Your personal opinion: Modded Servers

[Apocryphox]

Serious question, i never saw someone here made a specific thread about your personal opinion about this topic, so i wanna start one.

For me personally:
The original DayZ way of playing is vanilla, that's for sure. But the devs don't give us players what we wanna see in this game. The question is, what do you wanna see in this game? I think the answer lies in the mods or better, the modded community servers. But i see a huge problem here. In vanilla there aren't such things like sports cars, traders, unlimited stamina, mapmarkers and/or savezones.

I personally think about how the community is destroying the core of DayZ with such mods. I am fine with some servers which includes this type of DayZ but the problem i see is, that maybe 70% or more of all servers are just cheap copies of other servers with the same content and the main goal in these servers is mostly PVE against a completely dumb AI (Jump on a wall or car and you are save), horting tons of stuff in bases which can't be raided (since Base Raiding is mostly off) and sell some items at the traders. I often see people say "Hardcore" is not the DayZ people wanna play, but i must say this overmodded lore-unfriendly crap is also not the DayZ true fans want. DayZ was always a survival game and survival normally is hardcore itself, unless it's not survival. Most DayZ mods are immersive-breaking imho and this is what i want to say here. Even the DayZ mod for Reforger just started, is hard in development and most servers which offers the DayZ mod are already junked with these lore-unfriendly crap like ore farming and trading which doesn't fit to DayZ. Survival means permanent danger. And this feeling is what DayZ always made so special. But this feeling is gone within most servers with these mods.

Don't understand me wrong, i am totally fine with mods itself which enhances the game and adds content which is lore-friendly like new guns, better base building (Yeah, vanilla BB is awful, just like the raid system), new graphics like new skyboxes or lighting but if you see mutants from Stalker which sucks 500000 bullets from a CheyTac which you can find in civilian buildings in Chernarus while you drive a Porsche Panamera to the trader to buy a Mercedes for 500Rb, this is not DayZ anymore.

As i said, i don't have anything against these servers, but meanwhile i personally have serious problems with finding a good server which offers the gameplay i want in this game which is likely Vanilla Plus. But even these servers are mostly junked with mods like mapmarkers, lore-unfriendly zombies or stuff. Most of the time, if i wanna play with friend, we end up searching for a good servers which offers the stuff we want, only to surrender and being done with this game.

I even remember once, that we was on a server on which you wasn't even able to drive a car because it was so extremely laggy caused by all these mods.

What do you think about that?

[II-KING-II]

Mods have always been a part of bohemia's games and dayz is no exception.

Plenty of community vanilla servers out there so I don't see the issue.

There is something for everyone in this game.

[Coffee]

The fact is modders are why Dayz is still popular 10 years later. If modders like John Mclane and Sumrak didn't make amazing modded maps for Dayz I would never have started playing the game I think and certainly wouldn't have played for as long as I have. Namalsk is what grabbed my interest initially and what pushed me to buy the game. Deer Isle is just on another level to other maps too.

I agree with what you are saying in regards to overly modded servers I don't like them myself but the fact BI allow modding access as part of their business plan is a winner.

[_KC76_]

Originally posted by Apocryphox:

Serious question, i never saw someone here made a specific thread about your personal opinion about this topic, so i wanna start one.

For me personally:
The original DayZ way of playing is vanilla, that's for sure. But the devs don't give us players what we wanna see in this game.
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What do you think about that?

I think, you are overwhelmed with too many choices, and appear to make the wrong choice for yourself, when selecting a server from one of the nearly 10,000 available servers.

I think, you are part of a very vocal minority of players, who say they want to play on a "Vanilla" server, but then never actually patronize those "vanilla" Community servers that people have spent their personal money to provide .. Empty servers tend to make the server owner feel like they are wasting their time, and money.

I think, we would all be better served by Bohemia, if they reduced the number of "Official" servers, and hired active Admins on those Official servers that remain active. Official servers have gotten a bad reputation of being overwhelmed with "cheaters" and "hackers", so many people hit that 50 hours mark, and move to Community servers, to only then be overwhelmed by having too many choices.

[Mick]

*** servers is mostly PVE against a completely dumb AI (Jump on a wall or car and you are save),***

Did that on our server and the Zombies chuck stones at you and knock you out

[baddoggs]

Modded servers.. Mmm Where do i start?
Well to be honest..And.. As much as i like the vanilla game,
One has to admit, modability and the capability to create
and () Maintain bespoke community servers
is the real strength of Dayz. As much as i like to poke fun
at (And most of them deserver it) community servers in general
there ARE some really good ones run buy decent trying to
do the right thing. Let's face it, with out them we wouldn't
have much of a community.

[Phoenix]

i'm with you, i don't understand the appeal of ~90% of the mods running on community servers. even among servers with "vanilla" in the title (which are already a tiny portion of all servers) 90% of THOSE have unlimited stamina, which that ONE THING completely changes the core gameplay of DayZ.

but eh, as long as i have official servers to play on (or the tiny handful of community servers that focus on official-like experience like Spaggies or KarmaKrew) and enough fellow players to enjoy them with, i'm content. i know i'm in the minority and no amount of proselytizing will change that.

[PorkChop]

The magic of Dayz's appeal is that you can play the game your way. I prefer a vanilla experience for the most part. But, sometimes being chased by a agro'd giant lizard could be fun for giggles also.

[etwas]

the original dayz was a mod too^^

i think it really doesnt matter as theres servers for everyone.
of course the "fast paced" servers get a bigger playerbase.
u can compare all the servers with different music styles. the majority likes pop music, but luckily theres other genres.

[Duke Leto Atreides]

I prefer vanilla because modded servers always go over the top. I don't want traders, safe zones, unlimited stamina, baby map, extra military loot all over the place or finding a M249, SCAR-L and G36 only 10 minutes after spawning.

My only fun experience on a modded server in SA DayZ was one that ran "Winter Chernarus" 2 or 3 years ago. Dying from exposure was the biggest threat and you had to constantly find shelter and warmth until you collected enough winter clothes to survive. Now that added a fun twist to the vanilla experience without bastardising it.

[WumboWise]

I am mostly a vanilla player. I don't like the trader and boosted loot with unlimited stamina, as I do believe it takes away core aspects of what makes the game fun.

But like it or not, modding kept the game alive while Bohemia was twiddling their thumbs
slowly re-adding features that were already in the game back in early access. Thankfully it seems they are adding stuff and a pretty decent rate now, so even that vanilla game is becoming fairly feature rich again. Please re add spray paint to the vanilla game again Bohemia. Please!

[Ranceed]

IMO the vanilla game is really too easy. Not only is there too much food, water, ammo, fuel, batteries, good clothing, good weather. but not enough disease, injury, environmental threat, or crafting to survive. Of course it has all the correct ideas but set very much towards the FPS Mil Sim that its derived from.....and understandably so. I suppose there is no fun in real mil survival to be popular. Who really wants to suffer and then die anyway. How could that be made into something fun? The harder you make the survival aspect of this game the less popular it becomes.

Community trader and access to all conveniences at all times, for all players is tired. Sure Dayz was there to kick this kind of moddeed game play off and it still does it great but the direction the vast majority of community servers have modded it.....well the game becomes much of the same as every other similar type of game. I agree there.

It would be nice to see some more radical/hardcore/innovative ideas into the game. OF course doing that is one thing....making it popular and financially viable is another altogether. In defence I believe its very hard to come up with novel ideas/systems/assets. There are very few new ideas and I'm sure everyone is looking for them for obvious reasons

Maybe what DayZ should become is what it has already become. A collection of the communities best ideas where all there is left to differ over is the balance of the loot table and a few difficulty settings. IMO it could certainly be less of a PVP game and more a survival game./

[-reno-FR-]

i'm more on a Vanilla pure experience, yeah.

I'm tired of all those servers that are cloned with tons of mods.

I'm tired with all those servers that have, each one, repacks of tons of mods, so you are ending to have X copies of the same mods but in 5 packs for 5 differents servers.

i'm also highly tired of all those cloned descriptions : nearly all those servers are saying the same thing ---> "Vanilla flavour", "Flavour of the original DayZ", "More well balanced than the original DayZ", etc.

And the most hypocrit thing I have read too often, & which plagued no more & no less too often my research of a pure vanille server : those modded commu servers too often are lying in their own description by using the term "Vanilla".
And no matters if it is "Vanilla", "Vanilla +" or "Vanilla ++++++++".

They are voluntary using that term only to appear in all the research inquiries.

I personnally look for a "VANILLA" thing, i always end by finding too much trash results of servers that are purely not what I wanted to find.

I do not care at all if people enjoy modded servers.
Each server owner has the pure right to mod it like he wants to, and I understand the pleasure that can have people searching that kind of experience.

But I have that feeling that too often the description is hypocrit & made to mislead people who are searching the pure vanilla one.

[Ashenslinky01]

i don't like modded servers what is the point of having unlimited stamina unlimited ammo

[etwas]

Originally posted by Ashenslinky01:

i don't like modded servers what is the point of having unlimited stamina unlimited ammo

i like modded servers with more restricted stamina and less ammo.
;)

[RoY]

Mods that make sense like the extended silencer life and the builder mods I'm ok with. But traders and and non realistic mods no.