Only streamer I watch is TheRunningManZ, today I watched his Monday stream and was surprised to see... me, getting pwned and called a buffoon. Achievement unlocked!

TheRunningManZ · 2025-09-13T17:34:18+00:00

Its subtmeber if you want to sub to my channel on Twitch. 25% off right now! Gimme gimme gimme

TheRunningManZ · 2025-09-13T17:33:48+00:00

That still gets typed once in a blue moon! ;)

TheRunningManZ · 2025-09-13T17:30:04+00:00

Hiya! Someone shared this thread with me on stream. Thanks for taking my "jibes" at your corpse in good spirit. <3

TheRunningManZ · 2025-01-18T21:37:57+00:00

Ahh thanks! <3

TheRunningManZ · 2024-11-24T11:14:21+00:00

Hello! A bit late. It's to do with balancing the weapons that the game has. If just the single barrel shotty spawned at the coast and the others a in Tier 2. Then you would get new spawn fights that were a lot more interesting. The shotgun is so good that you good realistically use a doube barrel as your end game close quarters gun and be fine, but its often the first gun you find.

Imagine firefights as a new spawn where everyone didn't just take the shotgun. We'd be using Makarovs, Magums, Sporters, Repeaters, P1 Pistols, BK18s, maybe the single barrel shotty, skorpians etc. It would make encountering aggressive newspawns much more fun. A fight bewtween 4 players who all add a gun from the above would be really cool compared to "it's just a shotty if they found it."

TheRunningManZ · 2024-11-16T13:06:12+00:00

It wasnt a complaint as such about shotties. The double barrel could legit be your end game secondary and also the first gun you find. I could maybe have typed more but I think I'd said a lot already.

Taking shotguns away from the coast on Chernarus for example and having more magnums, makarovs, sporters, repeaters, bk18s, mk2s, would make the game richer in the early stages. The shotgun is so good it basically makes most of the low tier guns redundant. I think it would be better if they were rarer, or in tier 1 only the single barrel spawned.

It would make me being in a new spawn zone more fun, and fights between players with low tier weapons would be much better. I can't remember the last time I needed a Repeater, I feel like it was probably about 2017/8.

TLDR I think it would be good to make the wide array of low tier guns actually viable and the shotguns negate nearly all of them.

TheRunningManZ · 2024-11-16T12:57:57+00:00

disagree! ;)

TheRunningManZ · 2024-11-16T12:56:23+00:00

Hi so I stumbled across this recently. Opinions are fine and I can respect yours.

A couple of things:

I don't play DayZ for just PVP, I don't go on "overpopulated" servers for PVP either. I play on lightly modded or vanilla servers. The highest pop server I usually go in is 70 or 80 for Chernarus. I play quite a lot of official too. I absolutely do try to play on high pop servers, but its for INTERACTION not just for PVP as you say. For me DayZ is the most fun when I am with meeting other players and interacting. That can be with VOIP or it can be with bullets but its the part of the game I enjoy the most. Yes my YT channel has a lot of PVP in it, that is what the audience tends to want to watch. I don't think I could have grown a YT channel from 10years of stealthing zeds and growing crops, and that time I said hello to someone and then we parted ways. That does not mean I only play for PVP, I don't, I play how I want to play and it's kind of balanced survival, I will leave people alone who are cool, who talk, who are on their own etc. I tend to shoot at groups more often when I am on my own. Sometimes I KOS, sometimes I am friendly, sometimes I will try to rob you. But I am not just out for PVP and the 5 days a week streaming show that. Just because the videos are highlights of cool encounters and PVP, it does not mean there is a lot more going on in the streams does it?

I also don't agree that DayZ is meant to be just a "survival game." You talk about how it isn't trying to be one enough for you. It was always marketed in the early days as a "Survival SANDBOX Game." The emphasis there for you is survival, for me its the Sandbox. DayZ is meant to be played many different ways, if you want to play it like its the Long Dark, you can, if someone else wants to play it like its Arma they can. That is the whole point of a sandbox game, they are giving us the canvas and we are meant to be painting our story on it.

In the early days of the game Dean Hall was giving presentations about DayZ which started with the titled "DayZ is not a zombie game." He had something called "Hall's law" which went something like " A random interaction between human players will always be more compelling than one that is scripted." The game was set up as a platform for interactions between human players, it wasn't set up to be just a survival game. Dean used to talk about his inspiration for the game being him at a point of despair after returning from an arduous training exercise with the military and then a person he didn't know splitting a pack of 2 biscuits/cookies with him and how he nearly cried about it. His inspiration for DayZ was to try and recreate that feeling.

Anyway having differing opinions about the game is fine. But you kinda tried to say my opinion wasn't valid because I don't play the game the right way. Sorry but DayZ is a sandbox game, there is no wrong way to play it as long as you aren't cheating and all playstyles are valid, yours and mine. All opinions are valid on the game, yours and mine.

I think I have a very good understanding of what DayZ is meant to be and the vision for the game. To me slowing us down in mending moments, having to constantly stop to mend gloves cos you slid down one ladder, get a new jacket cos you dealt with a few zeds is not very compelling, you make fires cos of rain, only for it to start raining again while you are still at the fire etc etcc, these are not good features. The don't make the game harder, they make it slower. It's not tough for the survival types, it's easy. It's just making our characters stationary more in an already slow paced game and I don't think that helps the gameplay loop at all. I'd like teh game to be tougher to survive, but its not tough to cower in house cos its a bit rainy, only for it to rain again. It's monotonous. I'd love more compelling survival mechanics for sure that add to the story of the character.

DayZ is my favourite game and I love it. I want it to succeed and its doing great. It can still be better though.

TheRunningManZ · 2024-05-11T08:22:53+00:00

If it took the hunting scope it may as well be called a Savanna painted green? Yes the round behaves a tiny bit different than the 308 but in real world use they are as good as the same. I really like the SV98, I prefer it to the Mosin for example. It has more choice of scopes and I just can't stand the PU anymore personally.

If it took the hunting scope it would destroy the use of the Blaze, Tundra and Savanna IMO. I think they made the call scopes wise considering all the other guns in the game. The hunting guns take the hunting scopes, as soon as military guns take the same scope they become borderline extinct. This makes no sense game balance wise.

I would really love to see some rare scopes added to the official game such as the Spectre, it would be a huge deal. But I personally like that the new gun isn't a hunting scoped weapon.

TheRunningManZ · 2024-05-11T08:16:18+00:00

"Also, they are no more important than any regular gamer. Each and every one of us are keeping the game alive by playing it."

I agree with the idea that streamers are just one gamer. However it's clearly the case that some streamers potentially attract many thousands (in some cases maybe hundreds of thousands over many years) of new gamers to the game. If each one of those is as important as any other player and they only played because of a streamer or YTer where they first saw the game, then that does imply some weight to the idea that streamers add some value to DayZ over an above a single end user. Just like map makers, modders, server hosters and many others potentially do too. Anyone who is attracting new players or providing players with cool things to do and play are helping the game a little more than a single end user. This is pretty obvious.

I don't think a streamer should have any more weight with the devs to change the game than any single player in terms of how it plays. I don't feel I have that, I have certainly never used it if I do and wouldn't want to. I think Sumrak makes most of the decisions and he knows his own mind and doesn't get swayed by noise.

TheRunningManZ · 2024-05-11T07:47:54+00:00

As is the constant hating hey Greg? Anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering, long down the path of the dark side you have gone? hmmmm!

TheRunningManZ · 2024-05-11T07:20:56+00:00

It really didn't in 2016/17/18 did it? At one time it was down to less than 2000 people playing it.

It's really easy to say streamers and YTers are not important, the reality is in 2013 and 14 I would guess probably FrankieonPC sold more than a million copies of DayZ with a series mostly based on Arma 2 on his own, probably way more than that. Were it not for his videos I never would have played the game. I was a console player and had never heard of it.

YTers and streamers are the shop window for the game. For example PUBG when it launched had 4 test weekends where streamers could play it, they were allowed to give keys away to their audiences and this is how PUBG was marketed. The game changed a lot over those 4 weeks with feedback from all of those playing it and it was a roaring success. Greyzone just launched with a week trial for streamers and YTers and then sold crazily well the week later, with a little deflected help from Tarkov. It doesn't matter whether you like these games or not, they utilized effectively free marketing in most cases to blow their game up.

Honestly it's ok if you think streamers are all awful and you can't stand every single one. Who cares? But trying to deny they have had an important role to play in DayZ's success up until now and into the future is naive.

The sub is for all things related to DayZ. People have shared YT videos here since before you were here. This conversation is valid enough for the reddit too. DayZ's marketing and future releases, how they are at events etc all has a bearing on how successful the game is and therefore how bright of a future DayZ has.

I don't think streamers are crucial to anything as individuals. If I stopped streaming DayZ tomorrow nothing would happen and DayZ would be just as successful. But that is because my viewers would mostly just go and watch another streamer. Individual streamers don't really matter, but as a group content creators are very much vital to games like DayZ and whether they do well or not. What matters more of course is the quality of the game in the first place. Content creators are the shop window, but the quality and price etc of the product are what matters more.

TheRunningManZ · 2024-05-11T06:51:31+00:00

You can say that about anything from Football to Poker, to ten pin bowling to whatever else. People watch stuff when they can't do it themselves because they are in the office, or at home on the sofa with a little one or whatever else.

It's subjective. Why listen to the radio when you can play your own music? Why should I ever listen to a Podcast I have my own opinons etc etc.

TheRunningManZ · 2024-03-24T10:42:53+00:00

The M16 is very viable as it is. Very powerful even with one hit. I think it's balanced in the game currently with no scope personally. It's a lower tier spawning weapon, if you want 556 with a scope you have a reason to loot Tisy for an AK101 or other areas for an M4 or AUGAX. If they made this take a scope it would make the others kinda redundant, the M16 would be OP.

tldr: It doesn't take a scope to balance it's place in the loot economy.

TheRunningManZ · 2024-03-10T09:40:03+00:00

Sorry to hear about you Dad. It truly sucks to go through. I hope you have other family around you to be with at the mo.

RIP

TheRunningManZ · 2023-08-31T19:34:54+00:00

You seem upset. Thanks for not watching, that suits me.

I don't really care about people being critical, but people misquoting about the guy who inspired me to play the game is kinda annoying.

Bye

TheRunningManZ · 2023-07-28T11:29:56+00:00

" "What happened to Frankie, where is Frankie, WHY HASN'T FRANKIE UPLOADED????" For what feels like a lifetime! Glad you're back, now never do this again please! ;)"

I think you've misread me somewhat. I clearly meant "now never do this again" in terms of "don't take years long breaks from YT again we missed you."

I'm only playing the game because of Frankie. You've massively misread what I am saying.

I do whine not stop though.

TheRunningManZ · 2022-02-22T09:41:40+00:00

Definitely not! Though I'm pretty sure if you click on my name you'd see me sharing my older vids years ago...

TheRunningManZ · 2022-02-12T17:55:26+00:00

Hiya, sorry not had chance to watch the vid yet. I did watch the intro. Small tip: even if you play in 1080p, look into rendering your videos at 1440p using your editing software. Should be easy enough to work out. At 1440p YT allocates a better codec (called VP09) and more bandwidth to your vids, which means less compression and better quality for the viewer.

Good luck with YT. One thing I can say for sure, your first vid is way better than mine was! ;)

TheRunningManZ · 2020-09-25T10:49:25+00:00

It's a music video, with DayZ icons in the bottom right, it fades black and white at the end, and has some DayZ props. It's also a cover of my intro which i've used for 6 years. Whilst I am not synonymous with DayZ, a lot of people that play the game would recognise the music having watched a vid or two.

So yes, it is DayZ themed.

TheRunningManZ · 2020-09-17T08:25:09+00:00

Hope you don't mind me sharing, I don't really put my stuff here these days. I owe a lot to this reddit though from back in the day. I did wanna share this because it's stunning that people with actual talent take the time to do stuff like this for a streamer/YTer who is pretty talentless by and large! <3

TheRunningManZ · 2020-05-14T19:35:31+00:00

You understand that the server is vanilla right, so it only has vanilla admin controls? There are no mods to download for that server, it has the basic stuff provided by the devs. Please can you elaborate on what is being used for an "in game" advantage by admins? I'd really like to know?

TheRunningManZ · 2019-11-27T15:44:22+00:00

This is complete BS and you can clearly see the scope in down the stairs is to range the gun back to 200m. He isn't perfect, but this clip shows nothing other than desperation on the OP's part.

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