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Off-Topic => Gaming => Topic started by: Fuchs on 16-05-2012, 17:05:42
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Last week I saw that a friend suddenly bought ArmA2 Operation Arrowhead. He never liked ArmA2 and it wasn't on sale so I asked him why he had bought it. The answer was Day Z.
What is Day Z I hear you ask? You didn't ask..? Well I'm going to post it anyways! Day Z is a survival zombie simulator that is based on ArmAII and Operation Arrowhead. Some sort of disease infected a lot of people and turned them into mindless flesh-craving zombies. You, the survivor, are in Chernarus and the situation is bleak. You only got a Makarov, some cans of beans, a bottle of water and some medicines. You spawn randomly along the coast of Chernarus and need to survive. Basically, this game is what you see in shows like the Walking Dead, movies like Dawn of the Dead. You are just out there, paranoid and scared, trying to scavenge and survive.
That is the whole point of this mod, to survive. And it is not easy. You can't compare this zombie game to Left4Dead or any other zombie game you ever, ever played. This is the hardest game ever and the developers even stated that they did absolutely no balance, they avoided balance. Frankly I even think they hate balance.
You are out there all alone and need to move quiet and slowly, the wild nature is mostly empty. The Z's are all in the urban areas. But the problem is, all supplies are in the urban areas. And you need those supplies. Weapons, food, water, medicines, ammunition and vehicle parts, it's all there. And yes, car parts. Because you can fix up vehicles. Even helicopters. But the zombies are not the only challenge. The zombies are the easy part. You know what the hardest part is? Other survivors. You never know if you can trust them because it's anarchy and everyone needs their stuff. Some people might co-operate but others might rob you or kill you for your stuff. And did I tell you that there's no respawn? If you die, you die. You lose your stuff and need to start a new life. I told you it was hard.. But it gets worse.
Let me sum it up a nice list of the things that make this game hard:
- The nights are dark and full of terror. I mean it, the nights are pitch black and you can't see a damn thing and the flashlights/flares attract both zombies and survivors.
- There's no respawn, if you die you lose all your stuff and you need to start all over again.
- You can't see names above people so you never know who you are dealing with, this game makes you really paranoid and indecisive.
- You can sneak around zombies with crouch and prone but if you get busted and shoot one, many more will come. Zombies are attracted by light and noise.
- All supplies are in urban areas, guarded by zombies. But guess who are also in the urban areas? Bandits, the survivors that choose to kill others for their own benefit.
- You need to drink and eat to survive. If you don't drink and eat enough you will weaken. In the end you will starve to death.
- Servers run real time, when it's dark out your window, it's dark in the server. So if you are a Euro, join US servers. US other way around.
- Your character is saved and you can use the same character on every server you join.
This is one of the most intense games I ever played, I am continuously thrilled while playing it. Scared, paranoid, I am all of those things. And the immersion is fantastic. Sadly it is only in Alpha phase, the game is very buggy, hard to install and because it's so popular, all the servers are usually full.
http://dayzmod.com/
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Watched a few videos about this mod and it really looks promising.
It´s no run-and-gun/blast-em-to-hell type of game, such as L4D, but more a FPRPG, where you have to stay alive and overcome not only the living and the undead, but also your own physical needs.
I´ve never really been a few of the Arma series, as it felt really sluggish and hard to get into, but this mod sounds really promising.
Except for OA, is there anything else I need to play this mod (or maybe other Arma mods, such as the I44 mod)?
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Let me sum it up a nice list of the things that make this game hard:
- There's no respawn, if you die you lose all your stuff and you need to start all over again.
- You can't see names above people so you never know who you are dealing with, this game makes you really paranoid and indecisive.
Bandit status however follows you even after death, so think twice before going on killing spree.
Player names show or don't show depending on server settings. I play on regular difficulty servers, mostly to have 3p view and they usually have name tags on. There is even some swedish servers that play on some super easy difficulty with player showing on map and other people appearing on map if they are within viewrange.
@homer, you need both arma 2 and arma 2 OA as far as I know. Mod is launched through "Combined operations" (or something), that includes both.
Edit: I have posted some pics on screenshot thread earlier.
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Played it last month. Like with many games, it plays better with people you know.
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I have never given two fucks abot them zombie games, but this looks like it could actually be a lot of fun.
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It doesn't feel like a normal zombie game but it actually feels like the world you are watching in movies and series. It's scary but also awesome. And teamwork is the key to survival, so gather friends on Ventrilo/TS and go scavenging.
Though joining servers is really, really hard. Their servers can't handle all the players.
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You sound like a brochure there Fuchsy ;D Played it, very short time and thats the reason I didn't enjoy it. You need long term dedication if you want to get anywhere in DayZ :)
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Thanks, I really liked the game and need writing practice.
But yes, if you play it make sure you got an hour or two to spare on the night you play it.
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Even though it is only in Alpha, it is what Left 4 Dead for have been.
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sounds too spookily for poor little CPS
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Nope.
I still dont get why people are amazed by this. Apart from the persistence and realtime thing, this is pretty much Arma modding 101. I guess the best ideas are the simplest at the end of the day.
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Don't know if it's the same mod, but you might enjoy this Fuchs. My Arma2, friend gave it to me, will continue gathering dust however. It all looks nice and wide, I hate repeating myself, but it's an alpha engine at best.
Anyway, with wittering! ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaFIbjXeQmw&feature=relmfu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaFIbjXeQmw&feature=relmfu)
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Alright, played my first hour of this mod.
It´s really, really immersive. Right when I spawned there were around 6 Zombies close, only a few metres away. Fortunately these guys are rather slow and blind so I was able to sneak away.
I followed the coastline and suddenly spotted another figure coming my way. It turned out to be another survivor.
I didn´t trust him and he probably didn´t trust me, either, so we slowly parted, always checking our backs, incase the other would open fire. Fortunately that guy was one of the "good guys" and nothing happened.
After walking for a while I found a lighthouse, which was unfortunately empty, so I kept following the coastline, untill I hit a larger city with an industrial complex.
There were tons of Zeds, so I avoided that area. I tried to break into a house in the outskirts, but since there were just too many zombies around, I retreated.
Later I found a small farm which was inhabited by two Zombies. After dispatching them I searched their corpses but didn´t find anything. The farm also turned out to be empty. Damn.
Now I´m slowly running out of water and food, which means that I´ll sooner or later have to get inside a city. And city means many Zombies. And I also don´t have that much ammo for my Makarov. Damn, again.
Anyway, this mod is really good. Despite having killed only two Zombies it´s really, really immersive. The music and sounds are great and generate a paranoid feeling. It´s definately no run-and-gun-game, but more of a RPG, where staying alive is the most important thing.
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(http://i50.tinypic.com/15polj4.jpg)
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Hah. I honestly don't get it why people are yelling in global chat about where they are. Also, "friend or foe"? Really? Obviously "foe" would answer friend, to get easy shot on that poor guy. And it happens so often ;D
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I still dont get why people are amazed by this. Apart from the persistence and realtime thing, this is pretty much Arma modding 101. I guess the best ideas are the simplest at the end of the day.
Maybe. It might be simple, but something "new". Not month ago we were playing some killing floor with my friends and talking how it would be nice to have real zombie survivor game, with emphasis more on surviving, less on shooting their brains out. This turns out to be just that and is going even deeper (the "illness" meter, yet to be implented).
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This author (http://www.youtube.com/user/PsiSyndicate) plays this mod. Been watching the playlists through today and I gotta say the mod seems very interesting. :)
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For some reason I actually enjoy watching more than playing with this mod, thanks for the link. :)
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This author (http://www.youtube.com/user/PsiSyndicate) plays this mod. Been watching the playlists through today and I gotta say the mod seems very interesting. :)
I came across this channel... the voice of the guy mixed with his accent made me want to punch him really really hard, to a point where there would be a dark hole where his face used to be :P
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Voice is annoying indeed, but I dun care. Thanks for the link Flippy, I enjoy watching this =D
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I´m just logged out ontop of the cityhall in the capital city (dunno the name). I gathered up some nice equipment with a 18slot backpack, a remington, a sniper (no ammo yet) a some supplies. Also carrying around a lot of assault rifle ammunition, binocs, barbed wire, clock, compass and other little goodies and below me there is a tent (don´t have anymore space sadly). Will give a nightsession a try when I log in next. Anyone found nightvisions?
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Anyone found nightvisions?
Apart from 0,11% chance from military loot, it can be found more often from heli crash. Unfortunately helicrashes are still bugged so that you won't probably never find any loot in them :(. Nightvision would be so good ;D.
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This author (http://www.youtube.com/user/PsiSyndicate) plays this mod. Been watching the playlists through today and I gotta say the mod seems very interesting. :)
I came across this channel... the voice of the guy mixed with his accent made me want to punch him really really hard, to a point where there would be a dark hole where his face used to be :P
Okay, I got to revoke what I said about the guy in the video. He is fuckin annoying and I want to punch is face as well :D Not because of the way he talks, more because of behaving stupid and like an idiot playing with obviously more experienced players
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I watched a few DayZ videos of another guy yesterday.
They play as a group, but more often they loose people than finding any loot.
Very enjoyable indeed to see them go into panic mode so often
"OMG RUUUUUNNN !!!" ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpPIyJDSEQ
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Allways love people shooting around. They give aways their position and distract all the zombies.
Allready raided Cherno and Electro while killing 5 zombies only. Jsut missing a map now
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I watched a few DayZ videos of another guy yesterday.
They play as a group, but more often they loose people than finding any loot.
Very enjoyable indeed to see them go into panic mode so often
"OMG RUUUUUNNN !!!" ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpPIyJDSEQ
I just LOVED that series! I read theres going to be part seven "soonish" so hopefully its not that far off. I absolutely just loved watching that stuff, it was very exciting. It didnt make me want to play the game thought because I dont have Arrowhead. I should perhaps install ArmA 2 again and actually learn how to play it because the few times I played it, I thought it was complicated enough for me to not give it another try.
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I agree. This is totally awesome :D I always love when there is not that kind of pseudo serious business stuff but tons of fun and communication involved, really good entertainement !
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Reinstalled ArmA2 today and Im gonna give it a few hours to learn basics of it. Then depending I get the hang of the game, I might go for Arrowhead and get DayZ mod. I originally bought ArmA 2 because it was in Steam sale, and I played it for 94 minutes in total... so... I got some learning to do because last time I saw, it felt a tad complicated.
EDIT #1:
After spending some time configurating my controls and learning some of the keys, I had couple of run-arounds in ArmA2 to learn some of the very basic things. Now I've bought myself Arrowhead and got it installed, will do a run-around in it too. DayZ files are ready but not yet installed. I'll get to that later today most likely and give the mod a try. Im going to watch a lot of tutorial videos and such before thought.
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DayZ files are ready but not yet installed. I'll get to that later today most likely and give the mod a try. Im going to watch a lot of tutorial videos and such before thought.
Don't wait too long. It will be bitch to start in pitch black darkness.
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Can choose a server on the other side of the world.
Argh what a pain in the neck. The stupid things wont share settings and configurations with each other. Now I need to go through Arrowhead's controls too, what a load of donkey kong.
EDIT: Cleverly copy&pasted the controls from Arma2 profile to OA's profile.
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Aight, had my first very brief test that the mod works and it does. However, before I start my feeble attempts at surviving, I'd like to know the voice communication system of Arma. How does it exactly work?
I've configurated bunch of keys for specific channels. Will I have to use next and previous channel keys to move to that channel first before I use the correct push-to-talk key? Or if I push the specific channel push-to-talk key, will it automatically move me into it?
I dont dare to test these out ingame because of how I've read people will freak out if you speak in wrong chats. :P
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So yesterday Drew took me along with bunch of his mates for a trip around Chernarus. Had very enjoyable time and I have to admit that people going on about how you become very paranoid and suspicious about other people, how you intentionally want to avoid contact with people and so on... its all true. This is close to what I'd imagine The Walking Dead game would be about. You have a huge world to explore, loads of zombies to avoid and players who you dont know what the heck they are planning. Its not just about zombies, its about surviving and when it comes to this mod, the worst enemy is the human nature.
So we had an interesting trek across Cherno, getting ambushed by a sniper at one point and ending up in the middle of a horde of zombies, stranded on top of a building. Will definitely want to play this more especially with other people because solo playing usually ends up becoming nothing but player vs player game. Usually when you are alone the only way to be sure you will survive is to avoid people and kill or be killed. When in a group you have more security but doesnt mean you should become cocky about it.
I also get this insane STALKER feeling out of it which tickles my fancy the right way.
Really worth to give it a try, I bought Arrowhead just for this and I so far I have been very pleasantly surprised. We need to get a FH group going sometime, gather people we know, join TS, cram into one server, meet up and be awesome. :)
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This game looks like so much fun! I'm not sure about getting Arma2 + Arrowheda just for a mod though... How much are they?
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This game looks like so much fun! I'm not sure about getting Arma2 + Arrowheda just for a mod though... How much are they?
Arma CO is 30$ on Steam now I think... But it will probably be on sale at some point. (It was on sale several times already but I never got to buying it, as I think it would take me too much time if I started playing it, and besides that I didn't really like the modern setting).
I also heard that you can only buy Arrowhead and combine it either with ArmA2 free or ArmA Demo (not sure) and with some tweaking get it to work, but it has some issues.
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Dunno, I read Arrowhead is a stand-alone addon. I want to play Day Z as well and on the official website of the mod it's stated that Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead is needed. They either declare it as natural that you have Arma 2 as well or you only need Arrowhead indeed or you need some requirements as LuckyOne described.
I'm confused =D
Does anyone have specific experience and can tell me/us if normal Arma 2 is needed ? Would be great :)
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Does anyone have specific experience and can tell me/us if normal Arma 2 is needed ? Would be great :)
Well it does take place on map of original arma 2 and is launched from "Combined operations" that sort of launches both Arma2 and Arma2 OA as one game.
So yesm both are needed. Though I have heard of people using arma free, but I don't know if it's worth the hassle.
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Alright, thanks a lot :) I just delighted a RL friend to play this with me. Can't wait, gonna buy it as soon as possible !
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What you want to buy is Arma2 combined operations. It's avaliable on steam for 25€.
although i had bought arrowhead on DVD a couple of years ago, and i bought Arma2 later on steam. It's possible to stitch the 2 together to become a 'combined operation'.
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Yeah to clarify, you need both Arma2 and Arrowhead in order to play DayZ. You can get both from Steam with the Combined Operations package but you CAN buy them separately too if you want to. For example I had ArmA2 from some previous sale, I then bought Arrowhead separately via Steam and then installed DayZ. Works like a charm.
However, I have no idea of the functionality of mix'n matchin' the games with retail / digital copies.
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You can mix n match, look at the Day Z forums.
On another note, you can't see jack shit at night.
I dislike the zombie noises being so close sounding even when they are "far" away
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So how many exactly play this mod?
It would be interesting to try and gather as many as possible and just storm one server, meet up and have some good times. We could use FH2's TS3 for regular communication so we can find each other.
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I go by the name of Bourbon, since that is the only proper callsign in the apocalypse. But many Russians share that opinion though. Haven't played in a few days though.
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I go by Eric and still play every few days when I have the time, I'm stationed in Ropka at the moment with an 1886 and a 1911 ;)
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Finally started playing today. Gonna play a lot in the next few days as long as I am not watching Euro and celebrating my graduation. My friend just started playing too, gonna try to group up with him. Todays attempts failed though =D I recently respawned and I am currently somewhere North of the coast. Gonna play tomorrow again.
I like Flippy's idea. Would be awesome if we get a decently sized FH2-DayZ squad going sooner or later.
Some experiences:
In my frst game I was quite succesful until I nearly died by falling off stairs. Pretty much a fuckin joke because they were like 1 or 2 meters high. Lost tons of blood, the hourglass popped up and I broke some bones or something. Bandaged, took morphine and ran around with black/white and shaking screen which made it impossible to shoot anything and could barely see anything clearly. Tried to meet up with my mate then, but we both did not have any clue where we were. He would have got some food for me, but no blood transfusion. Anyway, we didn't find each other. After finding an old warehouse, one of the very few locations I could find without Zombies, I got shot. Kinda annoyed me, because I lost that much blood by jumping/falling down some very few stairs and was not even able to see other players well enough and unable to defend me properly because the screen was shaking so hard -.-
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Did you take painkillers? They take shakes away :-*
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Played with Achtung and Flip all day today, and was later joined by another guy.
It was a story of trying to meet up, getting eaten due to alt tabbing and a zomb walking into me, and then a castle. All the while with Flip and Ach trying their luck all day ;D
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All the while with Flip and Ach trying their luck all day ;D
Heheh, we went from one bad place into another and came out alive. Lucky lucky. :)
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^ Damn it you guys are really going to make me buy ArmA CO just for Day Z... oh well hopefully it will be discounted on Steam summer sale...
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Do it man, come play!
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Only thing missing from Day Z is a pack of cards. Everyone knows that a true survivor has a deck of cards in his/her survival pack. Because whenever you are lost, you just take out the cards and start to play some solitaire, then in no time someone is behind your pack and telling you "That card goes there..."
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Did you take painkillers? They take shakes away :-*
I took one painkiller I think and it helped with the broken bones or something. I can't really say what that signs stand for. One looked pretty much like a broken bone, the other one more like a disconnected cable or something :P
Both signs were gone after the first painkiller and I thought the shaking screen is usual when you are that low on blood. But thank you, next time I'll take a second one :)
@Flippy
A card game would be indeed pretty awesome. I'd like them to add stuff that depends on other people you can trust like the blood transfusion anyway and some kind of minigame would be pretty cool, dunno if the engine allows it though. Makes it more attractive to group up, which is in the end more realistic I guess and makes killing everyone in sight less attractive. Not sure, but I feel that going for kills all the time is not the hardest way to play and could need some nerf.
Got some questions btw, would be great if you guys can answer them to me:
-Do you need to drink/(eat) more when you run over long distances as if you keep lying in a bush for the same amount of time ?
-You know that wells close to a house usually ? Do they always have water ? Last time I saw one I was afraid to empty my bottle because I was not sure and really needed that water for later.
-Any tips for good meeting points for meeting when there are 2 people spawning somewhere at the coast ? I thought about that huge mountain North West (?) of Electro, because it's not too dangerous, close to the coast and you can see it quite well. Any other ideas ?
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Any water well you see should have water.
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-Any tips for good meeting points for meeting when there are 2 people spawning somewhere at the coast ? I thought about that huge mountain North West (?) of Electro, because it's not too dangerous, close to the coast and you can see it quite well. Any other ideas ?
Any open building in Cherno is quite damn good place to meet up with VERY friendly people. ;)
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Good to meet up in the church or in the town hall in Cherno.
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You guys are trolling me :D I'll definitely not meet my mate right in Cherno, that's a deathtrap ?!
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Nah Cherno is a good place to meet up as long as you are careful, also if you wander to the north you cannot miss the big airfield, takes a lot of area and is pretty much in the middle there, very easy to use as a meet up spot.
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Okay, thanks then. Just thought in the cities it's much more likely to meet bandits or people that just shoot you because they are afraid. But I see, when I behave carefully I should be able to dodge them and be able to meet my mate a lot easier. Thanks so far guys.
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^^that's just plain awesome!
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Indeed ;D
They see me rollin, they hatin' (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198047391543/screenshot/577832503075888373)
Atm I am alive quite a long time. Just got this crappy crossbow all the time. I hate it, but I did not find anything better yet. Just like 3 crossbows. Met some friendlies on the server. I am currently playing as a pacifist, exploring the map pretty much to get a feeling for it. I avoid shooting enemies and try to stay alive with the thigns I find. Im out of food atm and at 7000 blood though. Found this cool motorbike in a little house along a street, drove around a bit and it's at a well hidden palce now. It's gonna blow up anyway when someone shoots it or I drive agaisnt a tree, it's also nearly out of fuel. Was fun to find it though. Waiting for my mate to pop up. I just have a compass and did not watch any maps online intentionally (takes away the atmosphere), but I think I have an idea now where certain places are and where most people spawn.
If you wanna visit me: Playing as Surfbird on Uk 6 for today. There's a good bunch of friendly people and met some regular players I can trust whenever I meet them again. I like that.
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Yesterday I died after being alive for 21 (played nearly every day) days. Damn those ambushers :D
However, now I downloaded that 1.7 patch, because I was afraid that it could reset my gear. Lets see what the next sessions bring.
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21 days? Man, thats impressive. I've been alive for 7 days now and each time I play I think its going to be my last day but so far... I've been lucky.
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I took a swim :D After that I realized that swimming deletes your inventory. Was annoyed and suicided =D
Then spawned, found a dead guy after some time, got awesome equip. Changed server, because it was laggy and spawned in the ocean wtf. All times deleted, suicide again. Annoying stuff, but well. Its an Alpha and shit happens. That bug seems to be well known and fixed soon anyway.
Furthermore I'm still learning. Just noticed that a lot of servers lagg more or less. Pretty annoying. But I finally found one being lag free (EU 10 I think) I hope it keeps being lag free, because my fps is not the highest anyway and with those lags pretty unplayable.
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Day 11 was my last. I was too careless. We heard shooting and while we were quite cautiosh as we approached the source of the gunfire, we got surprised by two guys. Of course, they were two and we were four, none of us saw them until I was already cold on the ground & raging at TS.
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is it worth getting ArmA for this?
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is it worth getting ArmA for this?
Yes it is.
Totally brand new gaming experience.
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Even i got arma after just reading about this mod (i rarely play new games), that's how exciting the gameplay sounded. And after playing a good few hours i think it's damn interesting and enjoyable. The basic gameplay idea is so simple and awesome. Interesting to see how big an alpha mod can get this fast with all the bugs and server problems they've had.
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is it worth getting ArmA for this?
Well, I'd say it depends how happy you are with what DayZ offers. I see a lot of people being disappointed about missing features, bugs and stuff, and they just don't understand that it's a friggin Alpha and are disappointed for purchasing a hyped game. But well, that's a minority and I doubt you are like those people :P Just don't expect too much for now, although it's actually more than a lot already for a mod in Alpha state.
This mod has a great future. As long as you can live with the Alpha status and some bugs it's worth it. It's obviously even more worth when you plan to play normal Arma 2 as well, like I wanted to do anyway.
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Dunno if you guys read it already, but there is a 1.7.1 update coming very soon. Rocket posted some parts of the changelog. I personally appreciate the fixes, especially about the zombies very much. Read for yourself:
http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=10353 (http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=10353)
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is it worth getting ArmA for this?
I'd recommend watching a few gameplay videos to see exactly what you're getting yourself into. I don't play the mod or even own ArmA2, but still have a pretty good comprehension of things.
Stuff that annoys me in the videos:
-how quckily and bugged the zombies move when 'triggered'
-shitty movement indoors
-cumbersome inventory
-unpredictable and/or inconsistent spawn points
Still, I've considered getting ArmA2 just for this mod. Ultimately I chose not to... prefer to spend money on other things.
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Stuff that annoys me in the videos:
-how quckily and bugged the zombies move when 'triggered'
-shitty movement indoors
-cumbersome inventory
-unpredictable and/or inconsistent spawn points
- The zombies are imho too fast, I agree. I dont mind them running, but slowing them down would be better. They also glitch through walls and such which can sometimes cost you your life if you are not quick to shoot a wallhacking zombie. I'd love to have a horde of wandering zombies who just slowly move around the world until aggroed, then they would go into a slightly faster jog.
- Not just Day Z problem, its the game itself that is awful when it comes to indoors. The game isnt designed to be played within indoors enviroments. But after a while playing you wish you did have more open buildings around Chernarus rather than just the few, even if they are so cumbersome to navigate through.
- The inventory is horrible. I dont have enough fingers to count all the times I've accidentally ditched something into a shrub while managing my inventory and then having to run back for minutes to fetch that thing. It is so darn confusing even after you have "figured it out" it can still be very clumsy to use.
- The spawns arent that bad. OK, sometimes you have a zombie spawn literally next to you and you get attacked even thought you were crawling around but that usually happens when the server is shitting the bed and players are desynced. The zombies spawn when players are nearing an area where they are supposed to spawn, so if you got enough view distance in between you and the location you are going to, you can see the zombies spawn when you get near the area. Better yet is that if you see zombies in an area from miles away, it means that players are either in or near the said location, such as a village.
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Im hoping that today I can regroup with my friends and then we can move to much safer pastures up north from the shitholes of the south and start gearing me up again after my death yesterday. 11 days is my personal score and honestly I didnt think I'd live that long. Good thing that the group managed to kill the guys who killed me and we only lost one guy who didnt have any totally fancy and rare gear, but more of the very average things that arent that hard to find. So now we've got to start raiding locations again after quite a long pause in proper raids so I can get some loot. For like a week we really didnt do anything that amazing, went through same locations and didnt take that many high risks, for once we thought we'd go near the coast and of course one of us needs to get his forehead pierced by a bullet.
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If you can put up with the mod having some tendency to be unstable at times and you can live with the current bugs then Day Z is a fantastic mod to grab. I bought OA for it and I dont regret it, perhaps the most interesting thing that I've played in a long while. Altho I dont fancy playing it alone because the propability of becoming a deathmatcher or just getting yourself killed increases so much when playing alone. Altho sometimes a big group is harder to conceal and keep together so its not always the better option to have a big group altho most of the times it does bring you more protection. You gotta have some cojones or sheer stupidity to attack a group of players. But hey, you never know you might get lucky and kill them all but then you'll be hunted.
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Yesterday's misfortune has been turned around into a goldmine. Day 0 of my new life started yesterday with the great crusade from western coast to all the way to Three Valleys. Once I reached the general area, we decided to call it a day and carry on our journey some other time.
Today we continued with only one mission in mind: Getting me back together with the rest of the group. In no time I rejoined with my loyal groupie and we proceeded to Berezino in hopes of loot... with the dangers that lurk there burrowed deep in our minds.
We were lucky. The town was empty of players, or we just didnt encounter any despite the fact we had to dispose a few zombies at the supermarket with our pistols.
The amount of loot was stunning at Berezino. Not only did I find myself 5 more water bottles, a colt and plenty of magazines for it, I also came by an AK74, Alice pack and a camosuit (not a ghillie). However, due to the clumsy mechanics of the inventory and the looting system, I lost the couple of magazines for my AK since I was being a n00b, or that the game is just retarded in the way the inventory system is done...
But I was no longer complaining yesterdays mishaps. I've never found such amount of good loot in ~1 hour of gameplay, and I was still in Day 0. My good luck didnt run out yet. We proceeded to the northern airstrip and found 4 magazines for my AK. After checking the hangars, we ran into cover of a nearby forest and logged out for the night.
This was a good session... lets see what tomorrow brings us...
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Well, once you reach the top, there's only one direction to go. :)
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Got shot after travelling around alone with my Akm with plenty of ammo. Took me some time to handle being murdered in the middle of nowhere. I got great equip. Glock with lots of Ammo, kept a M9 for my mate. Akm with enough ammo, watch, map, compass, fireplace, enough food, enough drinks, just an Alice pack was missing. And then you get murdered in the middle of nowhere. Well, shit happens. But it makes you think of becoming a bandit for yourself. But I threw away that thought quite fast, knowing I was led by my madness. Gonna stick to my pacifistic/friendly style of play, because that is how I'd behave irl.
After, I respawned at Kamenka, was heading North for a village, but lost the path and was in the complete nowhere. I had no clue where I was, ran out of water and food, ran around > 1 hour in forests and hills. Well, then I found a tent in the nowhere with a M16A2 M203 (M16 with grenade launcher) and was happy again =D Even found my way back to the real map. The very Western part of the map is just 100 % nowhere. Lesson learned, M16 found, didn't paly on since then. My mate is kinda inactive unfortunately, needa group up sooner or later. Solo play is definitely interesting, but team play is more fun and another experience I guess.
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You don´t want to know what kind of gear I lost after I got shot when I was alive for 21 days:
Ghilie-Suit, DMR+6 mags, M4A3+flashlight+6 mags, map, compass, watch, hatchet, matches, entrechment tool, toolbox, coyotee-patrol backpack (bigger then ALICE-pack) and NVG. Still, after an initial rage I got over it :D
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Still, after an initial rage I got over it :D
Once you start to get some good loot, you forget the rage. ;D
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I am very excited for new spawn mechanics, zomb fixes, and a few other things.
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Gave a guy some morphine and a bandage today after helping him out with a hord of zombies chasing him. He repayed me with a bullet to the head. :P
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Check the video out to see some ForgottenHonor members in the zombie world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAat29_g9WQ&feature=plcp
If you wanna play with this group drop by the forums at:
http://forgottenhonor.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=50457&start=60&sid=3dffd8608a1977f4c998e54b56745b67
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have played abit. man, hate the zombies. jerky movements random sprinting and they die three seconds afterwards being shot.
All in all, very scary game, but needs work. I pissed my pants the first time I encountered a zombie and screamed out loud. :P
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Always remember that its an alpha.
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Spawn in the wilderness with my Gear from a 2 week ago version and die 10 seconds later, because of a random bandit is in the woods too ;D
Now, I struggle a bit with the current start gear. It's okay if they want to make it harder, I'm even okay with the removal of the pistol, but who the hell starts his survival with painkillers, bandage and flashlight, but without water and food. At least one can of beans and the typical water bottle, which is empty for example would be more realistic.
When I tried to loot some villages near the coast I found nothing. Problem is everyone respawning now needs to gain some basic supplies near the coast, because you usually die before you can make it to the countryside => less supplies near coast => you die.
Another thing is that the Zombies don't run as retarded anymore, but when you have not even found a hatchet yet you are pretty much dead, unless there is a building without zombies you can run through, then you can sometimes lose em now.
Got killed 2 times without any gear after a few minutes already by another player. And one time I suicided ebcause I was unable to get rid of the zombie running after me. The patch(es) solve a lot of problems but also enforce existing ones. I'd like to see the teamwork benefit being worked on more. Rocket even said he will do that, so I hope for the next update.
I'd also like if you could dazzle at least a single zombie with your flashlight at night for a few seconds.
But well, as Flippy said, it's an Alpha, it's okay when they try things. On the long term this game is going to work well, as long as Rocket communicates as much with the community as he does now.
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11 guys in our ~3 hour session today. Was quite brilliant!
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ok, ok, I already have Arma 2 on steam.. I think I might spend another 15 bucks on OA as well, in the hope that I can play some DayZ then :)
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You sure should!
Some more actual footage of tonight session coming sometime soon!
http://youtu.be/gV15ZEqxtmc
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11 guys in our ~3 hour session today. Was quite brilliant!
Here's some more video of that session. Some guys from here and from Forgotten Honor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXepZZ7yFEU
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The added subtitles made it way more funnier than it actually is/was. ;D
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Found something that may be useful for beginners:
http://picacid.com/arma2/loot_en.html (http://picacid.com/arma2/loot_en.html)
It's a loot cheat sheet, giving the probabilities of loot on a particular structure, as well as giving how much zombies may be around/inside it.
;)
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Had some great hours at DayZ today. Played witha good mate of mine I know from other games and some others that joined us later. We had tons of fun. Found 3 helicopter wrecks, night vision scoped FAL, Bison pp, Barret, M249 Saw and a lot of other nice things in Berezino especially. Was pretty fun since the Barret my mate picked up attracts Zombies in like 2 km radius. Had some great and funny Zombie chases and this fucked up engine makes thing so much more funny. Sometimes I wish the mod stays as buggy as it is ;D
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That FN FAL, IIRC, also has a thermal mode for the scope.
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Oh, thank you. Didn't know that I was able to switch it. Thought I had to stick with crosshair enabled servers so it isn't useles at daytime :D
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I really want to get Arma 2 to play Day Z.
This is highly subjective I suppose, but anyway:
Is the game repetitive? or with high replay value? Do you get pissed off when you die and lose all your items, and have no energy to start over?
I don't want to pay 25€ for a mode I'll play for 1.5 hours then don't touch.
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I really want to get Arma 2 to play Day Z.
This is highly subjective I suppose, but anyway:
Is the game repetitive? or with high replay value? Do you get pissed off when you die and lose all your items, and have no energy to start over?
I don't want to pay 25€ for a mode I'll play for 1.5 hours then don't touch.
Just wait a few days, if there's gonna be a Steam summer sale it will probably get discounted...
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1) Game can become repeative if you stick to same areas or if you get killed all the time.
2) High replay value is there if you set yourself some goals and take it to another (more of this later in this post) level with your plans.
3) I get pissed off when I die, especially if its because of something that I or my teammates could have done about. Its always a pisser to get killed by another player, but I rage more if I get killed due to bugs (happened only once thought and that was fixed quickly).
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Now my personal experience of DayZ:
Been alive now for another 20-ish days (second "life" so to say) and I am still enjoying it. This means I have been playing around 10-20 hours per "life" or even more. Theres always the excitement factor that at least for me makes it worth to play because you never know what is going to happen, even if you are on your routine "grocery shopping".
Since the game is not scripted, anything can happen anywhere and at anytime. Its very exciting to see what will happen when you meet up with other players.
I personally dont play solo at all. Never. Playing solo depends pretty much of your play style. If you decide to be a "nothing to lose" bandit who kills everyone who he comes across, or if you want to play a good-guy. Solo is way more dangerous, altho its easier to hide when its just one target.
I belong to a group of helpful players. I only play with and whenever some of us dies, we will reunite and make sure the freshly spawned guy will get some decent gear in no time so to me the "being pissed about losing everything" moment vanishes quite fast when you have couple of good raids.
So far almost every DayZ session we've had has been great. We vary from 3 players to a dozen in each session and we are always welcoming new players who want to join our little private group because playing solo can be a bitch most of the times. Cant hurt to have a private army when you raid towns. :P
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Awesome post Flippy, thanks a lot.
I'm probably going to get it, but maybe wait a week or so to see if it will be on sale. If you see a sale, would love it if you posted it on here, as I don't check steam every day (but I do check this).
Don't know that many gamers, but have one friend who wants to play it. Your scenario with 3-12 people seems like a lot of fun, can't pull that many people together but seems like it could be fun just playing 2 players (otherwise joining up with people we meet, like your group perhaps :) ) I would want to play with some people you can trust, who won't turn on each other.
There is just one server isn't there?
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There are hundreds of servers, Ted. No way one server could handle the playerbase.
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There are hundreds of servers, Ted. No way one server could handle the playerbase.
Yep I am amazed at the player numbers... I mean ARMA barely had any players and now there are hundreds of servers for Day Z... And it's still Alpha!
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No, there are several hundred servers to choose from. Time of the day ingame depends of the actual server time. Also, your character moves from server to server with the equipment and location so you can log out in server X and log back in on server Y with same gear you had and at same location you logged out at.
Bunch of Daisies (our group) welcomes both regular and irregular players into the group. Of course we wish for more regular folks, but if you are a player who enjoys playing with other people too, solo or just simply dont play that often, you are still most likely welcome to our group as long as you want to play with us and actually manage to play with us every now and then.
Playing with friends is imho way more fun than playing solo, because we are such a tight group who looks after each other and who are always willing to help each other out. Group play also brings you more security.
We have ran into situations in which we have made brief contact with individual players but they have fled the scene quite fast after realising there were so many of us. Basically you dont want to fuck with such a big group because you are as good as dead. However, sometimes some total asshole bandits only gets provoked by this. They might think they aint got anything to lose, but our big group has since it can sometimes take a long while before we are actually even together and get to play towards our goals during the session, but we personally like to think that with numbers becomes security and strength. Both playstyles got their perks. Playing solo might get you killed easier but you are also easier to conceal. Its harder to maneuver and conceal a big group of players, and its also harder to make sure the group stays intact.
Also, when you play solo or with smaller group (our regular group is 3-4 players and then anything above is irregular planned sessions pretty much) you might want to try and negotiate your ways out from tough situations so you can walk away without any bloodshed. Some players simply refuse to even try to negotiate but we at least try to talk first if situation allows it. With a group of dozen guys... we dont have to talk, we can just take what we want.
Right now our Bunch of Daisies is in stages of becoming more organised. We are currently establishing some player hierarchy in the group while maintaining the core point: Relaxed and fun athmosphere. While we are just bunch of online friends who like to play together, we still want to maintain some organisation within our group because the communication channels like TS3 can become chaos sometimes when shit starts to hit the fan and you can only imagine all the unfortunate friendly fire accidents that can happen when players dont know positions of each others and cant hear what they are talking about.
The group itself is still evolving of what it is going to be, a well oiled machine and we are looking for strong and durable parts to that machine. :)
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Q&A with ROcket, creator of this mod:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lAXqwewejwU
interesting views
edit: also:
(http://img2.joyreactor.cc/pics/post/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%8B-%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%8B-Day-Z-Dayz-237952.jpeg)
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That shit is SOOOOOO true.
I joined an RU server awhile back to get some daylight. I only had a 1911 so I decided to check out Cherno to derp around. I sat up in a tower and watched the strife for half an hour.
It was a total killing fest. You thought Cherno was bad? Go play a RU server.
Some fools brought AT4s and high powered sniper rifles and picked off anyone in town, not to mention all the bandits toting AKs, in killing squads, roaming the streets SS style.
Its a miracle I even survived. After watching for those 30 minutes, I dc'd
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Day Z videos are hilarious! ;D
Putting him out of his misery:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zjdgxpij_ss
Crazy Axe Murderer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=U1oopYcNgy0
And great use of direct chat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suEj5dTEgDE&feature=related
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This sounds real great. Thanks for the detailed posts flippy and everyone else.
I just bought Arma 2 + Arrowhead on steam. Can't wait to try it out in a couple of hours.
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I hope you enjoy the unique experience in today's grey mass gaming world. :)
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This sounds real great. Thanks for the detailed posts flippy and everyone else.
I just bought Arma 2 + Arrowhead on steam. Can't wait to try it out in a couple of hours.
Hope you do/did have someone to play with (who could walk you trough the worst inventory system ever made and other buttons).
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Funny enough, I never knew I could open the backpack when I started to play.
I only learned that when I played last with Flippy and Achtung.
I had ran entirely off of inventory, its an interesting way to play too
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first impression, after having played 2-3 hours with a friend (who was also playing for the first time).
GREAT potential. We ventured into the forests, trying to find a some loot at odd buildings without any luck. Headed for a water-pump. my friend were ambushed by some zombies, and while they were busy eating him, I sneaked past and tried to use the water-pump to no avail. We didn't get any weapons.
Then we spent at least 1.5 hours playing solo, hoping to respawn close to eachother when we died. I got a lot of great loot (the Hatchet is awesome, only weapon I've found so far). only to die of thirst.
How do I get water? found coke and pepsi, but didn't seem to help my thirst.
Most important question that arised:
Is there any way to connect to players, so that you spawn at the same place? most of the time we spawned on completely opposite sides of the map.
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No hope for the respawn thing, most people just play the respawn game.
I.e. just keep clicking respawn until you guys are close.
Sounds like weapons are super hard to get now a days, makes me feel privileged with my M4A3 CCO and PDW
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Just bought this baby, can't wait to try it out.
Now I only have to convince some friends to buy it, too.
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Didn't patch in a while but I got some free days coming up.. Still not very acquainted with ArmA's ridiculous backpack system but.. Sneak-and-scare time following weeks.
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Those interested in having a tryout with Bunch of Daisies, can add me on Steam and ask to be invited for a session.
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Those interested in having a tryout with Bunch of Daisies, can add me on Steam and ask to be invited for a session.
Bunch of Daisies is a cool group, I assure you gentlemen
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Seriously... This game...
Among the greatest fun I'm having with a game for a long time. The originality, the paranoia, the fear... It's so awesome.
Playing with only one friend, never get that far as we're still new to the game. Today we got quite far and have a nice supply of food, drinks, painkillers and bandages. we're only lacking proper weapons, both have an axe, but that's it. its pretty great though, kills zombies in one blow and is silent too. Also, Really want to find some morphine, 3 times have our sessions been ruined because of my friend breaking his leg, either through crawling through a door, getting hit by a zombie, or having spawned inside a wall. Unless there are any other ways to heal a broken leg?
Those interested in having a tryout with Bunch of Daisies, can add me on Steam and ask to be invited for a session.
Just might join you guys at the end of next week. Will talk to my friend and see, we're both going away for 4 days though. And we still need to learn the game a bit more.
If anyone is in doubt about getting this (Like I was), doubt no more. It is so much fun. Fun situations when you encounter other players
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You need morphine when you want to fix the broken leg unfortunately. You can be lucky but usually you find morphine in hospitals which are dangerous places. Going to the Electro or Cherno hospital is very dangerous, but those are the only ones close by at the start. The one in Berezino is a bit less visited, but Berezino is quite far away. I'll just state what we usually do in your situation:
I think we looted hospitals right at the beginning, carrying an axe only (you need a weapon to destroy the windows of the hospital, unless it has been looted recently), then searched for some basic stuff. Food near the coast is quite rare, best ways to find food there are usually the supermarkets in Cherno/Electro, which are very dangerous once again. Best way when you desperately need food is to fight Zombies an hope they got a can on them.
After getting some basic gear we usually head North. We have our very own special path through some villages. Moglievka is a village with quite a bunch of loot, then we often move on to Polana or something, because there is a supermarket, which is much less visited. THe goal is always to get to Berezino when we lack medical loot and skipped the hospital visit at the start. The secondary goal is to find helicopter wrecks which are quite frequently to find Southwest and West of Berezino, quite far in the North (very rare weapons spawn there)
We usually play on full 50 player servers, to make things harder and all that info relating frequency of other players or lack of food at the start relate to that servers. On servers with 20 people the game is just half as hard and you can visit Cherno/Electro hospital without too much trouble and danger.
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Yeah so far we have stayed away from any server with more than 20 people on them. And now we feel we've learned how to play the game (still some practical issues, like how to use flares and the finer details of the inventory system).
Oh god I wish I would have known that weapons spawn in the helicopter crashes!
We had a real good run, went from Komarovo up north, never going into a city but staying in the outskirts, looting remote barns and a supermarket. Had lots of bandage, painkillers, food and water to last days.
We reached the northwest airfield. Saw on the map that there were som helicopter crashsites but we ignored them, couldn't find them at first. So sneaked into the airbase, gathering everything in every hangar. Then when reaching the communications tower, a zombie saw us. We were swarmed and hid in a hangar; Killing 15+ of them. Getting low on ammo we rushed into the tower, hoping to find some weapons or ammo there. No luck, we held the stairs, but couldn't stay up there forever.
Took a wild risk and rushed down the stairs, me going first as I had the most blood (bad decision). Ran away into another building, only one zombie followed me.
My friend fell down the stairs, passed out, and was eaten by zombies.
but by god, it was intense.
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(still some practical issues, like how to use flares and the finer details of the inventory system).
Press F to cycle between firing modes, grenades, flares and chemsticks. Or whatever other things you might have in inventory and note they don't work from backbag. When you throw flare or chemstick, you can then pick it up and hold it on hand ;).
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Been trying this the last few days, really love it.
On the downside, I have to play alone atm, because my friend who bought it too can't get it to run (after it miraculously worked yesterday), because he was getting kicked as his BattlEye didn't report back. So he dl'ed the dll from their homepage and now he always CTDs when trying to join a game. Just sat in a bush for an hour, waiting for him to fix it, now I lost my patience and quit. :(
Edit: He fixed his CTDs, but now he keeps getting kicked of the server as the BattlEye Client is not responding, although he manually updated it. Even uninstalling his antivirus software didn't seem to fix the problem.
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Oh god the intensity. I just remembered during the previous session I mentioned, at the airfield.
When we crept out of the hangar, I saw a squatting zombie jumping my way, I hid around a corner.
I couldn't see him, my friend kept yelling on skype "he's coming!". I thought I was safe.
He jumped around the corner, I was laying still. and he passed just by, literally grazing me; without seeing me. And god the screams and the fright. I screamed in skype "UUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIHHHHHHHHH" and was freaking scared.
That session takes its place as one of my best gaming-moments since the release night of FH 2.0
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I can relate to that, when I was shot at yesterday I really felt the adrenaline rush in and my heart pumped like crazy. :)
I can't even think about going near the airfield. Having to play alone, that's pretty much suicide and got me killed twice already...
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For anyone on the fence, Arma 2:CO is down 20% on steam, it's now 19,99€
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The guy who made DayZ was my Producer on a previous retail game I worked on. He seemed always interested in the fh2 work I did during my lunch breaks haha. Good to see he has made an impression at his new company.
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It's pretty obvious I guess, someone who likes FH2 can't be anything but a good Producer. :)
But now, as my friend got it to work, it really made my day(z) yesterday.
We were on a quite populated server and I planned to loot the supermarket in Zerenogorsk, to get maybe a handgun for me and a new backpack for him. We approached in a circle from the west and I supposed it couldn't hurt to observe the village for a few minutes, so we lay there in a group of trees with our binocs and did so. Thank god we did - just when I was about to stand up and move to the supermarket, some guy in a Ghillie suit and a camo-svd showed up. He was just lying around next to the supermarket, so we were unsure whether he was camping for another survivor or covering someone.
Some minutes passed and the first option became more and more likely, and again I was about to sneak down and up behind him, using my friends observational messages, to eliminate him, the Bandit he appeared to be, when another guy with a scoped rifle showed up next to him. They then proceeded with a car (!) which they fueled up at the gas station and finally drove away.
I don't think I have ever played a game where I quietly observed two players for ten minutes, they being very cautious and watching around everywhere for potential attackers, but never seeing us (other games usually having a map so small that even if you don't actually know it, you usually have an idea you might be discovered every second). Nothing actually happened, but it was so unbelievably intense.
Even more so, when I sneaked down to the Supermarket, starting to look for the good stuff.. went through the back entrance, starting to pick up some food, when a guy with a Lee Enfield comes through the door two meters in front of me. We both were shocked for a quarter of a second, but then my reflexes sprung in and i emptied some AKM bullets into his chest, and he vice versa put a round through my head. Bang. :o I was a little unlucky there, as I got massive lag spikes in this area.
However, while I respawned rather close in Kamenka and proceeded north, my buddy went in and salvaged my backpack, although the place was crawling with Zeds after that guy fired his Lee Enfield, that thing is just so loud. I met up with him, went in, took the other guys backpack and his M1911 (a backpack was what we were looking for eventually, wasn't it?), and brought it back to my friend who was securing my fallback route. He also had a Morphine auto-injector on him, two Epi-Pens, and quite some tools - map, matches, compass, watch, you name it.
I just can't wait for this evening, when we plan to proceed northeast to maybe gear up a little more. :)
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DayZ brings those superawesome moments to you when you dont ever think about it. Also includes getting shot when youare not aware at all unfortunately :D I got also a story to share with you guys. Yesterday was probably my most amazing day at DayZ.
I was with my mate. The day before we got some basic stuff and made our way to the countryside. Yesterday we travelled to Berezino from Inland, I found a Cz550 on the way, my mate a Winchester, nothing special. I overlooked Berezino while he went for looting the hospital.
He came back and we were thinking about what to do next. Decided to go to the military camp at Berezino. Jsut when we started to walk we heard a friggin car sound. And indeed, 100 meters away from us a white offroad pickup makes a hold in the trees. I am until now unsure if it was 1 guy or 2. WHat I know is that my heart was pounding like fuck as my mate didn't see the guy and I saw him slowly looking around after leaving the car. I aimed and took the shot. I hit him twice with the Cz550 and he did not die, what made it even more intense. My mate just said he heard a bone breaking.
Fine, so we slowly crawled in a acceptable distance through the forest and could not see the guy or the two guys. 5 minutes later we were right behind the pickup. We thought that the guy might have disconnected but on the other hand he would not give up his car just like that. Then my mate just said, that we should man up, enter this friggin car and slipp off as fast as possible. I had a very bad feeling about it but we entered the car and as soon as the motor started we got under heavy fire, a tire was damaged and some other parts of the vehicle too, but nothing lethal.
And in the end we stole that awesome car from them like bosses, damnit that was so amazing. Later we got the idea to open the car boot. Inside: 3 AKM, 1 Ak74, different Ammuniton types for As50, m107, 15 ! Ak mags, Stanag, Stanag Sd, literally everything. We went to petrol stations and fixed up the car while searching for helicopter wrecks. We found one: M107, M14, 2 FN FAL, all got it into our inventory/backpack or into the car.
THen we found another crashsite, with 2 L85A2. That assault rifle with thermal image and nightvision (the FN FAL one got night vision only) Pretty amazing to find 2 of these. We found an AS 50 as well.
Soon after the server crashed, it was up again and could not connect to database, I dunno, strange things happened. After all the car was lost, just gone, although we saved it several times, but it was definitely gone. Sad because we were about to meet up with ~5 other mates and tons of equip for them.
Anyway, this was incredibly funny and awesome. Sorry for wall of text :P
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Bought Arma2, was it worth it? Dunno, that's why I'm asking.
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Asked so often ;D Yea, should be worth it. Arma 2 itself is quite a god game imo and DayZ is pretty nice as long as you can live with a bad engine and a lot of bugs in DayZ due to Alpha stage. I personally enjoy DayZ very much. Most people that tried it do so as well.
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Nice read on your textwall, Surfbird. ;)
And yeah, it's worth it, from what my buddies and I can say so far.
Anyways, it would be interesting to know if you guys have something like a "favourite/regular" (there is no english expression for Stamm- >:() server? Or two or three of it? I guess I should decide for one or two these days, in order to be able to set up a tent/vehicles somewhere in the near future and storing some things inside it.
My friends problem was fixed by upgrading our betas to 94977, by the way.
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We also permanently search for a regular server. But we did not really find one yet, because sometimes we are up to 12 people, that makes things hard and we often have to pick a server with enough slots left to be able to play. If you are in a smaller groups of 2 or 3 it's definitely not a problem. After 10 minutes waiting you should all get on a full and popular server even, cuz people disconnect from servers quite frequently.
Unfortunately my mate and I go for car hunt and always pick servers that crash after some time and lagg horribly ;D So what we are doing now is to pick a server that usually runs stable and we like to play on more often, because we had some bad experiences with servers and cars the last few days.
(Yesterday, we found a quad first, then an Ural Civilian, 12 seat truck, perfect for our group, but unfortunately the server crashed again and the vehicle is well hidden where we found it, because we forgot to save it. We could find it again, because I doubt someone else than the owner will find it (and besides us freaks, running 3 hours at the edge of the map and total nowhere to find a parked vehicle ;D), but the server seems to be horrible so it's no use.)
I can just tell you that we played on De205 yesterday and often before and we also play often on some of those LU servers, but they vary a lot in quality since a lot of thm are hosted in Russia. Can't remember which of them were good exactly. When I started playing I often played on Uk 4,6 and 9 servers as far as I can remember. They ran very stable but were often full. Maybe check some of them out.
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Oh well. We both just got shot from behind, in the motherf..ing middle of nowhere, aka Kumyrna. This is bad. :( Guess we have to look for another group to join, always playing a duo is so fucking dangerous.
Anyways, new life, new luck...
If you guys ever team up again to do some nice group runs, give us a call we two would gladly join in. :P
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Can i play this mod if i have Op. Arrowhead?
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IIRC you can play it with low res textures, if you have Operation Arrowhead only, by combining it mit ARMA 2 Free. To be able to use HD textures, you need the original ARMA 2, though.
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Cool, will begin downloading OA on steam.
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Surfbird with another episode of stories nobody wants to read, but he likes writing stuff:
So, yesterday we continued our car search. We spawned, and on the field nextby was a motorcycle. We ran up to it and started driving, quite aimlessly. We usually use motorcycles and quads to find real cars with more seats. It looked friggin funny since my mate on the backseat had his AS 50 on his back and we were a driving antenna. We got under fire, I drove as fast as possible and we were able to escape. Parked it near devils castle. Went up there looted stuff and suddenly heard a shot. My mate was still on the tower, I was in the backyard, hiding behind some rocks. My mate told me the shot came from 2 guys shooting a Zombie but he could nto shoot them because they were too close to his tower, but at least they did not see him. Then I suddenly see one guy running with an AKM towards the wooden framework at the tower. I emptied my L85A2 mag into him, he was due to lag able to shoot as well for some more seconds but my cover was good and he missed all the shots and died. Shortly after the server crashed.
On the next server we left the castle again and went towards NW airfield. camping and lying in the grass for a long time. My mate then looted the barracks, nothing special. We actually were just looking for night vision goggles or for ghillie suits since our weapons were good enough. Anyway, we left the airfield and I suggested to take on the car hunt again. That needed a lot of walking again, but it somehow did not get boring, since we did big map research where you can drive far into the edge of the map without having to drive through an uphill forest, so we had hope to find car(s) there. So we ran and watched. And then, suddenly my mate discovers something between the trees, and indeed - we there was a bus (The big one) As we came closer we realized that this was not everything. There also was a tractor and a UAZ (military allround vehicle, like a jeep) We couldnt believe our luck and began to loot. WHen we opened the tractors boot, we were quite stunned. It had everything, high quality stuff everywhere. There also was some stuff in the UAZ, but the tractor seemed to be the mobile tent of that group. In it: 3 ghillie suits, 3 AS50, M249 SAW, M4A1 CCO SD, FN FAL with night vision, Ak74u and a lot of other mediocre weapons and ammo. We loaded as much as possible in the UAZ and drove away. Went for a new spot to hide it. At the same time, one of our mates joined teamspeak, telling us he also just found 3 cars with tons of gear on another server, including 4 night vision goggles, SVD camo, Mk 48, and an Ural truck he decided to hide. He then joined our server, we picked him up, went for refueling all that stuff, picked another mate up, drove over all the map. Ah and we stole the tractor as well shortly after, using it as driving tent as well. We drove close to the coast and wanted to tell some recently spawned guy to take a seat, but we did not find one.
In the end I end up having a ghillie suit, NV goggles, L85A2 AWS, bioculars and all tools you need besides the GPS. Also missing is biggest backpack and range finder binoculars. M41 CCO SD in backpack as well as some medical loot. In the end we were 4 heavily armed guys in ghillie suits yesterday, feels great.
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You are so lucky. :o I'm not really sure how I should proceed from now on. I have gotten myself a DMR and a FN FAL as short range backup weapon from a heli crash and now I'm growing too attached to it. :-\ I'm mostly playing alone or with a friend, who is unarmed atm, and I wouldn't even know how to approach the NW airfield without being shot too easily. Found another crashed heli yesterday night with a M249 and a AS50, but I couldn't carry more stuff and I was not as confident to find some spare ammo for the AS50 as I am for the DMR. Still felt bad, though.
Btw, if I read that correctly from the DayZ forums, Ghillie suits do not spawn since the last update.
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That ghillie suits don't spawn is possible since they were/are bugged. We found them in the tractors boot, so it's definitely possible that they are there before the last patch came up. Thanks for the info anyway, we won't search for them anymore then :P Before we put them on we dropped our whole inventory. Then I was for a short time under water but came abck to the position I was at before, kinda weird, probably still bugged, since our 3th guy got teleported to Cherno with all his stuff, although he dropped it. But he did not wear the suit, it was in his backpack and he's now afraid to put it on ^^
You actually don't even need to approach the NW airfield since it's either suicide or worthless. Unfortunately there are alot of server hopper spawning in the barracks at the airfield on different servers and stuff, and usually there is always someone near by. Most likely someone who is armed well. If you want to approach it, I'd do it from the North though. Crawl on the ground and check the exact position of the barracks before you get in there. You can also check out the firestation or the control tower, but that's quite dangerous because you expose yourself. Same with the hangars which often don't offer great loot anyway.
Better go for those helicrashsites. You find the good stuff there too and it's a lot safer. But well, you got good stuff now and if I were you I probably would not know what to do either. Maybe go hunt some players, or try to find a vehicle or jsut better gear than you already have.
Btw: Sidestrafe with a 60minute Rocket interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CNh-Mp_KhQ&feature=g-all-u (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CNh-Mp_KhQ&feature=g-all-u)
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Arma 2 is 40 % off for the next 35 hours so now it's your chance to grab it for cheap(er). (Still a bit out of reach for me, I was waiting for at least 50 % off, maybe I'll get only OA in the end as my rig wouldn't handle HD textures anyway).
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Okay getting it
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So i think i got it working, i think.
Installed it with my Op. Arrowhead install + Arma 2 free, textures aint much of a problem.
Thing is, nearly every single DayZ server has a Red X on them, i could barely play on one server and i didn't even seen a single zombie or something to loot.
Something is wrong, might be getting ArmA 2 soon.
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So i think i got it working, i think.
Installed it with my Op. Arrowhead install + Arma 2 free, textures aint much of a problem.
Thing is, nearly every single DayZ server has a Red X on them, i could barely play on one server and i didn't even seen a single zombie or something to loot.
Something is wrong, might be getting ArmA 2 soon.
Strange AFAIK it should still work... Did you follow a tutorial like this one in exact steps?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRK1t6tXpbw
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I followed a tutorial that i found on google, the thing would actually run but i had a bad time trying to find a server, nearly all of them were "Bad version", strange, i've updated DayZ and patched up OA with the latest BetaPatch thingy.
I did that tutorial and everything then it screwed up, some error about a 3d engine or something like that
I'll reinstall everything tho.
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This tutorial on installing should be (almost) official:
http://kodabar.blogspot.dk/2012/05/how-to-install-dayz-with-arma-2-free.html
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That's the first tutorial i followed, might have screwed up on the Step 7.
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Well now, this was a good afternoon run for me. Found a campsite with five tents, a car, a motorcycle and an ATV. :) No good loot, sadly, but the vehicles plus a DMR, a FN FAL and a M16 plus a nice load of ammunition and medical supplies are worth something, too.
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Got it working.
After doing some stuff, i figured out i need to play with someone else, being a loner is fun sometimes, but it gets boring after you die a few times.
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My timezone is GMT+3, give me a holla on steam (same profile as here on the forum) tomorrow during the day if you're bored.
I also added everyone that is in thread as friendos on steam.
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< TheRealMudce
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People die more often from ArmA-bugs and -crashes than players.
But some Let's Play's out there make great entertainment indeed 8)
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People die more often from ArmA-bugs and -crashes than players.
Reason #1 why I took about month brake from this mod. Even the times when players got me, mostly it was because of heavy lags or other weird bugs. Like getting shot at inside firestation tower. I start furious run to downstairs, shooters were quite far away, so I thought I'd just run off at opposite direction. Only that I warped through the wall in that tower and fell on the roof of firestation with my legs broken. 15 second later I was shot dead as there was no cover on the roof >:(.
After similar kind of shit happened again and again I just grew tired. It's a great mod when it happens to work.
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I was raiding a small Military Base with some Red Cross tents, when i was ready to leave, sneaking pass zombies, some idiot, instead of taking the zombies down with his new AK, he decided to kill me.
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Anyone fancy a session tomorrow around 10:00am GMT, 13:00 Finland time? Meeting at Fh IRC channel.
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Currently taking a break from the mod. I got nearly everything you would aim for and I lack motivation to play on. I'm gonna wait for some new patches, more content and maybe more goals to go for at DayZ. Right now I pretty much do'nt know what to do. Also thought about doing suicide and restart, but that's a kinda tough thing to do.
I'll add you on steam though, probably gonna play again in one or two weeks or so.
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http://dayzdb.com/news/weapon-changes-in-arma2-162 (http://dayzdb.com/news/weapon-changes-in-arma2-162)
An Arma 2 patch just came up, not a DayZ patch. It changes the damage of several weapons to totally unreasonable amounts. Enfield nearly does half the damage it usually does. Revolver and M1911 do the damage the 9mm pistols had before. The 9mm guns do even less damage than before. Submachine guns more useless than they already are due to that. Looks like an arcade shooter style of damage right now. Needing 3 hits to kill a zombie with M1911/revolver instead of 1 is quite a difference. Weird stuff, kinda upsets me.
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... yea they nerfed my precious 1911 to spitwads. Not to bitch but 3 torso shots from a .45acp should be enough to down most anything dead or alive... Im still irritated that you can use .45 longs in a 1911 and even they are nerfed to shit now.. Shamefur Dispray...
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I wish enfield still did 12k damage. It was an instakill, sniper rifles? I dont need no sniper rifle.
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Look what I found from RopeCon lying around
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7w8s99q3c1ro07cuo1_1280.jpg)
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Hope you looted it properly?
I died today. :I
Walked north for 10 minutes immediately after spawning, running into a heli wreck right away, finding an AS50 with 2 mags (plus 3 M107 mags). Quite a start.
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I'm so annoyed right now, I had a CZ550 and ended up in Berezino, but the srever decides that it wants to fuck with me, so it kicks me out and when i join back it spawns me in... Elektro. FFS. In Elektro I find another gun, but when i try to pick it up both guns disappear. -.- Then I find a Winchester. Then I get sniped.
Spawned in again, this time going towards Balota. I get some weird texture bug, which annoys me to hell, and as I approach the hangars, due the bug i can't see where I'm going, and end up in someones pistol sights. I turn away and run to show that I'm no danger, end up with a bullet to my head anyway.
Third time I spawn at Kamenka, head east, end up eventually in balota. I get wounded on my way there, try to bandage myself, nothing happens, so I try again and again. I end up having five bandages, but my character keeps building, but my bloodlevel stays up. (?) Then I go check the barracks, find myself an M16, and headed north before disconnecting.
Seems like I'm destined NOT to play with Bunch of Daisies.
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Its a cruel game :P
I'm still trying to find a server to call home.
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I Can't believe i shot a guy who was trying to be my friend.
I got scared, there was some interesting loot and i wanted it for myself. I waited upstairs and when he showed up, i emptied my Makarov mag on him. OF COURSE, i didn't kill him, he turned and shot me pretty fast and deadly.
Meanwhile, while i was dying, he screamed IM FRIENDLY IM FRIENDLY.
I'm a bad person.
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Spawned in again, this time going towards Balota. I get some weird texture bug, which annoys me to hell, and as I approach the hangars, due the bug i can't see where I'm going, and end up in someones pistol sights. I turn away and run to show that I'm no danger, end up with a bullet to my head anyway.
This texture bug with the military tents is very, very annoying, I must say.
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Ye just change the server. That bug is usually at Balota only. It sometimes occurs, sometimes not. Just change the server and you should be fine, because doing anything around Balota is impossible with this bug sometimes.
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It effects all military tents, I fear. I've read about people having it in Berezino, and I have had it myself at the infamous Stary Sobor.
EDIT: As I was strolling through the woods with a friend yesterday, suddenly, everyone on the server died. And now my AS50 is gone. Nice!
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So found a usable helicopter... yea..
2 M240 door guns and my groups aready decked out with nvg's. This could be epic..
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So I played some of this.
Short story: A lot of confusion at first. Saw a guy get killed by 2 zombies near a army base, got a hatchet off him. Found some other loot as well, killing a few zombies in the process. Ended up bleeding without a bangage, so I kept killing zombies hoping to find one. I did, but by the time I stopped the bleeding I already had the black and white vision. Walked around a little, killing a few more zombies, trying to find something that would fix me up. Had no luck, so I alt-tabed, trying to find how to heal myself over the internet. When I alt-tabed back in in 2 minutes, there was a group of 8-10 people around me. They seemed to have healed me, beacuse my vision was back to normal. As I was trying to find a key, that would let me type and thank them, the group became under fire. We all died. The End.
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Wow, looks like there is some humanity after all. Then it all ends with a MG.
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So there are human controlled Bandits in this game? Isn't there a great ammount of trolling? I mean you could always take your PMM and kill a higher ranked player who isn't expecting a kamikaze bandit. And how do you recognize normal people or bandits?
p.s.: Kradovech, the bridge you are showing, is this the Viaduc de Millau?
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As far as I understand, the bandits are the ones that shoot at you.
And yes, yes it is.
EDIT: Is there a way to kill yourself in this game? Im laying down in the middle of wilderness with a broken leg atm. The zombies have lost interest in me, but since I can only crawl from now on, its not exactly fun.
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IIRC you can respawn when you have broken les, other times it's greyed out.
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People find plenty of occassions to kill themselves. Can you still climb a ladder? Otherwise I'd advise a tree.
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So there are human controlled Bandits in this game? Isn't there a great ammount of trolling? I mean you could always take your PMM and kill a higher ranked player who isn't expecting a kamikaze bandit. And how do you recognize normal people or bandits?
p.s.: Kradovech, the bridge you are showing, is this the Viaduc de Millau?
Well, the term Bandit just stands for players like everyone else who kill other people. An experienced player will just kill you on 500m, no chance for you with your shitty Makarov^^ A player that got good gear won't also get close to you and will avoid you if possible He's most likely gonna shoot you. Especially when you move to the countryside and the North of the map, players know other players usually got some good gear andknow the other player is a potential danger. So they take the shot, just like that.
Those kind of people might sound irritating and destroying the game to you right now. But trust me, as soon as you find a lot of stuff and got military weapons, you better kill people before they kill you.
We also move to danger zones on purpose to get some nice fight and we had an unexpected 10 vs 10 battle at Balota airstrip against other well equipped guys a few weeks ago, which was absolutely awesome.
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You move into danger areas at the risk to begin with a Makarov again? :D Nice one
Who won the battle btw; how many casualties?
Can you regroup after being killed and get your old goods back too?
Sorry for all those questions, I am just interested and don't know if I should buy the addon.
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There is a point where stuff gets "boring". So we move to danger zones, where a lot of people are and take them out. We don't hunt new players that just spawned, but those that are sniping at the big cities, the airfields and stuff. We don't mind too much if we die. Actually makes the whole thing interesting again, we even thought about suicide because we did not have anything to aim for. But now helicopters are back in the game, finding one is the next goal I guess.
We won the battle. I think 5 of us died. Not sure if all of them died, but I think so. Some respawned at Balota and got their gear back. One of us was sniped while in the tower of Balota airstrip. We were hiding in the hills and then got under fire. They took some of us out, we took some of them out. So we hid with 5 people or so in the tower of the Balota airstrip. Rest was camping around on the fields. I had to logg off have way, but my mates sniped the rest of them then. was quite fun and intense.
Your body stays for a while. If it's not too far away you can get back to your body and get your stuff back. When travelling in a group you usually get all of it back because they pick stuff up for you, store it in a tent, a car or place it on the ground until you arrive.
No problem, if you got questions keep asking. Me and others here will certainly like to help you.
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Are you invincible in a car unless being shot upon?
Can you resurrect people like in ArmA II
Most important: Does it demand more resources than Vanilla and can one alter the game "handling"
(ArmA II always felt "unnatural" to play, even if it was more realistic; in reality it is not that hard to coordinate weapon and head well.)?
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The last thing i got from this game is that people like to shoot other people instead of fighting zombies. This is a normal Player vs Player game with zombies in the middle.
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You are not invincible. It gets damaged when you drive into a tree, rock or bush. Players can damage the vehicle itself and also shoot you while you are inside. A car consists of a fuel tank, a motor, the hull and 4 tires. Each of the components can be damaged and destroyed. You can find the parts to repair the car though.
There is a point where you are dead. It does not work as in Arma 2 I think. You start with 12000 blood which is basically your hitpoints. When blood hits 0 you are dead, but often you loose just a little bit of blood and fall unconscious. While that you are usually bleeding. A mate can fix you up by using bandages, morphine if you broke a bone, using an epi-pen to stop the faint and a blood bag to get your blood back to 12000. Once your blood hit 0 you are dead though and can not be revived.
The game does not demand more ressources than regular Arma 2 as far as I know. You are on the Chernarus Arma 2 map, it's the same. When Arma 2 runs, DayZ does as well.
THe unnatural feeling is because of the weird engine, thousands of hotkeys, and yea coordination feels weird, but you get used to it like you probably got in Arma 2.
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ok, how can you heal a broken bone? Only with morphine or does it heal itself over time? I have some pretty nice loot this time, and don't want to kill myself.
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You need morphine.
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You're definitely not invincible in a vehicle, I found that out the hard way when I drove a tractor down a 50% inclination through woody territory.
Anyway, after my death through hackers, by complete randomness me and my buddy ran into a camp with stuff like an AS50, and some objects I hadn't seen before; a range finder, ghillie suits, night vision. Feels pretty cool to be well equipped. :)
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It's a curse at the same time. First I was very happy and felt lucky, soon after I began to feel aimless, don't know what to do. The game became a total PvP paradise and there is no need to loot anything because you got everything. That's what bothers me the most. Played today the first time after a few weeks, my mate died already, but I'm still alive. Dunno if I should be happy about it or not. But it's hard to abandon stuff you might need weeks of playing for to get it again. Feels weird.
What I am definitely gonna do is meeting up with my mate at night, give him the nightvision goggles, while I use my scope on the L85A2 and get some action at Stary Sobor, Electro or Cherno. That's what I want to do before I die, when i'm finally dead I am more happy than disappointed I think.
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Sure, you're right. I can't even get myself up to play the game these days, as I'm too lazy and careful to play alone.
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Damn boiiii
http://dayzgame.com/
http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/
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Oh, nice. Excited what they are making out of that. Is known what engine will be used or are they creating a new one or modifying the Arma 2 or another engine for example ? (maybe Arma3 based)
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Sparklez and his buddies at it. If it's a bit too much, I highly recommend the last part ;D
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL47A6980619ABA4DA&feature=plcp (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL47A6980619ABA4DA&feature=plcp)
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Quite funny to watch :) I have ArmA II but since they will develop a stand alone game I should probably not download Operation Arrowhead.
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Well, shit, i spawned in and walked a few meters to find a house, got inside and found a Makarov and a few mags on the ground, picked them up and headed to the woods. Then i found that electric plant whatever it is, with its little tower. Got inside and found 2 dead guys with ALICE packs, stole their shit (Revolver and sniper rifle, plus food, coke and painkillers).. then i heard some bullet impacts on the wall, and then i died...
some asshole showed up with a AK
Well i'm not sure, some clock appeared on my screen and i left the game, i have bad luck on this game.
Plus, i dont see why someone has to kill you for your shit, i know i had food and stuff but damn, EVERYONE attempts to kill you... it becomes boring after a while.
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I havn't played since I got inducted to Bunch of Daisies.
I still have all my sweet gear from several patches ago ;D
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Checked how my character was doing earlier today, I've lost my ghillie :(
Day 72 though I haven't played for a month now...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXTQhNQw9wo&feature=g-all-lik
i must go, my people need me!
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Hacking that is actually funny and game enhancing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsBj2zQkVlM
;D
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Ran into this dude at 3 in the morning on Atlanta 70.... He stalked me for 20 minutes and generally scared the piss out of me, he logged and didnt end up killing me though. I went and looked him up and it seems im not the only one hes fucked with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P-Wgg90hRw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VONXHiwXb1g&feature=related
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Looks like i ran into a celebrity, he has his own youtube channel with followers.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SirExzib
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(http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s300/ajappat/arma2oa2012-08-2518-39-48-41.jpg)
"Hi, I'm ajappat and I'm here to ruin your day(z)"
I have started again with my friends on Lingor island map and while I love it, just like I did before, I already have got frustrated at some silly deadly bugs. Atm it's going fine though, we have 2 cars and a boat, a lot of fancy weapons and ammo and NVG + rangefinder for all of us.
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How do you know which cars are actually repairable (I installed the game yesterday, so sorry for my ignorance)?
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I havn't played since maybe July.
I've heard the only way to play nowadays is private servers because of the hackers.
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Either that or look for empty servers. If I want PvP I will play the normal ArmA even if the controlls are horribly sluggish. I really dislike their attempt to bring in all variables when shooting a gun. In reality, most of the things you have to do with your mouse ingame are coordinated automatically by your brain, hands and feet. At the moment you feel like a remote controlled hyper complex robot.
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Will DayZ work on Arma 2-free?
Rather stupid question, but I want to be sure.
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You need operation arrowhead also. Arma 2 Combined operations is still on sale on steam for 8 hours for 12,50€
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I reinstalled ArmA II and DayZ lags horribly since then, even on minimum. Before reinstalling I played it on medium and it worked perfectly fine. I stopped playing a month ago because it got boring. I wanted to begin again and now I am not able to do so. Anyone has an idea how to fix this? I already googled some fixes that did not work for me.
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Maybe the server you used to play had forced render distance to vert short and now you tried with 1500m or something. It used to have even 30-40 fps difference from 500 to 1500 on my old PC.
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Is there any way I can fix this lag. Because it lags on every DayZ server I tried. ArmAII works perfectly on medium, even if there are many trees, it does not lag.
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DayZ is a resource hog because of the zombies, there's no other way to fix it but tuning the graphics down.
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Well, I fixed it a long time ago. It really were the graphics. The new version is better because the zombies are deadlier. I am not sure I like those 20ish crash sites on the server. It makes them "not special" When you have the chopper you stumble over them every second.
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Just came across this by accident. Watched a video and i am impressed.
On August 7, 2012, Dean Hall announced at the game's development blog[14] that the mod was going to be made into its own game, with Bohemia Interactive as the developer,[15][16] and himself as the project leader.[17][18][19] On October 29, 2012, development of the mod officially transferred to a largely community driven effort with the release of version 1.7.3.[20] The standalone version was planned to be released by Christmas 2012,[21] but the deadline was not reached. On January 7, 2013, Hall said that the standalone game "isn’t here because we had the chance to go from making a game that was just the mod improved slightly, packaged simply, and sold – to actually redeveloping the engine and making the game the way we all dreamed it could be."[22] Hall has further speculated that the game will be released mid April 2013 or earlier though no specific date has been confirmed
Not going to waste time on a buggy mod, however i will purchase the stand-alone version when its released.
8)
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The mod may be buggy but the fun is worth the bugs. The standalone looks pretty good right now. I hope they can fix the sluggish weapon handling.
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Time to start replaying this shit. Reinstalled ARMA II + Arrowhead. Might get back to playing with Achtung and Flip if A Bunch of Daisies is still semi-active
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It's been a long time since I played it the last time. We had a SUV back then. It pretty much sucks when the server closes and you lose all your vehicles and tent items. I think that is why we stopped playing actually. Maybe I shoul give it another shot too. Any news on the standalone?
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Did they make any improvements on the hacking problem? That sort of drove me away after spending days building up my character leading up to getting killed by a guy with a hatchet who is impervious to 128 rounds of 7.62.
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I'm still up for playing it. I still have my full equip profile, being alive for 10 months now or so (with 2-3 months of actually playing), but I'm somewhat interested to start from scratch again.
Biggest problem is that retards host the servers and add a shitload of vehicles. Every server says like "DayZ 300+++++ vehicles" To me, this fucks up quite a bunch of things. I remember stealing some guys pick-up with a mate. He missed the shot on one of them and we crawled around them to the truck, got in and drove away under heavy fire. THis was awesome, but only because vehicles were so rare.
All the magic about this game is gone with so many vehicles in my opinion. Nothing you can really look forward to anymore. I really had a tough time to find a server with normal amount of vehicles. Anyway, if I'm not mistaken the [F|H] server is going to be relaunched very soon and there actually were people playing on it.
Don't know about hacking, but I think many servers are password protected now. Maybe the hacker community lost interest in the game though.
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What the actual fuck? Someone drove past me in a fucking TANK? O_O
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Either a hacker or you were on a Rmod-server. Another thing are some admins creating "events" like a big fight in Cherno with tanks and choppers.
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I've been playing it a lot, Hells hideout has been my server of choice lately. All I use are the machete and the G-17 I found. I don't even use the AKM and ten mags I've got :d
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Changed to a different server to start anew with little brother and friend. I didn't die at all, they died 4-5 times. We started our journey, got cars and weapons, raided hospitals.
Then we met the coolest Russian dude ever. All 4 of us raided the NWAF, I ended up healing the guy a couple times. Eventually it was just the Russian and I, we were travelling and stumbled onto the admin camp. Ended up getting some nice loot. Going to re-raid it later and steal the Huey. Logged off at 3am. He was a pretty chill guy.
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Me and a friend gave this mod another try and stumbled upon DayZ Origins. Spawned at night near a motorway, stumbled across a zombie infected city and neraly got us killed. We crossed another survivor running to the opposite direction.
I forgot how intense this game can be ;D
McKnight look like a cheap wannabe-rocker though. Really ugly...
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I also just tried origins! Real cool! I never play at night, but I have to because origins is a 4 hr cycle. I literally see nothing at ALL! Any tips? I turned gamma and brightness all the way up. -_-
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Spawn near a city, drop your PMM, take out your flashlight at first. Then try to find some chem lights (really easy) and go with those although they are really bad. Road flares are too shiny on populated servers plus they attract zombies.
Ran into patient zero 4 times in 3 hours of gaming. He seems not to be that special after all. Well, it takes like a full mag No.4 into his head to kill him but apart from that, he is nothing special. They really should reduce the spawn rate for this thing.
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Yea. I have gotten it down with night playing. It is MUCH safer to loot at night! I was pissed yesterday. After 3 hours of collecting gear, first guy I ran into shot me. I was telling him I was okay and all I was not going to shoot. He shot me cause I was a bandit skin I guess. -_- It sucks. I had to kill two people out of self defense, then I get stuck as a bandit. Trust no one I guess. Shame on me.
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Yeah, it's kinda bad on most populated with killing eachother for nothing or just because one is unsure about the other guy.
It annoys me a bit that there is no united hive (I checked like 5 servers and spawned new every time) because I get the feeling I always join at dusk and even though the atmosphere is great, I really would like to move on a bit faster sometimes. I am still stuck near the first city because a zombie managed to kill a tyre on our motorcycle (I hate the bugged motorcycle, it's physics are really fucked up).
Yesterday, we had an awesome moment when looking for a spare tyre: We arrived, lights on, engine blarring and a zombie jumped into our motorcycle which resulted in the tyre loss. We dismounted the motorcycle and headed for a nearby industrial zone which was like 100m away from our position. First, we left the lights on as we did not have any flashlights ready nor chemlights (pretty dumb) to carry. Then I saw some light cone dancing around. As there was a lighthouse nearby, I thought it might have been the source. Then, it jumped around like it does when someone runs with it's flashlight. We quickly turned off the motorcycles light and watched what he did. I had him in my crosshair, not knowing what to do as I don't like killing people just because I can. Then, a zombie discovered me and I had to make a run for it. He certainly heard my footsteps. I think he ran away as fast as he could because half a minute later a chopper started and flew away. He probably was as scared as we were. With a chopper you have a reason to run away as fast as you can when you run into two unknown people I guess ;D
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I latley have a strange, kinda annoying issue with my backpacks. They always vanish on reconnect. I googled around and did not find anything.
Anyone had this too or has an idea how to fix it?
Sorry for double post.
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Tried Day Z again for the first time in 10 months. I was hugely disappointed.
So now you spawn with a pistol, as well as plenty of food and fluids. What's the excitement in that? I loved the desperation in finding supplies unarmed, hiding and avoiding zombies. Now every newly spawned player begins shooting at you, you don't even get a "slow start" so to speak.
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Try DayZ Origins. It's much better in my oppinion. You do start with one pistol and one mag too but the Islands are bigger and there is not this big concentration of players like in Cherno or Elektro. I think although there are plenty of bandits, one does not run into them every two seconds. It is a big improvement. Also, food in supermarkets is really rare and weapons are not that common neither. Sure, there exist some places where you can find one guaranteed but you have to look for them. Plus those scrap cars build by survivors. You also have random NPC mercenarys in choppers or on foot attacking you on sight. There is also Sector B, a small Island guarded by an army of NPCs. The best loot spawns there but it is insanly difficult to grab those supplies. One more thing, there are less zombies overall but those who hit you will hit you very hard (most of the time instableeding) and there is one superzombie, Dr. Ivan who you can only kill with headshots. He broke my bones on first hit last time. If it would not have been for my friend, I would have been dead for sure.
It promotes playing together as there are multiple levels of heroes and bandits and only the lvl3 heroe can build a stronghold and needs 4 players to help him. Attacking Sect. B all alone is also insanly difficult.
Well, just give it a try and let me know what you think about it.
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I want someone to play origins with. :P
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Ok, so im very interested in this mod.
- In Origins, can you team up with other players?
- Can you build shelters or compounds?
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flyboy_fx, you can join our server. We have a mixture of few US-players, some Russians, many Germans and even some French players. Be advised, it's a friendly server so killing innocent people is not that well regaraded. In fact, they made a whitelist in order to reduce the killings. If such things do not bore you, you are welcome to join.
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@ Jimi. Yes, you can team up with other players. On normal servers though it is hard to find trustworthy players on your own. It is always good to know someone personally.
Yes, you can build shelters, depots, garages and strongholds if you have the materials and the blueprints (Stronghold ones are at one well guarded place only)
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http://www.twitch.tv/lirik/c/2657043 indestructable Finn.
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You can survive falling from the hotel if you fall into the pile of rubble behind it. Which mod does he use? The guns sound like guns. I am amazed. I always looked for a combination of ACE and DayZ.
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How long till DayZ is standalone? any word on this?
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You can survive falling from the hotel if you fall into the pile of rubble behind it. Which mod does he use? The guns sound like guns. I am amazed. I always looked for a combination of ACE and DayZ.
Oh, late response. I think it's DayZero.
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Back to the front with you, ye olde thread. Day Z standalone is out for it's 'alpha' phase. Been playing it with two friends yesterday and today and damnit; it's awesome.
There's a fair share of glitches and not that many items are in the game yet (you'll only find M4's and the 1% chance for a Mosin) but it's pretty damn fun.
Yesterday we captured a Russian guy, cuffed him and force-fed him rotten stuff. Then we let him go.
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Gots them WIGGLEEEES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6o8x67ApM8
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I play it daily, it's freaking awesome and will only get better!
Also, wiggles!
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You can survive falling from the hotel if you fall into the pile of rubble behind it. Which mod does he use? The guns sound like guns. I am amazed. I always looked for a combination of ACE and DayZ.
Oh, late response. I think it's DayZero.
Late response too. Thanks. I did not even notice until now ;D
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I haven't found a single weapon yet, except an axe, until now. It was a Mosin in a castle keep, glitched through the floor, so I could see it from the floor below, but never actually reach it.
My expression at that moment is shown in my avatar.
Goddamnit.
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so you have to buy early acces for Dayz standalone?
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I've got a Mosin with a scope and bipod. Loads of ammo too. I was proper Richard Harrow at one point, sniped a dude with M4.
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so you have to buy early acces for Dayz standalone?
Yes, to sort out bugs and whatnot ;)
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I play with two other guys, I have a suppressed M4 with a shitton of ammo, he has a basic M4 and third guy has a scoped Mosin. He keeps an eye on us while we loot.
Haven't met any friendly people yet.
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I bought the standalone version, but I'm not going to bother with it until they get more zombies in game. Tried it a bit though and it did look promising.
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Well, I found a rifle, then got killed by lag (It threw me off the top level of a ship to the bottom). Switched servers, got killed by zombies while I only had a baseball bat, switched servers, got killed by a dude in a fire-extinguisher-vs-baseball-bat duel, then found an M4, got no ammo for it, then got shot while looting a military building.
5/5
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Got some good gear with Flyboy_fx. He logged off in the hospital north of Balota and I continued on to the Balota airfield. Walked into a building, guy and I came face to face and shot each other up. He ended up killing me with an M4, but my FNX got some nice hits in and he will be enjoying greyscale for awhile.
Fortunately I left the can opener and med kit with flyboy
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I just got this game, while I do enjoy its simulation of being in a semi zombie apocalypse, my only problem is 1.
People are fucking assholes. Who shot people that just spam in for fun. I know its part of the simulation, since in real life scenario, us as human would do anything to survive and we can look just for ourselves, like shooting another player so he cant get more supplies than you.
However, the internet is filled with a shit ton of assholes who enjoy shooting more people than surviving and they have fun with you. Or people who cheat each other.
I ended up helping a guy with a broken leg who was surrounded by zombies. Even after defending him and giving him enough to live. He shot me in the fucking face.
Two days was all it took for me to rage hard at this game.
There should be a system that really punish asshole people, and I am not speaking about just the robber skin either. Hundreds of players are complaining as well.
I started to play with a friend, and I might need more assistance.
I am a very honest player. If I see a noob, I just tell him to keep his distance just in case, but I dont shoot for fun or waste bullets. It's a complete waste of my time. I always go on raids, but I would not rob from a player stash even if it was in front of me. Perhaps I am rare breed of player.
Even so, if you guys want to play with me and my friend, we can team up. I dont have much.
Just food, an M4, drinks, some clothes, bandages and a canteen with water. Should be enough to survive now.
Add me in Steam if you want, Yustax.
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Yustax. The problem right now is that the "end-game" happens way too quickly, there isn't many items to discover and things to do once you're all geared up, so bored players go down south and harass other players. Firearms are too easy to get right now too and they're all pretty powerfull (M4 and Mosin). Wait untill more stuff requires you to have some friends. For exemple, you can not give yourself blood or saline bags, you need someone, which pushes people to get assistance from other players.
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Its very hard, because they can do as they please. There is not a "punishing system" and there is not a balance in the game. And let me tell you that it was hard for me to find a weapon. I found the M4 in a very badly damaged condition, and the parts were scattered across several military bases so I could find the proper amount of parts to replace the very damaged ones and a new sight that was in okyish condition.
It took me hours of going South just to get a weapon. ANd I found a FNX45 but I gave it to my friend. Ammo is hard to come by.
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Thats the point of DayZ. It's all about the experiences you get from players interacting each other. Yes, pretty much every single time someone gets dicked over but sometimes there can be very interesting and fun moments. Or just tense situations in which both of you are screaming from the top of your lungs to put the fucking gun down and then you both end up just backing away...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcbG1bUCG9s
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24 Euro for standalone mod? Must be crazy to buy it...
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Got some good gear with Flyboy_fx. He logged off in the hospital north of Balota and I continued on to the Balota airfield. Walked into a building, guy and I came face to face and shot each other up. He ended up killing me with an M4, but my FNX got some nice hits in and he will be enjoying greyscale for awhile.
Fortunately I left the can opener and med kit with flyboy
I still have it. I linked up with a buddy and we now have two M4s with a good amount of ammo. We are outside of Cherno to the northwest a bit. :D
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Me and my Irish friend found a bible and now go around in the south preaching to new players. We then bring them to the beach and baptize them. Oh and after that we handcuff them and take their pants. For some reason our victims never log and this one guy even swore vengeance on us.
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Me and my Irish friend found a bible and now go around in the south preaching to new players. We then bring them to the beach and baptize them. Oh and after that we handcuff them and take their pants. For some reason our victims never log and this one guy even swore vengeance on us.
Some friends and I went around without pants and shirts. Only wearing backpacks, axes and PayDay masks. I was using a voice changer to have some kind of demon voice. We captured some people and did sacrifices, milking their blood first. Blood Demons checking in.
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Did some medical experiment Mengele would even frown upon.. We call it Blood Bag Roulette. You can predict this shit already, I'm sure. Get a freshspawn, take his blood and let him go. Find another freshspawn, inject the stolen blood. One died, one survived. Ah well.
Loving it so far. But once you get great gear you sort of run out of things to do. We just fuck around with other people on the coast and just try and do funny shit with them.
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What sort of evil is this game?
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What sort of evil is this game?
An unforgiving world where supplies lack. Everyone needs to survive, and anyone can betray you or deceive you. But when assholes roam the world (vast majority), they kill you for fun and is shoot to kill everywhere.
IF you dont play with friends, prepare to have a shitty time.