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So how is the DayZ early access?

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  • kabitoshinkabitoshin Member UncommonPosts: 854
    Originally posted by emperorwings
    Bandits wanted my clothes. Walked away naked but alive.

    Hah me and a friend was doing this all night saturday.

  • TelilTelil Member Posts: 282

    Draemos.

    Maybe we are playing different mods or something? i am playing the stand alone game of steam.

    I have been on for anoher three hours tonight and here is what has happened. Started next to a building. went in and found a helmet and a shovel. It was dark so i couldnt do too much it is tedious in the dark.... scary but tedious. Went and sat in a corner and went and made tea while waiting for it to get light. an hour later im still waiting as all i have is a torch. Two hours, still black outside. Wondering if day/night cycles are real time now? three houres....ye you guessed it STILL DARK!

    Think im gonna give it one more go tomorrow and if its the same then i may just give up for three or four months.

  • muffins89muffins89 Member UncommonPosts: 1,585
    it's a deathmatch on a big map with zombies and hunger tacked on.  if you like that sort of thing,  you might like it.
  • PaRoXiTiCPaRoXiTiC Member UncommonPosts: 603

    Telil you need to pay attention to what server you join. You probably joined a 24/7 night server. The servers that are the most fun are the 40 man 24/7 Day servers.

    IF you are going to play this game in Alpha you need to stay by the coast and go West. That is where all the action is. Electro is always popping with people.

  • TelilTelil Member Posts: 282
    Originally posted by PaRoXiTiC

    Telil you need to pay attention to what server you join. You probably joined a 24/7 night server. The servers that are the most fun are the 40 man 24/7 Day servers.

    IF you are going to play this game in Alpha you need to stay by the coast and go West. That is where all the action is. Electro is always popping with people.

    Ahh thank you friend. i was thinking i am doing something wrong to be honest, didnt realise there were perma night servers. Have spent about four hours nowe in the dark haha!.

    Ill go change my server and try again.

    One thing i will say is that although not much has happened so far, i keep trying?

  • DraemosDraemos Member UncommonPosts: 1,521
    Originally posted by Telil

    Draemos.

    Maybe we are playing different mods or something? i am playing the stand alone game of steam.

    I have been on for anoher three hours tonight and here is what has happened. Started next to a building. went in and found a helmet and a shovel. It was dark so i couldnt do too much it is tedious in the dark.... scary but tedious. Went and sat in a corner and went and made tea while waiting for it to get light. an hour later im still waiting as all i have is a torch. Two hours, still black outside. Wondering if day/night cycles are real time now? three houres....ye you guessed it STILL DARK!

    Think im gonna give it one more go tomorrow and if its the same then i may just give up for three or four months.

    Take your battery and drag it to your flashlight, you spawned with both.

    Or just join a server where it's daytime, the time of each server is listed in the server select list. Yes, the day night cycle follows a full timescale.

    Maybe you should watch a beginners video to get you started on the right path.

  • TelilTelil Member Posts: 282
    Originally posted by Draemos
    Originally posted by Telil

    Draemos.

    Maybe we are playing different mods or something? i am playing the stand alone game of steam.

    I have been on for anoher three hours tonight and here is what has happened. Started next to a building. went in and found a helmet and a shovel. It was dark so i couldnt do too much it is tedious in the dark.... scary but tedious. Went and sat in a corner and went and made tea while waiting for it to get light. an hour later im still waiting as all i have is a torch. Two hours, still black outside. Wondering if day/night cycles are real time now? three houres....ye you guessed it STILL DARK!

    Think im gonna give it one more go tomorrow and if its the same then i may just give up for three or four months.

    Take your battery and drag it to your flashlight, you spawned with both.

    Or just join a server where it's daytime, the time of each server is listed in the server select list. Yes, the day night cycle follows a full timescale.

    Maybe you should watch a beginners video to get you started on the right path.

    Appologies.

    I really didnt realise there were 24/7 night time servers and i was playing on one. I worked out the flashlight battery thing but then realised i couldnt fight zombies in the dark as i could only hold my torch or my shovel.

     

    Anyways i did give it another go and am continuing with it for the moment. I still think the controls/UI are bad.... i mean really bad. But the world looks great and i do love exploration. I am hoping as the flesh it out we get more access to buildings. I hate to see a two story building that from the outside look to have around eight rooms to find i can only go into three of them. But hoping that is just Alpha. Same goes for items. i see a bottle on the floor? i want to use it for water. when i find its not an object but just a 2d picture it spoils the immersion a bit.

    Still having trouble with the UI in the fact that one minute i can click on my shirt and rip it into strips, the next time i am bleeding i dont have that option? Again hoping this is all just Alpha.

    I am persistent if nothing else and will keep going, i paid money for it lol. But i would suggest that people be open with the game as if not a lot of people may get stung here and that will be a detrement to the game. This is Alpha! not Beta!. Beta is a working game. Alpha is nowhere near that stage so dont join if you are expecting a 50% working game. This is more like 25%. The game engine is in and you can run around and explore and fight, but it is buggy and it is slow, verryy verrry slow. You are not going to be pvping for hours or fighting of zombies. And at the start when you dont have any weapons other than melee....the combat is a throwback to Megadrive games, bad Megadrive games. It looks better when you get ranged weaponary though and this is what i am working towards.

  • DihoruDihoru Member Posts: 2,731
    To the OP: Yesterday I fired up the game saying I would spend 5 minutes tweaking the settings as I do not have time currently to play it (got two nasty exams coming up with more coming later but more evenly spaced)... spent 45 minutes in the end just running around and getting used to the controls before dying to a zombie and deciding it was worth the 24 euros <3.

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  • StonesDKStonesDK Member UncommonPosts: 1,805

    Spend hour/hours finding a good weapon, then run around for ages hoping to meet another player to kill. Not my idea of fun tbh. As it stands now it's only a 10 bucks value

     

  • ace5572ace5572 Member Posts: 113

    My friend tried to get me into this game. I went to his house and watched him play for about an hour. First 30 minutes he ran around and found two different towns. He found a bit of food and a shovel in them. No zombies in 30 minutes. This is a zombie game right?

    The second 30 minutes i told him to find something to do for God's sake. He found a player going inside a house. He goes into the house behind him and start wailing on him with the shovel. The other player had a shovel too. They began bashing on eachother inside this house for probably a good 3 full minutes. THREE WHOLE MINUTES of bashing on another player with the swing animation just going back and forth back and forth.....needless to say i'm glad i didn't buy this game lol. Yeah, yeah i get its alpha. But like the guy above me said this is only worth 10 dollars at the VERY most. Anything more than 10 dollars and i feel like this is just a way for the developers to source some funds while getting free testers. 

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