DayZ on console is a waste of my time

[vfxtodd 125]

I started out playing DayZ a little over four years ago. I had an ok PC, which worked for a while. I realized that I would really need a better PC to get the best experience in DayZ.

Then I heard they were bringing DayZ to the console. Oh, happy days. So, I got DayZ for XBox when I had both an XBox One and a PS4. I preferred PS4 games, but I wanted to play DayZ. Performance of DayZ on XBox was laggy. But, it was new to console, so I waited.

Then DayZ came out on PS4. So, I tried the PS4 version. Now, with Livonia, I thought my DayZ experience would be more fun and entertaining. Unfortunately, it seems like the console version of DayZ has a ways to go. But, the PC version took a while, too. 

The problem I'm having with the console versions is the loot economy. Whether I play on XBox or PS4, or whether I play in Chenaurus or Livonia, the experience is the same. There's hardly any food. There are lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of clothes. Not much else. But, today, started out promising. I decided to spawn in Chenaurus. Since, lately, I mostly spawn, starve to death and respawn over and over. I thought since I knew Chenaurus better, I should stick to starting there. So, I happily found a military base and found the SG5 or whatever, and found lots of ammo for it. I killed a zombie that had a can of beans. I only had an axe to open it with, so I lost almost half of the beans. Cool. I thought there was hope. But, sure enough, that was the end of it. From there I could find nothing to kill or cook. Much less a knife. I found a town near Balota. (Can't remember all the town as its been a while since I played in Chenaurus, though I still had an idea of where to go.) Yet, still I could not find any animals, much less a chicken. I even gathered wood and sticks, in case I found matches or something to start a fire with. 

I was clearly on my way to starving to death. Again! So, I thought, screw it, I'll just take my SG5-whatever and start shooting zombies. In less than a minute I was dead from zombie attacks.

I can't do this anymore. I'm done with this nonsense. 

When I first started playing DayZ, even on a cheesy PC, I had way more fun. There was enough food and supplies on the map to survive. I don't mind not finding weapons, or at least an axe. I don't even mind dying if I know I can find something to survive on and keep going. When I'm unarmed, I just avoid other players unless I run into one, and then I try to talk to them. But, it's been well over a year since I last had an entertaining experience on DayZ. As far as game performance goes, DayZ plays fine on XBox or PS4. It isn't the performance of the game that annoys me. It's the lack of means to survive. Like I said, I don't mind dying if I can at least find enough sustenance to survive. But, for the past month, I just spawn, die of starvation/dehydration and respawn. Rinse and repeat. Repeat. Repeat. I never had this kind of experience in DayZ in the past. So, why now? Why? I have no inspiration to play anymore.

Edited January 25, 2020 by vfxtodd

[emuthreat 2837]

STOP SPRINTING!

If you take your time for the first hour, search every area completely, and maybe backtrack a little bit, you'll have better luck.  Don't just sprint a beeline to your favorite spot.

And seriously, backtrack.  Your presence in an area will likely make apples or mushrooms spawn behind you, as well as new zombies and possibly refreshed loot spawns in houses.

[RyanS1994 110]

all your problems aren't console specific, if I had to guess I'm sure pc official servers have a shit loot economy because of peoples stashes as well.

[FunkInYourTrunk 354]

dayz on console was a waste for eceryone except the people selling it.  if everyone who worked on console versions had been working on pc version we would be farther along.  they also would not have to limit things in game so that it would run on console.  dayz started pc and should have stayed pc.  if they needed more money they shoulda just put more work in (with console team on pc version) made the game and livonia better, and then charged a bit more for the dlc.  or maybe used the console team as next dlc team.  people would still be upset that they had to pay for dlc but at least they would be getting stuff like bows or bikes instead of the "flavor features" just being left out.

[Jonas Levin 265]

The complaints in this thread has nothing to do with the console-version as its the same across all the official servers on all the platforms.

I think that finding food after an apocalypse like this would be a major problem, and this game is not meant to be easy.

Live with it and die again and again like the rest of us (you get better each time) or quit the game if it does not suit you - both are good options. 🙂

[kalibhan_br 3]

First one: if u dont have a knife learn how to build one with a small stone 

Second: your first priority is food and water, then go loot villages and farms and forguet military bases at your first 30 mins 

Finaly: you can hunt chickes easy and bake it after 20 mins looking tools for this porpose