DayZ Standalone
 

Anyone else play? Been hooked for a couple weeks now, looking for people to play with.

I spend too much time going solo. :(

I'm pretty good now, but I haven't tried sniping yet. Spent a few hours getting gear yesterday and now ive got extra to share if someone wants to go base hopping and chopper hunting.

why would you play that junk when H1Z1 IS 1000X BETTER than dayz ever could be

Nah, not a fan of that game yet

h1z1 much better game, and its not nearly as dead as dayz... however, h1z1 hacking is rampant, so not worth playing that atm

not much hacking these days....they are banning hackers

Havent seen a hacker in a week on h1z1, play nightly.

its been longer than a week for me

DayZ dead? What?

I'm going to try to be civil, despite growing distaste for things like "H1Z1 is better 1000x!"

I still enjoyed p1999 a few years back and I still enjoy old or niche games which most others don't. I know from experience old(er) games can give me things newer ones don't. I've seen good games be trashed by "mainstream" or "streamlining" changes. Whenever I see lines like "H1Z1 is better 1000x!" I have to vomit a little, until I can actually play it myself.

Now, sometimes it's clear as day that an old(er) game is too outdated. For example, it's hard for me to stomach text-based games, unless it's maybe Dwarf Fortress, but that's still a stretch. Secondly, there're just plain BAD inventory/UI schemes and other terrible things like lack of customizable keys and low resolution - the former being foremost. Then there're things like too little hand holding (the reverse of too much) and too much reliance on savegames. So, you see, sometimes I can join in on the "X is better 1000x!" routine.

However, sometimes the devil is in the details. There're so many treasures to be found in old games. Things which still haven't been repeated or have seen too little light. I've seen it more times than I want to mention. Really, how much do I have to bring it up? No, I'm done doing that. I'm at the point in my gaming life where if I like something then I like it. If it's popularly unliked or treated as cow turds then I really don't care, unless it's stuffed in my field of view, prohibiting me from actually enjoying what I enjoy.

I'm sure H1NZ will offer a lot DayZ doesn't and many of you will be frothing at the mouth, exclaiming profanities towards older games like DayZ, happily clinging to your H1NZ taglines "1000x better!" And while I have to confess you're sometimes right, I also highly doubt you're worth anything to me. There's a grimace on my face as I ponder the reason flesh bags such as yourself are allowed to pounce on the corpses of past majesty so thoughtlessly.

I hope the OP finds some peeps to play with. Dayz looks fun to me. And quite the contrary to I've stated previously, so does H!Z1.

Day Z has a real reputation for hackers, and they've had a shed load of time to get it fixed but the engine(?) apparently is a real obstacle to getting it sorted.

In the meantime I've no plans to pay to play for "early access", it'll be outdated and dead by the time its released if they don't get ahold of those hackers soon.

Worst of all (perhaps) is people who are highlighting serious flaws on the Day Z forums are getting banned... what does that say to you for how much the devs care?