Gone for DayZ

So, as all of you know, the Steam Summer sale recently ended, and just about every gamer had their hay day. I was hoping that Civ V’s God and Kings would go on sale, but it never happened, however, something that people kept telling me to get was ArmA II & Operation Arrowhead, but not for the game itself.

For the ever popular DayZ mod.

So, when I say combined Operations hit the sale at 40% off, I jumped. Knowing that my computer was probably not capable of handling this amount of sheer computing power, as it can’t with most games, this was a bad idea. However, my friends quickly told me that the installation process was tedious if I wanted to run the game with the steam overlay, and of course, I didn’t believe them. After a couple of hours of dicking around with the files, and about 2 failed installations, I finally decided to cheat. I installed the six launcher, which then installed all of the game files. From there it only took some simple start up codes, and I finally got to launching it.

From here, it was all computer errors.


My computer isn’t the most advanced, as anyone who’s read my blog can tell you. DayZ is quite system heavy, and therefore, can be quite slow on a bad computer, like mine. The first thing I did wrong was that I had no idea that the left alt button controlled free camera. My left alt controls my push-to-talk button on Ventrillo. I spawned, and instantly couldn’t move anywhere. It was a debilitating experience, especially after being chased by 20 zombies. The second thing I did wrong is that I had spawned in Novy Sobor, which is a place priorly thought to be impossible to spawn at, and unfortunately for me, was filled with a rival team. I tried re-connecting after fiddling around with my settings in Vent so I could talk without going blind, but when I logged back on, someone had mugged me, I was unconscious, and only has 2,000 blood left.

Welcome to the hellhole of the future.

I suggest DayZ for people with computers that can easily run TF2, and not for people like me. However, I got another game from a good friend for the incredible price of just 2 name tags:

Killing Floor.

Killing Floor is like TF2, CS & L4D, with less plot, and less teams. You just kill and endless horde of zombies, and choose a class. You then level up said class over time. You also get a lot of money (dosh) over time, and can buy weapons.  Nonsensical violence sure seems to be a great way to relive stress, you might want to try it out sometime.

--Santa