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

Posted by benevolentdevil on Aug 11, 2018; 7:19am
URL: http://kodabar-dayz-daizy-single-player-forum.163.s1.nabble.com/Well-I-m-done-here-I-think-tp19869p19885.html

To be honest ... I'm not sure why epoch has to run server and client side ... the only real thing I see server side is anti-cheat , and database ...
You don't need either of those, SP ...  and alot could be "cut out" thats not necessary for SP , like plot pole management, upkeep of bases ...

 But, is what it is.  

I too rented a server for epoch when that worked for me.  It's less a computer issue as it is my internet provider regarding online play.
  I'd normally keep it passworded/private ... only letting handful of people play on it ...  We didn't exactly PvE always ... mostly you never ran into anyone else playing, occasionally you'd stumble onto a vehicle or base they made.  Most the players were those just tired of bandit clans , or the usual run of the mill things that happened commonly on public servers ...  , less about the KOS aspects, as opposed to game wreckers whom used exploits and did things outside the spirit of the game.
 I didn't get the fancy 'admin tools' ... so I did everything legit on it.   Part of why I did that, cause I enjoyed the NAPF map in Epoch, and very few servers actually used NAPF at the time.  

  Olive's 1987 Wasteland is one of my favorites out of the lot ... but it's not as optimized or refined as his Factions 1987 DaiZy version.  
  The Wasteland one , is devoid of zombies ... it's got Civilians , some sort of reputation system I'm still trying to figure out ... uses cash money drops from kills, has some traders in it.  
 It only really lacks any form of fortification/base building , and ability to be played on maps other than Chernarus ...  Sometimes the AI gets buggy in it , it's almost like enemies forget what faction they are on, changing skins messes up the factions and reputation  , and my most hated aspect ... AI spawning almost right on top of you all of a sudden.  

 Another one , that is kind of a neat , no zombie on is Day of Survival ... it's just a tad "outdated" in some ways.  I Know one mission in it that's broken , or bugged out in it. It doesn't ruin the game I don't think, I normally ignore that "fix the electrical grid" mission anyways.
  I was able to add the EU addon from Epoch , and the DayZero buildings from latest DayZ code ... opening up quite a few more buildings to be enter-able, not all just more.  But I hadn't found :
 Toolbox, Etool, hatchet, crowbar, or matches ... not sure if those are spawning in ... I did find some vehicle parts , so i am sure the industrial stuff is working ...

 This last run ( I'm playing it currently now) ... I've encountered more AI than ever before.  Part of that -could be- my fault ... I shot and killed a COP at the time I could barely see him ... wasn't sure if he was the AI shooting at me or not, so I popped him ...
I couldn't remember out of all these I played, if there was a friendly or semi-friendly faction of AI ... but I'm fairly sure almost all AI in DoS are enemies to you.
  May be just random chances ... but I was in a fairly smaller town , got into a decent fight, there were 8 Ai roaming around , usually in pairs or in threes in different parts.  
 Even smaller town I just left , I got into it with 5 more ...
 I was poking my way up to Polana factory , and first time ever ... there was a AI sniper on the roof of the factory!  I shot him , he had a buddy in the compound behind him ... and there was an AI outside somewhere shooting a suppressed weapon , I never did find or locate ...  I've even found some of these AI , inside the buildings ... , which is something you normally do not see in these DaiZy mods ... Most are outside/wallhuggers/zig-zag sprinters.
 DoS doesn't look to have a "kill counter" ... I have no idea how many Ai I've blasted to this point, way more than I normally encounter I think, and survive that is.  
Usually when I play DoS or 1987 wasteland ... I will die from some AI group spawn right on top of me, they full auto point blank before fully rendered in , or so fast you can't react ... not that it helps when you get shot up heavy getting all herky-jerky from the shots.

 But I find them somewhat fun ... a tad disappointing Olive made the wasteland, but didn't put as much into it as the other factions with zombies version.  
DoS ... like I said, is very "outdated" in many ways.  Most the things like eating/drinking is done via the action menu ... not like the dayz inventory system/ui ... some things are just uber difficult to find in DoS ... I still hadn't gotten a map, or any of the tools needed, besides the hunting knife.
 
I like them a bit better than zombie/infected "survival" , mostly because I find those to just be aggravating annoyances.