DayZ still worth getting?

Was thinking about getting it, but last I heard it's filled with hackers, god mode's, etc. Is that true still? Should I wait for the stand-alone?

Rumor has it the Standalone won't be coming untill close to Xmas. Personally i just got back into it and it's ALOT of fun. i hear some people on servers complaining about hackers but i haven;t seen one yet i think it's just whining because they died.:P

Wait for the standalone. That's what i'm doing

A new update just came out that fixes a bunch of things and there aren't nearly as many hackers as there were a couple of months ago.

Its in pretty good shape right now and its probably not a bad time to get into it.

I'm still waiting to see what ends up the better game, WarZ or DayZ.Totalgym9000

[QUOTE="Totalgym9000"]I'm still waiting to see what ends up the better game, WarZ or DayZ.Lyncaster

Warz is cancerously bad. Its ugly, dull and full of hackers.

[QUOTE="Lyncaster"][QUOTE="Totalgym9000"]I'm still waiting to see what ends up the better game, WarZ or DayZ.with_teeth26

Warz is cancerously bad. Its ugly, dull and full of hackers.

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[QUOTE="Lyncaster"] WarZ is my favorite, mostly because Its engine is more suited for zombies. But it still has a bit to go in the Ai department. Do you have both?Lyncaster

Warz is cancerously bad. Its ugly, dull and full of hackers.

yea I got a guest pass so fortunately I didn't have to pay for it.

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Warz is cancerously bad. Its ugly, dull and full of hackers.

with_teeth26

yea I got a guest pass so fortunately I didn't have to pay for it.

I'm still waiting to see what ends up the better game, WarZ or DayZ.Totalgym9000

WarZ is an absolutely horrible game and not even in the same league as DayZ. It's clunky, broken and very poorly made. It's not fun at all.

[QUOTE="Totalgym9000"]I'm still waiting to see what ends up the better game, WarZ or DayZ.Lyncaster

DayZ will fix most issues in it's engine and design in the standalone as optimisation occurs and really changes the game.

WarZ however, is horrendously dull to play.

If you want a zombie survival game get war-z

If you want a zombie survival experience then get day-z

Thats the best way to put it...i prefer the latter

Edit: oh also day-z has alt look which means you can look in directions opposite to the way you are running crawling etc...for a zombie survival game its a life saver

wait for the standalone

A new update just came out that fixes a bunch of things and there aren't nearly as many hackers as there were a couple of months ago.

Its in pretty good shape right now and its probably not a bad time to get into it.

with_teeth26

Damn i hear nothing but bad things about War Z sucks because it *looks* ok.

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A new update just came out that fixes a bunch of things and there aren't nearly as many hackers as there were a couple of months ago.

Its in pretty good shape right now and its probably not a bad time to get into it.

MW2ismygame

Well to be honest I've only been playing on Namalsk which isn't terribly well known so I can't speak for Chernerous or Lingor but I get the sense that most hackers got bored and moved on. It was truly awful a couple of months ago though.

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A new update just came out that fixes a bunch of things and there aren't nearly as many hackers as there were a couple of months ago.

Its in pretty good shape right now and its probably not a bad time to get into it.

with_teeth26

Well to be honest I've only been playing on Namalsk which isn't terribly well known so I can't speak for Chernerous or Lingor but I get the sense that most hackers got bored and moved on. It was truly awful a couple of months ago though.

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[QUOTE="MW2ismygame"] So if i went back i wont have to start a new character on a new server every 10 min ? because the hacking was so bad and thats what made me stop for a while. Still some great fun when there were no hackers in game. Id say give it a try. KHAndAnime

Well to be honest I've only been playing on Namalsk which isn't terribly well known so I can't speak for Chernerous or Lingor but I get the sense that most hackers got bored and moved on. It was truly awful a couple of months ago though.

Thats good to hear.

You must have been lucky though, I ran into so many freaking hackers in the weeks before I stopped playing, across Lingor, Chernerous, Fallujah...

One hacker on Lingor caused everyone to start dancing for a few minutes. Later he caused everyone to float into the air and then fall to their deaths. I also encountered multiple hackers using choppers that could not be shot down, people teleporting to me, people teleporting me to them, I saw everyone on a server get insta-killed, everyone get teleported to the same place in the sky, all the vehicles on a server get teleported to one place, a dude who had his primary weapon replaced with a tank gun that shot huge building-destroying shells... it almost became worth playing to see what ridiculous hacks you would encounter.

I haven't seen any hackers since I dipped in again so its looking good right now.

I'm gonna play it when the stand alone is released or maybe some time after. The game's amazing and it's in good hands, I just hope development never ceases and doesn't progress at a snails pace, the ideas Dean has for the game are great. Not gonna get War Z, doesn't touch the level of immersion or sense of realism you get from Day Z.

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[QUOTE="MW2ismygame"] So if i went back i wont have to start a new character on a new server every 10 min ? because the hacking was so bad and thats what made me stop for a while. Still some great fun when there were no hackers in game. Id say give it a try. KHAndAnime

Well to be honest I've only been playing on Namalsk which isn't terribly well known so I can't speak for Chernerous or Lingor but I get the sense that most hackers got bored and moved on. It was truly awful a couple of months ago though.

I played DayZ for a good few months until I got sick of playing it. Hackers did get somewhat annoying, but I was able to live with it as I was not running into too many to ruin the fun. However, the biggest issue that made me stop playing was because the game was too -predictable-. All the "good" loot spawned in specific places. The NW Airfield, for example, housed the best stuff in the game (aside from downed helicopters). What does this create? An environment where "bandits" and "survivors" gravitated toward the usual places because that's where the rewards are (survivors with loot drops and bandits fresh fresh meat). Personally, things could be more varied, keeping everyone on their toes. I have not played since late summer, so I am not sure if any of that changed.XIntoTheBlue

I don't play on Chernerous any more for that reason, its too predictable. In fact I don't play much at all any more for that reason.

Lingor is a much better map in terms of loot distribution, there are large cities and good loot spawns all over the map. However that also means you get geared quicker and run out of things to do quicker. Which is ultimately the problem with the game, once you know where/how to get geared and stay alive, the game loses much of its fun. I think a more intricate map with more reason to explore remote areas (like finding stashes in the Stalker games) would make things better.

What Dean really needs to do in the stand alone is improve the 'end game' - give people things to do besides gear up and kill each other. Like setting up permanent establishments, giving incentive for people to work together rather than kill each other on sight. That aspect of the game should stay - the intensity of running into another player and being unsure about whether or not to kill that player needs to remain, but right now essentially all encounters with unknown players end in a shootout. Dean needs to think of something to balance out the risk/reward of trusting another player.

Im still having a blast with it, been playing since it first came out to. Not as much hacking anymore either. Also there is two new maps that I like (Lingor Island and the snow level).

Cant wait for the standalone in Dec!

The threat of hackers would be enough to dissuade me from playing it. Hope they're combating that.