![]() I got hyper-detailed crime investigation podcasts downloading right now.” “I listened to S-Town and now I think the treasure is inside all of us”. But there’s a touch of sadness in there too, like I’m thinking the whole time “Who needs to go to an actual bank? This is 2017, man. Like I’m trying pretty hard to work out how to get to the closest bank using only Apple Maps. Honestly though, I suspect this is the exact expression I’d throw if I found myself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. I’d somehow jumped the character creation page and jumped right to this confused looking mofo. It’s a tough thing to start all over again, particularly with new player models. Look at how goddamn ready for all piles of mayhem I was. The first thing to note is that the standalone game (in other words the currently in development commercial game) allowed you to wear sunglasses inside a bike helmet. So it’s been a while and I was keen to have a good serious blat at the old hunting grounds and do so during work hours legitimately. It quickly became a place to avoid once the front page became an alternating broadcast of “DAYZ SUX ASS DEAN HALL DIE ” and “DONT U KNOW WHAT BETA MEEEEEAAANNNSS”. Occasionally I’d have a look at the Dayz subreddit to keep ahead of any development news. Over the past five years once I’ve dipped back into Dayz, maybe an hour at a time. I actually did this once, I spent hours pulling my leg-lumps over fields and dusty country roads before falling unconscious at the outskirts of a town. Your only options were to kill yourself or drag your body for miles to a town in the hope of finding something to fix you up. If you even got that far and managed to get to the top of a deer shelter, for example, you’d probably just fall off and break a leg. Climbing ladders, for example, required you to place the reticle on a single pixel somewhere on the ladder and then scrolling through a pop up menu to find the climb action. If the ARMA 2 UI was counter intuitive before, in the mod it was like trying to navigate life wearing bicycle helmets for gloves. ![]() That’s impressive, particularly considering how broken the bloody thing was. The original mod (which is still a going concern) was the platform that gave me some of my most exhilarating moments in gameplay as an adult. He now returns to the forests of Chernarus to see where five years of development has taken the game. José Barbosa loved the mod and initially started playing the full-on commercial standalone version in 2012. Originally a mod of the military sim ARMA 2, Dayz and its creator, New Zealander Dean Hall, are responsible for the survival zombie horror genre we all know and are somewhat bored by now.
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