DayZ Newbie in God Mode
I recently began experimenting with the game, DayZ and made this video mostly to show a friend what it's about. I think a anyone spawned on the beach is called a "freshie" so I guess my theme is about my newbie adventures rather than freshie which no longer applies once you're well off the beach. I'm a triple newbie. I'm relatively new at Dayz, new at making videos, and new at posting them on YouTube. There is no editing or added graphics. When I'm ready to begin I just toggle "start recording" on the OBS software, and off I go. Depending on how compulsive I get with video making I may learn to edit and make them smoother and better paced. Here in one paragraph is the basic idea of the game, stolen from Wikipedia and slightly edited: "The game places the player in the fictional post-Soviet Republic of Chernarus, where a mysterious plague has turned most of the population into violent "infected". As a survivor, the player must scavenge the world for food, water, weapons and medicine, while killing or avoiding the infected, and killing, avoiding, or cooperating with other players in an effort to survive the outbreak." Now, who can resist giving that a try? I had rented a DayZ server from Nitrado at a price almost anyone can afford ($6/month) and then downloaded and linked the free CF and Zomberry software so I can have access to DayZ "god mode" when desired and can also control the weather and time of day (not a big fan of darkness and rain). I also have access to all the guns and ammo and accessories and equipment in DayZ, so instead of starting with my bare hands I have automatic weapons. My purpose in renting the server and using god mode (I'm invulnerable when it's toggled) is in learning the various aspects of the game - defending myself from zombies in different situations and numbers, navigating the map, learning to find food and water, avoiding wounds and illnesses and learning how to treat them when I have them etc., etc., all without being killed every 20 or 30 minutes and starting over back at the beach in my ratty cutoffs, T-shirt and athletic shoes. A DayZ purist might claim that I should drag myself through the game as it was intended, but I'm here to amuse myself in my own way. At some point I'll shut off god mode permanently so that I'm vulnerable to being killed and having to start over each time that I am, and I'll likely make a video of how things go with that. THEN, after reaching a point where I'm relatively confident at being able to survive in the environment for a period of time I'll likely go to the public servers and put myself in harm's way with other players for the first time so that I'm surviving against the same environment while other players shoot at me. On the public servers I'm just another survivor with no god mode, no control of the weather, and no way of getting gear except by looting just like everybody else. As mentioned I started out with DayZ video-making for the amusement of a friend of mine, but then I noticed that a few other people were also giving it a look. If others get any amusement out of me fumbling around in here then I'm glad of it.
I recently began experimenting with the game, DayZ and made this video mostly to show a friend what it's about. I think a anyone spawned on the beach is called a "freshie" so I guess my theme is about my newbie adventures rather than freshie which no longer applies once you're well off the beach. I'm a triple newbie. I'm relatively new at Dayz, new at making videos, and new at posting them on YouTube. There is no editing or added graphics. When I'm ready to begin I just toggle "start recording" on the OBS software, and off I go. Depending on how compulsive I get with video making I may learn to edit and make them smoother and better paced. Here in one paragraph is the basic idea of the game, stolen from Wikipedia and slightly edited: "The game places the player in the fictional post-Soviet Republic of Chernarus, where a mysterious plague has turned most of the population into violent "infected". As a survivor, the player must scavenge the world for food, water, weapons and medicine, while killing or avoiding the infected, and killing, avoiding, or cooperating with other players in an effort to survive the outbreak." Now, who can resist giving that a try? I had rented a DayZ server from Nitrado at a price almost anyone can afford ($6/month) and then downloaded and linked the free CF and Zomberry software so I can have access to DayZ "god mode" when desired and can also control the weather and time of day (not a big fan of darkness and rain). I also have access to all the guns and ammo and accessories and equipment in DayZ, so instead of starting with my bare hands I have automatic weapons. My purpose in renting the server and using god mode (I'm invulnerable when it's toggled) is in learning the various aspects of the game - defending myself from zombies in different situations and numbers, navigating the map, learning to find food and water, avoiding wounds and illnesses and learning how to treat them when I have them etc., etc., all without being killed every 20 or 30 minutes and starting over back at the beach in my ratty cutoffs, T-shirt and athletic shoes. A DayZ purist might claim that I should drag myself through the game as it was intended, but I'm here to amuse myself in my own way. At some point I'll shut off god mode permanently so that I'm vulnerable to being killed and having to start over each time that I am, and I'll likely make a video of how things go with that. THEN, after reaching a point where I'm relatively confident at being able to survive in the environment for a period of time I'll likely go to the public servers and put myself in harm's way with other players for the first time so that I'm surviving against the same environment while other players shoot at me. On the public servers I'm just another survivor with no god mode, no control of the weather, and no way of getting gear except by looting just like everybody else. As mentioned I started out with DayZ video-making for the amusement of a friend of mine, but then I noticed that a few other people were also giving it a look. If others get any amusement out of me fumbling around in here then I'm glad of it.