parts of surviving a post-apocalyptic world!  :)

[manchinglam 14]

Berezino awaits you with lots of bullets

 

I agree with you, as a lone wolf it could be boring at times but in a weird way I am attracted by the sense of loneliness provided by this game.

Running from town to town, you begin to experience the hopelessness since there is obviously no end to this apocalypse, no safe zone, no more civilization, no nothing.

Then all of a sudden you run into someone. Adrenaline comes in.

 

I would suggest you to find a clan or play with buddies to see if the game can give you more, but it didn't work well for me. Too many people resulted in chaos and frequent teamkills.

For the moment I tend to stay alone or play with a friend of mine, exploring the meaning to survive in an obliterated world is more interesting than gunfights to me.

[Whyherro123 2283]

Experimental or stable?

[kimmaz 63]

Had a play session just now. Went from my base (074 062) north towards Gvozdno looking for food. To my surprise i found a dead cow in the fields!! just south of the town, maybe 1000m away. The animals are rare in the middle of the map. haven't seen one too often. But its nice with some competition. Now i must be cautious as there might be another hunter lurking the woods ^^.

 

I'm playing on server UK 02 experimental mister whyherro123.

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

Those pics don't really looking like your surviving an apocalypse, they actually look like you're enjoying yourself with a nice fishing trip and having a scenic hike in the woods. :p

 

Nice pics tho.  There is a gallery section that those should get moved to.

[agentneo 337]

I hope it will become a fight to survive. weather, sickness, hunger and the zombies. and that players will not shoot eachother. Atleast one some servers called RP server or PvE if its not on every server.

I believe its mainly down to the zombies. They need to be really, really difficult in order to force players to survival 'walking dead' mindset.

-Firing a bullet should draw almost hundreds of them from a huge 1 or 2km range

-zombies should KILL in 2 or 3 swipes only, and bite with 50% chance of infection

-Amounts of zombies should be thick and heavy - 2 or 4 zombies per every building in towns

No one should be charging towards zombies, they should be running scared. Punching zombies in the head should be impossible!

Edited June 5, 2014 by AgentNe0

[kimmaz 63]

I believe its mainly down to the zombies. They need to be really, really difficult in order to force players to survival 'walking dead' mindset.

-Firing a bullet should draw almost hundreds of them from a huge 1 or 2km range

-zombies should KILL in 2 or 3 swipes only, and bite with 50% chance of infection

-Amounts of zombies should be thick and heavy - 2 or 4 zombies per every building in towns

No one should be charging towards zombies, they should be running scared. Punching zombies in the head should be impossible!

 

Yea! Imagine if cities and airfields was packed like in the walking dead. For instance like the start of the show where the sheriff is trapped inside a tank in some city. Would also make gear hard to come by when playing alone. And would make players group up in attempt to loot a airfield.

[agentneo 337]

Yea! Imagine if cities and airfields was packed like in the walking dead. For instance like the start of the show where the sheriff is trapped inside a tank in some city. Would also make gear hard to come by when playing alone. And would make players group up in attempt to loot a airfield.

Yes I think it would 'balance' areas like Balota tents, and all the Barracks, if they were packed with Soldier zombies and even body armour zombies like in TWD. Opening the barracks a big angry horde should spill out and then people would need a crew to even go there

[xenology 61]

It's whatever you make it! & I believe all of the things you listed are parts of surviving a post-apocalyptic world!  :)

I think you mean a country in the 3rd world

[Deathlove 2286]

I think you mean a country in the 3rd world

This pretty much sums up the apocalypse on Black Friday at any mall in America. Its pretty much like an apocalypse in itself..... XD

 

 

Who needs to survive in the wild when your surviving to get your Xbox One! 83

Edited June 5, 2014 by Deathlove

[xenology 61]

This pretty much sums up the apocalypse on Black Friday at any mall in America. Its pretty much like an apocalypse in itself..... XD

 

 

Who needs to survive in the wild when your surviving to get your Xbox One! 83

I love south park :D

[manchinglam 14]

I dun think any server can support that many zombies at this stage.

 

This is the exact reason why there are so few zombies and Dean's team are trying to shift some workload to the client side. I believe the current zombie number is capped at the level at which server performance would not be hampered.

 

Anyway, I do wish there could be way more zombies, how the hell did the world get ruined by such number of zombies?

[Deathlove 2286]

I dun think any server can support that many zombies at this stage.

 

This is the exact reason why there are so few zombies and Dean's team are trying to shift some workload to the client side. I believe the current zombie number is capped at the level at which server performance would not be hampered.

 

Anyway, I do wish there could be way more zombies, how the hell did the world get ruined by such number of zombies?

"It twas beauty that killed the beast...."

 

XD

 

Idk maybe everyone got high or something and went to Russia? XD

[chekovp 89]

That FOV in the bottom left picture, reminds me of CS or TFC...