Originally Posted by Riyker

While I have only spoken to others who have reviewed it, as a software developer, the coolio part for me is the persistence aspeect. I wasn't aware that mission makers could write script that gave drive level access (or socket level database connectivity) to the scripts for persisting your Player data (and thus your complete inventory, location, status, etc.) so that it could be retrieved by the same MOD running on any other server.

Why haven't mission makers done this in the past? I can think of all sorts of creative reasons why this might be a really good idea -- most noteably the abilitity to save a current COOP mission, shut it down, and load that session again later to continue play where we left off last.

As for DayZ itself, I agree -- there needs to be some element of closure goals or reward system and the challenge is to stay alive to maintain your place in the post-appoc roster.

Namely because its extremely difficult and resource heavy, as well as impractical in a lot of scenarios outside of DayZ.

Originally Posted by Warlab

Can you elaborate on this Zephyr ?

My experience so far has been to get the title installed.
Join a server (which was very hard to do due to full servers and some apparently buggy loading).
Then I spent 30 minutes running up the coast of Chenarus to some houses.
Total darkness and driving rain. I found or saw nothing.


Edit: Just read the above posts more closely and see that 30 mins to spawn in is normal. Oh Lord. I hope the 12 year olds leave, that there will be some goals implemented, and yes I know its an Alpha.

What I meant was if you're trying to get into the servers, the non-US ones mainly are emptier and tend to not be only kids who think killing other players is the only goal.

Also, try to get some friends online, it will make the experience a lot better. Running around alone gets boring pretty quickly, especially when you can't get into most of the towns or cities safely without somebody watching your back.