No stary competition.

[Ajvkorn 72]

Short post. People bitch about snipers in elektro and cherno, but we have been sitting at stary in a 30+ server and have only seen one person. It is probably the artifacts, but no wonder why people stay down there..It's boring as shit here up north!

[tet5uo (DayZ) 22]

Maybe I was that person :D

I just got sniped by some .50cal when I was trying to get up there today :(

[Walrusbear 1]

What? Leave the coast and play the game? You must be mad! Last time I was in Stary I had a helicopter dropped on my head...only 15 people online.

[Corpselooter 16]

The artifacts make it even more of a risk so most people avoid it. When you can't even return fire it's kind of a turn off.

[Ajvkorn 72]

No it wasn't you we killed because this guy was in stary already. He alt-f4ed, but we still got the kill

[Ajvkorn 72]

Lol of course we get bored, go on a 50+ server, head to airfield and hacker teleports to me and kills me with a mark. Smh

[Kurukururin 11]

Last three or so weeks the game has changed kind of much. More and more people stay in cherno and electro nowadays. Its the new end game, hehe. Its not only noobs there anymore. 95% of the population is there id say. The few times last weeks id actuallt went to stary and NW airfield, its been deader than dead, even on high pop servers. Like it or not, thats the way it is right now in the meta game.

[chris p. bacon 182]

The northern world is deserted. I drove my bright white offroad pickup truck along the Stary Sobor line, to Berezino, back, and to the NW Airfield (which I looted with no problems) and only saw one person (who was a friendly guy and we exchanged blood transfusions).

[enaver 25]

The north is dead because I guess people are bored of travelling that far now when everything is happening down south.

I spend all my time travelling between Elek and Chern. So many players down here that its easier to get loot here.

[Mattix90 10]

This is preposterous, the influx of cod/bf kids made this game a huge cherno/elektro deathmatch. For 3 hours me and my mate were sitting south of sobor on 40+ server trying to snipe someone, no results, not even one person approched the city, not even one zombie spawned in stary... for 3 hours. Next thing, we set an ambush just north of elektro, on the road to mogilevka, same thing, 1,5h, not a living soul, again 40+ serv. We approached hill above elektro and what do we see? Shitload of bodies, new spawners running frantically and killig eachother with some basic weapons. On NW airfield I managed to countersnipe one dude hiding near barracs possibly doing the same thing I was doing - sitting for 2 hours straight on a server trying to snipe someone. Most people just don't get the idea of this game

[Kurukururin 11]

I think its interesting to see the meta game change all the time. How is DayZ gonn alook in 2 months? What is gonna be the thing to do or place to be then? :) WHo knows. Oh, and i think alot of people is gonna protest when you say that sniping is the correct way to play the game, hehe. My personal opinion is that you can play the game in any way possible without cheating, and that totally fine!! Dont get mad bro's.

Edited August 26, 2012 by Kurukururin

[Fawkon 12]

This is preposterous, the influx of cod/bf kids made this game a huge cherno/elektro deathmatch. For 3 hours me and my mate were sitting south of sobor on 40+ server trying to snipe someone, no results, not even one person approched the city, not even one zombie spawned in stary... for 3 hours. Most people just don't get the idea of this game

That's rich coming from a guy who's willing to waste 3 hours of his life hiding in a bush just to kill any random person for the sake of it... kinda pathetic to be honest... I'm not one to tell people how to play the game but when you start spouting of sh*te like "Most people just don't get the idea of this game" then you open yourself up for abuse.

[CyberTyrant 6]

There's only two ways to fix this problem. A fictional map with big cities spread evenly & spawn points on every side of the map.

[oshi7 365]

There is no more incentive to go North. You can get good gear by killing scripters on the hillsides over Cherno and Elektro and, because they're doing it, most other people will assume the same thing.

Survival needs to be ramped up. The game needs to be developed. Killing players should be something you do sparingly, to conserve limited ammo (which is in a huge surplus even without scripting) and becoming injured should lower your max blood, so the risk of getting shot or bitten would be greater unless you can get the proper, and very rare medical equipment.

DayZ is too easy, despite being one of the harshest games out.

[void.false@gmail.com 300]

For 3 hours me and my mate were sitting south of sobor on 40+ server trying to snipe someone

And then they wonder why no one goes north. Why should I spend half an hour to get to NWAF to get sniped by some pussy bush sniper that camps the spot for 3 hours? You've got no life? How a normal person can sit in one spot for 3 hours?

I have decent DM between Balota and Electro right from the start with any kind of people. From fresh noobs to end-gear clans who capture and hold the sniper hill.

[kyuss420 2]

I sort of look at this a bit differently. I doubt its an influx of cod/bf 'kiddies' that changed the way this game is played.. it was sort of inevitable, there is NO end game in this mod.. and whats the point of building a camp up when you are already decked out with the best gear? Whats left to do thats still fun? kill people.., add to that the influx of scripted in guns making most gear readily available early on in the game you are just asking for a blood bath in a localized area.

[NoRegrets 495]

Yeah Stary Sucks ... the reason is ... nobody needs a shitty AR anymore from these tents ... you can find high end helicopter/barrack weapons around cherno/elektro easy these days ...

[BMCK 2]

Why bother heading up north to gear up when you end up getting killed by some dipshit hacker? I used to hate this stupid cherno/elektro deathmatch and I still do but atm I don't want to waste my time gearing up so some kid can kill me.

Graphic bugs, tents/vehicles not saving and hackers are the reasons more and more people stay in the south. I do want to head north like I used to, I really do, but atm there's just no point in doing so because in the end you WILL get killed by a hacker.

Edited August 26, 2012 by BMCK

[SillySil 295]

I don't go to stary because I'm blind there.

[AzVirus 25]

Irony :huh:

This is preposterous, the influx of cod/bf kids made this game a huge cherno/elektro deathmatch. For 3 hours me and my mate were sitting south of sobor on 40+ server trying to snipe someone, no results, not even one person approched the city, not even one zombie spawned in stary... for 3 hours. Next thing, we set an ambush just north of elektro, on the road to mogilevka, same thing, 1,5h, not a living soul, again 40+ serv. We approached hill above elektro and what do we see? Shitload of bodies, new spawners running frantically and killig eachother with some basic weapons. On NW airfield I managed to countersnipe one dude hiding near barracs possibly doing the same thing I was doing - sitting for 2 hours straight on a server trying to snipe someone. Most people just don't get the idea of this game

Edited August 26, 2012 by AzVirus