How DayZ Changed Everything By Removing Stealth!

You're exaggerating it

I have countless hours in DayZ but 3 months ago I stopped playing and uninstalled because they're not making the game better they're making it worse. They forgot about what Dayz is it supposed to be and they're trying to make a different game out of it. They're destroying their game a little bit of time and it's working if you look at the numbers this go especially for console players because of the game deadside came out 2 months ago and it's everything we wanted from Dayz. Send out all my hours go into that game because the building mechanics in the whole game is so much better than what Dayz is becoming.

Man.. and I was thinking of coming back but every update reminds me why I left.. took away the hunting of players avoiding zombies and the jumpscares of sneaking on someone?? Pretty much ruined the game.. what a shame

Hard agree on the lack of stealth in DayZ Nowadays. Nobody should be hearing footsteps 60 meters away, and why the hell can you hear cars and boats 300 meters away too? That's just ridiculous.

Stealth has not been removed. You can't just put rags on your feet and run around with impunity. As a freshie or scared player trying to be quiet, you should remain still, pause, listen, move in short bursts, taking deliberate movements and actions when most likely safe to do so; based on the available data. What they have done, is tweak the experience in order to make people think more about their actions and weigh up pros and cons of every situation. DayZ is not a mainstream game and it does not behave like one. Adapt or die, it's that simple. The idea of creating a harsher environment for a low geared or freshie player is there as an incentive to level up. Don't get too close with only a knife, or I'll hear you shiver, I'll hear your footsteps, you will aggro zombies and snap twigs. Just like in reality. Don't go for that long shot, because you will probably miss. Get close, but be careful, wait for me to make a mistake, then pounce. I'm fed up with sub-standard players complaining about a game which was designed to be semi-realistic. You're playing DayZ...you know that, right? These changes, which make things harder again, are welcomed with open arms. I've been playing the game since it's inception and it is far, far, far easier to survive and even thrive than it used to be. You guys who have been playing for less than 10 years don't know how good you've got it. That's why you complain about everything.

DayZ devs be Like:
Hey lets Put Out a Update and remove everything the Players Like about the Game

"I wish everything you did in the game made a whole lot if fucking noise." -literally no one.

Bro, why are so many people dickriding the DayZ devs? You’ve gotta have at least a bit of self-criticism the game isn’t progressing at all in terms of mechanics. Every time there’s an update, they either break something or change stuff nobody asked for. If you want a real opinion on the game, listen to the veteran players, because the new ones are blinded (just like we all were at some point)

I like to play stealthy, as it's the only way to even the playing field for me given how crap I am at PvP. But I'm 100% fine with all the changes they've made. The cloth shoes provided a huge advantage that cost basically nothing. The map is large enough, and positioning/awareness is important enough, that stealth is still completely viable. And I will die on this hill- if they add craftable bows back into the game, it will be the death of DayZ. If all it takes is rope and a stick to give yourself a silent, ranged weapon, then the meta will be forever changed. Thanks as always for the content mate.

i dont see how stealth can be taken out its a play style not mechanic.

Wait what??? This is lame, cmon why would they do this.

Guess i wont be playing dayz anymore. Im solo if i want to play call of duty then id play that

Fk for some reason I thought this said no stealth on 7 days to die n I got hyped lol 😆 😅

Honestly that's the final straw with this game and those fucking Devs... I'm done supporting this game. Dripping out shit updates instead of focusing on giving mod support to everyone. For years now... 10 years.
Asshole streamers and FPS cod wankers...
But hey... Let's dei everyone and loose our soul like every other studio.

Yep... Done...

sounds more like fixes they need to work on rather than "this is going to be like it is"

Dayz’s dead time to move on shts garbage now

Thry should revert thr foot sounds distance and rag shoes and focus on base building. There is alot of mods they could get inspiration from because lord forbid you try to put a tent down on uneven ground or hide it on a slope.

Otherwise you’ll do what???😂😂😂😂😂😂 got my vote

wait they did what??

They(devs) screaming about "We're trying to make things somewhat of a Real Life - like things in the game" but STEALTH IS A PRIMARY ASPECT OF IT..if Any of this Would be real life-like.
This was ABSOLUTELY NOT NEEDED yet these.. i can't even find words for people who making these decisions,people spending Man-power and $ on changing all this things. Like wtf..

This may be a hot take but the only stealth in Dayz that is actually used is hiding in bushes and using third person camera. If anybody was being snuck up on through the woods or through towns, that was usually something that had nothing to do with sound anyways and more to do with people just not being aware of their surroundings.

Game is a complete joke on console 😂

You are indeed correct, sir. Stealth has been vital to staying alive and remaining unseen and unheard. It was costly but could be managed. However, with recent changes it has changed in it's nature, and in some situations was made impossible.

Is it just me or has DayZ not felt like DayZ for a long while? I started in .62 and loved it, even with all its weird flaws. When it went full release every life went from a unique and wild adventure with a half dozen randos to a COD team deathmatch simulator plagued by hackers.

Combat boots are pretty quiet

im agree ,y friendd!

DayZ is/was games within a game. An Ok hunting game. An ok fishing game. An ok stealth game. A very good PvP game. When all go on together its special.
I was a stealth player. Now Im not a player at all.

Don’t need stealth if you’re driving a car straight into them, get better rookies….

The problem with saying that realism is not important to games is that realism is exactly what people are looking for in a lot of these games.

If someone started from the ground up with parkour and hand to hand fighting, worked in melee and then went on to guns.... that would be the ultimate shooter.

That would be the ultimate SHOOTER.

Frankly, gunplay is the easiest thing to code compared to the other, and the realistic stuff is what makes the gunplay interesting.

They changed the sound when you pour water on a garden plot..

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Slowly been playing less and less with these updates. I love stealth play but dayz just does everything in its power to not let you. Footsteps are heard from ages away (sprinting is fine, but why walking?), crouch walking up on someone in the trees is still super loud and impossible to not be heard, once someone is outside your building you practially just have to take your hands off your controls because anything you do WILL make noise that they shouldnt even be able to hear in the first place. Having to drop my weapons and pick them up to be silent, i cant pack a mag mid fight even if they are far because they will hear it and push, cant use a bandage because somehow wrapping cloth on me is heard from ages away... and god forbid my guy shivers. Honestly best thing to come out of the updates was the broken primary equip audio not playing lol

I think I easily have 1K hours solo stealth player, and stealth in DayZ is way more related about not giving visual/material clues like dead bodies, smoke, light, hot/cold fire, dropped stuff. Then not giving the sound clues is the other part, not shooting at all (don't even think about using silenced guns on zeds) until it's mandatory will increase your stealth by a lot, if your walking sounds gives away your position, then you are already too close to pretend to play stealthy. Final part, really underestimated part, your movement, reducing as much as possible the angles where you can be seen from, don't walk on roads, in the middle of the streets, stick to walls, spend minimal time in open fields, break skyline as fast as possible, don't stay at the border of a forest, but few meters away from the border so you can see what's outside without being seen. That's about all the main things you need to do to be stealthy. Footsteps are maybe responsible by 5% for your detection if you respect all the things above.
So now it's just about what playstyle you prefer, slow with patience, or pure reflex and aiming skills related.

My only real complaint with the game is the sniping. It's way too easy. Being able to take someone out in one shot even if they have the best vest and helmet on feels a little cheap. I always thought that one shot should break the vest or helmet and the second shot should kill. Or at least make it so you cant hold your breath for so long.

Scum is an option

What, did Dondi take over this game too?

Very lame change. Through the hunger, thirst and cold sounds they had already made it so you "earned" the ability to stealth by keeping your basic necessities fulfilled. Now not even that does it.

Really the only thing this change does is incentivizing camping and favoring snipers even more. Super lame.

that sucks... i dont play, but i watch streamers... fix stealth; fckers!

You haven't been playing DayZ for that long now have you....The game has been aimless for years. Anyway.

You guys know what would be cool? That the developers release the old 62 standalone and the sourcecode. That way, people who miss it can play it online like the good old days and modders can fix the things the devs never were able to fix. Heck, I'd even pay for it.

Stealth isn't my playstyle, but it definitely has a place in the game! What draws some people to DayZ is being a sneaky lil guy

Agreed

They love nerfing solos

Nail on the head man!!

Your right with that one

Its pretty clear they messed up the sound files bc some guns now share same sound file. This was someone redoing old code, and then copy pasted a old format for the rest of the things they didnt change, but forgot the old formats got patch updates separate, thefore they left out all the sound progress they made. This was a clear programming flub. Theres no excuse. They messed up.

Stealth is key to survival as a solo! Give it back

I agree with you %1000! I see it the opposite way. To me it seems they have just been deepening balance overall, and keeping stealth in a high tier by making it more challenging. I'm a stealth main in DayZ and I love all the changes! Great Video!

Most of the newwer changes to dayz seem completely at the least unnecessary and at worst are actively hated by the players. I'm thinking of higher tier ARs having extremely low durability and the changes to sound that make gunshots all sound the same from a certain distance so you can no longer tell what weapons you'll be up against from range. To me it almost seems as if they don't have much more content planned so they're just changing stuff for the sake of changing it rather than actually attempting to balance the game for any practical reasons.

Eu abandonei o dayz justamente por estas novas adições, mudou muito o estilo de jogo, ainda mais no servidor em que eu jogava. Eu amava rushar nos inimigos descalço, derrubava clans inteiros sozinho, mas com essa nova "melhoria" nos sons, só estragou com o rush. Agora, jogadores que só ficavam parados em moita, tem mais vantagens! O estilo de jogo agora é ficar parado e escutando o inimigo se aproximar, isso piora ainda mais se o servidor disponibilizar ghillies vip com cores que os deixam quase invisíveis. Enfim, pra mim acabou, foi bom enquanto durou...

i like the recent changes that make spotting easier and sniping harder
player interactions are what makes this game great, and 1 bullet snipes really were the most unsatisfying ones in alot of ways, for both partys

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