There's about 1,000 other reasons why people stop playing this game. And they're all mainly because the game is so buggy. But the majority of the people get used to that & fall in love with the game regardless. The truly sad thing about all of this is that the developers simple just don't care enough to do anything about it. Idk what version of BattlEye they're using, but it is COMPLETELY OBSOLETE. They don't have an anti-cheat department or anything of the sort. They essentially have some form of contract with BattlEye. Their policy literally states that they're not in ANY WAY involved with the detection of cheats, issueing bans on cheaters, or revoking them. They simply don't & won't do anything about it. I mean, seriously... It's not like it's a huge ask. Every detail is in the game logs already. Who shot who, with what weapon, from what distance, etc. How hard can it be to add a little button on the "You are dead." screen that says: "Notice anything suspicious? Report player here." Maybe even add a little box for us to type in why we think this player is cheating. And then BattlEye can do whatever the f**k it is they do. Wether it's to have AI automatically process it, or better yet, manually review each report. Which might sound a bit unrealistic, but I'm sure that a player who's been reported multiple times will raise a flag & make it easier for them. I bet I could find someone on Fiverr that can code that in a couple of minutes... Seriously. This leaves everyone asking the same question: WHY? Why aren't they doing anything about it? Well, just like any decision ever made by any company, you just gotta follow the money. For some mysterious reason, it just doesn't benefit the devs economically to introduce a better anti-cheat software or update their current one. I guess no one will ever understand why, but there are people who go as far as saying that there are rogue developers who profit more from selling the cheats than they would ever profit from the game itself. I don't know what to believe, but this doesn't seem too far outside the realm of possibility. It could also explain why the game is almost 10 years old and still struggles with this. What do you think?
Just like in life, games imitate the doctrine of order out of chaos and it is very profitable. It is also a efficient training ground for future inspiring monsters to place boot on neck of their fellow human. Dad said life isn't fair and he was correct, but it should be fair.
Completely agree with everything. I don't understand why they don't update their anti-chat. It would 100% bring in more revenue. Cheaters have to buy copies of the game to cheat on it, and cheats are updated sometimes daily depending on the game. I only say this because my friend used to cheat on tarkov which can cost up to $140 for a single account. He wasted about $500 on accounts and hacks in total lol
today was my first day playing. I met 5 people and only 1 of them was nice. we had a good conversation before he died of an infection and I got beat to death over a bag of chips.
just wait till you get DayZ'd by the game it's self... glitching invisible Z's... falling through perfectly good stairs... walls that are a figment of you imagination and you pass right through them...... I love this game.
@UKMacMan lol guns stuck in wall, after fishing a sharpened stick won't hold meat, inventory doesn't autostock, melee mechanics make every zombie a potential deathtrap,loot spawns before buildings on ps4 and it stutters when near buried loot lol etc etc I do love this game. Most realistically feeling map EVER.
I remember the first time I played this in 2014... first two people I met were so nice to me, helped me loot... taught me a little about the game mechanics.. game me a gun... and then said "Now to learn the most valuable lesson in DayZ... trust no one" where they shot me in the back and killed me.... good times :). This game drags me back all the time... yeah dying is annoying, but some of the best parts of the game is the fight for survival at the start, where you are already behind the 8 ball, and everything in the game is a likely to kill you.. Must be what living in Australia is like...
The hardest person to be in games like this is always the respectful one. The one who keeps their word, looks out for or helps others...because other players sure won't care. How you treated the medic gave me a flicker of hope.....which swiftly had a sniper bullet put right through it
@@mg.sneaky putting games that should make fun on the same level as the real world, i see, you really have a life besides sitting in front of a PC being a onlineretard.
I never actually shoot first at someone in Day Z. Yes, it caused me more deaths than I can remember, but the few wholesome people I met and had fun with more than make up for it
I met 3 players today, I shot the first one because as I clearly showed i had no interest in shooting him, he actually started to rush, looking for weapons to possible kill me, so I shot him in the foot, lost him for like 4 minutes, met him again and he fainted, though he had nothing, I killed him. The second was jump scare, I walked into him and he was as armed as I was, I shot him, missed a couple of shots, he wasn't able to pull up his rifle in his panic, I killed him. The third ran down a hill, saw me, I showed zero interest in killing him, he seem AFK, so I shot at him from the distance, hit his foot. I walked down, patched him up and walked into the Woods to hunt. My reactions is exactly because previous games i tried to befriend people and though it would work qith like 4 people, the 5 thor 6th person would try to kill us, even if we haven't looted everything in a 100x loot server, just to turn it into a COD game, making it hard to actually cooperate which is the best way to progress in the game, because it can develope into clans and clan warfare which changes the dynamic of the game. Seemingly people are too busy just having a small petty experience, lurking or camping, but we are all kind of pushed in that direction because of that. I did feel bad for the 2 persons though, but I am 100% sure the first guy rushed for a weapon, I didn't aim my rifle, I didn't show interest, I tried to just move on away from the area as I saw him. If he found a gun he would take me, cuz I was packed and he was not.
@@birdsteak9267 I find it funny how in every situation you are still shooting someone, even when you're supposedly not postured for shooting, every single scenario involved you shooting someone.
@@JimJamTheAdmin 2 out of 3 would have killed me, I patched up the third one and moved on. First one was just too suspicious, intentions became too clear, the second was jump scare, he was armed and we both was in the same room. Third one was a curiosity because he froze up and went AFK, I actually stod there for like 10 seconds, I walked up the hill, looked down, he was still standing there, I shot around his feets, still no reaction, then I shot his arm, I think it was his arm, I went down, patched it and moved into the Woods, my character is still alive. DayZ for most is a game where you don't want to shoot anyone but 80 out of 100 times, if you don't they will kill you. 2 days ago, I met someone and we chatted, told me about a Humvee and we agreed to find a battery and plugs, 4 minutes later he shot me, because I got a Magnum. Just hours before that as a fresh spawn, I met another fresh spawn, I chatted with him, he attacked me with his fist while I defended myself and asked why (unessessary as neither got shit we need) and I won the fight, he passed out, I found rope in shed next to us, tied him up, took his clothes and told him when he woke up that I hope the fight was worth it, I kept him alive. I knocked him out again so that I could get some distance, short time after that guy shot me, what did I learn? There is no gratitude towards you for being a sporty winner. At spawns, if you have good loot, it's you against everyone who have everything to win, they see you as a shortcut.
@@JimJamTheAdmin I wasn't postured for peace on the second kill, but the first one and third, the third walked away alive, but since the first one passed out, still had nothing, it was cold, I gave him a reset to start off better, because he was already deep in the Red.
I was so so lucky for someone to find me when I first played dayz and teach me everything I needed to know, I’ll never forget him because he said that the next person he encountered he’ll be nice to, and I was that lucky person lol. He showed me how to make the ropes, took me fishing, catch and cook, also showed me how to clean my hands, wear proper gear, make a bone knife and so much more, he even gave me a starter pistol before I logged out and told me don’t trust anyone else. I never played official servers since. After that I’ve been strictly on TDM servers.
Why does everyone try to turn these games into cod? Could be making settlements, role playing, trading items for other items or services. No just kill everything that moves because it’s not like I can already do that in 500 other games. That guy who said “slow down slow down lemme help you” makes me sick to my stomach, just shoot me don’t act like you’re a decent person and then do that, thats something that’ll build bad karma for sure.
It's not the playerbase it's because the developers has made CoD... DayZ doesn't have enough depth to incentivize any of those things. The base building system is awful, there's very little interesting items/gear, there's no real benefit to cooperation because zombies are not a threat and because guns are so lethal one person can easily kill an entire group of other people if they get the drop on them, the survival features are barebones. Overall there just isn't enough content and PVE challenge in the game for that kind of playstyle to happen naturally.
Been playing off and on for years and this is accurate, every time I’ve rage quit for a few months it’s been due to hackers. I now try to stick with low pop vanilla servers, running into groups of people every town you’re in takes away the immersion for me. I like occasionally running into a person makes the game feel more like apocalyptic survival.
Yeah, I play on small pop servers as well for this reason. Although when you’re playing on your own the only thing you’re working towards is usually looting stuff but when you actually get good stuff you kinda find yourself with nothing to do
Your experience sounds similar to mine ✔️👍.. I've gotten better at avoiding the weasels;, staying 2 km inland, creating multiple small caches/ camps, and not playing when updates first hit... Sad but true.. anyway, I still get the immersion and play out of it. Too bad I didn't catch you when you posted.. would like to have tried teaming up.
DayZ is more popular right now than it's ever been. For every 5 that quit, 7 start. Just a month or 2 ago it set records for a week straight of most players on at one time.
This game is just gonna get better over time. Cuz I’ve watched people like smoke, running man z, polvo, citrus punch, kyro, fresh spawns, top rec, amishZed, last but not least geko fish aka (failed porn stars). I’ve watched them play before I bought the game about a months before I bought the game. I enjoy watching these guy’s do work and messing around ,also hope to run into them one day. But also when I first bought my first laptop (since we’re always moving) Dayz was the first game I’ve downloaded to my first laptop it was cuz the people I was talking about. I’ve died countless times and haven’t gotten tired. This game gets better since there’s always improvements. There are multiple servers to play without getting bored.
I remember when I first started and none of my friends were into the game yet.. I'd roam around and find barely enough to survive only to be killed by zombies or get shot by someone who managed to find a gun just before me. Eventually I met a couple of guys who didn't kill me outright and we decided to group up, we had good runs into the military locations and looted up plenty of gear.. then our group started growing and we eventually had around 12 guys in our group, and that's when stuff starts disappearing randomly, we're catching randoms in our camp, there's friendly fire incidents, and trust starts to become tested. I eventually packed up my tent with my gear and set up in the woods nowhere near our base and didn't tell anyone where it was for about a week. Then accusations started flying in my direction, like stealing someone's gun, taking someone's food, swiping someone's plate carrier.. I had several witnesses that defended me because they saw exactly what I packed up. Of course I make the mistake of sharing my location with our leader.. he drags the entire group to my location and everyone pitches a tent, literally and metaphorically, which gets under my nerves. Guess what happened? More stuff went missing and more randoms started showing up.. then my friend who I've known for years gets online and sees part of the group plus a few randoms emptying my tent, they accuse him and me of stealing stuff in front of the group leader, then gun down my friend. He filled me in and I messaged our leader grilling him for letting that happen only to be messaged back that over half the group turned on all of us and had been stealing stuff and taking it to another server for their own clan. I gave it a few days before getting back on and when I loaded in everything but a single medium tent with some fire wood in it was left. I cut all ties with everyone from that group except my friend, now him and I just try to avoid most players but kill on sight anyone geared up.
Or the fact they spend time adding the dumbest shit, like opera masks, but yet cans drive a vehicle 30kph through a town without turning into the Saturn rocket of the fucking nautilus. Fix the fucking game, THEN worry about your dumbass high school art projects. (In short, I agree with you. lol)
Last time I checked DayZ was the 20th most played game on Steam. 8 years after the release. It hit the record numbers of concurent players few months ago. Doesn't seem like most people quit.
I mean I am interested in the game after watching Nezar, SourSweet, JLK, ect upload their Twitch streams on TH-cam. I just need to buy a rig to play. This caused a resurgence in popularity and people playing. So as was pointed out elsewhere in the comments, you can lose 5 players if 7 new ones step up
One of my biggest gripes with the game is just how fast your hunger and thirst go down. You can go from being fully stuffed to starving to death in like 2 hours. And once you’re up North food is so hard to come by. I’ve starved to death while running through every house, in multiple towns/villages trying to find a single piece of food. It’s like they went from one extreme to the other. I remember barely having to eat in the mod, and food was everywhere.
The one time I tried playing this game I managed to catch a fish, but couldn't find resources to actually cook it in time before starving. On the next spawn, I found a can of beans, but I didn't know you could bash the cans open and died because I had no can opener.
I agree. It's cool to have to eat and drink, but realistically a human can go weeks without food. I find it a major turn off that you can't adjust the hunger and thirst levels. That's why The Long Dark is king.
When i played the DayZ Mod there were actually A LOT more friendly players, i remember having more friendly interactions and surviving together then just random RDM. Pretty sad what happened i miss the old mod days really. It was The Golden Age of DayZ back in 2012 to about early 2016
I think that's also why most old players quit when this thing came out. Basically everything with the old charm was gone, replaced with the arma 3 dayz feel.
I disagree. I remember everyone just having fight after fight at the military base. When someone would be victorious, they’d either camp there, or go to Elektro and snipe fresh spawns. Then the hackers came, and I stopped playing. I can’t say anything about Standalone. I played it for 40 hours or something when it came out. It was utter garbage, so I just never played it again. My friends and I just moved to 7 Days to Die for awhile, H1Z1 for a minute and then we were done with zombie survival games.
Good times. There were players like those in the video, but a lot more players who wanted to have fun together and do stuff as a server. I miss that. I played the standalone for less than 2 hours when it launched. Never again.
@@rodafowa1279 yeah i remember people camping freshspawns but that was at the end of the golden age of the mod. maybe you just had bad luck, i usually avoided these hotspots like big military bases and big citys.
I think the only reason why I'm so attached to this game is the fact that it's has looting and the encounters with people are adrenaline rush. Every shot you hear freaks you out, every person you meet could possibly betray you. If you're a new player on Dayz my tip is don't trust anyone. Everyone on Dayz is out to get you and they will kill on site. You have to think you spend hours looting and getting guns, you want to use them against others so you set out to find people. Now personally for me I go out and hunt people who are fully kitted. But I've meet people who are actually nice and I've spared their lives. Idk Dayz is a shoot now and ask questions later type of game. You can decide to try and be nice or you can risk all the loot you gathered. It's definitely a high risk high reward situation.
the real strat- get geared. Gather about 4 or 5 freshies to help you in exchange for the loot from people you kill. Make a gang of absolute psychopaths. Die to someone with a better group. Everyone dies. Rinse, repeat, raid spawn towns
Great vid brother. Cheating doesn't hold a candle to the amazing experience and adventures one can have in DayZ with others who enjoy the challenging dynamic of the game.
Best moment I had in dayz was a 50v50 server I remember a dude was scoped in with the tundra his last words were I got you now motherfucker as a bullet smashed his ballistic helmet and killed him instantly
@@critesic6942 Ohhhh no you can tell a dirty rotten Cheater right off. That is why there are hopefully competent MODs on the server. Check out ANARCHYHD He is a cheat catcher!.
@@critesic6942 word to the wise: don't play 3p servers. People do the gay 3rd person peeking around corners and it can seem like it's cheating when it's really just being a nerd.
@@snaek2594 third person sucks anyway bro I don't know why people play it , it's terrible , everything feels awful , first person feels more intense specially at night , and in some map with snow , it's more terrifying , hard and dangerous and fun .. ..
that song was awesome. great vid Polvo. for new players and experienced alike we have all been through this, hang in there, the fun out weighs the frustration in the end
Does it tho? I’ve been playing DayZ for several years and probably can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve logged out thinking “man that was fun.” For the most part unless you’re playing with people you know, the game is too much of a grind with very little pay off. None of my IRL friends play so I’m mostly lone wolfing it and I feel like DayZ is the sort of game, at least at this point in its history, is built around the concept that you won’t truly have any sort of sustainable fun unless you’re playing with others. Frankly the game has turned into a sandbox CoD with a bit of Rust and H1Z1 sprinkled in. It just isn’t the game it used to be and appears to just be getting worse and worse with each update. But then again that’s just my opinion so it should be taken with a grain of salt I suppose.
Yeah- I don’t get this game. If you’re really trying to survive you’d stay away from strangers. Yet every play through I watch I see people run towards gunfire. 😂😂
@@Anonymous-sq6eo sometimes you are just crossing a random field, sometimes you are eating by some bushes. You aren't in military gear, but you are a survivor. Then suddenly you black out and see "You are dead" or you hear it and "you are dead." I love snipers.....
@@Anonymous-sq6eo Yeah. I'm playing a DayzMod server called Woodbury. The moment you enter the server, some players enter too just to kill you with a car / gunmachine. Annoying as hell !!
I'm done because even if I hide one tent in the middle of nowhere, with a camo net, and hidden in trees so you can't see it untill you're almost right on it, someone always finds it within a couple weeks and takes everything. If I find a tent that's obviously in use, I usually take nothing, and if I do, it's only if it means the difference between life and death. Most of the time I'll add a couple items. One time, I had five stick shelters, and two big tents full of loot. I left for a few hours and came back to the place ransacked. They took all my best loot, which was about 60% of it, and left most of the remains on the friggin ground. They couldn't even put it back, so it wouldn't despawn. That was literally two weeks of my spare time, and they just raped it. They couldn't have just taken a few things? They had to totally pillage my shit? Wtf?! Is there no respect anymore? People justify their shit behavior by saying, "it's just a game," but it's not. It's real people, and real time and effort.
Well it is just a game... which people play for fun. Not for meaningful progression in their actual lives. The time and effort you put in to collecting that stuff IS the entertainment, not keeping it all around to hoard. If you don't find entertainment from the journey, and expect your time and effort to lead to meaningful growth as a person, perhaps you shouldn't be putting that much time and effort in to a video game to begin with.
@@conceptualme so fun for someone is to be evil and disrespectful aggro on noobs, hardcore PvP, fuck the zombies this is CoD ... ok offline mod and fuck off the community
that’s kinda the whole idea of dayz. there are no rules, people can do whatever they want. yea, it definitely sucks sometimes, but no matter how “good” of a player you are, people will still do “bad” things in dayz. if you don’t want to accept that or it isn’t fun, move on to a different game, just quit dayz, just like the title of this video says.
Just tried to get into it again. I loved DayZ back in the DayZ Mod days. Now it just feels like a piece of trash. Takes ages to find guns, and you can't enjoy the melee because it is terrible. The way guns are handled is also too awkward in my opinion, like having to press tab to load in individual bullets, cumbersome reloading and changing of magazines.
Started dayz a few weeks ago and have mostly been playing official servers. Even when I go to full servers i'd be lucky to see 1 person in an entire session. Even played all day with either seeing no 1 or maybe 1 or 2 people. Disheartening when you finally got some OK gear and you can't even use it, except on zombies.
First off are you playing on console? Then rip. But if your on pc you can easily find a smaller map like Namalsk. Where the DayZ experience is a lot more condensed and faster pace.
I've been playing DayZ since the alpha days. I did stop for a while, but only because my PC was shite. A few months ago, I got an XBox Series S. While I only get to play on Chenarus and Lavonia, I still have a lot of fun playing. No other game is like DayZ. And DayZ, even with the days when you get KOS'd a lot, I still keep coming back.
I switched to Tarkov cause when I camp in DayZ, I sometimes can wait 2 hours for anyone and nooone shows up at all, while in Tarkov I sometimes wait a lot too but usually near the end, even if there were no PMCs, player scavs will swarm the map Edit: I also quit DayZ cause I couldnt find any gear, I liked the time when I could just enter some buildings, find some food and utility items, get a civilian gun quickly in police departments and go fighting and then go to a close airport or prison island and have a lot of AKs and round mags there etc... And now I couldnt dress with SWAG because of the coldness and clothing was one of my fav thing to do in dayz, I'd go looting to find a Black shirt etc. And a beanie etc. XD
This is why I play Namalsk only. You just get more interaction with other players. It’s all so much more atmospheric and immersive. The deaths are heart wrenching but it gets better Overtime
Literally havent played any other map other than Banov to try it when it came out. Namalsk embodies what a zombie survival game should be, if the cold doesn't get ya the zed or wolves will!
I really wanted to enjoy playing this game but after getting sniped from out of nowhere after playing for hours multiple times made me realize it’s more fun to watch this game be played by someone with a lot more patience lol
@@nglilikeforgatios5408 or a PVE server... no AI if they don't want to deal with other "survivors" AT ALL, infected only--- me, I wish the PVE I found had slightly LESS ai survivors but at least I can actually fight back unlike getting sniped or blown up by pros n hackers... XD
@@nglilikeforgatios5408 If you going to do all that why the hell would you even play this game? Like go buy a decent single player game And don't even do with this trash
There are servers out there that have amazing community. Some servers have People that are more friendly than irl. I found one gem with up to 70 players where groups work together not trying actively looking for a fight. These may happen occasionally but ppl act human most of the time.
I just started playing yesterday and probably had the best possible first experience. My first time was already on community server with the DZSALauncher. Ran into the first player within 15 minutes while dying of starvation. Told the guy I'm new to the game. He saved my life by giving me food, gave me guns, and showed me around teaching me to play the game. We've added each other on steam and discord and will probably play together more often.
as someone who has played this on and off for 3 and a bit years I understand the struggle. getting killed by people you try to chat with gets you feeling pissed off and makes you not trust anyone . it happened alot eventually I became a murderer too until I found good people to roll with . community servers are good but you will always find the odd dickhead here and there
I agree. Had a secure base on an official server. For 3 days. Somebody just magically passed 3 fences and took some of my loot. They left some guns in ammo in exchange which was fair enough. I suppose I can live with that deal, I thought, and continued on. A week in, I get out and there is a fully geared guy next to the base, busy with his inventory. Too close, too risky, he got dropped in an instant. Zombies swarmed, I got stuck on a tree, barely survived. I took his guns and locked my self in the base to heal. 10 minutes it I can hear someboud outside. 5 sec later a headshot through the wall and Im dead. Respawned, the base still fully locked, no damage, all the loot from internal storage gone. ALL gone within 10 minutes - 2 full barells and 8 wooden crates.
@@beertlont776 i Play on community servers, there are rules where you can breach the doors only with C4, etc. It's still playable and you can make your base unraidable or at least super easy to defend.
@@zejz31 yes yes I know the community servers are much better than official. But How come the base game the game the devs have been working on for so long, still hasn't base's pinned down? Heck it's been over 10 years and they stil haven't fixed cars.
@@beertlont776 It's simple. Because Dayz as a game is a scam created by B to milk people. It's a game that will be "in development" forever and we will never have the final product. The thing is. It still has something that other games dont. That's the reason people are still playing it. And mods. Without mods, Dayz would be dead years ago.
For long as I have been playing DayZ I am proud to say I have never entered the dark hole of bloodshed, violence and toxicity. It would be a lie to say that I have never killed people with the intent to just kill them, but for me that is like a very rare situation. I always try to make fun interactions. Big ups for the video. One thing I always say to new players and everybody I meet is that Community Servers are the way to go. Either vanilla or modded, if you try hard enough find a community that you like and stay there since it is good. (especially when you find one with a good admin team)
As a fairly new player, I still can remember that on my second spawn in the game I walked into a building and immediately got shot down by a man in a hardhat with a pistol. I then later respawned and died of starvation.
Alot of people dont realise how versatile the game play can be with how the combat works. Made a new friend who had 70hours and was playing high pop official but hadnt realised you could heavy hit. Block with fists and or even stun people who are rushing you when you have a weapon. Although it might seem not needed but a simple tutorial explaining how the game worked would be amazing by the devs of the game. Even more so since theyve added the new immunity system which is on its own slaying the new player base
Oh I hated that so much. When I bought the game, I had watched a bunch of videos of it, so I didn't come in completely blind. But I didn't know any of the controls, apart from basic actions like walking and jumping. I tried pressing every button on my keyboard to see what it does, but that only got me so far. It's bullshit that there is no tutorial whatsoever on how to survive the controls! I had to go back to TH-cam and Google to find out how I was supposed to pick up stuff, and most importantly, how to open my inventory, and how to eat, drink, and get my health up
Biggest issue I had with the game (currently 100 hours in) was just escaping the hellhole that is the coast. Also, knowing fruit trees existed and dropped dried food and how to manipulate them to spawn more was also an issue.
I go through cycles of loving and hating this game. I don’t have the money for a PC yet but I’ve been playing on Xbox for 4 years. Have about 2k hours in the game. Will never be able to quit playing permanently.
I recently played day z again after years of not playing, I got pretty far by myself on an official server had a lot of nice loot including a LAR and hella gear and other shit. After basically acquiring everything I’d ever need and more I started getting bored so I jumped on discords LFG server and started trying to link up with some people to play together with, first two people met up with me and instantly killed me for a mosin rifles (lol) and then the last guy lead me all the way toward his base just to kill me when I got there. I informed all of these people that had they just not been dicks I woulda probly been willing to had given them whatever it is that they wanted just to have them cooperate and work with me but people in this game are a bunch of lying backstabbing snakes ready to pounce on you the first moment of weakness they get. So naturally I took my LAR which the game only spawns one in every four servers I blew up all my other stuff I logged out and I uninstalled the game because the community is garbage :)
@@lukesummers4455 while it can suck for some I can honestly say the toxic banter is a massive draw for me. It makes for some great interactions. The best thing you can do about it is not get bitter.
The amount of kills of fresh spawns including the medic clearly was far more than I ever would think about just because I am angry for being killed a few times. You mentioned yourself becoming the problem you had with KOS in the first place. But still wow …
@@Bloop273 It wasn't necessarily an insult, It was mostly a compliment to the channel. Theres no debate to be had here, if you want to find logical counter arguments get off of TH-cam.
@@OneBloodyBloodGod So you're saying if someone is making an argument online, it doesn't have to be logical? Or are you not allowed to have any logical argument online? Do you just know people's skills in video games based off of a comment?
The main thing that people tend to REALLY forget is that DayZ's current "development" team is just a couple of guys in a broom closet at BI's office. A literal skeleton crew, maybe 10 people at most, are all that keeps the game alive with the updates, bugfixes and occasional small drips of fresh new content. They shut down the studio that WAS working on DayZ full time back in 2018 or so, right when BI's upper management decided to push the game out of Alpha, and did one last big hurrah and get Workshop integration working, which is basically all that keeps DayZ alive today. Sumrak (the creator of the wildly popular Namalsk map), bless his heart, has taken over as Creative Lead of the game now and he is definitely pushing it in the right direction with the updates that his team are still cranking out, even after Bohemia's decision to put the game on permanent life support now. We'll more than likely never see any major or substantial engine upgrades or changes since BI cut DayZ's funding down to almost nothing compared to what the game pulled in back in it's heyday, but with the vehicle rework incoming in the next update I don't see how else the game could be improved any further apart from radical changes to the 'DayZ Recipie' that was what the Arma 2 mod had. Oh yeah, and the BattlEye version BI uses hasn't been updated since the Arma 2 days, and as such it's only basically about as effective as VAC at keeping cheaters out. Which is to say, putting a sponge in the ocean and expecting it to soak everything up.
@@RealNotallGaming i costs 20 euro here and the game is fantastic. Dont play to death modded maps, thats all. i played 1500 hours the last months and startet 8 month ago. Had Cheaters maybe 3 times. Cleaner then other games. I can tell u some clean Servers if u want.
My best friend to this day I meet him in DayZ when I first started on DayZ Dallas server. I swear we still reminisce about our old base we lost but how it was a great game to play especially during the beginning of the pandemic
@@Manuzoka1996 no sadly my friends and I work different shifts and with the Dallas vanilla server forever shutting down I haven't had the need to get back on the game. although recently we played for 2 hours and I remembered why I loved this game bc i played it with friends and we had fun dying and killing each other.
Dayz player here from back in the mod days, been missing the game so after a long night out I typed "dayz" into the youtube search bar to see if there were any recent uploads, this was the first one I clicked on, all I gotta say is, absolute masterpiece, you explained it perfectly right off the bat. Combined with the music and the silent killing spree. It was great. This is amazing and I hope you blow up. Nice vid.
@@thecowman6807 what's the point to a comment like yours? "What you're saying is not at all like the experiences I had so you MUST be lying!"... OK? You want everybody to think you're an expert of a dead mod for a 15 year old game? Just makes you come across as an ignorant, naive fool. Also, the first like 60% of the video has nothing to do with hackers... it's possible he's referring to that? The concept of everybody shooting on sight? Or maybe his experience was just different than yours. Just because you may have played a lot of Arma 2 DayZ doesn't mean you played it ALL. You likely stuck to the types of servers you were used to, and he the same. Ever consider that?
@@conceptualme It has to do with the fact that during that time the cheating market was small to non-existant. There were no dayz cheats being sold, heck, there were barely any cheats being sold at all for any game. The few dayz cheats that did exist were only developed and used by a few people that would get patched again within days or a week max. He couldn't possibly be talking about KoS problems because that's all dayz was back then lol. The OG dayz mod, the one like the current SA, was a clusterfuck of killing and noobs not knowing how to play. That mod died within a very short amount of time because people got bored of it and moved onto the next mods which were dayz origins and dayz epoch. PvP was the main purpose of those mods. Lol nobody even tried having friendly interactions in those mods because that isn't what people wanted. Seems to me like you are one of those kinda people that thinks they are cool for lying about having played the mod and is now getting irritated because you are realizing that all the lies you've been spreading are based on non-sense that never happened or existed making you look like a fool.
Cheater Charma Story; I remember seeing a relatively geared guy with just a 380 pistol out at like 500 yards and he headshot me instantly, I got up from passing out ran a bit and he hit me again, when I woke up this time he was looting my body ( I was fresh spawn with an apple and some rags carrying a hatchet lol don't even know why I was worth the trouble) I pulled the hatchet and killed him with it he ended up having a ton of good shit on him he had already taken from others obviously. After that day I always thought, Imagine being so bad at the game that you get killed by a fresh spawn using cheats, while geared. This is why I decided to never cheat, because every once and a while something like that happens and I sleep good for weeks lol!
I miss the days of the Arma 2 Day Z Mod when you could actually have fun instead of what it is now which is a hiking simulator which it is now full of cheaters and crappy community servers with no mods/corrupt mods who abuse the tools given to them.
Used to play a lot of DAYZ with the boys and have so much fun. Pity they couldn't make the game less janky and more modern and fix a lot of janky stuff. The core game and map is so damn good.
I only really got into DayZ through console. Playing only vanilla, the game felt way more alive. Went over to pc and all the mods just ruined the game for me. I can't even play for longer than 30 min anymore. 7k hours of gameplay. DayZ will always be a core memory for me.
Same started on ps4 and put so many bours into it, moved over to dayz and enjoyed the smooth gameplay (frame rate wise) but I got bored quickly probably have less than 10 hours on pc. Dayz will forever live on in my memories. RIP.
I remember my first time playing, I asked for help and a Aussie kinda helped me and pointed me in the direction of a city but I kept on trying to ask how I should play, with nothing in hand and not even knowing how to eat my apple he said if something along the lines of If I keep on helping you, you're not gonna learn. Popped me right there.
There’s a few major issues with DayZ, especially official servers. Remember official servers have no rules and players will use every possible way of surviving and taking advantage on any situation. Trusting people is more of a gut feeling but no matter how nice a person can sound remember this is DayZ, some players instinct when they become hungry is to kill there buddy who they met 10 minutes ago. Official servers are fun, and it’s the core survival of the game. Everything is on default, there no rules. I’m a console player the only cheats we gotta worry about it’s glitches that players abuse. One particular server is always popular on Xbox but the major issue is how geared players have ventured to fresh spawns and build bases that early players couldn’t raid. As soon as they hear the slight gunshot they’ll hunt you down, and these bases are scattered in major city spawns. Oh and seeing you go on a rampage with the shotgun is a good example why people quit as I’ve stopped playing multiple times from spawning near a town and two players horde the police station shooting any fresh spawn they want and this happens 80% of the spawns you get as some players just enjoy staying around areas that are simple to them. Community servers will always be better, but some of there rules can be damn right crazy. It is annoying surviving for long period of hours looking for base stuff to only die and you get that feeling to why should I bother and many of times I’ve come off for a few days purely because DayZ will show you why it’s a brutal unfair survival game.
Best rendition of The Human League ever made Zesty. Instant sub, mainly due to the video being overall great but the song at the end was an epic cherry on top. I'm now motivated to go get murdered in Day Z for a day or two before I uninstall again. Thanks for brightening my day!
The game has come a long way over the past 10 years and especially so within the past 4 years. I love the game but yeah. The hacker situation is just mind boggling. There's so many ways that it can be countered but there always seems to be an excuse or lack of communication. I've always talked about a report button being implemented directly to BattleEye for this reason but nothing. Community is great and all, but when you just want to play vanilla and this happens, yeah. Sour taste in the mouth. Keep up the great content as usual.
Been playing DayZ for about a week now. Main complaint is food and water. In reality I drink like 2 water bottles a day, eat dinner maybe snack. I think thats almost everybody’s diet its not good but not too bad and DayZ if you dont look at food in a span of 15 mins you’re better off dead. My only complaint besides stiff animations
I enjoyed this video. I’ve got a decent amount of time in the game now and 90% of the time play on official. I honestly can say I have yet to encounter a hacker. This video definitely answered my question about why people don’t play official. It’s sad honestly the devs should’ve have done something about this a long time ago.
Its not that the devs dont care. Its that the studio is too small and they dont make enough money to be able to invest enough people into that. And i think poor management
They are already taking the game into an arcade-y direction with the gas zones and the gunplay, so why not just re implement the old humanity system, give a way to distinguish bandits and buffs to heroes. Also if food and stuff was not so insanely rare, people would not feel like they need to KOS
No game has fillied in the DayZ gap... Once yuou play it, nothing can compare... I would love to see it evolve into a modern engine. This Video was my first encounter with your content... I SUBBED. Keep it up my man!
This is exactly how I found the game. Me and a friend were looking for the perfect apocalyptic survival game where you could build your own home base, have a hunger system, and plenty of weapons/guns among many other things to make it a good game. I’ve not found another game that does this whilst going into the detail that dayz does.
I loved fable and got it on release and didn't care about any promises Peter made, I just really enjoyed the game for what it was and the music in this video just brought back all those memories, thanks 😊👍
In a world where content seems to be getting worse and worse by the day, you sir, deserve so many more subscribers. I was just about to say I’m done with TH-cam but you’ve given me hope again. Keep up the great work!
The silent fable music it gets me, the only game I ever speedran (by accident as a kid before I knew the concept, I was just challenging myself) but the music just creates atmosphere instantly and you had the volume perfect
Since Livonia is behind a separate paywall, it's theoretically the safest map. There's still the occasional invisible speed puncher, but you mainly encounter them after sales and early on in the patch cycle. Playing on free weekends is laughably bad. Worst multiplayer experience in my life.
ive known about dayz since it was the arma 2 mod. i have a cat at my mom's house named namalsk. i have never played or touched dayz. closest ive gotten is playing apocalypse rising on roblox when i was like 12. it just looks like a game thats impossible to get into unless you have a group of friends who play it and invite you to join their group. im old enough to remember when killing on sight branded you a bandit, and now that killing on sight is the norm/meta (why in the hell should a survival game have a kill/death counter) the social aspect of the sandbox survival genre is completely gone, ruining the appeal entirely to new players. survival games are much more social than competitive, and as long as dayz and rust are the only successful options, virtually nobody is going to be getting into them. like, the entire reason the game was popular to get into 12 years ago is gone now. why expect the games to still get players?
Wow this is brutally honest hahaha And if I'm being honest, this is instantly one of my favorite DayZ related videos ever. I'm console, but the cheating and glitching is still there. I relate to this man's story as if it's my own. I am still hopelessly stuck in Chernarus however.
Dayz will never die and that's the great aspect of it. People are lazy and don't wanna learn. They just want to be good right away. But that's whats so special about Dayz. You put the work in and then you end up being like smoke and can clear out a 4 man.
I don't know how many hours in the game is considered veteran or what, but after more than 5,100 hours myself, I still love the game. I don't find it buggy. And I have tried more than 187 Community servers now (I'm keeping a spreadsheet of which ones I've tried and why I quit, etc.) because I suck at PvP, and (perhaps for that reason) I'm more into exploration and honing my loot skills, and I want to compete with the environment, not KoS players. Ultimately my goal is to set up my own server, and maybe that's why there are many thousands of Community servers ... players who love the game but tire of being one-tapped by children decide to set things up how we like them. Fun video. Thanks for some chuckles.
What I dont like is base building it takes to long to build a tiny base when you just get raided and or cant spawn in the base because they didnt make a spawn in base mechanic
Spent 5 hours gathering loot just to DC and lose it all. Start again, loot for 2 hours only to be shot dead instantly from who knows where. That is the essence of why I left this game years ago, and when I came back that’s the welcome I got. Don’t want to play a game that actively dislikes being played.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people are willing to cheat and ruin an amazing experience for other people. This is why I will never buy a gaming PC over a console. Cheaters and hackers in video games is typically a PC exclusive problem. I have been playing DayZ on Xbox for a while now and I have not encountered a single hacker.
My experience with these types of games is just lots of time looting, small amounts of action. I can't quite get into it because every time I play it's mostly just looting and that's not fun.
Today i was playing this after 5 years and its even in the worse state that it used to be . I cant find loot on emoty servers all doors closed found zero food died of hunger or cold the temperature system is absolutely ridiculous and they put a stamina bar into a literal fucking running simulator
In the mod, everyone shot everyone and did not stop to ask any questions. I played the mod sooooo much back when it was the best thing ever and I think I came across one person who had the hero skin (which was very hard to get) and didn't shoot my friend and I on site. Sadly I pulled the trigger on him when he had just given my buddy a transfusion. It's a cold world I tell ya
I used to be neutral until I was getting killed by bandits all the time. That's why most people KOS, they've been through it and want to take you out before you take them out.
I miss this game. Got into it really heavily a few years ago when it first came to Xbox. I was so psyched to see it was available and although I was hot garbage and the game ain’t that much of a looker I fondly remember all the interactions I had with people whether it was good, bad, or downright funny. I also loved the calmness of just walking through the forest only to panic at the thought that I saw something move in the distance and taking cover behind a tree for like 5 minutes only to realize I was just tripping. Good times
Dayz is just a psychopath simulator,the zombies aren't even a challenge to unarmed noods,they should be removed so the "players" can randomly kill each other,and everyone should be spawned with ALL weapons,otherwise why not just cheat invincibility and immortality.
The zombies don't even 'move' like zombies. They're much more like feral ghouls that you'd see in Fallout 4. I agree with you, the game would be more immersive with just humans (or even NPC characters / enemies) playing it.
I stopped because it felt like DayZ became a second job. Logging on everyday for hours to work on a base, that would just end up getting garden plot raided or deserted by my clan. It took alot of the fun that I had in DayZ with some really good guys out.
My first run through of Day Z included me not knowing how to survive and also running into a squad of soldiers who all was like “get outta here this is our area” and I was like “Ight”
When I was inexperient, I died to a player hiding on a bush using a silenced SMG, and when I listened to the shooting at a close range, I remember thinking: Did I die of an electric shock?
My case was I bought the game, started official server, I run around the fuckin map for 30 minutes without finding anything apart some shitty clothes and then nightime falls and I turn that shit off never to look back. Only thing that pisses me is that I didnt refund so now I have this crap in my library 🙂
At some point you are fed up with the constant KOS players that you either quit DayZ or become the problem itself. But remember that there are people who have a kind soul and reflect that in their playstyle. Being a bambi saint is a lot more fun and provides more experience than a fresh spawn killer, who does nothing else but waste ammo on bambis.
There's about 1,000 other reasons why people stop playing this game. And they're all mainly because the game is so buggy. But the majority of the people get used to that & fall in love with the game regardless.
The truly sad thing about all of this is that the developers simple just don't care enough to do anything about it. Idk what version of BattlEye they're using, but it is COMPLETELY OBSOLETE. They don't have an anti-cheat department or anything of the sort. They essentially have some form of contract with BattlEye. Their policy literally states that they're not in ANY WAY involved with the detection of cheats, issueing bans on cheaters, or revoking them. They simply don't & won't do anything about it.
I mean, seriously... It's not like it's a huge ask. Every detail is in the game logs already. Who shot who, with what weapon, from what distance, etc. How hard can it be to add a little button on the "You are dead." screen that says: "Notice anything suspicious? Report player here." Maybe even add a little box for us to type in why we think this player is cheating. And then BattlEye can do whatever the f**k it is they do. Wether it's to have AI automatically process it, or better yet, manually review each report.
Which might sound a bit unrealistic, but I'm sure that a player who's been reported multiple times will raise a flag & make it easier for them. I bet I could find someone on Fiverr that can code that in a couple of minutes... Seriously.
This leaves everyone asking the same question: WHY? Why aren't they doing anything about it? Well, just like any decision ever made by any company, you just gotta follow the money. For some mysterious reason, it just doesn't benefit the devs economically to introduce a better anti-cheat software or update their current one. I guess no one will ever understand why, but there are people who go as far as saying that there are rogue developers who profit more from selling the cheats than they would ever profit from the game itself.
I don't know what to believe, but this doesn't seem too far outside the realm of possibility. It could also explain why the game is almost 10 years old and still struggles with this. What do you think?
Crazy because they continue to update and support the game why not go all the way and do better at stopping the hackers
Just like in life, games imitate the doctrine of order out of chaos and it is very profitable. It is also a efficient training ground for future inspiring monsters to place boot on neck of their fellow human. Dad said life isn't fair and he was correct, but it should be fair.
Holy hell you’re a beast with that shotgun dude
Completely agree with everything. I don't understand why they don't update their anti-chat. It would 100% bring in more revenue. Cheaters have to buy copies of the game to cheat on it, and cheats are updated sometimes daily depending on the game. I only say this because my friend used to cheat on tarkov which can cost up to $140 for a single account. He wasted about $500 on accounts and hacks in total lol
Dude we all feel the pain of hacking. Just know what you give is far more reaching (no homo) the gift of laughter!! Thank you
The medic had me dying of laughter. You could hear the fear in that guy’s screams whenever you pointed your gun at him
Let him live only to snipe him 😂
Xd poor guy just wanted to surive
And then he got him right after
@@michaelmorgan8254
Loved the little chuckle before he shot him... 😂 🤣
well it IS a warcrime....
today was my first day playing.
I met 5 people and only 1 of them was nice. we had a good conversation before he died of an infection and I got beat to death over a bag of chips.
just wait till you get DayZ'd by the game it's self... glitching invisible Z's... falling through perfectly good stairs... walls that are a figment of you imagination and you pass right through them...... I love this game.
@UKMacMan lol guns stuck in wall, after fishing a sharpened stick won't hold meat, inventory doesn't autostock, melee mechanics make every zombie a potential deathtrap,loot spawns before buildings on ps4 and it stutters when near buried loot lol etc etc I do love this game. Most realistically feeling map EVER.
DayZ is not to find your soul mate, its a pvp game. Thats all
@@Tales-gu2wy It's a survival game with pvp servers and players. It's not strictly pvp that's just a secondary option.
Dude said he met 5 people and only one was good like those are extreme odds. Try playing rust, u get killed the first 30 seconds of spawning.
I remember the first time I played this in 2014... first two people I met were so nice to me, helped me loot... taught me a little about the game mechanics.. game me a gun... and then said "Now to learn the most valuable lesson in DayZ... trust no one" where they shot me in the back and killed me.... good times :). This game drags me back all the time... yeah dying is annoying, but some of the best parts of the game is the fight for survival at the start, where you are already behind the 8 ball, and everything in the game is a likely to kill you..
Must be what living in Australia is like...
Nah lol Australia is Day Z if Day Z was several times harder 😂
Yup. You can litteraly ride with someone for 6 hours and can still kill you at any given moment.
interactions back then was truly something else 😂 its much more fun lmaoooo today its just chaos and pvp
this is why i avoid people as best as i can people are more dangerous than zombies
This sounds like the beginning of .hack//G.U. on PS2. Right down to being helped by two seemingly nice players until they stab you in the back.
I love how the medic was constantly like "hey I'm a medic thats a war crime
I was lol'ing at that part.
I was surprised he lasted that long.
Reminds me of "el amigo del cartel" from Saul. Same energy lol
I can never fully quit DayZ. There's something about this game that makes it my absolute favorite game ever. But DAMN does it get old sometimes
Id say its something about the satisfaction of surviving in this type of game
I've played so many open world survival games but none of them scratch that Dayz itch
if combat wasn't atrocious it would be so much better lol
@@CapBaileyASMR scrub
I totally agree with this. I'll always come back. Just wish I could team up more.
The hardest person to be in games like this is always the respectful one. The one who keeps their word, looks out for or helps others...because other players sure won't care.
How you treated the medic gave me a flicker of hope.....which swiftly had a sniper bullet put right through it
Welcome to the world with no rules or laws and psychos and the less intelligent make rules based on power 😅
That is why I don't play games like this, they attract scumbags and they seem strangely proud that they are so unsporting.
@@ericconnor8419 imagine, a world where we all hugged and sang kumbyuh.
@@ericconnor8419True, most survival games have a toxic fanbase
@@mg.sneaky putting games that should make fun on the same level as the real world, i see, you really have a life besides sitting in front of a PC being a onlineretard.
I never actually shoot first at someone in Day Z. Yes, it caused me more deaths than I can remember, but the few wholesome people I met and had fun with more than make up for it
I met 3 players today, I shot the first one because as I clearly showed i had no interest in shooting him, he actually started to rush, looking for weapons to possible kill me, so I shot him in the foot, lost him for like 4 minutes, met him again and he fainted, though he had nothing, I killed him.
The second was jump scare, I walked into him and he was as armed as I was, I shot him, missed a couple of shots, he wasn't able to pull up his rifle in his panic, I killed him. The third ran down a hill, saw me, I showed zero interest in killing him, he seem AFK, so I shot at him from the distance, hit his foot.
I walked down, patched him up and walked into the Woods to hunt.
My reactions is exactly because previous games i tried to befriend people and though it would work qith like 4 people, the 5 thor 6th person would try to kill us, even if we haven't looted everything in a 100x loot server, just to turn it into a COD game, making it hard to actually cooperate which is the best way to progress in the game, because it can develope into clans and clan warfare which changes the dynamic of the game.
Seemingly people are too busy just having a small petty experience, lurking or camping, but we are all kind of pushed in that direction because of that.
I did feel bad for the 2 persons though, but I am 100% sure the first guy rushed for a weapon, I didn't aim my rifle, I didn't show interest, I tried to just move on away from the area as I saw him. If he found a gun he would take me, cuz I was packed and he was not.
@@birdsteak9267 I find it funny how in every situation you are still shooting someone, even when you're supposedly not postured for shooting, every single scenario involved you shooting someone.
@@JimJamTheAdmin 2 out of 3 would have killed me, I patched up the third one and moved on.
First one was just too suspicious, intentions became too clear, the second was jump scare, he was armed and we both was in the same room.
Third one was a curiosity because he froze up and went AFK, I actually stod there for like 10 seconds, I walked up the hill, looked down, he was still standing there, I shot around his feets, still no reaction, then I shot his arm, I think it was his arm, I went down, patched it and moved into the Woods, my character is still alive. DayZ for most is a game where you don't want to shoot anyone but 80 out of 100 times, if you don't they will kill you. 2 days ago, I met someone and we chatted, told me about a Humvee and we agreed to find a battery and plugs, 4 minutes later he shot me, because I got a Magnum. Just hours before that as a fresh spawn, I met another fresh spawn, I chatted with him, he attacked me with his fist while I defended myself and asked why (unessessary as neither got shit we need) and I won the fight, he passed out, I found rope in shed next to us, tied him up, took his clothes and told him when he woke up that I hope the fight was worth it, I kept him alive. I knocked him out again so that I could get some distance, short time after that guy shot me, what did I learn? There is no gratitude towards you for being a sporty winner. At spawns, if you have good loot, it's you against everyone who have everything to win, they see you as a shortcut.
@@JimJamTheAdmin I wasn't postured for peace on the second kill, but the first one and third, the third walked away alive, but since the first one passed out, still had nothing, it was cold, I gave him a reset to start off better, because he was already deep in the Red.
@@birdsteak9267 rip
I was so so lucky for someone to find me when I first played dayz and teach me everything I needed to know, I’ll never forget him because he said that the next person he encountered he’ll be nice to, and I was that lucky person lol. He showed me how to make the ropes, took me fishing, catch and cook, also showed me how to clean my hands, wear proper gear, make a bone knife and so much more, he even gave me a starter pistol before I logged out and told me don’t trust anyone else. I never played official servers since. After that I’ve been strictly on TDM servers.
Nooo yo must back to officials, you must continue the legacy of that friendly guy
same thing happened to me, ill never forget Kenneth :)
so he essentially wasted his time with you......
@@tracymorgansbelly3322 lol I play tarkov now.
@@tracymorgansbelly3322 hahahah shush
Why does everyone try to turn these games into cod? Could be making settlements, role playing, trading items for other items or services. No just kill everything that moves because it’s not like I can already do that in 500 other games. That guy who said “slow down slow down lemme help you” makes me sick to my stomach, just shoot me don’t act like you’re a decent person and then do that, thats something that’ll build bad karma for sure.
Because all the doichebag kids who were “babysat” by playing COD and constantly spamming the N-word have grown up into losers like this guy.
It's not the playerbase it's because the developers has made CoD... DayZ doesn't have enough depth to incentivize any of those things. The base building system is awful, there's very little interesting items/gear, there's no real benefit to cooperation because zombies are not a threat and because guns are so lethal one person can easily kill an entire group of other people if they get the drop on them, the survival features are barebones. Overall there just isn't enough content and PVE challenge in the game for that kind of playstyle to happen naturally.
@@sawysauce1256 cry more
Been playing off and on for years and this is accurate, every time I’ve rage quit for a few months it’s been due to hackers. I now try to stick with low pop vanilla servers, running into groups of people every town you’re in takes away the immersion for me. I like occasionally running into a person makes the game feel more like apocalyptic survival.
Yeah, I play on small pop servers as well for this reason. Although when you’re playing on your own the only thing you’re working towards is usually looting stuff but when you actually get good stuff you kinda find yourself with nothing to do
@@Geobeetle This is why I play on PVE-VP servers. There's always stuff to do with people in PVE areas often and tons of interaction.
Your experience sounds similar to mine ✔️👍.. I've gotten better at avoiding the weasels;, staying 2 km inland, creating multiple small caches/ camps, and not playing when updates first hit... Sad but true.. anyway, I still get the immersion and play out of it.
Too bad I didn't catch you when you posted.. would like to have tried teaming up.
For real dude I wish my group that I run with would understand that. Like getting one tapped every fucking town I go into gets old
I’d recommend just playing a community vanilla server. No cheaters and usually higher player count so far more interactions with people.
DayZ is more popular right now than it's ever been. For every 5 that quit, 7 start. Just a month or 2 ago it set records for a week straight of most players on at one time.
I started about a month ago.
This game is just gonna get better over time. Cuz I’ve watched people like smoke, running man z, polvo, citrus punch, kyro, fresh spawns, top rec, amishZed, last but not least geko fish aka (failed porn stars). I’ve watched them play before I bought the game about a months before I bought the game. I enjoy watching these guy’s do work and messing around ,also hope to run into them one day. But also when I first bought my first laptop (since we’re always moving) Dayz was the first game I’ve downloaded to my first laptop it was cuz the people I was talking about. I’ve died countless times and haven’t gotten tired. This game gets better since there’s always improvements. There are multiple servers to play without getting bored.
+1 for me for falling asleep with the launcher running lol
did they reach 20ppl online at once? i used to play dayz. Then i realize how much devs shit on u and quit.
@@tawackoHope Mr Moon comes back, he makes funny video's.
I remember when I first started and none of my friends were into the game yet.. I'd roam around and find barely enough to survive only to be killed by zombies or get shot by someone who managed to find a gun just before me. Eventually I met a couple of guys who didn't kill me outright and we decided to group up, we had good runs into the military locations and looted up plenty of gear.. then our group started growing and we eventually had around 12 guys in our group, and that's when stuff starts disappearing randomly, we're catching randoms in our camp, there's friendly fire incidents, and trust starts to become tested.
I eventually packed up my tent with my gear and set up in the woods nowhere near our base and didn't tell anyone where it was for about a week. Then accusations started flying in my direction, like stealing someone's gun, taking someone's food, swiping someone's plate carrier.. I had several witnesses that defended me because they saw exactly what I packed up. Of course I make the mistake of sharing my location with our leader.. he drags the entire group to my location and everyone pitches a tent, literally and metaphorically, which gets under my nerves.
Guess what happened? More stuff went missing and more randoms started showing up.. then my friend who I've known for years gets online and sees part of the group plus a few randoms emptying my tent, they accuse him and me of stealing stuff in front of the group leader, then gun down my friend. He filled me in and I messaged our leader grilling him for letting that happen only to be messaged back that over half the group turned on all of us and had been stealing stuff and taking it to another server for their own clan. I gave it a few days before getting back on and when I loaded in everything but a single medium tent with some fire wood in it was left. I cut all ties with everyone from that group except my friend, now him and I just try to avoid most players but kill on sight anyone geared up.
so, the plot of red dead 2?
Only dayz veterans will truly appreciate this video. I lost it when you started singing about the dayzsa launcher. Awesome vid!
most people quit because its a 10 year old game that still plays like its in beta.
Or the fact they spend time adding the dumbest shit, like opera masks, but yet cans drive a vehicle 30kph through a town without turning into the Saturn rocket of the fucking nautilus. Fix the fucking game, THEN worry about your dumbass high school art projects.
(In short, I agree with you. lol)
Fucking amen dude
Last time I checked DayZ was the 20th most played game on Steam. 8 years after the release. It hit the record numbers of concurent players few months ago. Doesn't seem like most people quit.
It's talking about the major reason people quit. Not about how most people who play DayZ quit.
@@kerwin1623 most mean's the majority , its in the title
@@bonysminiatures3123 Yes, the majority of people who quit. Not the majority of people quit. Context my man, gotta look for it.
I mean I am interested in the game after watching Nezar, SourSweet, JLK, ect upload their Twitch streams on TH-cam. I just need to buy a rig to play. This caused a resurgence in popularity and people playing. So as was pointed out elsewhere in the comments, you can lose 5 players if 7 new ones step up
@@bonysminiatures3123 You can just say you’re illiterate, it’s ok. We won’t make fun of you
One of my biggest gripes with the game is just how fast your hunger and thirst go down. You can go from being fully stuffed to starving to death in like 2 hours. And once you’re up North food is so hard to come by. I’ve starved to death while running through every house, in multiple towns/villages trying to find a single piece of food. It’s like they went from one extreme to the other. I remember barely having to eat in the mod, and food was everywhere.
The one time I tried playing this game I managed to catch a fish, but couldn't find resources to actually cook it in time before starving. On the next spawn, I found a can of beans, but I didn't know you could bash the cans open and died because I had no can opener.
Maybe dont choose a map with 32x speed of time?? omg...
I agree. It's cool to have to eat and drink, but realistically a human can go weeks without food. I find it a major turn off that you can't adjust the hunger and thirst levels. That's why The Long Dark is king.
Are you a bot? Saw this exact same comment word for word on a different video about dayz hackers and it wasn't this account.
@@doctorjawline7608 how ?
When i played the DayZ Mod there were actually A LOT more friendly players, i remember having more friendly interactions and surviving together then just random RDM.
Pretty sad what happened i miss the old mod days really. It was The Golden Age of DayZ back in 2012 to about early 2016
I think that's also why most old players quit when this thing came out. Basically everything with the old charm was gone, replaced with the arma 3 dayz feel.
I disagree. I remember everyone just having fight after fight at the military base. When someone would be victorious, they’d either camp there, or go to Elektro and snipe fresh spawns. Then the hackers came, and I stopped playing.
I can’t say anything about Standalone. I played it for 40 hours or something when it came out. It was utter garbage, so I just never played it again. My friends and I just moved to 7 Days to Die for awhile, H1Z1 for a minute and then we were done with zombie survival games.
Good times. There were players like those in the video, but a lot more players who wanted to have fun together and do stuff as a server.
I miss that.
I played the standalone for less than 2 hours when it launched. Never again.
@@rodafowa1279 yeah i remember people camping freshspawns but that was at the end of the golden age of the mod.
maybe you just had bad luck, i usually avoided these hotspots like big military bases and big citys.
@@STG113 The dayz mod times were the best. the standalone was indeed chaotic when it launched. The flair just got destroyed for me in the standalone.
You either die a hero or live long enough to watch yourself become the villian
You did work with that shotgun!!! I would have damn near cried when I finally lost it just over the sentimental value alone lol
Ah yes, he killed a lot of freshies, many of whom didn't have weapons (i'm kidding idc)
I think the only reason why I'm so attached to this game is the fact that it's has looting and the encounters with people are adrenaline rush. Every shot you hear freaks you out, every person you meet could possibly betray you. If you're a new player on Dayz my tip is don't trust anyone. Everyone on Dayz is out to get you and they will kill on site. You have to think you spend hours looting and getting guns, you want to use them against others so you set out to find people. Now personally for me I go out and hunt people who are fully kitted. But I've meet people who are actually nice and I've spared their lives. Idk Dayz is a shoot now and ask questions later type of game. You can decide to try and be nice or you can risk all the loot you gathered. It's definitely a high risk high reward situation.
the real strat- get geared. Gather about 4 or 5 freshies to help you in exchange for the loot from people you kill. Make a gang of absolute psychopaths. Die to someone with a better group. Everyone dies. Rinse, repeat, raid spawn towns
*every person you meet has a 90% chance of betraying you
"Oh hey man how's things" BRRRRRRRRRRRT
Every
Fucking
Time
Great vid brother. Cheating doesn't hold a candle to the amazing experience and adventures one can have in DayZ with others who enjoy the challenging dynamic of the game.
It's hard to tell if people are cheating when they all are just so good lmao
Best moment I had in dayz was a 50v50 server I remember a dude was scoped in with the tundra his last words were I got you now motherfucker as a bullet smashed his ballistic helmet and killed him instantly
@@critesic6942 Ohhhh no you can tell a dirty rotten Cheater right off. That is why there are hopefully competent MODs on the server. Check out ANARCHYHD He is a cheat catcher!.
@@critesic6942 word to the wise: don't play 3p servers. People do the gay 3rd person peeking around corners and it can seem like it's cheating when it's really just being a nerd.
@@snaek2594 third person sucks anyway bro I don't know why people play it , it's terrible , everything feels awful , first person feels more intense specially at night , and in some map with snow , it's more terrifying , hard and dangerous and fun .. ..
that song was awesome. great vid Polvo. for new players and experienced alike we have all been through this, hang in there, the fun out weighs the frustration in the end
Does it tho? I’ve been playing DayZ for several years and probably can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve logged out thinking “man that was fun.” For the most part unless you’re playing with people you know, the game is too much of a grind with very little pay off. None of my IRL friends play so I’m mostly lone wolfing it and I feel like DayZ is the sort of game, at least at this point in its history, is built around the concept that you won’t truly have any sort of sustainable fun unless you’re playing with others. Frankly the game has turned into a sandbox CoD with a bit of Rust and H1Z1 sprinkled in. It just isn’t the game it used to be and appears to just be getting worse and worse with each update. But then again that’s just my opinion so it should be taken with a grain of salt I suppose.
Darude-Sandstorm
Ye imma need the full version asap
When i get killed to much, i get a hunting rifle, tent, ammo, knife, im heading straight to the forest and live there
Yeah- I don’t get this game. If you’re really trying to survive you’d stay away from strangers. Yet every play through I watch I see people run towards gunfire. 😂😂
I am one of the few veterans who has never given up and always tries to be friendly to players unless they're trying to kill me.
I’ve been thinking of buying it, but the whole KoS thing would probably just ruin the fun of learning.
@@Anonymous-sq6eo What platform were you planning on getting it on?
@@Anonymous-sq6eo sometimes you are just crossing a random field, sometimes you are eating by some bushes. You aren't in military gear, but you are a survivor.
Then suddenly you black out and see "You are dead" or you hear it and "you are dead."
I love snipers.....
@@Anonymous-sq6eo Yeah. I'm playing a DayzMod server called Woodbury. The moment you enter the server, some players enter too just to kill you with a car / gunmachine. Annoying as hell !!
I'm done because even if I hide one tent in the middle of nowhere, with a camo net, and hidden in trees so you can't see it untill you're almost right on it, someone always finds it within a couple weeks and takes everything. If I find a tent that's obviously in use, I usually take nothing, and if I do, it's only if it means the difference between life and death. Most of the time I'll add a couple items. One time, I had five stick shelters, and two big tents full of loot. I left for a few hours and came back to the place ransacked. They took all my best loot, which was about 60% of it, and left most of the remains on the friggin ground. They couldn't even put it back, so it wouldn't despawn. That was literally two weeks of my spare time, and they just raped it. They couldn't have just taken a few things? They had to totally pillage my shit? Wtf?! Is there no respect anymore? People justify their shit behavior by saying, "it's just a game," but it's not. It's real people, and real time and effort.
welcome to day z
Well it is just a game... which people play for fun. Not for meaningful progression in their actual lives. The time and effort you put in to collecting that stuff IS the entertainment, not keeping it all around to hoard. If you don't find entertainment from the journey, and expect your time and effort to lead to meaningful growth as a person, perhaps you shouldn't be putting that much time and effort in to a video game to begin with.
@@conceptualme so fun for someone is to be evil and disrespectful
aggro on noobs, hardcore PvP, fuck the zombies this is CoD ...
ok
offline mod and fuck off the community
damn bro shit like this is why i hate gaming online with people.. its like i enjoy MMO but at the same time 75% of people are shadyyyy
that’s kinda the whole idea of dayz. there are no rules, people can do whatever they want. yea, it definitely sucks sometimes, but no matter how “good” of a player you are, people will still do “bad” things in dayz. if you don’t want to accept that or it isn’t fun, move on to a different game, just quit dayz, just like the title of this video says.
Just tried to get into it again. I loved DayZ back in the DayZ Mod days. Now it just feels like a piece of trash. Takes ages to find guns, and you can't enjoy the melee because it is terrible. The way guns are handled is also too awkward in my opinion, like having to press tab to load in individual bullets, cumbersome reloading and changing of magazines.
Started dayz a few weeks ago and have mostly been playing official servers. Even when I go to full servers i'd be lucky to see 1 person in an entire session. Even played all day with either seeing no 1 or maybe 1 or 2 people. Disheartening when you finally got some OK gear and you can't even use it, except on zombies.
Are you on ps4? If so let’s play man I wanna find someone to roll with
First off are you playing on console? Then rip. But if your on pc you can easily find a smaller map like Namalsk. Where the DayZ experience is a lot more condensed and faster pace.
@@unknown-lives On PC. Switched to community servers and that helped. Will try out namalsk.
@@xlilften3056 How did community servers help you find people more frequently?
@@Loner-of-the-Dark-Valley They are more active than official, in my experience.
I've been playing DayZ since the alpha days. I did stop for a while, but only because my PC was shite. A few months ago, I got an XBox Series S. While I only get to play on Chenarus and Lavonia, I still have a lot of fun playing. No other game is like DayZ. And DayZ, even with the days when you get KOS'd a lot, I still keep coming back.
I've had very few moments on Xbox where it wasn't KOS 😭😂
@@coldwinterfresh Not that much different on PC unless it's a modded server with safe zones/traders
I switched to Tarkov cause when I camp in DayZ, I sometimes can wait 2 hours for anyone and nooone shows up at all, while in Tarkov I sometimes wait a lot too but usually near the end, even if there were no PMCs, player scavs will swarm the map
Edit: I also quit DayZ cause I couldnt find any gear, I liked the time when I could just enter some buildings, find some food and utility items, get a civilian gun quickly in police departments and go fighting and then go to a close airport or prison island and have a lot of AKs and round mags there etc... And now I couldnt dress with SWAG because of the coldness and clothing was one of my fav thing to do in dayz, I'd go looting to find a Black shirt etc. And a beanie etc. XD
Best thing about console is much less cheating. Apparently much harder to do on console for some reason.
I don't mind the kill on sight, it's the "I'm friendly! Im friendly!" *kills you* that pisses me off.
This is why I play Namalsk only. You just get more interaction with other players. It’s all so much more atmospheric and immersive. The deaths are heart wrenching but it gets better Overtime
Literally havent played any other map other than Banov to try it when it came out. Namalsk embodies what a zombie survival game should be, if the cold doesn't get ya the zed or wolves will!
I really wanted to enjoy playing this game but after getting sniped from out of nowhere after playing for hours multiple times made me realize it’s more fun to watch this game be played by someone with a lot more patience lol
If you really wanna play it then I´d recommend playing it w/o any other players. Make your own local server.
Find a pro to roam with
@@nglilikeforgatios5408 or a PVE server... no AI if they don't want to deal with other "survivors" AT ALL, infected only---
me, I wish the PVE I found had slightly LESS ai survivors but at least I can actually fight back unlike getting sniped or blown up by pros n hackers... XD
@@nglilikeforgatios5408 If you going to do all that why the hell would you even play this game? Like go buy a decent single player game And don't even do with this trash
play fpp , its worth it more than 3rd poopoo
There are servers out there that have amazing community. Some servers have People that are more friendly than irl. I found one gem with up to 70 players where groups work together not trying actively looking for a fight. These may happen occasionally but ppl act human most of the time.
I just started playing yesterday and probably had the best possible first experience. My first time was already on community server with the DZSALauncher. Ran into the first player within 15 minutes while dying of starvation. Told the guy I'm new to the game. He saved my life by giving me food, gave me guns, and showed me around teaching me to play the game.
We've added each other on steam and discord and will probably play together more often.
I'm new too, community server. 2/3 of my first interactions have been a shotgun to my face while attempting to talk to them.
as someone who has played this on and off for 3 and a bit years I understand the struggle. getting killed by people you try to chat with gets you feeling pissed off and makes you not trust anyone . it happened alot eventually I became a murderer too until I found good people to roll with . community servers are good but you will always find the odd dickhead here and there
@@illusionnl9237 no mate but finding a allie in a world of cunts can help 😉
I agree. Had a secure base on an official server. For 3 days. Somebody just magically passed 3 fences and took some of my loot. They left some guns in ammo in exchange which was fair enough. I suppose I can live with that deal, I thought, and continued on. A week in, I get out and there is a fully geared guy next to the base, busy with his inventory. Too close, too risky, he got dropped in an instant. Zombies swarmed, I got stuck on a tree, barely survived. I took his guns and locked my self in the base to heal. 10 minutes it I can hear someboud outside. 5 sec later a headshot through the wall and Im dead. Respawned, the base still fully locked, no damage, all the loot from internal storage gone. ALL gone within 10 minutes - 2 full barells and 8 wooden crates.
Base building in dayz is so redundant it's insane. Why spend so much time when someone can take it away in mere minutes?
@@beertlont776 i Play on community servers, there are rules where you can breach the doors only with C4, etc. It's still playable and you can make your base unraidable or at least super easy to defend.
@@zejz31 yes yes I know the community servers are much better than official. But How come the base game the game the devs have been working on for so long, still hasn't base's pinned down? Heck it's been over 10 years and they stil haven't fixed cars.
@@beertlont776
It's simple. Because Dayz as a game is a scam created by B to milk people. It's a game that will be "in development" forever and we will never have the final product.
The thing is. It still has something that other games dont. That's the reason people are still playing it. And mods. Without mods, Dayz would be dead years ago.
@@zejz31 if I could like a comment twice I would choose yours.
For long as I have been playing DayZ I am proud to say I have never entered the dark hole of bloodshed, violence and toxicity. It would be a lie to say that I have never killed people with the intent to just kill them, but for me that is like a very rare situation. I always try to make fun interactions. Big ups for the video. One thing I always say to new players and everybody I meet is that Community Servers are the way to go. Either vanilla or modded, if you try hard enough find a community that you like and stay there since it is good. (especially when you find one with a good admin team)
Every time when I tried being friendly I get killed so at this point I ain’t friendly not even to freshies
@@Coopergrimes Understable, but with the biggest risks come the biggest rewards.
I left the toxicity behind in GTA 😉 I just enjoy this game
As a fairly new player, I still can remember that on my second spawn in the game I walked into a building and immediately got shot down by a man in a hardhat with a pistol. I then later respawned and died of starvation.
Alot of people dont realise how versatile the game play can be with how the combat works. Made a new friend who had 70hours and was playing high pop official but hadnt realised you could heavy hit. Block with fists and or even stun people who are rushing you when you have a weapon. Although it might seem not needed but a simple tutorial explaining how the game worked would be amazing by the devs of the game. Even more so since theyve added the new immunity system which is on its own slaying the new player base
Oh I hated that so much. When I bought the game, I had watched a bunch of videos of it, so I didn't come in completely blind. But I didn't know any of the controls, apart from basic actions like walking and jumping. I tried pressing every button on my keyboard to see what it does, but that only got me so far. It's bullshit that there is no tutorial whatsoever on how to survive the controls! I had to go back to TH-cam and Google to find out how I was supposed to pick up stuff, and most importantly, how to open my inventory, and how to eat, drink, and get my health up
Biggest issue I had with the game (currently 100 hours in) was just escaping the hellhole that is the coast. Also, knowing fruit trees existed and dropped dried food and how to manipulate them to spawn more was also an issue.
I go through cycles of loving and hating this game. I don’t have the money for a PC yet but I’ve been playing on Xbox for 4 years. Have about 2k hours in the game. Will never be able to quit playing permanently.
i play dayz on a lenovo yoga 6 it runs smooth
Yea PC will make you fall in love with the game all over again. Like the guy above me said it doesnt require a super expensive rig to run either!
I remember I could never get into a game because everytime I spawn in I was insta killed by someone with a sniper spawn campaign.
I recently played day z again after years of not playing, I got pretty far by myself on an official server had a lot of nice loot including a LAR and hella gear and other shit. After basically acquiring everything I’d ever need and more I started getting bored so I jumped on discords LFG server and started trying to link up with some people to play together with, first two people met up with me and instantly killed me for a mosin rifles (lol) and then the last guy lead me all the way toward his base just to kill me when I got there. I informed all of these people that had they just not been dicks I woulda probly been willing to had given them whatever it is that they wanted just to have them cooperate and work with me but people in this game are a bunch of lying backstabbing snakes ready to pounce on you the first moment of weakness they get. So naturally I took my LAR which the game only spawns one in every four servers I blew up all my other stuff I logged out and I uninstalled the game because the community is garbage :)
The is no cap or Lars mate. They spawn at heli crashes no matter how many are on the server. No heli loot is capped. I think since 1.04
Sorry I meant 1.14
That sucks man people can be really toxic in this game it is a shame for sure
@@lukesummers4455 while it can suck for some I can honestly say the toxic banter is a massive draw for me. It makes for some great interactions. The best thing you can do about it is not get bitter.
@@idorion9096 what's your playstyle man do you shoot on sight or do you interact with people and take there shit ?
The amount of kills of fresh spawns including the medic clearly was far more than I ever would think about just because I am angry for being killed a few times. You mentioned yourself becoming the problem you had with KOS in the first place. But still wow …
Difference between you and him, is hes capable of getting that amount of kills.
@@OneBloodyBloodGod Resorts to insults instead of a logical counter argument 💀
@@Bloop273 It wasn't necessarily an insult, It was mostly a compliment to the channel. Theres no debate to be had here, if you want to find logical counter arguments get off of TH-cam.
@@OneBloodyBloodGod So you're saying if someone is making an argument online, it doesn't have to be logical? Or are you not allowed to have any logical argument online? Do you just know people's skills in video games based off of a comment?
@@OneBloodyBloodGod backwards thinking
The main thing that people tend to REALLY forget is that DayZ's current "development" team is just a couple of guys in a broom closet at BI's office.
A literal skeleton crew, maybe 10 people at most, are all that keeps the game alive with the updates, bugfixes and occasional small drips of fresh new content.
They shut down the studio that WAS working on DayZ full time back in 2018 or so, right when BI's upper management decided to push the game out of Alpha, and did one last big hurrah and get Workshop integration working, which is basically all that keeps DayZ alive today.
Sumrak (the creator of the wildly popular Namalsk map), bless his heart, has taken over as Creative Lead of the game now and he is definitely pushing it in the right direction with the updates that his team are still cranking out, even after Bohemia's decision to put the game on permanent life support now.
We'll more than likely never see any major or substantial engine upgrades or changes since BI cut DayZ's funding down to almost nothing compared to what the game pulled in back in it's heyday, but with the vehicle rework incoming in the next update I don't see how else the game could be improved any further apart from radical changes to the 'DayZ Recipie' that was what the Arma 2 mod had.
Oh yeah, and the BattlEye version BI uses hasn't been updated since the Arma 2 days, and as such it's only basically about as effective as VAC at keeping cheaters out. Which is to say, putting a sponge in the ocean and expecting it to soak everything up.
Back at the day batleye was nice anti cheat,friend of mine used cheats and he got vac ban qouple of times( he had multiple accounts)
so basically is a dead game ...
thank you for the advice
no need to waste 40 euros then
o7
@@RealNotallGaming i costs 20 euro here and the game is fantastic. Dont play to death modded maps, thats all.
i played 1500 hours the last months and startet 8 month ago. Had Cheaters maybe 3 times. Cleaner then other games. I can tell u some clean Servers if u want.
@@klodreck what server would you recommand, been a long time since i last played it !
@@minimaxpowertv1617 DayZ has a new Hype right now. All DayOne Servers are pretty good, playable with a ping up to 150. Should be 6 Servers out there.
My best friend to this day I meet him in DayZ when I first started on DayZ Dallas server. I swear we still reminisce about our old base we lost but how it was a great game to play especially during the beginning of the pandemic
Is Dalas server from DayzMod right? It was a well-known server at the time.
@@Manuzoka1996 vanilla servers.
@@lt.dashkov1079 Thank you... We all miss dayzmod. I mean, do you still play? I do.
@@Manuzoka1996 no sadly my friends and I work different shifts and with the Dallas vanilla server forever shutting down I haven't had the need to get back on the game. although recently we played for 2 hours and I remembered why I loved this game bc i played it with friends and we had fun dying and killing each other.
I played this game since it was a mod and I must say it really pleases me to see how dedicated the fan base is for my beloved dayz
Got me into steam so thats all good i guess.
the arma 2 mod was way better
Dayz player here from back in the mod days, been missing the game so after a long night out I typed "dayz" into the youtube search bar to see if there were any recent uploads, this was the first one I clicked on, all I gotta say is, absolute masterpiece, you explained it perfectly right off the bat. Combined with the music and the silent killing spree. It was great. This is amazing and I hope you blow up. Nice vid.
Then you weren't a mod player cause this wasn't a big issue at all back then
@@thecowman6807 what's the point to a comment like yours? "What you're saying is not at all like the experiences I had so you MUST be lying!"... OK? You want everybody to think you're an expert of a dead mod for a 15 year old game? Just makes you come across as an ignorant, naive fool.
Also, the first like 60% of the video has nothing to do with hackers... it's possible he's referring to that? The concept of everybody shooting on sight?
Or maybe his experience was just different than yours. Just because you may have played a lot of Arma 2 DayZ doesn't mean you played it ALL. You likely stuck to the types of servers you were used to, and he the same. Ever consider that?
@@conceptualme It has to do with the fact that during that time the cheating market was small to non-existant. There were no dayz cheats being sold, heck, there were barely any cheats being sold at all for any game. The few dayz cheats that did exist were only developed and used by a few people that would get patched again within days or a week max.
He couldn't possibly be talking about KoS problems because that's all dayz was back then lol. The OG dayz mod, the one like the current SA, was a clusterfuck of killing and noobs not knowing how to play. That mod died within a very short amount of time because people got bored of it and moved onto the next mods which were dayz origins and dayz epoch. PvP was the main purpose of those mods. Lol nobody even tried having friendly interactions in those mods because that isn't what people wanted.
Seems to me like you are one of those kinda people that thinks they are cool for lying about having played the mod and is now getting irritated because you are realizing that all the lies you've been spreading are based on non-sense that never happened or existed making you look like a fool.
Cheater Charma Story; I remember seeing a relatively geared guy with just a 380 pistol out at like 500 yards and he headshot me instantly, I got up from passing out ran a bit and he hit me again, when I woke up this time he was looting my body ( I was fresh spawn with an apple and some rags carrying a hatchet lol don't even know why I was worth the trouble) I pulled the hatchet and killed him with it he ended up having a ton of good shit on him he had already taken from others obviously. After that day I always thought, Imagine being so bad at the game that you get killed by a fresh spawn using cheats, while geared. This is why I decided to never cheat, because every once and a while something like that happens and I sleep good for weeks lol!
I miss the days of the Arma 2 Day Z Mod when you could actually have fun instead of what it is now which is a hiking simulator which it is now full of cheaters and crappy community servers with no mods/corrupt mods who abuse the tools given to them.
this is the first result I got when I searched up why do people quit dayz when I first started playing
Used to play a lot of DAYZ with the boys and have so much fun. Pity they couldn't make the game less janky and more modern and fix a lot of janky stuff. The core game and map is so damn good.
Tools think they are playing Rust. That shit gets old. Working together and building trust leads to an infinitely better experience.
I only really got into DayZ through console. Playing only vanilla, the game felt way more alive. Went over to pc and all the mods just ruined the game for me. I can't even play for longer than 30 min anymore. 7k hours of gameplay. DayZ will always be a core memory for me.
Same started on ps4 and put so many bours into it, moved over to dayz and enjoyed the smooth gameplay (frame rate wise) but I got bored quickly probably have less than 10 hours on pc. Dayz will forever live on in my memories. RIP.
I just play almost official (community) on Cbox servers
I remember my first time playing, I asked for help and a Aussie kinda helped me and pointed me in the direction of a city but I kept on trying to ask how I should play, with nothing in hand and not even knowing how to eat my apple he said if something along the lines of
If I keep on helping you, you're not gonna learn. Popped me right there.
and with that, you learned the most fundamental rule of the game lol
There’s a few major issues with DayZ, especially official servers. Remember official servers have no rules and players will use every possible way of surviving and taking advantage on any situation. Trusting people is more of a gut feeling but no matter how nice a person can sound remember this is DayZ, some players instinct when they become hungry is to kill there buddy who they met 10 minutes ago.
Official servers are fun, and it’s the core survival of the game. Everything is on default, there no rules. I’m a console player the only cheats we gotta worry about it’s glitches that players abuse. One particular server is always popular on Xbox but the major issue is how geared players have ventured to fresh spawns and build bases that early players couldn’t raid. As soon as they hear the slight gunshot they’ll hunt you down, and these bases are scattered in major city spawns. Oh and seeing you go on a rampage with the shotgun is a good example why people quit as I’ve stopped playing multiple times from spawning near a town and two players horde the police station shooting any fresh spawn they want and this happens 80% of the spawns you get as some players just enjoy staying around areas that are simple to them.
Community servers will always be better, but some of there rules can be damn right crazy.
It is annoying surviving for long period of hours looking for base stuff to only die and you get that feeling to why should I bother and many of times I’ve come off for a few days purely because DayZ will show you why it’s a brutal unfair survival game.
Best rendition of The Human League ever made Zesty. Instant sub, mainly due to the video being overall great but the song at the end was an epic cherry on top. I'm now motivated to go get murdered in Day Z for a day or two before I uninstall again. Thanks for brightening my day!
The game has come a long way over the past 10 years and especially so within the past 4 years. I love the game but yeah. The hacker situation is just mind boggling. There's so many ways that it can be countered but there always seems to be an excuse or lack of communication. I've always talked about a report button being implemented directly to BattleEye for this reason but nothing. Community is great and all, but when you just want to play vanilla and this happens, yeah. Sour taste in the mouth.
Keep up the great content as usual.
Been playing DayZ for about a week now. Main complaint is food and water. In reality I drink like 2 water bottles a day, eat dinner maybe snack. I think thats almost everybody’s diet its not good but not too bad and DayZ if you dont look at food in a span of 15 mins you’re better off dead. My only complaint besides stiff animations
I enjoyed this video. I’ve got a decent amount of time in the game now and 90% of the time play on official. I honestly can say I have yet to encounter a hacker. This video definitely answered my question about why people don’t play official. It’s sad honestly the devs should’ve have done something about this a long time ago.
same here don’t encounter hackers very often if at all but i play community mostly which tend to have admins who care somewhat
Official servers r full of hackers
Came for the DayZ content, stayed for the Fable soundtrack.
Its not that the devs dont care. Its that the studio is too small and they dont make enough money to be able to invest enough people into that. And i think poor management
Thank you for putting the time in to make this relatable video. ❤️
They are already taking the game into an arcade-y direction with the gas zones and the gunplay, so why not just re implement the old humanity system, give a way to distinguish bandits and buffs to heroes. Also if food and stuff was not so insanely rare, people would not feel like they need to KOS
No game has fillied in the DayZ gap... Once yuou play it, nothing can compare... I would love to see it evolve into a modern engine. This Video was my first encounter with your content... I SUBBED. Keep it up my man!
This is exactly how I found the game. Me and a friend were looking for the perfect apocalyptic survival game where you could build your own home base, have a hunger system, and plenty of weapons/guns among many other things to make it a good game. I’ve not found another game that does this whilst going into the detail that dayz does.
I loved fable and got it on release and didn't care about any promises Peter made, I just really enjoyed the game for what it was and the music in this video just brought back all those memories, thanks 😊👍
@@danielcalabrese5769 w fable
On console, the only cheaters are dupers, but community servers are still so much better
In a world where content seems to be getting worse and worse by the day, you sir, deserve so many more subscribers. I was just about to say I’m done with TH-cam but you’ve given me hope again. Keep up the great work!
hackers have taken over this game its unplayable. straight garbage.
The silent fable music it gets me, the only game I ever speedran (by accident as a kid before I knew the concept, I was just challenging myself) but the music just creates atmosphere instantly and you had the volume perfect
Killing the medic was so fucking funny after the build up of leaving him be
Since Livonia is behind a separate paywall, it's theoretically the safest map. There's still the occasional invisible speed puncher, but you mainly encounter them after sales and early on in the patch cycle. Playing on free weekends is laughably bad. Worst multiplayer experience in my life.
ive known about dayz since it was the arma 2 mod. i have a cat at my mom's house named namalsk.
i have never played or touched dayz. closest ive gotten is playing apocalypse rising on roblox when i was like 12.
it just looks like a game thats impossible to get into unless you have a group of friends who play it and invite you to join their group.
im old enough to remember when killing on sight branded you a bandit, and now that killing on sight is the norm/meta (why in the hell should a survival game have a kill/death counter) the social aspect of the sandbox survival genre is completely gone, ruining the appeal entirely to new players.
survival games are much more social than competitive, and as long as dayz and rust are the only successful options, virtually nobody is going to be getting into them. like, the entire reason the game was popular to get into 12 years ago is gone now. why expect the games to still get players?
Wow this is brutally honest hahaha
And if I'm being honest, this is instantly one of my favorite DayZ related videos ever. I'm console, but the cheating and glitching is still there. I relate to this man's story as if it's my own.
I am still hopelessly stuck in Chernarus however.
There is no hacking on consoles....It's not possible. Glitches, yeah. If xbox is crossplay with pc then expect hackers.
Dayz will never die and that's the great aspect of it. People are lazy and don't wanna learn. They just want to be good right away. But that's whats so special about Dayz. You put the work in and then you end up being like smoke and can clear out a 4 man.
I have Been playing dayz for 114 hours only on official servers and I have only had 1 potential hacker incident
I don't know how many hours in the game is considered veteran or what, but after more than 5,100 hours myself, I still love the game. I don't find it buggy. And I have tried more than 187 Community servers now (I'm keeping a spreadsheet of which ones I've tried and why I quit, etc.) because I suck at PvP, and (perhaps for that reason) I'm more into exploration and honing my loot skills, and I want to compete with the environment, not KoS players. Ultimately my goal is to set up my own server, and maybe that's why there are many thousands of Community servers ... players who love the game but tire of being one-tapped by children decide to set things up how we like them. Fun video. Thanks for some chuckles.
What I dont like is base building it takes to long to build a tiny base when you just get raided and or cant spawn in the base because they didnt make a spawn in base mechanic
Spent 5 hours gathering loot just to DC and lose it all.
Start again, loot for 2 hours only to be shot dead instantly from who knows where.
That is the essence of why I left this game years ago, and when I came back that’s the welcome I got. Don’t want to play a game that actively dislikes being played.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people are willing to cheat and ruin an amazing experience for other people. This is why I will never buy a gaming PC over a console. Cheaters and hackers in video games is typically a PC exclusive problem. I have been playing DayZ on Xbox for a while now and I have not encountered a single hacker.
My experience with these types of games is just lots of time looting, small amounts of action. I can't quite get into it because every time I play it's mostly just looting and that's not fun.
Today i was playing this after 5 years and its even in the worse state that it used to be . I cant find loot on emoty servers all doors closed found zero food died of hunger or cold the temperature system is absolutely ridiculous and they put a stamina bar into a literal fucking running simulator
In the mod, everyone shot everyone and did not stop to ask any questions. I played the mod sooooo much back when it was the best thing ever and I think I came across one person who had the hero skin (which was very hard to get) and didn't shoot my friend and I on site. Sadly I pulled the trigger on him when he had just given my buddy a transfusion. It's a cold world I tell ya
7 minutes 15 seconds.
that's where i said fuck it.
but I'm stubborn and i came back
He was so filled w rage he demolished every single life in the game 🤣
The reward to time ratio is broken. With the amount of games today it’s not justified. Great foundation and fun, but critically flawed.
I used to be neutral until I was getting killed by bandits all the time. That's why most people KOS, they've been through it and want to take you out before you take them out.
yep, Im new to the game and im already sick of being KOS so ye
I miss this game. Got into it really heavily a few years ago when it first came to Xbox. I was so psyched to see it was available and although I was hot garbage and the game ain’t that much of a looker I fondly remember all the interactions I had with people whether it was good, bad, or downright funny. I also loved the calmness of just walking through the forest only to panic at the thought that I saw something move in the distance and taking cover behind a tree for like 5 minutes only to realize I was just tripping. Good times
Dayz is just a psychopath simulator,the zombies aren't even a challenge to unarmed noods,they should be removed so the "players" can randomly kill each other,and everyone should be spawned with ALL weapons,otherwise why not just cheat invincibility and immortality.
The zombies don't even 'move' like zombies. They're much more like feral ghouls that you'd see in Fallout 4. I agree with you, the game would be more immersive with just humans (or even NPC characters / enemies) playing it.
The base raiding hacks are the most frustrating for me
I stopped because it felt like DayZ became a second job. Logging on everyday for hours to work on a base, that would just end up getting garden plot raided or deserted by my clan. It took alot of the fun that I had in DayZ with some really good guys out.
Lol I love the startled look everyone gets when you catch them off guard, they all do the same kinda jump and panic thing with their arms lol
My first run through of Day Z included me not knowing how to survive and also running into a squad of soldiers who all was like “get outta here this is our area” and I was like “Ight”
"Ima' fuckin medic! This is a war crime" lol had me rollin.
6:14 dude probably shit himself. Cause I know I would’ve. lmfao
When I was inexperient, I died to a player hiding on a bush using a silenced SMG, and when I listened to the shooting at a close range, I remember thinking: Did I die of an electric shock?
My case was I bought the game, started official server, I run around the fuckin map for 30 minutes without finding anything apart some shitty clothes and then nightime falls and I turn that shit off never to look back. Only thing that pisses me is that I didnt refund so now I have this crap in my library 🙂
At some point you are fed up with the constant KOS players that you either quit DayZ or become the problem itself. But remember that there are people who have a kind soul and reflect that in their playstyle. Being a bambi saint is a lot more fun and provides more experience than a fresh spawn killer, who does nothing else but waste ammo on bambis.
Dude the medic part had me rolling. Lmao I never laughed so hard before lol
BRO JUST CASSUALY WENT ON A RAMPAGE 😂😂😂