Running across another player whilst scavenging another building is an intense moment. Once you experience that magic moment where you finally meet another player, you’ll immediately see why the complete ARMA 2 mod version was so popular. In a single play session, you might not even come across a single person, although that is thankfully rare if you stick to the main cities. Designing an entire game around the emergent activities of players is always a dangerous one and its something that DayZ has decided to completely rest its systems upon. They’ll swipe and groan, run around in circles, sometimes they’ll just stare at the wall while you wail on them with a sack of fertilizer.ĭayZ has one sole strength – player interaction. The zombies are worse than last-gen, they feel like remnants of the original Xbox-era. If anything, they’re only useful as a hindrance while you fight other players. For as much as they scream and moan, they can barely do anything else. The underlying systems that power them may be interesting, but as soon as they get near to you, you’ll notice just how out of date they are. Unlike many of DayZ’s competitors, the zombies here feel remarkably unfinished. If they hear a gunshot in the distance, they’ll start to walk towards it. Sprinting close to them or getting into fights near them will cause the shambling corpses to notice you. They aren’t great, but they react well to the environment around them. In between areas, you’ll interact with the game’s titular Zs – the zombies. I hit the ground unscathed I randomly died ten seconds later. I found the highest building I could and leaped from the top. Whether it’s a gun and some ammo, rags and alcohol or a cliff and your body so you can end your own misery – it rarely feels satisfying. Most of your time in the husk that is DayZ will be spend trying to find things that work together.
As your hunger and thirst rises, your health declines.
Wandering from empty house to empty hour, scavenging food, drink and endless amounts of clothing you don’t want is most of the alleged “gameplay” here. Wandering throughout DayZ’s streets is a lonely experience – fittingly so. Instead of helping DayZ grow and nurture, this standalone release hasn’t breathed new life into the game. With the foundations set, all that was needed was an expansion and improvement upon the core concept of an open-world zombie survival game. Its foundation as one of the world’s most popular mods ever meant should have helped. After five years in early access, you’d probably think that DayZ’s standalone release would be fantastic.
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