DayZ

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5.1

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  1. jesus045
    Oct 26, 2019
    7
    The atmosphere of the game is good, interesting to play, but there are problems. Problems with loot, with zombies, with many, but the setting is good. I would like a single mode with survival and that the server is sometimes dead.
  2. D3D11
    Mar 27, 2022
    1
    This game is like a WASD simulator developed by a single man out of boredom in 3 days.

    Graphics is outdated but this is the smallest problem. The world is huge and empty, filled with empty buildings and furnitures which are but decorations, locked doors to cover laziness, but since you find nothing, it doesn't matter anyway. Combat feels bad. One fistfight with a zombie and you'll    This game is like a WASD simulator developed by a single man out of boredom in 3 days.

    Graphics is outdated but this is the smallest problem. The world is huge and empty, filled with empty buildings and furnitures which are but decorations, locked doors to cover laziness, but since you find nothing, it doesn't matter anyway.

    Combat feels bad. One fistfight with a zombie and you'll bleed to death. Jumping is worse than nothing. 20 minute and you starve to death, but no worries, there aren't any food (or anything) anywhere anyway. When you character gets sick (a couple of minutes without proper clothing), it sneezes and LAUGHING!

    Oh, and what zombies are we talking about? Those 3-4 you cross path with time to time?

    GUI is beyond ridiculous. It is like an alpha version of something. Completely unintuitive and there aren't ANY hints and explanations for what is what.

    If you ever played Project Zomboid (which is still a beta game), this game offers about 1% of it at best.

    Avoid it but you won't, because you have no other options to play an online zombie survival game.    … Expand
  3. badatvidyagames
    Mar 16, 2019
    0
    Another Early Access garbage, borderline scam, doubt they even tried playing it themselves.
  4. Ulfhednir
    Feb 20, 2019
    0
    It's a mess. This game is years and years in Beta status while taking the money from the players. Technically a catastrophe with no positive progression. You should not support this shibby Developer for this cashgrab. Better to give your money for charity or alcohol or even cigarettes. Everything is better than this shibby "game".
  5. Jordov
    Aug 5, 2019
    8
    I am giving this game an 8, but let me be clear; this is by the merit of the modding scene, not the mess that Bohemia Interactive has created. Give this game a chance, but don't even bother with Official servers, you will be disappointed.
  6. tehosiris
    Dec 19, 2018
    0
    6 years of early access, never hit it's developer milestones, slapped on a 1.0 sticker and pretending it's done to lure in more PC, PS4 and XboX customers.
    The very little content it has is full of bugs, borderline unplayable, again VERY little content on a HUGE AND EMPTY MAP that is swarming with bugs instead of zombies.
    Avoid.
  7. fitteslim
    Dec 25, 2018
    3
    They took the unfinished pile of crap they had, removed 50% of the most buggy and incomplete features and content and put a 1.0 label on it. The fact that the game still gives the impression of a half-baked and untested alpha-version is testament to how **** up this development project is. Among the serious bugs you will find are things like your character suddenly dying for no reason whenThey took the unfinished pile of crap they had, removed 50% of the most buggy and incomplete features and content and put a 1.0 label on it. The fact that the game still gives the impression of a half-baked and untested alpha-version is testament to how **** up this development project is. Among the serious bugs you will find are things like your character suddenly dying for no reason when you log in and persistency not working (i.e. tents, cars, content disappearing). Zombies are still a very weak work-in-progress after all these years.

    What you have working after five years of development is upgraded animations. character control, grahpics, sound and performance. The developers don't seem to have had the time to even think about designing the gameplay itself. Fundamental parts such as the survival aspect are not even a relevant part of the gameplay as the game works right now.

    Calling this 1.0 is an insult to everyone who paid money for it.    … Expand
  8. kuczmcym
    Feb 8, 2019
    0
    Stay away! This game is dead and abandoned.

    Stuck in "alpha" for years and stagnated development. They finally decided to just call it released and hope they can squeeze the last few suckers out of a few bucks.
  9. oso
    Jan 4, 2019
    0
    After years of stagnant development dayz takes a huge leap from version 0.63 to 1.0. I have been playing the game from time to time during the whole development process only to see it end in an shameful disaster.
    To consider calling this product a finished game one must be completely biased or plain stupid. The amount of time and resources that went into the project is enormous compared    After years of stagnant development dayz takes a huge leap from version 0.63 to 1.0. I have been playing the game from time to time during the whole development process only to see it end in an shameful disaster.
    To consider calling this product a finished game one must be completely biased or plain stupid. The amount of time and resources that went into the project is enormous compared to the old dayz mod. Over the whole development period the project has been ridden by bad decision making and denying whatsoever information that was left to the community. Also any criticism/questioning on the official boards towards the developers is being censored and usually leads to a lifetime ban for the author.
    I do strongly advise against purchasing this game at the moment. A full price is in no way justified since none of the promised milestones have been reached. Even worse the developers deleted their own milestones and simply stated the game as finished product.    … Expand
  10. genetix987
    Nov 25, 2019
    0
    never seen a game that bad for 35 dollar you have a non finished product with lot of bug, and outdated graphics. Also in less than 20 minutes you die because you are hungry or thirsty lmfao, is that suppose to be realisitc ?
  11. Whitesnake79
    Jun 18, 2019
    10
    Hay muchos survivals pero ninguno como DayZ, a pesar de sus bugs y de sus haters.
  12. AngryStarling
    Dec 20, 2018
    2
    Как и многие другие я доверился разработчикам и купил игру в 2013 году, активно следил за всеми её обновлениями, релиз обещали к 2015му, даже на оффициальном сайте это было написано. Могу сказать, что тут и одной рецензии не хватит чтобы перечислить всё то, что они обещали и как итог не добавили. Игра все такая же пустая, и забагованная. Релиз НАСТОЛЬКО сырого и неиграбельного продукта этоКак и многие другие я доверился разработчикам и купил игру в 2013 году, активно следил за всеми её обновлениями, релиз обещали к 2015му, даже на оффициальном сайте это было написано. Могу сказать, что тут и одной рецензии не хватит чтобы перечислить всё то, что они обещали и как итог не добавили. Игра все такая же пустая, и забагованная. Релиз НАСТОЛЬКО сырого и неиграбельного продукта это просто плевок в лицо тех кто удосужился её купить. Я крайне разочарован в проекте, и жалею о потраченном на неё косаре.… Expand
  13. BaldwinE
    Dec 18, 2018
    5
    After 4 years of early access the game is out and I tried it during the free weekend extensively. The game still feels like it's in early stages of early access. It can't be a beta since it seems to lack so much content.

    The map is huge but absolutely empty. There are some nice places, where the exterior looks nice and provides a little city or rural atmosphere. But the inside they look    After 4 years of early access the game is out and I tried it during the free weekend extensively. The game still feels like it's in early stages of early access. It can't be a beta since it seems to lack so much content.

    The map is huge but absolutely empty. There are some nice places, where the exterior looks nice and provides a little city or rural atmosphere. But the inside they look all absolutely the same. Just after 30 min I was already bored from the visuals, just running from building to building because the next one has a bigger coat placed in it. Most disappointing are the hospitals and industrial building. They are just completely empty, seriously. Just the loot changes but nothing more.

    Then there is the huge issue that this game offers no goals to aim for for the player. One just gets spawned into the world. Surviving is an absolute joke since food is in abundance available. It has survival elements but it is never a threat. The threat are other player which you encounter every 5 hours or so on a high populated server. These encounters are fun, with tensions and can end brutal. But there is not winning or loosing in general. Only two "endgame" goals, building a base and repairing car. Both are extremely time consuming and frustrating. I mean 15 hours at least and if not done without breaks, the chances are very high someone steals you stuff. But even if one gets this done, there is no payoff in any way. A working car is useless, when there are no places to go.

    Third aspect is the very basic fighting system and half assed inventory management. The zombies offer no threat whatsoever. I thought first, that one has to time dodging and attacking to bring them down with melee but then quickly realized that just standing and spamming is the only way to go. No matter how crappy or good the weapon is, it's always the same. There is no aiming down sights for some weapons (I probably haven't found all), which would be very beneficial for human encounters. There is no tutorial for the inventory and it's not self explanatory, only a 10 min youtube video showed me what to do.

    The last aspect is the lag in moments that counts. Just roaming around works fine but in zombie battles it stutters massively. If one has to fight two zombies, there is a high chance two or three hits will be taken just because of the stutters. But it is just a minor thing, since the zombies are walking tuna (food to eat) bags anyway. It just makes bashing zombies less fun.

    All in all it is a somehow unique but widely boring experience. I give it an average 5 for the nice idea but with a huge lack of content to back it up. The map could have been easily half the size but with more things to do.

    I would only recommend this game to people who are in for the rare but exhilarating human encounters, probably nice with a friend or two (but it takes a whole gaming session just to find each other).    … Expand
  14. Sal
    Dec 20, 2018
    2
    To the dayz devs :- When we get content parity with where we were 3 years ago, i will still not update this review because you were dishonest and incompetent. This is the final score you get for your "finished" game. I hope this fills you with the pride i felt when you released "1.0"
  15. COTOR
    Feb 19, 2019
    0
    Главная халтура этого мира за всё время.Разработчики получили горы денег,а по итогу игра уже кучу лет в разработке.
  16. Daishoung
    Dec 26, 2018
    10
    Скачал раз в год, посмотреть чего поменяли - бегаешь 40 часов, набиваешь палатку пушками, одним утром понимаешь что всё с3.14здили (stolen), умираешь от рандомной пули.

    11 рюкзаков набитых яблоками из 10
  17. Karlos14
    Dec 23, 2018
    9
    +++
    Very good hardcore survival game with a great atmosphere. Beautiful realistic graphics. Good optimalization. Complex combat mechanics and crafting.
    You have only one life. When they kill you, you lose everything and you have to start a new game. This creates a feeling of real survival. - - - Still enough bugs Some content is missing as a several weapons but it will be back soon    +++
    Very good hardcore survival game with a great atmosphere. Beautiful realistic graphics. Good optimalization. Complex combat mechanics and crafting.
    You have only one life. When they kill you, you lose everything and you have to start a new game. This creates a feeling of real survival.

    - - -
    Still enough bugs
    Some content is missing as a several weapons but it will be back soon
    Long development
    Few building models. They are almost the same

    The game may look complicated, but it needs patience and understanding to be repaid.    … Expand
  18. MatteumPrimo
    Dec 27, 2018
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. [Ita] L'arrivo della versione beta (o 1.0) di DayZ sullo store di Valve dopo il proprio travagliato sviluppo è stato un evento. E noi del Videogame Post.NET l'abbiamo provato per dirvi se vale la pena comprarlo ora o aspettare. E le conclusioni tendono più sulla prima.

    La recente sorpresa di un DayZ finalmente in fase beta (o versione 1.0) e gratuitamente disponibile su Steam, dopo un travagliato sviluppo partito da una semplice (si fa per dire) mod di ArmA 2, mi ha portato a curiosare nello zombie survival di Bohemia Interactive, che ha molto da offrire e qualcosa su cui lavorare.

    Da totale new entry del gioco, all’inizio ci si può trovare spaesati e senza una precisa meta. Cosa fare? Una rapida occhiata all’interfaccia mi aveva fin da subito fatto accorgere che il mio personaggio aveva necessità di mangiare, bere e coprirsi; quindi perché non esplorare la vicina cittadina?

    In DayZ avrete a che fare con un vasto mondo multigiocatore, dove altre persone hanno già fatto le ossa e sono pronte a tutto. Oltre che composto da altri, che invece potrebbero essere spaesati e spaventati quanto voi. Sì, il brivido dell’imprevisto è palpabile e da’ quella marcia in più all’esperienza di gioco che altrimenti sarebbe stata stopposa come nei battleroyale.

    DayZ non va’ confuso come uno di essi, benché alla morte del proprio personaggio ne “nasca” un altro, perdendo equipaggiamenti e quant’altro. All’interno di questo zombie survival vi è di più. Vi è un’emozionante avventura che vi porterà a correre rischi per trovare delle apparenza innocue “pastiglie al cloro”, che invece serviranno per purificare l’acqua e non far morire il protagonista. Dove una bottiglia di plastica trovata in un market abbandonato nel nulla di una cittadina di
    Chernarus potrebbe essere il vostro miglior utensile della partita.

    Un gioco dove potreste vagare nel nulla per chilometri, trovando aeroporti, accampamenti, stazioni radio, elicotteri schiantati, automobili e camion che aveva visto di certo giorni migliori, cittadine e fattorie abbandonate. E alle volte qualche zombie che reagisce solo se provocato e dove il vero “lupo” è il giocatore che potrebbe seccarvi al prossimo angolo.

    Lasciate che vi racconti una breve storia: dopo diverse ore di gioco avevo trovato una strana torre che spiccava nel cielo. “Questa si vedrà da chilometri” avevo pensato, ma la curiosità aveva prevalso su tutto il resto. La stazione si era poi rivelata un vecchio avamposto militare con tanto di zombie in tuta mimetica all’ingresso, prontamente evitato stando accovacciato e non facendo rumore. All’interno della torre bianca a strisce rosse avevo trovato un giubotto anti-coltello; sotto diverse armi, caricatori e una ricetrasmittente la quale aveva bisogno di una batteria per funzionare.

    “Lo zombie in mimetica è ancora lì. Ok, prossimo edifico” all’interno del quale avevo trovato un fucile mitragliatore. Uscito per ispezionare l’ultimo spazio inesplorato del campo non avevo più visto lo zombie in mimetica e ingenuamente avevo pensato che “si fosse spostato”. Avvicinandomi ancora di più all’ingresso dell’edifico ancora inesplorato avevo notato che lo stesso zombie era invece a terra, ma stava calando la notte (notte vera, dove non si vede a un palmo dal naso) e quindi avevo pensato che stesse “dormendo”.

    Ma così non era: una volta entrato avevo prima sentito una scarica di mitra e, poco prima del buio totale, visto un tipo con un elmo medievale in testa. GAME OVER.

    "Avrei ricominciato la partita dopo aver stupidamente perso tutto l’equipaggiamento accumulato in 7 ore di gioco? Sì."

    La prima esperienza è sempre quella più emozionante. Quella più autentica. E le mie prime 7 ore di gioco in DayZ penso che mi rimarranno nel cuore di videogiocatore per molto tempo.    … Expand
  19. Cabin4Boy
    Feb 18, 2019
    10
    Столько лет ожидания и не зря)))
    Игра получилась весьма привлекательной.
    10 из 10.
  20. mrbeanjoga3
    Dec 27, 2018
    10
    game is great, i recommend wait for a sale tho, also, haters gonna hate it.
  21. vomov
    May 22, 2020
    0
    It's bad enough that the game is unfinished and buggy, but it also ships with Battleye. Which I did not know when I wanted to try it out. So, here's what happens:
    1) I get the game during the free weekend, to try.
    2) I start the game, and get a message regarding Battleye. Some of the wording seemed very, very odd, so I decline. 3) It states the game "will not start" due to me declining,    It's bad enough that the game is unfinished and buggy, but it also ships with Battleye. Which I did not know when I wanted to try it out. So, here's what happens:
    1) I get the game during the free weekend, to try.
    2) I start the game, and get a message regarding Battleye. Some of the wording seemed very, very odd, so I decline.
    3) It states the game "will not start" due to me declining, so I investigate Battleye a bit.
    4) The game starts anyway, and crashes directly after the main menu.
    5) My system reports 'system files being accessed'. Turns out Battleye tries to access system files, as well as practically everything else.
    6) PiHole reports HUGE amounts of data from my computer to the internet being blocked. So, score one for PiHole.
    7) I uninstall DayZ from Steam.
    8) I manually kill the Battleye service, and delete the files it created without my permission. This gives an error on the next startup, but at least it's gone.

    I do not recommend.    … Expand
  22. Strong_K3isan
    Sep 12, 2019
    0
    Absolute Grbage , Repulsive and Foolishness , after FIVE YEARS Graphic and Gameplay two importantest elements of every video game really is horrible in this Garbage and any element else too. Developers are absolute Garbage , Moron and useless too.
  23. elreydelmambo04
    Jun 15, 2019
    1
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  24. Donnie_Plays
    May 31, 2019
    4
    I played the mod for Arma 2. First purchased the standalone in 2014 to help the development. I find myself disappointed in the overall game that I got. I'm writing this review because they are charging $44.99 now for the game and I do not feel it is worth that much money.

    They prioritized beards over working grenades in game on launch day. The zombies are still laggy. The overall feel    I played the mod for Arma 2. First purchased the standalone in 2014 to help the development. I find myself disappointed in the overall game that I got. I'm writing this review because they are charging $44.99 now for the game and I do not feel it is worth that much money.

    They prioritized beards over working grenades in game on launch day. The zombies are still laggy. The overall feel of the game reminds me of 2012. It's just not that year anymore. The movement is still clunky. Jumping is completely ridiculous. Vehicles are not operating properly. The base building system is a mess.

    The only redeeming thing about DayZ in 2019... the modding community. They added workshop so the modding community is finishing the game for BI. I suppose that is a fitting ending, since the modding community gave us DayZ in the first place. Unfortunately, I can't give a base game credit for the hard work the modders are doing, so I'm giving this a 4 out of 10.    … Expand
  25. RomanGor
    Nov 7, 2019
    6
    Противоречивая игра. С одной стороны годы альфа версии и недоработанный релиз. С другой - крутая атмосфера и отсутствие более или менее похожей замены.
  26. DJ-Darko
    Nov 25, 2019
    10
    Dayz. A difficult game to talk about. Many guys like and many not. Yes it took 5 years to 1.0 and is still long not finshed. But i think it was a great game. Many said it has so much bugs, but i must say i liked it with the bugs more than now, there were so much usefull bugs like run on a mountain if you hold g. The clone army or the lots of duping glitches. There are some bugs which wasDayz. A difficult game to talk about. Many guys like and many not. Yes it took 5 years to 1.0 and is still long not finshed. But i think it was a great game. Many said it has so much bugs, but i must say i liked it with the bugs more than now, there were so much usefull bugs like run on a mountain if you hold g. The clone army or the lots of duping glitches. There are some bugs which was not so funny like walking on a skyscraper and die randomly. But i still played the game. I have now nearlly 3000 hours and had many funny moments with my crew there. And i found new people in this game and that even though we were bandits the most of the time. For us it was a great tactic shooter. I know normally its a survival game but survival is boring. For us are the fights the best part of the game. It was not a boring fight like in CoD or other shooter where you kill for points and unlocking something. Here i had sometimes shaky hands and a strong heartbeat. Some fights were going around a hour. It was fun so much ways to kill some people. That is the funny part of the game. Spot people make an plan how you and your crew will kill them. Take position and wait on the moment he is somewhere open or somewhere you can hit him good. And than kill them. The sniping were fun aswell. Sometimes we shoot around 800 and 1000 meters. And i know the times were no rangefinder was in game or rangefinder was broken again and you had to find out the distance with a map like iZurvive and measure manually the distance. And the weapons had a nice sound. The version withut the zombies were my favorite version, because you could concentrate on fighting. I like Dayz more without the zombies and if you ask me i liked the older versions more than the new one. More loot and more weapons and other things at a military. I know at the beginning times where you was at balota airfield tents and you found around 5 M4s. Yeah at the beginning there was a big tent city at balota. It was nice. And i remember the time where you could made the big scope on the mosin and the knife in front of it where you look like a lightning rod. Or at the times where the cars got no damage or where you could drive underwater and you were driving to the prison island underwater. With a bit of luck you hit the island. Best times ever. Never had such a great time in a game. You see a lot of the great moments were because of the bugs. Escapre from Tarkov is near this feeling but it is not the same feeling. One things which is better than at beginning is the graphic. I give them 10 points because i had a great time with it but for know the dayz time is over for me. Maybe i will play it again at a later time to get that nostalgia.… Expand
  27. KommanderWar
    Jul 3, 2020
    8
    O jogo é muito bugado, os zumbis são retardados demais por que não mias lentos? os arbustos que seguram balas, a falta de alguns conteúdos muito uteis como carregar um corpo, ajudaria muito.. enquanto mais melhor, mas eu gosto do jogo, me julguem.. (eu penso em jogar muito tempo e virar um pro player como tem muitos por ai esse jogo é pra ser jogado muito pra poder aproveitar tudo)
  28. edvinbacon
    Jul 20, 2020
    10
    Best zombie survival game i have ever played, im a veteran DayZ player, since 2013 it has really come far
  29. Redwest1250
    Sep 2, 2020
    9
    This game is the best! I really enjoy the gameplay and the atmosphere and the survival but I think the amount of food is totally not good, gotta find more food and drinks.
  30. 3DDelfin
    Dec 14, 2020
    10
    Very good game and lesson to understand that people are dumb. Fans asked to play it early access cuz they didn't want to wait for it, bohemia listened and then fans review it as 0/10 because of bugs. Nice.
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  1. PC Gamer
    Dec 21, 2018
    69
    DayZ has the power to create incredible stories, but the twitchy, weightless combat and buggy zombies let it down.
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