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[Dmax3901]

Had a great session last night. I was in Elektro and started hearing a lot of shots, like, a lot. So I go to the school, climb to the roof, go prone and look toward the hospital. There was a massive pile of zombies out the front and I could see smoke from guns. Eventually the shooting stopped and 5 or 6 survivors came into sight.

The first sighting.

I tentatively ask in chat if they're friendly, they say they are and I take the risk: me with my new friends (one of them is apparently Bono).

We head back into the school to loot. One of us calls out "Guys.. I found something." We all rush into the room and find a guy in a ghillie suit just... lying there.

The room is soon comically overcrowded as we all discuss what to do with him. His head moves from left to right and we all scream. Then he stands up, looks us over, before going prone again. Clearly this school is haunted by sniper ghosts.

Eventually we decide to kill him, one shot to the head and the loot was ours (unfortunately nothing good). His name was Mitchello Man.

We decide to leave Elektro and head to Chern to gather more people. The flares attract many zombies, but we fend them off. Tales reach us of a bandit named Ricky, we keep our eyes and ears open.

Ricky strikes! His Makarov was no match for my revolver, but he still managed to put me in a very bad way. A transfusion gets me back on my feet.

Then, not five minutes later, chaos. Out of nowhere shots ring out from the trees, bullets and screams echo in the valley as I drop to the ground, bleeding and broken. I look around to see the entire group (7 or 8 by this point) dead or dying. I manage to bandage myself, pull out my shotgun and lie there in the grass, awaiting death. This screenshot was taken shortly before I was shot point blank in the head.

Such an amazingly efficient and abrupt ambush.

 

[Krappadizzle]

As much as getting PK'd sucks hairy balls, I love that this game inspires posts like these.

/salute

Maybe I'll put a bullet in the back of your head one of these days.

Gibz would never give you the chance. He's killed so many of us teammates "accidentally". You must have the verbal response time of a rabbit in heat when he says "who is that" to not die. Anything longer than 1 sec to respond will result in that persons death.

 

[gutabo]

Stay far away from the airfield.

Currently my killing grounds.

The only airfield I know is the balota one. I'm starting to love the countryside, hunting, chopping wood and cooking my meals. Even rabbits are delicious!

EDIT: Is TX8 online? My laptop turned itself off due to low battery, I restarted it and now I can't see the server...

 

[OrangeYouGlad]

The only airfield I know is the balota one. I'm starting to love the countryside, hunting, chopping wood and cooking my meals. Even rabbits are delicious!

EDIT: Is TX8 online? My laptop turned itself off due to low battery, I restarted it and now I can't see the server...

Should be up. Some people have reported issues with seeing it since it was updated to 1.7.

 

[gutabo]

Should be up. Some people have reported issues with seeing it since it was updated to 1.7.

Thanks for the fast answer nix! I tried looking for it here but no dice either:
ARMA 2 SERVER LIST

If possible, mind PMing me the IP and port? Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Nevermind, found it, seems like it was reset or something since there's only 2 people ATM.

EDIT 2: Stuck on the "loading" screen for 10 minutes while trying to connect...

 

[subversus]

EDIT 2: Stuck on the "loading" screen for 10 minutes while trying to connect...

kill the game, restart it, may be you'll have better luck next time.

 

[gutabo]

kill the game, restart it, may be you'll have better luck next time.

Thanks, it worked, I was playing when people started to yell "are you randomly dying?", and then I randomly died. Now I'm in shock(don't know why) waiting 5 minutes to play again.

 

[fresquito]

I have a doubt: When you come here and post your awesome experiences, you simply never talk about the million times you want to play but can't because servers don't work, right?

Because that's my experience.

 

[subversus]

I have a doubt: When you come here and post your awesome experiences, you simply never talk about the million times you want to play but can't because servers don't work, right?

Because that's my experience.

yep

but once you get in the game...

 

[abusori]

I have a doubt: When you come here and post your awesome experiences, you simply never talk about the million times you want to play but can't because servers don't work, right?

Because that's my experience.

No, I don't really have problems unless I join (or try to join) a wonky server. Which happens if you server hop sometimes...

Use mostly the low-numbered older servers, and don't join any servers with a player count < 10 unless it's normally a full server (just empty due to night or something). Or just use the gaf servers (but no vehicles on those). You won't have too many problems. At least, in terms of connecting.

 

[Cuban Legend]

any chance ARMA 2 and the the expansion go on sale during the summer sale? I've been watching Let's plays of this and I'm dying to play it.

 

[EVIL]

when will this thread be moved to community?

 

[JaseC]

any chance ARMA 2 and the the expansion go on sale during the summer sale? I've been watching Let's plays of this and I'm dying to play it.

It'll definitely go on sale, but only because virtually everything else will too and so people will be spending their money elsewhere.

I'm curious as to how much Bohemia will discount the game given it's barely dropped down Steam's top sellers list since DayZ exploded in popularity. They're clearly going to ride this wave for as long as they can, so I'm going to go ahead and guess a discount of no more than 25% (I'd like to be wrong ).

 

[MickeyKnox]

when will this thread be moved to community?

I'd suggest sometime after the mod moves into beta, at which point it's feature locked and there are no new gameplay features being added.

 

[I speel my dreenk]

It'll definitely go on sale, but only because virtually everything else will too and so people will be spending their money elsewhere.

I'm curious as to how much Bohemia will discount the game given it's barely dropped down Steam's top sellers list since DayZ exploded in popularity. They're clearly going to ride this wave for as long as they can, so I'm going to go ahead and guess a discount of no more than 25% (I'd like to be wrong ).

I'm sure it'll be at least half, Combined Ops was just half off ($15) on Amazon for a week or two.

 

[OrangeYouGlad]

I'm sure it'll be at least half, Combined Ops was just half off ($15) on Amazon for a week or two.

Not to mention this is there last chance to sell as much as they can before Arma3s release date comes close enough for people to justify waiting.

 

[The_Monk]

I have been watching a lot of streams since I can't play this game or MOD and I love the survival thing.

But, right now on a stream I'm watching I just saw a guy driving a BUS! He was in a Town honking and people were getting in since there was a lot of zombies, it felt like a true relief for them. Didn't even knew there was a Bus to drive. He picked up 3 guys on the bus already, then they go out, kill some and drive again, lol. Amazing.

 

[Enron]

I have been watching a lot of streams since I can't play this game or MOD and I love the survival thing.

But, right now on a stream I'm watching I just saw a guy driving a BUS! He was in a Town honking and people were getting in since there was a lot of zombies, it felt like a true relief for them. Didn't even knew there was a Bus to drive. He picked up 3 guys on the bus already, then they go out, kill some and drive again, lol. Amazing.

He is like the only helpful guy left in this game, then. Ever since they took out the bandit skin, people shoot you immediately on sight now. I started playing again with 1.7, and out of the 12 or so survivors I have encountered at close range, all but one of them have shot and killed me. Including on the gaf server. Pretty depressing, really.

 

[Maklershed]

any chance ARMA 2 and the the expansion go on sale during the summer sale? I've been watching Let's plays of this and I'm dying to play it.

I'm wondering this too. I'm not a PC gamer and suck at PC FPS controls but reading the stories in this thread and on CAG got me to dl and play the Arma II demo and now I'm just biding my time until I get Combined Ops and the mod. This sounds like so much fun.

Really loving the stories btw guys. Good stuff w/ the screenshots Dmax.

 

[The_Monk]

He is like the only helpful guy left in this game, then. Ever since they took out the bandit skin, people shoot you immediately on sight now. I started playing again with 1.7, and out of the 12 or so survivors I have encountered at close range, all but one of them have shot and killed me. Including on the gaf server. Pretty depressing, really.

Oh that's a shame. Isn't there a way for you to make a "friendly sign" I know it can also be a trap but... This MOD seems like a pretty great experience when it comes to having one life and you need supplies, etc.

 

[Enron]

Oh that's a shame. Isn't there a way for you to make a "friendly sign" I know it can also be a trap but... This MOD seems like a pretty great experience when it comes to having one life and you need supplies, etc.

I had one guy say "I'm a friendly" and then proceed to blast me in the back of the head and then go on about how he was scared and apologized.

 

[legacyzero]

Here is what happens when we get stream sniped. Along with getting stalked in general.

Poor Nix :'(

 

[blitzcloud]

The bandit skin removal was a bad decision imo. It was the only way to give players benefit of the doubt, and if you're a giant anus (like someone said on the dayz forums), it's nice that there's some sort of consequence. Maybe not the bandit skin... maybe your skin covered in bloodstains or something..

With this laggy netcode i wouldnt risk myself to be shot. Better safe than sorry. Although I've found players right on my face and when they do the action of saying they're friendly, i won't shoot. Reaching to type isntead of clicking for shooting is already a sign of trust for me.

 

[NBtoaster]

Was being chased by zombies, and found a glitchy pier where they didn't want to come onto the concrete. They either stood next to it in a row or came swimming for me:

And then I got disconnected >_> Hope it spawns me on the pier, and not in the middle of a zombie chase :s

 

[Blizzard]

He is like the only helpful guy left in this game, then. Ever since they took out the bandit skin, people shoot you immediately on sight now. I started playing again with 1.7, and out of the 12 or so survivors I have encountered at close range, all but one of them have shot and killed me. Including on the gaf server. Pretty depressing, really.

The bandit skin removal was a bad decision imo. It was the only way to give players benefit of the doubt, and if you're a giant anus (like someone said on the dayz forums), it's nice that there's some sort of consequence. Maybe not the bandit skin... maybe your skin covered in bloodstains or something..

With this laggy netcode i wouldnt risk myself to be shot. Better safe than sorry. Although I've found players right on my face and when they do the action of saying they're friendly, i won't shoot. Reaching to type isntead of clicking for shooting is already a sign of trust for me.

This doesn't really surprise me. It seems like to me that most people who wanted the bandit skin removed were people who had the bandit skin, and I think even someone in this thread mentioned that the bandit skin was basically the only thing preventing them from being a PKer.

I know one or two people would probably say that it was unfair since their bandit skins were because of self-defense, but in that case I would suggest it should be possible to regain humanity over time and/or by working with GAF teammates to heal them. It's not like a single self-defense kill gets you the -50k humanity or whatever some people were bragging about. =P

 

[nilbog21]

This game looks cooL. $40 for the ARMA games?

 

[bonesmccoy]

This game looks cooL. $40 for the ARMA games?

It's worth it! The SP campaigns will last you many hours, and no 2 attempts at the same mission will ever play out the same. Toss in MP (beyond DayZ), mods and the editor, and you're set for dozens and dozens of hours.

 

[Hawkian]

It's worth it! The SP campaigns will last you many hours, and no 2 attempts at the same mission will ever play out the same. Toss in MP (beyond DayZ), mods and the editor, and you're set for dozens and dozens of hours.

I have no desire for aaaany of it except this mod, making the package cost-prohibitive. Really too bad, I love this thread

 

[blitzcloud]

This doesn't really surprise me. It seems like to me that most people who wanted the bandit skin removed were people who had the bandit skin, and I think even someone in this thread mentioned that the bandit skin was basically the only thing preventing them from being a PKer.

I know one or two people would probably say that it was unfair since their bandit skins were because of self-defense, but in that case I would suggest it should be possible to regain humanity over time and/or by working with GAF teammates to heal them. It's not like a single self-defense kill gets you the -50k humanity or whatever some people were bragging about. =P

Yep. It's like if in Demons Souls/Dark Souls you call a "soul" and it may kill you or coop with you. I like games that try to reach outside of the norm, but even the journey creator realized that humans ingame would just try to push the other player off the cliff. You can't ask for a definitive human behaviour on a game, and that's why there must be some artificial element that makes it stable enough on the constraints of the game.

Defenders of the "no bandit" change say that there's no way you would know it in real life. But of course, In real life we don't have body language, communicate through texts most of our time, or any indication such as seeing that he's starving and may kill you for food. Also, parallel worlds misplaced in time (lag) exists in real life.

Like you said, people who don't want bandit skins are bandits themselves.

 

[legacyzero]

I have no desire for aaaany of it except this mod, making the package cost-prohibitive. Really too bad, I love this thread

The $30 that I dropped to get CO just to play this mod alone was worth every penny. You just wont know until you take the dive.

This mod truly is that good.

 

[Deleted member 47027]

Stay away from DayZ if you balk at spending a very small amount of money. Leave DayZ to the VIP where we spend money on champagne and titties.

 

[Hawkian]

$5 is a "very small amount of money" to me. One day I'll join you with a bottle of Crystal, no doubt.

 

[Irish]

You don't have to buy the regular version of ArmA II. You can run the free version just fine with Operation Arrowhead. The textures aren't all that great though. Of course, that doesn't really matter much because most of your time will be spent running through forests.

__

Also, did everyone think they could just quietly duck out of Mumble last night? I wanted to say goodbye!

 

[Disheveled_Zen]

I think once you remove the mindset of "I'm paying $20 or $30 for a mod" and instead start thinking "I'm paying $20 or $30 for potentially hundreds of hours of entertainment," then the purchasing of Arma II makes a lot more sense.

Sure I bought it just for the mod, but when I sat back and asked myself if I would spend $20 on DayZ if it was a stand alone game, I realized I would and it made the purchase price really not matter. Bonus I get all of Arma II with it, a game I really never knew anything about and now I am considering getting the PMC dlc for better textures and to also throw an extra $10 their way.

It also frustrates me that everyone just seems out to kill everyone else for no reason. Maybe I just remember a time when players used to help one another, now its just HURR DURR I can shoot you. So far not a single person I have seen in the game world has let me go about my business without taking a shot at me, which is annoying when almost all of them I could have popped long before they ever even saw me, and despite saying friendly they always seems to turn around and start shooting. I was hoping to not have to play as someone who just shot everyone on sight, sadly I am quickly changing my mind.

 

[abusori]

The problem with the bandit skin was that if you didn't want it, you basically just had to put your gun up and die if another survivor decided to kill you. And anybody with a bandit skin was to be shot on sight, so it was the kiss of death if you were playing alone and you didn't want to stay alone. It was like sucking the fun out of something awesome. Now that I'm playing with gaf I wouldn't care about the skin anymore, though.

I'm not gonna test it out, but I would hope direct comms would help you team up with randoms; being able to actually talk to someone is a different ballgame from broadcasting your position on global to say "friendly."

 

[OrangeYouGlad]

The problem with the bandit skin was that if you didn't want it, you basically just had to put your gun up and die if another survivor decided to kill you. And anybody with a bandit skin was to be shot on sight, so it was the kiss of death if you were playing alone and you didn't want to stay alone. It was like sucking the fun out of something awesome. Now that I'm playing with gaf I wouldn't care about the skin anymore, though.

I'm not gonna test it out, but I would hope direct comms would help you team up with randoms; being able to actually talk to someone is a different ballgame from broadcasting your position on global to say "friendly."

I still believe the bandit skin was blown out of proportion. I chose to kill 1 person and was forced to defend myself against another. I was in a bandit skin for a day. With the natural regen of Humanity and doing transfusions, it really wasn't that hard to get out of, especially if you were defending yourself.

 

[wolfmat]

With the beta on some 0.7 servers, you can experience what it's like to not have side chat, just direct. It's a different game, for sure.

 

[Gustav]

With the beta on some 0.7 servers, you can experience what it's like to not have side chat, just direct. It's a different game, for sure.

Can't wait for full functional direct chat for all us non-beta plebs.

 

[Steeven]

Well, when I said in this topic that the removal of the bandit skin was a bad idea, I didn't got any backup. Instead, it would make things 'more exciting' according to some people here. I never believed that. Cunts will be cunts and now they can get away with it.

 

[Blizzard]

Well, when I said in this topic that the removal of the bandit skin was a bad idea, I didn't got any backup. Instead, it would make things 'more exciting' according to some people here. I never believed that. Cunts will be cunts and now they can get away with it.

I had the same view, but I think people (at least one or two) kept arguing that self-defense ruined it, and you shouldn't know if someone was a PKer. That still holds with my viewpoint that the people complaining about bandit skins were the people with bandit skins. =P Especially given TheNiX just now mentioning two kills were recovered to get rid of the bandit skin within a day or so.

 

[Cuban Legend]

I think once you remove the mindset of "I'm paying $20 or $30 for a mod" and instead start thinking "I'm paying $20 or $30 for potentially hundreds of hours of entertainment," then the purchasing of Arma II makes a lot more sense.

Sure I bought it just for the mod, but when I sat back and asked myself if I would spend $20 on DayZ if it was a stand alone game, I realized I would and it made the purchase price really not matter. Bonus I get all of Arma II with it, a game I really never knew anything about and now I am considering getting the PMC dlc for better textures and to also throw an extra $10 their way.

It also frustrates me that everyone just seems out to kill everyone else for no reason. Maybe I just remember a time when players used to help one another, now its just HURR DURR I can shoot you. So far not a single person I have seen in the game world has let me go about my business without taking a shot at me, which is annoying when almost all of them I could have popped long before they ever even saw me, and despite saying friendly they always seems to turn around and start shooting. I was hoping to not have to play as someone who just shot everyone on sight, sadly I am quickly changing my mind.

Makes sense I could just skip seeing PROMETHEUS twice on opening weekend (save15$ x2 for 2x2 hours of entertainment) and I'm up $30 extra bucks.

You just sold me on the game. CONGRATULATIONS SIR.

Now the only exception is that I'd like the opportunity to play with GAF. How can I do so, what are my options to even have voice chat with Mumble. Answer me this... and I'll personally buy CO for $30 on Steam, right now going against everything I've learned about "waiting for the daily deal".

And why do you have to pay $10 for better textures? How does that work? Do I not get all that I pay for if I were to buy Combined Ops for #30?

 

[abusori]

I still believe the bandit skin was blown out of proportion. I chose to kill 1 person and was forced to defend myself against another. I was in a bandit skin for a day. With the natural regen of Humanity and doing transfusions, it really wasn't that hard to get out of, especially if you were defending yourself.

I have no idea how you managed to get people to let a bandit give them transfusions, but then you were always better at being nice than me.

 

[Disheveled_Zen]

Makes sense I could just skip seeing PROMETHEUS twice on opening weekend (save15$ x2 for 2x2 hours of entertainment) and I'm up $30 extra bucks.

You just sold me on the game. CONGRATULATIONS SIR.

Now the only exception is that I'd like the opportunity to play with GAF. How can I do so, what are my options to even have voice chat with Mumble. Answer me this... and I'll personally buy CO for $30 on Steam, right now going against everything I've learned about "waiting for the daily deal".

And why do you have to pay $10 for better textures? How does that work? Do I not get all that I pay for if I were to buy Combined Ops for #30?

Haha glad I could help.

If you get the CO pack on Steam then you get max level world/weapon/item textures, the only thing that is low rez is the player models and some zombies because they are taken from the PMC dlc. If you really do not care about textures, then there's no reason to get it, you still get the models, they just look a bit muddy.

Here's some comparison screen shots:

WITHOUT the PMC DLC.

WITH the PMC DLC.

Not a huge difference, but you can see it. I saw it more as an extra way to throw them extra funding for making a game I enjoy.

GAF mostly plays on either TX8 or Dallas 19, I am normally on TX8 myself on Xaric and am always looking to team up when I'm not running around with my friends that I have been slowly getting into the game. If you see me on don't hesitate to ask for help.

 

[OrangeYouGlad]

I have no idea how you managed to get people to let a bandit give them transfusions, but then you were always better at being nice than me.

Basic customer service psych. Constantly verbalized what I was doing before I did it and kept my primary on my back.

People don't realize how little it takes to trigger flight or fight in others, even in games. It's the reason why so many people stupidly ask "Who is shooting in Cherno?"

 

[Starfish_Oxide]

Swagging it large with the recent acquirement of some NVG's.

Now to do some night hunting.

 

[OrangeYouGlad]

Swagging it large with the recent acquirement of some NVG's.

Now to do some night hunting.

Gibs has your number now.

 

[childplease]

1000+ meter kill.

Cardigan was not too happy

 

[WedgeX]

Want to leave death below? Mumble, friends!

 

[Trombone Zombie]

Did you guys see the news about the new Arma II expansion, Army of the Czech Republic?

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/04/arma-2-army-of-the-czech-republic-dlc-will-add-new-army-new-guns-new-missions/?ns_campaign=article-feed&ns_mchannel=ref&ns_source=steam&ns_linkname=0&ns_fee=0

It’s called Army of the Czech Republic, which will add said army, along with an armoury of “authentic weapons,” new weapons and some summery new environments in the invented regions of Bystrica and Bukovina.

Maybe these will eventually be some new landmasses for DayZ. They sound very similar to Chernarus. Sorry if there was an official thread for this already, I must have missed it and I thought it was also relevant to this discussion.

 

[OriginofHysteria]

Is there anything to do about this "waiting for character to create" thing?