Alphaness aside, I think it's worth it. If you're on the fence, I'd wait until an official launch, though. I mean, if bugs are something that would make you regret your purchase, then the Alpha and Beta phases are not the best time to start playing.
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The War Z AKA "28 Scandals Later" AKA "bury the ones we love and plagiarize the rest"
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Alphaness aside, I think it's worth it. If you're on the fence, I'd wait until an official launch, though. I mean, if bugs are something that would make you regret your purchase, then the Alpha and Beta phases are not the best time to start playing.
Kirbychwan
Neo Member
Wait until the official launch.
The UI is a lot better, but it's still really clunky in its own ways. (Lots of features yet to be implemented, needs a lot of polish.) Like dubq says though, the rate of updates is pretty impressive,
and I think whereas DayZ will ultimately be a better sim, WarZ will be a better game; provided that it continues its current direction.
LMAO! I was having a shitty day, thanks for making me laugh.
I can give Zen the benefit of the doubt because I think there's someone that I can talk to and I kinda know him(and his vehicle antics) from the DayZ thread. I can see someone I can reason with, even if we disagree. You, on the other hand? LMAO.
I agree. There's room for both, IMO, and I'm just glad I get to play them! Two similar zombie mmo's is better than none!
OJdaKiller
Member
This game can be so disheartening.
Playing yesterday and I take a long trek north and find a large backpack and eventually find 2 shotguns..I hardly ever find guns. So of course I want to fill up the backpack, find a bunch of stuff only to die to a bunch of zombies...Losing it all..olol..
Playing yesterday and I take a long trek north and find a large backpack and eventually find 2 shotguns..I hardly ever find guns. So of course I want to fill up the backpack, find a bunch of stuff only to die to a bunch of zombies...Losing it all..olol..
Kirbychwan
Neo Member
Such is the way of games like this.
By the way, they are wiping all inventories soon!
Fixed a bunch of exploits and rebalanced loot tables, so they gotta wipe everything and see if the new stuff works.
By the way, they are wiping all inventories soon!
Fixed a bunch of exploits and rebalanced loot tables, so they gotta wipe everything and see if the new stuff works.
OJdaKiller
Member
TYVM for letting us know. Now I don't feel so bad. time to start wearing all the masks I've been hording and time to bust out the sniper rifle.....Also when you say "soon", how soon are they suggesting????
One thing can't be denied about this game..The development team appears to listen to feedback and they keep you updated...Daily patch fixes and reports of what they are doing...I can't complain about that....
On a different note: Is there any direct word on what the talent trees will have in them? Extra health and a bigger backpack will be nice..lol..Sick of dying after 3 zombie hits.
Kirbychwan
Neo Member
No time table for it yet, just that if/when they do a wipe, your GC will be restored, and characters won't be deleted, but will have rep/time/items wiped.
About the talent trees, specifics haven't been mentioned, although they apparently contain upgrades like increased carrying weight (bigger backpacks are simply found), longer sprinting, weapon training, etc.
Game Update coming next week - via the official forums. This wasn't in the Alpha folder so I assume it's public and okay to post elsewhere. http://forums.thewarz.com/showthread.php?47216-Upcoming-content-unlock-update
TheContact
Member
Interested, still on the fence though.
Raijin_Cain
Member
You mean all inventory (including global) or just character inventory?
I finally have a couple of sniper rifles :_:
Awesome. Really like it! Thanks for the info!
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Like I was saying before, I got a couple of sniper rifles cause I managed to kill some bandits!!!!! Woo Hoo!
Mostly luck though, lol.
I was exploring different areas of the map and found them hiding, specially on hills overlooking cities.
KILLED THEM ALL WITH MY MIGHTY MJOLNIR!!!! XD
Kirbychwan
Neo Member
Holy shit, L4D-style special infected in a DayZ-style game would be nuts. I hope that's the type they're going for.
If they're doing it, it would have to be global. That's where everyone's been stashing their exploited sniper rifles.
They've talked about it long time ago in interviews that special zombies will be much harder to kill, much faster and aggressive, but they will have cells that allow You to build cure for zombie disease and this will serve as medicine, and high end currency.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
5 more days until I can access the beta. Should be interesting!
Will there be a NDA during beta? I would like to do some Streaming.
Will there be a NDA during beta? I would like to do some Streaming.
More news from their Facebook and Forums - http://forums.thewarz.com/showthread.php?47957-State-of-The-War-Z-numbers-features-etc
Guy name Brotato is going to be livestreaming....as soon as he gets approved by the Twitch Admins.
http://www.twitch.tv/brotatoe
http://www.twitch.tv/brotatoe
SJRB
Gold Member
His WarZ stream started hours ago, can't believe he is still waiting for approval. What's the holdup, I wonder.
SJRB
Gold Member
This guy is streaming again, but the servers just broke and they all got disconnected.
DownWithTheShip
Member
Got this last night.
My first guy was killed within 20 minutes. He was around the outskirts of a town looking for a good opportunity to check out some buildings when someone snuck up behind me with a shotgun and killed me.
Started up a new guy. Was able to avoid zombies enough to get into a supermarket where I found a shotgun. After that I accidentally got the attention of some zombies, used up all my ammo, cornered my self and was killed.
Today I continued with my second guy. Went exploring away from the big cities where I came across a military checkpoint. Lured the zombies away from there and found an M16. This allowed me to search a nearby small town. Cleared out some zombies blocking a market. Found a shotgun and some desperately needed rations. Oh, and a cool hockey-type mask. Decided to quit there and continue later tonight. Now that i'm fairly well equiped I should be able to search a little more freely.
So far i'm enjoying it a lot. It can take a while to find enough equipment to survive, and even then you need to keep searching for rations. Too afraid to search out any other people. We'll see what happens tonight when I log back on.
My first guy was killed within 20 minutes. He was around the outskirts of a town looking for a good opportunity to check out some buildings when someone snuck up behind me with a shotgun and killed me.
Started up a new guy. Was able to avoid zombies enough to get into a supermarket where I found a shotgun. After that I accidentally got the attention of some zombies, used up all my ammo, cornered my self and was killed.
Today I continued with my second guy. Went exploring away from the big cities where I came across a military checkpoint. Lured the zombies away from there and found an M16. This allowed me to search a nearby small town. Cleared out some zombies blocking a market. Found a shotgun and some desperately needed rations. Oh, and a cool hockey-type mask. Decided to quit there and continue later tonight. Now that i'm fairly well equiped I should be able to search a little more freely.
So far i'm enjoying it a lot. It can take a while to find enough equipment to survive, and even then you need to keep searching for rations. Too afraid to search out any other people. We'll see what happens tonight when I log back on.
Played a lot tonight to get a feel for it before my friends can join on the 31st. I like it better than Day Z mostly because it's a game built around the concept and not a mod thrown into another game. It's obviously an alpha though as I've already noticed a few glitches with some zombies. Mostly where the zombies can get stuck in terrain and become invincible, or they don't move at all and no matter how many times you hit them they don't die. They won't attack you either though.
My first couple of characters didn't go over well but my latest one is doing pretty well. I got kind of lucky thanks to a zombie glitch though. This guy was getting chased by one zombie and decided to use his hammer to try to kill it. He climbed a trash pile and turned to fight it except he didn't notice the zombie got stuck and wouldn't die. The zombie killed him and he lost all of his shit. I crouched behind the zombie and took everything that he dropped lol.
My first couple of characters didn't go over well but my latest one is doing pretty well. I got kind of lucky thanks to a zombie glitch though. This guy was getting chased by one zombie and decided to use his hammer to try to kill it. He climbed a trash pile and turned to fight it except he didn't notice the zombie got stuck and wouldn't die. The zombie killed him and he lost all of his shit. I crouched behind the zombie and took everything that he dropped lol.
I've been playing on the less-populated European servers lately, and I have to say it's a lot more fun with about 7 or 8 people in the game world at a time. A lot less PKers from my experience, too.
It's a shame they are wiping the GI as I've amassed a pretty nice stockpile of food/drink and.... hats! LOL I keep finding hats almost every time I start up a game session.
It's a shame they are wiping the GI as I've amassed a pretty nice stockpile of food/drink and.... hats! LOL I keep finding hats almost every time I start up a game session.
Are they actually wiping it? I've only heard rumors about it.
DownWithTheShip
Member
If you already have the key you can go to http://thewarz.com/download/ to download the client. During install it should ask you to enter the key.
The install is around 1.3GB. Currently only about 1/3 of the map is uncovered.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Email them and explain. If a guy can whip his d#$k out on camera and get his channel back, surely you can as well.
DownWithTheShip
Member
I have no idea but I wouldn't think so. Is that what it's telling you? I received 3 keys with my purchase. Not aware I need to give people my email along with those keys. If so that's lame.
Edit: this is what the email I received says.
2. Install Game client on your computer
3. Run game client and when prompted to create game account enter your serial number. If you already have expired Beta account, login to your account and enter serial number when prompted.
Sounds like you just create and use your own account.
Yeah, that's it.
Yeah you have to give out the email address because the keys are tied to it. Released the patch that opened up the map about an hour ago.
I wish I was recording my adventure today. It was amazing and full of murder.
My friend and I were near Clearview when we found some people without weapons. We let them join us because we were loaded and could protect them. Two of them found weapons and the third died by a zombie. I have left the town and went into the woods. The entire time staying behind them so that they couldn't kill us. My partner eventually got tired of them so we counted to three and murdered them at the same time and went on our way.
Later we were in another town and I found three more guys. My friend was in the tree line keeping watch as I explored with them. We found another guy and he helped us out. One of the guys died in a zombie fight while we were checking out a barn. My friend decided to start making the other people worry by taking random shots at them. There was only one guy who was a threat so while we were running I would stand near him to point him out to my friend. He took another shot and the guy went prone. I stood right behind him to point out his location and my friend shot him in the head. The other guy ran toward me and when he was close enough I bashed his head in with a hammer. Another guy came out of nowhere to see what was going on so I told him that my friends were murdered. As we were talking my friend came up behind him and smashed his skull in with a hammer.
I have more stories from tonight but I will have to type them up later.
I wish I was recording my adventure today. It was amazing and full of murder.
My friend and I were near Clearview when we found some people without weapons. We let them join us because we were loaded and could protect them. Two of them found weapons and the third died by a zombie. I have left the town and went into the woods. The entire time staying behind them so that they couldn't kill us. My partner eventually got tired of them so we counted to three and murdered them at the same time and went on our way.
Later we were in another town and I found three more guys. My friend was in the tree line keeping watch as I explored with them. We found another guy and he helped us out. One of the guys died in a zombie fight while we were checking out a barn. My friend decided to start making the other people worry by taking random shots at them. There was only one guy who was a threat so while we were running I would stand near him to point him out to my friend. He took another shot and the guy went prone. I stood right behind him to point out his location and my friend shot him in the head. The other guy ran toward me and when he was close enough I bashed his head in with a hammer. Another guy came out of nowhere to see what was going on so I told him that my friends were murdered. As we were talking my friend came up behind him and smashed his skull in with a hammer.
I have more stories from tonight but I will have to type them up later.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Can't wait to try this out over the weekend. My pass is only good for 48 hours so I'm going to wait until Friday so I can maximize my time. Were there any major updates or changes from the latest alpha to the beta?
Patch notes from yesterday. I'm not sure if it is officially in beta yet though.
I dunno, I'm going by the same rumors. I could've sworn when this first came out they said that you'd be able to carry over all your equipment/inventory from Alpha to Beta to Official Release.. I think the GI wipe thing came out of people spawn camping and stockpiling stuff from spawn kills. They haven't done yet, though, so..
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Honestly, I think they should just wipe everything before launch. Alphas and betas are for testing, not for playing early and hording items and gear to give you an advantage.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Any gaffers going to play tonight?
Friend and I were just in a pretty intense shootout at the airfield. We saw them approaching so we took cover behind a fire truck. No one shot for a few minutes and then one of them shot at us so we returned fire. At first we thought that there were only 2 but then we spotted a third so we retreated to the radio tower. Climbed the tower to get a better vantage point. Shot a few of them with my pistol a couple of times but they kept taking cover to heal. Right as I was in the middle of exchanging fire with someone the servers shut down 
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.Same, with everyone talking about the speed of patches, good things could still come of this. I'd be very interested as well.
OJdaKiller
Member
Until they implement some reason not to kill other players and I stop getting killed by nearly any other human player I encounter, I'm definitely going the route of shooting on sight. I just don't care any more. I try to give other players the benefit of the doubt and live and let live, but that doesn't seem to be working out so well.
There really wasn't a whole lot of hate. More of the feeling that they just blatantly ripped off day z. Which is perfectly understandable at first. Then you actually play the game and realize that besides the zombie survival aspect they don't really have a lot in common.
Also I would really love to stream but for some reason I can't get x split to recognize the game even though it recognizes the launcher just fine
You can do screen region streaming and play the game in fullscreen and it will work (at least it does for me).
blitzcloud
Banned
Knew what would be the reason.
Also, it's not that the hate is fading... it's just that now there's no NDA.
People were asking refunds for Dayz. FOR DAYZ. a mod. oh internet.
So just do the screen selection option and then run the game like normal and it should work? I'll give it a try later.
Also they gave a news update about the end of alpha and when the wipe will happen. Alpha ends on the 30th and that is also when the wipe will occur. After the wipe both regular and stronghold servers will be available to rent. Skill tree, server hopping, server sorting, and new characters and animations are currently being set to the same time table.
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