I posted (politely) sentiments similar to Hogdriver's and Tao's in the other thread here a couple weeks ago, and just got trolled for my trouble.

Since then, my regular gaming group's gotten into it heavily, and it can be fun that way. I've died once so far, on my first day playing, solo at the nw airfield. Not died since...though not for lack of being in ridiculous situations with the crazy bastages I'm gaming with (Pmike, Mac, etc).

So...my character is on day 15, well equipped, and skilled at stayin' alive.

All that said...my original sentiment stands. It's lacking atm. No goals, nothing to build towards. Hopefully it gets better. It has its moments and you want it to deliver on its promise.

Peppergomez, I think you are focusing on the imperfections and lack of scripted direction (too common in RPGs these days) as opposed to using the game as a great live post apocalypse sandbox and opportunity to role play.

Most of us enjoying it also see the imperfections (especially the server problems) but are busy roleplaying or exploring or trying to get out of some bad circumstance, i.e. some of my favorite situations in DayZ have come when I am low on food or low on ammo, or even when I accidentally lost my backpack, and trying to stay alive, risking going into dangerous areas hoping to find food/ammo/matches knowing a bad move could spell the end, but if I don't try something I will die anyhow. There's been plenty of times where some zombie or bandit or even innocent survivor surprised/scared the crap out of me and I screamed out loud.

DayZ is popular no doubt, and some of the discussion and videos are probably hype/staged, but there is tons of genuine enjoyment for many of us, it just sounds like you are somehow not connecting with it, or maybe you tried it out after hearing the hype and maybe had higher expectations based on some of the hype?

It is only an alpha after all and much of the experience is up to how you play it and what you want to get out of it, not the typical Fallout3/Dead Island scripted story so not to everyone's taste IMHO.

Anyhow this pro/con discussion is a good one, lots of good points and no-one should feel like they have to love or hate it.

The lack of actual stated goals is the biggest draw for me and I know Rocket the mod creator has stated they'll never be missions or quests in this mod the open endedness is its strength. You don't need a goal given to you you need to make a goal. Last night a few of us hooked up and moved north with no real objective than to search some towns. The fun we had was two of us hooking up with a third person using landmarks and the map to get there and then all the suspense that went along with getting to where we needed to be.

Earlier that night I was searching Stary Sobor for supplies and was cornered in a warehouse and eaten alive because I stood too close to the door while picking off zeds. Learned from a big mistake there as I have to start out from scratch (lost an M4 and a silenced M9 with all my other useful stuff. Sucked but thats the way it goes. In the future I think my goals will be to get a car or helo operational and tear ass around the map, maybe play a little Carmegeddon with bandits!

I think the mod is full of potential, and it's only an alpha, so it's meant to explore what works and what doesn't. But my main concern has been that since everything is so open and down to what players make with it, it's also down to what the community will feel like. Right now, you just need to browse the DayZ official forums to see that it's not really the most friendly place... at all... In fact, DayZ forums must be some of the most horrific ones I've ever seen. I remember once checking Minecraft forums and running away, but back then I had no idea how worse a forum could be. Now I know... Infected Chernarus is not the scariest place, oh no.... :p

LOL those forums are pretty hostile but its a side effect of the mods growing success since so many people are looking for an avenue to discuss their experience with the game. A lot of players coming into DayZ have no experience with the Arma world (I think many come from COD/BF3 type games).

What I also don't get why people keep saying that to enjoy this mod you have to be in a group? Most of the time I play as lone wolf sniper and at one point I got people so mad that I had multiple groups hunting for me.

Any idea why the terrain keeps turning white on me? Sometimes ok, then I turn and the moving grasses etc turn white.
Is this some Arma2 type issue? Drivers are up to date.
Trying a reinstall of the main game and OA, but if this is something else I'd like to hear it.

Don't waste your time reinstalling. Check this thread at the DayZ forum:

http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=10897&highlight=wasteland

That is a feat by itself! I enjoy playing Lone Wolf as well. There are countless moments of excitement but many of boredom which makes this game a great simulation of survival around the great landscapes of the ARMA universe.

They need to have more enterable houses. I've hardly seen any I could go into.
Do zombies ever have anything on them or do you just try to avoid them altogether? The ones I've taken out had nothing.