No F@#$s Given Mode

[5P4RK4 (DayZ) 50]

After putting over 60 hours into this game in the last couple weeks, I have a suggestion for newer players, or those who are getting frustrated with the experience.

Enable No Fucks Given Mode.

At first this game was terrifying. Then soul destroying, then I figured out how to play ARMA, but then it became frustrating.

Now it is fun again... Why? No fucks given mode.

Here's how to do it. When you spawn, loot as hard as you can for a Winchester. Upon getting one, run north and kill every zombie you see. Bandits? I dont give a fuck, come at me bros. Cow? Kill it and cook some steaks, in the middle of an open field. Stary? Lets do this. I dont care anymore. When I get good gear, all i end up doing is getting more attached and more nervous about losing it. Now I don't care, and the game is fun again.

Loot is plentiful. Kill some Zeds.

[JinxX 11]

Thats why I like to roll with as little cool shit as possible I get so scared of losing it.

Just gotta realize it dont matta its gonna get lost ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, Player, Zed, Bug, Alpha Over, World Explosion, Comet...

[thunderpimp 78]

I do the same, except we roll with Enfields... We just stash all the high dollar loot in tents.

[PeteOfButcherBay 17]

[esaciar 1]

Where do I select this mode?

Can't see it in menu.

[Virfortis 111]

Uh-huh...and this is different from normal FPS games...how?

NFG Mode is the same everywhere you go. Try giving a shit and actually play DayZ as DayZ, not IO Battlefield with loot drops.

We come to DayZ for something different, something more substantial than run around and shoot people.

I will say this though: I'm going to start calling random deathmatching the NFG Mode...that's a good one.

[esaciar 1]

No Thought Given might be more apt.

[Castle (DayZ) 23]

Man you guys are totally forgetting what makes this game so good.

[tremanarch 42]

After putting over 60 hours into this game in the last couple weeks' date=' I have a suggestion for newer players, or those who are getting frustrated with the experience.

Enable No Fucks Given Mode.

At first this game was terrifying. Then soul destroying, then I figured out how to play ARMA, but then it became frustrating.

Now it is fun again... Why? No fucks given mode.

Here's how to do it. When you spawn, loot as hard as you can for a Winchester. Upon getting one, run north and kill every zombie you see. Bandits? I dont give a fuck, come at me bros. Cow? Kill it and cook some steaks, in the middle of an open field. Stary? Lets do this. I dont care anymore. When I get good gear, all i end up doing is getting more attached and more nervous about losing it. Now I don't care, and the game is fun again.

Loot is plentiful. Kill some Zeds.

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this is exactly what I am doig since the last days.. while running around at night in cherno throwing flares haha.. it was cool, only encountered one guy.. suddenly i got hit 2 shots didnt know what happened? just ran about saw a guy crawl on the ground hit him and heald myself up again. And on it goes since then.. it makes so much fun now ^^

the only thing is, I did find an AK, and now it seems I got back again to stealth mode ;) :( cant get over myself

[Techercizer 82]

Makalov zerglings cause a lot of problems for people who actually try to immerse themselves in Day Z and enjoy the atmosphere, and while I can't really say it's a "wrong" way to play or anything, can't you get the same run-gun-and-die FPS experience in a variety of other games without causing so much disruption? Games like, say, ArmA? Or Wasteland, even?

One of the things that really sets Day Z apart from other gaming experiences is the quite large amount of fucks it causes people to give. There are plenty of alternatives for people of differing dispositions, and atmospheric survival-horror isn't for everyone.

[xqnp7 0]

NFG Mode is definitely easier on the nerves and stress...but fear is what DayZ is all about. If you don't get attached to your character, then there's no point in playing the game if the goal is to survive.

[5P4RK4 (DayZ) 50]

NFG mode ends at a certain point... its more of an early game mentality. Im back to a full kit and a silenced mp5 with a full stack of SD mags so I give fucks again.

I think my point is that I realized that killing Zeds in great numbers is a really good time. so until I get something that doesn't spawn in 2/3 barns... NFG. I found its faster to gear up by just running north to stary/NW barracks, than hitting chern/elek in sheer terror, and having a great time along the way to boot. 152 zeds from kemenka to stary, good times.

edit- I realize the objection about I came to DayZ to play DayZ for something different. It still has that appeal to me. Its just after a certain point you realize its not hard to survive in this world, save for when you get aced by another player. You start with everything you might want other than blood, winchesters are great and plentiful as are slugs, if I'm low blood I just kill a cow and chow down. I can run into almost any town with a winny, find an interior, and blast away without much consequence.

If you started with less, needed to eat more etc. It would make the realism/survival aspect much more interesting. After a while the only part that is still terrifying are the PvP encounters.

[Kolchak (DayZ) 5]

People seem to forget, infected are dumb. They're downright retarded. They have two modes: search for food, devour food. You being an intelligent person should learn their patterns and limitations rather quickly. If you're wanting some kind of thermal vision, super hearing, flying superbeast, you're not wanting infected, you're wanting something else. So far they work very well. Personally I think the initial spawn amounts should be upped and the respawn rate lowered alot, their AI needs to react to light and sound even more, cause as it is, bottles and cans are worthless and flares should work alot better, but as it is, playing by yourself means you have to be smarter than the zeds and not make mistakes. That being the case, I've still seen 3 well armed, but inexperienced people who know the rules die to them in less than a span of an hour. So yah, changes need to be made, but the definition of what they are needs to be kept intact. We don't need to be calling generic overpowered movie monster #2445 a zombie just cause it wears a zombie skin. Honestly If you feel you're not being challenged enough, go get infected, get hurt and don't use painkillers, play an entire life without crouching or crawling, never go into the woods at all, throw away your backpack, don't pick up utility items. The game is as hard as you make it, cause yeah you can sit in the woods near a pond and an animal spawn and live forever, but when you get bored, you only have yourself to blame. Personally, I tend to make solo raids on PVP zones with the intention of not killing anyone, just smash and grab. Had some very tense times doing that.

[hooligan (DayZ) 38]

in other words, if you suck at this game just give up on looting and shoot random shit because you're a quitter

at least you're not the type of carebear crying for everything to change in your favor