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Grr can't quote. Went back to playing SPG's. Fantastic start averaged 3 kills a game then it all went to sh*ite I don't like all the "grab the one base" missions.
Anyhow I tried Arma 2 the Day-Z mod.. THE Zombie game.
It was truly the most unnerving thing I've ever played. Makes Resie and Silent Hill etc look like the Teletubbies. Yeah even in the first Resident Evil when the dogs jumped out.
I signed in at 2 in the morning - nighttime and the place I was in was pitch black, it's like life you cannot see anything, I'm in an abandoned docks with no power or anything. You are given no weapons, you have a flash light with a small beam.
I spent 2 and half hours crawling around on my stomach trying to stay alive.
I always kinda fantasied about the zombie-end of the world thing, that a lot of blokes do, until I played this game it's pretty much a sim. No tutorial nothing.
I don't anymore because should the Dead Walk the Earth you've got about a 2% chance of surviving.
You cannot stay put, they will just randomly find you.
You have to keep checking everywhere, once they have you, you are dead. Looking looking looking all the time.
I was crawling along watching one of those horrific "hopping" zombies. That's after I spent 30 minutes sh*tting myself in a shed. Yes I was in a shed in a computer game for 30 minutes. Just listening to the zombie sounds just with a torch. I crawl on thinking I'm out of danger, then cuse you have to, I checked behind me only to be eaten and killed by a walker.
I must have jumped five foot in my chair - but I was dead.
Thing was I went to put the kettle on, I was so unnerved I couldn't look out at the darkness from the kitchen window.
Anyone who knows me well, knows I have ZERO fear of the supernatural. Had a few weird things happen, but I'm never fazed.
Play this game, on your own at night on a scenario, with no starting weapons just the pure game and you will crap yourself.
Be warned though it's impossibly hard - because it's like real life. If you get attacked you can out swim them that's it, jeez I dunno, you need a weapon but getting one means going into houses which means the undead.
You need both Arma 2 and the xpack and then get the mod. Don't play this without this independent server app
http://www.dayzcommander.com/ it helps you sort the game out, it's not dodgy, you will save yourself so much time if you use it.
I've played a few hours in daylight still hard but nothing near what it is like at night.
Check out NZ Orcon he hosts the best pure games.
*Shudders thinking about nighttime on Orcon's server...
"I signed in at 2 in the morning - nighttime and the place I was in was
pitch black, it's like life you cannot see anything, I'm in an abandoned
docks with no power or anything. You are given no weapons, you have a
flash light with a small beam".
edit: just thought this sounds like every survival horror game - it's not I was a Resident Evil master that could walk most of them on any difficulty. Silent hill - that's all you get is a torch right - a pisstake compared to this?, in this game you can see nothing at all -nothingl.
This is game completely different.