Realistic Zombie Apoc. game - DayZ

[Luc]

I just found out about this, i dunno if all of y'all know it already (:blushing:) but if u dont it looks pretty damn awsome and here it is. It's technically not a game but rather a mod for the game on Steam "Arma2" (all info from vid). It's a MMORPG kinda realistic Zombie Apocalpyse game basically just an open environment to survive in with zombies and other "survivors" who u can interact with whether it be friendly trading or robbing and killing other people... oh ya death is permanent

if ur interested in this i defintely recomend watching the whole vid to see a bunch of the i guess "mechanics" i dunno gamer terms and stuff... features!(?) that make it realistic is what i mean! (some ex. would be something like a permanent death (u die? ur fucked!), water,food,blood meters, pain messing u up, scavenging, etc. :)

anways check it out! :)

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i wish i could get it :lol:

[khad]

i wish i could get it :lol:
It's really not worth it. This game's claim to fame is breeding the worst community in all of gaming history.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/43514-why-are-people-such-assholes/
http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/33708-you-assholes/
http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/52222-why-this-mod-is-failing/


This game is failing because bandits.

That's it. It's that simple.

But this stems from design problems, I guess. And basic human nature.

I don't have anything better to do, so I'm going to kill you.


So, you just snuck through the fringe towns. You got some sweet hardware from the deer stands or wherever it is you get your weapons. You have a sniper rifle, and an assault rifle in your backpack. You have matches, a hatchet, food, water, heat packs, morphine. You're all set. You have everything you'll ever need.

Now what?

You know what? nothing. There's not a single fucking thing to do once you get this gear. You can sneak past MORE zombies. Or you can shoot them. You can roam the wilderness looking for crashed helicopters and NVG's. You can search for better weapons. but what do you do when you get these weapons?

...


Now, let's look at it from the other side. Say you're a person who genuinely wants to help, like, say, me. I like to help people who are in a spot of bother in this game. I was running cherno/elektro server hopping at one point taking down the barbed wire that server hoppers had been putting up to fence off pretty much every single bit of real estate in the cities.

But I don't interact with other players. Why? You're all bastards. Sure, maybe one in five or so won't shoot me on sight. The other four? I'm dead. I'm not restarting and losing all my shit because you decided to be an asshole.

This is the mentality that has ruined this mod, on BOTH SIDES. "It's just a game, let's be COMPLETE, UTTER ASSHOLES! :D " Don't even fucking pretend to me that that isn't what 90% of you bandits feel, deep down. It's just a game. None of it matters.

Well you know what? It's not a fun game.

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The only interaction between player groups in this game is the whoosh of bullets flying past their goddamn faces. This is half the fault of the game design, and half the fault of YOU, the player.

Every time you camp in Cherno killing noobs, every time you snipe some guy who's arrived at NWAF for the first time. Every time you betray and backstab just for the sheer glee you get in your heart for being an anonymous **** over the internet. This is what is destroying the game.

And don't even try to pretend it's not. Or next time you see someone who's actually armed, walk up to them and say 'friendly'. Go on. I'll wait.

Eventually, the supply of fresh-faced, naive recruits WILL diminish, at which point you'll all have what you want. You'll have a deathmatch in Cherno. You'll have a deathmatch at the NWAF. You'll have a deathmatch called Chernarus. Because that's the direction this community is DRIVING this game.

New players are forced away by the constant banditry, or convert to the banditry way of playing the game. I know I have. If I see a player, I don't help them. I hide. And if they see me, I shoot.

I was a fresh faced recruit once, hoping to actually play a survival game where survivors were pitted against bandits, and zombies fucked up everyone. But now, everyone is a bandit, and no one can be trusted. Ever.

This isn't a survival simulator any more. It's a bandit simulator.

And guess what?

The bandits are winning.




And to the people who will say 'hey, I'm not a bandit! I help people!' Yeah. Welcome to the 1% buddy. Congratulations.

[Luc]

It's really not worth it. This game's claim to fame is breeding the worst community in all of gaming history.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/43514-why-are-people-such-assholes/
http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/33708-you-assholes/
http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/52222-why-this-mod-is-failing/

:( figured that'd be a problem but didnt think itd be that scale :scared: thanks for heads up xD

[Leonid Brozhnev]

I've been playing it on-off for about a month. It's nothing special really, I mean it's fun when you start out and you're being chased around the cities with only a Hatchet to your name, but the end game is horrible.
The game almost forces you to become a bandit in the end as Zombies rarely pose a threat and most people who see you have good gear will instantly try to kill you for it so you have to resort to shooting people on sight. Most have just taken to completely discarding any kind friendly attitude to other players and just kill anybody from the start.

There was already a standalone semi-ripoff announced that's coming out sometime this year called 'The WarZ (http://thewarz.com/)'. Apparently it was in development before the DayZ Alpha was released, which I find a little suspect, but whatever. It does look better than DayZ.

[Susurrus]

On the topic of the bandit problem happening because there's nothing better to do than start killing people after a while, the creator of the mod has actually acknowledged this problem and has said that they are working on adding more content to the game in order to make people working together worth it.


I myself have Arma II CO and could play DayZ...if my computer was advanced enough to do so. Sadly, it is not.

[Karabin]

I have played a lot of DayZ (And a lot of the original game, its my second most played game on Steam) and I have to say that yes, Bandits have ruined the mod.

It started out alright at first, and I was more than happy to help people out but as the game progressed it turned out that it was to nobodies interest to help others because you will most definitely end up being killed. Even those without weapons will try their best to take advantage of you (I saved a guys life once, and he tried robbing my backpack. Needless to say, I shot him).

I suggest you get this game if you have a friend or a group of friends who will play it with you. Only then does it become a fun experience. Playing by yourself is downright depressing and not fun at all.

[Aziz]

Arma is OK, stupid though cos I had a sick computer yet it still had annoying lag.

Rather go paint balling and paint my mates up as zombies.

[Ele'ill]

I've heard that across the board this game is only fun if you're playing with a group of friends. I've watched a lot of dayz footage and played ARMAII a few times.