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DayZ - zombie apocalypse online FFA permadeath survival Arma II mod

Krappadizzle said:
The saddest moment of my DayZ life. I was the only one whom was trying to have somewhat of a clear conscience. Broken and Wedge are usually my back up in this department(as in they won't let there team die, but they won't go out of their way to murder). But WedgeX has abandoned me lately and it seems Broken i.e. Irish is slowly turning to the dark side. Aj2Good has always been an opportunist so his actions are expected.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuSqM5it_Rg
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I feel like I heard this conversation. Well, with that blue guy. Nix and I were far off in the woods. A sad, telling day.
 
Here's the story from that video from Beastie's point of view:

So, after spawning on the coast for no reason with a dangerously low, blinking red thirst bar and no liquid to satisfy it, I headed into town. I was no noob, but I was about to die anyways, and this was a 5 day character. It didn't take long to realize I was in Elektro. I soldiered on through the night, heading for a shockingly bright road flair. Maybe someone could help me. The flair appeared to be just outside Elektro's hospital. I scouted the place out for a while and headed in, but not before a slobbering corpse took notice of me. It sprinted towards me from across the black, grimy street. Without thinking, I pulled the trigger. Bad idea. In that moment, I heard a gunshot which could not have come from my Makarov. Who just shot? That was when I realized what I was holding in my cold, shaking hands; an Enfield. I bolted for the hospital, but I couldn't stop every zed in Elektro from coming in right after me. The next 10 minutes were a blur. Shot after shot after shot. My kill count went up from 10, to 20, to 30.... and finally to 78. My Makarov and Enfield were both out, And there were still many zombies itching to get ahold of my flesh. That was when I noticed, in my chatbar, a gang of survivors were in the church, ready to help me. I was eager to believe them. My legs carried me as fast as I could to the church, and as I burst through the doors, the gang of about 5 opened up on the freaks behind me until we were all okay. I started to thank them, but nobody said anything. I realized what was coming, and accepted my fate. Almost crying, I knelt down slowly in the middle of the holy place. The back of my skull exploded and I collapsed, dead.
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Yeah, I use fraps for my screens.
 
Irish said:
Here's the story from that video from Beastie's point of view:
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Meh, just fell through a rock and died instantly, nearly a 4 day old survival character - was 10000+ blood, had 2 full water bottles, some wood, three steaks and a couple of can of beans, bandages and painkillers, a CZ and rotten old Mak. Have had no ammo for about a day so have been scrounging around, must have been through maybe 4-5 towns up in the highlands, crawling from building to barn and back again. I usually find quite a few stocked up deer stands up there too. I was hoping to find some matches so I could cook up a meal overnight but no go.

I love this game, but the zombies can be removed as they are useless window dressing. Make it into a PVP survival game outright with the emphasis on hunting, looting, cooking, healing, robbery, murder and what not. Replace the zeds with an airborne virus and have area of effect zones so the virus is stronger in some towns/cities therefore making it a riskier proposition getting to loot. Have the temp gauge be an infection gauge/meter and the virus degenerate the players vision and movement and eventually lead to player death if painkillers/antibiotics are not consumed in time. The zombie AI is woeful and they are more of an annoyance than something to be feared - going prone sort of eliminates the threat from them anyway. Spawning players in free fall skydive and/or parachute could be interesting and is totally achievable as that functionality is already built in to ARMA and there are missions that do this already. The player can then control where they land to a degree instead of shoreline spawns and they will also signpost themselves to survivors and bandits in the area, creating some interesting scenarios/decisions.

Anyway, back to 'Get Churned On Chern'
 
Some people just want to kill you (Mickey) and take your beans (Gibonez), but not all DayZ players are like that. In fact, just today I only had 578 blood and kept passing out on the docks of Cherno when a helpful pair of lads came along, took the blood bag out of my ALICE pack, and gave me a blood transfusion. After that, we said good luck to each other and went about on our own separate ways.


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Sidenote: Seems like the recent HIVE update broke the vehicle repair options. :( I hope it gets fixed soon.
 
Apart from Stary Sobor, any tips for finding 30.round AK mags (the orange ones) ?

I keep finding STANAG and AKM mags, been looking all over..
 
Confidence Man said:
I've never seen a M240, or probably 80% of the weapons in the game for that matter. I see the ammo for it all the time though.

And I think I found a pathing glitch. I had aggroed a bunch of zombies and after running for a while I decided to just let them kill me, so I stopped and turned around but instead of killing me they just bunched up in one spot doing their attacks that couldn't hit me.


I'll have to try again to see if it's exploitable.
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Still wish the aggro of zombies wasn't quite so intense. I know it's a zombie game and all, but the side game of exploring and other players is where the fun really is. It sucks when you aggro in a town and the fucking teleporting zombies come running like a pack of 10-20 and you're just fucked after a day or more of playing.

Slow them fuckers down and make them stop teleporting all over the damn place.
 
NervousXtian said:
Still wish the aggro of zombies wasn't quite so intense. I know it's a zombie game and all, but the side game of exploring and other players is where the fun really is. It sucks when you aggro in a town and the fucking teleporting zombies come running like a pack of 10-20 and you're just fucked after a day or more of playing.

Slow them fuckers down and make them stop teleporting all over the damn place.
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The teleportation certainly needs to be fixed. A couple other things ought to be fixed or changed regarding the zombies.

  • Aggro should disappear when out of sight and no more noise occurs. The zombies ought to mill about at your last seen and heard location, perhaps indefintely, until aggro'd elsewhere.
  • Zombies need to be able to attack towards a running person. Right now they will fall in behind the runner, so as long as you can run to a group of people with guns you're in the clear, no worries about running through a town.
  • With that, zombie attacks need to slow us down. Right now if they do catch a runner, they pause to attack and pose no threat.
 
NervousXtian said:
Still wish the aggro of zombies wasn't quite so intense. I know it's a zombie game and all, but the side game of exploring and other players is where the fun really is. It sucks when you aggro in a town and the fucking teleporting zombies come running like a pack of 10-20 and you're just fucked after a day or more of playing.

Slow them fuckers down and make them stop teleporting all over the damn place.
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Regarding zombies:

I like the threat from zombies when it comes to exploring towns and looting buildings. The biggest problem right now is just how laggy zombies encounters are. When you kill a zombie, there's a 2-3 second delay before it does the death animation. I have no problem with getting incapped and killed when trying to vault a fence after firing my sniper in town or something similarly stupid from a game balance prespective.

But yeah, as long as you have some ammo, you can usually just run away and pick off zombies as they stop to do the attack animation.
 
Rocket posted the current status of 1.5.9:

Changelog:
* [FIXED] Bodies being deleted immediately (now will stay around for a while)
* [FIXED] Player profiles sometimes corrupting and causing stuck in loading issues (error handling by engine)
* [FIXED] Temperature listed in percent and not degrees (now displayed in degrees)
* [FIXED] Loosing temperature inside vehicles (now will slowly gain or be static in vehicles)
* [FIXED] ItemPainkillers popup error (no longer happens: thanks Norbert!)
* [FIXED] Spawning in Ocean when switching models (player morphing optimized by TeeTime)
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TheNiX said:
* [FIXED] Bodies being deleted immediately (now will stay around for a while)
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Bodies were being deleted immediately? I noticed that loot was staying around for significantly less time, but I hadn't seen any insta-disappearing bodies.

Really, this reply of mine is completely irrelevant, but I just had a couple IPAs at lunch and I felt like GAF'ing more than working. =X
 
NBtoaster said:
Yeah, I just did it again but it wasn't fatal this time. Gotta only use prone when necessary..

And man zombies are relentless. I must have alerted an entire city :( Was looting a grocery store, got a smoke grenade and some chem lights, but forgot to check my surroundings and got swarmed.

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I thought they might be slowed by the water, but nope :(
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ZOMBIE RAVE
 
All right, so I finally just decided that since I can't get the game working I'll use 6 Updater - still not working.

Fuck this.

They better get a better way for non-Steam users to get this or I'm going to find out if I can get an Amazon discount.

Yes, I'm whiny, but goddammit I don't have time to spend four hours working with mods these days - it's the reason I won't reinstall Skyrim.
 
bengraven said:
All right, so I finally just decided that since I can't get the game working I'll use 6 Updater - still not working.

Fuck this.

They better get a better way for non-Steam users to get this or I'm going to find out if I can get an Amazon discount.

Yes, I'm whiny, but goddammit I don't have time to spend four hours working with mods these days - it's the reason I won't reinstall Skyrim.
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Www.worrom.com or http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2705492
 
bengraven said:
All right, so I finally just decided that since I can't get the game working I'll use 6 Updater - still not working.

Fuck this.

They better get a better way for non-Steam users to get this or I'm going to find out if I can get an Amazon discount.

Yes, I'm whiny, but goddammit I don't have time to spend four hours working with mods these days - it's the reason I won't reinstall Skyrim.
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Shoulda spend 30 on the steam version bro. It was so easy.
 
MickeyKnox's reputation is spreading. I don't think 1 person who commented on The Sad Death video has said anything good about him. It's hilarious. I wouldn't change a thing and I love playing with him.
 
Fuck this game is so great and infuriating.

Wasted another hour or so trying to find a game and then I spent around an hour trying to find a friend.

Might leave it for a few weeks until it's properly playable.

edit: zombies that clip through walls and kill you fucking suck
 
I can't decide how I feel about this game. With only an hour or two to play at at night(after real life dark) I usually find myself in pitch black, which although fun here and there is not how I want to mainly play the game. So I switch over to a server in the UK, EU region to get some daylight which introduces some lag and with a game like this lag can be unforgiving.

I've only been killed by another player once, two other times I made some random friends and set out. The problem I have is the pacing that comes with that grouping up. Its slow, very slow... can spend most of the time just running around in the trees and not actually doing anything. The atmosphere is great but going any entire play session and not having much happening... I'm tempted to start becoming a murderer which is not typically how I play something like this. I've never even joined the darkwraiths in Dark Souls as an example.
 
Dorrin said:
I can't decide how I feel about this game. With only an hour or two to play at at night(after real life dark) I usually find myself in pitch black, which although fun here and there is not how I want to mainly play the game. So I switch over to a server in the UK, EU region to get some daylight which introduces some lag and with a game like this lag can be unforgiving.

I've only been killed by another player once, two other times I made some random friends and set out. The problem I have is the pacing that comes with that grouping up. Its slow, very slow... can spend most of the time just running around in the trees and not actually doing anything. The atmosphere is great but going any entire play session and not having much happening... I'm tempted to start becoming a murderer which is not typically how I play something like this. I've never even joined the darkwraiths in Dark Souls as an example.
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What time do you play and which timezone?
 
Updated change log for 1.5.9

* [FIXED] Bodies being deleted immediately (now will stay around for 5 minutes)
* [FIXED] Player profiles sometimes corrupting and causing stuck in loading issues (error handling by engine)
* [FIXED] Temperature listed in percent and not degrees (now displayed in degrees)
* [FIXED] Loosing temperature inside vehicles (now will slowly gain or be static in vehicles)
* [FIXED] ItemPainkillers popup error (no longer happens: thanks Norbert!)
* [FIXED] Spawning in Ocean when switching models (player morphing optimized by TeeTime)
* [FIXED] Wrong M107 is spawning on occasion (Correct one spawns)
* [FIXED] Crashed heli uber-loot not spawning (does now thanks to GhostBear!)
* [FIXED] Wire Fencing Kit caused graphical glitches (new model)
* [FIXED] Tank Trap Kit caused graphical glitches (new model)
* [NEW] Hatchet for chopping wood in forests
* [NEW] Wire Fencing kit model by Artyom Troshin
* [NEW] Tank Trap kit model by Artyom Troshin
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shouts said:
Apart from Stary Sobor, any tips for finding 30.round AK mags (the orange ones) ?

I keep finding STANAG and AKM mags, been looking all over..
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Honestly, your probably better sticking with an AKM if you can find one. Good accuracy and abundant ammo plus full auto.
 
Being able to gather wood from trees is going to be very handy. Anybody know how many inventory slots the hatchet takes up? I hope it's not five.
 
Krappadizzle said:
Honestly, your probably better sticking with an AKM if you can find one. Good accuracy and abundant ammo plus full auto.
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The AK I've got has a Kobra/red dot, so I'm a little torn.. people I play with keep finding Stanag mags both regular and SD and I always come up empty. I'm trading it for an Enfield if it keeps going like this :@
 
I think I found my issue. I have 1.59, not 1.60. I'm downloading the newest beta patch.

Edit: no, it actually won't let me update to 1.60. It says it has, but it hasn't. I'm assuming even the official site's beta patch is through Steam as well...despite them offering their game outside of Steam on their own site.
 
bengraven said:
I think I found my issue. I have 1.59, not 1.60. I'm downloading the newest beta patch.

Edit: no, it actually won't let me update to 1.60. It says it has, but it hasn't. I'm assuming even the official site's beta patch is through Steam as well...despite them offering their game outside of Steam on their own site.
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I had no problem d/long beta patch off a mirror and getting it to work with my steam copy. There is an .exe that you can run in the beta folder.
 
Does this game hurt anyone else's eyes? It's got this weird smear effect going on that almost makes it painful for me to play. Difficult to explain, but I haven't experienced it with any other game ever.
 
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