I haven't played this game in forever, just hopped on and I'm am having a blast

[Karakin09 2]

Hi , guys

This game is something special. I suppose this is just a venting post, as all my friends I used to play with don't play anymore and I just want to talk about it. I assume there's lots of "listen to my story" posts but here's another one.สูตรแทงบอลรอง

Back in the day my friends and I always had izurvive open and simply went into low pop servers to loot and loot over and over again until you hit NWAF or go to Elektro to play Team Deathmatch. It was fun, but coming back the other day I wanted to just turn out the lights and survive. So that's what I did.

My character started by Cherno so of course I make my way through, sneaking past all the zombies (so fuckin fun) and looting. By the end of the sweep I had a Markarov with one bullet in the chamber to use in Balota airfield, where I snuck through, again, and moderately upgraded my equipment.

I got chills when I heard shots in the distance, the sound is so intimidating. By the end of the airstrip I desperately needed water and, if my memory was correct, there's a pump just in the town. As I'm running for my life I see a dead body fully kitted out. An early DayZ Christmas. So there I am, selectively taking everything I could ever ask for including food, water, plus a shotgun and FNX with more bullets than I'll ever need. 

I go to take cover indoors and sort myself out, thinking to myself "I wonder if he was killed by zombies or shot b-" POP I get capped right in the back of the head. But I'm not dead. As the blackness fades away my eyes open to the sight of a man with an SMG stuffed into my face.

Thanks.

Edited May 21, 2020 by Karakin09

[FunkInYourTrunk 354]

posts like this used to be so common.  often illustrated by amazing screenshots. those were the good old days.  i miss the day we could hop onto the forum to find such epic stories of survival.  thanks bro or sis.

[Tonyeh 454]

I've jumped back in after a couple of years away.

I'd love to be able to say the same things as you OP, but I can't.

I've tried changing my key bindings so I can use the arrow keys (my preferred layout), but they won't change. Plus the up arrow is locked as a volume control for the mike. I've tried to change my gender a number of times and I couldn't. Eventually had to throw myself off of a building and then respawn as a man.

I  mean seriously. This game has been in development for YEARS.

On the plus side, the game seems harder than it was the last time I left it. Maybe that's just down to me being a re-noob.

[Tonyeh 454]

^

So, the above may have been a bit of an over-reaction. 😬

I've been back playing DayZ for about 5 days now and getting more and more used to it...again...after 2.5 years of not playing it. I think the last version I played was 0.60 or 0.61? So there have been a lot of changes made. I am playing this time around without using izurvive or any maps and also I'm staying away from the DayZ wiki too. So, it's been a pretty big learning curve. But, also quite enjoyable...once I figured out how how to kill game, skin it, make a fire and cook it. LOL.

I still think the player should start with a full stomach though. But, I'd make food sources scarcer, if that makes sense. But as things stand, the first hour or two can be just far too punishing on new players.

 

A few points about what I do like though:

• The new stamina mechanic is great. If only for stopping players from tear assing around the map like a load of maniacs. Getting from here to there now requires some time and patience.
• The new interface is nice as well and let's me know at a quick glance what my stats are.
• Playing this game without the use of a map has been a real journey of discovery. I'd totally forgotten all of the locations, except for Cherno in the South and the NWAF. Imagine my surprise when I finally got to the NWAF and saw just how much that had changed. It's MASSIVE now.
• Christ almighty, that viagra shotgun (or whatever it's called) is a doozy! Took down two cows with one blast!
• I'd also forgotten just how tense this game can be and remembered that DayZ was one of the few games that could get my stomach tightened and my heart racing. I've only met 5 people in 5 days, but every encounter has been extremely exciting. Except for one KoS, but that happened because I got too complacent, after hours of jogging about the map, apparently by myself. Duh. Never think you're alone.
• The added animal life is great. I love killing chickens 🤪 I had a completely random encounter with a wolf too that was really weird. It just kept looking at me and sort of running away a bit and then back to me. I almost felt like I could have tamed it as a companion! But I killed it instead and cut up the meat. I understand that there have been more animals added too. Don't tell me, but I swear that I can hear stags grunting.
• I like the fact that P no longer brings up the names and number of people on the server. There's probably another way to do it, but I don't want to know what it is. It just means that you really have to be careful where you go on every server you play.
• Diseases are great. No more filling bottles from still bodies of water, or just drinking them where I find them, cos you might end up with cholera or whatever. Also, one of my toons caught a cold and was sneezing all over the place...🤣
• The new zombies are great. I really like the priest. Nice touch.

 

A few bad points:

• More knives are needed in the game. I spent about 7 hours yesterday looking for any kind of knife and found none. Yeh, I know it's possible to make a temp knife, but I haven't found any rocks yet to do that. But seriously, steak knives and kitchen knives need to be more readily available in civvie areas.
• The lack of AK47's is just odd. It's Russia we're playing in. 🤔 What's the story here?
• Combat with zombies is still a bit of an issue. Hit detection can be a little "off", shall we say. This has been a problem since day 1.
• There should be waaaay more zombies in the game. Although I did see about 10-15 all gathered outside a police station in some town, which I thought was great. But I reckon someone was either inside or had been just recently to attract them there, It still looked good though and I had to abandon my plans to check out the cop shop and go somewhere else instead, which should be a feature of the game.
• Duct tape is silly. It's the cure all for everything. I really shouldn't be able to repair a gun with it.
• Footwear wears out far too quickly. The length of life on shoes and boots needs to be looked at. I really shouldn't have to change boots every session.

 

[Tonyeh 454]

Playing last night reminded me of why I returned to this game.

I had my character for a few days and was in the process of gearing up nicely. This character was going to concentrate on hunting and survival, but I needed more gear to be able to do that comfortably. It's also the first character that I've set up a camp for and I am going to be stashing loot for as long as I can last.

I was up around the north of the map heading west and I foolishly wandered off the trail I was on. It was the evening and getting close to nightfall and I heard in the distance wolves howling. I thought "Cool, I've never seen or heard wolves in DayZ before". I wander on a bit further and heard the howls again, only this time it was louder and I got a bit worried. After another few minutes of heading west, I was suddenly attacked by a pack of at least 10 wolves. They were all circling and growling. Part of me thought that it was great and part of me though Oh crap.

A few more attacks and I was losing blood rapidly. I had gotten out my Mosin rifle, the only firing weapon I'd found so far and tried to pick off the wolves. I'm a bloody awful shot and was also panicking about the rapid blood loss. I killed one wolf and then I noticed a barn structure so I ran to that and went inside. The wolves followed me, but I managed to kill 4 of them with the rifle and my axe. The rest ran off. I was barely able to bandage my wounds, before I blacked out from the blood loss. When I came to, I sat there for a while, going in and out of consciousness. I couldn't stay where I was, because I had no way of sealing myself off from another attack. So I looked outside for somewhere to go. Luckily enough there was one of those static caravan trailers beside the building, so I ran in there.

I was going in and out of consciousness, when I head the sound of footsteps. I thought it was a person, but then heard panting and figured it was another pack (or the same one) of wolves. They couldn't get into me in the trailer, so I took a quick peek to confirm. There were 5 wolves hanging around the outside.

By this time I had regenerated enough blood to stop blacking out, so I decided to shoot the wolves from the trailer. You can't shoot out of the window of the trailer, so I had to I open the door to fire. I popped one of them, but not before another one jumped at me and got me good again. I bandaged the wound with my last bandage. Another blood letting and I was dead. But I had to get rid of the wolves before I could move off.

I opened the door again, and killed another, then quickly closed it before the rest could attack. I repeated this one more time and eventually had three dead wolves outside. The others fled.

 

 

 

I skinned the wolves outside the trailer and in the barn building and the headed west for a few more kilometres, where I found a remote farmhouse. I would settle there for the night and regenerate my blood levels. I chopped some wood and put it in the stove. I then cooked the wolf meat that I gathered earlier and sat out the night, nice and warm, and well fed and watered.

 

 

 

 

All in all, the whole encounter lasted about 45 minutes to an hour and it was one of the most tense experiences I've had in any game I've played.

DayZ has a lot of problems still (which is remarkable after 7 years of development), but it still retains the ability to provide these kind of tense moments that no other game can provide.