DayZ, a zombie mod for ArmA2 - Now standalone on Steam Early Access

[villain of the story]

Lived to learn: never leave stuff in backpacks when you put them into tents. I did. They didn't survive the server reset. I'm just glad that the backpacks themselves didn't disappear.

 

[Jashiin]

Ok, deerstand jumping for emergencies only.

Went to raid northeast airport, pitchdark before moon came up. actualy bumped into another guy running in forrest but no shots exchanged. Found some fresh dmr ammo then went to northeast small barn in the woods, only to find someone had a campfire in there. Stalked around, and just when I had a good view of the door the fire went out/was put out. No disconnect messages and no one came out of that barn. waited for some time before getting the hell out of there.

Small things, but when that light went out just as I had the scope on that door my heart nearly skipped a beat and I actualy felt a shiver going down my spine, thats been a while.

 

[thesoup]

I'm sick and tired of fucking server hoppers. Every time I die it's to one of those retards.

 

[someone else]

Should a server restart while you are in the vehicle, usually you and the vehicle will be reset to where you got on. But I was once teleported west of Pavlovo 13km away and took 2 hours to get back to the vehicle.

ATV flips over easily, you can try it out in the armory, I flip the ATV a couple of times on small bumps. Sometimes a server restart moves a vehicle a few meters so you can try waiting for a restart to salvage an ATV.

Someone tried to flip back an ATV with a tractor:
http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=9138&pid=87982#pid87982

 

[villain of the story]

I stole my first pickup last night. In good shape and full of goodies and extras for repair, left just like that in an open field. I took it to one of the remote towns and parked it between bushes and trees, hard to see from a distance. Killed another survivor with ALICE in the town and then the lights went out on me while I was in a building. Shitfuckingcock, I'm sure somebody else got the pickup now.

 

[villain of the story]

1.7.1

Pending Update 1.7.1 Details​

Rough outline of what to expect in the pending update.​

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I will update this as more stuff is put in. Changelog will then follow it.​

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Performance and Optimization​

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- Reduction/elimination of the new server lag. This is caused by the ArmA2 server expecting immediate response from the central server. Vehicles are the main cause of this, as whenever they are damaged everything stops while the server ensures this is recorded in the database.​

- Bugs fixed that were possibly causing very significant netcode overhead (will need mass-scale testing to verify this).​

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Infected Behavior​

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- Infected can no longer see/attack through walls.​

- Entirely new mocap'd attack and running animations​

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Content​

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- Additional Idle Infected sounds​

- Revised Attack sounds​

- Many new action sounds, including IV, bandaging etc...​

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Notes​

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- This update will REQUIRE the beta patch, so it is worth installing this now and getting used to it.​

- Read up at the BI Forums about the beta patch install. It's pretty easy.​

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Current Changelog​

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Developer's Note:​

* Requires ArmA2 Beta.​

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Changelog:​

* [FIXED] Wire Spools, Toolboxes, hedgehog (tank trap) kits not spawning​

* [FIXED] Bodies still being deleted too quickly sometimes​

* [FIXED] No backpacks or medical boxes spawning​

* [FIXED] "No Speaker..." debug report spam​

* [FIXED] Infected spawning too close to players (minimum 30m now)​

* [FIXED] Infected not spawning inside buildings any more​

* [NEW] Infected can't attack through walls​

* [NEW] Infected can't see through objects any more​

* [NEW] Infected visibility increased (but limited by LOS)​

* [NEW] Infected attack range increased (but limited by LOS)​

* [NEW] Infected can cause greater damage when they hit you​

* [NEW] You can hide from an infected chasing you​

* [NEW] Optimized server cleanup routine​

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http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=10353&pid=94422#pid94422

Serious incline inbound.

 

[villain of the story]

Sheeet, in a server full of 40 people in daylight, nobody seems to have found my pickup and none of the stuff in it is missing either. I took it to a safe spot and nobody even shot at me on my way (though I went off-road in the woods. There are traps and ambushes at roads). It's a bitch to drive between trees, though.

 

[Darklife]

Holy shit, it looks like my entire zombie avoidance mechanic is in for some serious changes. No more building safe havens I suppose.

 

[villain of the story]

Well at least they won't attack through walls and have X-Ray though any longer.

But increasing their attack range is retarded. They can already hit you from like 1.5 meters away.

 

[SoupNazi]

Can they still clip through closed doors?

 

[Jashiin]

At least you can hide now.

 

[villain of the story]

Can they still clip through closed doors?

Whether they can still clip through walls is more critical, I think. And since it wasn't mentioned, I bet they still can.

 

[someone else]

1:50

Other reported hacks include killing everyone on a server, launching everyone 300 meters in the air. spawning of tanks, planes etc. Dayz forum has lots of complains on server kills.
Disabling global chat makes getting information harder.

 

[Jashiin]

His voice confirms he is every bit the pathetic fuck one would think he is.

 

[revealer]

http://www.youtube.com/user/Acebane21/videos
This guy has some nice short action packed videos.

Btw, I'm begining to think that DayZ is an MMO done right, with the whole permadeath, high realism, open world concept.
Some ideas come to my mind with other games in combination with that concept. For example, imagine Mount and Blade set in an open world as a single player (no tactical map/parties), with perma death, item spawn points and even a skill system. No zombies are even necessary. It would still be fun to play because the perma death aspect brings so much more intensity to the gameplay.
If future MMO's start going in this direction, that would be a fucking to me.

 

[Darklife]

 

[MetalCraze]

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?135916-Stop-making-a-complete-ass-of-yourself-Bohemia

A cheater bites the dust. Massively butthurt. Gets trolled by Bohemia devs.

 

[lefthandblack]

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?135916-Stop-making-a-complete-ass-of-yourself-Bohemia

A cheater bites the dust. Massively butthurt. Gets trolled by Bohemia devs.

Every so often, a game or a mod like this comes out that makes me lament the fact that I can't participate due to a high latency connection; Then I read something like this and realize that I'm probably better off without it. Not only do you have to put up with fourteen year old's screaming one liners at you, but there's the cheating, hacking, account stealing and everything else that goes along with it.

I can kinda see it from both sides too though. There was a map in NOLF multiplayer that had a particular exploit where you could fall through the map and land on the level's outer box, from there you could see everyone on the map above you and kiill them at your leisure, lol-ing at them saying "Where the fuck ARE you?". Myself and another dude did this a couple of times, it was fucking hilarious. Of course, we were all friends and were basically just trolling each other in good fun, but If I had been globally banned for it It would have been a PLANE TICKETS BITCH moment. I do feel kinda smug when I install a game and refuse to install whatever bullshit anti-cheat software they use, as I can't use it anyway.

As to the OP:

I checked out the SP conversion and have watched some of you guy's videos. The SP gives you an idea, but is not that much fun for very long. It actually inspired me to try and put together my own Zombie Sandbox for SP. I've been working on it off and on for a couple of weeks and have made some pretty good progress.

It's currently playable and has dynamically spawning AI to simulate bandits/other players. I'ts currently using Charon's Undead Mod for Zombie's, but I'm toying with the idea of attempting my own Zombies as Charon's Mod is a pretty hefty download and still has some bugs that were never fixed. I'm not using anything from DayZ, though I did look at how they did things to get an idea of how to go about it. I'm working on Chernarus, but I'm thinking about changing to another map that's less heavy system wise.

Would there be any interest from the esteemed gentleman and trannies of the Codex for something like this?

 

[Haba]

Btw, I'm begining to think that DayZ is an MMO done right, with the whole permadeath, high realism, open world concept.
Some ideas come to my mind with other games in combination with that concept. For example, imagine Mount and Blade set in an open world as a single player (no tactical map/parties), with perma death, item spawn points and even a skill system. No zombies are even necessary. It would still be fun to play because the perma death aspect brings so much more intensity to the gameplay.
If future MMO's start going in this direction, that would be a fucking to me.

http://www.havenandhearth.com/
http://www.paradoxplaza.com/games/salem

There is nothing quite like losing a character you spent six months building up. Especially losing him when you make a stupid, silly mistake.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNxbAMnL6Mc

 

[someone else]

Finally got it working, so how do you hide something so big, blue and white?

Stumbled across this, somebody didn't hide them well. Miraculously I left them alone and didn't take them for a joy ride.

 

[CreamyBlood]

Glad you got the truck running and we'll have to go steal some of those vehicles.

 

[Monk]

Video interview with Dean Hall from last May:

"Kiwi zombie game lurches from strength to strength"

http://www.3news.co.nz/Kiwi-zombie-...ength/tabid/892/articleID/255800/Default.aspx

 

[Jashiin]

Spent an hour trying to place a tent in 1.71. no luck. I really want to make a base camp and scavenge from there but this placement shit is getting pretty annoying. losing zombies through line of sight works great though. just running through towns grab loot and lose them around corners. Z aggro range is ridiculous though, and no need to crouch run in towns because it makes no difference from standing up if the visibility meter is anything to go by.

 

[Quilty]

The latest version is unplayable for me. Zombies see you from very far away, they can hear Makarov shots from hundreds of meters away, they can hit me from the other side of the room, they walk through doors and sometimes walls. Seems to me like the author is tweaking the game in such ways that it changes the experience drastically every time I play (which is every two or three days, enough for a new version to come out every time).

 

[Darklife]

There is a spawn issue at the moment. When there are two people around the zombies will just keep popping up indefinitely.