DayZ

[CCIP]

Surprised there isn't already a thread for this!

http://dayzmod.com/

For the few of you who haven't heard of it, this ArmA 2 zombie survival RPG mod which is currently exploding in popularity despite still being in alpha - 80% of all ArmA 2 online capacity is DayZ servers, and ArmA 2 has suddenly shot up the top sales list on Steam again. It's been getting a lot of attention in the gaming press last couple of days for its unique features, many calling it perhaps the most important game event this year: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/05/16/day-z-interview-how-zombies-arma-2-created-gamings-best-story-machine/

Unfortunately, the explosion of popularity has also meant that the central server, which stores player characters (that carry over to any server that you play on, assuming you survive long enough to exit the game) and maintains stats, is totally overloaded, and even getting into the game as an ordeal. But I did manage to get about 3 hours of play in today (after waiting an average of 10 minutes on the "waiting for server" loading screen) and it was pretty amazing.

Anyone else playing/thinking of playing this?

[SgtPotato]

I've played that mod for almost two weeks straight, killed by zombies and bandits many times. Right now I'm taking a time off. :haha:


If you're going to play this mod, let me give you an advice:




Don't trust anyone.

[Oberon]

It's been mentioned in the News thread, unfortunately the fact that my computers copy of ARMA2 and OA don't talk to each other the way that DayZ thinks that they should means that I can't play it :wah::wah::wah:

[0rpheus]

Just installed it. Should I be looking out for a specific server to find you?

[SgtPotato]

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/559814205125147740/F583FE784599D9464FC0C1B171224F058B33B2C5/
This is what for firing a shot in the middle of the city, while looting inside the market. :doh:

[Arclight]

Anyone else playing/thinking of playing this?
Been thinking about it, but the best strategy seems to be to gang up. Doubt I'll get much out of it shlepping about on my own. :hmmm:

[AngusJS]

Surprised there isn't already a thread for this!

http://dayzmod.com/

For the few of you who haven't heard of it, this ArmA 2 zombie survival RPG mod which is currently exploding in popularity despite still being in alpha - 80% of all ArmA 2 online capacity is DayZ servers, and ArmA 2 has suddenly shot up the top sales list on Steam again. It's been getting a lot of attention in the gaming press last couple of days for its unique features, many calling it perhaps the most important game event this year: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/05/16/day-z-interview-how-zombies-arma-2-created-gamings-best-story-machine/

Unfortunately, the explosion of popularity has also meant that the central server, which stores player characters (that carry over to any server that you play on, assuming you survive long enough to exit the game) and maintains stats, is totally overloaded, and even getting into the game as an ordeal. But I did manage to get about 3 hours of play in today (after waiting an average of 10 minutes on the "waiting for server" loading screen) and it was pretty amazing.

Anyone else playing/thinking of playing this?Just started today, and am having a blast. When I can get in, that is. And when I am not disconnected after 5 minutes.

I was wondering is a Subsim server might be possible. Or maybe a meet up on a public server?

[Mud]

Just played it for 1½ hour and I managed to get out of a zombie infested town.
I walked inland for some time and atm im a bit lost with water nearby but out of food and almost out of bullits.
Keeping my head low and try to get some food and bullits somewhere to survive my first day :cool:

[darius359au]

Never known a game mod where you can go woot for so little ,I've found a pair of Binoculars with my current character and I almost jumped out of my chair to do a little happy dance (dont have a better gun or anything like that though ,just the binoculars:DL) .
I think it's like minecraft ,A very simple concept done right:up:

[0rpheus]

Best way I've seen other forums get around the server issue is both agreeing to meet on a particular server, and adding tags to your name so people can recognise you. To do the latter, you need to go into Profiles in your Arma2 menu and edit the existing one or add a new profile (character will stay the same even with a new arma profile).

I'm currently running around as [EG] Orpheus. If anyone's on tonight, maybe we can coordinate servers!

[CCIP]

I play under the username "Otohiko". I've been playing US Hardcore servers when it's day there, switching to Russian servers by night.

My current character, by some miracle, has been alive for over 9 hours now. I've been saved twice in the past hour by this random Russian, and I think that made me more grateful to another player than I've ever been in a game before :O:

Now that I've learned how blood transfusions and other medicine works, that makes me realize that, in fact, you pretty much need to be with other players if you plan to survive nasty encounters. If you're solo, your only way to live is to be stealthy.

[Crécy]

I've spent a week (well, weekends) to get this game working. Problem is that I have a non-steam ARMA II and a steam Arrowhead. I've managed to combine them before but I don't remember how I did it. Now, when I thought I had resolved the combining problem with steam ARMA free, Arrowhead stopped working. I uninstalled it and installed it again couple of times but the same problem exists. Now I'm backing up my files so I can format my HDs and reinstall windows. All this for one game...

[0rpheus]

I've spent a week (well, weekends) to get this game working. Problem is that I have a non-steam ARMA II and a steam Arrowhead. I've managed to combine them before but I don't remember how I did it. Now, when I thought I had resolved the combining problem with steam ARMA free, Arrowhead stopped working. I uninstalled it and installed it again couple of times but the same problem exists. Now I'm backing up my files so I can format my HDs and reinstall windows. All this for one game...

I've got the same Crecy, the way I got it working was to install my retail Arma2 straight into the steam Arrowhead folder (so you end up with a 'bohemia interactive/arma 2 files' path at the top level of your OA directory). Then select 'run as Combined Ops' from the steam menu that appears when launching OA from the Library window - if you launch it from, say the rclick steam menu in your windows bar, you don't get the startup choices :up:

[Crécy]

I've got the same Crecy, the way I got it working was to install my retail Arma2 straight into the steam Arrowhead folder (so you end up with a 'bohemia interactive/arma 2 files' path at the top level of your OA directory). Then select 'run as Combined Ops' from the steam menu that appears when launching OA from the Library window - if you launch it from, say the rclick steam menu in your windows bar, you don't get the startup choices :up:

Thank you 0rpheus! I have to try that. :salute:

[Fincuan]

:haha: at the serverlist. Globally there's currently about 5 times the normal amount of Arma2 players online at this time of day.

Checking this one out as we speak.

[AngusJS]

Yesterday, I ran across a dead bandit in Chernogorsk with an AKM and 5 clips, a map, watch, compass and hunting knife, and a blood bag.

I took this stuff, and went up to the roof of the city hall. I waited there for a bit, then decided to come down (at around 8:30 pm).

Bad idea - I was immediately attacked by zeds. I raced back up the ladder - only to be followed by 25 of them. Fortunately, I could take them out with the AKM.

I waited until early morning, when I slowly crawled my way out of Chernogorsk, somehow avoiding detection from the wandering zombies. I was sick of being killed by bandits along the coast, so I finally crawled my way to the tree line, and headed inland.

The next day I found some matches, which allowed me to eat what I could hunt. However, I walked for miles without seeing a single animal (it had to be a bug). I eventually ended up in a barn not far from the northeast airbase.

There, I found a CZ 550. I wanted to see how the sight worked, so I dropped my AKM and all its ammo, took the empty CZ and went outside to try it out.

It was exactly at that point that the server restarted. :stare:

When I spawned back in, my AKM was gone, and the zeds I had killed approaching the barn, many of which had CZ ammo, disappeared. So I was left with just the .45 handgun.

I entered the airbase, hoping to beat the zeds to the punch (there were only 500 as compared to 3000 before the restart). But I was eventually overwhelmed, and killed. I must have lived about 15 hours.

I was 5th on the scoreboard. I had about 50 zeds to my name. And I could have kept going - with the AKM and .45 and ample ammo, I could handle any zed that came my way. And I all I needed was a stupid rabbit or wild pig to spawn, and I could live perfectly well in the interior.

But no, the server had to restart at the worst possible moment.

:wah:

[Drewcifer]

Anybody want to play some DayZ today?

[darius359au]

Yesterday, I ran across a dead bandit in Chernogorsk with an AKM and 5 clips, a map, watch, compass and hunting knife, and a blood bag.

I took this stuff, and went up to the roof of the city hall. I waited there for a bit, then decided to come down (at around 8:30 pm).

Bad idea - I was immediately attacked by zeds. I raced back up the ladder - only to be followed by 25 of them. Fortunately, I could take them out with the AKM.

I waited until early morning, when I slowly crawled my way out of Chernogorsk, somehow avoiding detection from the wandering zombies. I was sick of being killed by bandits along the coast, so I finally crawled my way to the tree line, and headed inland.

The next day I found some matches, which allowed me to eat what I could hunt. However, I walked for miles without seeing a single animal (it had to be a bug). I eventually ended up in a barn not far from the northeast airbase.

There, I found a CZ 550. I wanted to see how the sight worked, so I dropped my AKM and all its ammo, took the empty CZ and went outside to try it out.

It was exactly at that point that the server restarted. :stare:

When I spawned back in, my AKM was gone, and the zeds I had killed approaching the barn, many of which had CZ ammo, disappeared. So I was left with just the .45 handgun.

I entered the airbase, hoping to beat the zeds to the punch (there were only 500 as compared to 3000 before the restart). But I was eventually overwhelmed, and killed. I must have lived about 15 hours.

I was 5th on the scoreboard. I had about 50 zeds to my name. And I could have kept going - with the AKM and .45 and ample ammo, I could handle any zed that came my way. And I all I needed was a stupid rabbit or wild pig to spawn, and I could live perfectly well in the interior.

But no, the server had to restart at the worst possible moment.

:wah:


Yeah ,server restarts are bad but what's worse is the server not saving - the Australian games.on.net server stopped saving yesterday!! 6 hours play time ,Winchester 100+ rounds of slug ammo ,tent ,matches, knife ,food and everything else found went poof on the server restart and I was back where I started hiding in a bush with a lee enfield with 3 clips and bugger all food :wah:

[CCIP]

New alpha patch tomorrow. The big new change is the removal of bandit vs. survivor skin distinction or labels, and the ability to pick up different clothes. This might well create chaos, but well, survival's never been too nice...

Played for about an hour today. Finally got a friend up and running, met up with him... about 5 minutes later he was shot dead by another (non-bandit) player because he lingered too long looting a castle, right in front of my eyes. I decided it wasn't worth fighting over his body and ran off. Been alive for 3 days / 12 hours of play in the game now.

Reminds me that anywhere in the proximity of the coast is really a death zone. Bandits, opportunists and other scum hang out there, and while there's good loot in the cities, the risk isn't too worth it if you want to live (both from zombies and other players). If you are not a player-killer and know how to be stealthy, right now a shotgun and a little bit of caution is all you need to survive. It is not too difficult to escape from other players. I have enough supplies to last me a good 7 hours now, and if the new update doesn't wipe out my character, I'll be sticking to the woods far to the north as much as I can - I don't like dying, especially after working so hard to live, surviving by a bare thread at least twice, and seeing a friend get shot by a scumbag right in front of me :dead:

[AngusJS]

Yesterday, I lucked out in Cherno, finding among other things, matches and a knife. I crawled out of the city, and was almost to the tree line when I was sniped in one shot by some survivor $%$@!.

Today, I did really well again, finding everything but a knife. Then I tried to trade with 2 Russians. They decided to kill me instead. After the patch, I think it's going to shoot on sight for me. It seems like it already is for everyone else. :(

The thing is, it takes hours to get everything you need, and a bandit can make it all pointless in a second. And the only place to reliably find the things you need is in the cities - which are death traps.

And why are knives and matches so freaking rare anyway? There are crossbow bolts all over the place, but no matches? A zombie will carry an empty tin can, but he doesn't have a box of matches in his pocket?

[Oberon]

Well, it took me about four days but I got it working. The problem? My ARMAII wasn't up to date :doh: which was compounded when I tried to update ARMAII with the 1.05 ARMA I patch.

Yes, it was one of those nights last night.

Still, it works now...all I had to do was find a server...

Right...

Erm...

Had to use one in the US finally but the connection didn't seem too bad. It was night, which meant I had to crank up my gamma and brightness which gave the game an even more spooky look. The GUI is nice, the music is suitably on-edge, and the zombies seem to shuffle around convincingly.

Am I right in thinking that you only see text in chat from people who are near you? If so then I almost ran into a group, no idea if they were friendly and I didn't want to hang around to find out. They shot at something, don't know if it was me, didn't hear any bullet impacts, and one of them seemed to bleed and need bandages. Otherwise all was quiet.

Initial impressions? I think I'm going to play this mod a lot... :yep:

[Arclight]

It was night, which meant I had to crank up my gamma and brightness ..
Hax! :O:

Or is it pie..? No wait; cake.

[Oberon]

Hax! :O:

Or is it pie..? No wait; cake.

No, just lots of carrots :O::O:

Carrot cake perhaps... :hmmm:

[Drewcifer]

we def need to try and get a subsim survivor group up and running

[AngusJS]

Today, I decided to not to head to Cherno. Instead, I found a winchester in a barn, and made my way north. Eventually, I found a knife. All I needed were matches.

I took a break, and reconnected to a different server. It turned out it was experiencing the no zeds, no loot glitch. I decided to check out Novy Sobor anyway. In one of the buildings was a dead survivor. He had matches.

I was so excited that I immediately hid myself in the building, to check my newly found map and chart my route to the nearest forest, and safety.

I left the building in a sprint - only to be gunned down at the doorway by some #%$^&* survivor bandit wannabe, not 1 minute after I found the %$#%$ matches. You know, those things which should be ubiquitous but which are actually rarer than diamond in Minecraft.

I am getting close to quitting. There seems to be no point in trying to survive for the long haul. What you need for that - a knife and matches, are ridiculously hard to find. And there's the ever present danger of being murdered in an instant. All the caution in the world won't save you from a bandit, so why bother? And, as it's so easy for them to accumulate supplies by murdering people, it only gets easier and easier for them, while it gets harder and harder for us.

I'll probably be back on again later, but it really looks like you should just play for short lived fun - shooting zeds or bandits in Cherno, for instance, rather than try to achieve a goal. What's the point of spending hours looking for the simplest of things, of scouting out a building from a distance, deciding on a route of ingress, painstakingly avoiding the zombies, with no margin for error, only to be gunned down without warning? :nope:

[darius359au]

sometimes pure dumb luck drops out of the sky and hits you on the head ,I lost my 4 day old character a couple of days ago and it seemed like i couldn't keep any new ones alive for longer than an hour:cry: - I'm moving along the coast near Balota and I hear a Helicopter flying around ,sure enough a huey come flying along the coast ,I watch it go past and it's like "Hmmm" ,anyway a few minutes later there's an explosion at the Balota airstrip and a big plume of smoke ,looks like it's crashed!

I very cautiously start heading towards it ,(I wasn't going to loot it ,just wanted to see!),and there's a bunch of secondary's going off as I approach ,get by the control tower and there's no one around so I decide "Bugger it" and make a dash for the wreck ,get there and there's a dead bandit on the groung ,loot the bodie and it's the freakin motherlode!! - I score an m4a1-sd and 15 magazines for same,(there were 30 on the body!),m9-sd and half a dozen or so mags and the best bit is he had the big 24 slot cyote pack :D ,there was a bunch of other stuff on him but I decided i'd pushed my luck and took off for the woods,(got a horrible feeling i may have left a pair of NVG behind :cry:).

I normally stay away from the coast but this time dumb luck was on my side:D:D

[Crécy]

Was looting Berezino with two friends while we ran into another survivor. He didn't notice us so we stalked him for a while. Suddenly we hear a gunshot. That lonely survivor had fired his Enfield in the middle of the town. Soon he was swarmed by zombies. Here's some footage which my friend managed to record:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6hGCHYAlH-8

[darius359au]

I like the Enfield but you may as well give your mates your gear before firing so you can get it all back after the inevitable respawn....

[Oberon]

Seems to me that the toughest thing in DayZ isn't the zombies, bandits or supplies...

It's connecting to a friggin' server!!! :damn::damn::damn:

[Dowly]

Seems to me that the toughest thing in DayZ isn't the zombies, bandits or supplies...

It's connecting to a friggin' server!!! :damn::damn::damn:

Yup, have tried 6-7 times total and not once have I gotten to a server. :nope:

[SgtPotato]

Yup, have tried 6-7 times total and not once have I gotten to a server. :nope:

It's not the server itself, It's the server that connecting to another server where the character data stored. :nope:

[CCIP]

I committed my first murder today. I'm generally a good-natured player, but when you mix distrust of other players with available explosives, even I cave in to dastardly temptation.

I had an M203 grenade for my M4 for quite a while now (I've been alive for about 16 hours in my current life), and I was really curious to see it in action. While giving a friend of mine overwatch as he checked out a store in town, I saw a player who was clearly not him - and then it turned out to be 2 of them, raiding a building nearby. I watched them for a while, and when they got out of there, they looked really careless and bunched up together. I couldn't resist and before I knew it, my grenade was flying directly on their heads. The first guy was dead within a few seconds (not instantly - massive wounds, I assume), while the other guy eventually bumped into my friend as he stumbled back into the town. I suspect he was wounded pretty badly too, because my friend finished him off with ease.

I feel like a real jerk, a little bit, but I also can't say I wasn't amused. Especially having watched my friends die of stupid causes or sneaky snipers before, I can't deny that it was a huge feeling of power and mischeviousness when I launched that grenade and got them from long range. They probably never knew what hit them.

Fortunately for the DayZ playing community, I have no more grenades and plenty of guilty conscience afterwards :D

(And yeah, I totally am 100% a jerk for doing that :dead: Judging by their equipment, those players were at it for a few hours when I nailed them).

[TarJak]

Got connected to a server with two mates from II/JG53 (Recruiting now) (http://iijg53.com/), and managed to navigate our way to meet up without getting killed. We've found a couple of buildings with just about everything we need including matches, knife, bandages, bullets and a couple of meaty weapons. Now we've just got to stick together and try to stay alive for a bit.

Getting fun.

[CCIP]

Finally died today on my current life (20 hours, just shy of 300 zombies killed) - we went to the airfield with a group of friends, and everything was going well until the very end where a series of mistakes snowballed, and then got taken advantage of by other players. 2 out of 6 of us didn't make it out, and the raid turned out to be more or less a total waste. Technically I should've lived after this, because I was out of the airfield and out of ammo, where I should've just kept my head down for a bit, but I had to go back to save my friends who were still stuck in the perimeter. As I tried to guide them off the field, zombies and a pair of other players crashed our rescue effort and shot me. Before I died, I lobbed my last grenade at the players that got me - didn't kill them, but I think it wounded them and attracted a lot of zombies on their heads. According to my friends, they later found them dead. The remaining 3 of my group made it out of there successfully and patched each other up.

[andritsos]

After various respawns, prolonging my average life and being shot by 8 people out of 10, I think I have found myself in my most interesting attempt for survival so far.

At start i was able to enter only on a UK server, with 3rd person and the white dots, i had patch 1.7.4 and inside cherno it was simply a slaughterfest of newbies with these extra zeds. anyways i managed to crawl and slowly make my way to the outer hospital, seing already 5 people getting chased by zeds. the comms were full of people asking for help in the : ''my bones'', ''where r u'','' morphine pls'', ''I need blood''... I didnt care much, it was too much crowd into the city.. until i see someone on chat asking for desperate help on a village north-north-west of chernogorosk(Kozlovka). He needed morphine and blood , i thought a bit, entered the hospital and made my Alice pack ( from one of those chased and killed by zeds) full of blood, morphine, epi pen , etc, only 1 soda, 3 cans. I replied i d come and after 15 mins i reached him. the house being circled by dead and alive zeds. I managed to sneak , i found him. I entered inside, gave him the morphine and i also gave him blood, only to be told he had only 200/1200 and i capped him with the transfusion. he had some a revolver and when he attempted to go out 5-8 zeds came, we shot them fortunately ( i mainly axed them with little damage). THen i told him to follow me and we crawled, with alive zeds nearby into the forest. He was thankful etc and only thing i wanted to ask to him was a water bottle and he gave it to me. Then lost connection to the server.

When it was night i made an attemp in playing at evening/night in the german servers looking only for 3rd person, no other helps. Hopefully at pogorevka i was able to spot the church from distance, entered and went even more north west. I found the most valuable tool: the compass. I went to some military watch camps finding nothing :/ then went to the market pushtoska ( sighting a person on a bike being chased by zeds:smug: luckily he didnt see me and come towards me). now i went by the edge of the west map , making the tour of the military watch camps , finding only a military torch :shifty:
This morning i went more north, north of the airbase, went to a water pond to refill water and now i am between the mountain north of the base and the devil castle. Neither in the vanilla game i had the chance to see it, but i heard that many bandits are going there, but also at the base. ''Devil's Castle'' sounds intriguing to me + the chance to find possible some loot, from the place and from them:hmm2:

I am full of food for the next play hours, i also have sodas, 3-4 makarov mags , the hatchet, 2 torches ... for the first time after quite hours of game i am full on blood too:D
i was lonewolf apart from that attempt to save a person and now still a lone survivor .....what should i do .... seems i may go to both hotzones, or shall i continue my lone trip to the east to Gorka and then to Berezino?

[andritsos]

i am at the airbase, i heard two shots from a sniper. after 3 mins i see many zeds running somewhere, at least they clear me the road ...
and i see a person with a bike or motorcycle ...

[Herr-Berbunch]

Herr-B downloading as I type, late to the party, as usual. :wah:

And the wife's out tomorrow night, so I'll have time to get slaughtered.

[andritsos]

it was good day , in the end i died as i found a person with a sniper vest right in front of me. shoot me at close range only to die...

Edit: Respawned , with nerves for being killed. I find a revolver. While i turn a corner suddenly something pops infront of me and i shoot , to find out I left a survivor with the coyote backpack in shock and bleeding, with an Ak-47 on his back... i thought that because he was ended i should make it quick and i fired a 2nd shot to the head. now i am out electro with full supplies, and ak 47 with 4 mags, a sniper camo and matches, ready for the wilderness

[Herr-Berbunch]

Got it working, died once on first spawn, then on second killed five - luckily I found an axe at the airbase. But now, I'm bandaged up, dosed up on painkillers and have a broken leg (I think - can't walk). :wah:

It's quite addictive, my first encounter had my hairs on my arms raised, can't wait to find some firepower.

[0rpheus]

I'm going to be on this tonight with a few pals around 8pm, not sure what server but add century_rain on steam or post up if anyone wants to tag along. :up:

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

My friend recommended me this and I am enjoying it so far. On my first game, he offered me the opportunity to join his little group he had going. The group was fairly well armed and was stocked up on equipment. He and the team had managed to screw around with another group of survivors and had started a stupid clan war of sorts. Thankfully, no one died. Later, we decided the best choice of action was to head to a small village east of our current position. After asking him why we were heading there he replied "it's off the grid". We get there and the whole place is crawling with the undead. One of our "friends" tried to kill us. The tables were turned and I was ordered to salvage his gear. At last I had a weapon (AKM). Of course it was not long before it started getting really hairy. A horde of zombies began advancing over a hill in front of a house we had hauled up in. It was all very last standy. I felt somewhat safe as my job was to cover a second floor window. After a while of gunfire and death the zombies overan the house. I leapt out the window and left my friends to die. I felt very guilty but I kept telling myself that atleast a few would survive. Later I hauled myself in a building in the middle of nowhere as it got dark and it got really jumpy. I thought a bandit was screwing around so I jumped out and shot him. Turns out it was my friend who was heavily wounded. I had no medical supplies so I shot him. Now I am currently looking for the others.

[Herr-Berbunch]

I'll be up for it in a bit. :up:

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

Sadly, I am hiding in a building, cut off from the survivors. :o

[Highbury]

Excuse the stupid question.. but I never bought Arma II. So many games so little time. I see that Steam has Combined Ops for $29.99 right now. Is that all I would be required to purchase to run this mod? Thanks! :salute:

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

Yes. That is what I am using on Steam now.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Once again, heartfelt thanks - and apologies to Orpheus and his mate. :yeah:

They saved me after a many-mile chase, fed and watered me, led me to supplies and how did I repay them? By letting my finger slip off my scroll button on to the fire button whilst trying to pick up binoculars!

BANG = Z'athon :/\\!!

[0rpheus]

Once again, heartfelt thanks - and apologies to Orpheus and his mate. :yeah:

They saved me after a many-mile chase, fed and watered me, led me to supplies and how did I repay them? By letting my finger slip off my scroll button on to the fire button whilst trying to pick up binoculars!

BANG = Z'athon :/\\!!

Hehe no probs, that's half the fun of the game! Amazed I survived but thanks to Cos's herculean effort I crawled off into the hills half blind and barely breathing :har: Someone'll come help me in a day or two I expect :O:

[Highbury]

Yes. That is what I am using on Steam now.

Thanks! Purchased and downloading :up:

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

Good luck surviving!

[0rpheus]

My 'official' write up of our activities last night:

http://www.blog.playscifi.com/seven-dayz-day-six-2/

Use the search function for the other 5 days too if you enjoy that :up:

[Oberon]

Very nice mate, very very nice. I'll have to give this another bash. :yep:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Very nice mate, very very nice. I'll have to give this another bash. :yep:

Just not with me! :sunny:

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

Thought I might explain what I did last night. :)

Well, to start off, I hooked up with my friend once again. Safety in numbers right? Wrong. Straight away a huge group of undead charged at us before we could even blink. One guy started firing wildly after being surrounded and "accidentally" hit me. Twice :/\\!!. One in the lower back and one in the leg. Thankfully :D, the zombies shredded him and he had no hope. I on the other hand, did. I crawled inside a nearby building barely living and before long my friend came and helped me. In the surprisingly long time that I had been dying inside, it turned out that we had lost more than just the idiotic shooter. Then my mean streak kicked in. I pulled out a pistol and shot my friend, who had just helped me straight in the middle of the head. He fell to the ground with a thud and I grabbed all his things. Survival of the fittest? :). Of course, the others were not going to take that. They turned on me and I had to run for my life. Although in the process they had just screwed themselves. The noise of the guns shooting at me had attracted a lot of angry zombies and it wasn't long until the guns fell silent. I had assumed here that I was the lone survivor from the group. Then at a farmhouse, I reviewed my inventory and scavenged items from the building. Here I plotted my next move. I knew I had to get supplies so I set a course for the nearest built up area. Then will I was walking down the road, I discovered a few players being chased by a group of infected. I followed them for a while and discovered they were heading for the airfield. I ran down and helped them fight off the undead. Then, I turned around to see my new group but they shot me several times. I was on the floor and I couldn't see but I could sense it was the end. One shot and I was dead.

[Laffertytig]

with the arma maps bein so big and there only bein 50 players on a server isnt it almost impossible to find other players?

[Herr-Berbunch]

with the arma maps bein so big and there only bein 50 players on a server isnt it almost impossible to find other players?

Joining up with other players isn't ideal, it's reasonably ok with people you know, but with strangers - what's to stop them killing you to get your stuff. Nothing! They owe you no loyalty. :nope:

To play with others you definitely need access to a map (I have Chernarus printed on some 19 sheets of A4 and in a folder, but Orpheus and his mate had almost encyclopaedic knowledge of the area which helped us meet up), and remember your rough starting location - it's only shown for a second or two when you first spawn!

If you don't know the other players, I'd hide, and maybe follow them.

[Fincuan]

Finding others isn't a problem thanks to everyone spawning at the coast and the loot locations attracting players. Avoiding others is more of a problem. Sneaking into the center of a town only to find another player running in at full throttle and attracting all the zeds to your location is routine :wah:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Reinforcements arrived today so I'll get high-res textures and some more weaponry, that can only be a good thing, right? :D

Anyone on tonight?

[0rpheus]

To play with others you definitely need access to a map (I have Chernarus printed on some 19 sheets of A4 and in a folder, but Orpheus and his mate had almost encyclopaedic knowledge of the area which helped us meet up), and remember your rough starting location - it's only shown for a second or two when you first spawn!

Can't emphasise this enough:

remember your rough starting location - it's only shown for a second or two when you first spawn!

Blink and you'll miss it but it's very useful. Something else very useful is this:

http://dayzmap.info/

My ah, encyclopaedic knowledge is just a good sense of direction ;) I think some of my group are on tonight, not sure if I will be yet but msg on steam and I'll put you in touch with them. :)

[Dowly]

First hour in the land of the dead is behind and after spending most of that time
wondering "Where the fudge am I!?", I finally found a small village which thanks
to my amazing navigation skills (=reading the sign) turned out to be Pavlovo (http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/Gmap/beta/gmap.html?m=pin&c=Spot&t=Right%20here&mode=mark&z=4&x=-163.83154296875&y=61.47235572556688&friend=yes).

Found me a Makarov with 2 mags and more bandages than I will ever need.
Oh and a much needed can of pepsi, no food though... :hmmm:

It's starting to get dark where I play (Norway 4), so think this is a good time to
take a pause and have some IRL coffee and head back in when the night has
fallen.

And to set the mood when I play, I got both 28 Days and 28 Weeks OST's
playing in the BG quietly. :|\\

[Oberon]

And to set the mood when I play, I got both 28 Days and 28 Weeks OST's
playing in the BG quietly. :|\\

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7LjjmSYTdQ :yep:

[Dowly]

Ah good, was trying to remember the name of that one. :up:


Still alive! Starting to be in a pretty good shape, plenty of food and drinks, clock,
compass and Makarov & Winchester. So far my biggest foe has been the inventory
that keeps eating my stuff. :hmph:

[Takeda Shingen]

Never playing ArmA before, and I am a lousy FPS player, but I am downloading now. Will be in game within the hour. Hope to see some of you.

[Dowly]

Just logged back to one of the Norwegian servers to fulfill my masterplan:
Sneak to the main airfield under the cover of the night.

Buuut, I ran into a small problem.. it was.. uh.. well, it was dark. Like, REALLY dark. :haha:

And I must say, only one game has made me feel a wee bit scared before and
that was Vietcong, the mission after the long tunnel crap where you have
to sneak back to your lines during the night. DayZ gave me that same feel
times 10.

So, I logged in like I said and decided to try and get to the forest 300-400
meters to the north (I had logged out in the middle of a field). I start making
my way in the matte black night, only brighter bit being the cloudy sky.
With a compass in my hand, I feel my way towards the forest, barely visible
against the horizon. Suddenly, I hear gurgling and immediately stop moving
and go prone. Now that I was completely still and my own footsteps weren't
covering any other noises around me, I realised I was far from being alone.
I scanned around, 1.. 2.. 3 slowly walking shadows against the horizon to
my right and front. Great... ESC->Abort :haha:

[Dowly]

Planets must've been aligned just right yesterday as not one server has worked
today. :nope:

[Dowly]

Oh noes! My first murder happened today... it felt terrible...


Just kidding! It was hilarious! :haha:

So, on Norway 1, I was checking out some of the coastal towns when a server
wide lag spike struck, broken red chain and desync at max.
I continued checking the buildings and saw another survivor by the road, not
moving due to the lag on my end.

I ran to him, opened his backpack and looted 5 bloodbags from him...
Then I whacked him in the head with an axe three times and ran away.
Of course, due to lag I wasn't sure if I even got the bloodbags or if I killed
him, but sure enough when the lag spike went away the debug screen showed
the murder and the 5 BBs were in my inventory. :rotfl2:

[0rpheus]

Planets must've been aligned just right yesterday as not one server has worked
today. :nope:

A big wave of perma-bans over the weekend has provoked a fairly hefty DDoS attack I think. AFAIK should be fine now though. :salute:

[Dowly]

A big wave of perma-bans over the weekend has provoked a fairly hefty DDoS attack I think. AFAIK should be fine now though. :salute:

Yeah, the servers actually let me in now. But seems to be laggy still, Norway 4
with 40+ was smooth last night, now Norway 1 with 12-14 was throwing red
chain every few minutes.

[CCIP]

According to their twitter, they've been under DDoS attack for much of the day and the main server had been down for several hours.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Just checked twitter and the latest is from 50 mins ago say full service resumed. :yeah:

Cheating hacker scum, why don't they just stick to governments and media corps. :hmph:

[Dowly]

You got any specific server you play on HBB?

[Herr-Berbunch]

Anyone I can - I haven't been able to join for a couple of dayz (see what I did there!), it's night now so I'm currently looking for a GMT -a lot server. Well it's hard enough in daylight not to be z-feed! :-?

[Dowly]

Norway 5 was still day 30mins ago, tho they restarted the server so don't know
if they adjusted the time while doing that.

Norway 4 was day too just now as I logged off. (after finding a fancy pansy M16-M203+3mags :sunny:)

[CCIP]

Geez, you guys all start playing right as I'm about to go on vacation :doh:

See you in a couple of weeks with this, can't wait to see what changes happen to the mod between now and then!

[Herr-Berbunch]

I've been unable to join a server all night, keeps coming up with some excuse about something being deleted.carcharters.pmc (or .pbo) and similar. When it didn't I got an immediate kick.

I think maybe an uninstall/reinstall of everything is in order. :/\\!!

Enjoy your hols, CCIP, hopefully it'll be much better when you return.

[Dowly]

Oh wow, I've been a lucky bastard today. Played for maybe 45 minutes just
now and found:



2xLee Enfield + 2x2 clips
Double-Barreled shotty
2xAKM + 2x2 mags

The LE's and the shotty were all inside the same barn and both of the AKM's
were in the same deer stand. :huh:

Too bad I only still have the default backpack, so ended up just switching the
M16 for an AKM + 4 mags. :hmmm:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Jammy bugger! Both for your connectivity and your weapon finding skills!

[0rpheus]

My lot have just put together a small, invite only steam group for us to keep in touch and find games easier. I'll invite you HB as I have you on steam, feel free to invite any of the subsim regulars if you have them on your list. Anyone else add me to join it - century_rain :salute:

[Dowly]

Think I'll settle in on Norway 4 for the time being. Have played for nearly 2hrs
there today and only saw the red chain once for a brief minute or two. :yep:

Raided a market and found bunch of goodies, namely Czech BP, matches
and binocs. And some darn food! Amazing how clean the place was picked
with the peculiar exception being the fully stocked market.

Found tent too.. think I'll set up a camp somewhere in the wilderness. :hmmm:

[Fincuan]

I got my first proper play-session yesterday, and now I'm starting to see why this is so popular. Instead of going for the nearest settlement I just went around them and headed inland. It was pitch black dark, and not surprisingly I got lost pretty soon. After some stumbling around in the dark I noticed the clouds move away revealing a beautiful night sky, and instantly I remembered the greatest mission ever in OFP, the one where you have to find your way back to friendly lines without any navigational tools. The Northern star was easy to find even after some years, and with its guidance the way inland. A powerline finally provided me enough landmarks so that I could locate myself on the map that I luckily found on a Galaxy Tab in my pocket :D A few deerstands later I now have an M16 with four mags and some other stuff, so the project for the next day is to find a canteen and something to make a fire with. A few close calls that night but no real action. It is pretty hair rising to hear the zombie "urrrrrr" in a dark forest in the middle of nowhere, especially because I assumed Zeds don't roam in the wilds. I still managed to meet a few quite far from anything.

[Herr-Berbunch]

feel free to invite any of the subsim regulars if you have them on your list. Anyone else add me to join it - century_rain :salute:

Will do :up:

[Herr-Berbunch]

OK, tonight was good. Met up (finally) with Orpheus' mates just east of Staroye making up a gang of six. Bagged five z along the way, and we've all just stopped and quit south of Dolina.

Had a nightmare time getting on the servers though - even with latest beta it wouldn't work - always one excuse or another. Then I downloaded sixupdater - I didn't even have to point it at any .exe or mod even though it was installed on my C: and everything else is on G: Worked first time. :yeah:

[0rpheus]

OK, tonight was good. Met up (finally) with Orpheus' mates just east of Staroye making up a gang of six. Bagged five z along the way, and we've all just stopped and quit south of Dolina.

Had a nightmare time getting on the servers though - even with latest beta it wouldn't work - always one excuse or another. Then I downloaded sixupdater - I didn't even have to point it at any .exe or mod even though it was installed on my C: and everything else is on G: Worked first time. :yeah:


Cool, glad it was good! Sorry I didn't get on, ended up busier than expected, but I'll try to get a game soon! :salute:

[Dowly]

Had a nightmare time getting on the servers though - even with latest beta it wouldn't work - always one excuse or another. Then I downloaded sixupdater - I didn't even have to point it at any .exe or mod even though it was installed on my C: and everything else is on G: Worked first time. :yeah:

Oh yes, the six-updater has come a long way since I last used it. MUCH easier to use now. :yep:

[Herr-Berbunch]

We had a couple of group photos last night near the deer-stand east of Staroye, here are a couple by Cosquae, edited by moi.

I'm on the right, Kat (or Cat?) to my left, then one of the two in the ghillie suits is Russ, and I can't remember the other two. Cos is obviously holding the camera! :D

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/4223/grpdayz.jpg

I felt a bit sorry for Russ as I'd met up with him first after spawning and he was short of blood but I had nothing to give, eventually he got got eatedz by about half a dozen Zeds whilst I lay prone about 10 metres away. After they'd finished with him they left and it was my turn, to take his weapons and food (much needed beanz), thanks Russ! :up:

If anyone knows the other guys, I'd be happy to add their names.

[0rpheus]

Nice pics! One of those guys is Scuz but I'm not sure which one, the other might be Neut? I'm not sure who was in your group by the end, ended up on a business phone call til later than I expected.

Going to be on tonight tho as I feel like I'm missing out! Subsimmers welcome, my steam details are a few posts up if anyone wants in the group. :up:

[Falkirion]

Dont think this has been posted. But a player in Day Z was taken hostage in game. You can read the tweets about it here.
http://storify.com/LukePlunkett/a-dayz-kidnapping

[Herr-Berbunch]

All you'd have to do is quit that server!

[0rpheus]

Will be grouping up with the chaps tonight around 8ish, all welcome! :up:

[Oberon]

Done a short stint which culminated into heading into the outskirts of Elektro, popped into the powerplant and got some bandages, zombies and blood loss for my troubles. Thank god for my Winchester...

[Herr-Berbunch]

So I spawned in 'wilderness' which actually turned out to be just west of Elektro, travelled west until the track and the road cross, here I confirmed my location. So now I definitely know where I am I head northwest-ish to find the powerlines, with the intention of following them to the powerplant. Nearing the powerplant I decided to go to the barn so I could hopefully pick up a hatchet which appears to be about the only decent weapon I can ever find.

All good, no zeds at the barn, two hatchets and some miscellany. I'm just about to leave the barn when I hear something outside - was it a zed? :hmmm:

All of a sudden the view from the barn door turns into a view over water, then back to normal. Then it did it again and I heard somebody get shot, not me!

Then again over the water, but this time with a dead guy on the floor - well, hovering above the water - and his killer right behind him, but in front of me, stood up.

Then back to the barn, I hear the shot, and just as I die I head over to the water again. Fade to black. You are dead!

:/\\!!

Good job it's only at Alpha stage. And free. I wouldn't have wanted to pay for that to happen.

That wasn't my only glitch. Previously I'd spawned near Kamenka and headed east to Balota, got me some loot on the way, killed some zeds - as you do. Nearing Balota I alt-tabbed out to check the map, when I returned a minute later I was lying in a corner near Komarovo - exactly the same position I was in about 15 mins earlier. On the way back to Balota again I came across the same corpse in the tide as earlier too.

Maybe I should not alt-tab out?

[kiwi_2005]

DayZ was created by kiwi guy Dean Hall, who use to play WoW. :D Who said WoW is not good for you.... i did

[Herr-Berbunch]

dayzmod.com site down, at least for me. Anybody else? :hmmm:

[Dowly]

Yup, it's down.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Day Z Development ***8207;@dayzdevteam (https://twitter.com/dayzdevteam) Extended unplanned web outage. Expect it to continue for maximum the next 5 hours. Sorry about this. Hotfix for mod released once website up


:cry:

[Dowly]

Doesn't affect the actual game servers, tho. :yep:

[Herr-Berbunch]

I'm at work so that's irrelevant to me, should be on maybe 7.30 UK time tonight. :yeah:

[Dowly]

Myeah, was basicly drunk from Thursday afternoon till early Sunday morning,
so need to fix my hangover before getting back to DayZ. :dead:

Others go to their summer houses to relax, I come home to sober up and rest for the next weekend.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Not surprised. :cool:

No wonder there are so many empty whiskey bottles in DayZ. :03:

[Oberon]

:haha: There are, aren't there?

Moved up from Elektro to Topolka Dam, found nothing of interest there except a couple of shufflers, so moved on to the north-west, found some zeds who were dispatched but not before I got the shakeys, which is annoying, patched myself up and then headed north-west, found a hatchet in a barn and managed to evade the zeds nearby to escape back into the forest for some beans and water.

[Herr-Berbunch]

You'd think it'd be vodka!

http://www.dayzdb.com/map#4.090.121 - invaluable! - says that at the dam there is only one low-yeald farm and one low yeald residential property.

Hatchets are good, kill quietly - don't attract more zed.

Edit - dayzmod.com is back up. :yeah:

[Dowly]

http://www.dayzdb.com/map#4.090.121 - invaluable! - says that at the dam there is only one low-yeald farm and one low yeald residential property.



Bah, takes away all the exploration. :hmph:

[Fincuan]

Has anyone else noticed a considerable dumbening down of zeds in the latest version? The poor fellas are practically blind now! At night theyre useless as usual, but even during the day they barely see a few feet ahead of themselves. Firing a gun didnt get you overwhelmed either, as only a few more zeds cared to come and take a look. Combine that with loads of food, coke and water bottles everywhere and its now very easy to get started.

Oh, finally found a composite bow. One kickass weapon :yeah:

[RC0007]

I have the worst of luck in finding weapons in this game, seem to get everything except one :/\\!!

[Commissar1032]

Finding weapons isn't that bad. Berenzio is a good place for some and the NE Air-Strip has some nice stuff as well.

[Fincuan]

Deerstands and farmhouses are good choices too if you don't fancy entering the big cities. The blocks of apartments there are usually good sources for pistols and ammo for long weapons, but rarely weapons themselves.

[Commissar1032]

Besides that you named I would have to say I trust deer stands alot more. Sure there will be 2-4 zombies at a deer stand but I always feel that they are safer and more reliable than the block apartments.

[Herr-Berbunch]

About a week ago the zeds were seemingly blind, although it was dusk when I played, but I've just been on a server - I spawned just west of Kamenka and as I was sneaking along the tree line to the town I saw a similar figure running along the coast. Friend or Foe? No quarter given or taken - the server messages had included 'if you're unknown and approach us we will shoot'. As we both approached the buildings I was spotted from some distance by a zed, my usual tack is to run into the sea and swim when I'm on the coast so that is what I did. But first I ran to this other survivor and ran in a circle around him. It worked a treat and the zeds all swarmed him, two minutes later a killed message appeared and he was no more. :yeah:

I continued, but now right by the shore I moved even more slowly and approached the first large building, or group of. All of a sudden zeds, farsands of 'em, all ran to some point north of me. When I say run, more like teleported - the running animation was much slower than the distance they travelled!!!

The immediately to my right (east) a couple of zed are running into the water and there is a survivor swimming away, totally unrelated to the action to the north.

I haven't seen this many zed, nor so fast, ever!

Finally it was my turn, cut off from the sea I headed north to a deer stand, nothing could shake the zed off me and I was even caught a couple of times by a super-speedy bugger. All I could do was climb the stand and hope there was something decent up there, and the zed would take a while to get up the ladder - but no, fate was against me, karma after causing the other guy's death, a empty bottle of whiskey and two zed immediately up the ladder - side by side!!! :/\\!!

[CaptainMattJ.]

I dread the day DayZ will become pay-for. unless its at a low price, subscription or 40$ are both equally dissatisfying and rather annoying, because beta will be totally shut down, AFAIK, because the DayZ heads control all the servers, so all theyll have to do is shut down the servers and bam, no more DayZ

[Fincuan]

DayZ going standalone:
http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/post/28904791570/the-end-of-the-beginning

[Dowly]

Yahtzee:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6276-DayZ

[Herr-Berbunch]

Wow, that was positive for him. :D

I do like it when he reviews a game I've got, or want, and his review pretty much reflected my experiences bar the minecraft obsession.

[TheDude107]

DayZ going standalone:
http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/post/28904791570/the-end-of-the-beginning

Joined to download for SH3 but it seems like you guys have a nice forum outside the sub section. :yeah:

I like that DayZ its going standalone. I can't see the mods creators charging extra while using the ARMA player base like someone said above. Even if they abused server control like that Bohemia would flip out on them. But thankfully that drama won't happen because it is going standalone.

I doubt it will cost more then the current world war two game based of a mod made for ARMA 2, 29.99 at launch. Thats pretty fair considering they will be using the same game engine as ARMA 2, plus it will get tailored for zombies. Then theres my personal opinions about it being hard to find a normal coop game because ARMA has basicly become a lobby for DayZ mod.

So at the end of the beginning, or whenever DayZ goes standalone.... It probably won't cost much. It will split the playerbase in a good way. Anyone who wants to play military can go ARMA, and anyone who wants to play Dayz can go there and play tons of crazy game modes that will be made once it is standalone. To top it all off I bet Bohemia is helping the modders by tweaking the scripting system.

When Operation Arrowhead came out they added alot of new commands for the game engine so it adapted to the Middle East gameplay. Can't wait until they tweak a combat sim engine for Dayz mod specificly. All they have to do is add a few commands and it changes DayZ alot. For example, if they made a "virus" function, then instead of typing a page of scriptto create a gamemode that starts with one zombie vs all other players.... it would just require two or three words to allow spreading of the infection and team changes.

Sorry for wall of text. Zombies and simulators get me excited.

[NeonSamurai]

Surprised Yahtzee actually reviewed it, given is usual distaste for multiplayer games. Personally I haven't tried this game yet, since i prefer coop/pve to PvP, though it is a cool concept.

[Herr-Berbunch]

You can play co-op, you just need to find someone you can really trust. :arrgh!:

[Dowly]

Pants Vs Zombies: 20 Minutes Of DayZ Standalone (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/12/pants-vs-zombies-20-minutes-of-dayz-standalone/)

:yeah:

[Mud]

Playing a Mod in a Mod atm, DaiZy.
In short, DayZ in offline mode http://kodabar.blogspot.nl/2012/05/dayz-offline-single-player-practice.html

[reignofdeath]

Hey guys, just a question if anyone uses Day Z through downloading it with steam? I downloaded it and cant connect to any servers? anyone have that problem?

[danlisa]

Hey guys, just a question if anyone uses Day Z through downloading it with steam? I downloaded it and cant connect to any servers? anyone have that problem?

Steams version of DayZ is outdated.:shifty:

When you open the MP Server list, your version is shown bottom right, while active servers show the required version in the listings.

Never understood why DayZ was added to Steam Mods when it's never up to date.

[reignofdeath]

Well does anyone have a good DayZ commander installer you could put up for download? Apparently, the one I DL'd off their page is missing files or something because it won't install, and Im having a heck of a time just finding the correct patcher files for DAY Z itself.

[Mud]

Well does anyone have a good DayZ commander installer you could put up for download? Apparently, the one I DL'd off their page is missing files or something because it won't install, and Im having a heck of a time just finding the correct patcher files for DAY Z itself.

Same here .....


edit:nvm seems to work now

[MR. Wood]

I just uploaded Day-Z commander here so other's can play it easier location bonus mods

[AVGWarhawk]

Has anyone kept up with this game development?

[Herr-Berbunch]

No, but there's the original mod, or payware now (included in the latest Humble Bundle - $6 for a handful of games is better than $20 for one).

Keep meaning to get back into it. :yep:

[NeonSamurai]

The payware one was not in the humble bundle, that was the mod version.