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DayZ - zombie apocalypse online FFA permadeath survival Arma II mod

nekosaur said:
That was a pretty decent day, but the highlight has to be killing that Crockett guy for his dear Ruby :D Also Gibonez coming online at just the right time to get revenge at the airport.

@mik What's the youtube link to you getting killed in the car?
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I died in the car and had a hard time spawning anywhere worth a damn, so I went to do something else for a while. People were saying about how it would be cool to have Gibonez covering the airfield for us when we arrived in the car.

Coming back in the exact moment that Gibonez was covering the airfield, killing the guy and saying that the car was still safe in the middle of the road was one of the nicest surprises that have yet to happen on this game for me.

Also, the fact that I actually have better stuff now than when I had when I was in the car is also pretty cool.

I found a windshield and stashed in the car's trunk while Mob was driving it, since the car was windshield-less. I hope it's still intact... :D

Edit: I really want a bike, like, for myself. I wonder if we can stash things in it.
 
Just curious if Rocket or others gave their reasoning behind the removal of the bandit skin?
It seems to me that removing the bandit skin takes more away from the game than it adds. Granted I could be way off.
 
Nealand Liquor said:
Just curious if Rocket or others gave their reasoning behind the removal of the bandit skin?
It seems to me that removing the bandit skin takes more away from the game than it adds. Granted I could be way off.
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A lot of people felt it wasn't in the spirit of the game to have something oust someone just based on looks. It defined a lot of peoples interactions regardless of what they did.

Server desktop:

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Everything is set up perfectly. Restarts itself, monitors itself and we now have extended battleeye commands.
 
Bought this yesterday and am loving it. My only complaint though is I really wish they would turn off that global chat. Takes me out of the moment when stupid stuff starts coming up in the chat. I just wish there was local chat/voice, would make things so much more tense.

Plus it really pisses me off when someone sees me and says in global chat "dude at elctro store friendly?". Dammit.. now everyone and their mom knows where I am located. thanks >_<
 
Atomski said:
Bought this yesterday and am loving it. My only complaint though is I really wish they would turn off that global chat. Takes me out of the moment when stupid stuff starts coming up in the chat. I just wish there was local chat/voice, would make things so much more tense.

Plus it really pisses me off when someone sees me and says in global chat "dude at elctro store friendly?". Dammit.. now everyone and their mom knows where I am located. thanks >_<
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Dude, check out the direct communication channel.
 
Atomski said:
Bought this yesterday and am loving it. My only complaint though is I really wish they would turn off that global chat. Takes me out of the moment when stupid stuff starts coming up in the chat. I just wish there was local chat/voice, would make things so much more tense.

Plus it really pisses me off when someone sees me and says in global chat "dude at elctro store friendly?". Dammit.. now everyone and their mom knows where I am located. thanks >_<
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Rocket has said that once Bohemia goes live with the patch that fixes direct comms he will disable global.

FYI - Attempted to update TX8 to Beta patch, didn't work. Direct comms still work, so I'm not going to waste my time or risk fucking up the server. Get the beta patch and it'll work.

Do we have vehicles? Doesn't look like it. When will we get it? Fuck if I know. No new servers are being given vehicles, that was a rumour that some people turned into fact. Until they stop being glitchy as all fuck you won't be seeing them on our servers.
 
TheNiX said:
Rocket has said that once Bohemia goes live with the patch that fixes direct comms he will disable global.

FYI - Attempted to update TX8 to Beta patch, didn't work. Direct comms still work, so I'm not going to waste my time or risk fucking up the server. Get the beta patch and it'll work.

Do we have vehicles? Doesn't look like it. When will we get it? Fuck if I know. No new servers are being given vehicles, that was a rumour that some people turned into fact. Until they stop being glitchy as all fuck you won't be seeing them on our servers.
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My quest to ride in a helicopter gets harder.
 
Well I had a great day, surviving the northwest airfield (came out with 2000 blood thanks to a nice firefight that drew in a billion zombies), being driven around by doc, and then driving panda, aj, and shrew around on a trip to look for more vehicles and to rub it in people's faces. Good times.

People liked stealing my M16's today though :P
 
TheNiX said:
Rocket has said that once Bohemia goes live with the patch that fixes direct comms he will disable global.

FYI - Attempted to update TX8 to Beta patch, didn't work. Direct comms still work, so I'm not going to waste my time or risk fucking up the server. Get the beta patch and it'll work.

Do we have vehicles? Doesn't look like it. When will we get it? Fuck if I know. No new servers are being given vehicles, that was a rumour that some people turned into fact. Until they stop being glitchy as all fuck you won't be seeing them on our servers.
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Oh god, I hope this is true.


Orgun said:
40 min interview with Rocket
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The interviewer is such a tool. The questions are terrible.
 
Have to admit the FFA system is starting to get a bit annoying, would be nice if at least 2 people could choose to spawn on each other to start the game out. Just walked into a god damn blood bath in Electro and there was at least 20 bodies in the school house because everyone went on a massive rampage.
 
wwm0nkey said:
Have to admit the FFA system is starting to get a bit annoying, would be nice if at least 2 people could choose to spawn on each other to start the game out. Just walked into a god damn blood bath in Electro and there was at least 20 bodies in the school house because everyone went on a massive rampage.
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Oh elektro, you so silly. (the eff does FFA stand for?)
Once you get used to the map and navigating it's not so bad to meet up. Hell I respawned and booked it back to the northwest airfield the other day and it only took 20 minutes. It's necessary to have people running about by themselves imo, and the size of the map is really one of the main selling points of the game in the first place.

It is annoying as hell when you log out with one group in one place, and the group who're on the next day are on the complete opposite side of the map though, unless there's a vehicle floating about. The group that's always fixing the vehicles seems to be in the wrong timezone for me to ever be a part of it, but they do seem to have gotten that shit down quite well recently.

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mik83kuu said:
Has anyone actually looted a toolbox from a building and not a corpse since the last two patches?
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I have, twice. Haven't found one this life yet, but I've barely looted anywhere but the airfields.
 
abusori said:
Oh elektro, you so silly. (the eff does FFA stand for?)
Once you get used to the map and navigating it's not so bad to meet up. Hell I respawned and booked it back to the northwest airfield the other day and it only took 20 minutes. It's necessary to have people running about by themselves imo, and the size of the map is really one of the main selling points of the game in the first place.

It is annoying as hell when you log out with one group in one place, and the group who're on the next day are on the complete opposite side of the map though, unless there's a vehicle floating about. The group that's always fixing the vehicles seems to be in the wrong timezone for me to ever be a part of it, but they do seem to have gotten that shit down quite well.

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I have, twice. Haven't found one this life yet, but I've barely been anywhere but the airfields.
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Free For All. Also I know it can get easy to find friends (I have done it before) but it would still be nice to have the option with spawning with 1 friend and only 1.
 
wwm0nkey said:
Free For All. Also I know it can get easy to find friends (I have done it before) but it would still be nice to have the option with spawning with 1 friend and only 1.
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Oh, free for all.

I'm not going to outright disagree with you there; I'd certainly love to spawn with a friend. I just have this feeling that it wouldn't work out well, even though I can't really quantify why I think so. But this is an alpha and all, so maybe it wouldn't hurt for Rocket to give it a try.
 
I hope they could somehow turn off 3rd person mode at some point, it's stupid how you can basically look behind corners with it and use it to your advantage.
 
Something weird is going on with some of the servers (for an example most of Virginia XX) are restarting every 15 minutes. Could be a bug in the servers or maybe admins are just farming loot.
 
mik83kuu said:
Something weird is going on with some of the servers (for an example most of Virginia XX) are restarting every 15 minutes. Could be a bug in the servers or maybe admins are just farming loot.
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Bug. It's happening to a lot of servers. Some have been taken down indefinitely because admins can't seem to find the cause.
 
Rocket said:
Major Update Pending: 1.7.0
The update will be named 1.7.0 to avoid confusion with the ArmA2 Patch 1.6)

A major update is pending, that will mainly affect the server side code. This will have a significant impact on player loading times and general stability of player saving. The system hasn't been tested at capacity however our testing has so far indicated loading times are reduced to being almost instant.

Servers will require the Beta patch to be installed (and therefore clients will also) prior to the rollout of ArmA2OA patch 1.61.

Initially, when 1.7.0 is released we will bring several servers online with this to test this new method at capacity levels, prior to rolling out across all Beta servers. Once 1.61 is released all servers will run the new system.
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I hope I can actually get a freaking beta patch to work for once considering I'm using ArmaII free and OA. Still, those load times...
 
Irish said:
I hope I can actually get a freaking beta patch to work for once considering I'm using ArmaII free and OA. Still, those load times...
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Fannnntastic. Now I have to figure out how to get our server running the beta patch. Such nonsense. To play an alpha you need a beta patch.
 
Gustav said:
The interviewer is such a tool. The questions are terrible.
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Yeah its awful.. I really want to hear what Rocket has to say but ugh.

Cardigan said:
Dude, check out the direct communication channel.
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Thats all I use, but it seems like a lot of players are however not. Worst part is when someone is talking voice in global. Had some guy last not who would not shut the hell up. Is there a way to ignore that channel?
 
Atomski said:
Yeah its awful.. I really want to hear what Rocket has to say but ugh.



Thats all I use, but it seems like a lot of players are however not. Worst part is when someone is talking voice in global. Had some guy last not who would not shut the hell up. Is there a way to ignore that channel?
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No, you just have to hope that either the server has an admin on (that isn't doing it themselves.. teehee!) or everyone yelling at them shuts them up.

Submitted a ticket to the provider for TX8. Hopefully they can get back to me about how to get the beta patch working. Not sure why they set up the game files the way they did on the server, but maybe they have a work around.
 
PC Master Race my ass! Spent 2 hours trying to get this game to work with Sixpoint.

Is there a cheat sheet somewhere of important controls? Finally got into the game, trying to get used to controls, popped a shot of my gun to test everything. Then struggled to figure out how to eat my beans (kept dropping them) before realizing I had to right click. Then a zombie came running at me - pointed my gun and clicked to shoot... and I dropped a flare. I then got mauled to death.
 
IPoopStandingUp said:
PC Master Race my ass! Spent 2 hours trying to get this game to work with Sixpoint.

Is there a cheat sheet somewhere of important controls? Finally got into the game, trying to get used to controls, popped a shot of my gun to test everything. Then struggled to figure out how to eat my beans (kept dropping them) before realizing I had to right click. Then a zombie came running at me - pointed my gun and clicked to shoot... and I dropped a flare. I then got mauled to death.
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That's your problem. SixUpdater is a piece of shit. Not sure why people rave about it.

I don't think there's an actual keyboard cheat sheet out there. Not that I've seen. Some people may link you to the Arma2 one, but that has keys on it you'll never use. I'll look into it (unless someone links you to one.) If there isn't one I'll create one for you.
 
Any idea of Rocket's reasoning on removing the bandit skin?

I haven't teamed up or avoided confrontation with fellow survivors since the patch removed the bandit skin.

I think there should be some indication that a player is a serial PKer, but I'll wait to see what Rocket has in-store with the Humanity situation.

Since Rocket reads gaf I wonder if he's a member?
 
TheNiX said:
That's your problem. SixUpdater is a piece of shit. Not sure why people rave about it.

I don't think there's an actual keyboard cheat sheet out there. Not that I've seen. Some people may link you to the Arma2 one, but that has keys on it you'll never use. I'll look into it (unless someone links you to one.) If there isn't one I'll create one for you.
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Honestly, I looked up "how to install Dayz" and saw a ton about SixUpdater so I went with that. Ended up installing corrupt files, etc. Such a headache.

Thanks, I appreciate it. I went to configure the controls, saw all of them and immediately thought that there's no way all of them will be used.
 
Starfish_Oxide said:
Any idea of Rocket's reasoning on removing the bandit skin?

I haven't teamed up or avoided confrontation with fellow survivors since the patch removed the bandit skin.

I think there should be some indication that a player is a serial PKer, but I'll wait to see what Rocket has in-store with the Humanity situation.

Since Rocket reads gaf I wonder if he's a member?
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Probably because you could unfairly get pegged a bandit for defending yourself. I'd be a bandit now if it was still in place, thanks to random survivors trying to gank me.
 
Atomski said:
Yeah its awful.. I really want to hear what Rocket has to say but ugh.



Thats all I use, but it seems like a lot of players are however not. Worst part is when someone is talking voice in global. Had some guy last not who would not shut the hell up. Is there a way to ignore that channel?
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Yep, press P, find the culprit and mute him.
 
Confidence Man said:
Probably because you could unfairly get pegged a bandit for defending yourself. I'd be a bandit now if it was still in place, thanks to random survivors trying to gank me.
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I see your point but what about serial PKers (snipers in hills outside Cherno/Electro, groups of bandits around airfields and "lone wolves"), These need a visual indicator.

Or else nobody will trust anybody like it is now (Cherno/Electro is basically shoot anything that moves).
 
Confidence Man said:
Probably because you could unfairly get pegged a bandit for defending yourself. I'd be a bandit now if it was still in place, thanks to random survivors trying to gank me.
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This. The biggest reason for removing it is just because of how broken the system really was. It was great for people who just wanted to hunt bandits because there was no shortage of people with the skin, but a lot of people were given the skin unfairly.

I encountered having the skin given to me when I didn't actually go out of my way to kill someone. Defended myself while with GAF people and then while solo some guy shot at me and after a lot of cat and mouse I got the kill on him. Bandit skin. Two instances of me not being the aggressor and I get penalized for it to the point where people shoot at me on sight.

I get the impression that Rocket is attached to the idea behind that system, putting weight on the decision to kill because of how others may perceive you. The humanity system is still there so he hasn't given up on the idea and hopefully the system he hinted at being developed works out.
 
I'll never understand the love for SixUpdater, horrible piece of software. Good old manual creation of folders and ARMA 2 Launcher works wonders.
 
Starfish_Oxide said:
I see your point but what about serial PKers (snipers in hills outside Cherno/Electro, groups of bandits around airfields and "lone wolves"), These need a visual indicator.

Or else nobody will trust anybody like it is now (Cherno/Electro is basically shoot anything that moves).
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So stay out of Cherno/Elektro? There isn't anything magical about the loot in those places so why stick around?
 
Having a lot more stages between guy just trying to survive and murdering thug would be a start. Maybe have five or so transitional skins between neutral survivor and bandit, then have more skins in the other direction, maybe with an army skin as the best. So you see a bandit skin and you know they had to have killed a lot of people, not just in defense, while a guy in an army outfit you pretty much assume he can be trusted.
 
TheNiX said:
This. The biggest reason for removing it is just because of how broken the system really was. It was great for people who just wanted to hunt bandits because there was no shortage of people with the skin, but a lot of people were given the skin unfairly.

I encountered having the skin given to me when I didn't actually go out of my way to kill someone. Defended myself while with GAF people and then while solo some guy shot at me and after a lot of cat and mouse I got the kill on him. Bandit skin. Two instances of me not being the aggressor and I get penalized for it to the point where people shoot at me on sight.

I get the impression that Rocket is attached to the idea behind that system, putting weight on the decision to kill because of how others may perceive you. The humanity system is still there so he hasn't given up on the idea and hopefully the system he hinted at being developed works out.
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I'm really interested to see how the whole humanity thing plays out, what system will eventually be in place? Right now the dayz forums have a definte split between those that want the "kill everything that moves" attitude curtailed and the people who want to kill everthing because there are no rules in this world. There's a bit of shit throwing from each side going on.
 
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