DayZ Mod - Adventures in Cherno (Expert 1.7.1.5 gameplay)
33For a while now, I've wanted to check out an "Expert" level server. So after dying at the end of my long crawl (youtu.be/53U67LtP3Gk) I took the opportunity and joined one. This is a recording of the full sortie, from the moment I spawn on the beach east of Cherno, to my final run for the hills near Balota.
It's quite long, so here are the highlights:
05:56 Found a Hatchet
07:10 Found a Winchester
08:57 You can see that there are 24 players at the moment, and that it is indeed an "Expert" level server
13:03 Found a Czech Backpack
14:10 Found a Ghillie Suit
14:25 The first of many problems with my inventory. Some items I just could not pick up.
23:15 Found a Hunting Knife, couldn't pick it up
24:15 Found a Watch (Hunting Knife mysteriously appeared in my inventory)
27:07 Almost had a heart attack.
27:41 I took an AKM, a PDW and an Entrenching Tool from the glitched player
37:27 I got hit, started bleeding and did not notice for a full 3 minutes (facepalm)
38:30 First zombie massacre
39:37 Finally was able to get Morphine (broken bones are the bane of my existence in this game)
40:10 I noticed I was bleeding and bandaged myself
43:36 I gave the PDW a try, didn't really like it
44:18 Second zombie massacre
47:10 Found a Toolbox
51:28 Found an ALICE Pack (took a few seconds to gather the items surrounding it, so I could pick it up)
55:50 Found a box of matches
58:00 Found an M1911 and took it (dropped PDW)
59:47 Met another player and decided to run away. He said he was friendly, buy I did not want to tempt fate. The shoot-first, shoot-some-more-later attitude almost everyone has in this game, is really annoying. And since I usually don't kill other players, unless fired upon first, these days I just avoid other people if possible.
1:02:02 Glitched zombie
After that, I found a safe spot in the trees and logged off. My next order of business will be to find a sheep or a cow, and get some steaks to replenish my blood. Then, I'll probably head inland.
I just want to say that after playing all last week exclusively on "Veteran" servers with 3rd person enabled (for the abundance of loot, 1.7.1.5 left the cities in "Regular" servers as barren wastelands), and now on an "Expert" level server, I really don't see an increase in difficulty, like stronger or faster zombies. The no 3rd person view thing is more of a nuisance, than an actual increase in gameplay difficulty. So I thinks I'll stick to "Veteran" with 3rd person enabled and, once 1.7.2 comes out, I'll reevaluate "Regular" difficulty servers.
From DayZ, a mod for ARMA II, the game developed by Bohemia Interactive Studio.
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