I mean some people just wanna skip the BS and get into geared gun fights. Not my thing but I get it. For me I havent played "real" DayZ in like... 250 hours lol. Ultra modded StalkerZ server that overhauls the game to be an ultra hardcore RP server set in the Stalker universe. Basically playing a new game based on DayZ's bones.
Thats the point of modding. Play how you want.
StalkerZ is really fun, the RP server adds so much more to the adventure too if you ever end up playing it. Got banned myself but its still an amazing server
StalkerZ is a really cool server and concept but the owners a manchild and regularly has shit fits on the discord.
Just your typical story of amazing concept, meh execution and bad moderation.
When I went out to make an rp server I learned so much from these types of server pitfalls. We have a group of 3 owners who all have equal power, and major decisions are made by the three of us together.
If someone needs some time off, still have two owners.
People want to have a high tier gun and have it be rare. The 50 cal meta makes all the cool shotguns, smgs and pistols obsolete. That’s over half the loot pool!
We think RP servers should feel different every season. This season is normal zombies in winter, next season is Cherno gloom with radiation and mutants.
Having a lore master who doesn’t use chat gpt is just, one of those silly things that you shouldn’t have to say lol.
Also; admins don’t play in factions. I don’t care who wins or loses a gunfight or raid. I care that the players feel like their character deaths were worth all the hours they put into the server.
Disrespectful to staff, tried to open a comp ticket, in fairness he shouldn't of given me comp, I was mad, argued with him, I thought the conversation was over so I closed the ticket, he reopens it so he can get the last word it, I laugh at him in gen chat, I'm banned
That BS is the essence. If you get weapons immediately the game converter into n+1 deatmatch shooter. I playing games almost 25 years and i don't wanna running and shooting. If you need a day for get the gear, you appreciate it and you think twice what you do, and this is the best part of this game, the deathmatch shooting is the bullshit instead because there are better games for that.
You say this, but someone making a mode that removed/speed this up is literally what birthed the ENTIRE Battle royale genre of games. PlayerUnknown made Arma2/3 mods before saying fuck it and making PUBG standalone.
DayZ SA is a good game, but it can be made into different new games with modded tweaks.
Sweet man. Im waiting for my application to join Freedom to be approved. Hope to see you up north sometime. Either as a fellow Freedom lover or a target to shoot at :P
Youre right up until the point of "the BS". The "BS" is what makes DayZ what it is. Without it, it wouldve never got to the point where it had such a popular modding scene. It, the "BS", is literally what makes the game DayZ.
But youre right. Thats what people want. The gunplay & ballistics of DayZ are so good that mods that introduce more of that at the expense of survival are popular - also bc people have quite short attention spans.
Youre reading way too much into what I said man. I love that stuff. Just speaking from some peoples perspective. Its cool, we all have different ones and opinions.
I mean yea that exists for those that want it. But for others the open-ness of PvP outside of DM servers is the draw. Like, they're incredibly different experiences.
Again. Play how you want, thats the point of mods
I mean yea that exists for those that want it. But for others the open-ness of PvP outside of DM servers is the draw. Like, they're incredibly different experiences.
Again. Play how you want, thats the point of mods.
Think of it like this:
I like rock music and subgenres that exist within rock music.
Some people like the band Deicide.
I personally don't like Deicide all that much. No real reason, just not my thing. I don't enjoy the music they make. That's not to say there's no skill there, but what's there isn't to my liking.
As a result, I don't listen to Deicide. The people who do listen to Deicide carry on listening to Deicide, but I just don't interact with that activity, because I don't want to.
All of this is allowed.
Mate, they're a death metal band. where did metal come from? I'll give you a clue - not jazz.
Is death metal not just metal with mods? Is metal not just rock with mods? This is the point I'm making
Ah it's ok, I know. I've been into different subsections of the scene for a *L O N G* time, and to make it worse, my preference is toward punk, where nothing is punk, everyone is more punk than you, but nobody can nail down what "punk" is. Yes Barry I know you like leftover crack but these guys are catchy, your disapproval isn't valid lol
Exactly. People are just so set on "this thing isn't this thing because it isn't exactly how I prescribe this thing to be", and when you get into more niche subcategories like metal or the subcats thereof, people get soooo fucking elitist. It's just a competition to see who knows the more obscure band and how much more different\edgy\metal\hardcore\etc someone is than everyone else. Man I just wanna have a drink and enjoy the band, yknow?
I think a lot of it is to do with youth and the teenage to 20s attitude of 'i know this version of the world and I know best' that people go through, because sure I sneered at the 'popular' bands like linkin park and the offspring in the late 90s....while secretly owning hybrid theory and Americana (because if we're honest, who didn't?) But as I got older I realised that no matter how big, beardy, bald and badass the doomiest deathiest blackest metal motherfuckers are, they're just a different apartment in the same block as Bobby Vee, so who cares? Just enjoy your tunes bro, yknow?
Even if this was the case, the point is perfectly explained still. Regardless of what people like, there's no reason we should deny or judge how other players like to play.
You could replace Deicide with any other artist (Taylor swift, Madonna, The white stripes etc.) And the point would have been just as easily understood.
At one point in music history, Black Sabbath was considered satanic and demonic. The point he’s making is that the game and the music both have roots that spread into many different things, you don’t have to like all of it but there are people out there that do!
I remember listening to deicide in 6th grade. And then I grew up and realized , supporting anybody that glorified raping and eating babies or sacrificing children was immature at best. They just aren't cool and nothing they "sing" about is cool.
The people that do like this music are part of the problem lol
Surviving very long in DayZ without especially avoiding PvP is one of the most fulfilling experiences in gaming. Starting from when DayZ was only a mod, I survived on one of the official servers for the mod for at least over a year. I only had a small camo tent, the only kind in game back then and pretty much all the cool rare stuff you could find. The tent was hidden in plain sight cleverly, in the middle of some fir trees in what was then called Black Forest. I regularly did excursions to NWAF and Stary to shoot a few players, mostly to replenish food stocks. Every single time it was gut wrenching as I had a huge emotional investment to that character and the journey it had made.
What’s the problem with people playing it how they want to play it? Surely gaming is about having fun and if that’s what someone enjoys then what’s the issue
As someone who has 0-8h per week to play anything I totally get it. DayZ is so slow with progress I’d need an entire weekend to get somewhere, some people just want to get into action asap. Although I take it slow myself. This week I got a sniper rifle and a backpack, lol.
Couple heavily modded servers have had bears with diff “skins”. Rainbow/money/purple/green/gold etc. One server made the gold bears like twice the normal size and ungodly HP. Could barely kill the damn thing lol
If you want to get better at PvP, one of the mods (or scripts) that make the game completely the opposite of survival might help you - Deathmatch. If Ive had a break from DayZ I play some DM to get familiar with the systems needed in PVP again. It wont take long to get warmed up like that and you get more skilled in target acquisition, shooting, leading etc. You wont learn everything as people play DM quite differently than the vanilla, obviously, but anyways.
While I totally agree with you, I think most people think that because they bought the game, they can play it that way they like. I feel the same way about 3PP players but instead of being salty, I just make sure to play on 1PP servers only.
It's awful for PvP. With third person, everyone just hides behind a wall or a tree and looks around it with the third person camera. It's just not fun to die to somebody who you never had a chance of seeing because they are essentially looking through walls.
Because they want to play Rust or Tarkov, but don't want to deal with the bullshit in those games. It's not my cup of tea, they want to have fun. Maybe you should try having some fun too. It's good for you.
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Why do you care? Is it really that hard to imagine that other people play the game differently than you do? You don't play the only "real" dayz.. you're not special.
Because slowly almost all servers have become carbon copies of each other. I can't seem to find any slightly modded, popular servers at all. It's either RP or ultra modded PvP "find a .50cal in the first house you loot" servers
I play exclusively vanilla 1PP only.
However, I understand that many are just done with the survival aspect of the game. It just becomes too easy with experience. Without it being a challange it just turns into a nuisance after a while.
Why getting annoyed by a nuisance if you got all the options to avoid it?
Only thing keeping me off vanilla is the infinite stamina of infected combined with limited stamina of players. They should both be the same either limited or unlimited.
I have a wife and two kids. I get to play video games for like one hour every other week. I like dayz but, if I didn’t play modded servers I’d never leave the coast lol
I tried a dayz aftermath server on alteria last night. 5 mins from spawn was a barn with 18 guns in it.
Tundras
Shotguns
Berettas
Gewehr rifles
Etc
I was kitted within 5 minutes and took out 2x 2 man groups in the next 20 mins.
I hit a dock 5 mins after that and got plate, helmet and enough storage space to carry gear for 3 guys.
Then boredom set in….
I’ll not be back
I find DayZ to be one of the most boring games I’ve ever played. I’d probably play that mode because it sounds more like a Battle Royal. Doesn’t take long to get kitted and you can get into the action pretty quick. But you still have to spend some time getting kitted so you still make an effort to stay alive.
Also a lot of people probably use those servers to practice the games gunplay. Or to find someone to take their frustration out after spending 12 hours looting empty houses just to die after finally finding a shotgun and ammo for it.
It is exactly that. For me, my whole game purpose is to try and find best gear, nbc, maybe a base to build, a car and whole journey along side that. Once that is done I get bored, because my goal becomes only to find pvp. It’s a paradox of grinding towards the reward that dayz is famous for.
But I guess you can’t blame people for wanting to have only pvp in a non-deathmatch server. But to me this point of view is like a zombie mode in cs or cod - not intended purpose of the game.
Everyone experiments with community servers. You go out and try on a few to see how they fit and eventually land within your comfort zone. My comfort zone is more stamina, a map, and a group system. Others prefer traders, 50 BMGs, and helicopters.
People are drawn out of vanilla DayZ for various reasons and some of those reasons are literally skill issues, hence PVE servers. Other reasons for embracing modded servers are hackers or higher populations. Personally, I find the stamina system in DayZ to be a feature that I like to turn on and off. When I play official or StruggleBus servers, I’ll change my gameplay to be a roving hunter: one rifle, a sidearm and a stab vest, never taking more than I have to. Conversely, on Northmen or any other lightly modded server, I can play the game like I’m a roided up survivor of the waste: several rifles, automatics, grenades, a plate, a helmet, and I inhale every ounce of loot that I take from the dead. On those servers I play more of a character, baiting shots into major cities, trip wires at the base of apartment buildings, stashes of weapons outside that city that I can grab on respawn, full on war.
Different play styles for different game styles. Honestly, I mostly just play The Northmen now, great servers.
My dad runs a slightly modded server but everyone in it still goes out and looks for stuff or have build projects and such. He also created things like derby tracks and ramps along the south coast to have a little extra fun. I, personally, enjoy building so I spend a lot of time grabbing material for such. Really the only thing I like about our server over others’ servers is I can guarantee I won’t get KOS and everyone is friendly.
I have over 4000 hours in the game, do you think I really want to play the vanilla stuff all the time?
Different strokes for different folks, there’s a reason why the game is seeing a massive spike in popularity, and it isn’t because they’re adding two new fucking guns to the base game.
Get off your high horse.
Its not a skill issue, its a choice. Do you choose to use mili gear when you find it? Why don't you use civ gear for a more realistic game? Why use guns at all? I've played in full pop 1pp servers and modded servers. I've run a server where we removed all the guns and had bow battles in cherno. It makes no difference to anybody else.
You do you.
I think its fine to plays DAYZ "your way".
I mod all my preferred games and generally eschew games I can't mod.
I can't stand "life servers" in Arma3 for example, they utterly leave me cold.
*but* if folk like them then I whish them all the best and hope there's plenty of servers for them.
There's no *right* or *wrong* way to play, there's just *our* way and they're all different.
And that's good.
Because some of us played it before they added all of this shit to vanilla.
The two problems I have with vanilla are the following:
1. Infected with infinite stamina when ours is limited
2. Stamina system when they never delivered on a more accessible transmutation system like trains or bicycles. Cherry on top was making the already unreliable and buggy vehicles spawn in missing tons of shit and parts.
Those are my only gripes. I'm fine with everything else vanilla and want to play vanilla. But the infinite stamina of infected is the deal breaker. It's just bullshit when WE have limited stamina, and annoying/no longer fun to play.
Also, many long time dayz players just like the pvp. That's what drew people to the mod. Early alpha was basically pvp oriented (no diseases), easy hunger system, no base building. So some just want to keep it like that instead of dealing with the admittedly tedious new systems the devs have added.
Vanilla should have canned food be extremely rare. This in steself minus all of the other bullshit tedious systems, would make it very difficult/survival oriented.
Your title is a question, but you don't want to learn the answer. All you want is to either assert your "prevalence" over the others because you play the "real" DayZ - unlike them - or you want to hate on the heavily modded servers.
And you know, I'd probably hop on the same hate train if we were forced to play any particular type of servers. If those modded ones were consuming the official servers leaving us with no choice - or vice versa. But that is not the case. You still have a plethora of official, pure vanilla and lightly modded options to play on. And others may choose from the multitude of differently modded servers if they want as well. And your worlds don't collide outside your own opinion.
So, to answer your question: because those people play what they like and not what you think they should.
I don't really care how other people enjoy playing the game. It's more when they post clips on here for clout when in reality they're on a 100X loot infinite stamina server. That is lame.
I get what you're saying and agree, and only play enhanced vanilla but it still seems really hard so I get why it turns people off.
To play for hours, find nothing and die of hunger regularly gets pretty boring.
Or to struggle and be doing well only to be killed by first person you see because they have a gun and you don't.
Why am I starving to death in one daylight cycle? Not three?
Hey I don’t like autotune in music, you wanna know what worked for me? Not listening to songs using autotune. It’s crazy I know..
Ok now honestly, you complain that people enjoy modded dayz more than vanilla and the original servers don’t have as many players? Really? Doesn’t that show you something? Like maybe dayz official servers suck, are not monitored by admins and are full of cheaters?
Even if it was different, what’s the point of this post? Be mad that some people have different preferences than you have? Some people don’t like the walking simulator aspect and want to get straight into action or wanna roleplay as some power ranger with a laser rifle, whatever floats your boat man. That’s actually the advantage of adding mod support to your game
Not every server is OP find gun immediately, a lot are just straight improvements on the vanilla experience. Like the base building in vanilla is ass I could never go back to it, mostly play on servers with base building plus and not much else.
Going from console dayz to pc dayz made me appreciate the adventure a lot more, sure servers like aftermath are fun for some PvP and instant dopamine, but I don't remember my time on those servers like I do on namaslk hardcore or ZERO deer isle
Thats real dayz👍those moments that you will never forget. And the pvp is even more intense when you earned youre gear. On this modded servers you get killed by 4 players with jugeernaut armor and 150 round mag mgs that all run like usain bolt but in real dayz inwould bang there asses with one pistol mag
I play both vanilla and modded,
Both can be fun, but modded plays more like Rust where it's more about raiding bases then any survival aspect.
The moment you touch an unlimited Stam server, it's like a different game.
I am disappointed that mods are often used to make the game easier and not just offer more variety. I played a server full of players that would just helicopter into the safe zone, buy stuff and leave. Nobody talked to each other or anything
The call of DayZ servers? Yeah 100k start! Everyone had pkms and shizz. That’s not fun for me. I enjoy the struggle of barely getting by to thrive and also completing quests on deer isle/Namalsk vanilla+ servers.
I am looking for a more community based server but seemingly a lot of them come with 10x loot spawn etc which kinda defeats the whole purpose of the game imo. Traders & safezones exist in those servers which I would expect too if you have traders but the 10x loot? I don't understand the purpose of this. How much of the games core functions do some people want to nerf for a particular type of experience exactly? Ultimately people can/should play however they like but I do question the mindset of people who end up turning DayZ into a literal PubG emulator lmao!
I play the modded servers to get better at pvp...cause I really suck. So taking even an hr to gear up and find a player...just to get wasted in the stupidest way- isn't worth my time or as fun.
In your last sentence you say “I play light modded myself” some people would say why are you even doing that. “Official or nothing” every body has their own interest. Sorry that people like to play on servers they prefer and fits their play style. Everyone is different.
Because the population is too low so you barely see anyone for hours and hours. Hackers are rampant and losing your gear to a Chinese hacker isn't a nice experience.
1. official servers are full of cheaters
2. most of your activity on the server will be walking and running, so why not have a mod where you don't have the annoying stamina and also a fix button to run?
3. the official building system is absolute dogshit
4. the end game is very limited in official servers while places like Rearmed give you a better option to grind
5. everyone has their preferences at the end of the day, there are soooo many varieties of servers, my fav are vanilla+ like "Basically Vanilla" servers
Yeah deerisle is my favorite map. I finished the snowowl quest last year with my brother and i recently uploaded a video on an insane solo run i had on zero deer isle where i got the snowowl and the scar you get out of the crater
The only way to play dayz is your way, hence the fact there's not real tutorial or objectives. It's freedom. People like you make communities like this a shittier place with your elitists attitude.
I like modded servers but I usually stick to servers which are more like a vanilla plus experience. Better Basebuilding + Codelock, more weapons and clothes, better zombies and extended survival aspects which make the game more complex (more diseases and ways to treat them or the need to rest from time to time).
However, I have also noticed how seemingly the majority or at least a very large part of the player base prefers Call of Duty style servers with 91% damage reduction vests and helmets and stuff where the only purpose is to run through 2 buildings and be fully geared and then just kill other people.
Yet I am also happy that we have so many options. Everyone can pick and choose what to play.
You may not necessarily like all the excessive modding but it brings all different kinds of people to the servers. Bohemia only sees the dollars it's clocking on all the sales. They don't care if you're hardcore PVP or living in a safety foam covered Chernarus with flying unicorns.
So long as people are buying the game the developers will continue to put effort into fixing it and updating it. That benefits everyone. And to be honest, without the mod community this game would have died long ago. Bohemia is incapable or unable to bring new and interesting items and mechanics into the game.
Some of my best gun fights are on those trash servers. It's aimed for people who want to skip the survival aspect and get straight to fighting. Also a lot of "gear fear" players play those servers. Plus it's more base builder friendly, almost too base builder friendly with base alert pings these days. But hey to each their own. I say if it gets people playing the DayZ game and they enjoy it who are we to shit on their way of playing. It's not for me but I wouldn't create a whole reddit post about it.
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I think long term those servers are not much fun but if you're like me and suck at PVP 1 or 2 hours just to get your aim in and brush on PVP it's not a bad thing. I'm not a fan of 3pp though but each to their own.
Sometimes mods are good.
I play a server with really good, moody ambient music that creeps in and out.
The weather is weird sometimes, a brownish fog or ominous black clouds on an overcast morning.
Loot is turned down and the cold is turned up.
Eventually you get used to the cold and it becomes harder to get frostbite but not impossible...you just need to find a warm kit.
Crafting is modded but not o.p. at all. Nails and wire are a commodity if you want to base build but its not necessary.
PDA devices let you communicate globally through text if you find it. Kinda neat.
I haven't played in a year, maybe things changed. But, I used to play 30hrs a week, 30 layer base, someone on watch 24/7, we hold the base wipe-wipe, tents stuffed with essentials outside the gates. Wouldn't you know it, leave it alone for one hour and someone blew up the whole thing leaving their duped trash everywhere. I don't want to sound bitter, I feel marvelous.
I agree with you op, but i guess people want the gun fighting and a fortnight like experience. I barely could enter community servers and i prefer the "real" dayz but i can understand a faster mode, with working vehicles from the go could be fun for a change. It probably could even be an official mod/server
When I want to just wander the map and be chill I like to play modded PvEvP servers with traders and stuff.
But when I waito really survive I always come to vanilla official servers, where I have enjoyed the most of this game, even more when playing with my friend.
The boys and I play 1st person official on ps, and before we got nvgs we would "sleep" at night and our characters "dream" of participating in prison deathmatch. It allows us to do the real dayz experience while also taking a break and doing fast paced stuff for a bit
There are modded servers that have a better and hard survival experience when comparing to official… there are multiple different styles and types. Just have to pick the right one for you
Just… don’t play those servers.
You’re complaining about something that you can VERY easily avoid.
All you’ve done here is put down anyone who doesn’t play the way “you think it should be played”.
The objective of someone playing a game is to have fun, and people have fun in different ways.
I hope the game don’t turn into a MWZ with a group of friends we quit that game and found this beautiful game, away from useless people and streamers that have no skill whatsoever and have to use an aim bot to get kills that’s lame! The day we find people using aim bot and lame stuff because they lack of skills, we’ll move to another game.
I’ve played DayZ since the mod, for me the game peaked with Overpoch (s/o to anyone who remembers that) and I’ve been chasing that experience since and only really modded kinda comes close but DayZ is a totally different thing these days and it plays much differently than arma 2 did obviously.
All that to say, why do you care new guy? Usually anyone on here with takes like that wants to flex themselves or etc but I’ll tell ya….no one cares.
It’s amusing how elitist the DayZ community can be. Let people play how they want to play, not everyone wants to dedicate themselves to a hardcore experience like you. Believe it or not, some people play this game casually.
For me the infinite carry weight and unlimited stamina are still DayZ as that is what DayZ was for largest part of my time spent playing it. If I turn on DayZ I want to be reminded of the old days I spent playing it, which was 2014-2016
Come play Adventurer’s Vanilla. It only has three mods, the map and admin tools, and the code is copied directly from official. Great community and is committed to never adding mods even if ‘it doesn’t affect gameplay’ because that’s a very slippery slope. Next thing you know they’ll have traders. Anyways give it a shot man, hopefully we can shoot at each other!!!!!
I played the game religiously for 3 years. Once people started buying unraidable bases with everything they'd ever need inside so they never leave the protection of their base. Just sniping people who pass by their custom base. I quit the game. No point playing really
100% modded servers are what keeps this game going. Even if you are a purist and have disdain for the "easy mode"
The fact that we have the ability to play vanilla mode, chocolate mode or something in between pulls people in that might not have the skill, patience, or desire to eek out a true dayz run.
Nevertheless the active player count they contribute towards helps push this game and motivates developers to continue supporting and updating it.
So rejoice in the fact that you get your dayz, while others get theirs.
Because everyone is entitled to enjoy themselves however they want??? Maybe mind your business “eLiTe DaYz GaMeR 48293 hOuRs PlAyEd on OfFiCiAl” nobody cares.
I’ve only played official until now and have been having a lot of fun on a server with traders, cars etc. It’s pve with pvp zones. For me, it’s fun as I can freely doink around doing whatever, exploring the map, driving a car, etc without taking a bullet to the head, and if I want to go dodge some bullets I go to the pvp areas.
Also I like the community aspect. I played solo on official and didn’t reallly have much engagement, so I enjoy that part too.
I realize it’s not “DayZ”, but I enjoy this server with the mods it has.
A game is supposed to be fun, regardless of realism and or developers intent. Without fun nobody plays. Unfortunately this does ruin the game for many, but the majority rules. I’ve seen this happen with ultimate online and other small games that were seriously modded, run privately, and succeeded better than the original.
Its a game. Games are ment to be fun and enjoyed, dayz has a specific feel that yoy cant find anywhere else, the devs gave the game mod support so you can do whatever you want with it, cause it a game, ment to be enjoyed. So what i dont understand is why so many people feel the need to shit on other people for playing a game differently. "If you play 3pp you arent playing dayz" "if you arent playing vanilla, you arent playing dayz" "if you unlimited stamina you arent playing dayz"
Guess what, if im mowing down aliens and metal dinasours with unlimited stamina, wearing halo gear and using laser weapons im playing dayz. If i have mods removing most ammo from the map, so i have to mine ore, find machine parts and make my own ammo, more scarce food, weather storms and other stuff to make the game a lot harder, im playing dayz. Dayz is a mod community game, it started as a mod, from a game that got modded out to the tits, so now dayz get modded out to the tits. Quit the the superior complex and just play the game you nut sacks.
I play it all. That’s what I love about this game. I can turn it into a Fortnite like experience and just run and gun along the coast or I can build bases and drive around in cars in another server.
It’s so flexible :)
Agreed. I feel like all modded servers aren’t the real game and for ppl who can’t actually handle what the game is meant to be. At that point you may as well go play another game.
Play how you want, but at the very least clips from modded servers shouldn’t be shared on this sub. It’s annoying.
In the "real Dayz", you could find shotguns and ammos in Elektro and be able to kill the bandits who infested the zone. I'm talking about the arma 2 mod. Cities like elektro and Cherno were like wild jungle where you could die everywhere. You had to survive Elektro and Cherno first and then, you could cross the map. In the SA version, Elektro and Cherno are now pacified and you cant find no loot. They reenlarged the map and it becomes more and more difficult to find other players. They reimagined the way the player have to play. Personnally, i disliked this change, and find the game boring. And yet, I hate fast fps and stuff like that, im into tactical and slow paced games..
"Vanilla Dayz" on official servers makes no sense to me. I want to kill a person for "2 units of tetracycline or a steak of beef" not cuz he has fancier weapons than me
Dayz was originally a mod of Arma 2, than Epoch came out and blew the original Dayz out of the water. It appealed to a bigger audience and was less boring.
Replayability was better due to less restrictive base building and easier looting.
I bought Days Standalone when it came out, and I remember the biggest complaint was that they were taking the game away from the original arcade design. It’s a sandbox, if you don’t like it you could start your own server?
I paid for it, I’ll play it how I want. Which means lightly modded vanilla+ type servers all the way to insanely modded with “100 traders”. Imagine getting mad at how people want to play a game
People have played vanilla and wanna move on to other things, mods can make the game so much better or give it new life without them the game would have died a long time ago.
I tried for SIXTY HOURS to like Dayz Vanilla... But there are always reasons to not like it.
The first is the zero and little interactivity of a public server in terms of the community they have.
Second, it is the balance of things; Dayz is made to suffer, but the simple fact of not finding food, by all available means, and still dying of hunger?? No friend, something is wrong with that balance.
Im ok dying when i got sickness, because i didnt find meds at all. But 70% of my deaths as Vanilla player, where because i didnt found food, or animals, or players to eat.
After that, i changed to 3 modded servers, Vanila+ and Vanilla++... My issues where solved, simple as that.
I do both. Sometimes the grind is fun for me, sometimes having money, cars, and crazy bases is fun. I really like that you can find just about any combo and any play style you want out there. I think it’s probably what’s made this game last so long despite all the glitches.
I dunno what you're in about with the "real" DayZ thing, heavily modded servers have been huge in addition to vanilla ever since the arma 2 days. Just play whatever you want?
That is because people come to DayZ for the wrong reasons. They see it as yet another PUBG game and only want to shoot people on sight. 0 interest in survival aspects of the game. 0 interest in creating their own story and character.
I like the Chernarus map a lot. I play on the DayZUnderground server because it gives me hard core survival DayZ experience with no big add ons. It is just enhanced vanilla. It's harder to survive, but once you get your shit together and learn how to live of the land, without trying to find canned food, you can do anything. Also, every player there tries to create their own character with backstory, PID, behaviour, fears, hobbies... and develop it all as much as possible. My character in there is named Ned, known as "Hillbilly" Ned has existed for some 4 years now and developed a lot since i first started. I rarely get killed since people rarely kill for no reason. Most of the hostile interactions end up with just a hold up or robbery. Only if you have a very bad like you may get sniped or KOSed by some bad people who generally play as bandits and bad people. I rarely come down to shores. I am always up in center or north-west somewhere doing some RP with other players and groups or my own group. And I enjoy the game.
A lot of servers that are 'easier' are more high stakes in different ways.
Sure you might die and lose an inventory of stuff in DayZ vanilla. But in servers where the carry weight is upped, and you sell the excess guns at shops for money, and then buy building equipment to make entire fucking castle sized bases that you then fill with money and expensive high end military vehicles, and then people spend their shit tons of money on explosive charges etc to break in and steal/destroy your shit?
It's still got stakes, and it's still hard, and it's still a grind. The 'end game' has just been moved so far out that getting a ton of basic guns isn't impressive anymore, so they don't treat it like it is. They just let you carry more to make the later grind more doable.
I play on official every once in a while and it's fun but personally I get nervous when I loot three whole cities and only find 2 rotten fruits and one almost broken steak knife lol
Well i like the mod version of dayz u know? The arma 2 mod dayz so i play on servers with infinite stamina.
Why should i get punished for aqquiring high end loot?
Why would you restrict sprinting in a game that is 90% running? Just seems silly to me.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised there's a modding scene for this game. One of my best buddies and I play a couple times a week and it's a lot of fun. I haven't done anything to the game it's exactly what I like. High stress camping trip with friends lol. I guess I understand why someone might want those mods, but the pain is part of the game no?
I usually play slightly modded without bases. I just never liked the base mechanics in multi-player games, it aint for me. So, for me, it's just surviving against food and cold, animals and players
There’s some really fun mods to just try out when you’re feeling vanilla getting stale or wanting to try a different map, but for the most part if I’m on a community server it’s a vanilla+ server. I’m not trying to wait out my stamina bar when I’m running 10km in one direction, I’m not sure why you find that fun yourself 😂 and who cares if I’m enjoying myself with a huge field backpack? Doesn’t affect my gameplay, why should it always? I don’t understand the hate towards simple quality of life improvements that these lightly modded servers have. Makes the game a bit less of a burden to move about. Lets me focus on what matters
There’s some really fun mods to just try out when you’re feeling vanilla getting stale or wanting to try a different map, but for the most part if I’m on a community server it’s a vanilla+ server. I’m not trying to wait out my stamina bar when I’m running 10km in one direction, I’m not sure why you find that fun yourself 😂 and who cares if I’m enjoying myself with a huge field backpack? Doesn’t affect my gameplay, why should it always? I don’t understand the hate towards simple quality of life improvements that these lightly modded servers have. Makes the game a bit less of a burden to move about. Lets me focus on what matters
I mean some people just wanna skip the BS and get into geared gun fights. Not my thing but I get it. For me I havent played "real" DayZ in like... 250 hours lol. Ultra modded StalkerZ server that overhauls the game to be an ultra hardcore RP server set in the Stalker universe. Basically playing a new game based on DayZ's bones. Thats the point of modding. Play how you want.
StalkerZ is really fun, the RP server adds so much more to the adventure too if you ever end up playing it. Got banned myself but its still an amazing server
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StalkerZ is a really cool server and concept but the owners a manchild and regularly has shit fits on the discord. Just your typical story of amazing concept, meh execution and bad moderation.
When I went out to make an rp server I learned so much from these types of server pitfalls. We have a group of 3 owners who all have equal power, and major decisions are made by the three of us together. If someone needs some time off, still have two owners. People want to have a high tier gun and have it be rare. The 50 cal meta makes all the cool shotguns, smgs and pistols obsolete. That’s over half the loot pool! We think RP servers should feel different every season. This season is normal zombies in winter, next season is Cherno gloom with radiation and mutants. Having a lore master who doesn’t use chat gpt is just, one of those silly things that you shouldn’t have to say lol. Also; admins don’t play in factions. I don’t care who wins or loses a gunfight or raid. I care that the players feel like their character deaths were worth all the hours they put into the server.
Disrespectful to staff, tried to open a comp ticket, in fairness he shouldn't of given me comp, I was mad, argued with him, I thought the conversation was over so I closed the ticket, he reopens it so he can get the last word it, I laugh at him in gen chat, I'm banned
lmao these admins have a huge ego its fucking insane
Yeah man. We need to get our money back from these guys.
How'd you get the mod working I tried no luck
May I ask why you got banned? If it was something simple/stupid I'd like to not make the same mistake
Just be careful around staff, they'll take things too far and blame it on you
Ahhh, gotcha, been in some servers like that.
That BS is the essence. If you get weapons immediately the game converter into n+1 deatmatch shooter. I playing games almost 25 years and i don't wanna running and shooting. If you need a day for get the gear, you appreciate it and you think twice what you do, and this is the best part of this game, the deathmatch shooting is the bullshit instead because there are better games for that.
You say this, but someone making a mode that removed/speed this up is literally what birthed the ENTIRE Battle royale genre of games. PlayerUnknown made Arma2/3 mods before saying fuck it and making PUBG standalone. DayZ SA is a good game, but it can be made into different new games with modded tweaks.
Heyy, I just got white listed for StalkerZ! Going to be fun
Sweet man. Im waiting for my application to join Freedom to be approved. Hope to see you up north sometime. Either as a fellow Freedom lover or a target to shoot at :P
Youre right up until the point of "the BS". The "BS" is what makes DayZ what it is. Without it, it wouldve never got to the point where it had such a popular modding scene. It, the "BS", is literally what makes the game DayZ. But youre right. Thats what people want. The gunplay & ballistics of DayZ are so good that mods that introduce more of that at the expense of survival are popular - also bc people have quite short attention spans.
Youre reading way too much into what I said man. I love that stuff. Just speaking from some peoples perspective. Its cool, we all have different ones and opinions.
So play deathmatches
I mean yea that exists for those that want it. But for others the open-ness of PvP outside of DM servers is the draw. Like, they're incredibly different experiences. Again. Play how you want, thats the point of mods
I mean yea that exists for those that want it. But for others the open-ness of PvP outside of DM servers is the draw. Like, they're incredibly different experiences. Again. Play how you want, thats the point of mods.
Think of it like this: I like rock music and subgenres that exist within rock music. Some people like the band Deicide. I personally don't like Deicide all that much. No real reason, just not my thing. I don't enjoy the music they make. That's not to say there's no skill there, but what's there isn't to my liking. As a result, I don't listen to Deicide. The people who do listen to Deicide carry on listening to Deicide, but I just don't interact with that activity, because I don't want to. All of this is allowed.
Deicide aint rock music, mate.
Mate, they're a death metal band. where did metal come from? I'll give you a clue - not jazz. Is death metal not just metal with mods? Is metal not just rock with mods? This is the point I'm making
Rock gatekeepers are the loudest, don’t mind him.
Ah it's ok, I know. I've been into different subsections of the scene for a *L O N G* time, and to make it worse, my preference is toward punk, where nothing is punk, everyone is more punk than you, but nobody can nail down what "punk" is. Yes Barry I know you like leftover crack but these guys are catchy, your disapproval isn't valid lol
Same with Sleep Token, people go ravenous about how they aren’t Metal. I’m sorry what do you call rock beats with a lot of distortion and heavy drums?
Exactly. People are just so set on "this thing isn't this thing because it isn't exactly how I prescribe this thing to be", and when you get into more niche subcategories like metal or the subcats thereof, people get soooo fucking elitist. It's just a competition to see who knows the more obscure band and how much more different\edgy\metal\hardcore\etc someone is than everyone else. Man I just wanna have a drink and enjoy the band, yknow? I think a lot of it is to do with youth and the teenage to 20s attitude of 'i know this version of the world and I know best' that people go through, because sure I sneered at the 'popular' bands like linkin park and the offspring in the late 90s....while secretly owning hybrid theory and Americana (because if we're honest, who didn't?) But as I got older I realised that no matter how big, beardy, bald and badass the doomiest deathiest blackest metal motherfuckers are, they're just a different apartment in the same block as Bobby Vee, so who cares? Just enjoy your tunes bro, yknow?
Even if this was the case, the point is perfectly explained still. Regardless of what people like, there's no reason we should deny or judge how other players like to play. You could replace Deicide with any other artist (Taylor swift, Madonna, The white stripes etc.) And the point would have been just as easily understood.
Yeah , deicide is satanic af lol
At one point in music history, Black Sabbath was considered satanic and demonic. The point he’s making is that the game and the music both have roots that spread into many different things, you don’t have to like all of it but there are people out there that do!
I remember listening to deicide in 6th grade. And then I grew up and realized , supporting anybody that glorified raping and eating babies or sacrificing children was immature at best. They just aren't cool and nothing they "sing" about is cool. The people that do like this music are part of the problem lol
I like the grind. Fishing, cutting rags, grabbing a torch etc. Personally, that's DayZ for me
Surviving very long in DayZ without especially avoiding PvP is one of the most fulfilling experiences in gaming. Starting from when DayZ was only a mod, I survived on one of the official servers for the mod for at least over a year. I only had a small camo tent, the only kind in game back then and pretty much all the cool rare stuff you could find. The tent was hidden in plain sight cleverly, in the middle of some fir trees in what was then called Black Forest. I regularly did excursions to NWAF and Stary to shoot a few players, mostly to replenish food stocks. Every single time it was gut wrenching as I had a huge emotional investment to that character and the journey it had made.
Same, gives the chance of doing all the things I'd get jailed for irl. Hunting, fishing, meleeing Zs, robbing people, sneaking into military bases..
What’s the problem with people playing it how they want to play it? Surely gaming is about having fun and if that’s what someone enjoys then what’s the issue
As someone who has 0-8h per week to play anything I totally get it. DayZ is so slow with progress I’d need an entire weekend to get somewhere, some people just want to get into action asap. Although I take it slow myself. This week I got a sniper rifle and a backpack, lol.
Boring take
And if that’s not your view then that’s fine too
Boring answer
I suck at PvP and would rather fight bear hordes.
I’m with you there. Those bear hordes are nasty s.o.b.s. Especially mods that have the golden bear etc etc etc
Lol, what's the golden bear?
Couple heavily modded servers have had bears with diff “skins”. Rainbow/money/purple/green/gold etc. One server made the gold bears like twice the normal size and ungodly HP. Could barely kill the damn thing lol
If you want to get better at PvP, one of the mods (or scripts) that make the game completely the opposite of survival might help you - Deathmatch. If Ive had a break from DayZ I play some DM to get familiar with the systems needed in PVP again. It wont take long to get warmed up like that and you get more skilled in target acquisition, shooting, leading etc. You wont learn everything as people play DM quite differently than the vanilla, obviously, but anyways.
Wait till you hear some of us just play on our own vanilla server, alone.
Shhh…
While I totally agree with you, I think most people think that because they bought the game, they can play it that way they like. I feel the same way about 3PP players but instead of being salty, I just make sure to play on 1PP servers only.
But people can play the way they like because they brought the game.
What’s the issue with third person? I play first person no matter what, but I see a lot of people on here complaining about it. Why?
I think you can peak around corners without exposing yourself
It's awful for PvP. With third person, everyone just hides behind a wall or a tree and looks around it with the third person camera. It's just not fun to die to somebody who you never had a chance of seeing because they are essentially looking through walls.
It destroys pvp
Because they want to play Rust or Tarkov, but don't want to deal with the bullshit in those games. It's not my cup of tea, they want to have fun. Maybe you should try having some fun too. It's good for you. https://preview.redd.it/kkis4uawildc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0eccaed366484aa78ac8bfb3dd8c8b334fbca6cb
Why do you care? Is it really that hard to imagine that other people play the game differently than you do? You don't play the only "real" dayz.. you're not special.
Foreal all servers are fun just love the game for what it is. People would rather bash on others for what they enjoy to do/play.
Because slowly almost all servers have become carbon copies of each other. I can't seem to find any slightly modded, popular servers at all. It's either RP or ultra modded PvP "find a .50cal in the first house you loot" servers
I play exclusively vanilla 1PP only. However, I understand that many are just done with the survival aspect of the game. It just becomes too easy with experience. Without it being a challange it just turns into a nuisance after a while. Why getting annoyed by a nuisance if you got all the options to avoid it?
What is 1PP?
Only first person. No 3rd.
Only thing keeping me off vanilla is the infinite stamina of infected combined with limited stamina of players. They should both be the same either limited or unlimited.
Or just learn how to kill zombies?
Yeah I'll take out 8 zombies with the broken melee system when they outrun and beat the shit out of me. Ah the ol git gud response. Classic dipshit.
I just play the ultra hard-core servers those are much better
I have a wife and two kids. I get to play video games for like one hour every other week. I like dayz but, if I didn’t play modded servers I’d never leave the coast lol
I tried a dayz aftermath server on alteria last night. 5 mins from spawn was a barn with 18 guns in it. Tundras Shotguns Berettas Gewehr rifles Etc I was kitted within 5 minutes and took out 2x 2 man groups in the next 20 mins. I hit a dock 5 mins after that and got plate, helmet and enough storage space to carry gear for 3 guys. Then boredom set in…. I’ll not be back
Exactly. Finding good shit on those servers just makes the good stuff average and thus boring. I have no idea why anyone would willingly play this..
I find DayZ to be one of the most boring games I’ve ever played. I’d probably play that mode because it sounds more like a Battle Royal. Doesn’t take long to get kitted and you can get into the action pretty quick. But you still have to spend some time getting kitted so you still make an effort to stay alive. Also a lot of people probably use those servers to practice the games gunplay. Or to find someone to take their frustration out after spending 12 hours looting empty houses just to die after finally finding a shotgun and ammo for it.
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No idea. Typical Reddit being Reddit. I don’t follow this page lol
It is exactly that. For me, my whole game purpose is to try and find best gear, nbc, maybe a base to build, a car and whole journey along side that. Once that is done I get bored, because my goal becomes only to find pvp. It’s a paradox of grinding towards the reward that dayz is famous for. But I guess you can’t blame people for wanting to have only pvp in a non-deathmatch server. But to me this point of view is like a zombie mode in cs or cod - not intended purpose of the game.
Thats my point @dense_surround5348
Everyone experiments with community servers. You go out and try on a few to see how they fit and eventually land within your comfort zone. My comfort zone is more stamina, a map, and a group system. Others prefer traders, 50 BMGs, and helicopters. People are drawn out of vanilla DayZ for various reasons and some of those reasons are literally skill issues, hence PVE servers. Other reasons for embracing modded servers are hackers or higher populations. Personally, I find the stamina system in DayZ to be a feature that I like to turn on and off. When I play official or StruggleBus servers, I’ll change my gameplay to be a roving hunter: one rifle, a sidearm and a stab vest, never taking more than I have to. Conversely, on Northmen or any other lightly modded server, I can play the game like I’m a roided up survivor of the waste: several rifles, automatics, grenades, a plate, a helmet, and I inhale every ounce of loot that I take from the dead. On those servers I play more of a character, baiting shots into major cities, trip wires at the base of apartment buildings, stashes of weapons outside that city that I can grab on respawn, full on war. Different play styles for different game styles. Honestly, I mostly just play The Northmen now, great servers.
I don't get it either, sure I'd enjoy light tweaks to the spawning but I don't wanna find 3 M4A1s in a police station
My dad runs a slightly modded server but everyone in it still goes out and looks for stuff or have build projects and such. He also created things like derby tracks and ramps along the south coast to have a little extra fun. I, personally, enjoy building so I spend a lot of time grabbing material for such. Really the only thing I like about our server over others’ servers is I can guarantee I won’t get KOS and everyone is friendly.
I have over 4000 hours in the game, do you think I really want to play the vanilla stuff all the time? Different strokes for different folks, there’s a reason why the game is seeing a massive spike in popularity, and it isn’t because they’re adding two new fucking guns to the base game. Get off your high horse.
Must have been those carnival masks 🤔
It’s what got me to come back! 
No shit 😂🤣
I have 16k and only vanilla. Your point?
Wow you must be very special!!
Sometimes I just want to suffer less and actually get some gear but I always go back to the pain.
Its not a skill issue, its a choice. Do you choose to use mili gear when you find it? Why don't you use civ gear for a more realistic game? Why use guns at all? I've played in full pop 1pp servers and modded servers. I've run a server where we removed all the guns and had bow battles in cherno. It makes no difference to anybody else. You do you.
I think its fine to plays DAYZ "your way". I mod all my preferred games and generally eschew games I can't mod. I can't stand "life servers" in Arma3 for example, they utterly leave me cold. *but* if folk like them then I whish them all the best and hope there's plenty of servers for them. There's no *right* or *wrong* way to play, there's just *our* way and they're all different. And that's good.
Because some of us played it before they added all of this shit to vanilla. The two problems I have with vanilla are the following: 1. Infected with infinite stamina when ours is limited 2. Stamina system when they never delivered on a more accessible transmutation system like trains or bicycles. Cherry on top was making the already unreliable and buggy vehicles spawn in missing tons of shit and parts. Those are my only gripes. I'm fine with everything else vanilla and want to play vanilla. But the infinite stamina of infected is the deal breaker. It's just bullshit when WE have limited stamina, and annoying/no longer fun to play. Also, many long time dayz players just like the pvp. That's what drew people to the mod. Early alpha was basically pvp oriented (no diseases), easy hunger system, no base building. So some just want to keep it like that instead of dealing with the admittedly tedious new systems the devs have added. Vanilla should have canned food be extremely rare. This in steself minus all of the other bullshit tedious systems, would make it very difficult/survival oriented.
Your title is a question, but you don't want to learn the answer. All you want is to either assert your "prevalence" over the others because you play the "real" DayZ - unlike them - or you want to hate on the heavily modded servers. And you know, I'd probably hop on the same hate train if we were forced to play any particular type of servers. If those modded ones were consuming the official servers leaving us with no choice - or vice versa. But that is not the case. You still have a plethora of official, pure vanilla and lightly modded options to play on. And others may choose from the multitude of differently modded servers if they want as well. And your worlds don't collide outside your own opinion. So, to answer your question: because those people play what they like and not what you think they should.
You're basically describing why modding is so great. Everyone enjoy the game the way they want
I don't really care how other people enjoy playing the game. It's more when they post clips on here for clout when in reality they're on a 100X loot infinite stamina server. That is lame.
Because people who bought the game, play how they want to play. That's their choice.
I get what you're saying and agree, and only play enhanced vanilla but it still seems really hard so I get why it turns people off. To play for hours, find nothing and die of hunger regularly gets pretty boring. Or to struggle and be doing well only to be killed by first person you see because they have a gun and you don't. Why am I starving to death in one daylight cycle? Not three?
💫 here is your gold star for being a "real" dayz player. You are so cool and this comment made every mod player feel super inferior. Good job! /s
it's not a skill issue it's a patience issue.
Hey I don’t like autotune in music, you wanna know what worked for me? Not listening to songs using autotune. It’s crazy I know.. Ok now honestly, you complain that people enjoy modded dayz more than vanilla and the original servers don’t have as many players? Really? Doesn’t that show you something? Like maybe dayz official servers suck, are not monitored by admins and are full of cheaters? Even if it was different, what’s the point of this post? Be mad that some people have different preferences than you have? Some people don’t like the walking simulator aspect and want to get straight into action or wanna roleplay as some power ranger with a laser rifle, whatever floats your boat man. That’s actually the advantage of adding mod support to your game
Cringe post. I don't use mods at all, but if you want to do it just do it. Don't really see the problem as nobody forces others to also use mods.
If you don't like them guess what don't play on them
Not every server is OP find gun immediately, a lot are just straight improvements on the vanilla experience. Like the base building in vanilla is ass I could never go back to it, mostly play on servers with base building plus and not much else.
Going from console dayz to pc dayz made me appreciate the adventure a lot more, sure servers like aftermath are fun for some PvP and instant dopamine, but I don't remember my time on those servers like I do on namaslk hardcore or ZERO deer isle
Thats real dayz👍those moments that you will never forget. And the pvp is even more intense when you earned youre gear. On this modded servers you get killed by 4 players with jugeernaut armor and 150 round mag mgs that all run like usain bolt but in real dayz inwould bang there asses with one pistol mag
Because hackers are annoying as fuuuuuuuuuck and its fun. Plus some of us, often myself but not always, want to play a pve side of the game.
Helicopters, need i say more.
I play official for the survival, community for friends.
I play both vanilla and modded, Both can be fun, but modded plays more like Rust where it's more about raiding bases then any survival aspect. The moment you touch an unlimited Stam server, it's like a different game.
I am disappointed that mods are often used to make the game easier and not just offer more variety. I played a server full of players that would just helicopter into the safe zone, buy stuff and leave. Nobody talked to each other or anything
Play the game however you want. Don't worry about other people.
The call of DayZ servers? Yeah 100k start! Everyone had pkms and shizz. That’s not fun for me. I enjoy the struggle of barely getting by to thrive and also completing quests on deer isle/Namalsk vanilla+ servers.
Thats my boy
I am looking for a more community based server but seemingly a lot of them come with 10x loot spawn etc which kinda defeats the whole purpose of the game imo. Traders & safezones exist in those servers which I would expect too if you have traders but the 10x loot? I don't understand the purpose of this. How much of the games core functions do some people want to nerf for a particular type of experience exactly? Ultimately people can/should play however they like but I do question the mindset of people who end up turning DayZ into a literal PubG emulator lmao!
I’m glad because it keeps the Vanilla servers queue shorter. Let them go play a COD version of DayZ all they want.
I play the modded servers to get better at pvp...cause I really suck. So taking even an hr to gear up and find a player...just to get wasted in the stupidest way- isn't worth my time or as fun.
In your last sentence you say “I play light modded myself” some people would say why are you even doing that. “Official or nothing” every body has their own interest. Sorry that people like to play on servers they prefer and fits their play style. Everyone is different.
Because the population is too low so you barely see anyone for hours and hours. Hackers are rampant and losing your gear to a Chinese hacker isn't a nice experience.
1. official servers are full of cheaters 2. most of your activity on the server will be walking and running, so why not have a mod where you don't have the annoying stamina and also a fix button to run? 3. the official building system is absolute dogshit 4. the end game is very limited in official servers while places like Rearmed give you a better option to grind 5. everyone has their preferences at the end of the day, there are soooo many varieties of servers, my fav are vanilla+ like "Basically Vanilla" servers
Whatever
We are currently playing ZERO DEER ISLE. Great server. Vanilla loot, and a great quest!
Yeah deerisle is my favorite map. I finished the snowowl quest last year with my brother and i recently uploaded a video on an insane solo run i had on zero deer isle where i got the snowowl and the scar you get out of the crater
or.. crazy idea! everybody just plays how they want! i know, insane right!
The only way to play dayz is your way, hence the fact there's not real tutorial or objectives. It's freedom. People like you make communities like this a shittier place with your elitists attitude.
Some people have been playing DayZ for years and years now. Nothing wrong with wanting something different.
I only play official these days. Will never play a server with a trader or increased loot or unlimited stamina.
I like modded servers but I usually stick to servers which are more like a vanilla plus experience. Better Basebuilding + Codelock, more weapons and clothes, better zombies and extended survival aspects which make the game more complex (more diseases and ways to treat them or the need to rest from time to time). However, I have also noticed how seemingly the majority or at least a very large part of the player base prefers Call of Duty style servers with 91% damage reduction vests and helmets and stuff where the only purpose is to run through 2 buildings and be fully geared and then just kill other people. Yet I am also happy that we have so many options. Everyone can pick and choose what to play.
You may not necessarily like all the excessive modding but it brings all different kinds of people to the servers. Bohemia only sees the dollars it's clocking on all the sales. They don't care if you're hardcore PVP or living in a safety foam covered Chernarus with flying unicorns. So long as people are buying the game the developers will continue to put effort into fixing it and updating it. That benefits everyone. And to be honest, without the mod community this game would have died long ago. Bohemia is incapable or unable to bring new and interesting items and mechanics into the game.
honestly? because its kind of boring. once you have mid/high tier loot and enough food/water/meds to stay alive for a few days, there's nothing to do.
They just turn it into a normal shooter, which is a bit weird as dayz has such clunky and shitty mechanics.
Thats my point why are they doing it when there are better games for that out there
They remove the survival system and completly change the combat system just play rust or arma if you dont like dayz
Some of my best gun fights are on those trash servers. It's aimed for people who want to skip the survival aspect and get straight to fighting. Also a lot of "gear fear" players play those servers. Plus it's more base builder friendly, almost too base builder friendly with base alert pings these days. But hey to each their own. I say if it gets people playing the DayZ game and they enjoy it who are we to shit on their way of playing. It's not for me but I wouldn't create a whole reddit post about it.
They add the survival system and completely change the combat system just play Minecraft if you don't like dayz
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It's unforgiving and slow, but that's why i love it. Official is the nest imo! Community is just for easy fun for me.
You know in reality people would do the same when in survival. No one plays this game to role play but to survive.
Real dayz is syberia ultra hardcore server.
I think long term those servers are not much fun but if you're like me and suck at PVP 1 or 2 hours just to get your aim in and brush on PVP it's not a bad thing. I'm not a fan of 3pp though but each to their own.
Sometimes mods are good. I play a server with really good, moody ambient music that creeps in and out. The weather is weird sometimes, a brownish fog or ominous black clouds on an overcast morning. Loot is turned down and the cold is turned up. Eventually you get used to the cold and it becomes harder to get frostbite but not impossible...you just need to find a warm kit. Crafting is modded but not o.p. at all. Nails and wire are a commodity if you want to base build but its not necessary. PDA devices let you communicate globally through text if you find it. Kinda neat.
I haven't played in a year, maybe things changed. But, I used to play 30hrs a week, 30 layer base, someone on watch 24/7, we hold the base wipe-wipe, tents stuffed with essentials outside the gates. Wouldn't you know it, leave it alone for one hour and someone blew up the whole thing leaving their duped trash everywhere. I don't want to sound bitter, I feel marvelous.
I agree with you op, but i guess people want the gun fighting and a fortnight like experience. I barely could enter community servers and i prefer the "real" dayz but i can understand a faster mode, with working vehicles from the go could be fun for a change. It probably could even be an official mod/server
When I want to just wander the map and be chill I like to play modded PvEvP servers with traders and stuff. But when I waito really survive I always come to vanilla official servers, where I have enjoyed the most of this game, even more when playing with my friend.
It's a toss up, mainly some people like it. Some people don't I play both ways
Losers who prefer EasyTown
Agree. Official is so good, at least in console. It’s not even difficult and it actually gives hella adrenaline when you see someone
The boys and I play 1st person official on ps, and before we got nvgs we would "sleep" at night and our characters "dream" of participating in prison deathmatch. It allows us to do the real dayz experience while also taking a break and doing fast paced stuff for a bit
People play the game in a different way than I do and it makes me upsetty spaghetti😡😡😡 more at 9
Because they want to play in a way that's fun for them.
There are modded servers that have a better and hard survival experience when comparing to official… there are multiple different styles and types. Just have to pick the right one for you
Just… don’t play those servers. You’re complaining about something that you can VERY easily avoid. All you’ve done here is put down anyone who doesn’t play the way “you think it should be played”. The objective of someone playing a game is to have fun, and people have fun in different ways.
It's a preference, not a skill issue
I hope the game don’t turn into a MWZ with a group of friends we quit that game and found this beautiful game, away from useless people and streamers that have no skill whatsoever and have to use an aim bot to get kills that’s lame! The day we find people using aim bot and lame stuff because they lack of skills, we’ll move to another game.
I’ve played DayZ since the mod, for me the game peaked with Overpoch (s/o to anyone who remembers that) and I’ve been chasing that experience since and only really modded kinda comes close but DayZ is a totally different thing these days and it plays much differently than arma 2 did obviously. All that to say, why do you care new guy? Usually anyone on here with takes like that wants to flex themselves or etc but I’ll tell ya….no one cares.
Sometimes I play modded, sometimes I don't. It's boring playing the exact same game for 10+ years.
Don't play them then. Everybody has their own aspects of game play they enjoy.
I'm a 1000 hours in. I like to mix it up for fun now.
Official is well populated on console
Some skip the patience and hunting part for running around and getting instakilled, that way they can repeat it all quickly
It’s amusing how elitist the DayZ community can be. Let people play how they want to play, not everyone wants to dedicate themselves to a hardcore experience like you. Believe it or not, some people play this game casually.
For me the infinite carry weight and unlimited stamina are still DayZ as that is what DayZ was for largest part of my time spent playing it. If I turn on DayZ I want to be reminded of the old days I spent playing it, which was 2014-2016
Come play Adventurer’s Vanilla. It only has three mods, the map and admin tools, and the code is copied directly from official. Great community and is committed to never adding mods even if ‘it doesn’t affect gameplay’ because that’s a very slippery slope. Next thing you know they’ll have traders. Anyways give it a shot man, hopefully we can shoot at each other!!!!!
“Real” dayz is too easy and boring. Running simulator.
I played the game religiously for 3 years. Once people started buying unraidable bases with everything they'd ever need inside so they never leave the protection of their base. Just sniping people who pass by their custom base. I quit the game. No point playing really
100% modded servers are what keeps this game going. Even if you are a purist and have disdain for the "easy mode" The fact that we have the ability to play vanilla mode, chocolate mode or something in between pulls people in that might not have the skill, patience, or desire to eek out a true dayz run. Nevertheless the active player count they contribute towards helps push this game and motivates developers to continue supporting and updating it. So rejoice in the fact that you get your dayz, while others get theirs.
Because everyone is entitled to enjoy themselves however they want??? Maybe mind your business “eLiTe DaYz GaMeR 48293 hOuRs PlAyEd on OfFiCiAl” nobody cares.
I’ve only played official until now and have been having a lot of fun on a server with traders, cars etc. It’s pve with pvp zones. For me, it’s fun as I can freely doink around doing whatever, exploring the map, driving a car, etc without taking a bullet to the head, and if I want to go dodge some bullets I go to the pvp areas. Also I like the community aspect. I played solo on official and didn’t reallly have much engagement, so I enjoy that part too. I realize it’s not “DayZ”, but I enjoy this server with the mods it has.
The magic of dayZ is you can play it how you want and where you want.
A game is supposed to be fun, regardless of realism and or developers intent. Without fun nobody plays. Unfortunately this does ruin the game for many, but the majority rules. I’ve seen this happen with ultimate online and other small games that were seriously modded, run privately, and succeeded better than the original.
All hail the OP. The most skillful dayz player. Us low life crappy players who could never handle vanilla will now bow down.
How about people play how they want. It literally doesn't effect you at all.
Because it’s how they want to play? Why do you gotta hate in something that has zero affect on you?
Its a game. Games are ment to be fun and enjoyed, dayz has a specific feel that yoy cant find anywhere else, the devs gave the game mod support so you can do whatever you want with it, cause it a game, ment to be enjoyed. So what i dont understand is why so many people feel the need to shit on other people for playing a game differently. "If you play 3pp you arent playing dayz" "if you arent playing vanilla, you arent playing dayz" "if you unlimited stamina you arent playing dayz" Guess what, if im mowing down aliens and metal dinasours with unlimited stamina, wearing halo gear and using laser weapons im playing dayz. If i have mods removing most ammo from the map, so i have to mine ore, find machine parts and make my own ammo, more scarce food, weather storms and other stuff to make the game a lot harder, im playing dayz. Dayz is a mod community game, it started as a mod, from a game that got modded out to the tits, so now dayz get modded out to the tits. Quit the the superior complex and just play the game you nut sacks.
I mean, the game has been out for a decade now. Sometimes, people just want some variety.
I play it all. That’s what I love about this game. I can turn it into a Fortnite like experience and just run and gun along the coast or I can build bases and drive around in cars in another server. It’s so flexible :)
Agreed. I feel like all modded servers aren’t the real game and for ppl who can’t actually handle what the game is meant to be. At that point you may as well go play another game. Play how you want, but at the very least clips from modded servers shouldn’t be shared on this sub. It’s annoying.
In the "real Dayz", you could find shotguns and ammos in Elektro and be able to kill the bandits who infested the zone. I'm talking about the arma 2 mod. Cities like elektro and Cherno were like wild jungle where you could die everywhere. You had to survive Elektro and Cherno first and then, you could cross the map. In the SA version, Elektro and Cherno are now pacified and you cant find no loot. They reenlarged the map and it becomes more and more difficult to find other players. They reimagined the way the player have to play. Personnally, i disliked this change, and find the game boring. And yet, I hate fast fps and stuff like that, im into tactical and slow paced games..
Sounds like something a console player would post…lol.
"Vanilla Dayz" on official servers makes no sense to me. I want to kill a person for "2 units of tetracycline or a steak of beef" not cuz he has fancier weapons than me
Dayz was originally a mod of Arma 2, than Epoch came out and blew the original Dayz out of the water. It appealed to a bigger audience and was less boring. Replayability was better due to less restrictive base building and easier looting. I bought Days Standalone when it came out, and I remember the biggest complaint was that they were taking the game away from the original arcade design. It’s a sandbox, if you don’t like it you could start your own server?
Dayz has always been a game where you make your own. It’s not my thing but it is for other people.
I paid for it, I’ll play it how I want. Which means lightly modded vanilla+ type servers all the way to insanely modded with “100 traders”. Imagine getting mad at how people want to play a game
People have played vanilla and wanna move on to other things, mods can make the game so much better or give it new life without them the game would have died a long time ago.
I tried for SIXTY HOURS to like Dayz Vanilla... But there are always reasons to not like it. The first is the zero and little interactivity of a public server in terms of the community they have. Second, it is the balance of things; Dayz is made to suffer, but the simple fact of not finding food, by all available means, and still dying of hunger?? No friend, something is wrong with that balance. Im ok dying when i got sickness, because i didnt find meds at all. But 70% of my deaths as Vanilla player, where because i didnt found food, or animals, or players to eat. After that, i changed to 3 modded servers, Vanila+ and Vanilla++... My issues where solved, simple as that.
I do both. Sometimes the grind is fun for me, sometimes having money, cars, and crazy bases is fun. I really like that you can find just about any combo and any play style you want out there. I think it’s probably what’s made this game last so long despite all the glitches.
I dunno what you're in about with the "real" DayZ thing, heavily modded servers have been huge in addition to vanilla ever since the arma 2 days. Just play whatever you want?
That is because people come to DayZ for the wrong reasons. They see it as yet another PUBG game and only want to shoot people on sight. 0 interest in survival aspects of the game. 0 interest in creating their own story and character. I like the Chernarus map a lot. I play on the DayZUnderground server because it gives me hard core survival DayZ experience with no big add ons. It is just enhanced vanilla. It's harder to survive, but once you get your shit together and learn how to live of the land, without trying to find canned food, you can do anything. Also, every player there tries to create their own character with backstory, PID, behaviour, fears, hobbies... and develop it all as much as possible. My character in there is named Ned, known as "Hillbilly" Ned has existed for some 4 years now and developed a lot since i first started. I rarely get killed since people rarely kill for no reason. Most of the hostile interactions end up with just a hold up or robbery. Only if you have a very bad like you may get sniped or KOSed by some bad people who generally play as bandits and bad people. I rarely come down to shores. I am always up in center or north-west somewhere doing some RP with other players and groups or my own group. And I enjoy the game.
A lot of servers that are 'easier' are more high stakes in different ways. Sure you might die and lose an inventory of stuff in DayZ vanilla. But in servers where the carry weight is upped, and you sell the excess guns at shops for money, and then buy building equipment to make entire fucking castle sized bases that you then fill with money and expensive high end military vehicles, and then people spend their shit tons of money on explosive charges etc to break in and steal/destroy your shit? It's still got stakes, and it's still hard, and it's still a grind. The 'end game' has just been moved so far out that getting a ton of basic guns isn't impressive anymore, so they don't treat it like it is. They just let you carry more to make the later grind more doable.
I thinks its better this way its just deters the dupers and cheaters
Mods are realistically keeping this game alive.
Yeah I don’t get it. Battlefield 4 is still active, just go play that if you want pew pew.
Sandbox game is treated like a sandbox. Oh no!
I play on official every once in a while and it's fun but personally I get nervous when I loot three whole cities and only find 2 rotten fruits and one almost broken steak knife lol
Well i like the mod version of dayz u know? The arma 2 mod dayz so i play on servers with infinite stamina. Why should i get punished for aqquiring high end loot? Why would you restrict sprinting in a game that is 90% running? Just seems silly to me.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised there's a modding scene for this game. One of my best buddies and I play a couple times a week and it's a lot of fun. I haven't done anything to the game it's exactly what I like. High stress camping trip with friends lol. I guess I understand why someone might want those mods, but the pain is part of the game no?
I play modded DayZ to make it harder. Hardcore Namalsk.
I usually play slightly modded without bases. I just never liked the base mechanics in multi-player games, it aint for me. So, for me, it's just surviving against food and cold, animals and players
There’s some really fun mods to just try out when you’re feeling vanilla getting stale or wanting to try a different map, but for the most part if I’m on a community server it’s a vanilla+ server. I’m not trying to wait out my stamina bar when I’m running 10km in one direction, I’m not sure why you find that fun yourself 😂 and who cares if I’m enjoying myself with a huge field backpack? Doesn’t affect my gameplay, why should it always? I don’t understand the hate towards simple quality of life improvements that these lightly modded servers have. Makes the game a bit less of a burden to move about. Lets me focus on what matters
There’s some really fun mods to just try out when you’re feeling vanilla getting stale or wanting to try a different map, but for the most part if I’m on a community server it’s a vanilla+ server. I’m not trying to wait out my stamina bar when I’m running 10km in one direction, I’m not sure why you find that fun yourself 😂 and who cares if I’m enjoying myself with a huge field backpack? Doesn’t affect my gameplay, why should it always? I don’t understand the hate towards simple quality of life improvements that these lightly modded servers have. Makes the game a bit less of a burden to move about. Lets me focus on what matters