So what the fuck's the deal with this game anymore? I remember being really excited at the idea back in the day, but it's like everybody has completely forgotten about it. It's not like people aren't playing though, you can still hop in and find plenty of servers. Is DayZ dead, /v/?
I'm still playing vanilla dayz mod and I hate early access so it's dead to me.
>>337846285
What's the mod like? I used to play it back in the day, but I hear there have been ridiculous updates since then.
>>337846517
It's fun but its still arma 2 so don't expect much, overpoch servers are more fun since good gear spawns everywhere and its more pvp orientated.
Glacial development pace for one. They released a new update a few days ago, after a year and a half of not having any. Said update barely adds anything of course.
The only thing DayZ has going for it now is it's ballistics borrowed from the ArmA engine. Everything else is done better by the millions of DayZ clones out there.
>>337847009
So there are DayZ clones that are better than DayZ? Like what?
>>337847009
You are telling us that H1Z1 has done something good/better than DayZ?
>"you can still hop in and find plenty of servers. "
>" Is DayZ dead, /v/?"
>>337845912
A completely clunky, unpolished mess. Fucking second life combat simulators play better than it. The whole game is filled with glitches that can kill you and make you lose ~8 hours of progress in less than a second, the first 4 or 5 hours of progress mentioned are mostly you walking for 30 real life minutes from city to city looking for loot. Players can also use exploits via the extremely buggy engine to make you lose progress.
Devs aren't technically adding anything new. Zero new mechanics, but just shit like "here's a couple of rifles that are exactly the same like the other ones but they fire at a different caliber" or "here are some new skins for the cans of food" and so on.
Never fall for the survival game meme.
>>337847580
Does it have a future, then.cunt.
>>337845912
dayz
dayz
give me your answer do
>>337847807
Obviously, nigger. Recently .60 went to exp and it's incredibly hard to find spots in the servers. Demand is high, all the devs have to do is keep optimizing and updating every so often.
>>337845912
These videos got me interested but--overall this game looks autistic as fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGJLdnN0xHY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVaEa6_TFsQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xmPCvquqGY
>Tfw I didn't fall for DayZ meme and all the ripoff games that came out afterwards trying to bank on the hype
>>337845912
>Is DayZ dead, /v/?
It's not dead, and it can be pretty fun, but it has a lot of glaring faults that need seeing to. If you don't own it already, don't buy it, at least until it's finished. If it's ever finished.
>>337847009
>Glacial development pace for one.
True.
>They released a new update a few days ago,
True.
>after a year and a half of not having any.
False. They've been doing periodic updates, mostly to add innane shit instead of fixing bugs. Occasionally good things are added like the horde mechanic, but there are nowhere near enough zombies spawning for it to work as intended.
>Said update barely adds anything of course.
False. The new renderer is now on experimental and I've heard it performs much better than the old one, especially in cities where FPS could easily drop below ten.
>>337845912
Most people got pissed off at the slow pace of the devs. I have too, despite having 500 hours on the SA and atleast 100 on the mod.
I believe the game has the potential to be great, but the devs are being too slow and are pissing people off.
They've shown stuff like simple clothing items that haven't got into the game for atleast half a year.
Fuck, the plate carrier has been in the game files since like 2014 yet wasn't implemented for quite a long time.
Performance has been quite shit too.
However, 0.60 has really changed things for alot of people and the game is regaining its playerbase. Pic related, one of my own DayZ screenshots from the 0.60 update.
Graphics are mostly on normal/low and the game still looks amazing and has decent FPS too.
Yes.
The hype culminated with h1z1 which then cannibalize itself entirely with battle royale. Literally every person I ever knew who played day z now plays battle royale h1z1 .
If you want a survival game, ark is probably your best bet. They're still working on it fairly frequently.
>>337848294
It is pretty autistic to be honest.
I met a dude in Chernogorsk yesterday and he seemed friendly at first and we had a good time before he went crazy and chased me around the city in the dark despite bleeding heavily and being chased by infected.
Fucker found me no matter where I hid.
The European servers can be pretty weird too.
Too many Slavs going around yelling in Russian and trying to kill people.
>>337847798
Do you have any idea what is currently being developed? A newly optimized engine and complete new UI.
Sure they're adding in guns and shit as well, the variety of weapons is starting to get immense and adds a lot of flavor, you never seem to know what you're going to end up with next.
if you know what you're fucking doing it isn't hard to get geared, considering you can kill fully kitted with a simple pistol and a clip from a police station, that is if your aim isn't shit.
I have played this game for a long time and only very VERY occasionally do I feel that I die for some dumb reason. The firefights are a ton of fun in it, and has veryrealistic ballistics. When I die, its 98% because someone outplayed me or I fucked up.
>>337848568
Literally no one plays battle royale anymore, that place is a barren wasteland. That game is the epitome of survival meme cash generator.
Who DayZ Origins masterrace here?
They really nailed the endgame without making it feel too "pvp arena" like overpoch with 5 weapons in every house and buying armored cars after 2 hours of play
>after 50 years in development the standalone releases
>everything but the ui is the same
>all the game breaking bugs are still there
>zombies almost entirely removed
>survival mechanics are shittier than ever
>loot is still boring shit
Biggest scam ive ever been a part of. I paid like $5 for 7 days to die and had way more survival entertainment and zombie hunting with good crafting and sandbox autism.
>join MP server
>frantically search for a hidden area to begin a base
>collect resources on the outskirts to craft better items and weapons
>gain enough courage to loot the cities
>plant a farm, cook food, boil water, make medicines
>>337847807
Depends how le gamerz community develops
Will people continue to like hiking simulators with power spikes in action of about 10 minutes per 2 hours?
Will the developers finally generate some endgame that isn't "run to airport, get guns, run back to shore to snipe players
>>337848714
>tfw hiking with the lads
>>337848714
Another pic, the dude who went mad and betrayed me and an example of some of the major changes to Chernogorsk which make it feel like a real city.
The lighting is pretty nice as a result of the new renderer too.
>>337848787
Bruh, you can get geared up pretty fast if you just head away from the coast and scout out the inland villages.
I found a hunting backpack, some camouflage clothing, few SMGs, pistol ammo, and a P38 in like an hour. Less if you take away the time I spent getting lost or just observing areas.
The game isn't that glitchy anymore either.
This isn't early 2014.
>>337849048
You weren't scammed of shit. You knew exactly what you were in for when you saw the warning message on the store page.
Nice hyperbole, fag.
>>337849290
wrong pic
>>337845912
Because it's a fucking god awful deathmatch simulator with braindead fauna called zombies.
There's nothing in this game to do but kill eachother. There's no tension because zombies just run at you in straight line or clip through walls.
You'll also break every bone in your body if you do not pay tribute to the mighty doorway before you pass, too.
>>337849048
DayZ standalone release is gonna evolve into the most pvpv packed format there is with no endgame and no time needing to be invested into the game. Just like the mods did with epoch mods.
Running simulators with no endgame aren't a thing anymore
>>337848714
Slavs are either bro-tier, weird, or just murderous demons on online games.
>>337845912
You're better off playing The Division instead of waiting for the standalone to be finished. Either that or play the mod, which is still alive.
>>337849246
>Tfw early DayZ memories of hiking with your Bandit bros in the woods looking for newspawn boipussi to torture
>>337849290
DayZ Defense ACTIVATE!
>>337849424
Atleast they don't walk indoors and just camp you outside trees if you hide in them.
All they need to do is make zombies run faster than you but make their turnrate shit so you can lose them indoors
>>337849660
>lose them indoors
>indoors
YOU HAVE ANGERED THE MIGHTY BONEBREAKER DOORWAY
NOW ALL YOUR LIMBS SHALL BE BROKEN AS A PENACE
I will never forgive Day Z for proving early access is the worst but goddamn I hate all the Day Z-likes out there. They all focus on base building and crafting and all this minecraft shit and it fucking drives me up the fucking wall. The aspect I liked in Day Z was the prospect of seeing a location, assessing whether it was worth the risk to venture in or waste my stamina searching for crap, the unsettling feeling when noticing dead zombies, hearing gunshots, seeing dead players, etc. Everything in the game felt so cerebral to me even if it was so simple. I liked it more with the bandit mask too since it was the honest ones you couldn't trust. I also liked starting with a handgun with no melee since it meant fighting zombies could lead to a dangerous situation where you cause too much sound and attract more. It was frustrating playing the game while seeing other memorize the map and figure out spawn locations so the game just became some super frustrating 10 hour long arena shooter. I just get so fucking flustered thinking about this game and the misguided genre of games it spawned I can't even articulate it right.
DayZ is the reason why I won't preorder a game. I feel like it has been 4 years, and they are still no closer to any set release date. Will melee combat ever not suck in this game?
>>337849807
consistent legbreaker doorways and gates havent been a thing in ages
>>337849562
Not an argument.
>>337849807
Shit like that hasn't happened since the mod.
The worst leg-breaking incident I've had in all my 500 hours of DayZ SA was breaking my leg on a barn stairway in the countryside and having to call for assist on the forums.
Which was actually worth it for the interaction.
>>337849867
2 Years + 6 months =/= 4 years
>>337849558
The best of times.
>tfw I didn't fall for the early access meme
>>337848314
>>337848360
Pretty much this. I have 800 hours, but it takes months to have a single update, and you'll be lucky if it's not just a fix patch.
I used to play it everyday, but now I'm so done with the waiting that I play it like once or twice in a week if at all.
They got tons of money from DayZ and the Arma series (especially from Arma III), so why don't they get a bigger team or something to improve the rate of the updates?
>>337850423
>why don't they get a bigger team or something to improve the rate of the updates?
Because they've already got the money.
>>337850053
So right now on experimental you can have zombies that die at the doorway trap you in a building, the drinking glitch and some more are not fixed, you can drop fix damaged gear, dropping items in buildings can glitch them and you can't pick it up and many more problems. It was 5 months between 0.6 going on experimental and the last patch honestly I have lost any faith in the development of Dayz, also they are still thinking about asking 60$ on release if that ever happens.
>>337850423
The standalone game sold back when the mod had more content and less problems than the standalone itself. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that they gave up.
>>337850693
>So right now on experimental you can have zombies that die at the doorway trap you in a building
Also occurs on stable. Happened to me in pic related.
>>337850980
Same thing happened to me I decided to wait for the despawn timer, but the server crashed.
>>337848787
I haven't payed much attention to this game because I think its complete shit but I understand the want for it. Watched a few streams and videos of it and the zombies and glitchy shit is so awful that it makes me never want to play it BUT... A newly optimized engine and UI? Im a little more interesting now. Can you find me a link of this being legit at all?
>>337845912
Remember that one time they added pink trousers and it wouldnt stop raining?
It's basically the same. They add stuff which causes new bugs instead of fixing bugs and adding important/useful stuff.
>>337851384
http://www.dayztv.com/video/dayz-60-exp-showcase-part-one-novo-fps-tisy-base-more/
>>337845912
It inevitably suffered the fate of all early access games that blew their load in alpha. Which is a damn shame, since the whole concept and basis of Day Z is fantastic. But it will be perceptually half-baked. That's what early access does to this kind of game.
>>337847101
Pick any Arma 3 survival mod
>>337850980
>>337851228
you have to sprint and drop to prone it kinda jumps over them
>>337852240
This.
I prefer playing Arma 3 br.
I just wanted a fun zombie survival game. Not one endless game of team death match.
>>337852321
I guess it really depends on the building I tried diving, crouch and mouse wiggling, everything it was near vybor industrial
