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DayZ - zombie apocalypse online FFA permadeath survival Arma II mod

I don't think it's possible to keep people from changing their gamma. Even if you somehow restricted it in-game, people can still change it in windows or on their monitor itself.

Also, I wasn't supporting nights; I was just responding to people saying that it's unrealistic. I don't really like it at night unless there's actually a moon out, which seems very rare now. But I just switch servers.

I do think the day/night cycle should be changed though. If you get on a night server now, you'll be playing at night the whole time you're playing. It'd be better if they each lasted a few hours so you could play both in day and night on the same server. I probably wouldn't change servers if I knew it would become day again. And considering how fast you need more food/water it would make more sense if time was going faster in the game.

Edit: Holy shit underwater missions?
 
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Berezino in the daylight. Several plague bearers storm the grocery as I prepare to move out. Felled as they enter the store. Out I journey, enough food to last. The hospital across the street must have been an evacuation point. Medical supplies litter its roof. Transfusion kits, that I may save others. And they, me. No antibiotics to be found in this world left ravaged by disease. Back to concrete and earth I go. Always creeping to avoid the dead. It is the dead of night before I am out of the city. No moon. Stars, but their light provides nothing. Blackness. The light of this compass my only comfort. I wander, more confidently. Staying in fields, barely tolerable. But not with the all consuming darkness that the forests offer. My feet find a road. Against the sky I see the tops of houses. Surrounded before I realize that Krasnostav have enveloped me. I crawl in hopes of finding grass. A way out. I hear the dead, but see them my eyes cannot. Finally the tops of trees appear. My accidental trip is left behind.

Morning shows itself.

I creep towards the field. Knowing that hardened survivors shoot first, having seen their friends die on beaches and in buildings in the south. My binoculars reveal no one. I prepare to crawl this fence, rifle in hand. Then a man runs in front of me. Oblivious. Through the open field towards the tarmac below. My rifle, raised. But I call out.

Its Nix. He dances.

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I ended up teaming with this bespectacled ginger armed with scoped rifle, and hunkered down for the day. Having survived.

....Gosh, you wouldn't believe the dream I had.

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Last Night's Adventures - Adventuring - Rainy Night, Deaths Galore - Blood feuds - Stalkers - A Calm Night - No calm here - Misteps - The Lives of Miscellaneous People - Deja Vu - Hopes, Dreams - Gatherings and their events - Plans - The Wait is Dangerous
 
TheNiX said:
You're not playing on our server, that's what is happening.
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When I jumped on our server last night I spawned as a bandit in a desert looking area. I had no idea which way to run and decide to kill myself and respawn only to be put back in the same desert looking area. Has anyone else encountered this? Hopefully when I get home and jump on it'll be different.
 
Krappadizzle said:
When I jumped on our server last night I spawned as a bandit in a desert looking area. I had no idea which way to run and decide to kill myself and respawn only to be put back in the same desert looking area. Has anyone else encountered this? Hopefully when I get home and jump on it'll be different.
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That's the new "Debug forest".
 
Gaf server gives me huge lag spikes for some reason. Also got a new msg. Trying to reauthenticate. Shows me with a different nick when i am speaking.

First try wasnt so good. Everyone was killing everyone in the coast. Trying to relog.
 
Vlodril said:
Gaf server gives me huge lag spikes for some reason. Also got a new msg. Trying to reauthenticate. Shows me with a different nick when i am speaking.

First try wasnt so good. Everyone was killing everyone in the coast. Trying to relog.
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Same.
 
I love Day Z, but it gets worse with every single new player. This used to be a survival game, now it's just a slow paced deathmatch. There is no real punishment for playerkillers and once you get some decent equipment, either some survivor with a makarov shoots you in the back or the game lets you spawn in debug-forest without an inventory. I've put roughly a 100 hours into this mod and I know I have only seen a tiny bit of its potential so far, but I feel like I'm kind of done with it for now.

The good thing though is that Day Z has re-introduced me to Arma 2. That'll keep me busy until Day Z goes into beta.
 
KaiserBecks said:
I love Day Z, but it gets worse with every single new player. This used to be a survival game, now it's just a slow paced deathmatch. There is no real punishment for playerkillers and once you get some decent equipment, either some survivor with a makarov shoots you in the back
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Sadly this is true, but I think when we all initially started playing everything was fresh and new so people were more cautious about just random murdering. As people became more adjusted to the mechanics THEN Pk'ing became more rampant. I'm okay with it but I think it'll eventually slow down and go back to how it used to. I think Zombies appeal to such a wide demographic of people that there will probably be an influx of new players for quite a while though. I know I've come to trust a small group of guys that play regularly and pretty much no one else as I've been shot in the back by people I've let live on many occasions. No longer will I let people I don't know live, it's bitten me in the ass to many times. Shoot first, loot later.
 
Spawning you back on the coast is such complete and utter bullshit.

Thanks rocket spawned on water now my character has nothing not even a side arm.

Water ate it all.
 
gibon3z said:
Spawning you back on the coast is such complete and utter bullshit.

Thanks rocket spawned on water now my character has nothing not even a side arm.

Water ate it all.
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At least your hand is cleaner now. Maybe Jenny from the block'll be sunny bathing on the beach when you swim back to shore.

OT: that does suck though. It's become quite common the last week or so. Don't think there is much we can do to whack around it, when this happens it jerks with my emotions too. It'll get fixed though. In your own words," believe"
 
Krappadizzle said:
At least your hand is cleaner now. Maybe Jenny from the block'll be sunny bathing on the beach when you swim back to shore.

OT: that does suck though. It's become quite common the last week or so. Don't think there is much we can do to whack around it, when this happens it jerks with my emotions too. It'll get fixed though. In your own words," believe"
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Only thing on me is my coyote elite pack lol.
 
If anyone is planning on playing on the gaf server and spawns near elektro give me a shout. Spawned on the coast for whatever reason :/

Edit: Scratch that i cant even get in the gaf server.
 
You know why moonless nights are so fucking great? NOBODY has an advantage over anybody else and you will actually need to use your light sources for once. Even adjusting your brightness, gamma, and HDR leaves you in a pitch black setting. I freaking love that. That means I can actually throw flares and use a flashlight without feeling like a damned lunatic who is just asking to be killed. Nights with a moon just leave people at a disadvantage. Might as well just keep it day time at that point.
 
So what do you need to do to pick up a jerry can? I found an operational helicopter and a jerry can at a gas station but couldn't pick it up after dropping my primary.

Then the server died :(
 
regarding nights.

I just found out that I must set gamma to 1.6 during moonless nights (with some clouds) for the darkness to be realistic. At 1.0 I see absolutely nothing. At 1.6 i can see the difference between the trees, objects and the skyline while looking in front of me I see the black darkness.

I think the settings in the game are somewhat wrong or it depends on the monitor but the darkness IS unrealistic with gamma at 1.0 compared to at 1.6
 
MasLegio said:
regarding nights.

I just found out that I must set gamma to 1.6 during moonless nights (with some clouds) for the darkness to be realistic. At 1.0 I see absolutely nothing. At 1.6 i can see the difference between the trees, objects and the skyline while looking in front of me I see the black darkness.

I think the settings in the game are somewhat wrong or it depends on the monitor but the darkness IS unrealistic with gamma at 1.0 compared to at 1.6
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Nah bro playing a black screen without a certain in game item is the way it's meant to be. Makes it fun.
 
Flares are such a rare item in the game... if only everybody started with ten and there were at least 2 stacks (with each stack containing ten more) in every building... if only...
 
Irish said:
Flares are such a rare item in the game... if only everybody started with ten and there were at least 2 stacks (with each stack containing ten more) in every building... if only...
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I assume you're being sarcastic, but I seemed to find more chemlights in buildings rather than flares.
 
Nights are awful. However, I simply do not play any server which is night. As soon as night hits, I switch servers. If I join a night server, I quit and rejoin a different one. If night isn't going to be brightened then fuck it.
 
gibon3z said:
Spawning you back on the coast is such complete and utter bullshit.

Thanks rocket spawned on water now my character has nothing not even a side arm.

Water ate it all.
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This happened to me, I had logged off near the NW airfield. When I logged back on I was in the sea, my AKM was invisible in my hands and my guy was completely invisible in 3rd person. I logged out and in a few times and spawned in the middle of the woods with only my compass, matches, knife, map and backpack. I died soon after
 
DeathCubeK said:
This happened to me, I had logged off near the NW airfield. When I logged back on I was in the sea, my AKM was invisible in my hands and my guy was completely invisible in 3rd person. I logged out and in a few times and spawned in the middle of the woods with only my compass, matches, knife, map and backpack. I died soon after
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Just happened to me; well, I spawned under the floor of a house somewhere and subsequently died. Tried vaulting thinking that would level me out and then I ran around for a second and just died. Bullshit and annoying.
 
MickeyKnox said:
Wow, just installed the beta patch and there is a nice frame rate gain.

Highly recommended, easy steam instal instructions below (no messing with shortcut target lines or registry keys.)

  1. Install beta patch.
  2. There is _runA2CO_beta.cmd file in your OA folder.
  3. Make a copy of it in the same folder and name it something like _runA2CO_beta DayZ.cmd
  4. Right Click and Edit this file with notepad.
  5. Find the paragraph starting with the ":run" (almost at the end of file)
  6. Add -mod=@dayz right before the last numbers (%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9)
  7. Save and exit
  8. Create a shortcut to this cmd file on your desktop and you ready to go
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This seems like really good instructions. But, uhhmmmm where do I go to D/l the Beta Patch?

To show I want nothing for free I present http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WOKca7cyz4&feature=youtube_gdata as payment.

At 55 seconds it get Haalarious.
 
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