It offers a deep, immersive survival experience with rich storytelling and challenging gameplay.
It offers a deep, immersive survival experience with rich storytelling and challenging gameplay.
I tried using it today but didn’t discover much fascinating aspect. Still, it looks quite popular in the community, particularly on Steam. Have you all played it? What do you enjoy most about it?
From what I see, unless you have buddies to hang out with and grasp everything, it doesn’t feel very enjoyable. With friends around, it’s super fun. Also, Arma2 with a mod or as a standalone game? The mod version has faded a bit lately since more attention shifted to standalone play.
If you have friends, it's the best thing to happen since butter was put in containers. It's alright to play for a few hours without people, but you have to grab some people and just do things. Most of the time people will group up and either: Raid camps or cities. Kill on sight anyone they see and look for fights. Spread joy around and then kill people. Spread joy around and maybe not kill people. Or just do whatever happens when it happens. Personally, I play it just to see what's going to happen next. Last time I played me and a friend found a garbage pit way up north, near a small military base. While waiting for a friend to come we decided to see if what things we could tie/handcuff with. Got stuck in some rope, so I started walking towards the garbage pit. I went up to the edge, me and my friend yelled at each other for about 10 minutes. I said I’d jump if he tried to take the ropes off and he said he'd shoot me if I jumped. I jumped and he shot, I actually didn't die somehow. Above is an example of why I play with friends.
It's a collaborative multiplayer game where players create their own stories together. It's enjoyable when you immerse yourself and work creatively with others.
Not as good as it used to be. IMO stand alone is shit. The mod was amazing, and still is decent. The problem now is that so many people are trying to recreate the DayZ feel. When DayZ mod first came out like 3 years ago, it was a ground breaking idea, and it wasn't exploited to the extent it is now. The golden days are long gone. It used to be that everyone had little to no idea what they were doing, and the game provoked some of the most real feelings I have ever had from a video game. You would literally get the shakes, and literally sweat. You were simply dropped into what felt like a real life atmosphere. It was always the trust no-one mentality, but people still would talk to eachother and briefly help out eachother on the coast. There was actual interaction. Everyone acted as if they were actually in a zombie apocalypse. Now it's simply fallen into these vast crazy mods with insane weapons, armoured vehicles, and it's all about PvP. People have set loot runs and blow each other brains out instantly, because they've done it a thousand times over. There's hackers, glitchers, and private hives. No longer will you stumble upon a camp carefully layed in the forest, now everything is glitched into walls, or buried somewhere impossible to reach. In reality the game just lost it's edge. It's now a game people have played a thousand times, and just that fun sharp edge is gone. I remember the days when loot was hard to find. To break it down, I joined a clan called TMW (Trusted Medics of the Wasteland). People would contact us on the forums when they needed help, and we would try to assist them. When I first joined DayZ was still quite new, and there were three positions. 1) Logistics - I was apart of this, and we searched around and found the gear, and stored it in camps around the map. 2) Security - These guys would be the ones with the best gear we could currently supply, and they would provide security as we met up with the contact 3) Medics - These guys more or less ran in with shit gear, and did what needed to be done (give food, heal, etc). Over time it slowly turned into everyone running around equipped with thermal snipers with ranges of 1k plus, and the best gear possible. More or less for me, the game just doesn't feel real anymore. When I used to log into a pitch black server, with zero instruction and see a flare burning in the distance, and see zombies running around town, your heart would start beating and you would plan how to avoid, rob, or contact the player. Now it's just turned into people cranking their brightness and gamma so they don't need flares, finding the weapon they need on their designated loot run for that town, and killing everyone they can find. For me, the game just lost it's edge. Also the shitty dev team, and the prick creator Dean "rocket" Hall (I've met him, trust me, he's a royal douche) slowly dug the game into the shitty hole it's still rotting in. It's a shame something that was so amazing fell apart.