DayZ - Standalone

Anyone playing DayZ since the new UI and Graphics Engine was implemented? FPS is twice as good now.

DayZ.com - Official Website for DayZ

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What is DayZ? DayZ is an open-world survivalist video game currently in development by Bohemia Interactive. It is the standalone successor version of the award-winning DayZ "Mod."

 

I wonder if they've actually put zombies in the game yet. I'd like them to be a threat too rather than just campers.

 

Tried the mod few years ago, didn't like it. Skip.

 

They did, quite a while ago! Zombies are everywhere and are much improved. They even jump walls now.

The climate also includes storms, so it's very different from the Mod.

 

Nice. I'll give it another go once I get a machine. I bought it ages ago, played 30 mins and switched it off. I preferred the modded Day Z.
Anyway.. it's good to hear the are finally improving things. About f@#king time ey.

 

They're still really slow when it comes to dev., but the next update will be great.

 

I absolutely loved the game, and the mod, I probably have about 4K hours between the two of them, but I very nearly lost all hope in the devs, to be perfectly honest . It feels like their team is way to small, I'm not implying Bohemia are bad devs, in fact they are great devs, I'm just saying that the DayZ team as a whole is understaffed, waiting 6 months between updates/fixes is horrendous .
0.60 was a huge update, yet they somehow broke the netcode for the game, which makes any hiccup in your internet connection felt by crazy bad rubberbanding, it is pretty widespread, I've experienced it many times, a few big streamers are plagued by it too, like Sacriel, anyways been waiting for 0.61 for what 3 months already, hopefully it releases soon because that will address that problem (maybe) along with many others, like proper working audio, being able to hear people shooting will be nice, because yeah sometimes you don't, your friend next to you will hear the shots but you won't, sometimes you don't even hear the person shooting next to you, which is alright when it is a friend I guess, but when it isn't ...
Can't help but think they are doing a cr@p job at prioritizing, they need to build/improve on what made the mod great not veer away from it entirely, and add things in that order, who the frak prioritizes planting pumpkins, or adding in wolves, yeah those are cool idea's, but when the game is further along, add what everyone who bought into the mod, and the standalone were expecting first, I'd rather they be developing roaming herds of zeds that spawn randomly on the map, attracted by any source of noise, nah instead we got cows, and dear, and chicken, and a couple boar here and there, again the idea of hunting is great, I love it, but get your priorities straight, as it is the mod is still way more fun than the Standalone is, albeit with potato graphics, Standalone is gorgeous in comparison but it just isn't fun right now, gun sway anyone? they need to tone that down, just leaning side to side will give you insane gun sway, I'd have better aim pissed out of my mind... jamming weapons? ok why not, make it realistic then, don't make my weapon jam every other fight even when my weapon is pristine... overheating? I get that too, but when it gets to the point when running 10 minutes on some servers gives you hyperthermia and you need to soak yourself in a pond for half an hour to cool off (not even exaggerating), come on where is the fun in that... anyways rant/off .

 

All good points. Maybe a little exaggerated but valid, nonetheless.

I've found that I have to play on evening servers in Texas. For some reason they rain more often, and it keeps you cool. But with Ghillie you're basically dead unless you settle down for a while.

The developers are most certainly ignoring feedback and prioritizing the wrong areas of development. For example, we don't need more weapons when the current ones are still bugged. They definitely need to pay more attention to existing features.

 

I wish I was just exaggerating, but everything I mentioned has happened to me dozens and dozens of times, (and to many others) sometimes a few of them simultaneously, the overheating thing seems to be linked to certain servers that are synced with the real local time at their location, no jokes I've waited over half an hour drenched, removed head gear, and proned in bushes like 10 times in 0.60, that is like 5h laying in a bush total, wow amazing fun .
The not hearing gunshots thing happens every play through (you notice it when playing with friends on ts), the netcode thing also, you basically continue to see yourself doing things, moving around, but anyone who see's you, will see you frozen their like a big idiot, until you rubberband back to where you were, you can even kill people when this is happening, they will not see you where you see yourself, but you can be killed even more easily because you are standing wherever it is the server lost track of you .
It is game breaking, sometimes this happens every couple minutes, it can last only a few seconds, but I've had that rubberband period last upto 4 minutes or so, I literally ran from NWAF northern tents all the way to the well in Lopatino, to get rubberbanded back to the tents, if anyone had came along I was just standing there helpless, if I would have came up behind someone at that well in Lop he'd also be dead ...
The gun jamming thing does seem to happen every other squad vs squad fight, and usually at the worse possible moment, even if using weapon repair kits
As for the gun sway, compare the gun sway in Arma 2 or Arma 3 to DayZ, you'll see what I mean instantly .
Don't get me wrong I love the game, been one of the biggest fans of DayZ ever, I started playing the mod back when there wasn't even half a dozen servers, I'm just really disappointed with where the game is at right now 3 years into development, that being said I know these things take time, and I still have hope, I just can't recommend it to people anymore, at least not in it's current state .

I'm guessing I'm not the only one who feels this way, Dayz has reached it's all time low .

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