ordomalleus25 2 Posted October 14, 2014 I was wondering which is better in your opinions? Game play wise, enjoyment wise etc... Anything why you would choose one over the other :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DURRHUNTER 597 Posted October 14, 2014 i never actually got to play the true vanilla mod. i wish i could. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tegla (DayZ) 112 Posted October 14, 2014 The mod. It gave me so many hours of entertainment, i lost count (literally, there was a patch where you couldn't run the game thorugh Steam, so i played like that for a few months). It has many, many different mods, a lot of different maps, each special in it's own way(to be fair, nowdays you can't find populated servers for most of them), private servers with whitelists, and is more stable in general. The Standalone has potential, but it has a long development in front of it. I stop playing the SA everynow and then to wait for new patches and features, whereas i never stopped playing the mod since early 2012. I mostly play dayzrp now, and i just installed Epoch to give it a try (nope, never played it. mostly played vanilla and all the maps) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LoveAffair 329 Posted October 14, 2014 I Love the Vanilla , I started playing that , then when on to Epoch that i hated. Only because there were skyscraper bases that went into the clouds and you can buy almost anything you need. I started playing Overpoch , I do like it but again with the buying and skyscrapers. I wish there was an Overpoch server where the loot is very hard to find and there were no traders to buy stuff from. All the gear /guns in it are amazing , but when your tripping over 14 machineguns every building you enter it kinda gets old real quick. I'm juts playing Sa from now on. But if you really want the best experience i would play the Dayz Mod Vanilla. I don't know what that other guy is talking about i see servers packed to the brim with players , so many so that i don't even join because i hate 40/40 packed servers. try a server called Dayz Europa , it's a Vanilla and always packed with players. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jessebilyk 32 Posted October 14, 2014 epoch for me, haven't tried Overpoch yet, but I've been hearing good things! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Baker. 1484 Posted October 14, 2014 (edited) i never actually got to play the true vanilla mod. i wish i could.Why cant you? Would love to help you out. The mod. It gave me so many hours of entertainment, i lost count (literally, there was a patch where you couldn't run the game thorugh Steam, so i played like that for a few months). It has many, many different mods, a lot of different maps, each special in it's own way(to be fair, nowdays you can't find populated servers for most of them), private servers with whitelists, and is more stable in general. The Standalone has potential, but it has a long development in front of it. I stop playing the SA everynow and then to wait for new patches and features, whereas i never stopped playing the mod since early 2012. I mostly play dayzrp now, and i just installed Epoch to give it a try (nope, never played it. mostly played vanilla and all the maps)I like you Edited October 14, 2014 by Bakermensch Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
St. Jimmy 1631 Posted October 14, 2014 I've never played other than vanilla and Namalsk. Namalsk was too PvP for me because of the weapon spawns and what I've seen and heard about other mods they're even more just about PvP and that's not what I'm looking for. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DURRHUNTER 597 Posted October 14, 2014 Why cant you? Would love to help you out.like i mean when the mod first came out. ive played some epoch and stuff and its just meh. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gannon46 788 Posted October 14, 2014 (edited) I love the mod I've put more time into it than any other game I've ever bought/played. I love the vanilla mod the most as epoch seems to easy most of the time yet it does still have some challenges especially if your being chased by a SUV with a mini gun on top. compared to SA well as of now i'll choose the MOD honeslty I don't play much SA I just find it boring a new patch comes out I see what it has to offer and then an hour later I'm loading up commander to play the mod again not because it has vehicles or heli's one reson being is it does have a lot more zeds and the player encounters to me are a lot more exciting it seems to take longer to get geared and sometimes pretty hard to find food(like I said sometimes) it just feels to me like its more of a survival game. I do have high hopes for SA and I do hope that eventually I spend as much time on it as I do in the mod I think its just gonna be down the road when more stuff is tweaked and its not so easy. sometimes I think where they made every house enterable they actually made the game a lot easier to survive a town in the mod where you might have 2 buildings with loot now has 8 buildings with clothing guns and food so the odds always seem in your favor in that game where as the mod the dayz gods are always cursing you and making your life hell. Edited October 14, 2014 by gannon46 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Salva (DayZ) 52 Posted October 14, 2014 I was wondering which is better in your opinions? Game play wise, enjoyment wise etc... Anything why you would choose one over the other :)Aahh see that's where you mark a crucial point. Enjoyment.. in the end that's what it's all about right? This is why I still play the mod. I bought SA the hour it came out on Steam but I've only played it for a few hours. I keep track of the updates and watch some livestreams every now and then which is cool, but in terms of pure value and fun SA doesn't come close to the many options of the mod yet imho. I hope modding will be the calling for DayZ SA just like it has been for the original DayZ mod. I just really get the vibe people are too scared about DayZ SA being ruined when modding is gonna be allowed - afraid it will become the next DayZ Overwatch or Epoch. "But that's not what DayZ is about, it's about survival! Go play Call of Duty or get lost!" This vision I feel is a problem. In the end, why do we play games? For fun! Now I enjoyed vanilla DayZ, DayZero, Epoch and Overwatch.. all of these have something different to offer varying from hardcore-ish realistic gameplay to massive pvp action. I feel if DayZ SA is going to stick to this 'hardcore survival attitude' it's currently got going for itself it would be a huge waste of potential. And don't you dare tell me "then DayZ is not for you". I can make that judgement perfectly fine for myself. If only people wouldn't be so afraid to have fun.. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
escobert 112 Posted October 14, 2014 I've been playing overpoch lately. It's fun, more guns and stuff than epoch. I love vanilla but sometimes I feel like once I'm somewhat geared up there's no much to do so I lose interest rather quickly since I'm not a big PvPer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tegla (DayZ) 112 Posted October 15, 2014 like i mean when the mod first came out. ive played some epoch and stuff and its just meh.I can't decide to tell you if you missed out or not.The mentality was definitely different. The subreddit had quality content on it, and the forums were more serious in discussion.The playerbase was different as well. Im going to sound like a dayz hipster, but before DayZ went mainstream (for the first month or two), the players were more keen to talk to eachother and there weren't so much KoS-ers.I fondly remember the hype when i woke up and a new patch was up, and i eagerly awaited to see what will break in this one. The bugs were hilarious (hatchets dropping ammo, zombies flying over the house when you hit them, or aggroing from the other side of the map because you farted too loud).People weren't so pissed off at the devs all the time either.The major change was the playerbase. You can experience everything else(except the bugs and a few maps) now. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Judopunch 523 Posted October 16, 2014 I can't decide to tell you if you missed out or not.The mentality was definitely different. The subreddit had quality content on it, and the forums were more serious in discussion.The playerbase was different as well. Im going to sound like a dayz hipster, but before DayZ went mainstream (for the first month or two), the players were more keen to talk to eachother and there weren't so much KoS-ers.I fondly remember the hype when i woke up and a new patch was up, and i eagerly awaited to see what will break in this one. The bugs were hilarious (hatchets dropping ammo, zombies flying over the house when you hit them, or aggroing from the other side of the map because you farted too loud).People weren't so pissed off at the devs all the time either.The major change was the playerbase. You can experience everything else(except the bugs and a few maps) now.Im sure that will change as development pushes this more towards a survival game, when weapons and food become harder to find and your priority is living instead of going to Electro to shoot people. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slippery gypsy 107 Posted October 21, 2014 old 2017 mod ...best survival best fun Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
