Re: Why do you guys play single player?

Posted by benevolentdevil on Jul 14, 2018; 8:48pm
URL: http://kodabar-dayz-daizy-single-player-forum.163.s1.nabble.com/Why-do-you-guys-play-single-player-tp5p19669.html

Revising my statement , after more years of not playing online ....

 I think DayZ mods greatest "downfall" was it became a PvP fest, a glorified "king of the hill", an induced Battle Royale in online multi-player.  

 No matter the mod ... or if vanilla ... you only had two options open:
1- PvE ... this allowed for more Co-OP , but at the same time more "special strict rules" to keep it PVE only, watered down any dynamic play.  
2-or the PvP servers ... taking it from a survival simulator, to an ALWAYS combat simulator.  

 I couldn't ever quite understand people's motives ... if all they wanted to do was death-match other players, why didn't they just play death-match missions?  
  Some bandits/combat PvP was alright ... but stepping into any dayZ epoch or overpoch server, specifically meant , thats all you had to look forward to was basically a continuous stream of death-match PvP play.  
 There wasn't any real reason or logic to any of it.  Players just killed for fun.  Or for reasons like, to get thier bandit skin or rank.  

 They'd do things like kill defenseless fresh spawns , camping thier bodies to kill more freshies.
 They'd do things like, hit you with a car while you were in a safe-zone so it "arma-bumped" you out and they could kill you.  
They'd do things like, place satchel charges, or explosives ... or use a exploit to blow up people, knowing the safezone didn't protect from ALL damage types.  They'd hang around traders, to rob your backpack, or take your vehicle as it spawned in ...  

 I remember one instance on Jay's Overpoch ... I kept to myself mostly, I never banditized anyone, nor murdered for no actual reason ( if you shot at me and didn't kill me though, I'd hunt you down and end you! ) ... one time I was "starting over" and made enough score and gol dto go buy a vodnik.  and unarmed vodnik ...

I like the Vodnik , it's mostly armored , holds a bunch of stuff, and also travels across water ... I had planned on driving my Vodnik to Skalinski Island , and setting up my base there.
 I was in a safezone at the NE Airfield "trader" ... some random guy ( whom did not speak english no less) , already in a bandit-ghillie ( took me 2 months to earn my hero ghillie ), whom just started that day ...sat on top of the ATC wasting his AKM ammo shooting at me.
 When that didn't work, he climbed down as I ignored him being "safe" ... he ran up and tried shooting the vodnik tires out ... ( the vehicle was locked, an din a safe zone also "protected".)  
When that didn't work, he went all over it trying to get in ...

 Finally I was like, " Dude, this is a safezone.  You can't do anything here , and just trying means you are looking for an exploit.  Go find someone else to pester. "  
 He just spammed the chat with " You stupid. You dumb." over and over ... , clearly he didn't understand a word I said, nor cared ... and I wondered why people like that played online with others, if all they want to do is try thier hardest to be a pain in the ass.

 Another instance, later that evening ( mod/mission was updated for more content, so after server restart , it was late coming back on. )

 I can't recall where I was, I think I was at my old base, collecting my safe and some gear to transport over to the island.
   anyways ... there was a guy that played sometimes, when the population was low.  Nice guy , asked a few questions occasionally .... when I first "met him" in game, I almost killed him thinking he was an AI from a mission ...
 Anyways, he played when server players were low, because he wasn't very good at shooting others.  He mostly just like, trying to build his base, and he normally did the "weed mission" ( which most of us ignored for higher paying missions ) , I kept seeing him die over and over, like quickly ...

 I asked him if he was getting ate by zombies, as only 4 of us were on.  Or if he was suicide ... , he tol dme no, that the other two guys were camping the coast and shooting from a helicopter , and he couldn't get to his body for a weapon to fight back.

 So, I stashed my stuff, grabbed my silenced H&K 417 ( One-hit , you unconscious or killed sniper weapon.)  and I ran south , eventually spotting the chopper hovering in one place, near where the decent guy said it'd be roughly.

 I catch my breath, range the chopper , and had a clear shot right on the door gunner.  
I shoot, and I see the blood-splat off his head.  He didn't fall ... did not go unconscious.  I thought ... maybe desync , so  shot him 3 more times.  Same thing ... I shot at the pilot , two head shots ... no fall out, no unconscious body ...
 So  I reloaded, and shot 20 rounds into the helicopter engine ... THAT got em to try desperately to get away and move finally.  They were CHEATING , using a god mode , but thier chopper was vulnerable.  

 And I was like ... WTF would ANYONE cheat just to kill one bambi over and over on the coast.  

 The next day, Jay ( the main guy and admin ) and I tested out ... he was giving benifit o fthe doubt, that I missed the guys, and desync showed me blood splats.  
 I told him, wasn't any way I missed more than once even if that was the case, and it should have been a one-shot , they go down no matter what.
 I sat 1100 M away and shot Jay in the chest to prove my point.  One hit, he went unconcious. Bled out before waking up.

 So, yep ... not only were those guys playing just to be pains in the ass, they were cheating on top of it all.
I also got tired of constantly working my butt off, to collect supplies, and build bases ... only to over-night some clan build right by my base.
 I literally went out in the ocean off the coast, and build  a small base out in the water. Next day I log in ... and someone built a huge base as close to my base, as the plot pole would allow it.
Out in the fricken ocean ... why?  
By what purpose , do you think that served them at all?

 Then, I kinda got tired of the "rinse and repeat" style of play ...  dayZ normally doesn't have any real "end game" to it.  
 It's all gear up, build a base , get more gear, get vehicles ... and then what's left?  You have everything you need or want ... not even a good reason to go PvP, cause you don't need anything anymore.  
 You've got so much crap collected and stored up ... , you could die a thousand times, and still be alright gear and supplies wise.

 So I left ... unfortunately ... my ISP provider started limiting bandwidth , and now I can't play online with-out choppy play or desync so bad ... I can play low population LAN just fine, but anything over open broad-band seems to just have too much latency , so ... now I'm pretty much stuck in SP on arma2.

 I don't get Arma3 , cause my internet wouldn't let me play it online either.  Not to mention, I'd need an actual gaming computer then too.