Re: Well, I'm done here I think ...

Posted by benevolentdevil on Aug 06, 2018; 6:48am
URL: http://kodabar-dayz-daizy-single-player-forum.163.s1.nabble.com/Well-I-m-done-here-I-think-tp19869p19877.html

I'm just aggravated at DaiZy SP a bit ...

 Some of this stuff content is simply "outdated" ... latest vanillia DayZ , has tons of fixes and features these DaiZy mods don't have.  
 Also adds in zero Buildings and updated map contents ...

 Even the 1.8.0.3 version ... lacks most the stuff that makes Vanillia dayZ good.  

 But I'm even more frustrated on why I can't make my own DaiZy missions , with content I want in em ... and it work.
 It's like ... no matter what, I hit a wall there somewhere.  

 Then interesting ones made by the Russian guys ... , while neat to try ... are always AI "heavy" , and get overly complicated/grindy.  

Basic bland or "plain" arma2 OA , is very ... crappy in many ways.
 Of course there's ACE mods ... but I hate ACE , while it does allow for more features ... it too just add in alot of over-complicated stuff.  It also, reverts your OA inventory, to the crappy basic Arma2 inventory screen.  It's a very heavy running mod as well ... it bogs down systems like mine , because it's got to continuously calculate the ACE balistics and positions systems.
 Then there's dayZ mods ... which if you stripped away all the zombie/infected portions, would be a better "system" to run most things on ...
 Even simple things, like getting shot ... In dayZ, your guy doesn't run around whimpering, or saying " F'hk that hoorts" every two minutes.  In dayz they bleed, giving indication you need to bandage. It has the "blood" so you kind of know how much you are hurt/damaged ...
 DayZ has actual usable bandages that go in your inventory ... no scripts to add more action menu promps so it's a mile long ...
 DayZ also has increased capacity backpacks, and works on all "skins" with that.  
 Even things as simple as flashlights, chemlights ( that are decently bright) , and road flares are great in dayZ ... the only other mod you can use for some of that is ACE , and ace sux in arma2 ... chemlights in Ace are pale, and don't illuminate well at all.  No road flares in ACE, the flares you shoot in the air also pale ...
 there's always been flashlights on weapons , but if you don't want NVGs in your mission , making the dark be ... well hard , spooky, and dark ... , you are stuck with two or three arma made weapons with lights on them.
 Lighting fires, creating a campfire anywhere, instead of a static location ... also great DayZ addition.

 The food/water parts ... thats ok.   I think thats the part of dayZ i dislike the most ... because it's intrusive , and both run out fairly fast , so it's more like spamming a continuous search for food/drinks , than it is "survival".
  But even so, it does add in ... something extra you do have to keep an eye on, and do.

Dayz also places Tents with configured inventory thats usable ...
DayZ's medical system beats the overly complicated and crummy ACE medical system ( some which is still dependent on someone playing a medic character), and by far more advanced and better than vanilla arma2 medic systems ... which is very crappy and absolute "medic" dependent) ...
 
 Just so much potential for other uses, than just dayz ... something that would help flesh out any other kind of arma2 play and missions as well ...

But it's way beyond my capability to use it as such.  
 I get frustrated and bored , playing the SP mods ... because they become very rinse and repeat. Once you can collect up weapons and ammo , and gain your own food and water ... you basically have it licked , your only real "fear" then is random AI patrols ... usually the flying kind being the most problematic.

  It's kind of hard to swallow at times ... especially when you search Armaholic for easy to use " substitutes" for Arma2 to put together something half ass fun ... all you find is content removed, outdated , half finished ... or just doesn't work for what you need ...
  and you see EVERYTHING you are searching for for Arma2 , was done and made for Arma3 ... talk about easy, plug and play there.
 
 And if you ask for help ... for arma2 , you get shitty "answers" , some say " use the search function" , or "Google is your friend" ... as if you are a dummy, and didn't try that first.
 Others will point to the BIS wiki, and scripting advanced pages ... which means little if you are not a programmer or understand what you are looking at.  Or some random shit post on , "just play multiplayer" , or " that kind of script is owned by ... whomever/whatever , you don't get to have access to it. "  Or, those that have left arma2 way behind ... and don't want to be bothered with helping for arma2 anymore.

 So, with no way to move forward ... cause I'm not Klaycuss or Olive , I don't have thier knowledge or talent ... , I don't even know how to get started there ...
I just don't think there's anything left for me as far as SP goes.  And I can't play MP because my internet is crappy ... so, I'm stuck ...

 I'm so picky with video games , I'm not one of those people that will go play Rust ... or some other aggravating educed "survival simulation" , I'm not so brain dead I think games like CS:GO, PubG, and fortnight are fun or cool ... , I actually like very few games to be honest.  
arma2 was cool, when I could get online ... rent my own server to play Epoch and wasteland on.  Run in small Co-Op "missions" ... but I can't anymore on that, so I just feel ... stuck+bored+ aggravated.