DayZ Standalone

Blackgator wrote: »

Had my first game of DayZ the other day, dipping my toes into PC gaming.

I'm so F'ing lost. I can't work out where I am.

Met a few new spawns, had a couple of shovel fights (which I won). The shovel is OP.

Played same character for 3 days, killing 5 other players. Eventually found military tents and got a fully gears MP5. Scope, silencer, the works.
Shot a zombie to try it out and got attacked by 4 others. Swarmed me and killed me.

Was I annoyed, yes.
Did I just straight back in and do it again, YES.

Loving it so far, but anyone got tips on working out where I spawn?

Firstly, you wanna start off with a map. You can search around to find one you prefer, but I find this one to be pretty good: https://dayz.ginfo.gg/#c=17;37;2

Usually when you spawn you will be on the coast somewhere. One easy thing to do is run inland from the coast; if you hit train tracks before a road, you are between the far left side of the map and Elektro. If you hit the road before the train tracks, you are on the eastern side of the map, between Elektro and Berezino. That can be a good starting point for working it out. (there are a few places around Elektro where the road and train tracks switch around, but for the most part that rule works)

After that, the best way is to use the road signs: http://www.psychicgamers.co.uk/articles/dayz-standalone/tutorials/navigation-signs . Find a sign at the edge of a town and find it in that list or directly on the map, and you can figure out where you are.

Back in Arma2 DayZ, clouds always moved eastwards, but that is no longer the case.

The more you play the better you'll get at locating yourself, after a while it'll be second nature!

MadYaker wrote: »

The fact that the map is so realistic makes it easier to learn imo, you can use your sense of direction like you would in real life.

The map is based on real locations in the Czech Republic. If you're from the area it must be a (literal) walk in the park!

https://imgur.com/gallery/3C2fV

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ll=50.71286861566869%2C14.120705128839063&z=12&mid=1EJNBRC6X6C2P6Q1MGrsOb8Zynt4

Ive been dipping in and out over the past few days. Its alot more polished than its ever been but its really missed its chance. It looks lovely and theres a great sense of isolation when your out in the wild...

The mods that developed out of the original mod were better than this imo.

Not slagging the game but to me it just appears theres different goals here to the mods. The survival aspects of the mods were minimal where as the survival systems in the game are pretty substantial. The mods never made it so finicky to keep food,hunger and sickness at bay.
Guns/ammo were more prevelant,easier to find and again less finicky.

The changes,IMO,were to maybe make the game less a KOS fest. Its defo more of a dilema now about what to do when you see another player.

Personally i preffered the older mods but i could see why people could prefer this games way of doing things.

Tony EH wrote: »

KOS got boring real fast though. Every online game is KOS, largely cos gamers are arseholes. It's tedious.

It's difficult to strike a balance though. There was never enough "E" to challenge a player who wanted to just play PVE, so people got bored and just went looking for the nearest gun and then off to whack someone before they got whacked themselves.

I haven't played for ages, but will jump in again soon enough I reckon. So, hopefully, there's more to the game than there was.

My thing with 'DayZ', though, was that there was never enough "Z" and they were far too easy to get rid of. AFAIC, the zombies should be a real threat, so as to force people to work together, or at least make them an element to be feared by all players.

I agree but it's very hard to make a server run well if there 1000s of NPC zombies roaming around. The game runs nice enough these days and it took them years to get it like that so I doubt we'll see hoardes added or anything like that.

Blackgator wrote: »

I've about 30 hrs in game now, starting to get used to the town's around the cost. And finding my way inland with an external map I do okay. But when it comes to shooting people I'm useless. First real leap into PC gaming, guess it will just take a while.

I wonder is there any single player/offline mode I can practice on. Would love a server where you spawn in an area full of guns just to give them a try.

You picked Dayz as your introduction to PC gaming?:pac:

Maybe try Arma 3 and play on a wasteland server. It's basically like an open world team deathmatch with guns and vehicles spread around the map. It runs on nearly the same engine as Dayz so feels quite similar and its made by the same developers. Its like Dayz but less running and more shooting. Also arma 3 has many other servers running game modes that are sandbox survival like dayz but guns and gear are much easier to find and its more PvP based so you should improve faster.

Squaredude wrote: »

Been back playing/admin for the past while, really enjoying the game again. =UN= Community Server|Trader|WeaponRedux|Bases|Winter is the server I run if anyone's looking for a place to play

Cant find it on the lists

EoinHef wrote: »

Well thats the thing,unless you werent paying attention the zombies werent a threat so i agree there. The only real threat was other players. If there were no other players the survival aspect would have wore thin just a quick a KOS as without players there was no real threat.

So in that sense i always felt both sides of the argument had merit. DayZ the game for me just pushes a bit too far in a direction that im not sure is for me. I can understand that they didnt want it to be just a PvP game but the balance for me is not quite right yet. Different strokes for different folks i guess.

Ill be visiting the game from time to time though to check out new stuff and mods when the modders start to find there feet.

Completely agree Eoin, and I've PVP'd out of sheer "whatnowitis", because that's where the excitement was sometimes. You're correct, there's no side that had more merit than the other.

Squaredude wrote: »

Using this launcher is the best way to find/join servers right now, filter =UN= https://dayzsalauncher.com/

Is this like A3Launcher? Great tool that A3Launcher

If they released a game as polished as this when the standalone first came out they might have made a go of it but not now. I enjoy playing the game for a few hours from time to time and it has a small but dedicated community. The day of zombie survival games is gone, battle royale games are the cool new thing now.

Glebee wrote: »

Whats happening in DayZ land these these? Anybody still playing?

DAYZ is done.

i've moved into escape from tarkove for the survival shooter fix. very good game.

https://youtu.be/kmPedT1vhEc

Just made this video in Dayz. I've recently revisited the game, and can say I've fallen in love with it again with mods.

Taylor365 wrote: »

Tried to go back to this with a friend.

We played it back in 2013, and i can safely say not much has changed.

They've reworked a lot of things, but collisions, actions and anything related to zombies is still in 2013 shape.

You need to try modded download DZSA launcher

Glebee wrote: »

Reinstalled yesterday, played for about half an hour, found a ruck sack, a gun and no ammo. Died of hunger or thirst. In fairness it does look nice but I never seem to be able to find gear and dont talk to me about getting the correct ammo for guns. Maybe i need to try one of those modded survers.

Haven't played for ages...

But...move inland quickly and concentrate on getting some food stocks first. Never mind your guns'n'ammo for a while. There'll be plenty of that later.

Volume uppp!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSGytVjl4tI

Anytime i go back to Dayz I never seem to be able to find anything and just die of starvation... Saying that on my steam overlay if says ive played 118hrs of Dayz. Thats an awful lot of running around and finding nothing. I think I played the modded version alot in the past but its ages ago.

I also haven't played in ages but as far as I'm aware its functioning with zombies now for a good while unless they took them out again..

Yeah zombies are there, depening on the server setup you're playing on they can vary from a mild inconvenience to proper threat.Zombies + blood suckers on Namalsk makes the military areas pretty risky. Currently running 2 servers(Namalsk, Chernarus), mods make the game much better as long as you don't go crazy with it. Keep the survival aspect while making some QoL improvements

I might give some of the modded servers a go so. I loved the namalsk map back in the mod days, very atmospheric.