I actually played with some friends on a private hive over the weekend.
Without the hackers it was actually fun an exhilarating to step back in and attempt to survive again.
The ultimate problem is still the end game, once you have a group of well armed people that has a working vehicle and can take a town, loot it quickly and move on the only thing really left to do is hunt other players and ruin their day.
Um...that IS the endgame...what do you expect? The idea is that you never stop having to survive, at some point....someone will usurp your group and you have to survive it and continue on.
Honestly...I think if they want to make it harder (and put in an actual end game), then they need to make it so the items never replenish at all, and there is only a finite (albeit very large) number of zombies that spawn in the life of the server. This creates 2 possible outcomes:
1. You kill all zombies and game ends with stats over everyone still alive
2. You run out of food/weapons/ammo/etc and everyone starves to death or dies via other means.
Those are ultimately the only outcomes but either one would take alot of time to actually complete. Doing something like this is further complicated by the public server aspect of which people can join whatever server they want. A private server might be fun for a few friends, but ultimately would not really accomplish the same thing as a public server of unknown people.
What DayZ is trying to accomplish is a fine line. WarZ looks too much like a offshoot of Left4Dead to me. DayZ is on the right path.
IMO, that's a crappy End Game. The main reason that after a month and a half I lost all interest in the game.
So I saw this DayZ tourney today which was pretty interesting. It was 16 teams of 2, on the map Tavania. There are objectives which forced the teams to certain areas on the map. It went in three stages, eventually forcing everyone to a specific town.
There are game referees and they kinda attack players which are either camping or outside the game boundaries. They dont try to kill the players, but the zombie agro and gunfire alerts others to where they are and it generally gets them moving. The gamemaster also broadcasts text saying AI (referees) going here to do this or that, and its usually because the referees are trying to herd campers to where they are supposed to be. Or just a way for players to ambush the AI and get weapons and supplies. Active players could use this as an opportunity to ambush other players. Large sections of the map are firebombed, so if you dont move to the next stage you are dead. This is all within the narrative of survivors trying to escape a government containment protocol.
It was pretty intense when it got to the final town. Anyways, you can find more info here:
http://www.survivorgamez.com
Sounds very Hunger Gamish.
Um...that IS the endgame...what do you expect? The idea is that you never stop having to survive, at some point....someone will usurp your group and you have to survive it and continue on.
Honestly...I think if they want to make it harder (and put in an actual end game), then they need to make it so the items never replenish at all, and there is only a finite (albeit very large) number of zombies that spawn in the life of the server. This creates 2 possible outcomes:
1. You kill all zombies and game ends with stats over everyone still alive
2. You run out of food/weapons/ammo/etc and everyone starves to death or dies via other means.
Those are ultimately the only outcomes but either one would take alot of time to actually complete. Doing something like this is further complicated by the public server aspect of which people can join whatever server they want. A private server might be fun for a few friends, but ultimately would not really accomplish the same thing as a public server of unknown people.
What DayZ is trying to accomplish is a fine line. WarZ looks too much like a offshoot of Left4Dead to me. DayZ is on the right path.
Yea except this is a realistic(ish) Zombie survival game, not kill all the zombies you can game. What I'm seeing from some of these responses is that they want more to "do" and action..which isn't what this game is.
If the zombie apocalypse came, would you and a small group (2-3 people) take a small city? probably not...you'd be hiding in a building and scavenging and trying to stay as far away from zombies as you could
There needs to be a common goal, like say take the largest city in the town and secure it, except that it is just fucking LOADED with zombies, way more then normal.
If it were a realistic Zombie game, then items and Zombies would only spawn at the map creation. That would allow people to take cities, since new Zombies would not spawn. Plus, it would be nice if every time a player dies, his corpse becomes a zombie, which would slowly replenish the zombies.
are they releasing dayz standalone soon?