Dayz is fun.

Alright, been playing dayz recently on server US 717 hosted by a friend. Its a pretty popular server so you do meet other people in the large map you have to find loot in and survive. The types of characters you do meet on the server are interesting in themselves ranging from hackers, regular players, squads that shoot on sight, and the typical bad ass that shoots everything with big guns they most likely found on another server. In my travels I have been killed by just about every type of character and haven't been able to kill any squads because obviously I am out gunned and out manned and usually run out of ammo or get shot too many times making my character pass out and either bleed out or one of the guys runs up and delivers the finishing blow.

The most interesting however are the hackers because they are an unpredictable bunch. Often they like to grab everyone on the server or at least a large part of it and send them to a death arena called the thunder dome. In this dome everyone spawns in the middle and has to scramble to find guns and ammo in the crates if they did not already have a gun and if the hacker is good enough he will strip you of everything and make you find everything within the dome. After this its last man standing including explosions and bullets flying everywhere causing a death blow to all unlucky enough to escape the rage of all of the players around with the hacker watching as everyone else scurries as he tosses grenades. If you haven't played Dayz explosions are particularly deadly as they can break your bones even at the tail end of one and getting shot is no laughing matter either since it causes you to bleed at a steady rate until you can find time to bandage yourself which takes about 10 seconds. If you manage to survive the onslaught some hackers give you a gift such as a sniper rifle or they get mad that some one survived and drop a nuke on the server which kills everything and usually causes the server to experience heavy lag or even shutdown until it restarts.

Hell even with the occasional hacker they make the game interesting when all you do is run from town to town avoiding zombies and other players while trying to find loot in the few open building you can find.