Day Zero

[Presence- 41]

Survivors start from scratch.
No knives, no bandages, no maps, no glow sticks. Nothing at all. Zero.

Even if the benevolent idea was to help survivors and especially beginners, it's really no help at all, and it robs you of your experience more than it enriches it.

Need some rags for a chance to survive? Tear off your clothes.

"Don't you dare insult my thinking abilities".
Can't you do it?

If not, for whatever reason, you've at least tried to survive. Isn't this an event and an occurrence in a survival context?

Handing survivors the necessities to survive without having to work for it is depriving them of the experience of getting there.

It's a survival content, isn't it? Described and marketed as authentic, gritty, and unforgiving.
So why cut out the necessary ingredients for the survival experience?

[nemorus 265]

No killing for starting items, bandages, no way of hoarding them... Nice suggestion.

[Riddick_2K 174]

To make it an even more absurd and unrealistic game? NO thanks.
Why not with crippled hands... even more difficult...
Why not with lame feet... increasingly difficult...
Could we make a survival game for the blind? (without a guide dog)...

Seriously:
Just finding yourself on the coast half naked and without anything is absurd and unrealistic!
In the event of a pandemic... either you die immediately or you equip yourself well (vehicle, weapons, medicine, food) and try to escape. THIS is the real beginning of something like this... everything else is bullshit.
You have a distorted vision of what a "realistic day zero" should be (also by the description of the game itself, which does not reflect reality).
Denying this means denying the reality of the facts.

P.S.
The beginning of DayZ, as it was written, could be "realistic" only in the case of a shipwreck on a desert island after a storm at sea, NOT a beginning of a survivor of a pandemic (subject of THIS game).
Making it even more "ridiculous", would make the WHOLE game even more "ridiculous", without a real advantage in terms of gameplay: in a short time you recover what you do not have at the beginning... already very, very little.
The real game begins after... MUCH after... 😐

Edited December 13 by Riddick_2K

[Presence- 41]

On 12/13/2024 at 12:49 PM, Riddick_2K said:

To make it an even more absurd and unrealistic game? NO thanks.
Why not with crippled hands... even more difficult...
Why not with lame feet... increasingly difficult...
Could we make a survival game for the blind? (without a guide dog)...

Straw-man argument.

On 12/13/2024 at 12:49 PM, Riddick_2K said:

Seriously:
Just finding yourself on the coast half naked and without anything is absurd and unrealistic!
In the event of a pandemic... either you die immediately or you equip yourself well (vehicle, weapons, medicine, food) and try to escape. THIS is the real beginning of something like this... everything else is bullshit.
You have a distorted vision of what a "realistic day zero" should be (also by the description of the game itself, which does not reflect reality).
Denying this means denying the reality of the facts.

P.S.
The beginning of DayZ, as it was written, could be "realistic" only in the case of a shipwreck on a desert island after a storm at sea, NOT a beginning of a survivor of a pandemic (subject of THIS game).
Making it even more "ridiculous", would make the WHOLE game even more "ridiculous", without a real advantage in terms of gameplay: in a short time you recover what you do not have at the beginning... already very, very little.
The real game begins after... MUCH after... 😐

You talk and bark too much for nothing. You're not aware of your cretinism and how stubborn you are. It is tiresome.
1. The realism you speak of is subjective, and so are your reality and your descriptions: “absurd” “bullshit” “ridiculous” “the real beginning” “advantage” "gameplay" “real game”.
2. I did not talk about realism for my suggestion.
3. Above all, I provide ingredients for a survival aspect. 
4. The title of the post is not “Realistic Day Zero”. It's titled “Day Zero”.
5. Realism was never the goal. DayZ was meant to deliver an authentic experience. 

[Riddick_2K 174]

You are just very good at small talk... but it only works for "simple minds". Anyone with a "normal" IQ, immediately understands the situation.

Just this, since you specifically wrote it and did NOT beat around the bush with too much small talk:

11 hours ago, Presence- said:

5. Realism was never the goal. DayZ was meant to deliver an authentic experience. 

Search the definition of "authentic" online.
by collinsdictionary.com: "
If you describe something as authentic, you mean that it is such a good imitation that it is almost the same as or as good as the original.
[cut]
Synonyms: real, true, original, actual
"
Idiot me who still continues to respond to your endless, gimcrack and "academically rhetorical" writings.
I will try not to do it anymore, it is just a useless waste of time anyway. 😑

Have a nice day. 😉

 

[Presence- 41]

34 minutes ago, Riddick_2K said:

You are just very good at small talk... but it only works for "simple minds". Anyone with a "normal" IQ, immediately understands the situation.

Just this, since you specifically wrote it and did NOT beat around the bush with too much small talk:

Search the definition of "authentic" online.
by collinsdictionary.com: "
If you describe something as authentic, you mean that it is such a good imitation that it is almost the same as or as good as the original.
[cut]
Synonyms: real, true, original, actual
"
Idiot me who still continues to respond to your endless, gimcrack and "academically rhetorical" writings.
I will try not to do it anymore, it is just a useless waste of time anyway. 😑

Have a nice day. 😉

 

There is a difference between realistic and authentic.

This subtle difference is important.

You go look for it.

[Riddick_2K 174]

20 minutes ago, Presence- said:

There is a difference between realistic and authentic.

This subtle difference is important.

You go look for it.

I am NOT the one who has to look for evidence of your statements (biased and specious, then). 🤨
You are good at going around things, chatting a lot and mystifying things with words... it doesn't work with me.
And remember one thing: insult is the weapon of those who are wrong and have no other arguments for contest (general concept, eh...)

Have a nice day... 😊