The game works like this, in a nutshell:
1) You spawn in with one of five characters.
2) Look at your map, determine where you are, head to a point on the map.
3) Collect items/fight zombies/kill other players and take their stuff in that location until you're bored.
4) You head to one of three safe zones (place on the map where you can't shoot or be killed) or some other area where it's safe to log out from (you will spawn back in that exact same location on any server after an hour has passed).
5) If you made it to a safe zone, you can transfer the items/weapons from your character into your global inventory (your stockpile of items that you can transfer between characters).
6) Go to bed because it's 4 a.m.
The War Z is a FPS/TPS MMO (first person shooter/third person shooter massively multiplayer online game). It's (kind of) the first of it's kind. I say 'kind of' because technically Day Z came out first, but that game is just an Arma 2 mod that's terribly user unfriendly. But don't worry, Day Z is set to take the stage with their stand-alone version of the confusingly popular Arma 2 mod and learn from The War Z's mistakes - fanboys everywhere are patiently trolling War Z forums as we speak.
People have been screaming for a game like this for years, so why has it quickly become the most despised game ever?
This is Sergey Titov. He is the executive producer of The War Z. He's come under fire from gamers everywhere who've criticized his credibility, work ethic, and inappropriate comments. Sergey used to make announcements about the game and give updates - not so much anymore (must have a PR team that makes smart recommendations!).
But let's talk about the actual game. If the game was good, like, really good - people should have no trouble getting past the fact that the game's producer is kind of a dummy, right?
Well, it's not. I've been playing this game since mid-December, and I'm honestly shocked at some of the stuff that took so long to fix - and the stuff that simply hasn't been fixed at all.
Here's a good example:
Notice the date on this: November 28, 2012! Most of these glitches still work today. Literally, by running into certain spots on some buildings, you are teleported on top of them - just like in real life!
Or this one:
You can actually spawn in, take a few steps backwards (or hide behind a tree) and camp that exact location, waiting for people to spawn in. Since there's a rough 2-4 second delay from the time where your character physically loads into the game to where you can move - you're pretty much helpless.
NOTE: While I think spawn camping is pathetic and childish, I fully endorse it until they fix it. How else do things get fixed?
There's countless other things wrong, so I'll try to make a condensed list of all the ones I can think of:
-You can't consolidate magazines (e.g. I have a mag with 17 rounds and a mag with 13 rounds - I can't make a 30 round magazine)
-Still no 'Friends' function within the game
-Zombies constantly glitch up objects and barricades and kill you
-The game is literally rampant with hackers and not much progress has been made in combating them - other than a system called FairFight which is terrible
-The Marketplace (place where you purchase items with in-game or purchased currency) prices are still out to lunch
-The in-game chat log doesn't have a time stamp
-Zombies are sometimes completely silent
-I can climb a tree by repeatedly jumping and running at it
-Weird lag occurs after you kill someone
-They added 'vaults' to safe zones where you can access your global inventory in-game instead of logging out but placed them so far from the edge of the safe zone that it takes less time to log out and log back in
A more comprehensive list can be found here.
With all that being said, I enjoy the game. I do. It's fun to play with some buddies and run around killing people for their gear. It's fun to coordinate a raid on a zombie infested military base. It's fun to collect rare items. It's fun to spawn camp people and watch them flip out in the chat log.
My point is, I'm going to keep playing until something better comes along. And by the looks of the Day Z developer diary, that won't be for awhile.
