DayZ was originally a mod for ARMA 2. It got so popular that the developers decide to approve the mod to be made into a standalone and will provide support for the project.

The popularity of DayZ spawn a lot of zombie games which survival and human PVP is a norm.

WarZ was also created when the DayZ mod was popular and was released first. Unfortunately, due to the arrogance and also unpopularity of the WarZ developers, they got into trouble when Steam Community ganged up and accuse them of lying and also cheating which prompted Steam to pull the game of their service until some kind of fix or warning is given to what the game's state is. It is now renamed to Infestation which is available on Steam.

Due to the furore over WarZ, the hype for DayZ standalone increased a lot as more people are aware of the supposed 'original' game. This stressed the developers and they somehow decided to delay the release of the standalone. This further allowed more games of the same nature like Rust, 7 ways to die etc. to spawn and take over the vacuum. Suddenly, this type of game genre is proven very popular and more games including AAA titles of the same nature is due for release with same base of survival and PVP.

To answer your question, the only objective in DayZ is to stay alive for as long as you can and do what you want in the time given to you. There is no score card/table, no K/D ratio, no "Promotions" like Battlefield/COD, no levels, no stats to upskill, no names floating above a players head, no way to form groups, no way to form clans, etc. The more you play DayZ, the more you value life less and you will be tempted to kill a person just for a can of beans although you aren't hungry.

But overall this game is not finished. It's far from finished I would say. The developer himself actually told potential customers to NOT buy the game at the current Alpha and buy RUST instead because it was more complete compared to DayZ Alpha. With more than 800k sold, I think the developers got more Alpha testers than it can imagined so I think they rather turn down the hype meter for now so they can sell the more complete DayZ for more money later.

This post has been edited by Skidd Chung: Jan 10 2014, 08:17 AM

If you manage to find a scope for the mosin, keep it for me ya.

To be decked out, you need pristine parts for all your weapons including an ACOG scope for your M4 Carbine. Then you can shoot straight past 200 meters.

Previously I did not had a scope but my aiming part was badly damaged, I tried shoot a zombie from far, totally missed unless then came very near.

This post has been edited by Skidd Chung: Jan 10 2014, 11:22 AM

Lol. Oh man, you wait till you get killed while decked out in gear.

The pain!!!

Bwahaha, snipers normally shoot the ones with the best gear first. So that the others will try to save the loot.

Deer stands
Certain double storey house has no loot in the upstair room/attic.

Actually these places make very good hiding places as people who know these no loot places, tend to avoid it as well. Other than newbies who keep on checking.

Yes you can. Check your video settings and play around with it for best viewing pleasure.

Also remember the FOV slider. Lots of people get dizzy if its too little. But maximizing it, you don't get as dizzy.

Looks like you are at the NE air field.

Most of us are based near the NWAF, in one of the towns. Try to get some food, water and navigate yourself to towns like Stary Sobor or Novy Sobor areas. Most of us should be close by to come get you and help you gear up.

Will add you in steam and invite you to DayZ group. So you can find other LYN players to meet up or join up.

This post has been edited by Skidd Chung: Jan 10 2014, 05:17 PM

Lol plastix died at the airbase? Omg what happen?

Oh man sucks to die while lagged out.

Found any nice 800m scope for my mosin? ^^

You have to watch YouTube videos to get an idea.

Then it's useless to try to reach you.

Best is to re-spawn and try again since you are still not fully equipped.

OK added a few of the new people here as friends. Once accept invite I will sent invitatin to join our LYN DAYZ group.

Please set up a mic if you have one. We are using Steam voice chat to talk while we are playing, instead of typing.

Whats your steam ID?

Look for talexeh.

We met up yesterday night but de-sync issues is really terrible. We can hardly stay together as a group. Ended up only bestdo and myself was stable enough to raid a military camp before de-syncing again. Rei7 tried to join us, but whenever he joins the server, we de-sync...


But mid Jan we should be seeing another patch. And possible character wipe.

This post has been edited by Skidd Chung: Jan 11 2014, 09:38 AM

Been searching all over the forums. Some suggested it was ruined items in your inventory. I threw that out, doesn't work.

Some said it was my graphics, so I turned everything off and to the lowest and the game looks like shit. Still doesn't work.

And I can play alone fine. But when we group up and try to meet each other in the same server, we all get sync issues.

For example, me and bestdo switched to a server and we immediately sync and was able to equip weapons and stuff. We told rei7 to join us as we are about to hit the base.

And the exact moment he joins, I de-synced. can't equip weapons, can't eat from inventory etc. There was no yellow/red chain either.

At first I joked it was probably him de-syncing the server. So he logged off to test, and true enough my character can start equipping items.

He logs back in and my character de-syncs again, can't equip etc.

I was reading steam forums and someone posted a solution/fix. According to that person, he was the cause of all the de-syncs happening to his friends whenever he joins the server. His was the only character not killed since the patch. So after killing himself, he could play again with his friends.... Seems like I have to kill rei7 in order to play with him... sorry rei.

Another solution was the inventory of geared up people. Some characters have bags within bags. Like containers within a container. It's currently an exploit and so far tested that if you have more than 7-9 bags in your character, you can crash an entire server if you log into one.

I realised this is very obvious when the latest patch came out. When our client was upgraded to the current version. Previously we had rubber banding which was very annoying. Then the fixed that and now we have this de-sync.

Yeah, uhmm... I'll just go do some paperwork now. Thanks for the reminder.

Just a question, do you have like a lot of stuff in your inventory? Like a bag within a bag etc?