A little something sweet.

Recently I cannot get enough of...

A fast rising mod, that unfortunately I can't indulge in.

DayZ
For the P.C.

Where to begin?
Well about five months ago I happened to be crawling though a random variety of videos on Youtube when I stumbled upon a very interesting game. If you don't know what the game is, which to be honest but not degrading I find hard to believe but hey there's nothing wrong with that, it's basically a mod for the PC game ArmA 2. It is set on a massive sized map. Absolutely huge! In fact I must Google the size.
Excuse me.

*Cough*

225 kilometres is the apparent number. It's terrain varies from rolling fields, lakes and dense woodland to vast cities, numerous villages and settlements
In this world ,you, the player must survive the zombie apocalypse by gathering food, tools and weapons etc.
(I know I know zombie's are everywhere in games currently but when done right they're a spectacular tool to have in game. When done RIGHT.)
Which to be fair they're not in this game but they can cause panic and create a very scary atmosphere.
For example.
You're being chased by four of them through a city. You only have limited ammunition and a particularly loud gun. You don't want to shoot your weapon.
Oh no sir. Not one bit.
It'll cause more of these flesh munching lunatics to run at you and for the one that you've killed you would of gained two more of these saliva dripping horrors but the main fear is that you don't want the other players to know where you are.


Now, on that note, it's not the size of the world that impresses me nor the undead. It's the actual player mentality this game causes is the thing that intrigues me.
You start off with limited supplies, very limited, and must move through the world collecting different items as you set your own goals.
You decide what to do.
Want to eat heinz beans all day? Fine.
Want to be the most powerful survivor with the best weapons and equipment? Fine.
See a helicopter? Assess the damage and go out into the landscape collecting the parts needed to power up the whirly bird.
But it's not that easy.
To do so would mean crossing through a very harsh and baron landscape enduring the zombies, the weather, the landscape and the human survivors.
You see? There's the problem.
They too could have bumped into this smashed wreckage and are off on their way to do the same as you. They could of been a party of ghillied up Pro's who, knowing the advantage of an armed helicopter in this game, have sent part of their group to collect said parts in let's say a jeep.
Whilst one of their very sharp sharp shooters is currently watching you blink from 800 yards away with a very powerful rifle.

(Likely an AS50)

But you see. When you get killed or die in this game that's it.

Done.

Finito.

This creates a very specially effect. Players don't want their two week old geared up character to die and respawn at some horrible coast 30 km away with no gear and no one you know. It is special.
It's the only game where I've witnessed players rob other players.
Literally two of them had lured a character to a vehicle by leaving the lights on their car lit.
Whilst I'm on the subject. This games night is scary as hell.
It is Pitch Black. (It'd be beautiful, the starry sky glittering, if you weren't so paranoid about the perils all around)

Anyhow these two appeared out of no where pointing weapons at this guy and telling him, via audio, instructions to lie down and drop his gear.
Now...
I look at it and I see it could of gone two ways.
The way it didn't go was that they should have told him to lie down and drop all his gear and then crawl 20 yards away. One keeps the gun on the guy. One takes what they want. One starts the car and off they go

But no.
He lay down. Dropped his gear and waited till one of these bandits ran over and started rummaging through his backpack. What the bandit didn't realise is that at the same time the guy he was robbing was robbing him.
The guy stole the bandit's M16 out his gear and and simply blasted him point blank.
Unluckily, this epic little turnaround ended as quickly as it started. The guy who was getting robbed got shot and that's the end of that.

But wow. WOW!

I've seen new players take it alone, chop down trees, kill a cow and take refuge around a fire and cook the beef. I've seen a team of guys fly a helicopter into town, keep a close perimeter, raid an army air base and take on zombies and enemy players in intense firefights, then fly off again when they call their heli pick up in.
It's as good as you make it. With effort and time comes true special moments.

Fantastic to watch.                  Again and Again.

If you're wondering why I can't play it. My laptop isn't powerful enough. *sigh*

Anyways I've typed enough on this subject for now. So see you later.
Thank you.