History VideoGame / DayZ

'''Note:''' For your own sake, do not mistake ''DayZ'' with it's {{Mockbuster}}, ''The War Z'', made by the same people that made ''[[{{VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing}} Big Rigs]]''.

'''Note:''' For your own sake, do not mistake ''DayZ'' with it's {{Mockbuster}}, ''The War Z'', made by the same company that made ''[[{{VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing}} Big Rigs]]''.

'''Note:''' For your own sake, do not mistake ''DayZ'' with it's {{Mockbuster}}, ''The War Z''

Note: For your own sake, do not mistake ''Day Z'' with it's {{Mockbuster}}, ''The War Z''

* GridInventory: Two of them. One is your vest pouch, meant for easy access to things like ammo and bandages. The other is your backpack, which is upgradeable and can hold more, but requires more time to get to, which means it should be used for things that you won't need immediate access to, such as food, water, and possibly spare weapons.

* BoringButPractical: You have very many small items like matches, a compass, a watch, a map, and others that are utterly vital to your survival for anyware that isn't the coast.

* BoringButPractical: You have very many small items like matches, a compass, a watch, a map, and others that are utterly vital to your survival for anyway that isn't the coast.

* BoringButPratical: You have very many small items like matches, a compass, a watch, a map, and others that are utterly vital to your survival for anyway that isn't the coast.

** At the same time if you can find sufficient rounds for it, or stock up over time, which [[ItemFarming can talk a long time depending on your luck.]] But it can also result in a heavily geared player with enough ammo for more than enough encounters to keep them going and even raid for resupplies, given the few specific locations such Military level gear and ammo drop, and in the process nudging this trope more into the one directly below.

* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Nerf Nerf]]: Noobs and handguns. Players used to spawn on the beach with pistols that could kill other players in 5 or 6 hits and zombies in two. Then ''DayZ'' took their pistols away. Still, if they found a handgun while looting it would take only 1 (if you have a revolver) to 2 (if you have a makarov) shots to kill a zombie. So, after further nerfs, it now takes an entire clip of Makarov bullets to kill a zombie (short of a headshot) and two full clips to kill another player.

*** They have their own problems, however, where there's a hard to hit sweet-spot distance to killing them in one hit, and the melee range means you're likely to get swarmed if there's more than one zombie after you.

* AnAxeToGrind: The hatchet can be used to harvest firewood, but can also be equipped as a primary weapon.

** Partially played straight, however, with regard to most anything with a scope. Sniper rifles usually kill in two hits anywhere and the AS50 and M107 will kill you from 3 to 15 times over ... if they hit you in the toe.

** A subverted inversion? Tents are persistent across server resets and an infinite number can be placed on an infinite number of servers. At this point in the game they are so common that a new player can fully arm themselves in a matter of minutes on a high-population server and veteran players are more worried about their tents being found than they are about being killed -- [[NotTheWayItIsMeantToBePlayed in a game where permadeath is the cost for failure]. While some of this is [[ObviousBeta the result of a recent bug]], there has been a steady sea-change away from risk and consequences for some time.