DAYZ (Zero Punctuation)

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[@nordicfatcheese]

I was once exploring a town and suddenly a player ran in to the hangar, garage area, gushing blood like a fucking fountain and collapses on the ground due to blood loss. I then tear off my shirt, rip it into rags, and bandage the poor bastard before leaving a couple cans of food for him (and they were even opened for him). Shortly after I did this, the guy woke up, looked at the food, looked at me, and said "Thanks" in chat. He then pulled out a pistol and shot me in the head.

[@generico366]

And that is why you take someone's weapons before you help them.

[@Jesses001]

Haha, that sounds familiar. Happens often in that game. I never shot on sight. Most times I just avoid humans. Far to many assholes. One time I was in a building in the middle of the night and some kid wondered in. I decided when he opened the door to give him a warning shot with my pistol to scare him off. He did not look well armed anyway. I clearly shot into the wall 10 feet to his left, but somehow the game registered him as hit. He ran out bleeding and died outside asking me why I shot him. Damn game glitch.

[@2355Kyle]

Jesse Sisolack Shame poor guy, it almost creates a spiral: you help someone and they shoot you, you become bitter and adopt the KOS approach which leads other players to start KOS too to survive. Its sad really.

[@Jesses001]

Kyle Hallam Yes, happens far to often. I guess we just can not have a game where people will not turn it into a big death match.

[@Netherwolf6100]

Kyle Hallam But I think it represents human interactions perfectly. Without a mass legal/punishment system in place, most humans who pretend to be nice to one another would resort to their more selfish and primal sides, offing just about anyone in their field of vision, even if helped simply to ensure their own survival or just because they could. Some people in the world deep down are just assholes through and through. Videogames and the internet just give them safe ways to practice how horrid they are without any punishment for their actions.

[@jamesbevan9939]

10 years ago Yahtzee was dismissing “dad games”, and now he’s become a proponent of them

[@zigzag338]

Well he HAS become a dad

[@MALICEM12]

"it was like the Pied Piper set his flute to the murderous setting." that line was hilarious.

[@AlwaysANemesis]

A little late to the party, but I think I've got a neat ol' story about karmic retribution. So I'm going along my way, with enough supplies to last me some in-game days, when I see someone mewling over global chat. "BROKEN LEGS" "BLEEDING" "HELP ME" I calmly reply to him, "Where are you located?" He tells me he's in an aircraft hangar, and I realize that's not too far off from me. I immediately dart over there to help him out, and find him bleeding to death in a corner. The guy went unconscious, so imagine his surprise when he wakes up fully-patched and rearing to go. But then, I hear a shot ring out from nearby; out of sheer luck, I moved just enough that a sniper shot hit me in the gut, rather than the head. I nearly black out from the hit, and I frantically turn on my mic. "Run! I'll hold them off!" I shout. I immediately grab my own rifle and return fire. First one cracks someone in the head, they're down. Another 2 start running at me and peppering me with rifles. I knew I was dead, but I kept doing my best to keep them busy as the guy ran. Lo and behold, as I'm running the bandits for a loop, the guy I saved somehow circles around, grabs the dead guy's rifle, and starts helping me to pick them off! We end up flanking them and killing the heavily-armored one, but not before I keel over dead from blood loss. I hear gunfire, and it seems to stop. I thought, for a moment, what I did ended up pointless, and roundabout now, the remaining bandit's looting me and the other guy. But seems the amount of sheer fucking divine luck hadn't ended yet, because not but 4 minutes later, I run across the same guy I saved! He's decked out in that one asswipe's ghillie, and he tosses me the sniper's rifle, my old magnum, and even pointed me to where he stashed all my other stuff. I was amazed! We ended up tag-teaming the server for the next several hours after that.

[@cronotekk9193]

Reminds me of one time when me and 3 friends encountered a group of bandits while looting a construction site. After a quick gunfight we bolted to the car and drive off, but we realized they would never stop following us. One of my friends decided he would stay behind to hold them off with his sniper. We drove off with the echoes of gunshots ringing through the hills.

[@propper-g7725]

you sir just had a rare as fuck occurrence

[@AlwaysANemesis]

Aidan Sheridan As is to be expected. I never had a similar experience like that again, since not everyone's keen on reciprocating assistance. Hell, one guy asked me for some food and water; soon as I gave him some, he shot me in the head. Serves him right, though; I found him later and punched him unconscious, handcuffed him, and force-fed him some cleaner products. Said to him "If you somehow end up living, I left you this magnum and a can of beans. Good fucking luck."

[@propper-g7725]

Da' Melon wow damn dayz changes everyone thats why you should cherish this memory as long as you play because that was awesome

[@propper-g7725]

***** thats awesome

[@isaacsussman5632]

"Then I paused to have a little drinky" might be one of the best zp lines ever.

[@CANADAKRUSH1]

I think “Like a Scotsman in an itchy kilt I started getting a feel for the patterns” is better

[@xZippy]

Look at all these DayZ stories. All I have is "I spawned, spent an hour just to find a rotten kiwi but starved anyway. End." That's all that game is for me.

[@TheRedKing247]

+xZippy38 Well that's probably because you had the unfortunate experience of playing the game. The mod back in 2012 was much better.

[@xZippy]

TornadoATP Did the mod have more drops and such? The standalone is a hot, dripping mess where you can't find shit and lags when one spec of dust flies on screen.

[@Thea330]

+xZippy38 There are no rotten kiwi's in Standalone. 0.o *XFILES MUSIC*

[@virginiasupersand2917]

It's much better now.

[@Valkahike]

What improvements have they made on standalone? Hardly see the devs updating.

[@generico366]

I was playing Unturned, which is basically poor man's Dayz, and I had a short but fun experience so I'll post it here. Here's my story. So I joined this server. Everyone there had much better gear than I did so I kept getting shot or run over. Until I found a massive base at the shore. And when I say massive I mean the-guys-that-made-this-are-probably-server-admins-and-spawned-most-of-this-stuff-in-massive. So I'm there, starving, buck naked and with no weapons, and decide to enter their base and see if there's any goods to steal. So I jimmy the door open and begin scouting out the base, taking great care not to get spotted by the owners. There were next to no storage crates and the few that were there were filled with crafting items which were useless to me. So I start making my way over to the exit when I find a high-end gun on the floor. To my delight, it was still fully loaded. So I grab the gun and go over to one of the base owners, who was too busy building to pay attention to what's going on around him, and shoot him in the back of the head. He spews out a whole fountain of food and high-end gear. I arm myself to the teeth and kill all the base owners before destroying their beds so they can't respawn in their base anymore. Then I fortified my new death fortress and started picking off the ex base owners with my sniper riffle every time they got close. Then I was banned.

[@TheKstrider]

those admins just need to git gud

[@Forestxavier20]

Admins: Abuse their power to spawn in loot for themselves Also Admins: Don't have any base defense You: Proceeds to take over their base and repeatedly kill them Admins: *Surprised Pikachu face*

[@GardenFootCreature]

"Poor man's DayZ" Is literally a better game than DayZ

[@thelordofthelostbraincells]

CERTIFIED *BRUH* MOMENT! HOW THEY GONNA BE MADE AT A FRESH SPAWN (or noob), I WOULD BE IMPRESSED AND WANT TO FRIEND THAT PERSON

[@SinerAthin]

My sociological analasys of DayZ's development from a zombie survival game to a PvP survival grief game is something along the lines of: 1. Players master the game in greater and greater numbers. 2. With zombies not offering a challenge anymore, they search for a challenge elsewhere; humans. 3. When players start to be killed in greater and greater numbers by other players, they themselves become angry, apathetic and start killing fellow players themselves. 4. The evil spiral continues. It's a phenomenon that I'd like to call "Cultural Corruption" within the Community of a video game, where bad behavior spreads to other players. It also carries a striking likeness to the outbreak of a zombie apocalypse by design, ironically.

[@Booba-Fett]

I'd like to point out that in Nether, another post apocalyptic survival game the AI are actually a threat but player combat is exactly the same as DayZ. Of course they're structured differently to each other, but the premise is the same. Gear up and go ham.

[@Booba-Fett]

I think the main point is that these games will never mirror real life because in games no matter how much "permadeath" you have, it's not going to really mean death. You don't have the same consequences as in real life so there is no real deterrent from killing people apart from heavily punishing murderers, which DayZ is designed to not do.

[@pyroneutral]

Barry Beefcurtains i know i'm 5 months late it does happen in real life but in a different way, replace killing with abuse. i'll give you an example. there was a facility called the school of the Americas, in one of the training camps in harsh cold weather the senior officers would often make the greenbacks stand outside in the cold naked. in fact new comers would often be abused so when they increase in rank and other newcomers get in they are treated with the same abuse source: the school of the americas military training and political violence in the americas by Lesley gill

[@Booba-Fett]

pyroneutral 5 months late and so far off you might as well be on vacation in the Arctic

[@sovietspy8866]

I'm first hand experiencing this. In the hardest of times I'll try a stick up but it's getting hard every bullet in the back not to KOS. Sometimes its mistrust and miscommunication, othertimes I just dont wanna take the chance.

[@FaTerokiMenra]

Well looks like Yahtzee predicted Chris Pratt as Mario with that opening bit. Will his psychic manifestations never cease?

[@CinosTheHedgehog2000]

Not really because he was referencing Star Wars, not Guardians of the Galaxy. So that's a bit of a stretch

[@ldmt-yd6sz]

The guy who revived him will forever be a legend.

[@Eggbeforechicken]

my story is a happy one of dayz. I spawned in a field near a farm, and thinking "goodies await me inside" because it was my first life, I ran in. I found a gun with no bullets and a shovel. my friends I was in a skype call in (and took several hours to find them) were like "not bad for the first 5 minutes". I then broke my leg by walking downstairs. thinking I had been shot, I hid in cover, and then another person was coming with a gun, I decided to hide in some long grass, but that didnt work, so he said "you alright mate?". I replied "I broke my leg, please have mercy". he was also new to the game as well, so he said "why would I do that?". I asked if he could help, and he couldnt. I couldnt be bothered to crawl everywhere, so I asked if he could shoot me. he had no bullets as well, so he decided to punch me until I died while saying "goodnight sweet prince". he was friendly, until a person ran up to us, shouted at us in russian and shot me. that took 10 minutes. I then fell off a crane when my friends found me in my next life.

[@oyveyshalom]

actually my Dayz experience was Just crawling for miles then hiding in a shack for the night (56 minutes in game night-day cycle) and my other experience was just KOS all the time..........

[@cronotekk9193]

Oh, you started with the standalone, tsk tsk

[@oyveyshalom]

i started in the original dayz mod and that is the story up there

[@Agati192]

FaZe ArTy When did they add punching to the arma 2 mod?

[@oyveyshalom]

dunno

[@FANGSUP7]

Is it story time? Okay I got one, one on the lighter side of the DayZ spectrum. So I'm playing a custom map, one with more metropolitan style areas with apartments and all that jazz. At the time I had average supplies of food, but a REALLY swanky rifle, military grade, good sights, lots of ammo for it, the works. Lo and behold tho, I end up getting right fucked by a mob of zombies and end up hoofing it up an apartment building with almost no HP left. In no condition to fight and only having about 4 bullets left (I did a lot of shooting prior) and no other ammo or a hatchet, and with about 10 zeds coming to munch on me, I realized I was several steps past "Fucked". So being the kind of guy I am, I informed Global chat of my location, and told them the first one here to kill the zombies and put me out of my misery could have my rifle and my gear. Within a couple seconds I get a response, and within about 3 minutes, I start hearing suppressed pistol fire. Sure enough shortly after a Ghille clad man walks through the door. I tell him about the rifle and how its really good, ask if he's got space for it, and to my surprise, the guy starts patching me up. Here I was expecting him to cap me and take the loot, which is what any other person would have done. But then he heals me to full, and after I thank him, he just gives me an encouraging: ":)" in local chat and then goes along his merry little way. Most of my time playing DayZ was realizing that all people are assholes. And then this guy comes along. What a perspective shift that was.

[@plainlake]

Apparently I liked dad-games since I was 13 years old.

[@BornFlunky]

Didn't they have condoms back then?

[@Quikie93]

Poor sod

[@mortenpedersen763]

DayZ proves Hobbes' state of nature. When shit hits the fan, everyone will fuck up each other before being fucked up.

[@BlahBlahUsername1]

But then its a game, therefore there are no real consequences for your actions that a respawn cannot fix. Hardly comparable with human nature when its faced with extinction.

[@mortenpedersen763]

I hope you're right. But given human nature, in a world without laws, no big brother punishing you for your acts... What's to stop you? Morals are relative, a construction of social norms and values.... When that is thrown out.

[@BlahBlahUsername1]

We have faced much greater challenges in the past, much greater. And we made it through.

[@whatisbestinlife8112]

Indeed. As a wise man once said: There's no respawn in RL. People have way over-intellectualized DayZ. It's just on a huge map so it's deathmatch gameplay is reeeeaaallllllly slow-paced.

[@toshineon]

DayZ is one of those games that seriously made me wonder if, should modern society not exist, we humans wouldn't try to survive, but rather beat each other to death with rocks until one last man is standing... Which then proceeds to tea-bag the now dead remains of his species before being eaten by a lion.

[@frederik7338]

There is one fault to using Dayz as a means of measuring humanity and that is that it's a game and on the internet. In case you haven't noticed, games played over the internet tend to cultivate insane amounts of hostility between the players, since nothing you do in the game can hurt you in real life, and thus everyone feels emboldened to be an asshole. Also every FPS indoctrinates us to shoot first and ask questions later. Dayz would be a better game if more people would role-play as the lonely and scared individuals searching for food and clothing and security, as the game portrays the characters.

[@generico366]

We should just not supervise out children for a month or so and let natural selection do it's thing.

[@generico366]

I mean its*.

[@Eon2641]

Frederik Sthen Hansen No I don't really think it would, mostly because 1) the guys roleplaying are normally the guys whos brains are coating the sidewalk. Believe me, I was one of the people to spare someone when I saw they weren't a threat to me... right up to about the tenth time I'd spawned, walked ten feet and been bludgeoned to death by some prick who literally watched me spawn and decided to take out his frustrations on my shiny new skull. I don't know how long I played until this point but I knew I'd crossed to the other side when I spawned in the northern bit, went looking for a building to jump off because I was no-where near my friends and found some poor afk sap with nothing but a mosin on his back whom I promptly knocked out, robbed, discovered he had no ammo, went out and found some ammo, came back and then shot without a second thought as to whether he'd have been hostile or not. I still don't regret it because I'm 99% sure he'd have shot me if given the chance, even if I was entirely naked, mostly because after giving up and trying to box a zombie to death I was shot while naked at one point. 2) It's genuinely more fun to compete against a group of people in this. My favourite moments from my time playing day z are of when I was with a group of friends and we ran into some bandits or something. I vivdly remember the last firefight I had in electro right down to how many bullets each of us fired and where the shooters were hiding. If you're looking for an adrenaline rush a populated server is right where you need to be.

[@andrewvoutsinas7460]

This is a game.

[@hhhllll5656]

"When ever your character starts moving its as if they have a fucking tumble dryer attached to their head" I completely agree the head bobbing it totally ridiculous and I find it extremely hard to focus while I am moving in that game.

[@2355Kyle]

You can remove the head bobbing in the settings menu but the way the character actually runs and such can't be sadly.

[@VelmiVelkiZrut]

If you look at a pro run-through of this game, a good tip is their interactions with other players: Don't show yourself until you have loudly and clearly told the guy to put the gun on the ground and/or rearranged their innards from behind the nearest bush. It makes life much more agreeable, not to mention longer. I personally like the game, but then again I liked all of the ArmA series as it felt like something refreshingly different from the "sprint-shoot-jump" shooter games that seem to be taking over the world at this point.

[@SadButter]

After I heard "massively shake up the formula and recast Mario as a brash intergalactic smuggler piloting the Yosh-1 through the imperial controlled Mushroom Nebula" all I wanted was to get Yahtzee on nintendo's design team one way or another

[@dangerous0-130]

once a feel off a 1 story building and broke my legs and crawled wearing a cowboy hat and found a shotgun with no bullets in a building, then a player came to me I said KILL ME and he gave me a paprika THE END

[@dangerous0-130]

this was standalone

[@theepicduck6922]

Kinder than most Muslim allahu akbar players that would take turns poisoning or bash each others heads in with a bloody wrench

[@jamescr101]

thanks for clearing that up for us.

[@QuestionYourWorld]

y Hickock

[@trythesauce3396]

Dayz is making a comeback

[@thevoiceofthelost]

man, i remember the very first time i spawned in stand alone day Z i was sitting there trying to figure out the controls when a guy in a boonie hat and olive drab clothes showed up and held me hostage because i was initially acting weird (was still figuring out the controls) but eventually i learned how to talk and he let me go once we communicated. he offered to take me with him to elektro to meet with his mates and was teaching me about the game when this guy started coming down the road with a shot gun. at first i thought it was his mate but he pointed his gun at us and told us not to move, the boonie guy put his hands up and told me the button to do the same. as the shotgun guy was passing us he was trash talking so the boonie guy thought to challenge him, and call his bluff. the shotgun guy aimed at his head and pulled the trigger, and with an audible click we confirmed that the shotgun was empty. an argument which eventually turned into a huge fist fight ensued and i was thrown into the fray trying to help mr boonie and punch at the shotgun guy best i could, occasionally hitting my new friend in the confusion and vise virsa. me and boonie guy (who probably hit each other more than we did our adversary) were knocked out and the guy stole boonie's crowbar (too bad he didn't have time, or just didn't think to pull it out in the first round before fists started flying) when we woke up we resumed the chase, joined by yet another fresh spawn who told us he saw the guy after he was informed of our situation. not even 4 minutes later me, boonie guy, the fresh spawn, and shotgun guy were all in a massive royal rumble which ended with me bleeding due to a certain stolen crowbar being used against us, the shotgun guy escaping, and boonie guy/fresh spawn trying their best to help me. i eventually passed out but one of them bandaged me. unfortunately nobody had an epi pen so there was nothing else they could do, i heard them speaking aloud about my situation and roaming around in the immediate vicinity searching for epi pens before wondering off. the last thing i heard was the boonie guy saying he was sorry. i lay there hoping id wake up but eventually i just called it and respawned. i spent the rest of that day trying to find elektro to get back to them but never did, i wondered for the longest time if they ever made it and survived. :c ill always remember this experience because it was literally the perfect representation of dayz. a good player, a bad player, a fresh spawn bystander making a split second decision to help, and lots of confusion and violence. even though it ended sadly for me i still herald this as my greatest dayz moment. i felt really lucky and glorious in those few moments, most people spawning for the very first time get no introduction into the world of dayz at all. let alone one of that caliber. it was like a fucking scripted event. almost like a tutorial that shows you the ropes in a helpful way, shows you that there are good people out there, before also showing you that life isn't fair, the good guys dont always win, and the world is a cruel place if your not careful. i wish i could have recorded it. the bonus is, it even taught me a lot of lessons. both game play wise, and morally. the point is, say what you will about the community being mostly jerks, but the players really make that game what it is. the good guys and the bad guys both make the world feel so alive despite it being really dead.

[@mrbravocheesecaked457]

That bluff part when you heard the click sounded like something out of a film!

[@yousofshah378]

1:52: that sir, is the so called "gmod" method

[@Tzen03]

"Re-cast Mario as a brash intergalactic smuggler piloting the YOSH-1" Hmm did Yahtzee predict Chris Pratt cast as Mario all those years ago?!

[@bobmcbob49]

Never played DayZ, but from what I've heard, it seems to me like one of those games meant for private servers- like minecraft. Griefers galore.

[@Achmeron]

The community are just a bunch of dickheads trying to reenact the first Mad Max films while having their own post-apocalyptic masturbatory fantasy in a game that really isn't that much of an improvement from fucking STALKER back in 2007

[@ErikAnger]

Achmeron the community when the mod first came out was really cool. there was a lot of people who was willing to help you out.

[@SeseelLybon]

***** Of course, until the little guys came along and go all human on you. Shacktac, that's how you survive a zombie apocalypses. Not 'hey, lets try to do everything on our own and shoot everyone and trying not to get shot because some other guy had the same idea'. I'll never try it. I like the idea of grouping with friends against zombies, but not when I have to make them ingame cause nobody is playing ArmA anymore in my friend list, cause they'll just go 'hey, be my friend' and then go 'hey, be my target so I can steal your stuff'. It's fun from time to time to have to watch your back all the time, but in ArmA it's kind off stealing my eggs without me being able to throw exploding birds in your face.. Cause all my guns have been stolen and that don't-need-to-aim sniper rifle you found is now... you guessed it, his, using it to blow out my brains for a second time cause he thought it was funny. Hope he gets eaten by zombies. Probably not because another dude with a COD weapon just shot his brains out from the moon. The real danger isn't the zombies, it's humanity itself. If I want that to shoot humans like a brainless zombie I'd just pull COD out of the hole I put it in after playing it. Hmmm... that turned out a bit longer than I wanted to. :/

[@JJdoomkiller]

Well said... Well said...

[@Liramek]

Seseel Lybon Which Sniper is "Dont-need-to-aim" ? Really, I'd like to know which gun I haven't been using all this time. It's kind of hard to have a system where doing the easy thing (Killing others to gear yourself) isn't what you always want to resort to. They did try to implement a humanity system that would deter you from murdering everybody all the time. Unfortunately Day Z mod was limited by the game it's modded after. So that's why they went into making it a full game. Right now that's all there is to do is just kill others, because killing zombies isn't anywhere near satisfying because there is no chance that you will die from them.

[@RandomZombie412]

Lol "And then every door in the street flung open and fuckin hell, it was like the pied piper set his flute to the murder section!" Love that.

[@yotsquidi]

Once it gets the point to where you can't trust anyone I start to feel bad... I met a group new players, they were looking around the military base for guns, I was there all alone with my brand new pistol... at first sight I knew I going to die... 3 minutes later I was being yelled at by 15 year because apparently I'm not supposed to shoot people in the leg if they run at mean yelling "Help, the zombies killed my friends"

[@jackschmit4696]

To be fair, better to be shot in the leg then the face. You showed great restraint.

[@HavikXIII]

Jack Schmit is it better when theres zombies chasing you?

[@Appendixization]

That dude with the bloodpacks possibly postponed yahtzees inevitable emotional death by some weeks at least

[@10lipca]

First and last time i played DayZ was when I found a knife to use as a weapon. I found 4 hats, and became a bit of a hat salesman. People gave me food and drink, i gave them Hats. The 5th person asked what my name was. I just said "Gabe Newell, I sold him hats for TF2". I got shot, and i never played again. I need to get back into it and become the Hat Salesman those 5 people knew about.

[@SecretWalrus99]

I think he should review this game again cause now they have the Standalone version that he could play which fixes some of the things he complained about

[@shuansown7884]

The later I stay up, the more the opening of these reviews sounds so bad ass I head bang.

[@darastarscream]

"Then I paused to have a little drinkie," lives rent-free in my brain.

[@AFCoulthard]

Your reviews do a great job capturing the feeling and up/downs of a game thanks.

[@pastor_pug]

How did he know that they would cast Mario as the intergalactic pilot

[@222oree]

FRANKIEonPCin1080p makes near perfect dayz videos...

[@NarutoFreak47]

Truly, "At best unreasonably cruel" is one of the greatest lines I've heard to describe anything, ever.

[@ThatGuyChristo474]

I admittedly burst out laughing when he said "and then I paused to have a little drinky"

[@alldayagain]

To this day, i feel like that guy was a dev or some other insider

[@999benhonda]

I once got trapped on top of a building...out of ammo with a player waiting down below to kill me. Suddenly, a player appeared before me (right in my face) and I killed him with my hatchet. He had just logged on and had spawned where he had left the game. He had guns, ammo ect. I then quickly killed the guy below who was waiting for me. What a high! I died 3 minutes later when a RPG was shot at me! Dayz being hard to learn is what made it fun.

[@Nickton12]

+RCPro Driver Want to hear the spawning guy's side of that story.

[@LabrnMystic]

One of my favorite "go to" ZPs. So many nice touches and anecdotes that I enjoy. Other than the sniping, I had similar DayZ Experiences.

[@jaegergames7042]

Fucking brilliant

[@christoptheillusiveman9875]

I tried minecraft hardcore. I worked really hard, like, I had a cake and everything. I spent about 3 days on it. I never thought about how I'd feel when I died. So I started building a tower in the middle of the ocean, so I wouldn't die if I fell. The third time I fell I landed on a lower part of the perfectly straight tower and died. To qoute Deus ex, "What a shame" Really, I was so sad.

[@ObiJuanKenobi3]

I love how the fact that you had cake is a demonstration of how high up you were.

[@christoptheillusiveman9875]

+ObiJuanKenobi3 goddamn cake...

[@rebelkommando6166]

+Christop The illusive Man I bet Minecraft cake isn't that tasty anyway

[@christoptheillusiveman9875]

+Rebelkommando616 like it's not even cooked...

[@rebelkommando6166]

+Christop The illusive Man exactly! just throw sugar and stuff in a bowl and consume it. that would be hazardous to your health

[@techpriest3515]

I enjoyed this game, until bandits told me to drop my pants and "squeal like a pig."

[@NarcolepticNerdProductions]

By far my favorite video of yours! Well done!

[@claudemonett7714]

I am surprised how good this random encounter with a random video on randomtube turned out. Nicely done.

[@worldwar2freak12]

Ah, the dinner bell. A classic weapon.

[@TyrBarghest]

When they finish this game, I'll totally buy it.

[@TomLehockySVK]

I bought it day one. And it´s really interesting to see new stuff and fixes be implemented once a week or two. And it´s already REALLY good !

[@niFeforever]

TomLehocky Not after you get all of the guns (5 of them... jesus ONLY 5).Then it's boring as F until you get in to a fight with a motorcycle helm douche and suddenly your weapon disappears.....AW GOD

[@gibberconfirm166]

Karduxas Looks like the non-mod version is in serious pre-alpha state, the mod has tons of guns. Haven't even played, just watched KZbin videos which are bizarrely compelling. Something about the primal human drama of meeting strangers and prisoner's dilemma-type violence/cooperation. Millions of people watch *gameplay videos*, there's some kind of transfixing dynamic in the game's DNA, probably borne of evolutionary psychology (friend/foe evaluation.)

[@niFeforever]

gibberconfirm That's exactly why I went and got myself DayZ SA and got super disappointed, apart from the graphics, DayZ standalone is not worth it until it gets at least vehicles.

[@madaraskywalker288]

get it with the Arma 2 mod :) helicopters, cars etc also Rust is a great game and worth a look if you like the idea of Day Z meets Minecraft

[@magiclamb4ever]

"oh a gun did it belong to that dead player? why is the window broken?" *dead* This is DayZ in a nutshell

[@Xyroran]

"i heard a rumbling as every door in the town opened" i'm to lazy to go back into the video to finish the quote but that was the best line ever, it literally made me laugh like mad

[@poblo234]

i had to google it, but i now get the biro joke

[@andresgaliasso8545]

My favorite moment in this game (well the shitty standalone version) was when this guy walks up to me and starts reciting the bible through the microphone while having a gun pointed at me. Seeing no other option I decide to punch him but miss and he ends up shooting me in the head. After re spawning, five minutes later I'm killed by a bunch of zombies. A man tries to help me but it's too late, the screen is black and I'm dying of blood loss. I soon realize that it's the same man, and he yells into the microphone: "wait, that's *insert username*!! YOU FUCKING BITCH"

[@brunotvrs]

First time on your channel! Very true and very entertaining! Congrats

[@afishyfishh]

can’t believe this video is almost 10 years old

[@ThatBethesdaGuy]

My first dayz impression. Spawned at cap galova and instantly got head shotted by a guy with a sniper on the light house.

[@randominternetsurfersurfin7595]

Cool cool

[@DailyGamingVideoss]

spot on so perfect laughed so damm hard

[@jshep2194]

I shit when he said "the pipe piper set his flute to the murder setting" hahahah

[@Charzelot]

This is first time I've seen your channel and this is highly entertaining. +1

[@HippocriticalHaz]

4:50 Well whattya know, the standalone already has splints in its early alpha stages

[@namelessstranger1270]

The best way to play DAYZ is having friends in the game you're in. Say you're in a game with thirteen people, if 9 of them were your allies, you won't be getting sniped every fucking time you raise your head out of cover. Also, the worst way to play DayZ, play it as a newbie. Not only will you actually see zombies as a serious threat, any player will needlessly agro you and relentlessly kill you.

[@grmasdfII]

Step 1: have friends.

[@Geejay412]

almost every game ever is better with friends though :p but i get the point

[@grmasdfII]

Garen O'Donnell almost every MULTIPLAYER game ever...that I could probably get behind; especially those of the shooty shooty variety

[@Former_Halo_Fan]

Its a bit of a vicious cycle, you see. A couple of assholes decided to slaughter some noobs for no real reason. This gave the noobs the message that players should not be trusted, so when they become pros they follow the same path. And so on, and so on.

[@Geejay412]

i tend to watch frankieonpc because he plays it as a kinda guardian for newbies and dark knight against camping snipers and assholes

[@lollipophugo]

This review is one of his best imo. I've seen it a bunch of times and it still makes me actually laugh, as opposed to just jadely saying internally "that was funny/clever. well done you"

[@SamuelJacobMcMichael]

I want you to write my papers, Yahtzee. Your analogies are gold.

[@SnivyTries]

You know, I want to see him do Infestation: Survivor Stories. That'll be fun.

[@chrislover554]

On point as always Yahtzee 👏

[@ottodude555]

I've told others this, too: I like fighting online. It, as some are quick to point out, suits my ego. I couldn't have more fun if I tried.

[@VITOSCALETTA1911]

@Gameerturtle: i read this today like 50 times does that mean my parents will die in about 250 years? seems about right -.-

[@joshcarr2006]

My first time playing Dayz I spwaned in and 5 players rushed me did something to knock me out put m in there car and I woke up 10 mins later in a camp with 13 other new players. Then they made us 1v1 each other until there was one left. Some how I won and they give me a lot of guns and other shit and let me go. After 2 mins of walked one of the guys ran me mover and took the shit back.

[@physe8052]

Truly a paradise for the "Clubs" subtype documented in Bartle's Taxonomy.

[@MagWasTaken]

The Piper joke had me falling out of the chair laughing.

[@andrewjackson1835]

Ohhh, shame on you, Yahtzee for not reviewing New Super Mario Bros. 2. That game was fun! It was also short, but still fun.

[@zarkthedestroyer7130]

Why do human players kill each other in this. I don't your first thought in a zombie apocalypse would be to kill all of the survivors you come across.

[@mattmaine9433]

TRUST NO BITCH

[@uhuju1]

Because there is no repercussion for doing it

[@user-op4ge3wj4y]

gotta get them beans

[@lewismonkey1491]

Because people can be a pair of cock and balls!

[@TwiheartForever1]

ever heard of the bean wars? thats what was happening in DayZ at the time he wa playing i presume.

[@Persuter]

Oh man, the "feel for the patterns" line is one of ZP's best.

[@TheShadowNovus]

2:01 "Na Na Na Naaaaaa" Omg I've seen this vid a dozen times and only just now I caught the Zelda reference xD

[@xXxsmartypantzxXx]

Video, why you only 240p?

[@adolfoestrada6283]

its the equivalent of a fucking slide show. You don't need 720p.

[@xXxsmartypantzxXx]

Yeah, but still.

[@adolfoestrada6283]

StupidGamer but still what?

[@xXxsmartypantzxXx]

I don't know.

[@caelynventress2026]

adolfo estrada Even slideshows are more enjoyable when they don't have blurry pictures.

[@ZurakciEntertainment]

Hey Yahtzee!! DayZ is out >:3

[@ottodevil12]

Im pretty sure hes aware of it allready

[@ZurakciEntertainment]

ottodevil12 Lets hope so.. I wanna see him play the standalone >:3

[@ottodevil12]

Oh you devilish man,with the most devilish plan,to give yahtzee that time *my right eye brow raised*

[@nicolasbever9403]

***** well great now youve just told all of the bandits to look around up north! playing with friends does make the game easier but i had to constantly try to convince my friends not to become bandits...then i accidentally shot one of them, now I'm playing as Asian Harry Potter with a turban

[@scory22]

I hope he doesn't review it until it's more finished though. What's the point in reviewing it when it's very broken and has very few features. I do want to see him review it eventually though, because I still find the Alpha extremely fun to play.

[@wheresmyeyebrow1608]

This version is so much better then the standalone one. That is 30 dollars I will never get back.

[@PTv1deos]

"At best 'unreasonably cruel'" Quite accurate

[@chadkingoffuckmountain970]

The Standalone is okay-ish, If it got some improvements from DayZ Epoch like building your own house or driving vehicles, and zombies won't got through the walls or doors. And a cool thing wear you could board up Windows in an abandoned house and declare it your house as such. And another cool thing where you could make your own weapons, And be a cannibal.

[@AlaskafishStudios]

I just want to hit you so hard....

[@chadkingoffuckmountain970]

alright hit me :D

[@1v1forfreedoritos]

You can be a cannible now!!!!!!! Well , in the update soon to come anyway...

[@Poetabrasileiro]

I find interesting that mecanic that allows you to kidnap another player! Sounds a awesome game to roleplay as a bandit!

[@TerynCate]

You should review 7 Days To Die, its basically minecraft and dayz's one night stand and minecraft was not there to take care of the child

[@HaloXIIII]

There is under the survival special

[@njord1697]

8 years ago, memories

[@494Farrell]

the Lee-Enfield in that version of the mod earned its self the nickname 'the dinner bell' for obvious reasons

[@fadeyrow4885]

***** Dinner Bell is also the name of the unique hunting shotgun in Fallout NV.

[@MisunderstoodWierdo]

Arma is actually very fun, I wonder if yahtzee will ever get over the whole "video games must have jet packs and Lazer sharks to be fun" bullshit.

[@EasilyBoredGamer]

to him that kind of stuff is fun you forget fun is subjective to some stamp collecting is considered fun

[@ranwolf1240]

so basically you're doing the exact thing you're accusing Yahtzee of doing

[@ranwolf1240]

Travie Chan my god, it's almost as if Yahtzee has his own opinion and likes. BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!!! putz...

[@darthbacon7784]

You know everyone doesn't like the games that you like, and you just need to learn to deal with it, and not whine about it. It's not like you're going to change their opinion on a certain videogame.

[@MisunderstoodWierdo]

***** he hates fun

[@eighttimesnine]

You seem like a Dwarf Fortress person :3

[@noobsalyer5000]

But the learning curve on that game is ridiculous, and even when you get the flow of things a titan or Dragon or Forgotten beast comes and kills everything and turns your meticulously built town into a pile of slag.

[@eighttimesnine]

And now you begin to see the appeal of all the !!FUN!! Dwarf Fortress has to offer >:D

[@noobsalyer5000]

EightTimesNine But fun is deadly in that game, and no matter how man times it tells me that losing is fun it still sucks when I see that a couple days of none stop work has been reduced to rubble.

[@eighttimesnine]

noobsalyer5000 There are two types of people, apparently.

[@noobsalyer5000]

EightTimesNine Hmmmm, indeed there is

[@Geotpf]

I literally LOLed for a full minute when he got sniped after marveling the pile of guns.

[@NougatFromOrbit]

Oh god that last sentence! XD

[@grimm_plush]

I hate this game for PvP. Yes, I know that's like saying I hate Minecraft for mining, but getting a gun and then being sniped isn't fun, you know.

[@RzorGELL]

huffpuff1337 That's kind of what survival is, being killed for making stupid mistakes. You're getting sniped regularly, losing your gear and starving to death is what makes DayZ - DayZ. If you don't like being sniped, put in the effort to learn about the game, avoid running across a giant open field in a straight line, in a location that's well known for snipers. Most people avoid air fields, military bases and the main cities when they are trying to loot up, for that very reason. When they do find themselves looting said locations, they do it carefully and they use the accumulated knowledge to avoid instant death. Nobody likes losing gear and dying isn't always fun, but it's a harsh reality in the game, the world is harsh and DayZ likes to represent how much of a bitch life is.

[@spikegilfer1997]

Alright pro gun-control people, this is one of the cases where you have an argument. Edit: Lazy fingers didn't type "gun" originally.

[@ShinobuSakurazaka]

When the SHTF a gun is going to be a lot more useful than the latest iPhone and guns are more fun IMO.

[@RonaldMcDeno]

Nope they still wouldn't have a great argument, in DayZ especial everyone would just hack you to death with fire axes instead of say shooting you in the head, They'd probably just group up and Murder people it'd probably be easier too half the time unless i have a gun i stay far away from other players encase they're armed.

[@domdanialZASRA]

RonaldMcDeno If you haven't played the standalone, you can grab basically any item and use it as a melee weapon, including fire extinguishers.

[@RonaldMcDeno]

domdanialZASRA Have almost 30 hours in the stand alone, Most of the time I get gunned down for baked beans but when they don't have guns they'll chase me down to the end of the earth with axes 99% of the time to get my beans. Also the other melee weapons are garbage I just run around till i get my ax.

[@ShinobuSakurazaka]

TheFireCommando Isn't that what I just said?

[@wolfsorrow100]

Id love to see a 10 years later update of this

[@Ayeloo]

"A situation that a smoke bomb and a swift knee to the man purse may reverse!" This is by far the best thing yahtzee has ever said

[@Thetenmaumau]

Another good game killed by hackers.

[@Ghoffman91]

The reason why so many were shooting each other on site was due to how boring DayZ really was at its foundation. You spend 98% of your time wandering aimlessly for loot and when you finally encounter another player you immediately want to shoot them to have at least a brief pause from the long and dreadful five hours of monotony that came before it. Things only start getting interesting when you cross paths with another player, and the game being a complete slog the rest of the time, so it should not be surprising you got so many shooting each other on site when PvP was the only interesting thing the game has going for it. There is nothing interesting to do in DayZ besides shooting the occasional player that you cross paths with. If they put more interesting things in to do besides taking pot shots at every player you see I imagine there would not have been so many players shooting on site. This becomes most evident should you survive long enough to get the best gear and all the items your character will ever need. If you manage to achieve that, there really is nothing left to do in the game besides shooting at everyone else you find with the powerful gear you have. You just do that until you inevitably die at some point then just repeat the whole process all over again of gearing up and then using that gear to piss in the cereal of all other players you come across.

[@Hadgerz]

It was just one of those things: accidental, hiding in plain sight, too perfect :D

[@SONYUSR]

holy crap dude this is hilarious, i think i will come back tomorrow to read this freaking 4 month conversation.

[@IIPhoenixII1]

The Standalone version of this game taught me to never ever ever buy a game in Alpha/early access. EVER.

[@taliawtf6944]

Ah yes the games like dayz show us that humans are just horrible animals who will kill and eat each other when the chips are down. So yeah the Joker was right....

[@williamward2763]

+Tali Sparta games, i doubt this would happen, at least not on this scale in real life.

[@taliawtf6944]

+howabout no how many groups of people shot at and attacked each other after hurricane Katrina? Now how do you think they would act knowing there is no order or civilization returning? We are just animals after all.

[@johnjohnson-md4ky]

+Tali Sparta People don't value their own life in this game as much as they do in the real world. There would be psychos if society collapsed, but the good hearted people would group together more than the evil people.

[@ATLASMUGGED96]

+john johnson and would immediatly be killed by the "psychos" because of their inability to accept the reality of their situation

[@johnjohnson-md4ky]

dom chit The amount of normal people willing to work together to rebuild society would far outweigh the amount of crazy people. It's how society started in the first place, it's social evolution.

[@xdruidmaster]

I swear I have seen this review like 10 times yet, I still laugh every fucking time!

[@timewarp1994]

This critique was one of my most favorite of all time. I should try out DayZ

[@HoodieProduction]

If this game is so realistic, can someone tell me how your player got to this point without having any weapons or food or anything usefull at all.

[@zwinky588]

The apocalypse just happened? No one really knows, there is no back story.

[@brickbrickerston7099]

Hangover part 4?

[@YengPu]

Human Trafficking Incorporated had a mishap with UPS

[@alexoverton4542]

You appear on the coast so one can assume you floated to shore, if you like that idea, the gun play is VERY realistic, and the mod has changed DRASTICALLY since Yahtzee played it, i would definitely recommend it if you're a fan of true Survival games, to download it, get program called DayZ commander, that should explain how to play it, remember to have ARMA 2 and its expansion installed though :D Good hunting

[@YengPu]

Alex Overton Don't buy the standalone, though.

[@femoman]

Funny he should mention the boring ultra-realism of Arma 2, since I suspect that might be a reason nobody I know who plays Arma uses it for anything other than the original DayZ before it became standalone, multiplayer with shitloads of mods, or creating the fucking apocalypse in the mission-editor mode.

[@gaddiusgaddium9082]

You forgot to mention that the zombies were programmed by Walt Disney's blindfolded tied up corpse!

[@TheGahta]

3:21 I love that part :P

[@detinator5]

From having friends who constantly pester me to get DayZ, and the bits of gameplay of it, and this, sounds like DayZ is the worst thing ever made.

[@detinator5]

I feel like you don't realize that DayZ mod is really just DayZ the game, they've just upgraded the interface a bit, and fixed some bugs. It's still the piece of shit it always was.

[@Joesolo13]

***** ". So much better than CoD or BF" talk about the ultimate low bar...

[@detinator5]

Bill Buck who? Luke? What did he do to you?

[@billbuck3590]

Gotta Go Fast the original comment dip shite

[@detinator5]

Bill Buck What's with your hostility? Do you have a banana in your arse like the amazing atheist?