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[DTKT]

Ok well if thats the case he needs to get the other 14 or so people that worked on the mod a job and release this as a stand alone game asap.

Well, let's be honest here. The mod heavily relies on assets from ARMAII and OA. In fact, most of the 3D assets were made by BIS for the last 2 games.

I'm sure that there is an immense amount of work on the coding side, but to actually release this game would require them to generate a staggering amount of assets.

 

[The_Player]

Well, let's be honest here. The mod heavily relies on assets from ARMAII and OA. In fact, most of the 3D assets were made by BIS for the last 2 games.

I'm sure that there is an immense amount of work on the coding side, but to actually release this game would require them to generate a staggering amount of assets.

If the mod made by the developers from Bohemia, then they really should kickstarter it as a standalone addon. I'd pay reasonable amount of money to see DayZ as full release.

 

[DTKT]

If the mod made by the developers from Bohemia, then they really should kickstarter it as a standalone addon. I'd pay reasonable amount of money to see DayZ as full release.

Just one dev from BIS. It's a personnal project and it's not "officially" supported by them.

 

[The_Player]

Just one dev from BIS. It's a personnal project and it's not "officially" supported by them.

I say BIS should take a look at the amount of people interested to see DayZ being more than a modification.

 

[VibratingDonkey]

Does it stop during "receiving" if so I posted this earlier:

I had this same problem yesterday. I think I solved it by reinstalling battleye. I also copied the Battleye folder from the arma 2 location to the OA location. You can get the battleye dlls from the guide here:
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthre...-Failed-quot&p=1700827&viewfull=1#post1700827

This appears to have worked. Thanks.

Although now I get stuck on "Loading" instead.

Hurray, I got in!
And immediately accidentally fell to my death.

 

[cr_blah_blah]

This appears to have worked. Thanks.

Although now I get stuck on "Loading" instead.

Hurray, I got in!
And immediately accidentally fell to my death.

Loading can take a good while. I usually alt-tab out and browse GAF while I wait for it to load fully.

 

[Fjordson]

WOW this sounds and looks fun as hell!!!!!

Need a gaming PC SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad, my crappy old laptop can't run much of anything besides WoW.

Guess it's about time to build a tower with Diablo 3 and this and...

In the same boat, brother. Eyeing Diablo III and stuff like this and feeling really jealous. Need to build a rig soon.

Anyways, I'm on the third episode of that Days Ahead series on YouTube. I wanna play this do badly.

 

[VibratingDonkey]

To my surprise I actually I didn't fall to my death. I just broke both my legs and lied in a bleeding pile on the ground. So that's good. Managed to doctor myself using a lot of drugs and put bandages on the bleeding spots. But I couldn't use those legs, could only crawl. Wanting to end it I crawled off a pier and into the sea. But somewhere during all this I had developed the ability to breathe underwater. So that's good.

Is there a way to fix broken legs by the way?

Loading can take a good while. I usually alt-tab out and browse GAF while I wait for it to load fully.

You're supposed to be able to hit esc and cancel out of it though right?

 

[DTKT]

To my surprise I actually I didn't fall to my death. I just broke both my legs and lied in a bleeding pile on the ground. So that's good. Managed to doctor myself using a lot of drugs and put bandages on the bleeding spots. But I couldn't use those legs, could only crawl. Wanting to end it I crawled off a pier and into the sea. But somewhere during all this I had developed the ability to breathe underwater. So that's good.

Is there a way to fix broken legs by the way?

You're supposed to be able to hit esc and cancel out of it though right?

Not sure but, some random guy on a server mentioned that they mend themselves after a bit.

 

[Proxy]

Welp, killed my first player. lol

 

[cr_blah_blah]

To my surprise I actually I didn't fall to my death. I just broke both my legs and lied in a bleeding pile on the ground. So that's good. Managed to doctor myself using a lot of drugs and put bandages on the bleeding spots. But I couldn't use those legs, could only crawl. Wanting to end it I crawled off a pier and into the sea. But somewhere during all this I had developed the ability to breathe underwater. So that's good.

Is there a way to fix broken legs by the way?

You're supposed to be able to hit esc and cancel out of it though right?

Yeah, you can esc out of it. If you manage to stand up I think you can respawn. If you're dead you can't immediately respawn but I think you can otherwise. Earlier I had fallen too at the very beginning and was limping around and did the respawn and my guy just collapsed and I got to restart.

 

[Kritz]

So, I'll try my best to write about this game. For those of you wondering, Day Z is a game with zombies in it. It isn't a game about zombies, mind you, it just has them. What the game is about is something else entirely - it's about the interaction between people. The players in this world, for the most part, do not know you. They don't trust you. Every time you encounter a player, you're not sure what to expect. I was in the middle of one of the big cities, Elektro EDIT: Chernop. I'd raided some houses and got my hands on a revolver and a map. I exit through the back door, scan for Zed, and start to make my way across the street. Before I knew what was happening, a player ran from an allyway in front of me. We see eachother, and we both have a choice.

Do we talk to see if we can group up?
Or does we start firing?

It would only take a single bullet to kill this guy. He has a Winchester, I could really do with one of those. I decide to be the better man, and I open up the text box.

"Friendly?"

He stands still, his gun still pointing at me. Do I take the shot? Experience has taught me opening fire in a city leads to bad things. And besides, I might miss.

"Friendly."

Now, I've had this go a few different ways before. Some people are only your friends for long enough to see you turn your back. Some people will go to the ends of the earth to keep you alive, doing a supply run on a village that you're too banged up on to go in. This guy, he was different still.

We decided to keep moving, get out of the city. I hate the city. Too many vantage points, too many zombies, too many people want to cause a scene. But first, he takes me to a white building. A supermarket. He shows me a second shotgun, and gives me some ammo. He's on the level. Voice chat in the game is a little broken, so we time out for a second. We're safe enough. We ended up joining some public TeamSpeak server (Who still uses TeamSpeak? This guy does. World still has some surprises left, it seems.

He's a Brit. I should have known by the ping, he's as bad as me. We talk about tea and biscuits, then decide to bounce. We exit the supermarket, and immediately get targeted by a sniper. I manage to spot him before I duck behind a wall. I was hit, but I'm still going. British patches me up, reloads. The sniper's tower is only a few hundred metres away. He takes another shot as my friend takes a peak, missing. It'd be just as easy to run, and the way he's letting off rounds he's going to bring every zombie in town to his position.

We figure, what the hell. Let's get this guy before he does anyone in. Brit goes left, I go right, we run out from our wall and sprint towards the building. Up until the sniper hit me, I thought we were doing really well.

So, there I was. Dying on the ground. British got to the sniper's nest, at least. He kept me informed - ground was clear. First floor, clear. Second, fine.

Third?

Third floor, British died.

3AM in the morning, shit. We say our goodbyes, share our Steam IDs, and leave the server. The night ends with some arsehole sitting in a tower, killing me and my friend. And it was nothing short of amazing.

/ bad highschool C grade fanfic

--

I like this game.

 

[OrangeYouGlad]

Welp, killed my first player. lol

I found the area where people initially spawn in before being shuffled off to their random starting point. It also seems to be where characters go when they log out.

I killed 3 bandits and 1 player. Got a nice holo scope rifle, bigger backpack, tons of grenades, barbwire and some other neat stuff.

My only issue is you really don't know where to log out. IN the middle of a field, in a building high up.. or what?

 

[CzarTim]

ARMA II is up to #14 on Steam's top sellers.

 

[DTKT]

I found the area where people initially spawn in before being shuffled off to their random starting point. It also seems to be where characters go when they log out.

I killed 3 bandits and 1 player. Got a nice holo scope rifle, bigger backpack, tons of grenades, barbwire and some other neat stuff.

My only issue is you really don't know where to log out. IN the middle of a field, in a building high up.. or what?

I try to find a isolated bush, prone and log out.

 

[SparkTR]

So just say I own retail ArmA2 and Steam OA, I can still combine them for CO? Will it launch from the Steam environment?

 

[Ferrio]

So you need all the expansions for this right?

 

[LEGGZZZZ]

Got Damn I wish I had a gaming pc

 

[Lord Griegous]

So you need all the expansions for this right?

Just OA

 

[Nemic77]

I heard that the northen cities have better loot. Is this true?

I made out with some nice loot out of Elektro. Sniper rifle, big bag, map, compass, watch, knife...
On the way out my group got displaced and only me and some other guy made it out. Resulted in a desperate sprint to the woods with me and one other guy taking turns in covering each other's escape. He ended up dieing, which in the end saved my ass, since the zombies converged on his body.

Anyway, I'm finding the coastal towns too crowded. Bandids everywhere! Time to head inland I think...

 

[railGUN]

My download will be done later tonight, should be able to play all day tomorrow, if install goes well and I can find a spot on a server... Can't wait.

 

[Shaheed79]

This, just perhaps, may be the most awesome video on the internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpPIyJDSEQ&feature=related

I almost died laughing from the aftermath of a friendly fire at 13:00.

 

[Ledsen]

I heard that the northen cities have better loot. Is this true?

I made out with some nice loot out of Elektro. Sniper rifle, big bag, map, compass, watch, knife...
On the way out my group got displaced and only me and some other guy made it out. Resulted in a desperate sprint to the woods with me and one other guy taking turns in covering each other's escape. He ended up dieing, which in the end saved my ass, since the zombies converged on his body.

Anyway, I'm finding the coastal towns too crowded. Bandids everywhere! Time to head inland I think...

This post gave me a hard-on. So good.

 

[abracadaver]

How much would a PC cost to play this (and max payne 3) in high detail ?

 

[Shake Appeal]

Is there any way some triple-A dev (Valve?) can take this and make it a polished masterpiece while retaining all the things that most people will find unpalatable (like the threat of losing all your progress)?

 

[SparkTR]

Is there any way some triple-A dev (Valve?) can take this and make it a polished masterpiece while retaining all the things that most people will find unpalatable (like the threat of losing all your progress)?

If you count Bohemia as a AAA dev then it could be possible, their entire business relies on making hardcore games and this mod has direct ties to that studio.

 

[Pisuke1983]

Wow...
I was playing for 30 Minutes now. Found some Ammo and food. I followed the electrical poles and then somone sniped me
Just shot me without a warning.

 

[raphier]

Is there any way some triple-A dev (Valve?) can take this and make it a polished masterpiece while retaining all the things that most people will find unpalatable (like the threat of losing all your progress)?

No. The beauty of this game is that it's unpolished nature feeds desperation (just like resident evil 1-4) Valve or any other AAA-dev would just do inevitably RE5. The maker of the mod just gets it and arma is perfect environment for it.

 

[HK-47]

Is there any way some triple-A dev (Valve?) can take this and make it a polished masterpiece while retaining all the things that most people will find unpalatable (like the threat of losing all your progress)?

lol this type of game would never survive Valve's focus testing.

 

[Shake Appeal]

Yeah, my question was rhetorical.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

This, just perhaps, may be the most awesome video on the internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpPIyJDSEQ&feature=related

I almost died laughing from the aftermath of a friendly fire at 13:00.

I love how, by the end of all six videos, the group is down to two.

 

[subversus]

How much would a PC cost to play this (and max payne 3) in high detail ?

depends on a resolution

welcome to I need a new PC thread.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

I also love the tension of the mysterious KevBo and his group of mercenaries that go around finding other groups and just killing them and taking their stuff.

The Days Ahead group gets trapped on top of a water tower, then the leader goes online to ask for help, but then:
"Uh, guys, I went on Twitter and gave away our location and now he knows where we are."

Then, in the next video, they find a lone survivor of one of KevBo's massacres. Who instantly asks them, in perfect cognitive dissonance of what just happened: "So, how are you going to beat him?"

 

[subversus]

this doesn't work without Arrowhead, right?

edit: I see, it needs Combined Operations.

 

[indigo-cyclops]

I'm thinking by the time I get home to play this my character is going to be dead...Or does damage not accumulate, rather, you just need to top off food/drink requirements?

 

[Orgun]

I'll have this downloaded by this evening if anyone will be about for some action? Should be ready by 7pm GMT

 

[Slair]

Just caved and bought OA, hopefully everything installs smoothly.

 

[fanboi]

I heard that the northen cities have better loot. Is this true?

I made out with some nice loot out of Elektro. Sniper rifle, big bag, map, compass, watch, knife...
On the way out my group got displaced and only me and some other guy made it out. Resulted in a desperate sprint to the woods with me and one other guy taking turns in covering each other's escape. He ended up dieing, which in the end saved my ass, since the zombies converged on his body.

Anyway, I'm finding the coastal towns too crowded. Bandids everywhere! Time to head inland I think...

Yeah... he "died"...

Admit, you shoot him to make the zombies eat him.

Spoiler

I would

 

[raphier]

Yeah... he "died"...

Admit, you shoot him to make the zombies eat him.

Spoiler

I would

Self-Note: Don't trust fanboi.

Spoiler

i'm scared shitless

 

[Arucardo]

this doesn't work without Arrowhead, right?

edit: I see, it needs Combined Operations.

Nope, sorry.


My first time playing yesterday was interesting, I spawned way up north a few towns away from the north west airfield. After circling a town for a bit scouting to see how many zombies it has I started hearing gunshots way off in the distance and decided to go check it out (I know, not the best idea).

I ended up near a town behind a nice patch of trees on a fairly steep hill. I saw two guys moving through an army camp (had two long rows of tents) clearing out walkers. I lost sight of them after I saw them running up the hill I was on. I kept still for a few minutes trying to locate the guys but I couldn't so I decided to head towards where I last saw them.

I kept crouch running on the hill skirting the town and coming up to a farm where I entered a barn to drink some water and look for supplies, after I finished drinking I heard a loud moan right behind me and saw a walker with a yellow shirt had entered the barn from the other side. I did one more quick scan of the barn to see if I missed any supplies and sneaked out of the barn without alerting the walker. Engaging walkers when you're alone is a really bad idea, best to avoid it unless you absolutely have to.

At this point I had absolutely no idea where I was and since I didn't have a map or a watch and the sky was cloudy I couldn't tell what direction I was heading in. I ran up to a paved road near another small village but decided against entering since it seemed to be crawling with walkers. I basically picked a random direction from the road and started walking up a hill towards a thick forest. Not long after walking I reached a crazy wide wall in the middle of the forest. The wall was first covered by a layer of chain link fence and behind it a layer of concrete wall. The wall was wide enough that I couldn't see where it ends on either side.

I found a hole in the chain link fence and shortly after a hole in the bottom of the concrete wall and crawled through. after looking at the wall I saw some guard towers far away and figure this was some kind of military complex. I walked up a small hill and discovered I had stumbled upon an airfield. I slowly made my way towards the row of hangars in hope of finding supplies but as I got closer I noticed the place was crawling with walkers in military and police uniforms.

After about an hour of crawling I managed to avoid the walkers and enter one of the hangars to be rewarded by almost nothing useful on the ground, I picked up a smoke grenade since I heard you can distract the walkers with it. All the ammo I saw on the ground wasn't for the pistol I had so I left it on the ground.

As I was about to exit one of the hangars I started hearing gunshots outside. I slowly moved to the hangar doors and looked out to see a dude dressed like a desert storm sniper with a shotgun running straight at me. When he reached me he stood in front of me for a moment as I was expecting a buckshot in my face only to salute me a few seconds later. As I was fumbling about trying to find the salute key (had been ages since I played arma) he kept going and looked through the loot in the hangar I exited.

When I discovered the salute key I ran back up to him over a runway and did a salute towards him, shortly after he did a salute back at me. I guess this meant we were friends or at least he wasn't going to kill me yet. This desert storm guy I was with wasn't saying anything in chat which was a little unnerving but not long after we met between the two runways someone in chat asked if the two guys on the airfield are friendly.

I typed in to chat "I'm friendly and I think this guy next to me isn't going to shoot you straight away either" and waited for an answer. While I was glancing at my friend with the shotgun we received an answer in the chat "well I'm not!". Oh shit!, both of us hit the ground after seeing that and started to scan the area trying to find him. I crawled up the edge of a runway to get a better look and just as I saw the guy in the treeline he typed "just joking, want to team up?" in chat.

For some reason I was doing the talking for the two of us even if the shotgun guy seemed to know what he was doing a lot better than I was. We joined up and killed quite a few walkers leading up to the airfield control tower and a fire house. When we reached the firehouse we started attracting a lot of attention and the place was starting to get swarmed from the large garage doors. My buddy with the shotgun was doing a good job keeping them out and I found an AK47 in the building with a few mags of ammo so I went down stairs to help him. The third guy we met was following behind me.

After dealing with a couple more waves of walkers or runners in this case we were trying to make a push out the doors. I was on point with the AK and as I reached the door I heard a gunshot and a scream. I turned around just in time to see my desert sniper buddy fall down and to see that third guy point his rifle at me and shoot.

We got swarmed by walkers and the traitor also died in that firehouse. After I respawned the shotgun guy actually started using the chat to ask what the hell happened. Everything went down so fast so neither of us was absolutely sure what did happen at the time, but after talking we confirmed that the third guy murdered us and found out his name.

If you meet a "Ken M" (I think that was his name) beware, he might shoot you in the back when things get hairy.


This time I respawned right at the shore of a sea, but that was a whole other story with me running for 30 minutes without ammo and an angry walker behind me at the end.


Phew, that was a longer story than I expected. Maybe someone is bored enough to read it .

 

[Dascu]

Now that's the beauty of video games. Great story, Arucardo.

 

[| Praxis |]

I love these world war z survival stories

 

[Shawsie64]

I'm so getting this, it looks incredible. Any Aussies playing it? How does it hold up lag/latency wise?

 

[soultron]

F my life. I was building a gaming PC from my roommates old ones and then I accidentally got thermal paste in the CPU pins when I was cleaning the CPU off so I could mount a new CPU fan. I hate myself for making such a rookie mistake even moreso now that this thing is out.

I'm loving all the player narratives people are pumping out. They're really neat to read!

I knew Arucardo`s story wouldn`t end well... :c

 

[robin2]

So just say I own retail ArmA2 and Steam OA, I can still combine them for CO? Will it launch from the Steam environment?

I'd like to know this too. I took a look on the BIS forum and combining them seems possible but tricky.

 

[CzarTim]

Awesome post

Love these types of posts. Share more!

 

[SparkTR]

I'd like to know this too. I took a look on the BIS forum and combining them seems possible but tricky.

You can as long as you've previously run ArmA 2 with admin privileges and its been updated to version 1.08+ (latest patch is 1.11). I haven't gotten around to trying it myself yet, though.

 

[tborsje]

I'd like to know this too. I took a look on the BIS forum and combining them seems possible but tricky.

I think that you can just copy the \common\ folder from ARMA 2 vanilla into the OA folder in Steam. I may be completely wrong though.

 

[subversus]

you can buy CO on Gamersgate too. Is it easier to merge them with the retail version than Steam version of CO?

 

[raphier]

I have exams next two weeks, so I decided to play a quick one this morning. Ended up playing about 4 hours and with story to tell. My grammar is not too good with past and present tenses taking turns. Sorry about that.

It is sometimes in the morning. I wake up in a place I don't know. First time crawling in these
woods that lay above the hills I spotted last night. my whereabouts are to my own perception
near Chernogorsk, but my logic said otherwise, but I was keeping the truth away. The truth
that I am lost, desperate and a hungry man who has witnessed the horrors done by
humans before and has lost all that fate in humanity. These people were not humane. They were
beasts who roamed to do what they were born to do - to survive at all cost. I am not talking about those savages of the dead, who have no conscious. Not those
infected monsters, no. The Bandits were the future in the world with no money and discipline.

Instead, I wanted to keep myself sane and humane as possible. I wanted to help these people,
make a community with them and try to escape this island to mainland. And maybe find a fortune
of good future, have kids and spend my life rebuilding the civilization. I decided not to
peel off the skin of my monster and skip the savages roaming in the wild.

To sate my hunger, I had found a knife. I shot a cow dead somewhere in the open. Before that I was
taking precautions, to make sure no savage was around me to be attracted. I had enough flint
to make a fireplace. I stripped the cow by using my knife to take it's meat and cooked couple
of big pieces, enough to sate my stomach. I cut two big pieces more to take with me.

I headed forth for awhile, before thirst hit. Thirst felt in the head more than the hunger.
I had the energy and enough willpower to move and keep breathing. But clean water kept your
head clear and sane in this broken world, of which I had none and in a place like this,
far somewhere in the middle with no hope, hardly I could spot anything that had water in it.
a pool, a pond, anything could suffice now.

I headed throught the forest towards the hill which lend me a first sight of a building in a
while. As I approached the barn, the gunshots within it boomed louder and louder the closer
I got myself to that place. Couple of dead roamers. Another dead with a pistol in his hand.
Cautiously I walked inside looking at the sides and trying to listen to any footsteps. Just
as I enter in I saw a guy aiming at me. I aimed back. In the middle of the tension, I notice
one water bottle laying on the floor among shotgun pellets.

A minute passes or two. I have grown enough courage to ask him, "Hungry?", to which he
answers "Thirsty." It was clear then to me, that both of our attention was on the floor.
The only bottle in the perimeter with time running out. I have two bullets left in my revolver
and god knows how much bullet he has in his. "I am too." I tell him.

With the thirst now causing nauseatic feelings in the back of my mind, constantly giving
highlighted vision and tired eyes. My skin feels very warm and alert towards the tip of
clothes I am wearing. I feel unsocial and hopeful.
I had to get it. Suddenly enough - he leaped. Gods. One bullet in the head,
and he fell dead. To think, I did this for a simple bottle of water. I turned myself into the
savage - a beast - to do what I was born to do - to survive at all cost. I became my worst nightmare.
My thirst was sated for a soul of this mate. I couldn't live with myself. I couldn't think I
could kill a human being, but in the end I peeled the mask off and came to accept the beast that I was. And it shocked me when I checked his inventory, he had no bullets left. No food or anything else, but a compass with him.

Turns out I was bleeding for some reason and died on the scene soon enough.