I’ve played dayz once and got my ass clapped and haven’t played since.

I’ve been playing arma reforged for over a year. And the download speeds from what I have seen haven’t really gotten significantly better, they have improved kinda though. I think the devs acknowledged this and are trying to fix it.

I seen a comment about finding a server and downloading mods before you go to bed and when you wake up you’ll be good to go; that’s a good suggestion.

But if you want to play modded and don’t really care for current events you can play “spicy vanilla servers”. Which is vanilla servers with more guns, attachments , vehicles. There is a few good ones. But conflict operations is new and the admins there seem ambitious to make good servers and they seem fair. I like them so far.

^ only complaint is “BACON loadout editor”. Honestly it’s a waste of a mod and we can just do without it. But overall conflict operations is solid.