First Day of DayZ disappointment

[Logs (DayZ) 0]

So I got DayZ and I've been playing for about 3 hours, but haven't been able to find or communicate with another player besides one incident where I was walking on top of a building and my screen randomly went black and informed me I had just been shot and died. All of my playing time has been on well-populated servers of 25-40 people. I tried to find noob-friendly servers, but those don't seem to exist excluding a couple that had no players in them. For some reason, I can't change my chat channel to go to global chat even by pressing "." and "," so I'm stuck in direct communication, which is useless since I've yet to see another player. I briefly heard a couple other players once when entering a server and a list of names appeared to the right, then quickly disappeared upon connecting, so I'd assume there is some sort of global/server chat that I am unable to connect to. Am I doing something wrong? Is it possible for new players to communicate with others? So far it just seems I'm playing a laggy, single-player game that I keep dying at before I can start to have fun.

[quantum2k6 348]

Welcome to DayZ...

 

- theres no global chat

- theres no friendly servers

- theres no bling bling

- theres no mainstream

 

next time read first and buy then...

 

Survival! thats all...

 

Now uninstall and come back in 1-2 years. this is an alpha thers no content... or better.. theres not the content u want right now :)

 

Good bye!

Edited June 23, 2014 by quantum2k6

[plexico 386]

I agree, this game is retarded for making you have to actually learn how to play and having difficulty to it.

Edited June 23, 2014 by Plexico

[kichilron 8550]

Hello there and welcome to the forums,

 

I am afraid that DayZ is more relentless than you thought it'd be. There's no safe zones, there's no noob-friendly environment and infact servers that are trying to enforce this are against the rules and will be shut down. Get used to this as quickly as possible, as this is the theme of it.

[Death By Crowbar 1213]

Trust noone! And don't drink the disinfectant spray!

[tom0311 1]

3 hours is nothing in DayZ. I'm on my 4th life now and really enjoy it. Yes it can be hours and hours before you see someone else, but you have to be ready for encounters all the time which for me keeps it interesting. I haven't seen anyone else for quite a while but I've had to kill a ton of zombies and I've looted some great stuff. I'll now make my way to Polana where I hope to find some other people, which means I'll probably die :D

[BayZ (DayZ) 9]

So I got DayZ and I've been playing for about 3 hours, but haven't been able to find or communicate with another player besides one incident where I was walking on top of a building and my screen randomly went black and informed me I had just been shot and died. All of my playing time has been on well-populated servers of 25-40 people. I tried to find noob-friendly servers, but those don't seem to exist excluding a couple that had no players in them. For some reason, I can't change my chat channel to go to global chat even by pressing "." and "," so I'm stuck in direct communication, which is useless since I've yet to see another player. I briefly heard a couple other players once when entering a server and a list of names appeared to the right, then quickly disappeared upon connecting, so I'd assume there is some sort of global/server chat that I am unable to connect to. Am I doing something wrong? Is it possible for new players to communicate with others? So far it just seems I'm playing a laggy, single-player game that I keep dying at before I can start to have fun.

Well if you expecting you can get easly get proper gun and contact with other players forget it. Even you get your stuff if you do not be carefull you can loose them in 5 second. This is DayZ you need to be real pussy to stay alive. This is DayZ you will do same thing over and over again. Loot items, kill zombie, and die thats all. If you expecting proper gun fights jsut forget it its not going to happen in this game. Do I like this of course no I just waiting maybe they wıll do something nice about pvp. This is completely stupidity spend hours for loot then somehow you will die.. İts over... You cant store your gun and ammo nowhere except your backpack.. Bomb has been planted I waiting them to do something nice about pvp otherwise I just throw this game to bin.

Edited June 24, 2014 by BayZ

[Robert Neville 59]

DayZ is a game different from others.  Think of it as a zombie apocalypse simulator.  It has a much slower pace of other games you might be used to.  This is what makes it interesting.

Edited June 24, 2014 by Robert Neville

[Sula 1205]

Personally, one of the things I dislike about downloadable games is the devs never seem to provide effective help and info the way games on discs do in manuals, when the games are finally complete. I have found they're all like that.  Best of luck if you stick with it, mate.

 

PS I should confess I was a technical author so I do have a bee in my bonnet about that sort of thing.

Edited June 24, 2014 by Sula

[Street Elite 14]

So I got DayZ and I've been playing for about 3 hours, but haven't been able to find or communicate with another player besides one incident where I was walking on top of a building and my screen randomly went black and informed me I had just been shot and died. All of my playing time has been on well-populated servers of 25-40 people. I tried to find noob-friendly servers, but those don't seem to exist excluding a couple that had no players in them. For some reason, I can't change my chat channel to go to global chat even by pressing "." and "," so I'm stuck in direct communication, which is useless since I've yet to see another player. I briefly heard a couple other players once when entering a server and a list of names appeared to the right, then quickly disappeared upon connecting, so I'd assume there is some sort of global/server chat that I am unable to connect to. Am I doing something wrong? Is it possible for new players to communicate with others? So far it just seems I'm playing a laggy, single-player game that I keep dying at before I can start to have fun.

Thats how it was for me. At first, I didn't find anyone, and when I did, I was way to happy to see them and trusted them to much. Guess what it got me? A black screen as well. Don't be so needy to find other players. You can get lots out of the game without social interaction. I personally made sure to secure 3-4 good guys to play with via Steam instead of foraging for other survivors in-game.

[agentneo 337]

Personally, one of the things I dislike about downloadable games is the devs never seem to provide effective help and info the way games on discs do in manuals, when the games are finally complete. I have found they're all like that.  Best of luck if you stick with it, mate.

 

PS I should confess I was a technical author so I do have a bee in my bonnet about that sort of thing.

I agree also a graphic designer and its annoying when games don't come with any instructions or 'tips' even, and then you have many players spamming basic questions on all forums.

 

I used to like reading a game instruction manual, the tips pages, and using the 'notes' section that used to come at the back.

Once we're out of alpha/beta, I'd love to see a short training mode , or a local co-op option , to prepare new players for Day Z . Similar to A3 are doing with their new update. It could go through basics such as making a fire, boiling water, bandaging, etc. That new game the Forest has a little survival guide booklet (in game) which is also a cool way of doing it.