I was never a hardcore DayZ player, but I’ll never forget my early experiences playing it. The first time I heard a car driving by in the distance after I’d been crawling around the countryside for an hour, was strangely impactful. There was a real sense of being alone and desperate every time I’d log in.
This was one of the first mods and PC games I bought (Arma II) because of the huge boom around this mod. My crappy HP Slimline Office PC couldn't run the game so I saved up some money and got a Sapphire HD 5550 (I think) from ebay. Now it could run the game at all low settings at like 25-30 fps and I had the time of my life. RIP this era.